What's new in RSSOwl 2.2.1
Jan 3, 2014
- You will now find quick access to common actions like archiving or labeling right below the article content. Especially for articles with lots of content this means you no longer have to scroll all the way up to the title to run actions on the news. In addition, some broken keyword feeds have been fixed and new ones added.
New in RSSOwl 2.2.0 (May 3, 2013)
- This new version provides an easy way to unsubscribe from Google Reader as Google decided to stop this service end of June.
- In addition, you can now export a feed as CSV file and among some bugfixes, some new share providers where added.
New in RSSOwl 2.1.6 (Dec 10, 2012)
- This bugfix release resolves an issue when synchronizing articles with attachments with Google Reader.
New in RSSOwl 2.1.4 (Jul 30, 2012)
- This bugfix release resolves an issue when synchronizing articles to Google Reader and receiving an error "Bad Request (400)". This could happen when RSSOwl synchronized several hundred articles in one chunk to Google. As such this issue was only showing up for power users. If you have never seen this problem, you can stay on 2.1.2.
New in RSSOwl 2.1.2 (Aug 16, 2011)
- This release enables the installation of additional languages into RSSOwl (from Tools | Language).
- Thanks to our team of translators, as of today we can provide translations to German, Spanish and Chinese Traditional.
New in RSSOwl 2.1.1 RC (Jul 29, 2011)
- Layout can now quickly be changed from feed toolbar
- New option to open links from articles in a new tab instead of embedded
- New action in attachment menu to copy the link of an attachment
- Automatic Clean Up is avoided for current active feed
- Better lookup of XULRunner runtime on Linux
- Improved performance displaying articles
- Bugfixes in the embedded browser
New in RSSOwl 2.1 (Jul 15, 2011)
- Stability, Scalability and Performance:
- Likely fixed the reason for 90% of all critical profile crashes
- Support for large profile DB sizes of more than 2 GB thereby unlimited number of feeds
- New wizard that helps solve any startup crash situation automatically repair broken search index automatically restore a backup
- Improved and more reliable backup strategy
- Newspaper and Headlines layout scale to hundreds of news with new pagination support
- Much reduced memory footprint when using feeds with filters
- Much improved performance when marking read news in folders, bins or saved searches
- Google Reader Synchronization:
- RSSOwl now synchronizes the news state, labels and star state between your Google Reader account and RSSOwl
- Use the import wizard (File | Import | Synchronize with Google Reader) to enable synchronization per feed
- Use clean up (Tools | Clean Up) to get rid of no longer subscribed feeds
- Note: A star in google reader maps to the sticky state in RSSOwl
- Note: Currently there is no automatic synchronization of subscriptions other than using the import wizard (to be clear: articles are synchronized automatically, only the list of feeds is not!)
- Note: There is no support to use existing imported feeds from Google Reader with the synchronization support, you have to re-import those feeds. You can move all the articles of the old feed to a news-bin to keep them
- Note: The number of news to synchronize is limited by the clean up settings (Maximum number of news to keep, Age of News in Days)
- Note: In case of any issue, take a look at the new Synchronization Status from the Tools menu or from the status page of any feed
- New Layout Features:
- Redesigned Newspaper Layout
- less heavy colors, easy to read
- browser refresh is avoided for incoming news and an info is shown on top with a link to refreh content
- New option to mark news as read automatically while reading in newspaper mode (enabled by default)
- Improved search from embedded browser when typing a term into the adress bar
- much improved grouping in newspaper layout with number of articles and filtered
- support to expand/collapse news of the group
- support to invoke actions on all news of the group from the group name (its a link now)
- Support for pagination in newspaper and headlines layout
- as usual configurable globally or per feed
- pages will reveal when scrolling down automatically
- support for varying news background color to distinguish one news from another easily
- Redesigned news footer
- cleaner, easier to find related news
- new action to try to download an article content and show it (great for news without full content)
- New List Layout
- Only table of news entries, no browser
- New Headlines Layout
- Like newspaper layout, but each news entry is collapsed
- Shares same new features as newspaper layout
- Overall UI Changes:
- Folders now open upon click showing news inside instantly
- Single tab use for feeds is the new default to reduce clutter of tabs
- thereby new actions to "Open" and "Open in New Tab" for feeds
- More control over toolbar visibility
- toggle feed toolbar visibility from the View menu
- toggle browser toolbar visibility from the View menu
- Archive feature (integrated everywhere)
- quickly move selected news entries to the archive news bin to store it
- It is now possible to configure the layout per feed
- Support for Instapaper and Readability
- you can now control per feed or globally to open the articles link with readability or instapaper for improved reading experience (from the Display tab)
- cleaned up feed toolbar and search controls
- Podcast Enhancements:
- Improved automatic download behavior
- if download file already exists, the news date will be used as suffix
- Content-Disposition header support to produce real file names for the download
- Support to download a news link if it does not have any attachments
- Warning is shown when trying to quit RSSOwl while a download is active
- Better Clean Up:
- Support for cleaning up orphaned searches and news filters
- New clean up option to repair the news search index in case RSSOwl detects it has become stale
- New clean up option to delete feeds no longer subscribed to in Google Reader
- Minor Changes:
- Loading of images is now a separate option to loading of movies and other embedded content
- New button in browser bar to open current link in external browser
- Added keybinding to open a new browser tab
- Keybindings can now be assigned to all share actions
- The setting for reloading a feed on startup automatically can now also be set per feed and folder
- More warnings shown from all places where searches are used in case a search is not valid
- New global option in "Reading" for "Feeds" to turn off automatic read marking of duplicate news
- New filter action to open matching news in the browser
- Login Dialog now provides an option to not store passed in credentials permanently
- Notification Popup animation can be turned off
- Added "Buffer" to the list of share providers
- Added support for the Yahoo media namespace for attachments
- Status Property page now also available for bins, searches and folders
- Reload interval can now be set in seconds
- Filters that show items in notifier now show directly instead of the normal 5 seconds delay
- Columns and Sorting related options can now also be controlled from the View menu
- News Filter and News Grouping related options can now also be controlled from the View menu
- Can now drop a OPML or XML file for import into any location of the feeds view
- You can now define the color for links inside the news content display
- New filter to only "Show Labeled News"
- Bugfixes:
- Fix flashing rssowl window on startup before moving to tray (needs reinstall, not update)
- news did not resort when a property changed that was sorted by (for date, e.g.)
- opening the notifier manually was not respecting enabled filter settings
- keybindings where not supported from import/export via OPML
- Google Reader importer was not properly reacting on Google error codes like captcha challenges
- Updated SWT for Linux and Mac to version 3.7 to get best compatibility on latest distributions and versions
- RSSOwl on Linux now bundles XULRunner 1.9 to avoid browser issues on distributions
- Saved searches would not show results if feeds view was hidden after startup
- Saved searches did not show updated results when reparenting bookmarks that where part of a search condition
- Windows: XULRunner 1.8.1.3 is the only supported XULRunner version (disabled support for 1.9.x)
New in RSSOwl 2.0 Final (Oct 26, 2009)
- Change the displayed Columns and Sorting per feed
- Modify News from the Embedded Browser
- Fully Customizable Toolbar
- Powerful Import and Export of Feeds and Settings
- Share Feeds and News with others
- Support for Podcasts
- Automatic Discovery of Feeds via Keyword or from a Website
- More Search Options
- Fully Integrated Application Update
New in RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 9 (Aug 17, 2009)
- News Filter - apply actions on news automatically
- New quick way of assigning Labels to News
- Support for Phrase Searches
- Improved Notifier
- Multi Tabbed Browsing
- Improved and secured embedded browser
- Secure credentials with a master password
- Automatically detect proxy settings (Windows)
- a total of 107 bugs fixed
New in RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 9 Preview 1 (Dec 23, 2008)
- Fullscreen Exclusive Mode
- Support for Phrase Searches
- Improved Notifier
- Multi Tabbed Browsing
- Improved and secured embedded browser
- Secure credentials with a master password
- Automatically detect proxy settings (Windows)
- A total of 69 bugs fixed
New in RSSOwl 1.2.4 (Nov 27, 2007)
- Windows Vista: Thanks to the latest SWT 3.3, RSSOwl is now fully supporting Vistas look and feel.
- Windows: You can now use Mozilla as embedded browser. This requires a recent version of XULRunner being installed. Refer to the FAQ for more details.
- Windows: In order to scroll in a scrollable element (e.g. the headlines table or newstext browser) you no longer have to select the element first. Just move the mouse over the element and begin scrolling.
- Mac: All System-Tray and notification features are now supported (see the "System Tray" preferences page).
- Linux: Printing is now supported (requires GTK 2.10 or newer)
- Linux and Solaris: You can now pass an argument to the run.sh to have it handled by RSSOwl (e.g. let firefox run rssowl to subscribe to a feed).
- Added new translation into Romania (thanks to Claudiu Paiu)
- Updated SWT to 3.3.1.1
- Linux: The embedded browser is now able to navigate to https-secured websites and is able to render visited links.
- Fixed an issue where Tooltips on Toolitems stopped showing after a while
- Mac: It is now possible to copy / paste text in the embedded browser as well as using the mouse for drag-style operations (e.g. Google Maps)
- Bugfixes:
- #1610712 WinVista: Rights Elevation needed
- #1043194 [MAC] Text selection in Browser not possible
- #1043088 [MAC] Internal Browser not highlighting Links
- #1659139 Generated HTML has incorrect title
- #1659570 "open in new tab" button should be hidden with tabs disabled