FeedDemon Release Notes

PRE-RELEASE Build 4.0.0.27 / June 2011

Changes in this release

Added: "Most Visited" and "Recently Closed" added to new tab page
Added: "Photo Strip" newspaper style (Pro version only)
Added: Improved relevancy of recommended articles
Changed: Improved initial startup time
Changed: Hiding all buttons on a toolbar now hides the toolbar itself
Changed: FeedDemon now asks whether to assign feeds to a content filter after creating it
Fixed: "My Stream" doesn't update when FeedDemon isn't the active application and the stream is not undocked
Fixed: Dragging a feed into another folder doesn't re-sort the destination folder
Fixed: Longer URLs in the address bar appear beneath feed and share icons
Fixed: Spurious "new items received" message when viewing all unread items
Fixed: Auto-downloading of enclosures enabled in v3 causes Lite v4 to open enclosures in browser
Fixed: Flicker caused by images of people you follow when unread/starred counts are updated on subscription home page
Fixed: Tray icon still indicates unread articles if update is cancelled and all articles have been read
Fixed: Updating a single folder may fail if a previous folder update was cancelled
Fixed: Links in the stream browser are opened in an external browser if they use target="_blank"
Fixed: Watches fail to group articles by their source feed when grouping by feed in Surfer style
Fixed: Incorrect display of Twitter search feeds in "My Stream"
Fixed: Incorrect date grouping in news item list
Fixed: Unicode characters may cause "Find New Feeds" to fail in certain locales
Fixed: Leading spaces in article links cause them to fail when opened in external IE7/IE8
Fixed: "Send to Twitter" no longer works
Fixed: FeedDemon fails to login to Google Apps accounts that use same email address as "normal" Google account
Fixed: YouTube and Vimeo HTML5 videos fail to appear in FeedDemon's newspaper
Removed: "Enable transitions" removed from the Appearance tab in Options (due to compatibility issues with IE9)

Changes in FeedDemon 4.0.0.22

Added: When FeedStation detects that a download failed due to a busy server, it now waits a few minutes instead of retrying immediately
Added: "T" newspaper shortcut added to translate article (required changing existing "New Tab" shortcut from "T" to "N")
Changed: Enclosure links are now shown in the Lite version
Changed: "Share this Page" removed from status bar and moved to address bar icon when external page is showing
Changed: "Toggle Read" in the news item list context menu replaced with "Mark Read" (Ctrl+Q)
Fixed: FeedDemon shows in the taskbar on Windows 7 regardless of the "show in system tray" setting
Fixed: "My Stream" incorrectly aligned immediately after purchasing serial number

Changes in FeedDemon 4

Added: My Stream - shows all starred posts, and all unread posts from the last 24 hours, in selected feeds. Designed to work best with frequently-updating status feeds (Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, etc.)
Added: Significant performance improvements throughout (thanks to SQLite 3.7)
Added: Completely redesigned newspapers and reports
Added: New "Speed Reader" and "Time Cards" newspaper styles
Added: The "Share" newspaper icon now has a dropdown menu which replaces the annotate, email and "send to" icons
Added: Newspaper styles can be assigned to individual watches
Added: The subscription tree now enables viewing all items published today and yesterday
Added: Search box added to newspaper, which enables searching only the posts displayed in the newspaper
Added: Search results can now be opened in a new browser tab
Added: OAuth support for Twitter feeds (here's why)
Added: Watches can now be limited to specific folders
Added: Significant synchronization optimizations that should result in far less traffic between FeedDemon and Google Reader for many customers
Added: Different background color to distinguish between multiple watch keywords
Added: HTTP error report now enables updating all feeds with errors
Added: Added Facebook to list of search providers
Added: The address bar no longer shows http:// in URLs unless it has the focus
Added: Holding Shift+Delete in FeedStation deletes the selected files instead of sending them to the recycle bin
Added: "Source" column added to FeedStation
Added: FeedDemon now uses a built-in updater which can download and install the latest version without having to visit the download page in your browser
Added: "Z" newspaper shortcut key which toggles the content size (Surfer style only)
Added: "Add Feed" dialog now lets you know right away whether the feed title already exists
Added: Ctrl= and Ctrl- now zoom the browser
Added: Recently-published items appear in the newspaper dated "5 minutes ago," "1 hour ago," etc.
Added: "Show thumbnail images for summaries" added to Reading tab in Options
Added: "Reopen Closed Tab" (Shift+Ctrl+T) added to browser menu
Added: Twitter feeds are automatically converted from RSS to Atom (since unlike the RSS version, the Atom version contains profile images). This may result in some initial duplication in Twitter feeds.
Added: "Share this Page" added to Browse menu and tabbed browser context menu
Added: Windows 7 taskbar icon now shows overlay when new items are received and when working offline
Added: "Read it Later" added to share menu
Added: FeedDemon now adjusts the update frequency of Twitter feeds when rate limiting is detected
Added: Extra error information added to event log report for Twitter errors

Changed: Starred items no longer count towards the max number of items kept in a feed (ex: if the feed is set to keep 100 items but five of them are starred, then 105 items will be kept)
Changed: When grouping by starred in the news item list, starred items are now shown first
Changed: When the login for an authenticated feed is invalid, the login dialog now only displays if FeedDemon isn't minimized and a full-screen application (such as a game) isn't active
Changed: FeedDemon now checks for items unshared from another location
Changed: Newspaper styles now use the extension FDXSL4 and language files use the extension FDLANG4
Changed: "Find New Feeds" now uses Google Reader's feed finder
Changed: Search-related features have been moved to the Tools menu
Changed: Replaced toolbar icons in FeedStation
Changed: "Export Event Log" has been replaced with a new "Event Log Report" (View > Reports > FeedDemon Event Log). Note that you should rarely need to use this feature - it's really only there to help track down problems.
Changed: "Text Size" menu replaced with "Zoom" menu
Changed: Dropped the odd/even row coloring in Surfer style
Changed: Share, Tag, and More icons in newspaper changed to simple caption-less dropdown menus
Changed: FeedDemon now defaults to never showing in the system tray on Windows 7
Changed: "News items" are now called "articles"
Changed: "Mark Read" and "Mark Unread" have been combined into single "Toggle Read" action

Fixed: Feed properties dialog permits a blank feed URL
Fixed: Scientific American podcasts are incorrectly downloaded with a CFM extension
Fixed: Grouping by category in the news item list doesn't work
Fixed: CPU spikes when updating a single feed in HTTP error report
Fixed: Prefetch-related error messages in the status bar disappear too quickly to be read
Fixed: Tags still appear in FeedDemon after deleting all tags in Google Reader
Fixed: FeedStation doesn't show HTTP status code for failed downloads
Fixed: FeedStation's error log shows bogus "error synching" messages
Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't recognize the URLs of FDLANGs if they contain a query string
Fixed: Subscription report doesn't remove publisher's inline styles from hyperlinks
Fixed: Duplicates appear when re-running a watch that contains multiple keywords
Fixed: Re-running a watch adds more items than should be kept for that watch
Fixed: "Shared by People I Follow" shows duplicates of posts that already exist in your subscriptions
Fixed: FeedDemon fails to runs in IE8 Standards Mode
Fixed: Navigating items using newspaper shortcuts is inaccurate
Fixed: Enter key doesn't expand focused newspaper item
Fixed: "Time Cards" style missing background on 64-bit Windows 7
Fixed: Potential buffer overflow when a very long string is entered in the subscription wizard (hat tip to Luis Santana for reporting this)
Fixed: Not enough contrast between odd rows and focused row in Surfer newspaper
Fixed: Long headlines in Surfer newspaper are truncated
Fixed: Unnecessary repainting/flicker of subscriptions after hitting "Next Unread" when viewing all unread items
Fixed: Importing OPML into synched folders fails if any of the imported feeds have invalid URLs
Fixed: Clicking a menu item is treated as a click in the newspaper when the menu appears over the newspaper
Fixed: Time Cards style shows only a thumbnail for some comic strip feeds
Fixed: Incorrect encoding of Twitter logins prevents updating Twitter feeds
Fixed: Jack Brewster says I didn't warn you that installing pre-release software may impregnate your cat
Fixed: HTML in feed title causes problems in newspaper
Fixed: First item isn't automatically focused in newspaper
Fixed: IE8 document compatibility registry key is set every time FeedDemon starts
Fixed: "More" menu in newspaper doesn't enable adding to (deprecated) clippings
Fixed: Unsharing an item in "Shared by Me" doesn't remove it from the newspaper
Fixed: Crash when loading a feed or folder that uses an older newspaper style
Fixed: Missing header icon in surfer which marks group as read
Fixed: Large images may overlap description in newspaper
Fixed: Incorrect odd/even row coloring in Surfer style
Fixed: Unicode URLs still fail to open in external browser
Fixed: Can't select mapped drive from Manage Cache > Backup
Fixed: FeedDemon's sanitizer strips CSS height/width values even if they're within a reasonable range
Fixed: Subscription Home isn't fully viewable when the screen resolution is 1024x768
Fixed: Subtle flicker in subscription tree when marking individual items read
Fixed: Shared items context menu doesn't enable marking all shared items read
Fixed: Older items tagged in Google Reader don't always appear in FeedDemon
Fixed: Ugly "new items" tray icon
Fixed: "Missing msvcr71.dll" error when using embedded ordering wizard on Windows 7
Fixed: Subtle bug using J/K to navigate the newspaper which causes headline to be out of view
Fixed: News item list incorrectly groups items published at midnight
Fixed: Items marked as "keep unread" in Google Reader don't appear as unread in FeedDemon
Fixed: PRE sections in item descriptions may overflow
Fixed: Subscription report displays after sync even when it shouldn't be shown
Fixed: Subscriptions home page shows truncated text when "increase newspaper font size" is enabled
Fixed: goo.gl and bit.ly information links treated as short URLs
Fixed: Images in reddit.com feeds disappear when item expanded
Fixed: Numeric values in feed/folder properties don't allow cut/copy/paste shortcuts
Fixed: Newspaper grouping always shows in English
Fixed: Tabbed browser re-opens URLs in the wrong order
Fixed: Unsubscribe confirmation dialog doesn't display Unicode characters
Fixed: MediaRSS thumbnails not extracted from Blogger Atom feeds
Fixed: Invalid nesting of tags in Expando style
Fixed: "New items received" message doesn't appear when viewing all unread items
Fixed: FeedStation spikes the CPU when updating progress bar during a download
Fixed: FeedDemon permits using commas in folder names even though they're not supported by Google Reader
Fixed: FeedDemon fails to ask to go online at startup if it was exited while working offline and "remember my login" is disabled in sync options
Fixed: Installer uses invalid certificate
Fixed: Missing "open in new tab" icon when showing headlines
Fixed: Items shared by you show up in "Shared by people I follow" even if nobody else shared them
Fixed: Feeds added to Google Reader outside this copy of FeedDemon don't show all unread items
Fixed: "Popular in my Subscriptions" contains older posts from people you follow
Fixed: Tag menu doesn't show the most-used tags
Fixed: Watches aren't regularly purged of older items
Fixed: Watches containing many future-dated items may fail to show new items
Fixed: "Shared by People I Follow" profile images are re-downloaded every time they're displayed
Fixed: News item list still shows unread items after marking all feeds read
Fixed: News item list incorrectly displays Unicode category, source and author, and also fails to display Unicode group headers correctly
Fixed: Newspaper shortcuts for previous/next page may cause browser to lose focus
Fixed: Subscription report shows thumbnails and friend images even when "Optimize for slow connections" is enabled
Fixed: Feeds and watches aren't re-sorted when their title is changed
Fixed: FeedStation doesn't remember downloads if it closes due to Windows shutting down
Fixed: Titles cut off last character when they contain HTML
Fixed: If FeedDemon is minimized using WindowsKey+DownArrow, it restores as a minimized window about the taskbar