Instead of an old-fashioned status bar — an app “chin” — the gear menu and refresh status appear at the bottom of the sidebar, and the current article‘s URL (or mouseover URL) appears at the bottom of the detail view.

Feedback is welcome on this change. It might need reversing or refining. Or it might be fine as-is. Let me know what you think.

Performance

The time between clicking on a feed — or especially a folder — and when the articles appear in the timeline view has been drastically reduced. This was due to a number of changes. (Thanks to Instruments!)

OPML importing was slow — now it’s borderline instantaneous, even with thousands of feeds.

HTML metadata parsing is now cached and performed on a background thread.

Misc.

Detect and parse RSS feeds that lack an opening rss tag. (See https://www.natashatherobot.com/feed/ as an example.)

When the home page of a feed isn’t known yet, base the favicon on the feed URL.

Fix a memory leak that happened every time you added a feed.

Removed signs of some features that won’t appear until 2.0. (I’ve been doing some punting. It hurts, but that’s how I know I’m doing it right.)

Increased spacing in sidebar from small to medium.

The smart feeds now appear in a Smart Feeds group in the sidebar.

More info

You can always look at the recent commits on GitHub for more details.

Fetch unread counts from database at startup.

Make resizing the timeline view marginally faster.

Make the favicon downloading system use a little less memory.

Read a newly-added feed immediately, instead of waiting for the next refresh-all.

Use 38-pt-wide toolbar icons, a la Mail.

Parse RSS 1.0 (RDF) feeds. Pinboard uses these (I couldn’t find them anywhere else).

Make the window title-less. You can bring back the title using a hidden pref.

Save feed authors.

Save article authors.

Use updated @2x next-unread icon from Brad.

Fix bug detecting feed type for Dr. Drang’s JSON Feed.

Fix bug detecting Macworld’s RSS feed as an RSS feed. The feed doesn’t start with the standard XML header.

Set user-agent on the detail view’s webview.

The Feed Directory sidebar also shows favicons.

Note: obvious missing thing is a default image for when there is no favicon. See https://github.com/brentsimmons/Evergreen/issues/208. ]]> Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:50:00 -0800 10.13 Resuming distribution via Sparkle.