NetNewsWire Betas https://ranchero.com/downloads/netnewswire-beta.xml Most recent NetNewsWire changes with links to updates. en NetNewsWire 5.0.1d1 (Probably) fix a crashing bug having to do with a callback being called more than once, when it was designed to be called just once.

Preferences > General: add checkbox to hide the unread count in the Dock.

Article pane: handle figures and iframes as we do images, so they fit in the view.

Article pane: fix white flash on first article load while in Dark Mode.

Enable the Open in Browser command only when a single article is selected.

Detect RDF (RSS 1.0) feeds that lack an XML header.

Parse Atom-style dates that are missing a T character in the middle.

About window: add link to NetNewsWire website.

RSS parser: don’t let author/title overwrite item/title.

Deleting an empty Feedbin folder no longer makes the sidebar non-responsive.

Updated the UI when a Feedbin user with an expired trial creates an account in NetNewsWire.

Feedbin syncing: fixed a bug where starred articles could appear as unread.

Microblog Mac app sharing: when it has to launch the app first, it waits a little longer before sending it content, which should fix a bug where sometimes you get no content in that case.

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Wed, 04 Sep 2019 21:30:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0 This is the shipping version of NetNewsWire 5.0.

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Sun, 25 Aug 2019 11:40:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0b6 Okay — one last beta! Pretty sure, at least.

Fixes a bug with undoing deleting feeds or folders. The sidebar wouldn’t update afterward to show that the feed is back. Now it does.

Opens preferences window in center of screen.

Centers main window on first launch.

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Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:50:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0b5 This is probably the last beta before the 5.0 release.

Preferences > Advanced now has app updating options — you can follow test builds or release builds. Release builds is the default. If you want to continue to get test builds, you’ll have to check the box next to “Test builds.”

Fixed a bug where smart feeds and folders wouldn’t re-fetch after a feed or folder was deleted, and so they might contain articles that should have been removed.

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Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:05:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0b4 Fixed a bug showing the unread count for the selected feed, smart feed, or folder.

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Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:30:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0b2 Fixed a crashing bug doing mark-all-as-read from the contextual menu on a feed.

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Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:45:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0b1 Beta! This is the first beta release. This means that we think the app is ready to ship — but it should get more testing to be sure.

There is now a Help Book on the web. We’ll continue to update it up until we ship.

Unread counts: for the sidebar unread count, get the unread count for the selected feed/folder from the timeline.

Today feed: now shows last 24 hours. This way articles don’t just disappear at midnight. This kind of stretches the meaning of “Today,” but we think it’s fine.

Fixed a few AppleScript bugs, including a crashing bug that could happen when adding a feed that already exists.

Finalized the AppleScript scripting dictionary.

Performance: do async fetches for the timeline when an event triggers a need for a refresh. This way the main thread isn’t blocked.

Performance: reload the sidebar outline less often. Only when actually needed.

Performance: remove some unneeded drawing behind the timeline. This makes resizing the timeline horizontally faster.

Performance: make some additional database operations async that could be made so.

About box: add additional credits.

Fix typos in some error messages — they were using a foot mark instead of a curly quote.

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Sun, 11 Aug 2019 22:20:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0a4 Sidebar: fixed a bug where a drag-and-drop that triggers an error could make the app unresponsive.

Timeline: fixed sorting when two items have the same publication date. Added additional criteria so the sort is stable and predictable.

Timeline: small avatars (16 x 16 favicons, for instance) are now centered on a gray background. Looks a bit better.

Added How to Support NetNewsWire help menu item.

AppleScript: read/unread and starred status are now read/write via scripts.

Updated to the latest Sparkle — the thing that does these in-app version upgrades — which has better support Dark Mode. Also, it might fix a bug where Check for Updates… is sometimes not available when it should be. (Maybe.)

Status note: At this point we have no known bugs to fix before 5.0 beta. No crashing bugs. All that remains is documentation. So, please keep looking for bugs! :)

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Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:00:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0a3 Fixed crash happening only on macOS 10.15 beta. We owe Apple a bug report for this one.

Fixed a crash that could happen when finding a feed.

Skip showing error dialogs on automatic refreshes.

Immediately show the refresh progress bar when an OPML import to Feedbin starts.

Add ellipsis to Import from OPML and Export to OPML buttons.

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Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:45:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0a2 Escape HTML in the title in the article view — if there’s HTML in the title, the tags should actually be displayed.

The Mark as Read command in the Article menu now turns into Mark as Unread at the appropriate times.

Feedbin syncing: send locally changed statuses before downloading statuses from the server.

Feedbin syncing: fix bug renaming a folder that has no feeds.

Feedbin syncing: fixed a bunch of accuracy and reliability issues, and a crashing bug.

Fixed issue where local account feed finder could lock UI in the case of an error.

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Sat, 08 Jun 2019 16:00:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0a1 NetNewsWire 5.0 has reached alpha stage! This means it has no known bugs. It surely does have bugs, though. Now it’s time for testing. (And writing the Help book. And making the website better.)

Fixed a crashing bug with parsing a response from Feedbin. (Totally our fault, not Feedbin’s fault.)

Show avatars from Micro.blog feeds with multiple authors (such as your personal timeline feed).

Made OPML import to the On My Mac account way faster.

The Today smart feed now updates when the day changes.

You can now drag and drop in the sidebar between accounts.

Made the default file name for OPML exports “Subscriptions-[accountName].opml”

Add explanation text to Account preferences for the Name field. (It’s just a display name and doesn’t affect authentication.)

Fixed several bugs with Feedbin syncing — it’s now more reliable. (We know of no remaining sync bugs, though of course there might be some.)

Added a placeholder web page for the Help book.

New app icon! But it might take a while for your Mac to notice and put in the Dock. (I wish we could speed that up, but it’s out of our control.)

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Fri, 31 May 2019 20:30:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0d17 NetNewsWire 5.0 is now feature-complete. It has bugs, though, so we can’t call it alpha just yet. Getting close!

NetNewsWire now requires macOS 10.14.4 or greater. It no longer includes the Swift libraries, which makes for a much smaller download, which means it takes up less space on disk.

You can now sync using FeedBin. See Preferences > Accounts to add a FeedBin account. Note: the initial import from FeedBin is likely to take a while, but keeping up should be quite fast.

You can create additional “On My Mac” accounts, via Preferences > Accounts.

Accounts can be made inactive.

Sidebar: fixed a bug updating unread counts in the sidebar when you have duplicates of a feed.

Timeline: scrolling has been made faster.

Timeline: avatars are now on the left instead of on the right. There’s a default globe avatar for when no feed icon or favicon can be found. The default avatar is tinted. Each feed gets its own tint.

Detail view: worked around a new WebKit bug that affected the detail view. It would flash empty between articles sometimes. Now it won’t.

Help menu: a new command takes you to the signup page for the Slack Group.

Help menu: removed command to donate to App Camp for Girls, since the donation page has been removed. Once we know how we can continue to support their mission, we’ll do so.

OPML Export: asks for the account first.

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Sat, 25 May 2019 11:00:00 -0700 10.14.4
NetNewsWire 5.0d16 Searching now works.

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Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:50:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d15 Sidebar: the drag images are no longer terrible. They’re good — they’re what you expect.

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Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:25:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d14 Bogus future dates are now discarded when updating the database.

Fixed a bug where updating changed dates in articles didn’t work.

Fixed bug fetching unread count for the Today feed — it was skipping items without a pubDate but that were logically part of Today because they arrived today.

Timeline: do ever-so-slightly less work in the cells, which should result in an imperceptible performance increase with scrolling.

Sidebar: make rows a little taller. Adds a little breathing room.

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Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:00:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d13 Sidebar: you can now drag feeds into and out of folders. It’s rough still — the drag images are a mess, and spring-loaded folders don’t close. (Those bugs have been filed and will get fixed.)

Fixed a bug where a feed’s title could get set to “Untitled” in the database — it should just be nil or empty.

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Wed, 06 Feb 2019 22:00:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d12 Timeline: refresh smart feeds when new articles are downloaded.

Sidebar: re-sort after renaming a feed or folder.

Fixed a bug importing OPML where the OPML file doesn’t have title attributes.

Simplified user-agent to “NetNewsWire (RSS Reader; https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/)”.

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Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:00:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d11 Probably fixed a crashing bug (with three reports) that could happen when using a single-letter keyboard shortcut.

Sidebar: removed gear menu — the trend these days is a clean look at the bottom of the window. (See Mail and other apps.)

Sidebar: during refresh, animate in the refresh-status view. Animate out when done. (A la Mail.)

Fixed bug where the ATP feed would have empty articles. The fix was for the parser to ignore empty content:encoded elements. (This bug won’t automatically fix any already-downloaded articles in that feed. You’ll see the fix in action the next time the feed updates.)

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Fri, 01 Feb 2019 22:00:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d10 Restored 10.13 compatibility. (Figured out how to get it building for 10.13 again.)

Timeline: tightened it up. Increased information density. Uses small margins, smaller avatar, and smaller title font size.

Notarized the app, as Apple wants us to do.

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Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:05:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d9 Refresh automatically based on your settings in the General preferences pane.

Crashing bug: possible fix for the SidebarViewController.viewDidLoad() crash. (I couldn’t reproduce it. We’ll just have to watch and see if the crashes stop.)

Add feed window: fixed bug where Add button would be disabled sometimes.

Sidebar: fixed bug where empty folders would be lost between runs.

Crash reporter: close the window after sending the crash log.

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Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:30:00 -0800 10.14
NetNewsWire 5.0d8 Important compatibility note! NetNewsWire now requires macOS 10.14 (Mojave). Don’t update if you’re running an older macOS.

Sidebar: you can drag a feed from an external app to subscribe to that feed.

Crash log catcher opens a window on next launch after a crash. It offers to send the crash log to us. (Crash logs are kept confidential.)

Wrote a privacy policy because it was needed for crash log collection. ranchero.com/netnewswire/privacypolicy

Removed the Feed Directory. The current plan is to have it return some time after 5.0 ships.

Preferences: you can set the default aggregator now.

Preferences: added Advanced pane. Right now it has just one pref — you can have crash logs sent automatically.

Added credits to About window.

Fixed bug where contextual menu for article might not have Share menu filled in properly.

Fixed bug where text in the sidebar was too gray most of the time.

Made the Star toolbar button static, because any other solution was confusing. (Show the current state? Or show the state it would have if you clicked? Both answers are good, and they’re mutually exclusive.)

Disabled inline editing in the sidebar. You can still edit feed and folder names, just not by clicking in the sidebar in just the right way. (It’s a relatively rare thing to want to do, so having text sometimes appear as editable was more confusing than useful.)

Default feeds: added Xcoders.org feed.

Enabled the hardened runtime.

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Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:00:00 -0800 10.14
NetNewsWire 5.0d7 Multiple significant performance improvements that will be especially noticeable with high feed counts.

Sidebar: Delete command now in contextual menu and in gear menu.

Sidebar: scrolls to show feed or folder, when needed, when going to the next unread article.

Timeline: contextual menu command to select feed in sidebar.

Detail view: fixed — at least mostly — an issue where the detail view’s web view might flash white while in dark mode.

Detail view: give URL status bar a dark background color when in Dark Mode.

Sharing: sort articles by publication date on sharing.

Sharing: set email subject when sharing to Mail.

Window title now reflects sidebar selection. (Which will only be noticeable in the Window menu, but will be meaningful when we add support for tabs.)

Dock icon menu now includes Refresh command.

Subscriptions are now stored as an OPML file instead of a plist, which means you don’t even have to export to OPML to get an OPML version of your feeds. Feed metadata is now stored in Settings.odb.

Toolbar: Mark As Read toggles back and forth between states.

Feed Directory: Add to Feeds button now works, though we want to revisit the UI.

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Wed, 26 Sep 2018 22:10:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d6 Supports Mojave dark mode in the detail view, which should complete dark mode support.

Sidebar: feed and folder names can be edited inline.

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Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:15:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d5 Major bandwidth-use bug fixed — sometimes it would request the home page of a site multiple times all at once. Now it just does one request.

Sharing: lightboxed the share sheet.

Sharing: added subject to Mail message.

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Sun, 09 Sep 2018 12:30:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d3 Fixed appearance of timeline cell when highlighted (in High Sierra) — text now turns white, as expected.

Reduced size of download by several MB by not including Swift libraries in Safari extension.

Made the Safari extension preserve https scheme, for better security.

Added Share submenu to timeline contextual menu.

Detail view doesn’t make date a link when it would be to the same URL as the title link.

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Tue, 04 Sep 2018 21:00:00 -0800 10.13
NetNewsWire 5.0d2 Fixed a performance issue when fetching articles — it’s much faster now. You’ll especially notice when you select something with hundreds of articles.

Handle bad home page URLs in a feed. (AppleInsider, for instance.)

Allow .xml as an extension when importing an OPML file.

Hide cursor when paging via the space bar.

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Sun, 02 Sep 2018 12:30:00 -0800 10.13