Feedly: handle API change with deleting and don’t show a spurious error

NewsBlur: don’t fetch articles marked hidden by NewsBlur

FreshRSS: add API endpoint URL example in setup form

iCloud: fixed bug not retaining feeds in a folder where the folder hasn’t been synced yet

iCloud: fixed bug where iCloud syncing could stop prematurely when the sync database has records not in the local database

BazQux: fixed bug where BazQux-synced feeds might stop updating

Feedbin: fixed bug where external URLs in Feedbin feeds might be lost

Twitter extension: fixed weird bug where an extra https:/ could appear in tweet text

Preferences: use full-width row style in accounts and extensions panes

Fixed a crashing bug triggered by running some UI code outside of main thread

Fixed a crashing bug that could happen when the app tries to find a feed for a website

Fixed a crashing bug that could happen when rendering tweets

Changed how images are placed in Twitter articles so that you can better see who Tweeted the image

Fixed bug where favicons wouldn’t be found when a home page URL has non-ASCII characters

Fixed bug where words prepended with $ wouldn’t appear in Twitter feeds

Fixed bug where newlines would be just a space in Twitter feeds

Feeds list: smart feeds remain visible despite Hide Read Feeds setting

Keyboard shortcuts: fixed regression where L key wouldn’t go to next unread when feed is all read

Fixed regression with the L key — now works properly again

Preferences: adjusted layout of the add account sheet so that it fits on smaller monitors

Feeds list: properly scale the smart feed icons when sidebar is set to large size in System Preferences

Feeds list: fixed bug where newly added feed would be called Untitled past the time when the app actually knows its name

Timeline: fixed bug where next-unread command wouldn’t wrap around when you got to the bottom of the Feeds list

Timeline: fixed bug updating article display when an article with the same article ID appears more than once (which can happen when a person has multiple accounts)

iCloud: won’t add feeds that aren’t parseable, which fixes an error upon trying to rename one of these feeds

Feedbin: fixed a bug with read/unread status syncing

Big Sur UI (when running on Big Sur)

App is now sandboxed

Apple Silicon native code

Syncing via iCloud

Syncing via BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS

Share extension, so you can send URLs to NetNewsWire

Special support for Twitter and Reddit feeds

Sidebar contextual menu commands for turning on and off Reader View and for notifications

High resolution icons in the sidebar (when available)

External link, when available, shows in article view

Preference to change article text size

Preference to set preferred browser

Fixed a background color bug in dark mode in the timeline

Fixed a crashing bug updating the browser popup in Preferences

Feedbin: fixed bug where credentials couldn’t be updated

Feedly: fixed bug syncing feed name changes

Feedly: fixed a bug adding a feed to a Feedly collection that has a + in its name

On My Mac: increased performance downloading feeds in the On My Mac account

Preferences: restored ability to set default RSS reader

Fixed bug where o key wouldn’t mark older as read

Fixed an Open System Preferences button in an alert that didn’t work

Fixed a possible hang when adding a feed to Feedly (and the feed isn’t found)

Fixed some UI issues to do with adding a Feedly account

Fixed contrast in footnotes indicator

Fixed bug where duplicate accounts (same username and service) could be made

Fixed bug where open in Safari in background might not open in the background

Feedly syncing

Reader view

Notifications (configure per feed in the Info window)

Multiple windows - File > New Window

View > Hide Read Feeds

View > Hide Read Articles (also a filter button above timeline for this)

Clean Up command (to immediately hide read articles when hide-read-articles is on)

Feeds view: remember expansion state between runs

Timeline: more compact rows (source and date on same line)

Timeline: sort menu on top

Timeline: swipe actions

Article view: shift-space scrolls backwards

Articles with non-ASCII URLs can now open in browser

Adding feeds with non-ASCII URLs now works

AppleScript: article now has a feed property

Hold down shift to temporarily toggle open-in-browser in background preference

Article > Mark Above as Read, Mark Below as Read

Preferences: Choose preferred browser (for viewing web pages)

Inspector: window title now matches name of thing being inspected

Changed the retention policy to match iOS

Feeds view: fixed bug where multiple sequential deletes could mess up the current selection index

Article view: dealt with Twitter change that caused Twitter embeds to get cut off

Article view: properly size emojis that are actually graphics (from Wordpress, for instance)

Article view: stop playing any audio if the window is closed

Article view: don’t let line lengths get too long

Article view: fixed display of BandCamp widgets

OPML export: use an accessory view instead of an intermediate sheet

Add Folder: disable Add Folder button when text field is empty

Feed icons: get more icons from Feedbin; get favicons from some tricky cases

Add Feed: now allows IPv6 literal URLs

Feed discovery: give less weight to feeds with the word “podcast” in them, because they’re probably not what we want

Refreshing: fixed bug where automatic refreshing might not happening after the computer wakes from sleep

Preferences > Accounts: Renamed “Create” account button to “Add Account”

Fixed bug where a Feedbin article could stay unread right after you select it

Fixed bug where folder names with double quotes would have the quotes replaced with the HTML entity for quote

When importing from NNW 3, the app now ignores script feeds (since we don’t have that feature yet)

Fixed bug where, right after initial launch, the spacebar might not work to go to next unread article

Pressing return now opens the selected article in your browser

When running for the first time, and the user previously used NetNewsWire 3, it will automatically import NetNewsWire 3 subscriptions instead of the defaults for new users.

You can also import NetNewsWire 3 subscriptions via the new File > Import NNW3 Subscriptions… command.

Keyboard shortcuts: the 's' key toggles starred status. The 'r' and 'u' keys now both toggle read status (instead of setting read and unread status, respectively).

Articles view: articles where the feed icon is quite large would be slow to render — now they render as fast as other articles.

Articles view: a bug where keyboard shortcuts wouldn’t work after giving the articles view focus has been fixed.

Articles view: YouTube videos could end up small. Fixed.

Articles view: fixed a bug scaling images to fit in the view.

Fixed the space bar when running on Catalina. It wouldn’t advance to the next unread — now it will. (This was due to a change in JavaScript in Catalina.)

Fixed a crashing bug having to do with async database fetches for the timeline.

Feedbin syncing: fixed a bug where renaming a tag on the Feedbin site would result in feeds in NNW ending up at the top level.

Help menu: fixed the expired Slack link.

Normally we wouldn’t have pushed out a new release for a single bug fix, but this one is important — we were getting false positives on app movement, which was affecting some users negatively.

(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.

Sidebar: deleting an empty Feedbin folder no longer makes the sidebar non-responsive.

Timeline: update UI more quickly when a feed icon is downloaded.

Timeline: reload the timeline when show-feed-names is toggled. This fixes a bug where switching between a folder and a feed with the exact same list of articles to appear in the timeline would result in display glitches.

Timeline and article pane: make sure the link for an article isn’t an empty string.

Article pane: stop blocking links containing the string “feedburner” — there are legitimate cases where that string appears.

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.

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

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

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

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

RSS parser: check for bad permalinks more aggressively. If they don’t contain a / character, then do not consider them permalinks.

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

About window: add link to NetNewsWire website.

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.

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

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.