FeedDemon Release Notes

Changes in this release

• Removed: Sharing features that relied on Google Reader (here's why)
• 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
• Added: Ctr+0 shortcut to return the embedded browser to normal (100%) zoom
• 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: Sporadic crashes showing context menus after upgrading to IE9
• Fixed: Potential nuisance flaw in feed preview which could allow external feed to display popups (hat tip to JPCERT/CC for reporting this flaw)
• 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: "Send to Delicious" 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
• Fixed: Feed preview launches external browser for embedded videos in feeds
• Fixed: Buttons obscured in feed selection dialog when using font size other than default
• 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