baRSS/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project does adhere to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

• App Signing
• Sandboxing & hardened runtime environment
• Associate OPML files (double click and right click actions in Finder)
• Quick Look preview for OPML files
• Adding feed: 5xx server errors have a reload button which will initiate a new download with the same URL
• Adding feed: Empty feed title will automatically reuse title from xml file (even if xml title changes)
• Adding feed: Parser for YouTube channel, user, and playlist URLs
• Adding feed: ⌘R will reload the same URL
• Settings, Feeds: ⌘R will reload the data source
• Settings, Feeds: Refresh interval string localizations
• Settings, Feeds: Right click menu with edit actions
• Settings, Feeds: Drag & Drop feeds from / to OPML file
• Settings, Feeds: Drag & Drop feed titles and urls as text
• Settings, Feeds: OPML export with selected items only
• Settings, General: Auxiliary application for changing default feed reader
• UI: Accessibility hints for most UI elements
• UI: Show welcome message upon first usage (empty db)
• UI: Custom colors via user defaults plist (bar icon tint & unread indicator)
• UI: Unread indicator for groups
• Welcome message also adds Github releases feed
• Config URL scheme barss: with open/preferences, config/fixcache, and backup/show

Fixed

• Adding feed: Show proper HTTP status code error message (4xx and 5xx)
• Adding feed: Show (HTML) extracted failure reason for 5xx server errors
• Adding feed: If URLs can't be resolved in the first run (5xx error), try a second time. E.g., Done click (issue: #5)
• Adding feed: Prefer favicons with size 32x32
• Adding feed: Inserting feeds when offline/paused will postpone download until network is reachable again
• Adding feed: Cancel will indeed cancel download, not just continue and ignore results
• Settings, Feeds: Actions delete and edit use clicked items instead of selected items
• Settings, Feeds: Status info with accurate download count (instead of Updating feeds …)
• Settings, Feeds: Status info shows No network connection and Updates paused
• Settings, Feeds: After feed edit, run update scheduler immediately
• Status Bar Menu: Feed title is updated properly
• UI: If an error occurs, show document URL (path to file or web url)
• Comparison of existing articles with nonexistent guid and link
• Don't mark articles read if opening URLs failed
• Don't mark articles read that appear in the middle of a feed (ghost items)
• HTML tag removal keeps structure intact

Changed

• Adding feed: Display error reason if user cancels the creation of a new feed item
• Adding feed: Refresh interval hotkeys set to: ⌘1 … ⌘6
• Settings, Feeds: Single add button for feeds, groups, and separators
• Settings, Feeds: Always append new items at the end
• Settings, General: Moved Fix cache button to About text section
• Settings, General: Changing default feed reader is prohibited within sandbox
• Status Bar Menu: Show (no title) instead of (error)
• Status Bar Menu: Update all feeds will show error alerts for broken URLs
• UI: Interface builder files replaced with code equivalent
• UI: Mark unread articles with blue dot, instead of tick mark
• DB: New table for options. E.g., what app version modified the database
• Dropping database table FeedIcon in favor of image files cache

0.9.4 - 2019-04-02

Fixed

• Article order got mixed up for some feeds (issue: #4)
• If multiple consecutive items reappear in the middle of the feed mark them read

Changed

• UI: Removed checkbox Start on login. Use Preferences > Users > Login Items instead.

0.9.3 - 2019-03-14

Added

• Changelog
• UI: Show body tag in article tooltip if abstract tag is empty

Fixed

• Update all feeds will shows unread items count properly during update
• Fixed update for feeds where all article URLs point to the same resource (issue: #3)

0.9.2 - 2019-03-07

Added

• Limit number of articles that are displayed in feed menu (issue: #2)

Fixed

• ⌘Q in preferences will close the window instead of quitting the application
• Crash when libxml2 encountered and set an error
• libxml2 will ignore lower ascii characters (0x00–0x1F)

0.9.1 - 2019-02-14

Added

• Mark single article as un/read (hold down option key and click on article)

Fixed

• Mouse click on Done button, while entering a new feed URL, will start download properly
• Use guid url if link is not set (issue: #1)
• Issue with feeds not being detected if XML tags start after 4kb
• Support uppercase schemes (e.g., FEED:)
• UI: Hide Next update in -25yrs
• UI: Show alert after click on Fix Cache

Changed

• Auto increment build number
• Removed static images for group icon, default feed icon, and warning icon
• Remove html tags from abstract on save (not on display)

0.9 - 2019-02-11

Initial release