Synchronized news bins with shared RSS feeds - share a FeedDemon
"news bin" (similar to a link blog) as an RSS feed so that others
may subscribe to it. Simply copy a post from any feed into a shared news
bin, and everyone subscribed to that news bin's feed will get a copy of it.
You can also drag-and-drop FeedDemon browser tabs - or even hyperlinks from
an external browser - into a news bin to share those links.
Vastly improved offline support - including the ability to prefetch links
and images in all unread items for offline reading.
Completely rewritten "Popular Topics" - view the most popular
topics in all the feeds you're subscribed to, alongside the topics that are
popular with all NewsGator subscribers.
Embedded video support - video objects embedded in feed items can now be
securely viewed inside FeedDemon.
"Who's linking here?" - with a single click, find out who in the
blogosphere is linking to a specific post in your subscriptions.
Other Additions in FeedDemon 2.5
Ability to choose which feeds to show in the desktop alert
(Options|Desktop Alert|Choose Feeds) (hat tip to Nick Harris)
Watches can now be included in the desktop alert (Options|Desktop Alert)
Emailing posts as HTML is now supported when Microsoft Outlook is
installed and is the default email client.
"Ignore new items older than" added to feed properties (useful
for feeds that keep republishing old items). Related to this, new keyword
search feeds default to ignoring items older than 7 days.
Date filter added to subscription search
Subscription search can now be limited to unread/flagged items (82780)
"Mark page read" added to top right of "Surfer"
newspaper style
"Mark page read and goto next page" added to toolbar above
browser
"Keyword View" added to view styles - shows all feeds containing
a specific word in their title
"Show Toolbars" added to View menu (provides keyboard-centric
users a way to hide all the toolbars)
Enclosure URL (if any) is now included when emailing a post
Significant performance boost when navigating subscriptions with keyboard
shortcuts or toolbuttons
We had two reports of corrupted FeedDemon watches and news bins following
a system crash. As a result, this version includes the ability to silently
recover corrupt data files, as well as better detection of system failures
during file writing to avoid corruption in the first place.
Feed properties icon added to top right of Surfer newspaper
When working offline, clicking a link to a page that's not available
offline results in a system beep along with a message in the status bar
informing that the page isn't available.
Newspaper links that aren't available while offline now show with a dotted
red underline
When viewing a newspaper while working offline, links that aren't
available offline are displayed in a different style
The dialog that asks whether to connect when working offline now includes
a "Don't ask me again this session" checkbox.
Activation/startup wizard now includes a "Search Feed" page
which automatically subscribes you to keyword search feeds
"What is RSS?" page added to tutorial
Opening a new tab shows a page containing tips for using tabbed browsing
Slightly improved performance when running over a Remote Desktop
Connection
"Reports" submenu added to View menu
"Feed HTTP Error Report" - list of HTTP errors encountered
during last update
"History of auto-discovered feeds" which displays a report of
feeds auto-discovered during the past week that you're not already
subscribed to. Note that this will be empty upon first use (it populates
over time)
Desktop alert is now pinnable (82901)
"Appearance" tab in options enables choosing custom colors
Significant performance boost when changing views
Mousing over an item in the news item list now shows its URL in the status
bar
Mousing over a feed now shows its folder name in the status bar when the
current view doesn't include folders
If FeedDemon crashes while multiple browser tabs are opened, you'll be
asked whether to reopen those tabs then next time it starts
Separate tray icon when working offline
FeedStation's context menu now includes a "Copy URL to
clipboard" item (2.5.0.10)
Browser tabs may be dragged into news bins (2.5.0.10)
Changes
The address and search bars have been combined.
Changes to read states when working offline are now synched immediately
after returning from offline.
"Browser Position" moved back to View menu
"System Tray" page in options renamed to "Desktop
Alert"
Feeds whose attention data collection has been disabled are now excluded
from popular topics
In previous versions, attempting to browse an external URL while working
offline would always result in being asked whether to connect. This has been
changed so that FeedDemon first checks whether a copy of the URL exists in
IE's cache, and if so it will display it rather than attempt to connect.
Folders that are child folders online now display their full path in the
subscription tree
Feeds with the least attention now excludes feeds that were added within
the past two days
If a feed with unread items is selected and an external web page is
showing, clicking "Mark page read and goto next page" will
redisplay that feed's newspaper instead of moving to the next feed.
When FeedDemon fails to connect to the Internet, you're now asked whether
to test the connection or work offline
Confirmation dialog which asks whether to make FeedDemon the default feed
reader can be disabled from the dialog itself
FeedDemon now uses its own user agent instead of IE's when requesting
images for display in a FeedDemon newspaper.
In previous versions, hitting Ctrl+Space would navigate the news item list
even when it was hidden. This has been changed so that it navigates the
newspaper instead.
"Suppress dialogs and error messages displayed by browser" now
defaults to False. This was True in previous versions to prevent script
error dialogs from appearing, but this had the side effect of also
preventing login dialogs. FeedDemon now always prevents script errors from
appearing, regardless of this setting.
Navigating items in the newspaper using 'J' or 'K' now marks the selected
item as read
Redesigned Options | Confirmations dialog
The ability to search subscriptions from the search bar has been removed.
This feature is still available by pressing F3 or selecting Tools|Search
Subscriptions
Caption removed from "Filter" on news item list toolbar
Double-clicking an item in the news item list now marks it as read
"Automatically collapse folders" has been moved to the General
tab in FeedDemon's options
The option to "mark selected item as read" now operates in both
the news item list and the newspaper
The options to (1) check if FeedDemon is the default aggregator and (2)
show validation errors in new feeds have been moved to the confirmation
setting
When the news item list is grouped by date, only the time portion displays
when an item's date is within the last few days
Error log (FeedDemon.elf) is now saved to the cache folder instead of the
application folder
Pressing 'J' in the newspaper when the last item is selected now marks it
as read
"New Folder" removed from "Subscribe" dropdown, added
to File menu
Subscription tree uses "Vista" style
Fixes
Read states not synched before applying changes to synchronized folders
(80345)
Redirected enclosures not synched with iTunes (80347)
HTML not always stripped from titles in popular topics
Import dialog should disable the option to import from the common feed
list when RSS platform isn't installed (81810)
When a watch or news bin is selected, "Next unread feed shouldn't
skip watches and news bins (77960)
Progress bar showing status of previous tab when switching browser tabs
Unicode quotes and dashes aren't converted before passing a news item to
an external blog publishing tool
"Reverse sort" toolbutton isn't re-enabled after changing
newspaper filter from one that results in zero news items
"Show in external browser" should not be enabled for newspapers
Titles for newspapers containing a single news item fail to strip HTML
Items with the same date are sorted differently in the news item list than
they are in the newspaper.
When viewing Popular Topics, clicking "Hide this topic" doesn't
always work
"Interface not supported" exception when viewing XPS
document in FeedDemon
Feeds added online aren't updated in FeedDemon until the next update cycle
after they've been added
When FeedStation has been uninstalled, feeds that are configured to
auto-download enclosures generate an error message during updating
FeedStation fails to correctly rename podcasts with multiple redirects
(seen with this
Scientific American feed) (81270)
Can't sync a feed that uses cookie-based authentication if the cookie
exists when you attempt to subscribe to the feed
Incorrect display of ' in Atom feeds with text summaries (86299)
Search terms and URLs entered into the address bar are automatically
submitted when the focus changes, even if the Enter key hasn't been hit.
FeedDemon doesn't reset the newspaper and splitter colors after the
Windows theme changes
"Popular Topics" doesn't correctly match URLs with spaces in
their query strings
"Internet Options" doesn't work under Windows Vista
Favorites menu doesn't work under Windows Vista
On Windows Vista, hitting ALT sometimes hides all buttons on a dialog
Changing views on Windows Vista sometimes re-arranges order of watches and
news bins
Login dialog for authenticated feeds appears when screen saver is active
Address bar is cleared when subscription home page reloads while a URL is
being typed into the address bar
Surfer colors look wrong with many WindowsBlinds skins
Subscriptions scroll back to the top after right-clicking
Significant delay between clicking "Update all feeds" and the
update being performed
NewsGator API call at startup even when no synched feeds exist
Scheduled updating doesn't occur when no synched feeds exist and sync
polling frequency isn't the same as feed update frequency (87959)(78987)
"Scrubber" code fails to remove text between
<script>..</script> (not a security risk - just looked bad)
Exception when importing from common feed list when it doesn't contain any
subscriptions (88033)
Subscriptions scroll to the right after changing views if a feed with a
long title is selected
Search phrase is cleared from address bar when it loses focus (88364)
Sanitizer cuts off all text after a <title> tag if encountered when
building a newspaper
Further improved duplicate suppression in "Popular in Everyone's
Subscriptions"
Hard-coded text and language in "about tabs" page (88684)
Incoming links cropped when using Chinese font (88636)
Right-clicking a feed and selecting "Update Feed" does nothing
when a news bin or watch is selected
Image URLs which contain spaces fail to display in summary view (89507)
URLs in status bar don't disappear
Previous name of renamed feed/folder doesn't appear in subscription
changes details
Double-clicking an item in a Market Watch feed opens the subscription
wizard (89965)
Null characters in corrupt subscriptions file prevents successful restore
of subscriptions backup file (89870)
Expando style doesn't have a "mark as read" icon next to each
item (90073)
Embedded Silverlight crashes FeedDemon (89653)
Feed preview dialog requires clicking inside the browser before mouse
wheel will scroll it
"Ignore new items older than" setting not enforced for modified
items
Open italics not closed in newspaper excerpts (88931)
Feed or folder must be clicked twice to reload its newspaper after
right-clicking another node
If during an update a feed receives more items than its archiving value
permits, the archiving value is automatically increased. This is by design,
but it should not happen if the archiving value has been changed from its
default value of 200 items (28776)
Minimized browser splitter re-opens after alt-tabbing away from and then
back to FeedDemon (79949)
Disappearing content in Outland newspaper style when using IE6
Read items are skipped by watches after updating a synched feed for the
first time (88578)
Items deleted by cleanup wizard aren't synched with NewsGator Online
Incorrect date sorting of folder newspaper (Surfer style)
FeedDemon loses focus after upgrading subscriptions
"Popular Topics" incorrectly displays Unicode titles in
"Popular in Everyone's Subscriptions"
Desktop alert doesn't support Unicode characters
When a watch is selected, choosing "Mark as read" from news item
list's context menu doesn't mark source items as read (91341)
Exception when pressing Ctrl+W while browser has the focus (91680)
Marking a folder as read reloads the newspaper even when the newspaper
isn't displaying that folder (91565)
Long delay (or freeze) at startup while synching data
"Mark as read/unread" shouldn't be enabled in news item list
context menu for search results
Newspaper incorrectly reloads after right-clicking a news bin and changing
its synchronization setting
Notes for newspaper developers
Information about a post's comments is now stored in a <fd:comments>
node which has htmlUrl, xmlUrl and NumComments attributes
The hard-coded hack in the previous version which determined a newspaper
style's capabilities by checking its name has been removed. Third-party
newspaper authors will need to add a 'fd:capabilites' node to their style
which describes its capabilites, ex: 'Surfer' style uses <fd:capabilities
showExcerpts="true" toggleExcerpts="false"
collapsePosts="false" itemGrouping="true" /> (77329)
Known Issues
Read/flagged states aren't synchronized in synched news bins
Items clipped to the root clippings folder online aren't synched with
FeedDemon
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