What's new in Newsbeuter 2.8
Nov 27, 2014
- Add bookmark script for getpocket.com support (Andreas Happe).
- Fix issues with the build process on OpenBSD (Kyle Isom).
- Make guid generation smarter (Jochen Sprickerhof).
- In the feed list, quitting now is the same as clearing the tag in case a tag is selected.
- Add support for The Old Reader (theoldreader.com).
- Add support for NewsBlur (Thomas Weißschuh).
- Fix crash bug in filter expression parsing.
- Update French translation (Sabrina Dubroca).
- Fix crash bug with unbalanced tags (Richard Quirk).
New in Newsbeuter 2.4 (Feb 3, 2011)
- Added support for query feeds in combination with Google Reader support.
- Added ability to configure proxy authentication method.
- Added commandline option -q to enable quiet startup (patch by Isaac Good)
- Re-sort feed list after all feeds have been reloaded.
- Added keys to jump to the next/previous feed or article regardless of its "unread" status (patches by Jim Pryor)
- Implemented on-demand loading of feeds to reduce memory usage.
- Removed Bloglines support as the service shuts down on October 1, 2010.
- Implemented XDG Base Directory support (patch by Elrond)
- Google Reader: when in offline mode, record unread status changes and later replay when in online mode.
- Fixed Google Reader authentication issue with certain passwords (fixes issue #238).
- Added configuration option "cookie-cache" (fixes issue #234).
New in Newsbeuter 2.3 (Jun 25, 2010)
- Subscribe to RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds
- Download podcasts
- Freely configure your keyboard shortcuts
- Search through all downloaded articles
- Categorize and query your subscriptions with a flexible tag system
- Integrate any data source through a flexible filter and plugin system
- Automatically remove unwanted articles through a "killfile"
- Define "meta feeds" using a powerful query language
- Synchronize newsbeuter with your bloglines.com account
- Import and exporting your subscriptions with the widely used OPML format
- Freely define newsbeuter's look'n'feel through free color configurability and format strings
- Keep all your feeds in sync with Google Reader
New in Newsbeuter 2.2 (Mar 14, 2010)
- Added Google Reader support.
- Fixed issues #90, #160, #161, #168, #169, #171, #179, #180, #184.
- Implemented article highlighting in article list based on the article content (fixes issue #174).
- Extended "ignore article" functionality with different ignore modes (download/display; fixes issue #52).
- Added "hard quit" key to immediately quit from newsbeuter (patch by Jim Pryor)
- Added "download status" format specifier for feedlist-format (fixes issue #181).
- Added HTML table renderer (patch by Stefan Erben)
- Fixed issues #183, #188 (patch by Stefan Erben)
- Added "open-in-browser-and-mark-read" key (patch by Isaac Good)
New in Newsbeuter 2.0 (Apr 22, 2009)
- Added more flexible dialog handling
- Improved position handling in article list (fixes #112; thanks to Isaac Good)
- Fixed a lot of bugs (#102, #111, #117, #130, #131).
- Added ability to specify a list of OPML URLs when using OPML as URL source.
- Added config option "keep-articles-days" to optionally keep articles only for a limited number of days.
- Added config option "bookmark-interactive" to indicate that the configured bookmarking command is interactive.
- Don't display authentication information in URLs (fixes #121).
- Replaced mrss with new RSS/Atom parser.
- Added ability to search for text from the article view.
- Added basic support for Yahoo Media RSS.
- Made article view pager configurable.
- Improved HTML rendering of links and underlined and bold text.
- Added ":source" commandline command to (re)load configuration files.
- Implemented "pipe-to" key to pipe articles to external commands.
- Implemented backtick evaluation for configuration files.
- Extended filter language with "between" operator.
- Added "age" attribute for articles to filter them for relative age (in days).
- Extended "set" commandline command to toggle boolean variables and reset configuration variables of all types to their default.
- Added ability to configure local files as feeds.
- Added a "random-unread" key to go to a random unread article.
- When opening articles from a search result dialog, make search phrase stand out in article view.
- Persist commandline and search history.
- Implemented commandline completion.
- Improved help dialog so that it now shows unbound functions.
- Added ability to sort feed list and article list by interactively choosing the sort method.
- Improved and extended conditional HTTP download handling.
New in Newsbeuter 1.3 (Dec 7, 2008)
- The internal architecture has been refactored to improve overall stability.
- Placeholders for download-path are now supported.
- podbeuter now keeps downloads in the list until they've been played.
- New subscriptions can be added directly from newsbeuter.
- Keymaps can now be configured locally for every dialog.
- It's now possible to configure the number of parallel reload threads to enhance the download experience when a user has many feed subscriptions.
New in Newsbeuter 1.1 (Sep 1, 2008)
- Support for wrapping long header lines and links in the article view was added.
- A security issue where opening specially crafted URLs of articles could lead to execution of shell commands was fixed.