- BB - GUI: Showing shortcuts in menus
- BB - GUI: Allowing the user to enter existing account details during setup
- BB - GUI: Added ‘Subscribe to Reading List’ command
- BB - GUI: Added ‘Pinned Only’ view mode
- BBL: Showing feed preview
- BBL: Improved cookie crumbs navigation control
- BBL: Some cosmetic fixes
- BBL: Bring user back to the page where he was after logging in
- BBL: OPML import enhancements
- BBL: Showing URLs for dynamic feeds and folders
- BBL: Warning user when converting manual folder into OPML folder
- BBL: Importing tags from OPML
- BBL: Added field in user profile for blog / site address
- Core: Important database-related fix
- Core: Giving better suggestions when restoring database
- Core: Not showing feed is invalid dialog sometimes
- Core: Fixed several lockups
- Core: Fixed marking SmartFeeds as read
- Core: Fixed problem with inconsistent data types in DB
- Discovery: Removed some known extensions from discovery
- BBL: Go Back buttons doesn’t work
- BBL: Cross-site logins prohibited
- BBL: Fixed not showing some folders as available for listing in
- BBL: Added “OK, and Add More” button to “New Feed” and “New Folder” dialogs
- BBL: Tags cloud and search integration
- BBL: Stylesheet tweaks
- BBL: Feed preview feature
- BBS: Upgraded XML-RPC library for greater performance and reliability
- BBS: Removed BBL-related forums from the send-feedback list
- Core: Upgraded database engine
- GUI: Renamed ‘flagged’ to ‘pinned’ article property name
- GUI: Fixed problem with loading some images from Gizmodo and other sites
- GUI: Double-clicking over the image in photo-feed opens it in browser
- GUI: Fixed inconsistency between activity graph and the list of articles
- Core: Fixed bugs with saving contents of links, writing images to cache, removing reading lists, discovery
- BBL: Started versioning
- GUI: Added BlogStarz filter to guide publishing in order to control the minimum rating of feeds to publish
- GUI: Added two more parameters to BlogStarz rating system
- GUI: Added ‘Article Flag’ parameter to Search Feed query builder
- BBL: Nice preview folder icons
- BBL: Fixed top navigation unclickable on Safari / FF when not logged in
- BBL: Reworked data model to let folders and item form true net-like structures instead of tree-like
- BBL: Grouping similar items in top-lists
- BBL: Added periodical tasks manager
- BBL: Updated OPML support to read more flavors
- BBL: Returning source OPML when queried for dynamic OPML folder data
- BBL: Added convenient search feature
Release 2.21 Weekly Development (June 17, 2006)
- GUI: Added Synchronization button to tool-bar
- GUI: Reworked the user preferences dialog
- BBL: Launched the showcase
- BBL: Integrated the showcase with the main site
- GUI: Added Pin (Flag) command
- GUI: Updated feed view mode and type selectors
- GUI: Prepared for translations and translated into Russian
- GUI: Updated Activity Alerts
- Sync: Public / Private Reading Lists publishing
- GUI: Reworked and unified recommendations (starting points, experts)
- GUI: Activity alerts (system tray on Windows and Linux, Growl on Mac)
- Core: Significant memory footprint reduction
- Core: Some speed improvements
- GUI: Fixed rendering images with unescaped spaces in URL’s
- Net: Fixed not pinging the service on publishing reading lists sometimes
- Net: Fixed parsing feeds with items source specified as xml:base plus relative links
- Sync: Added published lists pinging setting synchronization
- GUI: Improved floating images rendering
- GUI: Fixed switching to anti-aliasing mode under some Java 1.5 builds
- GUI: Re-enabled main window size and state saving/restoring
- GUI: Fixed visual glitch when resizing feeds panel
- GUI: Added brief extended syntax description
- Net: Added pinging of some URL on reading list publication. (see Preferences->Guides)
- Core: Improved internal database stability
- Sync: Disabled content font synchronization to avoid conflicting situations when some font is missing on the other side
- Core: Fixed showing End User License Agreement from About box
Release 2.16 Stable (April 07, 2006)
- SmartFeeds: Added “Article Title” parameter to SmartFeeds
- Core: Fixed several lockups
- Net: Switched discovery engine to its own User-Agent to enable sites to filter it out of their stats.
- OPML: Updated the format of exported OPML
- Net: Improved Atom 1.0 parsing
- Net: Improved discovery engine
- GUI: Added more guide icons
- GUI: Search feature
- GUI: Guides and feeds listing improvements
- GUI: Discovery features simplified
- GUI: Toolbar greatly simplified
- GUI: Status bar greatly simplified
- Core: Added ability to distribute weeklies as EXE/DMG/TGZ
- Core: Improved keywords-based search
- Core: Fixed purge functionality problems
- Sync: Fixed restoration of feed view type from the service
- Sync: Added preferences synchronization
- GUI: Added saving the contents of the link into file (useful for enclosures, images etc)
- GUI: Added custom font selector for article text rendering (see Preferences -> General)
- GUI: Added remembering of the last open/save dialog location
- GUI: Added “no feed selected”, “no articles/pictures to display”, “no unread articles” etc messages
- GUI: Improved articles list scrolling
- GUI: Improved images loading to skip loading useless images the user is already not looking at
- GUI: Updated starz filter to be applied only to gold starz
- GUI: Updated indication of the seen/unseen images in the photo view
- GUI: Updated discovered/undiscovered highlight colors on Mac to be slightly pale
- GUI: Fixed dragging feed to another guide (continued progress spinner)
- GUI: Fixed several navigation bugs
- Net: Switched to different RSS/Atom parser
- Net: New feed updates detection heuristics
- SmartFeeds: Added “Guide title” parameter to SmartFeeds
- OPML: Improved OPML import to understand some out-of-spec notions
- Core: Fixed several GUI lockup causes
- GUI: Showing enclosures
- GUI: Added feed selection mode on guide change (first, last seen, no feed)
- GUI: Added number of unread articles to the guide tool-tip
- GUI: Added option to open articles in a browser with double-clicks
- GUI: Improved view mode selector
- GUI: Improved GUI look on Mac
- GUI: Fixed not rendering some articles on Mac
- GUI: Fixed glitches with marking as read different feeds when protective popup is enabled
- Sync: Fixed problem with renamed guides
- CORE: Fixed several lock-ups and improved stability
- Net: Added proxy support
- OPML: Added improved Feedster OPML import support
- OPML: Fixed glitches with importing OPML backups from previous versions
- Added Publishing support for Reading Lists
- Significant synchronization enhancements
- Fixed several problems with links case-sensitivity
- Improved performance of some operations over the guides
- Improved RSS 1.0 support
- Reworked the model not to allow duplicate feeds, but share them
- Added tooltips with articles excerpts when in brief view mode
- Added auto-fixing of URL’s when adding Reading Lists
- Added copy function to dragging (CTRL-Drag)
- Improved synchronization between workplaces significantly
- Improved articles link detection
- Improved OPML import
- Improved browser launcher code to start default user-set Windows browser
- Improved navigation speed
- Fixed bug with SmartFeeds unread counters not updating on changes
- Disabled mouse clicks on empty areas below the lists of feeds and guides
- Corrected sorting when “Starz then Alphabetical” orders selected
- Added Categories and Keywords counters to the articles title bar
- Added All/None buttons to the Synchronization and RL Updates dialogs
- Added the alert to notify when exceeding the limit during OPML import
- Added support for importing feeds from BlogLines
- Added single-row mode for the feeds and guides lists
- Reworked Global Preferences dialog
- Bug Fixes
Release 2.09 Weekly Development (December 7, 2005)
- Added Reading Lists support
- Added Cleanup Wizard
- Improved Synchronization
- Added wildcard support in SmartFeeds
- Added protective menu to all Unread Buttons in feeds and guides lists.
- Improved articles rendering
- Added options to control appearance of the toolbar and items in the guides list.
- Added intelligent pasting of an URL from the clipboard when subscribing to the feed.
- Added support for “feed://” protocol.
- Switch off using network listeners for multi-instance detection. Now Norton Antivirus sleeps well.
- Added direct integration of the feedback dialog with the forum.
- Added Go Offline/Online commands.
- Created native installers for Mac and Windows platforms
- Performance improvements
- Bug fixes
- Fixed articles list resizing bug
- Improved photo display layout
- Added support for in-article Technorati tags
- Added feeds sorting by titles
- Lots of bug fixes
- Added photo display for photo-feeds, like Flickr
- Improved rendering performance
- Improved recognizing links being dragged from FireFox
- Reduced memory footprint
- Added more useful keyboard shortcuts
- Improved OPML import
- Added disk cache for images
- Added multi-feed and multi-guide operations support
- Improved feed activity view component
- Added more useful shortcuts
- Added Google Blogsearch support
- Added auto-update facility
- Bug fixes
- Added SmartFeeds
- Added tagging support (del.icio.us and BBService tagging supported)
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