What's new in version 1.8?
+ feature added
- bug fixed
* changed
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version 1.8 Final (build 3312, February 28th, 2006)
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+ Added: BlogThis! Client: it is now possible to make posts with empty message
body or title.
+ Added: Right-to-Left languages support in News Balloon, News Ticker,News
List, Newspaper etc.
+ Added: it's now possible to resize News Balloon horizontally
+ Added: Synchronize In\Out options on start\exit the program.
- Fixed: "Make available offline" pop-up menu command did not cache web page
immediately if the Internet connection is active.
- Fixed: clearing cached wep page when copying news items
- Fixed: Floating point errors in JavaScript ่ Flash DLLs.
- Fixed: control chars were displayed in News Balloon
+ Fixed: Access Violation error on program shutdown.
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version 1.8 RC3 (build 3211, November 14th, 2005)
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+ Added Atom 1.0 support.
+ The "NewzCrawler" style has been significantly modified.
New "Read Newspaper" link creates HTML newspaper directly in the built-in
browser and is available for newsfeed channels, folders and smartfolders.
Enclosures are displayed separately as icons.
+ FTP proxy support for FTP uploading\downloading.
+ BlogThis! now allows posting with empty title or empty description.
+ Search Results Channels list is now extensible. The *.ncsrc files located in
the "Search" subfolder contain search engine descriptions. Many new Search
engines available.
+ Password-protected CommentRSS feeds now supported. The main feed user\password
settings used for access.
+ Resizable dialogs\windows now has size grips.
+ Added ability to configure a method of comparing news items for the feeds
without guids. Allows to eliminate news items duplicates for some feeds.
+ Layouts fully reworked.
* "Simple User Unterface mode" has been reviewed.
* Recycle Bin contextual menu has been reviewed.
* Changed settings for Blogger.com in the Weblog site properties.
- Fixed: Newspaper didn't work for Smart Folders.
- Fixed: OPML Export used "title" attribute instead of "text".
- Fixed: Podcast downloading: when downloading a podcast bigger than a maximal
podcast size wrong error message were displayed.
- Fixed: Smart Folders: after synchronization modified news items didn't get
hidden.
- Fixed: Error when trying to configure main toolbar in a Simple UI mode.
- Fixed: Download Manager: "?" should not be a part of the file name.
- Fixed: Automatic channel updates didn't work when "Run minimized" option turned on.
- Fixed: When rebuilding smart folders tree the first smart folders was focused
instead of the previously focused one.
- Fixed: Delete news command didn't work for Smart Folders and syndicated
folders.
- Fixed: Main form doesn't pop up after closing child windows.
- Fixed: No more downloads.xml file on desktop.
- CPU load greatly reduced when BlogThis! client window opened.
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version 1.8 RC2 (build 3125, July 28th, 2005)
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* "Recycler" has been renamed to "Recycle Bin"
- Download Manager: Fixed bug with renaming downloaded podcast on finish.
- Recycler Bin: Fixed bug with deleting items.
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version 1.8 RC1 (build 3119, July 27th, 2005)
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+ Built-in Browser: New options for turning on\off images, java and scripting.
+ Built-in Browser: F5 rebuilds the newspaper if "Show News Items as Newspaper"
option is turned on.
+ News Ballon: Now user can move News Balloon with mouse.
+ News Ballon: Sticks to the edges of the desktop when user drags it.
Hold SHIFT key to disable sticking.
+ News Ticker: Option to select the monitor for News Ticker window.
+ Added "Download Enclosures" command in main and contextual menu.
+ Status bar: Added active downloads counter
+ Channel Maintenence properties: Added "Delete read items only" option.
+ News List: Now you can expand all message thread by holding SHIFT key.
+ Download Manager: Now dockable. You can either dock it to the bottom of the
main window or keep it as a separate window.
+ Download Manager: confirmation window if you exit NewzCrawler with active
downloads.
+ Download Manager: Added URL drag-and-drop support.
+ BlogThis! Client: Added "Title" support for Blogger API 2.0
+ BlogThis! Client: Added "Categories" menu
+ BlogThis! Client: Added option for sorting categories by name.
+ Outgoing site: Added publishing to FTP.
+ Styles: link for opening the source in default browser without marking news
item as read.
+ Smart Folders: option for filling either tree or list of matched channels.
+ Color Groups: option for displaying color groups as foreground or background.
+ Catchup command now affects currently visible items only.
* NewzCrawler doesn't update the newspaper automatically after channel updates
when "Show News Items as Newspaper" option is on.
* Changed tray icon behaviour on double-clicking (Show\Bring to Front\Hide).
* RSS Autodiscovery now works ~100 times faster.
* Reworked "View" menu.
* "Cache offline content" and "Clear cache content" commands were renamed as
"Make available offline" and "Make unavailable offline" respectively.
- Main window: Now remembers the monitor it was on multi-nonitor systems.
- Styles: Bug in default styles scripts.
- Styles: News item with empty description didn't mark as read.
- Fixed: Search window and News Ticker now doesn't show deleted items along with
normal ones.
- Download Manager: Bug with saving downloading\podcasting logs.
- Fixed: Bug with generating RFC1123 dates.
- Output Formats: Bug with adding new output formats.
- Download Manager: Incorrect stopping active downloads on program exit.
- Fixed problem with "Skipped" status for feeds being updated "in the future"
during manipulations with system date\time.
- Fixed "Invalid argument to date encode" bug.
- Fixed "Error creating SSL context" bug.
- Fixed "Failed to get data for "Left" bug.
- Fixed: XML status bar icon was visible when RSS autodiscovery option was off.
- Fixed: Rebuilding tree selected the first Smart Folder instead of the last
active one.
- Folder Notification properties: "Show message headline in News Ticker" option
didn't make underlying channels display it's news in News Ticker.
- Fixed: Syndicated folders didn't sort the news items property after underlying
channels updates.
- Fixed: When the "Mark all news as read when leave a channel" option is on,
changing "Show News Items as Newspaper" option marked all news as read.
- Fixed: News item lost focus after switching Tree\List\Smart Folders tabs.
- Smart Folders: Unmatched news items had been added in the News List during
updates.
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version 1.8 Beta 7 (build 2996, April 25 2005)
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+ Added two new buttons to the Preferences\Styles tab: "Restore default styles"
and "Open Styles folder"
+ Added News Age label to the Newspaper window.
+ Synchronization wizard now displays status during time-consuming operations.
+ Smart Folders: added variety of dates (received, created, modified and so on)
to the search criterias.
+ Added: support of the Internet Explorer popup blocking.
+ Channels switching has been speeded up.
+ Added: "Download Enclosures" popup menu.
+ Added: option to hide Recycler.
+ Added: automatic dialling whenever channels need automatic updates.
* "NewzCrawler" style renamed to "NewzCrawler Classic". New style added as
"NewzCrawler" used by default.
* Styles reworked in order to allow user to flag\mark read\unread news directly
from the built-in browser.
* "Tools | Make newspaper" renamed to "Tools | Make Global Newspaper".
* Search News moved to Edit menu and has "Ctrl+F" by default.
+ Now you can always download enclosure regardless you've already done so.
- Fixed newspaper generation when in "Show news items as Newspaper" mode.
- Fixed: confirmation check boxes did not retain the state after restart.
- Fixed: BlogThis! templates did not work properly.
- Fixed": "A call to an OS function failed" bug fixed.
- Fixed: label always displayed "Items: 0" when Smart Folder has focus.
- Fixed: NNTP newsgroups didn't work since the last Beta 6.
- Fixed: autodiscovery bug when Title has extra #13#10 characters.
- Fixed: flag didn't work for collapsed news items containing replies.
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version 1.8 Beta 6 (build 2916, March 21 2005)
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+ Multiple enclosures support.
+ Download Manager for downloading enclosures with scheduler.
+ External download managers support.
+ Podcasting support. Ability to add podcasts to Windows Media Player playlists,
iTunes playlists, WinAmp playlist. Ability to copy downloaded podcasts to
specified folder (removable storage\flash drive or MP3 player).
+ Folders and channels synchronization using remote storage (File, WebDAV or
FTP)
+ News list: ability to customize columns on a per channel basis. Particular
channel uses either global columns settings or it's own column settings.
Right-click columns in order to choose between global and own settings.
+ Keyboard shortcuts editor.
+ News Balloon: Fade-out effect.
+ News Balloon: Time-out timer paused when mouse is over balloon.
+ New optional confirmations: Catchup\Clear\Delete channels.
+ New "View\Status Bar" option.
+ Ability to choose what news date (received, created, modified, published,
last seen in feed) should be used for purging news.
+ Add newsfeed wizard now has "Use parent folder update schedule" option.
+ Dial-up connection support when updating channels. Ability to disconnect
automatically when updating finished.
+ Added connection timeout option.
+ Added: "Open in browser" button.
+ Ability to automatically mark unread news as read after specified amout of
days after downloading.
* Changed default feeds set.
* Folder Import\Export now has OPML option by default.
* Channel tree\list diaplays in bold channels names and unread news counter.
* Preferences window opens\closes much faster.
* Newspaper has been speeded up.
* OPML\NCsync have been significant;y speeded up.
* NNTP: "To:" filed replaced with "Reply-To:"
* Main menu minor changes.
* Channel actions are splitted to several tabs.
- Fixed: blog client window warning that news hasn't been posted even right
after successful post.
- Fixed: smartfolder actions didn't get executed if smartfolders tab hasn't been
activated
- Fixed: zero-sized news items windows.
- Fixed: double-clicking channel now doesn't save the channel.
- Fixed: problem with loading SSL support dll from multiple threads.
- Fixed: style selector didn't save NewzCrawler preferences.
- Fixed: smart folders update now more frequently.
- Fixed: problem with ending Windows session with running NewzCrawler.
- Fixed: Follow news closes smart folder if channels is not in the smart folder.
- Fixed: channels alphabetic sorting now supports Unicode.
- Fixed: RFC1123 date parsing bug
- Fixed: News Ticker was always displayed when "Run minimized" option turned on.
- Fixed: Debug.ncxsl style.
- Fixed: Newspaper save command did nothing.
+ Fixed: Startup Wizard didn't read the database source from registry.
- numerous minor bug fixes.
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version 1.8 Beta 3 (build 2676, December 15 2004)
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+ News Balloon: hides duplicate items
- fixed "%s" message in database convert wizard
- fixed browser content refreshing after changing the news item status
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version 1.8 Beta 1 (build 2670, December 13 2004)
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+ Startup wizard will introduce you to NewzCrawler basics and will help you
configure NewzCrawler for the first run
+ News Balloon: Fade-in effect
+ News Balloon: hides read items.
+ News Balloon: hides news item after clicking it (optional).
+ ability to set/unset read/flag/download status in html views.
+ Support of XML-level redirect
(http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/reference/howToRedirectRss)
+ Add newsfeed channel wizard now allows to subscribe to MSN Spaces weblogs
easily
+ RSS Autodiscovery: main window status line now displays XML sign if there was
found a newsfeed.
+ When news item being marked as read, all news items that refers to the same
URL are marked as read too.
+ Smart Folders. Smart Folders allows you to filter news using configurable
search criterias and perform various actions such as toggling read\flag\download
later\watch for discussions flags, deleting news, applying color groups,
sending news by email and so on.
+ Color groups. You can manually mark news items using configurable color
groups. Color groups are also used by news ticker and news balloon. You can
configure Smart Folders to apply choosed color groups to the particular news
items automatically upon news arrival.
+ Option to disable checking for default news aggregator on program startup
+ New layout: Full height browser
+ NewzCrawler now uses XSLT engine for displaying the news content.
+ Outgoing channels now use XSLT too.
+ Configurable toolbars. Right-click the toolbar to configure buttons.
+ Enclosures support.
+ Multiple enclosures support.
+ Deleted news are marked as deleted. Deleted news items won't re-appear if you
update the channel again.
+ Recycler. Recycler is the channel that displays deleted news items and allows
to configure deleted items purging options.
+ Preferences: General\Database: Search for lost files and deleting them.
+ Channel icons (favicon.ico files) now stored in the special folder. If no icon
file found try to download icon only 2 times per day.
+ Channel properties. Support for TTL, skipHours, skipDays.
+ Channel options inheritance from the parent folders.
+ Channel blackouts options.
+ RFC 3229 "feed" instance manipulation method support
+ News List: Received, Published, Modified, Last seen dates columns.
* News list filling has been significantly speeded up.
- No more "Re: Re:" when replying to the someone's messages.
- Fixed bug when working with password protected ocs/opml files in the Add
newsfeed wizard
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version 1.7 Final SR2 (build 2460, September 5 2004)
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+ Search channels has been speeded up.
+ NTLM authentication (HTTP and Proxy added)
* Improved OPML export
* Improved RSS parsing (empty namespaces in RSS now supported).
- Fixed: errors when docking\undocking the News Ticker.
- Fixed: unnecessary screen flickering when docking\undocking the News Ticker.
- Fixed: text wrapping when posting to newsgroups.
- Fixed: news ticker focus issues
- Fixed: toolbars now store their positions correctly
- Fixed: HTTP "Read timeout" errors.
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version 1.7 Final SR1 (build 2370, June 24 2004)
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+ Added registry tweak:
General\ResolveExternals (DWORD)
forces NewzCrawler not to resolve external links when parsing XML.
- Fixed problem with loading external DTD through a proxy servers
- Fixed "List index out of bounds" in built-in browser window
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version 1.7 Final (build 2360, June 18 2004)
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+ Improved Outgoing Channel properties and default RSS templates
+ Added "simple user interface mode".
+ Improved RSS/OPML parsing
+ Single-key reading. When the focus in the Channels tree or in the News List
pressing the Space key will move to the next unread item. If the news
description is lengthy Space key will scroll the Browser instead of moving to
the next unread item.
* Changed algorythm of the "do not check all channels at startup" option.
* Add news feed wizard changed - RSS newsfeed option for Blogger.com is back.
- Fixed: dates and times use user's regional settings
- Fixed: folder losed it's focus after closing the Add newsfeed wizard.
- Fixed: sorting issues on the first run
- Fixed: problems with building conversation threads in newsgroup channels.
- Fixed: sending news by email.
- Fixed: News Balloon buttons sometimes disappeared.
- Fixed: Access Violation errors when trying to delete top-level folders.
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version 1.7 RC4 (build 2314, May 19 2004)
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+ Improved support of Atom 0.3 feeds.
+ xml:base support in Atom 0.3 feeds.
+ Channels tree single-click interface option. Open Preferences\Appearance tab,
and check the "Automatic Expand\Collapse folders" box.
* Blogger.com doesn't offer RSS anymore. Add news feed wizard changed.
- Fixed Access Violation error on closing the program with active tasks.
- Fixed: News Balloon sometimes grabbed the keyboard focus.
- Fixed: Access Violation on deleting the news from the news list.
- Fixed: Delete command was disabled in "Channels List" mode
- Fixed: "Open in new browser window" didn't work from the News Balloon
- Fixed: OCS/OPML link drag-n-drop
- Fixed handling of the favicon.ico redirects.
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version 1.7 RC3 (build 2270, May 1 2004)
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+ html entities table extended.
+ registry keys added:
View\DoNotSortFolders (DWORD)
forces NewzCrawler not to add folders before channels in the tree.
View\HighlightUnreadHTTPSite (DWORD)
Enables Website page unread highlighting. If the HTML page contains
differences it will be marked as unread.
View\SiteUnreadCheck (DWORD)
Enables restoring the state of the "Unread only" box after restart.
+ added bypass proxy settings.
+ added a news:/// link in the NNTP reply.
+ flagged news are stored forever.
* confuguration saving changed
* "Move to channel..." ่ "Copy to channel..." changed to "Copy to Outgoing" and
"Move to Outgoing".
- fixed problem with high CPU load when idle.
- fixed minor problem with saving/restoring channels tree expanded/collapsed
state
- favicon.ico files are no longer fetched for RSS comments feeds.
- fixed minor problem with displaying the news titles and descriptions
containing XML entities.
- fixed "requested recource is in use" error.
- fixed channels tree problems causing "index out of bounds" error.
- fixed "out of system resources" error.
- fixed problem with Wizards Prev\Next\Cancel buttons when large forts are used
- other speed-up fixes
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version 1.7 RC2 (build 2212, March 29 2004)
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+ Added digest authentication suport. For example it is possible to retrieve
the private and friends-only records from the LiveJournal's blogs.
add the ?auth=digest suffix to some LiveJournal rss feed URL
example:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/_LJ_USER_NAME/data/rss?auth=digest
in the Location\Secutity tab of the feed properties window check the "Server
requires logon" box and fill in your LiveJournal login and password (yes, you
have to be a registered LiveJournal user). Now you'll be able to read
someone's friend-only records in the NewzCrawler. Sure, you have to be marked
as friend by that person.
- Fixed newspaper bug when "Show unread only" option was selected
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version 1.7 RC1 (build 2209, March 23 2004)
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+ Folders are bold if they contain unread news
+ Folders: "Syndicate news for all underlying channels" option
+ Folders: Automatic updating options
+ Channels tree/list: unread/total columns
+ Channels tree/list: customizable columns (View | Site list columns)
+ Channels tree or list state restored after restart
+ "Unread only" channels box
+ Add newsfeed wizard reworked
+ Add newsfeed wizard: server logon options added
+ Add newsfeed wizard: subscribe to Yahoo!, Feedster and Daypop search feeds.
+ Add newsfeed wizard: subscribe to blogger communities feeds: Blogger,
LiveJournal, DeadJournal, TypePad, AOL, Blogware, BlogNation, Weblogs@ASP.NET,
mBlog
+ Add newsfeed wizard: multythreaded channel verification
+ Add newsgroup wizard reworked
+ Add Webpage wizard reworked
+ web-like search in search window and search channels
+"keyword1" : required keyword
-"keyword2" : excluded keyword
"keyword3" "keyword4" : at least one of these keywords
example:
rss +reader -macos
rss atom +reader +"blog client" -linux -macos
+ Search channel: "Watch for news on channel update" option
+ "big fonts" style added
+ News composer: "Title" edit box focused for blank news
+ Plain text editor: automatic text wrapping. You can specify maximal line width
(Preferences\General\Post)
+ News items View selector and News Filter are now red in active state
+ News Filter remembers 20 last filter keywords
+ New command: Channel | Purge old/exceeding news
+ Experimental popup blocking
+ Popup blocking counter in the main window status
+ Search channels results in the News Balloon
+ Search channels results in the News Ticker
* Default useragent string changed to:
NewzCrawler/1.7 (compatible; MSIE 6.00; Newz Crawler 1.7; http://www.newzcrawler.com/ )
* News Filter applied after pressing Enter key
- fixed problem with nntp server port.
- news composer: fixed problem with disabled Cut/Copy/Paste menus
- Problems with Japanese\Chinese\Korean languages fixed
- fixed focus problems on Next/Previous news
- fixed displaying of control characters in the news list
- quick-view tab order problem fixed
- quick-view browser: Enter key problem fixed
- Problem with unsynchronized address line fixed
- fixed minimizing/restoring window after "Show Desktop" command
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version 1.6 Beta 4 (build 1989, February 5 2004)
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+ improved atom 0.3 support
+ Annotate module support ('http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/annotate/'). Now you
can view message threads for feeds supporting this module. Our forum supports
this module too so beginning Beta 4 our users will see our forums with message
threads (i.e. All replies will be grouped by topics).
+ Favicon.ico for newsfeed channels
+ Favicon.ico for web channels
+ Channels Icons in News Ticker
+ Channels Icons in News Baloon
+ user-agent string now used for XML-RPC calls too
+ improved database saving/loading
+ Add news feed wizard: added channels options validation
+ Database folder customization
- fixed bug when new channels was invisible after adding them with command line
- Synchronize window: fixed bug with exception when closing the window during
synchronization
* enabled "Catch Up" tool button for folders
* root folders now retain the opened/closed state too
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version 1.6 Beta 3 (build 1941, January 23 2004)
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+ "Blog comments" module support (i.e. LockerGnome's feed has such module)
+ yenc encoding support in nntp newsgroups.
+ Right-click menu integration in Internet Explorer (Subscribe to NewzCrawler
menu)
+ improved data strings parsing
+ Add newsfeed wizard now has a page for configuring the new channels defaults
+ Add newsfeed wizard: once verified channels will not have to be updated after
closing the wizard
+ Blog this! menu in the notification area (tray) right-click menu
+ Atom 0.3 support
+ feed:URI support. One-click subscription to the "feed://" links
(http://www.25hoursaday.com/draft-obasanjo-feed-URI-scheme-01.html)
* news list filling is speeded by 15-20%
* Synchronization: Start button is pressed automatically when Synchronization
window is opened
* channels tree saving is speeded up (on channels tree drag-drop operations etc.)
* RSS autodiscovery window highlights the last discovered links
* changed\fixed default OCS set URLs
- fixed nntp posting bug when none or UTF-8 encodings were used
- fixed displaying TO: filed displaying in nntp messages
- fixed emails displaying in channels quick-view pages
- fixed "walking toolbands" problem when resizing the windows
- fixed copying nntp news item to favourite keeper
- fixed problem: sometime weblog channel forgets downloaded blogs.
- Add newsfeed wizard: fixed folders tree sorting problem
- fixed RSS autodiscovery bug with relative links and
