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Change Log

0.5.8

• adds an "Export OPML..." function that writes your list of subscriptions to an OPML XML file;
• reduces duplicates by reverting to identifying stories by URL instead of a hash of URL, date, and title when the feed doesn't provide unique IDs for its items; Forumzilla still uses a hash for feeds in "quick mode" (i.e. when you tell Forumzilla to show you "just the summary" via the advanced options section of the subscriptions dialog box);
• reduces duplicates by checking a few variations on URLs when using URLs to identify feeds; specifically, Forumzilla tries the URL with or without a trailing slash and "www." at the beginning of the hostname;
• supports the XML base attribute when added to the root element of an Atom feed;
• fixes a couple bugs when retrieving the timestamp and escaped HTML content of items in an Atom feed.

0.5.7

• fixes minor incompatibilities with the latest development versions of Thunderbird;
• fixes a bug that caused the New Folder button in the subscriptions dialog not to work
• changes the Feeds button icon to the standard feed icon;
• fixes a number of other bugs.

0.5.6

• improves support for feeds that reuse item URLs and don't provide unique IDs for items (f.e. MediaWiki's RecentChanges feed);
• adds X-Feed-URL and X-Feed-Item-URL headers to feed messages so you can filter them better.

0.5.5

• works with latest (2005 August 16+) Thunderbird nightlies (no functionality changes, just updated the maxVersion string in install.rdf to reflect compatibility with Thunderbird version 1.6a1, the version Thunderbird presents itself as now);

0.5.4

• works with latest (July/August 2005) Thunderbird nightlies;

0.5.3

• fixes the bug that caused temp files not to be deleted on Windows;
• fixes a number of bugs that caused duplicate stories;
• significantly improves OPML import, which now works for hierarchical OPML files and importing to an IMAP account;
• brings back the "view in browser" link for Seamonkey users;
• fixes a number of bugs in the folder pickers in the Subscriptions and Preferences dialog boxes;
• adds a margin to story content for added readability;
• fixes the bug that caused feeds to sometimes download into the wrong folder when you first subscribe to them;
• fixes the bug where the title of the feed wouldn't appear in the title field of the feed subscriptions window.

0.5.1 pre 5

• acquires a lock on the local folder before writing to it;
• writes items to a local folder all at once rather than one at a time for improved performance and to make it easier to delay writing if the folder is locked by another thread;
• lets users to download feeds into any local (mbox, pop3) folder;
• includes new artwork for toolbar icon (thanks Asa!);
• doesn't redownload items after the user deletes them;
• no longer waits 20 seconds after application startup before downloading new items;
• adds preference forumzilla.polling.interval for changing the amount of time between polls (in minutes; default value is 31);

0.5.1 pre 2

• adds support for Thunderbird 0.7's extensions manager, but maintains compatibility with Mozilla and previous versions of Thunderbird;
• installs into the profile rather than the application directory;
• changes the "News & Blog Subscriptions..." menu item to "Feed Subscriptions...";
• works around buggy RSS 1.0 blogs like blizzard's that don't have an items container by catching the error and just grabbing any item resources in the feed file (like we do when the items container exists but is empty);

0.5.1 pre 1

• hacked in a workaround for buggy RSS 1.0 feeds that don't list any items in the channel->items sequence (i just look for resources of type "item" and use those)
• fixed a problem with Atom items containing entity-escaped content; Forumzilla now unescapes the entities so the items show up properly as HTML; see for example Scaryduck
• fixed problems displaying authors, subjects, and stories with non-ASCII (f.e. German accented or Russian) characters by encoding content as UTF-8 (bug 6185); thanks Wladimir Palant!
• fixed problem displaying blogs like Joel Spolsky's which wraps item descriptions in CDATA sections; (bug 6204); thanks Wladimir Palant!
• fixed problem with the timestamp on items whose feeds don't say when the item was published; Forumzilla was stamping those items with the time Thunderbird was last started instead of the time Forumzilla downloaded the time; it now correctly stamps those items with the download time; (bug 6207); thanks Wladimir Palant!
• added a dialog for editing your subscriptions, obviating the need to hack subscriptions.txt;
• replaced subscriptions.txt with feeds.rdf, a subscriptions file in RDF format;
• added a "view in browser" link that opens stories in a web browser (or whatever default application is registered for the story URLS); thanks Asa!

0.4.7

• added Content-Base header to messages so relative URLs within them work;
• drop download delay (that we implemented recently to make sure the message header database was populated) from 30 seconds to 15;

0.3.4

• Implemented localization support. It is now possible to localize ForumZilla into different languages.
• Fixed a bug where ForumZilla would not display the articles from an RSS feed.
• Fixed a bug where ForumZilla would not display the comments from certain forums.
• Miscellaneous updates to the appearance of the application.

0.3.3

• Added a hack to get comments to display for forums using very old syntax in their RDF description files. These forums (namely mozillazine and scbackstab) should update their syntax, but in the meantime this hack means their comments will display.
• Fixed a bug where comments would sometimes not display for forums that don't run ads.
• Improved the appearance of the list of forums in the subscribe menu. The blue box to the right of the list of items is no longer there.
• Got the ForumZilla item in the Tasks menu working again. It is once again possible to run ForumZilla by selecting it from the Tasks menu.
• Implemented focus indicators for the forums, comments, and content pane so you can figure out which pane has the focus.

0.3.2

Version 0.3.2 is a major update with large parts of the application rewritten. Major new features are a new skin and the use of outliner widgets rather than tree widgets to display the lists of forums/articles and comments.