CHANGELOG.md

Changes for Newsbeuter

2.10 - Unreleased

Added

• Solarized-light colorscheme (OmeGa)
• Japanese and Catalan translations (The Flying Rapist; Alejandro Gallo)
• FAQ list
• Long options support (#38)
• %F format in itemview-title-format, mapping to feed title (Luke Duncan)
• Support for OwnCloud News (#134) (dirb)
• Documentation for *-title-format, *-jumps-to-next-unread, and newsblur-url settings (#234, #358) (Alexander Batischev, Nikos Tsipinakis)
• ssl-verify option that controls SSL certificate verification. Default: on (#354) (Nikos Tsipinakis)
• Support for xml:base attribute in RSS 0.9.x and 2.0 (David Kalnischkies)
• Ability to escape backticks in config with a backslash (#334)
• Support for delta feeds (RFC3229+feed) (Daniel Aleksandersen)
• Command to open multiple articles in browser (and optionally mark them read) (Tanguy Kerdoncuff)
• Newsbeuter includes commit hash in version string when built from Git (Nikos Tsipinakis)
• New proxy type: socks5h. It proxies DNS requests as well as connections (David Kalnischkies)
• Support for h5 and h6 HTML elements (Nikos Tsipinakis)
• Notify users if Newsblur feed they're subscribed to no longer exists (#494) (Andrew Martin)
• passwordeval settings for all remote APIs, which obtains a password by running a user-specified command (Andrew Martin)
• ssl-verifyhost and ssl-verifypeer options to control how Newsbeuter checks SSL certificates (Xu Fasheng)
• Documentation for feedhq-url setting
• Reproducible builds (Bernhard M. Wiedemann)

Changed

• Items fetched via TT-RSS now contain item's author (John W. O'Neill)
• Tags are now extracted from The Old Reader (#189)
• Solarized-dark colorscheme got updated (OmeGa)
• pkg-config is used to search for ncursesw (Jan Pobrislo)
• ESCDELAY is set to 25ms (#221)
• One can now build and install Newsbeuter without localization files with make newsbeuter && sudo make install-newsbeuter (#241)
• Marked lists (<ol>) are now rendered with a space after the marker
• URLs are now hard-wrapped on the window's edge, even if text-width is non-zero (#282)
• contrib/pinboard.pl got a cosmetic update (Srijith Nair)
• dc:creator is now the same as author in RSS 1.0 (#143)
• Bookmark scripts now receive feed's title as the fourth parameter (#341)
• SSL certificate verification is now on by default (#354) (Nikos Tsipinakis)
• Cursor in Newsbeuter is hidden most of the time (#344) (Tobias Umbach)
• "Catchup all" renamed to "Mark all read" (#216)
• Articles are marked read when passed to external pager (#495)
• passwordfile setting now exists for all remote APIs (Andrew Martin)
• Do not set HTTP WWW-Authenticate header for multiuser TT-RSS, allowing for it to be hosted behind http-basic auth (Simon Schuster)
• Cache file is now created in XDG dir if config is in XDG dir (#245)
• Self-closing tags like <br/> are not ignored anymore (#281)

Deprecated

• When using colorN notation, N can't start with zero anymore (#186)

Removed

• Wesnoth fix XSL as the original feed isn't broken anymore
• Offline mode

Fixed

• (CVE-2017-12904) Sanitize parameters that are passed to bookmark-cmd (#591) (Jeriko One, Alexander Batischev)
• (CVE-2017-14500) Sanitize podcast filenames when playing the file via Podbeuter (#598) (Simon Schuster)
• Translations: German (Simon Nagl, Lysander Trischler), Russian (kstn), French (esteban123456789, rugie), Spanish (Alejandro Gallo)
• Format errors in Brazilian Portuguese, Ukrainian and Chinese localization files (#274)
• Undefined behaviour in configcontainer (#135) (Andrey Hitrin)
• Segfault in Podbeuter, along with two potential bugs (Tilman Keskinoz)
• Cache deletion when only one feed is configured (Harshaverdhan Rangan, Simon Nagl)
• Example for macro that executes external command via set-browser (mrbiber)
• Tags in NewsBlur API (aniran)
• Typo in config commands descriptions (Travis Reddell)
• Dummy articles in NewsBlur API (aniran)
• Numerous bugs caused by FeedHQ API not passing a setting to libcurl (Keith Smiley)
• The memory leak (gave us quite a bit of a headache, that one) (cpubug)
• Multiple highlight-article (#166) (Luke Duncan)
• Colors for unread feeds in feedlist (Luke Duncan)
• Whole feeds occasionally marked unread and already enqueued enclosures re-enqueued (#164) (trUSTssc)
• Errors when retrieving feeds from The Old Reader (#150)
• Parser fails when three arguments were passed to highlight (#225)
• Query feeds tokenization (#194)
• highlight-article priority (it's now higher than item formats) (#227) (Luke Duncan)
• Feedlist/articlelist slowness when there's a lot of items (#110)
• "Catchup all" in tag view is now limited to that view (#251)
• In podbeuter, requesting to download a file that is already downloaded will re-download the file, not delete it (#169)
• One-line urls files without line feed at the end are no longer considered empty by Newsbeuter (smaudet)
• Items being skipped while applying ignore rules (#269)
• Incorrect behaviour if no ignore rules are present (#283)
• Potential bug in RSS parser (#287) (Timotej Lazar)
• Segfault with NewsBlur (#261) (Thomas Weißschuh)
• Text wrapping (#256)
• ESC in filebrowser ("Save article" dialog etc.) actually works now (#252)
• FeedHQ, OldReader and TT-RSS APIs won't segfault on FreeBSD anymore if ttrss-password is not set (#336)
• Articles that were marked read in the search dialog now stay read when you go back to articles view (#137, #339) (Andrey Hitrin)
• Search in query feeds (#313) (Nikos Tsipinakis)
• Newlines inside text blocks are treated as whitespace (#351) (Nikos Tsipinakis)
• Not Found errors (HTTP code 404) in Pocket script (#357) (Vlad Glagolev)
• Off-by-one error in dumpconfig (#359) (Nikos Tsipinakis)
• If prepopulate-query-feeds is set, query feeds are populated before feedlist is sorted, fixing unreadarticlecount sorting (#362)
• Toggling unread flag now removes deleted flag (#330) (Lance Orner)
• Don't fail if iconv doesn't support //TRANSLIT (#364, #174) (Ján Kobezda)
• Date conversion accounts for DST now (#369) (Lance Orner)
• Newsbeuter always using XDG directories when in silent mode (#374)
• Don't allow query feeds to be opened in browser (Nikos Tsipinakis)
• NewsBlur authentication failure
• Soft hyphens messing up the output (#259)
• Newsbeuter no longer gets confused by duplicate flags (#440) (Tanguy Kerdoncuff)
• Don't ignore config's last line if there's no \n at the end (#426) (Spiridonov Alexander)

2.9 - 2015-02-19

Added

• Support for FeedHQ

Changed

• Update to Brazilian Portuguese translation (#126)
• Code base now uses C++11
• Don't override feed titles for hidden feeds
• Don't render inline images (#154)

Fixed

• Custom keybindings in tag and filter selection dialogs (#78)
• Incorrect reloading of tags after editing the urls file
• Dumpconfig
• Missing variable in log output (#124)
• Type of configuration variables to path where appropriate (#125)
• Crash when GUID is lost (#127)
• Dependency check (#132)
• Segfault in jump_to_next_unread_item (#133)
• Feeds appearing empty due to variable shadowing issue
• Catch an exception that might be thrown by the "killfile" function

2.8 - 2014-01-19

Added

• Bookmark script for getpocket.com support (Andreas Happe)
• Support for The Old Reader
• Support for NewsBlur (Thomas Weißschuh)

Changed

• In the feed list, quitting now is the same as clearing the tag in case a tag is selected
• Make guid generation smarter (Jochen Sprickerhof)
• Update French translation (Sabrina Dubroca)

Fixed

• Issues with the build process on OpenBSD (Kyle Isom)
• Crash bug in filter expression parsing
• Crash bug with unbalanced <ol> tags (Richard Quirk)

2.7 - 2013-08-27

Added

• Option to colorize unread messages (Patrick Steinhardt)
• Option to swap title and hints bar (Patrick Steinhardt)
• %u and %t support to itemview (Giuliano Schneider)

Changed

• Only force redraw if a form action is active (Patrick Steinhardt)

Fixed

• Crash bug

2.6 - 2013-03-19

Added

• Support for <q> and <aside> tags (Daniel Aleksandersen)
• Norwegian bokmål translation (Daniel Aleksandersen)

Changed

• Style table headers in bold (Daniel Aleksandersen)
• Updated Russian translation (Justin Forest)
• Updated Polish translation (Michal Siemek)
• More compact default user-agent on Mac OS X (Daniel Aleksandersen)
• Remove all soft-hyphens (Daniel Aleksandersen)

Fixed

• Crash in RSS parser (thanks to Isaac Good)
• Authentication issues with Google Reader (thanks to Fabrice Noilhan)
• Bug in Google authentication (Daniel Aleksandersen).

2.5 (2012-01-06):

Added

• download-full-page configuration option
• Configuration option to use external URL viewer (#242)
• Ability to store Google Reader password in an external file (#239)
• Tiny Tiny RSS support (#243)
• delete-read-articles-on-quit option

Changed

• HTTP authentication method is now configurable (#247)

Fixed

• Rendering of nested <ol> lists

2.4 - 2011-02-01

Added

• Support for query feeds in combination with Google Reader support
• Ability to configure proxy authentication method
• -q flag to enable quiet startup (Isaac Good)
• Keys to jump to the next/previous feed or article regardless of its "unread" status (Jim Pryor)
• XDG Base Directory support (Elrond)
• cookie-cache configuration option (#234)
• On-demand loading of feeds to reduce memory usage
• Feedlist re-sorting after all feeds have been reloaded
• Support for Google Reader offline mode

Removed

• Bloglines support, as the service shuts down on October 1, 2010

Fixed

• Google Reader authentication issue with certain passwords (#238)

2.3 - 2010-06-24

Changed

• Made newsbeuter silent on lockfile errors when '-x' option is used

Fixed

• HTML rendering of bold and underline text when light background is configured
• issues #192, #194, #197, #198, #199, #200, #201, #202, #210, #216
• Google Reader authentication (by Seth Mason)

2.2 - 2010-03-14

Added

• Google Reader support
• Article highlighting in article list based on the article content (#174)
• "Hard quit" key to immediately quit from Newsbeuter (Jim Pryor)
• "Download status" format specifier for feedlist-format (#181).
• HTML table renderer (Stefan Erben)
• open-in-browser-and-mark-read key (Isaac Good)

Changed

• "Ignore article" functionality extended with different ignore modes (download/display; #52)

Fixed

• Issues #90, #160, #161, #168, #169, #171, #179, #180, #184
• Issues #183, #188 (Stefan Erben)

2.1 - 2009-12-08

Added

• Support for dc:creator tag for RSS 2.0 parser
• When entering a feed, the first unread article is automatically selected (can be turned off with goto-first-unread no)
• When marking a feed read, move the selection to the next feed (unless a filter is currently applied)
• Length field to article list format (Stefan Erben)
• Support for 256-color terminals
• dumpform commandline command as a debugging aid
• Allow deletion of articles from article view
• Support for SOCKS proxies
• notify-beep notification beep (Vern Sun)
• Key to quickly jump to article URLs above #10 (Stefan Erben)

Changed

• Improved HTML rendering (Stefan Erben)

Fixed

• Podbeuter ignored use-proxy configuration command (#144)

2.0 - 2009-04-21

Added

• More flexible dialog handling
• Ability to specify a list of OPML URLs when using OPML as URL source
• keep-articles-days config option to optionally keep articles only for a limited number of days
• bookmark-interactive config option to indicate that the configured bookmarking command is interactive
• Ability to search for text from the article view
• Basic support for Yahoo Media RSS
• :source commandline command to (re)load configuration files
• age attribute for articles to filter them for relative age (in days)
• Ability to configure local files as feeds
• random-unread key to go to a random unread article
• Ability to sort feed list and article list by interactively choosing the sort method
• pipe-to key to pipe articles to external commands
• Backtick evaluation for configuration files
• Commandline completion
• between operator for filter language
• set commandline command can now toggle boolean variables and reset configuration variables of all types to their default
• Commandline and search history persistence

Changed

• Improved position handling in article list (#112) (Isaac Good)
• Replaced mrss with new RSS/Atom parser
• Made article view pager configurable
• Improved HTML rendering of links and underlined and bold text
• When opening articles from a search result dialog, make search phrase stand out in article view.
• Improved help dialog so that it now shows unbound functions
• Improved and extended conditional HTTP download handling

Fixed

• A lot of bugs (#102, #111, #117, #130, #131)
• Don't display authentication information in URLs (#121)

1.3 - 2008-12-06

Added

• Placeholders for download-path (#46)
• Ability to edit the list of subscribed URLs from newsbeuter through a text editor
• A file format to exchange information about read articles between different newsbeuter instances
• feed-sort-order configuration option to sort the feed list by the first tag
• Ability to toggle read flag from article view (Isaac Good)
• Ability to configure the number of parallel reload threads (#101)

Changed

• Some internal data structures now use smart pointers (stability improvement)
• Extended podbeuter to keep finished downloads in the queue until they've been played
• Extended keymap to allow dialog-specific configuration
• Extended macros to enable modification of configuration variables

1.2 - 2008-09-02

Added

• download-timeout and download-retries config options to make newsbeuter more reliable over unreliable connection (#88)

Changed

• Improved whitespace handling in XML parser (fixes Debian issue #496765)

Fixed

• Crash in case of invalid color/attribute names in the configuration
• Broken open-in-browser operation for URLs that contained a single quote (fixes Debian issue #497495; fixes incomplete security fix)

1.1 - 2008-09-01

Added

• Line wrap for the article view's headers and the link list on the bottom (fixes Debian issue #491122)
• Test suite for functional tests of the user interface

Security

• Fixed potential security issue when opening article URLs with the configured browser (thanks to J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) for pointing out)

1.0 - 2008-08-20

Added

• Support for highlighting of regular expressions
• Search function in help dialog
• show-read-articles configuration option to toggle displaying of read articles
• always-download configuration option to configure a list of feed URLs for which newsbeuter ignores the Last-Modified timestamp
• Reading progress display in article view
• Optional format string support for browser configuration option
• reset-unread-on-update configuration command

0.9.1 - 2008-05-12

Added

• Ability to open feed's link by pressing the open-in-browser key in feed list.

Fixed

• Issue with filter feeds
• Issue with RFC-822 date parsing where the year only had 2 digits

0.9 - 2008-05-01

Added

• Commandline option to podbeuter to automatically start download
• article-sort-order configuration option to freely configure the sort order of article lists
• Ability to delete articles

Changed

• Improved locking to allow multiple newsbeuter instances (one instance per cache file)
• Flagged articles don't get deleted anymore

Fixed

• Lots of bug fixes

0.8.2 - 2008-03-16

Fixed

• Broken string conversion

0.8.1 - 2008-03-12

Fixed

• Crash (related to string conversion of format string support)

0.8 - 2008-03-07

Added

• Custom configurability of feed list and article list format
• Special tags to rename feeds
• Macro support
• Ruby scripting support

Changed

• Improved reload speed by checking the Last-Modified header
• Directly integrated nxml/mrss code since API and ABI are a moving target

0.7 - 2007-09-18

Added

• Possibility to predefine filters
• Bloglines synchronization support
• OPML online subscription support
• Plugin-based bookmarking support
• Custom flagging of articles
• Implemented more key commands to ease navigation even more
• Possibility to optionally use an external HTML renderer

Changed

• Redesigned search function

0.6 - 2007-08-14

Added

• Support for reloading the urls file
• Query feeds
• History for the most important input fields
• Additional commandline commands

Fixed

• Major bug with filtering in the item list
• OPML import functionality

0.5 - 2007-08-02

Added

• Unicode compatibility
• Support for notifications
• Filter language
• It is now possible to freely configure e.g. the up/down-keys

Changed

• Improved HTML rendering
• Improved lock file handling

0.4 - 2007-05-08

Added

• Configuration option to disable cache cleanup (user request)
• Configuration option to set the HTTP user-agent header to a custom value
• Italian translation (Andrea Marchesini)
• Unit tests
• include configuration command to make it possible to separate the configuration into several files
• Global configuration file /etc/newsbeuter/config
• Support for Snownews/Liferea extension scripts

Changed

• Refactored view
• Significant speed improvement for reload and cache cleanup (Jürgen Jung)

0.3 - 2007-03-26

Added

• gettext support
• Podcast support

Changed

• Now, everything is stored as UTF-8 internally, and gets converted on-the-fly

Removed

• Dependency to libidn

Fixed

• Numerous bugs

0.2 - 2007-02-21

Added

• Possibility to use the space key for key bindings
• Possibility to view all URLs within an article and open them in a browser
• HTTP proxy support
• Color configuration support
• Tagging/categorization support
• Auto-reload support
• Search dialog

Changed

• next unread function now works across feeds when in item view
• Improved HTML rendering (occasional missing spaces, <pre> tags)

Removed

• Unnecessary mutex lock/unlock that made newsbeuter lock up when the max-items config option was set

0.1.1 - 2007-01-17

Fixed

• Crash when ISO-8859-1 encoded feeds with umlauts in the title were displayed on systems with UTF-8 locales enabled

0.1 - 2007-01-16

Added

• This is an initial release of Newsbeuter