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FeedMonster 2.0 Beta 3 Build 2744
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Expected Release Date: July 18th 2007
- Added: Support for RSS 1.0; Has been a long time in the making but is now finally finished.
- New: Template Switcher; FeedMonster is now able to handle more than one template. Users can now select from a variety of templates with all of them being made by the maker of the new template from Beta 2.
- New: Basic Newsgator Syncronization; FeedMonster now allows you to sync your feeds with Newsgator's online reader.
- Changed: Revamped Options dialog; The options dialog from previous versions has been overhaul/simplified.
- New: Automated Update Service; Can be set to notify you when new updates, or new versions of FeedMonster are available.
- Fixed: Minor bug with web browser; A bug in the web browser ment that you had to open a tab manually before trying to visit a site.
- New: Logo; A new logo will be introduced with this release.
- New: Minor additions to template engine, and User Interface.
- Fixed: Several Major feed incompatiblity errors; One line of code in FeedMonster's feed parser was blocking correct parsing and loading of several feeds. This code has been removed.
- New: Error Logging System; To prevent a steady stream of message boxes when an error occurs, all FeedMonster errors are logged to the file "fmdebug.log".
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KNOWN ISSUES
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- Support for password protected feeds was added to this release, but does not currently work correctly.
- FeedMonster does not support a method for downloading enclosures inside the program itself.
- The Update Service is currently only capable of downloading one update at a time. So, if the update service is set to notify, an update window will pop up at start up till all the updates are installed or ignored.
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FeedMonster 2.0 Beta 2 Build 2674
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Release Date: April 28th, 2007
This release is merely a archtechtual release. Most of the major new features will be coming in Beta 3.
- New: Networking stack; All the networking code from previous releases has been thrown out, in favor of a new and way more reliable network stack that introduces several bandwidth reduction measures. Also supports time-outs so that feed downloads don't just go on forever if there is an error like they did before.
- New: Feeds DB overhaul; New FeedsDB save/loader is now a whole lot more reliable as it is now a whole smaller and less complicated than before.
- Fixed: Atom support bug; The single bug blocking full Atom support in FeedMonster has been fixed.
- Added: Support for password protected feeds; FeedMonster can now download and parse feeds that require a password to download. Ex. Gmail's New Msgs atom feed.
- New: Template for feed content; This template is several orders of magnitude better than the previous one. Thanks a ton to its creator.
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KNOWN ISSUES
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- Support for password protected feeds was added to this release, but does not currently work correctly.
- FeedMonster does not support certain types of feeds, such as those using RSS 1.0, nor does it support a method for downloading enclosures inside the program itself.
- This version uses a new format for the feeds list. Your existing Feeds List WILL be automatically upgraded to the new format.
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FeedMonster 2.0 Beta 1 Build 2454
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Released: Wednesday, September 20th 2006
- New: Item Status Read, Unread, Flagged; Was the part of a major overhaul of
certain parts of the Feed engine.
- New: Major UI overhaul; Now more closely resembles Office 2007. Oficially
called "Midnight".
- Fixed: Temporary File overload; Previous version of FeedMonster created up to
4 temp files per use, leading to a large amount of temp files and space taken up
on a user's machine over a long period of time.
- New: File Format, FeedMonster Syndication Format; Further removes the temp
file problem by making it possible for FeedMonster to create the Item Web Page
when needed instead of when the feed is downloaded.
- New: Item Template; Is more functional and better looking than before. Current
Template is a placeholder for the one coming in later versions.
- New: Extendible Template Engine; Don't like the template, create your own and
put in place of the existing one.
- New: Plugin System; Makes FeedMonster more extendable.
- Fixed: Several feed incompatibility issues; Feeds such as those from Yahoo
News and H|Drive.org cause the Feed engine to "choke".
- Imporved: Reliability of Feed engine; Goes along with the above entry.
- New: Feed Search; You can now search through all of the items in FeedMonster,
with Google like speeds.
- New: Category Summary; When a user clicks a category a summary of the latest 5
items is generated.
- New: RSS Bandit Importer; Allows you to import feeds from RSSBandit if you
have it installed.
- Fixed: Admin Rights requirement; FeedMonster no longer requires Admin rights
to run.
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Notes
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RSS Feed Auto Discovery has been disabled in this build do to its ocasional
hangs that make FeedMonster unresponsive.
Atom feeds do not load properly due to some major changes in feed handling. Also RSS 1.0 feeds are still not currently supported.
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FeedMonster RC1 Build 2155
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Released: 1/1/2006; Service Release RC2: 2/26/2006
Change Log:
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- New: Atom support
- New: Database restore app; If something happens to the feeds db, FeedMonster
will automatically repair the minute it finds out.
- Added: Enclosure Manager; Was originally going to be in Beta 3, and is finally
finished.
- Added: Options System; Allows you customize certain aspects of the FeedMonster
experience.
- Added: Category view; You can now arrange your feeds in to categories.
- Added: Home Page function; Takes selected feed, downloads latest 5 items and
then generates a web page with links to those 5 items. Is OFF by default.
- Added: Additions to the web-browser; Now when you have multiple tabs open and
you switch to another, the address and title of the tab you are viewing is
shown.
- Fixed: RSS Feed image bug; This bug carried over from beta 3.
- Fixed: Web Browser Refresh Button; A bug that has been ignored since Alpha 1
and now has been fixed
- Removed: Normal feed list view; was causing too many bugs in the category
system so it was disabled.
Known Issues:
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PROBLEM: Enclosures downloads DON'T stop when FeedMonster exits.
WORKAROUND: After closing FeedMonster, terminate using Windows Task Manager. A
fix is being worked on for inclusion in FeedMonster 2.0 Beta 2
PROBLEM: The feed engine does not correctly recognize feeds with the same name
but different URLs.
WORKAROUND: None; A fix is being worked on for inclusion in FeedMonster 2.0 Beta
2
PROBLEM: The feed engine doesn't recognize RDF feeds.
WORKAROUND: None; A fix is being worked on for inclusion in FeedMonster 2.0 Beta
2
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FeedMonster Beta 3 Build 2064
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Released: Friday August 19th, 2005
- New: Feed Engine; This one replaces the unreliable one used by FeedMonster
before.
- Changed: Feed Database format; It is now an XML file that combines the feeds
list (.fmf) and the feed link files (.flf).
- Changed: Web Browser controls; Same IE just a different control
- Added: Feed Auto Discovery; automatically scans for links to RSS feeds in the
pages you vist in the FeedMonster web browser.
- Fixed: Annoying Feed Selection issue; Occurred when a feed was already being
downloaded and the user clicked on it again or on another feed that needed to be
downloaded.
- Changed: Item Newspaper theme; Now uses a built in CSS stylesheet.
- Added: Status Bar; FMWB actually finished now
- Changed: Add feed and Edit feed moved; Now on a sidebar
- Added: Toolbar and Sidebar layout saving; Now when you reposition the toolbars
and sidebars they're automatically repositioned for you each time you start
FeedMonster.
- Added: Tabbed Browser; now FeedMonster has a tabbed browser just like all the
others.
- Added: Colored Tabs; Tabs in FeedMonster now have alternating background
colors
- Fixed: ClickTwice feed viewing; now when a feed has never been DL'ed all you
have to do is ClickOnce.
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FeedMonster Beta 2 Build 1981
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Released: June 5th, 2005
- Added: Feed DL Automation; When feed URL is entered the feed title is
downloaded and automatically added to the list. The corresponding feed is also
DLed.
- Added: FeedMonster Themes; FeedMonster Default, Office 2003, Office XP
- Fixed: Visual glitch; At low resolutions
- Added: Now multi-threaded; Makes the program more responsive during feed DLs.
- Added: The FeedMonster Times; Newspaper function
- Added: Edit Feed; Now you can edit FM feeds
- Added: Address bar tab; FMWB complete
- Added: Dummy proofing; to prevent errors
- Added: RSS View & FMWB View
- Added: Double click feed update; Now all you have to do to update a feed is
double click it
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FeedMonster Beta 1 Build 1932
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Released: April 27, 2005 Interim: May 1st, 2005
- First Public Release, No changelog available