NetNewsWire 1.0.3 Change Notes
This page lists changes to the full version of NetNewsWire since 1.0.2.
1.0.3b2: 19 June 2003
- Fixed a bug where the progress bar in the weblog editor wouldn’t stop running when certain errors happened.
- You can now use NetNewsWire to post to LiveJournal weblogs, since the LiveJournal folks added Blogger API support. LiveJournal was added to the popup menu when setting up prefs for a weblog-to-edit. We put a page on configuring NetNewsWire to post to LiveJournal.
- Added a bunch of sites to the Sites Drawer. See the Latest Additions group to see what’s new.
- Fixed a display glitch in the Combined View—there’s supposed to be (and now is) a white line separating expanded descriptions from the headline below.
- New Combined View keyboard shortcuts: collapse all: ; (semicolon); expand all: '; collapse all read items: \.
- Increased the HTTP timeout from 20 seconds to 60 seconds. This should make feed-reading failures less frequent.
- Removed tooltips for Combined View headlines since they were annoying rather than helpful.
- Fixed a bug when switching from Combined View to traditional view: the focus ring would sometimes be erroneously drawn around part of the description view.
- Improved the alignment of the bullets in the status column.
- Updated the Help book, including a new page on the Combined View.
1.0.3b1: 16 June 2003
- A new Combined View combines titles and descriptions into a single view.
- SSL support: feeds with https URLs can now be read in the newsreader. (It works with feeds that have a valid, unexpired certificate. A tip on Mac OS X Hints shows how to tell your system to accept other certificates.) Theoretically, you can also post to weblogs that have https URLs too, though this hasn’t been tested yet.
- Support for updated items. If a headline is updated, but has the same identifier as an existing headline, then it’s marked as updated rather than as unread. Updated items get a hyphen in the status column.
- Both the traditional and Combined views now get a status column that displays a bullet for unread items.
- Fixed an intermittent case of high CPU usage.
- Fixed some memory leaks.
- Fixed a mach port leak—it would leak one mach port per HTTP request.
- Totally changed the underlying HTTP layer—now it uses CoreFoundation networking. (This change is responsible for some of the above changes.)
- Fixed a weblog editor crashing bug when posting a draft to a site when the Categories drawer is open.
- RSS Discovery works again when dragging into the Subscriptions pane.
- There’s a new pref on the General preferences pane for turning focus rings on and off.
- For new users the Date column is now turned on by default.
