NetNewsWire 2.0b25 Change Notes
17 Feb 2005
This page lists changes to NetNewsWire since 2.0b22.
(You can download the current beta from the NetNewsWire beta page.)
Note
This is a bug-fix update to NetNewsWire 2.0b22—the main point of this build is to fix a crashing bug that some people who use the new Bloglines features run into.
The .Mac syncing feature is still in progress. Though some of the UI appears in this build, it doesn’t work yet. (What remains to do for 2.0 is syncing and some more bug fixes.)
Change Notes
Crashing bugs
Fixed a crashing bug in the feed downloader that affected mostly people using Bloglines subscriptions.
Fixed a crashing bug that could happen while updating the unread count of a smart list.
Fixed a crashing bug that could happen while updating the unread count of a group when the unread count of one of its children changed.
Bloglines fixes
It now displays an error message if your username and/or password is incorrect. (Previously it would give you weird results.)
Made it more clear on the Bloglines window that it wants your email address (which is what you use when login to the Bloglines website).
Worked around a Bloglines bug where the response from the /listsubs method may not be well-formed XML—it may contain unencoded ampersands.
Subscriptions importing
When importing a subscriptions list from a file, files with any extension are now selectable. (Since not everybody uses .opml—Bloglines files get downloaded as .xml files, for instance.)
Can now import OPML files that aren’t well-formed XML due to having unencoded ampersands. (This is really the same bug fix as downloading Bloglines subscriptions, mentioned above, but it’s applicable in other cases too.)
Atom parser
Made it more forgivable of character encoding errors and unencoded ampersands. (We didn’t want to have to do it—but we’re getting reports of Atom feeds with such errors.)
HTTP downloading
Errors creating or opening the stream are now reported to the Errors window.
Proxy authentication
Makes fewer requests—adds auth info before doing the initial GET request, so it doesn’t have to make two requests per check.
HTML description display
When the description of an item has line feeds and/or carriage returns, but no br or p tags, then NetNewsWire inserts br tags—so it formats more as expected.
