NetNewsWire 2.0.1 Change Notes
21 July 2005
This page lists the changes in NetNewsWire since 2.0.
The current release of NetNewsWire is available via the download page.
The main point behind this release is to support Atom 1.0. We also fixed a couple crashing bugs and updated the Sites Drawer. This is otherwise a small update: NetNewsWire 2.1 (which we’re already working on) will have more changes.
Changes in 2.0.1
Atom 1.0 supported
NetNewsWire supports Atom 1.0 feeds: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-10.txt
This page lists some known Atom 1.0 feeds: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/KnownAtomFeeds
(NetNewsWire will continue to support Atom 0.3 for the foreseeable future.)
PDF crash fix
If you...
1. Use Tiger, and
2. Have the Adobe Acrobat PDF plugin installed,
...then NetNewsWire could crash when you click on a PDF link. Now NetNewsWire will, instead, always download PDF files to disk rather than risk this crash.
Mark All as Read crash fix
A performance and crashing bug related to the Mark All as Read command that affected some people was fixed in this build. This command now happens in the main thread rather than in the background, which fixes the crash.
Sites Drawer update
There are 112 new feeds. See the New in 2.0.1 folder for a list of all the new feeds.
There are two new categories: Parenting and Photoblogs. (Photoblogs that were already in the Sites Drawer in the Photography category were moved to the new Photoblogs category; the Photography category is now for sites about photography.)
Note about 10.2.8 (Jaguar) support
We’ve decided that the NetNewsWire 2.0.x series will be the last NetNewsWire releases to support OS X 10.2.8. Starting with 2.1, NetNewsWire will require 10.3.9 (Panther). NetNewsWire 2.0.1 may be the last of the 2.0.x series, but not necessarily. (Something could come up necessitating 2.0.2 and possibly subsequent 2.0.x releases.)
Not a Universal Binary
This build is not a universal binary. It was built on a machine running 10.3.9. This is partly just to be conservative (since it’s the same build environment as used for NetNewsWire 2.0) and also to be able to support Jaguar with this build.
The plan is to make 2.1 the first universal binary version of NetNewsWire. (We’re developing 2.1 on an Intel Mac, by the way.)
