NewsGator 0.8.4

Well, there wasn’t going to be another release before 0.9, but there were enough changes piling up that I wanted to get them out for people to use. So, you can now download v0.8.4 from the NewsGator site.

Users who are using the public 0.7 or 0.8 builds can just install 0.8.4 over them. If you are using a private build that you obtained directly from me, you need to uninstall it before installing this new version.

Changes:

• NewsPage recent posts now link to the specific message instead of the entire folder
• NewsPage will now show posts in the base news folder
• Added refresh button to NewsPage
• Feeds now alphabetized when retrieving
• Subscription URL’s now displayed in edit dialog
• Added a “default location for new subscriptions”, which is also used by context menu
• Visual indication when articles are read from the NewsPage
• NewsPage performance improvement for those with lots of read messages in news folders. Performance when all messages are unread is comparable to previous version.
• Allow multi-select on feeds when editing folder names
• Separated online/offline settings with check news interval
• Fixed some NewsPage problems experienced by a few users
• Fixed problem where if NG was launched other than at startup time (such as selecting the Add-in from tools/options), it would not properly initialize, and could sometimes crash
• Fixed problem when there were no feeds in the list
• Fixed problem where NG would not retrieve news again after encountering a RSS feed without a title
• Double click on subscription list now opens subscription for editing
• Progress dialog now has minimum size
• Minor adjustments to improve GUI interaction when retrieving many new feeds at once