NewsGator 1.1 Released!

NewsGator 1.1 has been released! This is a significant release; many of the most-requested features have been added, and a few bugs have been fixed. You can download 1.1 here. And it’s a free upgrade for licensed 1.0 users. :-)

Change list (with a few pictures):

• “From” column now shows author if present, otherwise feed name:

  
   

• “Received” column now shows publish date, if present, otherwise retrieve date

• Feeds which require authentication are now supported:

  
   

• New message notification (task tray bubble) on Windows 2000 and later

  
   

• Optional per-feed update frequency

• Option to determine modified-post behavior (RSS guid support), which can eliminate duplicate posts for some feeds:

  
   

• Initial view setup for OL2002 removed (no longer necessary)
• Subscriptions moved to separate menu item
• Subscription list now sortable
• Proxy bypass on local setting now supported
• Added category support
• Added xhtml:body support
• Confirmation when deleting subscriptions
• Added user-defined Post Author field
• Updated online help for 1.1
• Added link to tutorial on initial setup screen
• Minor GUI changes
• Trial period reset for 1.1
• Fixed problem where Outlook would not close correctly if user logged off or shut down Windows without closing Outlook
• Fixed NewsPage bug when a feed title or post title contained certain escaped HTML elements
• Fixed problem if a folder exists, but doesn’t match because case-sensitive comparison
• Fixed problem with certain feeds (such as Wired News) that vary the posts between retrievals; NewsGator now buffers at least 50 read posts (or 2x) per feed.
• Fixed problem where if publish date was specified with a north american time zone (per RFC822), NewsGator would fail to parse it and revert back to the received date
• Fixed NewsPage problem with folder names containing ‘/’, ‘ ‘, and ‘\
• Fixed a few other minor problems