Download OSXNews 2.08

OSXnews is, as the name suggests, a program for the Mac OS X platform that can read newsgroups. The developers have based on Apple Mail for the look & feel of the program. It can show all messages from different newsgroups without any problem. Binary support is partially present at the moment, only yEnc messages are supported, but will be expanded in subsequent releases. The developers have released version 2.08 with the following announcement:

OSXNews 2.08 Released!

This is a minor version change but a major update. The UI has now been changed to closely match that of mail.app in tiger (it still work in panther though) . OSXNews is also a universal binary now which should be good news for our intel using friends. I have added support for localization of the application by updating a few xml and one HTML file. There should be no need to play with nib files or anything like that. This way localization should seem less problematic and challenging.

Among other notable features is the addition of keyboard navigation with up and down arrow keys as well as expanding and collapsing threads with the T and C keys.

The message window also displays emoticons and all http and email links addresses are links.

Last but not least, we now have some experimental yenc support. it only supports single part binaries and is a little slow, but it will be much improved in the next version.

• Fixed serious bug where messages saved in drafts were not being sent
• changed the example in preferences from ” [email protected] ” to “users.sf.net”
• Added support for internationalization in all alerts (Messages.xml)
• Tiger fied
• 10.3 minimum requirements
• Added internationalization for all toolbars (Toolbars.xml)
• check for updates on by default
• Internationalization in compose window (Compose.xml)
• Is now a Universal Binary
• main ui localized (Mainui.xml)
• better unicode support
• works with leaf node servers
• fixed crashing bug when decoding charactersets
• Preferences localized (Preferences.xml)
• Fixed offline mode toggle bug
• Detects http:// in messages and makes them clickable links
• move through messages using arrow keys
• unsubscribe now cmd+u delete cmd+d
• make a message unread with M
• Fully expand a thread with T, expand white X and collapse with C
• supports 14 basic emoticons now
• Automatically makes email addresses clickable links
• You can now tab between the sidebar and other items
• you can navigate the sidebar with up and down arrow keys
• added mainmenu.xml . localization support complete

[break]