Software Update: RSS Menu 1.3.2

RSS Menu is a program for Mac OS X platform that allows to read so-called RSS and Atom feeds that various websites offer. It simply nests in the menu bar and gives a warning when there is a new article in one of the feeds. Version 1.3.2 has recently been made available by the developers. The changelog since the last entry in the junk tracker looks like this:

Version 1.3.2

• fixed a bug that would prevent Atom feeds from being parsed
• fixed a possible crash when checking for updates, usually after waking up
• fixed a possible crash when changing the update rate of a feed
• fixed a bug that didn’t add a URL to some articles fixed a bug that didn’t update all the feeds when choosing “Update all”
• fixed a bug that would see some articles as podcasts
• fixed a bug when reading feeds without an active connection
• fixed a bug that would cause a crash when removing a feed
• RSS Menu is now localizable
• when a feed has no articles, a menu item will be show with the title “No articles!”
• when the computer wakes up, the feeds will get updated immediately
• added automatic version checker (replacing the update checker)
• added support for drag & drop of multiple items
• improved article cache
• improved compatibility with some feeds
• improved offline reading
• some changes in the Read Me file

Version 1.3.1

• fixed a bug that didn’t add RSS Menu to the login items
• fixed a bug when choosing “Open all unread”
• fixed a bug that would cause a crash when a server could not be contacted
• fixed a bug when putting the computer to sleep or waking up
• added per feed “Mark all read” menu item
• added per feed “Mark all unread” menu item
• added support for Safari 2.0 feed:// urls
• improved text encodings, making more feeds compatible
• improved opml importing

Version 1.3

• added support for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• added support for feedgroups
• added support for exporting of opml files as a hierarchy or flat
• added support for importing of opml files with a hierarchy
• added button to remove the cache files
• added option to disable menu marking
• added basic support for podcasts, you can choose which player you want to use (iTunes, QuickTime Player or the system default)
• podcasts will show up in a different icon
• feeds are now stored in the file Feeds List.plist, the old Feeds.plist is converted to the new structure at startup
• some interface changes
• redesigned (faster) parser engine
• redesigned internal structure of feeds
• redesigned separator icon
• improved performance
• improved drag & drop
• improved opml importing
• updated icons
• updated to use Growl 7.0
• double feeds are accepted
• fixed the deletion of a feed when an error occurred, delete the feed manually if the error persists
• fixed a problem when switching panes in the preferences window
• due to a bug in Tiger, HTML code is not decoded, this will be improved in future versions