Download RSSOwl 1.2.2 RC1

The RSSOwl program can retrieve the latest news from various RSS, RDF and Atom feeds via the Internet. Searching for news items is done via the search function and thanks to the tabbed interface you can keep an overview of all the news on offer. Because the program is written in Java, it runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows, among others. The developers have released the first release candidate of version 1.2.2 with the following announcement:

1.2.2 Release Candidate 1:

Features:

• The integrated Feed-Validator was removed due to lacking support for RDF and Atom formats. The new Validator allows to enter the URL of the Newsfeed to validate and will forward to the W3C Feed-Validator using the Browser which supports all major formats and namespaces. This change resolves the issue:
  • #1413094 Action to validate news feeds on feedvalidator.org
  • #1170501 Feed validator should not show errors on RDF/Atom Feeds
  • #1394655 Support for ATOM Validation
• Adding a new Feed to the List of Favorites will now automatically reload it unless the application is currently set to work in offline mode.
• AmphetaRate controls (ToolBar in Newstext and Statusline Items) are now dynamically shown as soon as an AmphetaRate account is present and hidden otherwise.
• Updated HttpClient to version 3.0.1
• Updated SWT to 3.2 Final

Bug fixes:

• Feed-Search is now recognizing a lot more results as valid Feeds with fixing a Bug in the URL-processing. Special thanks to Milan Simonovic for reporting this issue.
• Settings are now backup’ed and restored in case a previous shutdown failed to store them correctly. This should fix issues, where all settings were lost.
• #1485008 Problem with “as read” marked items
• #1475607 Popup opens in external browser. This only happening under special circumstances, where a page included frames or iframes and under a special combination of Browser settings.
• Fixed some meaningless Titles in various Message- and File-Dialogs to show the name of the Command that was performed and resulted in the Dialog to show.
• Import Feeds from Discovery / Search did not automatically enable Proxy usage if proxy was enabled in Connection Preferences.
• The sort-order of Categories and Favorites was changed, such as any child-category will show above any child-favorite, instead of showing below.
• Mac: Removed always visible horizontal Scrollbar from Feed-Search, Feed-Discovery and Feed-Validator Dialogs.
• Newstext and HTML Export was not respecting a Text-Font that was set to use Bold, Italic or a combination of both.
• RSSOwl was not interpreting Date Formats like “May 11, 2006” in News.
• Fixed a potential NullpointerException in CryptoManager.loadData().
• Added the missing “deploy_linux64” target to the ANT-Script of the Source release.

[break]The following flavors are available:
Linux
Linux x64
Mac OS X
solaris
Windows