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Some fixes in this release.

One bigger new thing, dear users: I decided to start implementing brand new purely command line only version of RSS Guard to allow running RSS Guard in headless/CLI environments like servers. It will likely work like this:

1. You run regular variant of RSS Guard and setup your feeds, how often they fetch like you normally do when running classic GUI RSS Guard.
2. You then can launch new CLI-only RSS Guard executable perhaps on your server (or elsewhere) and it will load your settings/database and will perform article fetching regularly.

Added:

• Existing read/unread state is respected when some article gets "updated" (infamously happens for YouTube feeds). (#1279)
• NSIS installer was bit tweaked to warn about MSVC runtime. (#1306)
• iCalendar files (*.ics, *.ical) are now supported. Note that the support is rather basic.
• Added more ways of limitting amount of articles in each feed. (#1270, #1267)
• Added way to use old legacy article formatting in "lite" version. (#1286)
• New way of fetching articles - new "Source" -> "Built-in web browser with JavaScript support" which allows user to use built-in Chromium-based network stack to fetch feeds and other data. It allows even fetching of majority of JavaScript-powered websites. (#1313)
• More date/time strings for parsing some dates and times in articles.
• "Title" column in article list is not directly resizable too. Last visible column auto-stretches to fit remaining space. (#1319)

Fixed:

• Fix freezing when feed uses crazy crazy loooong URL.
• Fix crash when forwarding e-mail via Gmail plugin.
• Add forgotten restriction when cleaning data. (a975714f6)
• ETag conditional loading of feeds was semi-broken. (#1314, #1296)
• All Unicode characters in feed URLs are now supported. (#1310)
• Reader mode was changing content for all opened browser tabs. (#1300)
• Some articles were displayed with broken HTML. (#1293)
• Size/position of all windows (including modal dialogs) is now guarded to not be out-of-screen-bounds. (#1281)
• No more crashes when adding some discovered feeds. (#1280)
• Main window pesky splitters saved with 0 position. (#1271)

Dear users, there are new features which will be introduced in one of coming releases.

First of them is built-in HTTP API server which will provide basic REST-like interface for working with RSS Guard - getting list of articles, marking articles read or unread, etc. This will allow to use RSS Guard as a article server in local network.

In cooperation with the above feature, new "magazine view" will be implemented. This magazine view will be launchable even completely separately from RSS Guard in web browser and will be able to act as very simple web-based feed/article reader. It will fetch data directly from RSS Guard via its new web API and will display articles including their thumbnails in cool way. This feature will be also expanded in the future, based on user feedback.

Added:

• Lite internal web browser now properly decodes all HTML pages according to their declared encoding. (9c7f55094)
• Image downscaling in lite browser is faster. (8b91d4709)
• Icon for classic RSS/ATOM accounts is now changeable. (#695)
• If main window is active then "fetching started" notifications are not delivered. (#597)
• Number of child feed/categories is now shown for each category. (#1183)

Fixed:

• MPV libs were moved to separate Git submodule. (#1250)
• Applied workaround to fix PC not sleeping after sound is played. (#1118)
• Fixed problem with disappearing tabs.

This release fixes couple of issues found after 4.6.0/4.6.1 releases.

Fixed:

• Fixed "Browse" button not working in "Media player" tab of settings dialog. (#1245)
• Was crashing on Linux. (#1244)

Just build fix. It now should build allright.

This feature brings one major feature - podcast/media player. This media player is available when you open context menu for any hyperlink in article which you think leads to audio/video file. Simply right-mouse-click your link and select "Play in media player", then media player will open in next tab and start playing.

Full versions of RSS Guard (with QtWebEngine) include libmpv-based media player which can play basically every thinkable audio/video content. Windows build of RSS Guard even bundles yt-dlp binary to allow out-of-box support for Youtube playback.

Lite variants of RSS Guard include slightly lighter QtMultimedia/ffmpeg-based media player, which also can play many audio/video formats.

Qt5-based lite variants of RSS Guard will likely require you to install some system-wide codec pack.

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/1226

Added:

• Media/podcast player capabilities. See above for more information.
• Indication of which feed is actually fetching at the moment can be enabled in settings. (#1203)
• Newspaper view was removed as it was slow and very buggy. It might be replaced by something better in the future.
• Sections of settings now have icons.
• Docs updated.
• Layout of articles in default nudus-* skins was unified for full/lite versions. Formatting is now very similar.
• Image size/wrapping behavior was greatly improved in article viewer, particularly in lite version.

Fixed:

• Context menus in both full/lite article viewer are now more similar.
• Fixed crashing when editing e-mail via Gmail plugin. (76c7dd170)
• No more warning journal messages generated on Linux. (#1207)
• Updated and fixed some languages. (#1205)

Added:

• Added feed manipulation for Google Reader API plugin - creating, editing, deleting feeds.

Fixed:

• Fixed yellow background in nowebengine version.
• No more double right mouse button click when closing notifications.

Added:

• Toast notifications now have configurable width, margins and opacity. Couple of related GUI fixes are also there. (#1125)
• Standard RSS/ATOM account now can be renamed. (#824)
• Aux nodes "Important", "Probes", "Unread" and "Labels" now can be disabled per-account separately in account settings dialog. (#584)
• Toast notifications can be closed with right mouse button click.
• Google Reader API plugin now offers OPML import and export function. See context menu for it.

Fixed:

• Updated translations.
• Fixed integration with Miniflux via Google Reader API plugin. This requires additional testing. (#837)

Added:

• Article and feed toolbar heights are now normalized to same values.

Fixed:

• Fixed couple of cases where feed multi-selection and/or batch operations were not taking multi-selection properly into account.
• Fixed some unnecessary prompts to restart app in settings dialog.
• Updated translations and readme.

Dear users. Note that one of upcoming releases will break-backwards compatibility thus it will be labelled as "5.0.0". Backwards compatibility will be broken in several areas of the application - particularly I want to greatly enhance syntax/API of article filtering scripts, where I plan to restructure existing functions, make it all bit more clear and add some more functions.

Also, some other areas of RSS Guard might be touched so I will use the opportunity to make again some enhancements. I do not expect that DB incompatibility will be as high as it was when transitioning from 3.x to 4.x and I expect that existing RSS Guard databases will be converted to "5.x" format automatically.

Moreover, I thank to all users of this app. Currently according to my internal "guess" I believe that RSS Guard has 5000+ regular users and it is likely one of the most used RSS desktop cross-platform applications. I hope we will grow and I also send big thanks to all who donated some money. It is not much, but I have used some of it to buy parts for my home PC on which I develop RSS guard mostly. Thanks.

Btw, just thinking out loud. If each user contributed 5 USD per year, I could do RSS Guard development as my full-time job, which I would love to. :D

That's all I wanted to say. Thanks, users.

Added:

• Added new "Discover feeds" dialog which is automatically opened when user hits "Add new feed" button. In this dialog, use does not have to input exact feed address but can enter just regular website address and RSS Guard will try to discover all available feeds possible. (#1134)
• ATOM/RSS/JSON/Sitemap feeds now automatically use "ETag" HTTP headers which has potential speedup when fetching feeds with no new messages. This can bring 10-80 % speedup if user uses more feeds which do support "ETag". (#1136)
• Support for Sitemap "sitemap.xml" files is added! Vast majority of websites have sitemaps and RSS Guard now can read them in the same way it does with RSS/ATOM formats. "Discover feeds" dialog has Sitemaps support integrated and it even is able to traverse sitemap indexes. GZipped sitemaps are supported too. (#1129)
• Added multiple/extended selection to feeds list! Now it is possible to select multiple items at once (feeds, categories, etc.) and perform batch actions on them - batch editing, deleting, marking read/unread, re-sorting - when some feeds are selected it is now in "Edit selected items" dialog possible to batch change only some properties in a very clean and universal way. (#1010, #89)
• Localizations updated.
• Documentation updated.
• Arguments parsing is now totally overhauled. It is now possible to use both double and single quotes to quote arguments. Read "Scraping Websites" chapter in docs to know more.
• Local files can now be used directly as sources for feeds, just select "Local file" in add/edit feed dialog.

Fixed:

• Fixed OPML import/export when some feeds use custom script as source. (#1133)
• RSS/ATOM parsing is now greatly enhanced.