RSS Guard 4.5.1

RSS Guard is a simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM. It"s free, it"s open-source. RSS Guard currently supports Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian. RSS Guard will never depend on other services - this includes online news aggregators like Feedly, The Old Reader and others.

RSS Guard is developed on top of the Qt library and it supports these operating systems:

  • Windows
  • GNU/Linux
  • OS/2 (eComStation)
  • Mac OS X
  • xBSD (possibly)
  • Android (possibly)
  • other platforms supported by Qt

The core features of RSS Guard are:

  • support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
  • Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0).
  • multiplatform,
  • support for all feed formats,
  • simplicity,
  • import/export of feeds to/from OPML 2.0,
  • downloader with own tab and support for up to 6 parallel downloads,
  • message filter with regular expressions,
  • feed metadata fetching including icons,
  • simple Adblock functionality,
  • customized popup notifications,
  • Google-based auto-completion for internal web browser location bar,
  • ability to cleanup internal message database with various options,
  • enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals,
  • multiple data backend support,
  • SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
  • MySQL.
  • is able to specify target database by its name (MySQL backend),
  • “portable” mode support with clever auto-detection,
  • feed categorization,
  • drap-n-drop for feed list,
  • automatic checking for updates,
  • ability to discover existing feeds on websites,
  • full support of podcasts (both RSS & ATOM),
  • ability to backup/restore database or settings,
  • fully-featured recycle bin,
  • printing of messages and any web pages,
  • can be fully controlled via keyboard,
  • feed authentication (Digest-MD5, BASIC, NTLM-2),
  • handles tons of messages & feeds,
  • sweet look & feel,
  • fully adjustable toolbars (changeable buttons and style),
  • ability to check for updates on all platforms + self-updating on Windows,
  • hideable main menu, toolbars and list headers,
  • KFeanza-based default icon theme + ability to create your own icon themes,
  • fully skinnable user interface + ability to create your own skins,
  • “newspaper” view,
  • plenty of skins,
  • support for "feed://" URI scheme,
  • ability to hide list of feeds/categories,
  • open-source development model based on GNU GPL license, version 3,
  • tabbed interface,
  • integrated web browser with adjustable behavior + external browser support,
  • internal web browser mouse gestures support,
  • desktop integration via tray icon,
  • localizations to some languages,
  • Qt library is the only dependency,
  • open-source development model and friendly author waiting for your feedback,
  • no ads, no hidden costs.

RSS Guard 4.5.1 changelog:

Added

  • Completely new, custom "toast" notifications:
  • Configurable position on screen.
  • Can be displayed on secondary screens.
  • Automatically adopts look of currently active RSS Guard skin.
  • Can be close via close corner button or via Esc keyboard button.
  • When hovered with mouse, notification stays shown, when not hovered, it is automatically hidden after 15 seconds.
  • Displays list of newly fetched articles and offers some basic actions like marking as read, showing in article list or in web browser.
  • These notifications do not need "tray icon" to be activated.
  • Can be tweaked in Notifications section of settings.
  • pdb debugging file is now distributed with RSS Guard on Windows.
  • NPM packages updated to latest versions.

Fixed

  • AppData file now does not contain pre> tags.
  • HTTP redirection cycles are now solved.
  • Web cache is now stored in correct directory on Linux. (#1098)
  • Fixed behavior of Google-based phrase suggestion in web browser navigation text box.
  • Many different features of RSS Guard got minor fixes, some parts of source code were refactored. Particularly, one nasty "semi-bug" was fixed which influenced speed of article switching in article list. It should now be faster. Much faster.
  • Article counting for "regex queries" is now disabled because this was very performance-hungry even with small number of regex queries, sadly.
  • Translations of some languages are now more complete.
  • Some unused source code was removed.
  • Some unused deps were removed.

Download: RSS Guard 4.5.1 (64-bit) | 91.4 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems

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