RSS Guard 3.7.0

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 3.7.0 changelog

Added:

• Fully scriptable MESSAGE FILTERING:
• Is avaialble for all accounts, including TT-RSS, Inoreader, etc.
• Is fully scriptable with JavaScript.
• Almost all attributes of every single message are changeable.
• You can assign the same filter to multiple feeds.
• There is a special JavaScript function which allows you to check if message is "duplicate".
• There is a simple dialog for creating and testing filters.
• Filters are automagically applied when new messages are downloaded.
• See dialog accessible from menu "Messages -> Message filters".
• Note that this feature is highly experimental, report bugs, please.
• For more information, see https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/wiki/Message-filtering
• Delay for first automatic feed update after application launch is now configurable and defaults to smaller value.
• It is now possible to download UNREAD messages ONLY for TT-RSS and Nextcloud News accounts. See settings dialog for each respective account.
• All accounts now offer "Important message" node in feed's list which allows you to
• elegantly display all important messages you have.
• Message list is now able to show UNREAD messages only, see "Messages" menu. Setting is persistent.
• RSS parser now partially supports M-RSS.

Fixed/changed:

• Localizations updated.
• Show correct DB size for MariaDB in DB cleanup dialog.
• Sorting in feed's list is now case insensitive.
• Fixed couple of crashes when saving in-memory SQLite databases to persistent file.
• Simplified code for OAuth2.0 flow, removed WebEngine-based solution entirely, rely on system web browser to handle the challenge.
• Fixed mouse selections in message's list when "keep selection in center" setting is enabled.
• Feed updating logic was rewritten and now should be more reliable.
• Some obsolete code removed and refactored.
• Purging of messages wasn't purgin important messages if chosen, now fixed.
• Fixed errors in internal SQL code when displaying empty message list.

Download: RSS Guard 3.7.0 (64-bit) | Portable | ~70 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems

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