RSS Guard 4.4.0

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 4.4.0 changelog:

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Added

• Read/unread state is now also shown by coloured dot in article list, inspired by similar feature of QuiteRSS. The behavior is switchable in settings. (#948)
• Details of selected feed list item are now enhanced with new information. (#962)
• Item (feed) ID is now visible in item details and in tooltips of feed list. (#965)
• "nudus" skin is bit tweaked. (#942)
• Added option to reorganize any folder in feed list alphabetically even in manual sorting mode. (#918)
• Added shortcuts to scroll article up/down. (#408)
• Added global option to open all hyperlinks by default in external web browser. (#386)
• Email editor for Gmail now supports rich-text.
• Added support for very fast feed fetching intervals.
• Added button to clear web cache and storage.
• Added some missing icons.

Fixed

• Application performance is now hugely improved when using big number of labels and/or article filters. There are some possibilities for extra performance fine-tuning which might be addressed in the future. (#952)
• Behavior and visual representation of "article highlighter" and "article list filter" tool buttons is now fixed. (#943)
• Newly created label is now placed in correct sort position in feed list. (#978)
• Fixed html/plain auto-detection for "https://blog.torproject.org/blog/feed". (#979)
• Modal dialogs are also taken into account for feature "do not fetch feeds when main window is unfocused". (#973)
• Hamburger menu did not work in fullscreen mode in some cases. (#953)
• Resizing of feed import dialog is now better. (#945)
• Unwanted application restarts. (#940)
• Main window fade-in effect on Windows OS is now consistent. (#933)
• Many other smaller fixes.

Download: RSS Guard 4.4.0 (64-bit) | 86.9 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems

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