New version of SharpReader is out!

Luke writes:

SharpReader 0.9.3 is now available for download at sharpreader.net.

Changes since the last version are:

  • .NET 1.1 only. Go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com to upgrade if you currently only have . NET 1.0 installed
  • Added support for HTTP Authentication (either through a username:pwd@url, or through a popup authentication dialog)
  • FeedValidator.org url change
  • Multi-select enabled in headline-view
  • Handle feed:// protocol. Links to a feed:rss-url will automatically open in SharpReader. For example feed:www.hutteman.com/weblog/rss.xml would open my rss-feed in SharpReader.
  • Updated to use log4j 1.2.0 beta 8 - this build no longer has the Win98/WinME bug
  • Improved performance of opening new browser windows for users with IE as their default browser.
  • Support for the <wfw:commentrss> element.
    • Comments are retrieved on demand and are cached across sessions.
    • If both <wfw:commentrss> and <slash:comments> tags are present, SharpReader changes the comment-count displayed when you delete comments, and also displays the number of unread items.
    • For items no longer in the rss-feed, a "+" is displayed after the comment-count to indicate more comments could have been added since the item disappeared from the feed.
  • Fixed bug that sometimes caused an InvalidOperationException (Collection was modified) to occur.
  • Save subscriptions right away when new feed is added.
  • Load subscriptions.xml even if there was a problem loading settings.xml (previously you would lose all your subscriptions if this happened).
  • Added feed-property to specify whether to automatically open the links belonging to an item. Property can be set to "always", "never", or "only if no description is present".
  • "Copy IE Proxy Settings on SharpReader startup" option on the proxy-tab.
  • Bypass proxy for local URLs
  • Systray popup when new items arrive (can be disabled on a per-feed or per-category basis through the properties pane)
  • Memory consumption has been reduced by approximately 25%. Startup performance has also been improved.

Note that last item. On installing and running 0.9.3, memory use for SharpReader on my system dropped from 150+ MB down below 95MB. I'd still love to see it drop further, but I'll take whatever improvements I can get. The startup performance is MUCH faster now, which is great since I sometimes close SR to avoid memory contention when I've got a lot going on (running VMs, etc.). Great work, Luke!

1 Comment

Comments have been disabled for this content.