Feeder 3.0 Release Notes Archive
Version 3.0.4
Requirements
OS X 10.10 or later.
Released
September 15, 2015
- Fixed a problem where setting the port of FTP servers to the standard port for the protocol could result in the port appearing as zero.
- Fixed a problem where the Explicit advisory would not be displayed in the iTunes Store podcast preview.
- Fixed an issue where the New Server panel would show the incorrect protocol after previously creating a non-FTP server.
- Fixed issues with the sidebar split view.
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan preparedness.
Version 3.0.3
Requirements
OS X 10.10 or later.
Released
August 25, 2015
Changes
- When publishing ends, the notification is now shown regardless of whether the app is frontmost.
- Feeder can now be forced to rebuild a library from the XML feed files by choosing Feeder > Rebuild Library from the menu.
- Artwork is now required when creating iTunes Podcasts.
- Fixed a problem where the date would be updated for items that have been published in the past and re-edited more than once.
- Fixed a problem downloading feeds with no titles.
- Fixed a problem where feeds weren't validated immediately after being changed.
- Fixed a problem with incorrect image and enclosure paths when publishing a feed for the first time with "Use Feed Settings" selected.
- Fixed a problem where iTunes artwork may not be cropped to a square when it's smaller than the maximum size.
- Fixed a problem upgrading from Feeder 1.x.
- Updated FTP software.
Version 3.0.2
Requirements
OS X 10.10 or later.
Released
August 10, 2015
Changes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when autosaving iTunes U items.
- Fixed a problem where publishing may not complete after automatically sharing to Twitter or Facebook.
- Fixed a problem where feeds scheduled publication status may not be updated immediately after publishing.
- Fixed a problem where scheduled feeds would not be rescheduled after app restart.
- Relative dates shown in the portrait list will now be updated when the day changes.
- Fixed a problem where a message could be shown incorrectly when choosing a folder on a File Export server.
- It is now mandatory for iTunes podcasts to have artwork.
Version 3.0.1
Requirements
OS X 10.10 or later.
Released
July 23, 2015
Changes
- Fixed a problem where the Duplicate contextual menu for items wouldn't work.
- The current selection is now preserved when reordering items.
- Fixed a problem upgrading Feeder 2 libraries in custom locations.
- Fixed a crash that could occur checking blog availability.
- When the web cache is emptied, the thumbnail cache is now also reset.
- Leading and trailing spaces are now trimmed from URLs.
- Fixed an issue where the library window couldn't always be resized horizontally.
- Fixed an issue where the library window may not load in some locales.
Version 3.0
Requirements
OS X 10.10 or later.
Released
July 16, 2015
Summary
- Refreshed Design with new icons, preview and editing windows.
- Thumbnails and preview lines in the list.
- Integrated feed and settings views so the sidebar can be hidden.
- Share libraries with cloud services such as iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive and more.
- iTunes Podcasting updated for larger artwork and links in the iTunes Summary.
- Markdown editing, converted to HTML in the feed.
- Autosave for edited items with windows restored on relaunch.
- Self-contained feeds with the content and settings for sharing with others.
- Search and replace all links in a feed.
- Many other new features and improvements.
Sidebar
- The sidebar can now be hidden. Choose View > Show Sidebar from the menu to show or hide the sidebar or click the button at the bottom right of the sidebar.
- New icons for feeds and folders. Favicons are no longer used as icons for feeds.
Items List
- The portrait list will now preview a few lines of each item’s description.
- Hide or show the description preview in the list by choosing View > Show Item Previews from the menu. The setting is per-feed.
- The portrait list will now show a thumbnail for each item using an image taken from the description or an enclosure upload, if available.
- Hide or show thumbnails in the list by choosing View > Show Item Thumbnails from the menu. The setting is per-feed.
- The landscape list now has a Description column that shows the same information as the preview in the portrait list. Hovering over the description will show more.
- To hide or show columns in the landscape list, Ctrl-click or right-click the column headers and choose the items to show or hide from the list.
- Both portrait list now uses relative dates with an intelligent format.
- When items in the feed have errors, a warning icon is shown next to the Items button and a “Show Errors Only” button appears to the right. Enabling that will show only the items with errors.
Feed View
- When a feed has errors at the feed level, a warning icon is shown next to the Feed button.
- Expanding a section and clicking on a sub-section will show only that section.
- iTunes Subtitle now appears as a single-line field.
Settings View
- In Editor settings, a new Format pop-up replaces the “Add Line Breaks to Item Descriptions checkbox to present a choice of “HTML”, “Automatic Line Breaks” and “Markdown”.
- In General settings, the Where field is now a graphical path that you can double-click to show the feed or any of its containing folders in the Finder.
- Added a setting to allow HTTPS enclosures.
- Expanding a section and clicking on a sub-section will show only that section.
Item Preview
- New style for the preview.
- Enclosure preview now shows the artwork or a thumbnail if the original file is on your computer.
- Click the thumbnail to see a Quick Look preview of any enclosure where the original file is on your computer.
- Enclosure preview no longer shows the MIME type.
Markdown Editing
- Items’ descriptions can now be written in Markdown, which will be converted to HTML for the feed.
- Set the default editing format for the whole feed in the Editor section of the Settings view in the main window.
- When Markdown is the default, new items will use that, but existing items and those edited externally will be shown as HTML with Automatic Line Breaks, because Markdown does not support all the features of HTML and things may be lost if an automatic conversion was made.
- Convert existing items to Markdown by choosing Markdown from the options in the Editor menu or pop-up at the bottom of the editing window. The conversion supports links, images, span tags with Markdown-equivalents (b, i, em, strong, del, strike, h1 to h6), single-level ordered or unordered lists, and blockquotes.
- A number of extensions are supported: autolinked URLs, fenced code blocks, hard new lines, strikethroughs, tables and underscores in words. These can be enabled / disabled in Markdown preferences.
- The Insert Image and Insert Link panels and Insert Tag menu now insert Markdown equivalents when Markdown is in use, if equivalent Markdown syntax exists.
- You can set the preferred bullet, strong, emphasis and hard return styles used when inserting Markdown tags or converting HTML to Markdown in Markdown preferences.
Item Editing
- Items being edited are now autosaved and restored when the app is reopened. Hold on Shift at startup to prevent that.
- New toolbar icons for editing windows.
- New style for the editing fields, with lighter labels and no borders.
- Clicking on a label activates the corresponding field.
- A new Editor menu contains commands for working in the editing window that were previously in the Item menu.
- The text format for an item’s Description can now be changed on a per-item basis using the options in the Editor menu or pop-up below the text.
- Newlines added below HTML or Markdown text will be preserved while editing.
- When editing iTunes podcasts, the number of characters remaining is now shown in the status bar below the text.
- iTunes Subtitle is now a single-line field.
- Added a new Upload toolbar item to upload files and insert the corresponding HTML link or image tag into the Description.
- Added an Upload button to the Image panel to upload an image file and insert an HTML image tag.
- When uploading and inserting an image file, the image’s dimensions are now included in the HTML tag.
- Added a Strikethrough item to the Insert Tag menu.
- When finding and replacing text in the Description or iTunes Summary, the editor now uses a bar rather than a panel.
- Added shortcut keys for Header styles 1 to 6.
- Improved text formatting after removal of HTML paragraph and line breaks.
- Improved the appearance of the Image and Link panels.
Feed Links
- Find and replace all links with a common prefix in a feed, optionally including those in both the feed and items’ descriptions (plus iTunes Summary and Subtitle, if appropriate) by choosing Edit > Find & Replace Links from the menu.
- Clicking the Links button in the toolbar now shows menu items that allow you to subscribe to a feed or podcast, copy the feed URL and submit a podcast to iTunes, if appropriate.
- The Links panel has been removed, but the Web Page Links section survives in its own panel, which can be seen by choosing “Web Page Links” from the File menu or the menu shown when clicking the Links button.
- Added Submit to iTunes to the File menu.
Library Management
- Feeder’s library can now be safely synced with services such as iCloud Drive, Google Drive and Dropbox and shared with multiple Macs.
- Use File > Library > New Library from the menu to create a new empty library.
- Move an existing library to another location by choosing Feeder > Library > Move to Folder from the menu.
- Move a library back to the default location by choosing Feeder > Library > Move to Default Location from the menu.
- To open a library stored elsewhere double-click the [Library name].frlib file or, choose Feeder > Library > Open Another Library from the menu.
- To see where the current library is stored, choose Feeder > Library > Show in Finder from the menu.
- Feeder 3 won't automatically open custom libraries from Feeder 2. Hold on Option when the app starts, click Choose Library and select the [Library].frlibrary file.
Self-Contained Feeds
- Feeds can now be exported in a self-contained format that preserves both the content and settings. To save a self-contained feed, choose File > Export from the menu and choose “Self-Contained Feed” from the File Format menu.
- To import a self-contained feed, double-click the file, or choose File > Import File from the menu and select the file, or drag it to the sidebar or app icon in the Dock.
Servers
- Servers window has new icons and toolbar and the list of servers can be made wider.
- The address of the server is now shown below the name in the list.
- List is now grouped into servers, blogs and ping services.
- Ping services can now be created and managed in the Services window instead of Preferences.
- The server browser now uses a separated style for the back / forward buttons.
Publishing
- Publishing progress is now shown in the Publish toolbar button for the selected feed.
- Click the Publish button while publishing to see detailed progress in a popover.
- Updated Blogger support to use OAuth. You will need to authorize your Blogger blogs again in the Servers window.
- Renamed weblogs to blogs throughout the app.
- Removed the ability to wake the computer to run scheduled jobs. Use Energy Saver System Preferences instead.
- Feeder can now run a script or Automator workflow after publishing a feed. For AppleScript, it will call the “on feedPublished” handler passing the feed’s URL as a parameter, or just run the script if it doesn’t have that handler. For Unix scripts, the first argument ($1) will be the feed URL. For Automator workflows, it will pass a “Feed URL” variable. Choose the script to run in the Publishing section in a feed’s Settings.
Preferences
- Editor preferences has been renamed to Fonts & Colors and other options moved to General preferences.
- Added Preview preferences for enabling / disabling JavaScript, plug-ins and Java, resetting the web cache (previously found in the Feeder menu) and setting how content should be zoomed (previously in the View menu).
- Publishing preferences now has an option to choose which computer should be used to publish scheduled feeds.
- In Template preferences, the “Save as Copy” menu has been renamed “Duplicate”.
- Added Advanced preferences for the setting to format XML files.
- Updated icons for preferences.
Podcasting
- Feeder now allows HTML links to be inserted in the iTunes Summary when editing items.
- The minimum size for podcast artwork has been adjusted to Apple’s latest specifications, which is now a minimum of 1400px and a recommended 3000px.
- To keep file sizes down, artwork embedded to audio files is set to the minimum size (1440px) and saved as JPEGs (these used to PNGs). Set the artwork before adding the media to Feeder to override this.
- iTunes Categories that have available subcategories must have at least one subcategory specified. It is no longer possible to just choose a parent category.
- Feeder will now show EPUB documents in the iTunes Store Preview.
General
- The New Feed panel shows descriptions of the selected template and uses new template icons.
- The main area of the window now shows different views for the feed itself, items and the feed’s settings.
- Changes to feeds edited manually in other apps will now be reflected in Feeder when the app is running.
- The Feed and Settings sections now have new icons.
- Moved Reorder Items to the Edit menu.
- Items must now always have Unique IDs (GUIDs), any that don’t will have them added automatically.
- File > Save As is now File > Export…
- New toolbar buttons.
- New application icon: the Feeder machine now uses fancy new screen technology.