Within days of 2.17 release, we got reports of two regressions. Users who set max-items (to limit the number of articles that Newsboat stores) found that no feeds are updated anymore. That was an unintended consequence of the “slight performance improvement” I mentioned in the previous entry; I thought Newsboat is doing useless work, when in fact that work was necessary for the max-items setting to function properly. The “improvement” was partially reverted to amend this. The second, ...
