3.2. First UI Interaction| newsboat.org
3.2. First UI Interaction| newsboat.org
3.2. First UI Interaction| newsboat.org
Since 2.19, Newsboat treated HTTP code 304 (Not Modified) as error, and retried the download up to the limit specified by `download-retries`. The default for that setting is 1, so no harm done, but if the user changed it, Newsboat turned into a request-spamming machine. Today’s release fixes that. We’re also making point releases for everything starting from 2.19 all the way up to the previous release, 2.36. If you can upgrade to 2.37, great. If you can't, please, please upgrade to the cl...| Newsboat
3.2. First UI Interaction| newsboat.org
3.2. First UI Interaction| newsboat.org
3.2. First UI Interaction| newsboat.org
It’s the end of June, and so we have another release! As usual of late, it’s rather small. The most noticeable addition is probably the new option, --export-to-opml2, which finally allows to export feed URLs along with their tags. There was also a bit of work on the existing facilities, like the behaviour of goto-feed operation and Newsboat’s support for enclosures in Mastodon feeds; please see the changelog for the full list. I (Alexander Batischev) was again pretty much absent from th...| Newsboat
Yet another small release. It was developed almost without my involvement: I lost all the mental energy towards the end of 2022, so Dennis van der Schagt and Lysander Trischler shouldered the burden. Kudos to them, and also the people who responded to questions on IRC and the mailing list! BTW, we could definitely use more help with, um, helping users. If you ever read more than a paragraph of Newsboat docs, you are definitely qualified! Please feel welcome to join #newsboat on Libera.Chat, s...| Newsboat
This release fixes build failure with curl 7.87. It only just came out, so this shouldn’t affect many people right now, but I decided to make a patch release anyway, because disros are bound to pick up 7.87 before the next Newsboat release. Please get the update from our site: the tarball and its signature, docs, and the changelog entry. P.S. I prepare this news feed by hand, and I messed up article GUIDs in the last update. Don't worry if your newsreader tells you the 2.29 release entry wa...| Newsboat
Another quarter passed, so another release is out! Just like the last few, it’s rather small, so I won’t bore you with a recap — simply read the changelog. The new version can be downloaded from our site: the tarball and its signature, docs, and the changelog entry.| Newsboat
All the release cycles of late have been fairly quiet, and this one is no exception. We fixed some bugs and made some minor tweaks, but that’s it. If you’re verifying our GPG signatures (as you should), please re-download our key as we bumped its expiry date. That’s it for now. As usual, you can get everyting from our site: the tarball and its signature, docs, and the changelog entry.| Newsboat
For once, the development cycle was so quiet that I can enumerate all the noteworthy changes in this release. They are: Ability to go back to previous set of search results. We’ve all been there: searched for something, then searched again with a more specific query, refined it once more, but then we made a typo or picked wrong words — and bam, the results we’re looking at aren’t what we wanted to see. Before 2.28, the only recourse was to start the process anew. With 2.28, all one h...| Newsboat
One more slow, quiet development cycle is past us. We’ve added just one new feature: ignore-article can now be applied to feeds that match a particular regular expression. This should help you DRY your configs, or improve performance if you were already doing something like feedurl =~ "https://example.com/feed/.*". Another highlight —a literal highlight— of this release are our manpages. We added some formatting (bold font and underlining) to make the settings and options easier to spot...| Newsboat
Here’s a tiny little New Years present for you! This development cycle was even quieter than the previous one. We added a new setting, confirm-mark-feed-read , to prevent users from accidentally marking an entire feed as read. Search results no longer show ignored articles (d’oh!) We’ve taken away ability to switch away from file- and dirbrowser, which closes an entire set of possible bugs. Happy holidays everyone, and a happy New Year! You can find the source code and everything else o...| Newsboat
The last three months felt pretty quiet, especially towards the end of the cycle, but we still got quite a few things done. The most noticeable of them is the UI change: the keymap hints at the bottom of the screen now use more colours and formatting, making the entire line easier to read. We also fixed three crashes and two performance regressions, so that’s good too. Not a groundbreaking release by any means, but it’s still worth upgrading I think :) You can find everything on our site:...| Newsboat
Another three months went by, so here's a new release! The pace we picked up last year slowly dissipates, so 2.24 is more like 2.23 than, say, 2.20. Still, this is a pretty interesting release: we added a way to document macros, implemented support for plaintext entries —you'll love this one if you read antirez' or YouTube's feeds!— and added support for FreshRSS. Plus a usual crop of bug fixes, of course. Check it out! You can find everything on our site: the tarball, its signature and d...| Newsboat
It’s this time of year again — time to update your Newsboats! While writing the changelog for this release, I got worried that we might not have enough user-visible changes, but those worries turned out to be unfounded. As we continue to overhaul Newsboat's internals, we somehow found the time to fix a couple bugs as well! Please take a look at the list and find your reason to upgrade there :) Everything is available on our site at the usual locations: the tarball, its signature and doc...| Newsboat
This little release fixes a couple regressions in 2.22: slow scrolling in the article list; segfaults if swap-title-and-hints is enabled; build failure on GCC 9 due to maybe-uninitialized warning which -Werror turns into an error. Sorry about those. Apparently our master branch doesn’t get enough testing, so if you can run a version built from Git and report problems early, please do! Download this release here: the tarball, its signature and docs, the changelog entry.| Newsboat
Another Christmas, another Newsboat release! Hope you're used to these by now, because we don't intend to stop shipping them :) You all deserve a present, and Newsboat 2.22 contains two! One, it finally learned to ask you for confirmation before marking all feeds as read. No more data loss! (But please make backups anyway.) Another, is a bugfix that should make the infamous "an instance is already running, PID 0" error go away. It's replaced by another error *sigh*, but that one is more desc...| Newsboat
Today is Newsboat’s third birthday, and it caught me by surprise. Mainly because our GPG key stopped working (it expired), but also because it doesn’t actually feel like three years to me. It feels way less than that. Three years is a lot of time, yet I didn’t manage to grok all the corners of the codebase. I also didn’t make any architectural changes (except for starting the Rust porting, perhaps — by the way, that effort has been going for two years now!). Even after three years o...| Newsboat
Newsboat 2.20 was our most broken release so far. It introduced four regressions: make install was broken on BSDs because we used a GNU-only flag; it unintentionally started requiring a space before the semicolon in macros; it could segfault upon startup under certain conditions; in Spanish locale, feeds couldn't be sorted via g and G keys. These are all fixed by this release, so please upgrade. We added more tests now, so the first two bugs won't happen again. But the other two can only be c...| Newsboat
Hey everyone, hope you’re all doing well. We didn’t set out to make it like that, but the new release is balanced in every way. There are as many visible changes as behind-the-scenes refactorings, and the visible changes are split evenly between bugfixes, improvements, and new features. I’m happy to report that, despite the current world situation, Newsboat’s development chugs along as usual. Download the tarball and its signature from our site, view the docs there, and check out the ...| Newsboat
Hope this release finds you in good health. Over the last few months, we squashed a truckload of bugs. In that regard this release can even rival our debut 2.10. So do look through the changelog; I bet you’ll find something that used to affect you ;) Download the tarball and its signature from our site, view the docs there, and check out the changelog entry over on GitHub. Stay safe, folks, and don't forget to wash your hands!| Newsboat
Your regularly scheduled Newsboat release is on the dot! Code-wise, this is a pretty uneventful one. Most of the work was related to upkeep — slight refactorings, fixes, tweaks to the infrastructure. But we did manage to squeeze a couple bugfixes in there, too: unbind-key -a no longer breaks command line, and Newsboat no longer ignores browser’s exit code when marking article as read. Perhaps the most user-visible change this time around is the logo. That’s right: a user by the name of...| Newsboat
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, ...| Newsboat
With this release, Newsboat gained a new feature: you can now save all the articles in the feed to text files, by invoking save-all operation (it’s not bound to any key by default). There’s also a few bug fixes, and even a slight performance improvement. The codebase is now 18.7% Rust (according to GitHub). I think we picked most of the low-hanging fruit by now. I expect the rewrite to progress more slowly from here on, as we need to untangle dependencies between sub-systems. Grab the rel...| Newsboat
We don’t have continuous integration for FreeBSD and/or i386, so we were absolutely oblivious to the fact that Newsboat couldn’t be built on those for over a month now. Luckily for us, Tobias Kortkamp already figured out the fixes, which we release now; thanks, mate! The very next thing I’m going to do is finally set up a CI for FreeBSD, and see if i386 can be added to Travis pipeline. I’m sorry about the mess and the noise, folks. Won’t make this particular mistake again. You can d...| Newsboat
Another quarter, another release! We fixed a couple of bugs, and got a few user-contributed colorschemes and scripts. But the bulk of the work is under the hood. Newsboat is now 13.4% Rust (by GitHub's count), which is almost double compared to the previous release. If we sustain the 6.5%-per-release momentum, the rewrite will be done in three and a half years—without any loss of functionality, but with a lot more bugs fixed. Download it from our site: the tarball, its signature, and the do...| Newsboat
It’s second-to-last weekend of March, so it’s time for a new release. Please welcome Newsboat 2.15! 2.14.1 was released just over a month ago, and stole many of the features meant for 2.15. As a result, this release is quite slim. The only new features are a way to shuffle a feed, and “delete all items” that now works in query feeds. The rest is the usual crop of bugfixes. The Rust rewrite is progressing slowly but steadily. This release could be bigger have I not chosen to hold off a...| Newsboat
The main purpose of this release is to fix a bug in 2.14 that prevented Newsboat from updating The Old Reader feeds. The rest of 2.14.1 are less critical bug fixes, and a couple of new features. Download it from our site: the tarball, its signature, and the docs, and the changelog is on GitHub.| Newsboat
For users, this should be “yet another release”: we fixed a few bugs, added a few new settings, and that’s about it. For package maintainers, this is an exceptional release because it adds a new dependency—Rust. As was mentioned in earlier release notes, please contact us via our issue tracker, mailing list (newsboat@googlegroups.com), or IRC channel (#newsboat on Freenode) if you run into any problems with building and/or packaging Newsboat. We’d like to fix as many of those proble...| Newsboat
The 2.13 release is special in two ways. First of all, it marks an anniversary: exactly a year ago, we forked from Newsbeuter to bring the program back into shape. We partially succeeded: many bugs were fixed, a number of rough corners were smoothed, and the atmosphere around the project improved noticeably. Second, this release is going to be the last purely-C++ one. As I explain in #89, I believe that C++ is a death by a thousand cuts for this project. This discourages me from working on it...| Newsboat
Please welcome Newsboat 2.12! The bulk of the release is bugfixes, mostly contributed by you guys—thank you! There are also a few little nice features, so do peruse the changelog. As always, you can find the tarball and its signature on our server. Happy newsreading, everyone!| Newsboat
The tarball for 2.11 contained an error that made newsboat --version report a wrong version number. This has been spotted by a few users and packagers, and is now fixed. Other than that, 2.11.1 contains no functional changes. The tarball and its signature are in their usual places. Once again, sorry about all the noise and messups, —Alex.| Newsboat
The new release is on the dot! Three-month cadence works great so far, so I plan to stick to it. This release contains less new stuff than the previous one, but I still decided to bump the minor version because we have new features. Should’ve done this with 2.10.2 too, but oh well—what’s done is done. As usual, the tarball and its signature can be found on our server, and the full changelog is on GitHub. Happy newsreading! Addendum: I messed up during the release process and pushed a Gi...| Newsboat
Mere three months after our previous release, I present to you Newsboat 2.10.2! As you can tell, this is a minor release, but it still includes nice things like support for Inoreader, correct wrapping for CJK languages, and a translation to Slovak. As usual, the tarball and its signature can be found on our server, and the full changelog is on GitHub. Merry Christmas and happy New Year!| Newsboat
As Russian saying goes, “the first pancake is always lumpy”. Newsboat 2.10 was released rather hastily and was just a tad undertested and underbaked. Newsboat 2.10.1 amends this by: documentating automatic migration that was added in 2.10; and fixing a bug where $XDG_DATA_DIR/newsboat wasn’t created for first-time users, resulting in cache lock failure. Please grab the tarball (signature) and tell us what you think! With my best regards, —Alex| Newsboat
3. First Steps| newsboat.org
Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.| newsboat.org
3.2. First UI Interaction| newsboat.org