0.9.1 to 1.0.0 - April 8, 2008 (working on section)

• Features:
• Auto-discovery of feeds when browsing web sites inside Snarfer.
• Improved discovery of feed icons for display in the folder tree.
• Ability to open new tabs in the background.
• Create watch folders or search for items by tag, title, and author.
• Sort messages in aggregated folder views.
• Detect duplicate message across multiple feed sources.
• Mini toolbar in message view for quick access to right-click functions.
• Open a new empty browser window from the tab right-click menu.
• Easily start Google searches with the new Google Search plugin.
  
  
• Technical Improvements:
• Added support for SSL pass-through (secure HTTPS connections through a proxy).
• Added support for period-separated date formats.
• Added support for Google's original-id and unknown-author extensions in Atom feeds.
• Added support for the Microsoft cf:type attribute in RSS feeds.
• Added basic support for the content:items extension in RSS feeds.
• Added support for favicons that are bitmaps and other format deviations.
• Added support for the source element in RSS.
• Better duplicate detection across feeds and in feeds that don't have guids.
• Added support for more embedded video sites.
• Messages are now only marked as updated if they have previously been read.
• Added support for RSS channel link elements that aren't absolute URIs.
• Improved handling of unread counters in the event of minor database corruption.
• The local search plugin can now search a single feed or folder tree.
• The URL of the default tab web page is no longer fixed.
• Added a number of improvements to the plugin API.
  
  
• Bug Fixes:
• HTTP decompression could sometimes cause 100% CPU usage.
• HTTP digest authorization could fail when using a secure proxy.
• Chunked HTTP responses with a missing zero terminator could cause feeds to fail.
• Connections that bypassed the proxy were incorrectly setting proxy headers.
• HTTP 1.0 should only be used for SSL pass-through proxy connections.
• URIs with escaped character sequences should only be unescaped when valid utf-8.
• URIs consisting solely of fragments were failing to convert to IRIs.
• With the preview pane disabled, opening the original article from the message menu wouldn't open in a new tab when it should have.
• It was possible for the icon cache to end up with duplicate icons.
• An atom:content element with a src attribute but no type would cause a GP.
• Following a blank link in an article would blank out the preview window with no way to return.
• Fixed a GP that could occur as a result of database corruption in the folder structure.
• Under certain conditions the setup might fail to update some files, resulting in the application crashing later.
• Some HTTPS feeds could fail if their encrypted secret was too large.

     0.9.0 to 0.9.1 - October 27, 2007

• Technical Improvements:
• Added a registry option so that a single click could be used to restore Snarfer from the system tray.
• Feeds requiring NTLM authentication will now use default credentials if the username and password are left blank.
• Added support for more embedded video sites.
• The Escape key can now be used to close the local search dialog.
• Added basic support for external content in atom feeds.
• Improvements have been made to the XML parser to help deal with malformed feeds.
• The maximum number of archived messages retrieved can now be set from the feed settings dialog.
• Added an option to retrieve archived messages by default when importing feeds.
• Archive feeds now also work with the new next-archive and prev-archive links from RFC5005.
  
  
• Bug Fixes:
• Opening Snarfer from the system tray could sometimes open another application at the same time.
• Opening a link in an external browser window would sometimes cause two browsers to launch.
• Open a new tab from a popup window could cause Snarfer to go into a loop opening tabs over and over again.
• Under certain conditions the preview window would keep refreshing every time the application was focused.
• The feed parser could sometimes crash when attempting to autodetect a feed on a malformed HTML page.
• GoogleLogin authentication wasn't working with all services (for example Google Calendar feeds).
• The various search plugins would sometimes not work with queries containing international characters or hashes.
• When clicking on a tab with the middle mouse button, the tab should have been closed.
• Context menu plugins weren't working from within a popup window.
• Pressing escape in a multiline edit control would cause a wizard to finish rather than cancel.
• After temporarily using Snarfer on a second monitor, the next time it was used with a single monitor it would load offscreen.
• A number of text fields and buttons were not being resized appropriately for foreign language packs.

     0.8.3 to 0.9.0 - August 23, 2007

• Features:
• Added support for secure feeds (HTTPS).
• Added a plugin to support the Outbrain rating system.
• Integrated with the Pageflakes personalized start page.
• Improved the internal browser tab implementation.
• Added support for private Blogger feeds (GoogleLogin authentication).
• Added support for more embedded video sites.
• Improved the startup time for large databases.
• Added support for resizing web page text (with Ctrl + and Ctrl -).
• Added Ctrl+W as a hotkey for closing tabs.
• Updated the Craigslist plugin with all the latest categories.
• Added the ability to uninstall plugins that are not being used.
  
  
• Technical Improvements:
• Newly added feeds now take precedence over existing feeds making the UI more responsive.
• The database is now stored in the local profile directory (fresh installs only).
• Added a fix for double-encoded author names in Atom feeds.
• Added a fix for double-encoded categories in RSS feeds.
• Added a check for broken URLs associated with Atom authors.
• Added support for more date formats in both RSS and Atom feeds.
• Added better support for RTL content when the current language is LTR.
• Selecting all items in a large list is now much faster.
• Improved duplicate detection for feed items that have no permalink.
• Added support for the new OPML2 namespace when importing from OPML files.
• Added a fix for US-ASCII feeds containing Windows-1252 characters.
• The "Refresh" toolbar button is now supported on the root folder as "Refresh All".
  
  
• Bug Fixes:
• Message dialogs with multiple lines of text were not fully displayed in certain languages.
• Feeds that were permanently redirected would lose their authentication details.
• IE compatibility rendering (support for Q elements) stopped working.
• RDF feeds whose first child element was not "rss" wouldn't be recognized.
• Opening a link from the message list shouldn't transfer focus to the preview window unless the link is opened inline.
• The title font in various wizard dialogs was incorrect.
• Importing a folder with the same name as an existing feed could cause Snarfer to crash.
• The message list would sometimes flicker excessively when new messages were received.
• Certain IRIs were interpreted incorrectly on Windows Vista.
• The folder right-click menu was missing the "Refresh" menu item.
• Plugins, language packs and stylesheets weren't installing properly on Vista when UAC was enabled.
• Installing Snarfer on Vista from a non-administrator account didn't work properly.
• The font list in the Options dialog didn't have a scroll bar.
• Some minor memory leaks have been fixed.
• Feeds with constantly changing titles could cause Snarfer to hit 100% CPU usage after a while.
• Attempting to upgrade Snarfer with internal browser windows popped up could cause the application to crash.
• Improved database reliability.

     0.8.0 to 0.8.3 - May 8, 2007

• Features:
• Added an option to close to the system tray instead of exiting (on by default).
• The font and font size used in the message view can now be set from the Options dialog.
• Added the ability to close tabs with the middle mouse button.
• Added more search options to the Craigslist and eBay plugins.
• Authors with email addresses or web pages are now displayed as clickable links in the message view.
• Added the ability to launch a custom browser application (with a registry entry).
• Added a keyboard shortcut for viewing the original article (Enter).
  
  
• Technical Improvements:
• Relative URIs in RSS link elements are now supported.
• Updated the Craigslist city list.
• Improved RSS author field parsing.
• List and tree controls now use the Windows Vista look-and-feel.
• Added support for European and Australian time zones in RSS dates.
• Improved SGML support in the HTML parser.
• Added support for iTunes and Yahoo! media extensions in RSS feeds.
• Importing OPML files from GreatNews has been improved.
• Message styles now take effect immediately once installed.
  
  
• Bug Fixes:
• International character sets weren't decoding properly on Windows Vista.
• The default browser wasn't correctly detected on Windows Vista.
• Ctrl-clicking a link didn't work when links were set to open in a new window by default.
• Duplicate detection for feeds didn't take authentication details into account.
• Unread counts on disabled feeds were not displayed in grey as they should have been.
• Restoring Snarfer from the system tray would cause it to unmaximize.
• Google blog search and MSN search weren't sorting by date.
• Resuming from sleep or hibernate now automatically refreshes feeds if necessary.
• Authenticated web pages would just fail instead of asking for a password.
• Web pages with Java applications didn't work.
• Pages with javascript would fail if a previously viewed page had a javascript error.
• The repair dialog wasn't fully localized.

     0.7.0 to 0.8.0 - February 26, 2007

• Features:
• Added newspaper view for reading multiple messages on a single page.
• Selecting a folder now shows messages from all the feeds contained in that folder.
• Added support for embedded videos from sites like YouTube.
• Improved plugin system with more plugins to be released soon.
• The system tray icon now shows the total unread message count.
• Added new toolbar buttons as well as the ability to customize the toolbar.
• Option to view messages in reverse order (from oldest to newest).
• Added a proxy bypass list for accessing feeds inside a firewall.
• Improved duplicate detection system to deal with deleted items.
• Database location now configurable via a registry setting.
• Retrieval of archived items from a multi-page feed is now optional.
  
  
• Technical Improvements:
• Language packs are now automatically selected after installation.
• Improved support for ideographic languages in local searches and filters.
• RSS guids with invalid schemes for permalinks are now ignored.
• System tray icon now automatically reset after a Windows explorer crash.
• Improved atom:source support.
• Improved feed autodiscovery when subscribing to a web page URL.
• Improved parsing of malformed XML.
• Improved parsing of malformed dates.
• Improved socket timeout code.
• Added support for RSS feeds with non-standard namespaces.
• Added support for dc:source elements in RSS feeds.
• Added support for rdf:about attributes in RSS feeds.
• Added a workaround for Lotus Notes Email to support international characters.
  
  
• Bug Fixes:
• Blank item links in RSS feeds were being interpreted as the channel link.
• Illegal characters in message content could result in a message not being displayed.
• Sometime language packs might not install fully as a result of a gzip decoder bug.
• Feeds starting with an XML processing instruction could not be read.
• Multi-page feeds weren't stopping after reaching their configured message limit.
• Atom feeds with multiple content elements would sometimes not display correctly.
• The preview window was being refreshed unnecessarily when a feed updated.
• It was possible for the XML parser to crash if directed to parse a malicious feed.
• Sometimes flash objects on a webpage would stop responding to mouse clicks.
• Craigslist results were being displayed in the wrong order.
• HTML markup with too much consecutive whitespace would not render properly.
• The XML parser had problems with comments inside text content.
• Added support for astral character entities in HTML markup.
• Unterminated HTML entities weren't always parsed correctly.
• OPML files containing markup weren't always unescaped correctly.

     0.6.0 to 0.7.0 - November 20, 2006

• Major Features:
• Added support for tabbed browsing.
• Added option to view only unread messages in a feed.
• Unread message counts in the folder tree now include subfolders and feeds.
• Mark All Read on a folder now also applies to subfolders and feeds.
• When creating a new Keyword Watch the search can now be applied to existing messages too.
  
  
• Minor Features:
• Improved support for Windows XP themes.
• Added the ability to maximize the preview window.
• Added Technorati to the list of search engines supported by the Web Search plugin.
• Mouse-wheel scrolling now affects whichever pane is under the mouse.
• When creating a new feed you can now override the number of messages kept by default.
  
  
• Technical Improvements:
• Improved support for right-to-left localizations in the user-interface.
• Right-to-left content is now automatically detected and rendered with the correct orientation.
• Mark as Read operations have been sped up significantly.
• Added emulation support for HTML Q elements.
• Improved support for HTTP cache control header responses.
• Language pack installations no longer require a restart for the new language to be accessible.
• The number of messages kept now defaults to 200 per feed to prevent messages accumulating indefinitely.
• The setup will shutdown any old versions that may be running before attempting to upgrade.
  
  
• Bug Fixes:
• Subscribing to feeds from Firefox 2.0 wasn't working correctly.
• The Add More Feeds menu should have been disabled when the OPML plugin was not installed.
• Media-type parameters weren't previously supported in Atom type attributes.
• Mark as Read was sometimes disabled when right clicking on a feed.
• The system tray menu should have closed automatically if it lost focus.
• The system tray icon sometimes failed to show that new messages had arrived.
• Sorting on the Tags column could sometimes crash if there were too many messages in a feed.
• Socket connections would sometimes fail on non-persistent redirects.
• Unexpected XML elements embedded in plain text content no longer fail.
• Hotkeys for copying, pasting and searching are now working in the preview window.
• The default folder selected when creating a feed was not always correct.

     0.4.0 to 0.5.0 - July 12, 2006

• Major Features:
• Added a plugin that monitors search results on eBay.
• Added a plugin for searching Craigslist across multiple cities.
• Added a plugin for emailing articles to a friend.
• The OPML export plugin now allows you to email the feeds you have just exported.
• Added a search toolbar for easy access to any of the installed search plugins.
• The database has been improved to make it more resistant to damage that might result from a system crash.
• The database will also now detect when the system has not been shutdown safely and will attempt to repair any errors.
  
  
• Minor Features:
• It is now possible to setup default values for the refresh interval and the number of messages kept for a feed.
• Feeds can now also be setup to refresh manually (by selecting "Refresh" from their right click menu, or "Refresh All" from the root folder).
• You can now specify that the old messages in a feeds should never be kept (the feed will only show messages that are currently listed on the server).
• Added a right click menu to the message view window for easy access to the main message functions including the new Email option.
• Added support for Forward and Back mouse buttons.
  
  
• Technical Improvements:
• New improved duplicate detection algorithm for feeds.
• Added support for CSS style attributes in the HTML parser.
• Added support for backquote attribute quoting in the HTML parser.
• Added emulation of the ABBR element to the HTML parser.
• Added Bloglines Search to the list of search engines supported by the Web Search plugin.
• Results from a Web Search can now be deleted with less chance of them returning again later.
• When importing or exporting OPML files a .opml extension is now automatically added to filenames if missing.
• The XML parser is now better at recovering from unescaped ampersands.
  
  
• Bug Fixes:
• Fixed a bug that could cause problems with certain type of flash objects when viewing web pages internally.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented javascript links from working when viewing web pages internally.
• Fixed a bug that could cause other links to open internally when the options specified that only the Original Article should be.
• Certain types of HTML tags were being incorrectly parsed when they contained no content.
• Not all forms of scripting were being filtered out by the HTML parser.
• Marking all items as read failed to reset the "unread items" flag in the system tray.
• If Windows was shutdown while Snarfer was still running it was possible that it would not have been closed correctly.
• If Windows took to long to start up it was possible that Snarfer would not appear in the system tray even though it was running.
• Fixed a bug in the Local Search plugin that could crash if the search window was closed while it was still searching.
• Certain characters may not have worked correctly if used in a query in the Web Search plugin.

     0.3.0 to 0.4.0 - May 16, 2006

• Major Features:
• Added a plugin that enables the creation of persistent search feeds using popular search engines.
• Added an option to automatically delete old messages from a feed.
  
  
• Minor Features:
• The folder tree can now be hidden to allow more reading space.
• You can configure a notification sound to play whenever new messages have arrived.
• You can choose whether (and when) Snarfer will show up in the system tray.
• There is now an option to display alternating colors in the message list.
• The delay for automatically marking an item as read can now be set in the Options dialog.
  
  
• Technical Improvements:
• Added support for the Expires HTTP header.
• Atom now supports full URI link relations.
• Unexpected markup no longer causes the element's contents to be ignored.
• The XML parser now supports numeric entity references for astral characters.
• Unwanted whitespace is trimmed from URLs when initializing from the clipboard.
• Unexpected mailto parameters are now trimmed from email addresses.
  
  
• Bugs Fixes:
• Keyword accelerators were conflicting with edit controls when viewing webpages in the preview window.
• Links containing International Domain Names would sometimes fail to open.
• Feeds using multibyte encodings would sometimes drop characters.
• Messages were being ordered incorrectly when copying from a feed into another folder.
• dc:contributor elements in RSS were being incorrectly interpreted as authors.

     0.2.0 to 0.3.0 - April 6, 2006

• Major Features:
• Added support for copying messages between feeds and folders by dragging or cut and paste.
• Added more details to the feed properties dialog including the ability to set the refresh frequency.
• OPML export now allows you to select which feeds to include in the export.
• OPML import now allows you to select a specific folder into which feeds will be imported.
• Added basic support for list feeds (Microsoft Simple List Extensions).
• Added support for multi-paged Atom feeds.
• Added support for binary content in Atom feeds (currently only images).
  
  
• Minor Features:
• When creating a new feed, the URL field is now automatically filled in from the clipboard.
• There is now an indication on the status bar to show when there is network activity.
• Right click on the root of the Message Folders tree now includes menu items to expand or collapse the folder tree.
• Right click on the root of the Message Folders tree also includes a menu item to refresh all feeds.
• Message URLs can be copied to the clipboard by right clicking on an item in the message list and selecting Copy.
• It's now possible to change the default font in the message view via a registry entry.
• It's also possible to change the look of the toolbar by providing a custom toolbar bitmap.
  
  
• Technical Improvements:
• Database table locking is now done less frequently for improved performance.
• Processing of content modes has been altered to accommodate broken 0.3 Atom feeds.
• Added support for RFC822 military time zones.
• Added support for alternate alphabets in Base64 decoding.
• Added support for supplementary planes in international URLs.
• Parsing of RFC850 email addresses has been improved.
• Whitespace parsing in HTML content has been improved.
• Sorting on Tag and Author columns has been optimized.
• Search results are now shown with most recent first (although still sorted by folder).
• When launched automatically at Windows startup, Snarfer now starts minimized.
• Confirmation dialogs now provide a checkbox to indicate that further confirmation requests should be suppressed.
• Contributor authors are now displayed in the message header.
• Messages with no author will now omit the Author field entirely from the message header.
• The default Mark As Read delay has changed from 1 to 4 seconds.
  
  
• Bugs Fixes:
• When importing from OPML, if a folder already exists the two are merged rather than creating a duplicate.
• When updating a message, existing content should only be overwritten if the new content has a more recent date.
• Mixed feed- and entry-level authors in an Atom feed are now handled correctly.
• Fixed error which could occur if a connection was lost during a feed retrieval.
• Proxy changes in the Options dialog weren't always saved.
• Fixed handling of undeclared entity references in the XML parser.
• Script errors are now suppressed in the HTML viewer.
• Escaping of URL reserved characters has been improved.
• Handling of whitespace in RSS link elements has been improved.

     0.1.0 to 0.2.0 - February 6, 2006

• Major Features:
• Added a plugin with basic search capabilities.
• Added support for HTTP proxies with authentication and automatic configuration.
• Added a basic feed properties dialog so feed URL and authentication information can be edited.
• Added a basic options dialog for configuring proxy information and various UI options.
  
  
• Minor Features:
• Right-click menu on the root folder now has an option to mark all messages in the database as read.
• The icon in the system tray now changes to show when new messages have arrived.
• Atom and RSS enclosures are now exposed as an "attachment" link at the bottom of an article.
• Hovering over a link in an article now displays the link URL in the status bar.
• New hotkeys have been added for quick navigation: [space] for next article, [shift]+[space] for previous article.
• Right click on an article in the message list now has a menu option for viewing the original article web page.
• There is now an option to auto-start Snarfer when the OS is started.
  
  
• Technical Improvements:
• Added support for authors and contributors in atom:source elements.
• Added support for dublin core contributors in RSS feeds.
• Added support for malformed ISO8601 dates (missing 'T' separator).
• Added support for SGML CDATA sections in HTML.
• Added support for foreign markup inside XHTML.
• Updated messages now shown in italics in addition to being colored blue.
• Better support for International Resource Identifiers:
  - International characters in paths and queries are better supported.
  - URIs are converted to IRIs when subscribing and importing from OPML.
  - IRIs are converted to URIs when exporting and HTML rendering.
• Faster read-message marking on single messages.
• Better USM support when the atom:link attributes aren't correctly set.
• The feed link is now used as a base URI when RSS content contains relative references.
• Error recovery is now attempted for missing close tags and broken entities in the XML parser.
• Auto-disable on a feed is now only activated when a server returns a 410 response.
  
  
• Bugs Fixes:
• Atom feed-level authors were lost when an entry contained unknown elements.
• Media types containing parameters weren't being recognized during auto discovery.
• Redirects and Content-Location headers are now used when available for base URIs.
• Documents embedded in a web page (PDF, Word, etc) would sometimes prevent the HTML control from being updated.
• Same document references in (X)HTML content are now handled correctly.
• HTTP authentication could sometimes fail on servers with multiple auth types.
• Unread message counts could sometimes get out of sync when two feeds shared messages with the same id.
• Refresh menu wasn't being disabled when a feed was disabled.
• Some feed menu items weren't being refreshed correctly when a feed changed status.
• The feed description/subtitle was being used as a source name when it should have been the feed title.