Change of maintainer
Juri Pakaste is stepping aside as the maintainer of Straw. Jan Alonzo will take over the job.
Straw 0.25.1 released
Fix a regression in installations where ADNS available, now it works right again
Straw 0.25 released
Major speedups in feed parsing and feed information updating Show startup notification, show the main window earlier, make the startup faster Improved article view, also focusable again Updated translations Some more locale/encoding problems fixed Make sure pygtk is always initialized...
Straw 0.24 released
Remote OPML subscriptions for categories. Half-asynchronous subscribe process. Configuration and installation fixes. FeedParser 3.2 Notification area applet, displayed when there are unread items. Locale handling fixes. ...
Straw 0.23 released
Per-subscription settings for refresh frequency and number of articles stored UI improvements and bug fixes
Straw 0.22.1 released
Fixes in entity conversion and title slicing Don't check for the existence of mxDateTime in setup.py
Straw 0.22 released
Categories Drop mxDateTime dependency: you still need it the first time you run this version with an old db, but not after that: see README for information about the conversion and the dangers Authentication challenge in the subscription druid Various UI improvements ...
Straw 0.21.2 released
Proper installation of the schema (GConf) Feed information setting in GConf Dutch translation Various bug fixes and updated .no translation
Straw 0.21.1 released
Fix a bug in feed information display
Straw 0.21 released
Somewhat improved main window layout and keyboard navigation Context menu in the subscriptions list Feed properties dialog Refactored code ...
Straw 0.20 released
Atom support Reduced memory consumption Eliminated the worst freezes in the UI Switched completely over to Mark Pilgrim's FeedParser, no longer two separate parsers ...
Straw 0.19.2 released
Fixed bug that makes straw not quit properly Fixed HTML character entity conversion Strip HTML tags in feed description Minor Bugfixes
Straw 0.19.1 released
Bah, missed the online/offline images
Straw 0.19 released
We're alive! Show a warning dialog if the user tries to poll when offline Remember the positions of the panes in the main window Try to fix the item list column size problem a bit ...
Straw mailing lists
There are now two mailing lists for Straw: straw-devel for development discussions and straw-commits which gets all the CVS commit messages. See the Straw project page for details.
Straw 0.18.1 released
Oops. Forgot to include the online/offline images in 0.18. This time they are in the package. Honest.
Straw 0.18 released
Ability to import subscriptions in OPML format A list of default subscriptions (in OPML format) Autosize the item list columns so the Keep toggles won't drift to the right Fix the browse button in feed information...
Straw 0.17 released
Remove the bogus Referer option Items can be marked to be on hold, that is, non-expirable Make dialogs more dialogey: they are now transient and will be called to front when displayed The preferences dialog now...
Straw 0.16 released
Major delay in the release of 0.16 was caused by a nearly complete reworking of the network layer of Straw. The new release should be stabler and more responsive.
Please note ...
Straw 0.15 released
Fix a problem with web servers which don't support If-None-Match Create links to Creative Commons licenses Save more data from articles: Freshmeat stuff, Dublin Core creator, Creative Commons licenses Previous/Next now wrap around the feed list...
Straw 0.14 released
Internationalization support Preliminary Finnish translations Strip URLs to avoid broken links Fix find so it won't break after multiple searches with no hits Make the find dialog a real dialog which appears where mouse cursor is, and make the text...
Straw 0.13.2 released
Recognize RSS 0.9 namespace, fixes problems with at least mail-archive.com feeds Accept gzipped content Really disable the subscriptions / blogrolls menu item when there's nothing available
Straw now in Debian unstable
Straw is now in Debian unstable! apt-get install straw and no need to worry about dependencies any more. A big thanks to Ross.
Straw 0.13.1 released
0.13 introduced a small bug to handling of broken RSS, fix that
Straw 0.13 released
Fixes to db handling: checkpoint, destroy unneeded logfiles, put smaller limits to log size. Disk space usage should be better under control now. Remove the separate RSS URL field from subscribe tool, it's not needed - you can type the RSS url into the news site location field if you want. Accept url drags from browsers etc in the main window. Fix problems with extra whitespace here and there: just remove it...
Straw 0.12 released
Export subscriptions list as OPML Use ETag/If-None-Match HTTP headers to reduce bandwidth usage Fix character set problems Fix search regression Rename subscriptions/blogrolls browsing, only make it active on feeds that have one of them ...
Straw 0.11 released
Support for most of blogChannel module in the UI: see menu item Go/Subscriptions and blogrolls RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.9x/2.0 support are now equal. Straw now supports content:encoded, freshmeat namespace, blogChannel namespace, and some more of Dublin Core Convert UTF-8 entities to characters in item titles for the item list Don't show empty items ...
Straw 0.10.2 Released
Fix keyboard item navigation
Straw 0.10.1 Released
Less broken and more responsive search, search button in toolbar, read and display RSS 1.0 content:encoding, work around empty items in storage
Straw 0.10 Released
Incremental search for items, number of unread displayed in title bar, alphabetical sort for feeds.
Straw 0.9.4 Released
More DB fixes, some fixes to the adding of items to feeds, cosmetic UI fixes.
Straw 0.9.3 Released
Another fix for potential DB corruption
Straw 0.9.2 Released
Lots of little UI fixes, a DB corruption fix
Straw has moved
Straw's new home page is hosted at freesoftware.fsf.org. The news feed can be found here
Straw 0.9.1 Released
Quick-fix for a bug in preferences dialog.
Straw 0.9 Released
Straw 0.9 has been released. There are some notable UI improvements: a fancy subscriber tool, a channel information display and some sorely needed speed.
Straw 0.8 Released
Straw 0.8 has been released. It includes a more liberal RSS parser, RSS quality feedback, referer headers for RSS fetching, timeouting sockets, plus the obligatory bug fixes and small UI improvements.
Straw 0.7 Released
Straw 0.7 has been released. This version features local storage of items and images, some UI improvements and bug fixes.
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