RSS Guard 4.2.4

RSS Guard

RSS Guard is a simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM. It's free, it's open-source. RSS Guard currently supports Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian. RSS Guard will never depend on other services - this includes online news aggregators like Feedly, The Old Reader and others.

RSS Guard is developed on top of the Qt library and it supports these operating systems:

Windows
GNU/Linux
OS/2 (eComStation)
Mac OS X
xBSD (possibly)
Android (possibly)
other platforms supported by Qt

The core features of RSS Guard are:

support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0).
multiplatform,
support for all feed formats,
simplicity,
import/export of feeds to/from OPML 2.0,
downloader with own tab and support for up to 6 parallel downloads,
message filter with regular expressions,
feed metadata fetching including icons,
simple Adblock functionality,
customized popup notifications,
Google-based auto-completion for internal web browser location bar,
ability to cleanup internal message database with various options,
enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals,
multiple data backend support,
SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
MySQL.
is able to specify target database by its name (MySQL backend),
“portable” mode support with clever auto-detection,
feed categorization,
drap-n-drop for feed list,
automatic checking for updates,
ability to discover existing feeds on websites,
full support of podcasts (both RSS & ATOM),
ability to backup/restore database or settings,
fully-featured recycle bin,
printing of messages and any web pages,
can be fully controlled via keyboard,
feed authentication (Digest-MD5, BASIC, NTLM-2),
handles tons of messages & feeds,
sweet look & feel,
fully adjustable toolbars (changeable buttons and style),
ability to check for updates on all platforms + self-updating on Windows,
hideable main menu, toolbars and list headers,
KFeanza-based default icon theme + ability to create your own icon themes,
fully skinnable user interface + ability to create your own skins,
“newspaper” view,
plenty of skins,
support for "feed://" URI scheme,
ability to hide list of feeds/categories,
open-source development model based on GNU GPL license, version 3,
tabbed interface,
integrated web browser with adjustable behavior + external browser support,
internal web browser mouse gestures support,
desktop integration via tray icon,
localizations to some languages,
Qt library is the only dependency,
open-source development model and friendly author waiting for your feedback,
no ads, no hidden costs.

RSS Guard 4.2.4 changelog:

Added

Intelligent and network-usage-friendly two-way article synchronization is now supported in TT-RSS plugin too. Note that "api_newsplus" plugin must be installed on your TT-RSS instance. (#339)
Mac OS X release of RSS Guard now supports "arm64 Apple Silicon" architecture. (#758)
Google Reader API plugin now supports Miniflux. (#780)
Full-blown drag/drop feed/category reordering/sorting. Behavior is different depending on whether "alphabetic sorting" is enabled or not. (f63af3a)
Windows and Linux official packages now use Qt 6.3.1 or newer. Qt 5.15 is still supported, though.

Fixed

Handling of CLI parameters was improved in several places throughout the app. This fixes calling external browsers etc. (#748)
Tray icon sometimes reported wrong number of new/unread articles. (#754)
App should handle pinned shortcuts on Windows better and allow it to re-open existing main window of running RSS Guard instance. (#773)
App sometimes generated empty OPML files. (#774)
Columns in article list were sometimes wrongly reset to default state. (#778)
Fixed icon validation for Flatpak release. (#782)
Skin "nudux-*" was improved. (#783)
Feeds sorting mode/order is now correctly persistent in all cases. (#784)
Handling of images in non-webengine article viewer is now better. (#785)
Better MinGW compatibility when compilling RSS Guard.
Translations synced.
Updated docs.
Specific error strings are now propagated to feed's tooltips properly so user can see specific error messages for feeds.
Article content layout is now greatly improved as content is automagically converted to HTML when displayed.
Better date/time handling of incoming e-mails in Gmail plugin.