RSS Guard 4.5.0

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 4.5.0 changelog:

Added

List of article filters assigned to feed is now visible in feed details pane. (#1045)
Right-to-left optional layout for feeds/articles. You can switch this in each feed properties.
Gmail: Labels are now fetched from the service too and they are synchronizable.
New feature called "regex queries" allowing users to have (persistent) regular expression based article list filters. See your feed list for "Regex queries" item and right click to add one.
"reader mode" feature now uses skin-based format & colors.
All features which generate random colors now use better HSV-based algorithm.
Added application-wide and feed-wide ability to limit articles based on article date/time. This can be changed in application settings in "Feed fetching" section and in feed properties dialog in "Articles" section.
JavaScript code of article filters now has syntax highlighting.
Use non-standard "url" element as fallback for article URLs in RSS format.
Percentages of localization progres for each translation is now shown in "Localization" settings section.
"clang-format" updated.
User CSS styles can now be supplied via file /web/user-styles.css.
When fetching metadata during OPML import, there is now option to NOT fetch icons. (#1009)

Fixed

Icons in feed list are now correctly vertically centered. (#999)
Fixes related to word-wrap of long texts in article list and feed details pane. (#1033)
Multi-column sorting is now correctly persistent. (#1039)
Fixed a problem where article filters are sometimes not applied correctly when feed is fetched.
Skin's pallete (dark) are now applied depending on slightly enhanced logic.
Skin's custom colors are now applied depending on slightly enhanced logic.
HTTP redirection was not working sometimes, breaking some feeds.
Docs updated.
Feedly: Fix errors when some feeds did not have titles.
Almost all localizations refreshed.
Fixed multiple crashes.
Correctly show numeric badge on Windows if RSS Guard starts in tray/minimized mode.