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Bug: Endless TinyTinyRSS Updates
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 12. May 2013 - 0:35.If you experience not ending TinyTinyRSS feed updates or high load when using TinyTinyRSS subscriptions please upgrade to the newest releases 1.8.13 and 1.10-RC2 which solve this bug.
Google Reader Shutting Down
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 19. March 2013 - 0:23.As it was covered widely in media most of you probably have heard that Google is shutting down Google Reader after 1st July 2013.
Will the Google Reader data be lost?
No. As it is implemented now once Google Reader is not available Liferea will present you only a Google Reader feed list element without a subscriptions subtree. This can happen when you have no network connectivity for example. The subscriptions are only displayed after a successful Google account login. Even when the subscription list is not shown Liferea will still have all data in the local sqlite database, so no headlines will be lost.
To allow everyone to still access the items a code change is needed. With this it will be possible to access the old headlines from the local cache DB even after the shutdown so you loose nothing. I hope to find time to work on this in the next weeks.
Any Migration Suggestions?
Well the best choice is for sure self-hosting a TinyTinyRSS instance. Since the shutdown announcement there also seems to be a huge move to Feedly, but be aware that this is the same vendor-lock as Google was! Remember the API shutdown of Bloglines more than two years ago?
First Liferea 1.10 Release Candidate!
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 30. January 2013 - 19:41.Today sees the first release candidate for the new 1.10 series. Compared to the previous unstable release 1.9.7 it now provides a clean migration to GSettings, fixed support for TinyTinyRSS 1.6 and an improved player plugin.
Please help testing this release to get out 1.10!
The detailed changes:
* Patch SF #3407290: Migrate to GSettings
(by Mikel Olasagasti)
* Patch SF #3579177: Change .desktop category to News;Feed;
(by Stanislav Brabec)
* Fix for Debian #668197: x-www-browser preference not working
(David Smith)
* Added slider and time display to media player plugin.
* Added Google Plus to social bookmarking options.
* Removing deprecated g_thread_init() call
* Auto-enable plugins on migration
* Added missing -a option to manpage
* Updated manpage to reflect XDG path migration
* Changing GSettings path from /apps/liferea to /org/gnome/liferea
* Changes default download thread concurrency from 2 to 3
* Fixes regression about using the GNOME default font
* Improves all item/link launching menus to consistently provide
three options: Tab, Browser and External Browser
* Fixes SF #1037: Incorrect notifications for Google Reader
(patch by David Smith)
* Fixes SF #1048: Removed all feedvalidator.org references from FAQ
and XSLT as it was reported to host malware.
(reported by bkat)
* Fixes SF #1041: Some GPLv2 license headers were outdated
(reported by Emmanuel Seyman)
* Fixes SF #1044: tt-rss API changed (we now support only 1.6 API)
(patch by Sebastian Noel)
* Fixes assertion when creating new tt-rss subscriptions
* Fixes XHTML errors caused by extra tags returned by tt-rss
* Fixes missing item list update when browsing item URLs in Liferea
Liferea SOCKS Proxy Workaround
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 19. January 2013 - 23:59.Liferea right now doesn't support SOCKS proxies. In Debian bug #272178 David Smith hints on how to workaround this. Full quote:
Just some information for people wanting to use Liferea with SOCKS.
I'd strongly recommend that you install the package redsocks. I've found that this works perfectly, not only for liferea, but for *ALL* other applications whether they support SOCKS or not, to tunnel all their traffic through a SOCKS (or SSH Tunnel) server.
It is no longer necessary, today, to build SOCKS support into every network application, even if you *MUST* use SOCKS. For this reason, it's unlikely liferea will ever get SOCKS support. There's just no reason for it.
I've just completed testing of liferea + redsocks through a SOCK5 connection created inside an SSH tunnel and it works just fine. I used the guide available here: http://dtbaker.com.au/random-bits/redirect-all-traffic-through-transparent-socks5-proxy-in-linux.html
Thanks for your time.
Liferea 1.8.12 Released
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 4. January 2013 - 19:39.This is a new maintenance release of the 1.8 branch. This release makes Liferea compatible to the changes in the TinyTinyRSS 1.6 API. If you are using TinyTinyRSS please upgrade!
Here are the changes:
* Fixes SF #1041: Some GPLv2 license headers were outdated (reported by Emmanuel Seyman) * Fixes SF #1044: tt-rss API changed (we now support only 1.6 API) (patch by Sebastian Noel) * Fixes XHTML errors caused by extra tags from tt-rss * Update of German translation
Grab the newest release from http://lzone.de/liferea/.
TinyTinyRSS API Compatibility Restored
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 4. January 2013 - 0:44.Syncing Liferea against the TinyTinyRSS news aggregator broke with the release of version 0.6 of TinyTinyRSS because of API cleanups. Thanks to a patch from Sebastian Noel it is now possible to sync to all version from TinyTinyRSS 1.5.3 to most recent 1.6.2.
The fix was released with Liferea 1.8.12. Please upgrade!
Don't Use the Feedvalidator.org Link Anymore!
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 2. January 2013 - 19:15.Current Liferea versions up to 1.8.11 do provide a link to feedvalidator.org upon feed parsing errors. The idea is for end-users to be able to verify correctness/well-formedness of the feed formats as provided by different websites/blogs.
While Sam Ruby's feedvalidator.org (from my point of view) did always provide a correct analysis of the feeds it was recently reported to deliver malware. It might be that the malware detection by Google is bogus (see current Google report showing 5 malicious pages on 29.12.2012), but to eliminate this error class altogether I decided to drop the link.
Until you upgrade to a newer version of Liferea: Please do not use the feed validation link!
Liferea 1.8.11 Released
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 24. December 2012 - 15:14.This is a new bugfix release. It fixes a problem with the browser preferences and a Google Reader notification issue. It removed feedvalidator.org support because of a malware alert. Finally it provides an Hebrew and German translation update. Please upgrade!
Grab the newest release from http://lzone.de/liferea/.
The detailed changes:
Version 1.8.11
Please note that due to the SourceForge upgrade bug ticket numbering
did change. This might be confusing... Old numbers are 7 figures,
newer ones only 4!
* Added Google Plus to social bookmarking options.
* Fix for Debian #668197: x-www-browser preference not working
(David Smith)
* Updated Hebrew translation (Genghis Khan, Yaron Sheffer)
* Fixes SF #1037: Incorrect notifications for Google Reader
(patch by David Smith)
* Fixes SF #1048: Removed all feedvalidator.org references from FAQ
and XSLT as it was reported to host malware.
(reported by bkat)
Liferea Release Tarballs now BZip2!
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 14. December 2012 - 12:52.Dear Liferea package maintainers!
Please note that the release tarballs are now provided as BZip2 tarballs only.
Liferea SF Project Migration -> Repo Changes
Submitted by Lars Windolf on 5. December 2012 - 1:15.I today performed the more or less mandatory project migration for the Liferea Sourceforge project account. While most of the changes are project site changes it also caused a change of the git repo URL!
New repository checkout command is
git clone ssh://username@git.code.sf.net/p/liferea/code liferea-code
Sorry for the trouble...
Update: Especially bad for maintainers is that all the tracker numbers also changed... Argh...
