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RSS Guard 4.8.2

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 4.8.2 changelog:

Added

  • Added feed fetching throttle control: (#1154, #1322)
  • Too many requests HTTP codes are now recognized and respected by RSS Guard.
  • There is new per-account setting Feed fetch spacing which performs intelligent delaying of subsequent feed fetching from identical remote hosts, trying to avoid aforementioned errors/bans for making too many network requests in short time windows. The setting should be set to value low enough to avoid those kind of errors but still having good UX.
  • Custom color option for disabled feeds. (#1652)
  • Strikethrough for disabled feeds is optional. (#1651)
  • Ability to fetch feed icon from user entered URL. (#1645)
  • Application now remembers last used folder from any of its open/save file dialogs. (#1643)
  • HTTP/2 is now switchable on a per feed basis. (#1615)
  • Now duplicate keyboard shortcuts cannot be assigned. (#1605)
  • New option for colored/monochrome icons for tray icon. (#1603)
  • Article list filtering options are now persisting. (#1590)
  • Official binaries now use Qt 6.8.3.

Fixed

  • Enhanced QSS for tooltips for better readability. (#1637)
  • RSS feed encoding detection was prone to errors. (#1664)
  • Localization page now displays correctly. (#1611)
  • MariaDB backend now uses MEDIUMTEXT column to allow bigger articles.

Removed

  • Built-in Google API OAuth credentials are now REMOVED from official RSS Guard binaries. There are several reasons for this, including the fact that these credentials had low usage quotas, therefore were not suitable for bigger number of users. So now each user has to obtain his own client ID/SECRET from Google Cloud Platform (which is free for personal usage).