NewzCrawler v1.5 RC1 has been released

Yay! The latest NZ build is ready! ( and P.S. - it definitively rox()rs. ;)    )

NewzCrawler v1.5 RC1 has been released

Release Notes:

 

+ feature added
- bug fixed
* changed

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version 1.5.2 (build 1712, September 6, 2003)
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+ now all data and channels tree are stored automatically after changes are
  made, not on program exit.
+ news list filtering: view all/unread/flagged/today messages.
+ news list filtering by keywords.
+ news feeds use MSXML now
+ xml-rpc engine now uses MSXML.
+ xml-rpc calls are made in utf-8 - no need to take care about encodings.
+ built-in browser now has address line with history.
+ NewzCrawler remembers the toolbar positions now.
+ RSS autodiscovery works in the built-in browser (IE only).
+ option for each channel allowing the user to determine whether the contents
  should be displayed in the news ticker.
+ proper handling of the HTTP response codes.
+ newsfeed and web page channels support SSL.
+ option "Update channel on program startup" in the channel properties.
+ unicode support
+ [xhtml:body] support
+ GZip support
+ UI for searching duplicate channels
+ channels tree OPML export and import
+ early Atom/Echo/Pie feeds support
+ nntp downloads new artiles only.
+ support for "Now Playing" (WMP 9) and "AMIP" (WinAmp) plugins.
+ rss autodiscovery: options for hiding baloon tooltip and flashing window.
+ search channels: options for periodical checking.
+ channels tree shows unread/total news items for each channel.
+ sorting folders and channels in alphabetical order.

* removed "Save channels tree every xx minutes" feature.
* MS agent languahe ID in the contextual channels tree menu.
* only NNTP channels has encoding menu.

- empty news title if there're a HTML entities inside.
- Enter key doesn't work in the built-in browser.
- news ticker forgot the state after program restart.
- blog post edit changes the news item date for current date.
- blog post edit changes the news item title if the title is empty
- RSS Autodiscovery IE plug-in doesn't work
- news feed channel changes it's name according to it's title.
- unicode XML files doesn't being read properly.
- fixed error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
  another process".
- fixed etag handling: store the etag only if everything's ok.
- partially loaded XMLs should not be parsed.
- missed picture in the BlogThis! window.
- search starts when the search string is empty.
- HTML entities are corrupted when "Normalize HTML" option is turned on
- Add newsfeed wizard: fixed "use currently cached file..." option.
- Add newsfeed wizard: XML parsing errors has not been handled properly.
- mark as read after 0 seconds didn't work.

Known issues
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  * Mozilla v1.4 users should download this file:
    http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/gre_app_support14.zip
    Instructions could be found here
    http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm

  * For SSL support visit here
    http://www.newzcrawler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51

  * Obsolete help system