QuoteRSS Guard is simple, light and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator developed using Qt framework which supports online feed synchronization.
Core features are:
- support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
- Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0),
- ownCloud News (from RSS Guard 3.1.0).
- multiplatformity,
- multiple data backend support.
- SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
- MySQL.
See below for more information about features and other RSS Guard aspects.
Features
RSS Guard is simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM. RSS Guard is developed on top of the Qt library and it supports these operating systems:
- Windows XP and newer,
- GNU/Linux,
- Mac OS X,
- xBSD (possibly),
- Android (possibly),
- other platforms supported by Qt.
RSS Guard is written in C++. It is pretty fast even with tons of messages loaded. The core features are:
- support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
- Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0),
- ownCloud News (from RSS Guard 3.1.0).
- multiplatformity,
- support for all feed formats,
- simple internal Chromium-based web viewer,
- 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,
- very fast parallelized feed updates,
- feed metadata fetching including icons,
- no crazy dependencies,
- 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,
- full support of podcasts (both RSS & ATOM),
- ability to backup/restore database or settings,
- fully-featured recycle bin,
- 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,
- Feanza-based default icon themes,
- fully skinnable user interface + ability to create your own skins,
- newspaper view,
- 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,
- 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.
Changelog
3.3.7
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Added:
- Some localizations added & updated.
- User now can place custom user skins in user "data" folder. (issue #81) See "About" dialog for the exact path.
- User now can select if DB transactions are enabled or not. (bug #70) By default, DB transactions are now switched OFF, therefore anyone who wants better performance, must turn them ON in app settings.
- MySQL database backend now requires at least version 5.5, DB encoding is now changed to utf8mb4 character set. (bug #74)
- Height if message attachment image is now configurable, defaults to 36. (issue #69)
- All textual contents of all messages are now locally saved in explicit UTF-8 encoding. This is partially because of MySQL backend. We need to keep encoding of data sent to DB and encoding of DB itself in parity.
Changed:
- TT-RSS plugin now does NOT require service URL to be entered with "/api/" suffix. In other words, do not use that suffix now, RSS Guard will add it silently when it needs to.
Fixed:
3.3.5
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Added:
- Qt "styles" are now configurable via settings and not hardcoded in "skin" files. Default "style" is now "Fusion" and can be changed to anything else in settings.
- WebEngine is automatically replaced by simpler text component (for viewing messages) when not installed during RSS Guard compilation.
Changed:
- Made some tweaks regarding bug #41. Number of new messages is now determined in feed downloader working thread too.
Fixed:
- Fixed problem with updating states of messages in Nextcloud. Remove and re-add your account to fix the problem!! (bug #59)
3.3.4
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Added:
▪ Development builds are now automatically compiled for Windows and Mac OS X. See https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/tree/build-artifacts for links and more information.
▪ RSS Guard now can be compiled WITHOUT QtWebEngine module. Minimal Qt required was also lowered to 5.6.0.
Changed:
▪ Obtaining feed metadata including icons is now improved a bit.
▪ Big application core refactoring. Many functions rewritten, some bad code removed.
Fixed:
▪ RSS Guard could not stop ongoing feed updates. (bug #52)
▪ RSS Guard was not launchable in Windows XP. (bug #53)
▪ RSS Guard crashed when switching msg status during feed updates. (bug #41)
3.3.3
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Added:
▪ Message viewer now displays thumbnails of image message attachments. (issue #39)
▪ Application settings is now divided into separate components on source code level.
▪ Application settings now offers "Apply" button which saves settings without closing the dialog. (issue #16)
Fixed:
▪ Correct message is now selected after some feed gets updated. (bug #46)
▪ RSS Guard correctly saves windows size/position when maximized on exit. (bug #45)
Changed:
▪ MariaDB binary DLL file updated to 10.1.16 (Windows only).
Links
Windows
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Windows (WITHOUT QtWebEngine)
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