RSSOwl News

Help spread the word about RSSOwl!

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:18:20 +0200

We think more people should know about RSSOwl. If you are the maintainer of a website or know someone that is, you can do us a favour and add one of our promotional buttons to your website, e.g.:

You can find instructions on our Contribute page. Thanks in advance!

Do you know about Add-Ons?

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:28:53 +0200

RSSOwl is based on a platform that can easily be extended with additional functionality. We provide some add-ons that are worth mentioning here. If you open Tools | Add-ons | Find Add-ons you see a list of available add-ons for your platform. The most popular one is likely the Newsgroup reader that turns RSSOwl into a nntp-client (find out more here). Another useful add-on that was recently added is the Offline Mode that allows to stop all network access from RSSOwl as long as the offline mode is active.

With the same mechanism, you can even install additional languages into RSSOwl. Find the list of additional languages from Tools | Language | Download Additional Languages.

RSSOwl now available in 8 languages

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:24:58 +0200

Thanks to the work of our translators, RSSOwl is now available in English, German, Polish, Serbian, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional) and Chinese (Simplified). Stay tuned for upcoming Portuguese and French translations. If your language is missing, you can help out.

More translations please...

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:57:18 +0200

We are still looking for native speakers to translate RSSOwl into their language, this time we especially look for Chinese Simplified, Dutch, Japanese or Bengali as these languages are commonly spoken by many people around the world. Please read on here if you can help out, thanks.

More languages, native Mac Disk Image, new Linux Repositories

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:35:19 +0200

We added Italian and Polish versions of RSSOwl and there is still more languages to come soon. If you are missing your spoken language in RSSOwl, you can help out in translating.

Mac users will be happy to hear that RSSOwl for Mac is now provided as disk image. In addition to this new deployment format, the application is now a single executable application bundle that can easily be moved to the applications folder and started from there.

Finally I would like to point out our new repositories for Ubuntu provided by getdeb.net. More details are available from our page. Note that packages.rssowl.org is no longer actively maintained.

RSSOwl 2.1.2 released with first translations update

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:09:07 +0200

We are happy to announce the release of RSSOwl 2.1.2. This release enables the installation of additional languages into RSSOwl (from Tools | Language). Thanks to our team of translators, as of today we can provide translations to German, Spanish and Chinese Traditional.

We are still looking for more people helping out with translations. If you can help us, please click here for further instructions.

Update: Localized versions of RSSOwl are now available from our downloads page.

Help translate RSSOwl into your language

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:04:37 +0200

Since RSSOwl 2.1 has been released, more and more people ask for a translated version of RSSOwl. Currently, English is the only language supported and we would like to change that. We are now asking our fellow users to help translate RSSOwl into their language.

If you are willing to help out or know someone that could, please check out our translation wiki that lists all the details.

Upon submission of your completed translation you will get an exclusive free RSSOwl T-Shirt from ooshirts.com.

RSSOwl 2.1 released

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:23:56 +0200

We are happy to announce that RSSOwl 2.1 is now available for download. The 2.1 release comes with some exciting cool new features:

google reader articles synchronization
new headlines and list layout
redesigned newspaper view
news archiving
readability support
instant folder aggregation
improved performance and reliability
full changelog

Existing users of RSSOwl will see this new version showing up as update. New users should visit our downloads page to download RSSOwl 2.1 for your operating system.

PS: If you like RSSOwl, please leave a positive review at our SourceForge project page. Thanks!

FAQ updated on Google Reader Article Synchronization

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:28:07 +0200

Based on a lot of feedback we got from users testing the new Google Reader article synchronization, the FAQ is now updated with the top questions and answers.

One more thing: Google Reader Synchronization

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:32:16 +0200

I am happy to announce the final feature for RSSOwl 2.1 that has now been added to the 2.1 Beta: Google Reader Synchronization.

Any feed that is under synchronization control will synchronize its article read-state, labels and starred state with your Google Reader account.

Another cool advantage of using your Google Reader account for subscriptions is that you will never loose an article from any feed. Just increase the number of articles you want to keep per feed (up to 1000!) and RSSOwl will download them all.

Please refer to our Beta 2.1 Changelog page to find out more and download the beta.

RSSOwl 2.1 Changelog

Mon, 30 May 2011 18:42:31 +0200

The development on upcoming RSSOwl 2.1 has finally reached the milestone of being feature complete. From now on, the focus is on testing and performance optimizations.

While this is not an official call for beta testers, the nightlies of RSSOwl 2.1 are considered stable enough to be used by the brave and good enough to report some feedback.

For that, the RSSOwl 2.1 Changelog lists instructions how to safely install a nightly and provides an overview of the new features added.

RSSOwl 2.1 is in the making

Tue, 10 May 2011 21:09:32 +0200

The next release of RSSOwl will include lots of new features that I am very happy to announce today. Work is closely coming to an end on RSSOwl 2.1 and a public beta will be announced in June. It is hard to name the top 5 features, because there are many more. Here you go:

new headlines and list layout
redesigned newspaper view
news archiving
readability support
unlimited news storage

Stay tuned. I will announce the features in greater detail after the beta has been announced.

All new project page over at SourceForge

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:12:49 +0100

I am really happy with the new look of project pages at SourceForge. RSSOwl has been with SourceForge since the earliest version. Check it out here.

You can help spread the word about RSSOwl by adding a positive review there too. Thanks in advance!

PS: Expect some cool new things in next RSSOwl 2.0.7 (don't ask for a release date please ;-)).

RSSOwl 2.0.6 now available

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 15:35:03 +0200

RSSOwl 2.0.6 is now available for download containing some bugfixes and a few new features. Most notable, the Google Reader import is functional again. Existing users can easily update using the integrated update manager (Help | Check for Updates).

RSSOwl 2.0.5 is out

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:37:56 +0200

This new release of RSSOwl 2.0.5 comes with quite some bugfixes, performance and stability improvements as you can see from the changelog. Existing users can easily update using the integrated update manager (Help | Check for Updates).

Linux and Mac users should consider reinstalling RSSOwl completely as the framework for the user interface was updated for this release. This framework is not part of the usual update.