The final version of the ShadowCat release of RSS Bandit is now available. This release isn't about new features but instead about making the existing features work a lot better and fixing a ton of stability issues related to our usage of Lucene for search engine for our full-text search.

Translations
This release is available in the following languages; English, German, Polish, French, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Italian, Serbian and Bulgarian.

Installer
Download the installer from RssBandit1.5.0.17b_installer.zip . A snapshot of the source code will be available later in the week as a source code release.

New Features

• Newspaper view can be configured to show unread items in a feed as multiple pages instead of a single page of items
• Feed list and read/unread status of news items can be synchronized with NewsGator Online (and thus FeedDemon and NetNewsWire as well).
  

Major Bug Fixes

• Images show up as broken links when viewing the feed for the Facebook blog
• Application gets lost on second screen in multi-monitor setup (bug 1288729) and incorrect dual-display handling on startup (bug 1479148)
• Marking search engines in options doesn't register as change (bug 1782946)
• Application crashes with "InvalidOperationException" or "Index is closed" error message. (bug 1777810)
• Application crashes with "docs out of order" error message. (bug 1783688)
• Synchronization with Newsgator Online does not recognize items marked as read from within RSS Bandit (bug 1368567).
• Automatic Mark as Read behavior while scrolling sometimes stops working.
• Deleted items show up as unread after upgrading from v1.3.0.42
• Application displays error dialog with "UnauthorizedAccessException" or "access denied" error at random times during the day. (bug 1777411)
• Javascript errors on Web pages result in error dialogs being displayed or the application hanging.
  
• Search indexing thread takes 100% of CPU and freezes the computer.
• Crashes related to Lucene search indexing (e.g. IO exceptions, access violations, file in use errors, etc)
• Crash when a feed has an IRI (i.e. URL with unicode characters such as http://www.bücher-forum.de/forum/rdf.php) instead of issuing an error message since they are not supported.
• Context menus no longer work on category nodes after OPML import or remote sync
• Crash on deleting a feed which still has enclosures being downloaded
• Podcasts downloaded from the http://poweruser.tv/ feed are named "..mp3" instead of the actual file name.
  
• Items marked as read in a search folder not marked as read in original feed
• No news shown when subscribed to newsgroups.borland.com
  
• Can't subscribe to feeds on your local hard drive (regression since it worked in previous versions)
  
• Random crashes due to error renaming file "deleteable.new" to "deletable" or "segments.new" to "segments" in search index folder.
• Items in Atom 0.3 feeds that have a <created> date but no <issued> date show their date as the last modified date of the feed instead of the created date.
• Images don't show up on certain items when clicking on feed or category view if the feed uses relative links such as in Tim Bray’s feed at http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.atom.
• Empty pages displayed in newspaper view when browsing multiple feeds under a category node.
• Newly added feeds do not inherit the feed refresh rate specified in the Options dialog.
• In certain cases, the following error message is displayed when attempting feed upload via FTP; "Feedlist upload failed with error: Passive mode not allowed on this server.."
• Application crashes on startup with the COMException "unknown error"
• None of the options when right-clicking on "This Feed" in feed properties is valid for newsgroups.
• Crash because the application cannot modify the .treestate.xml configuration file
• Crash when clicking on enclosure link in toast window