The blog of the developers of Vienna, the free and open-source Mac OSX newsreader.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Vienna 2.2 Release Candidate

Build 2206 is our release candidate build for Vienna 2.2. All changes that we've planned to make in that version are in that build. All current users of 2.2 pre-release builds should get an update notification next time they restart Vienna, or just select the Check for Updates command on the Vienna menu and have the update automatically downloaded and applied.

Not all bugs are fixed. Some minor cosmetic issues and one-off bugs are punted to the next maintenance release or even to the next major version depending on their severity. Also, not all localisation is completed. Any remaining localisation updates will be done in future maintenance releases once the volunteers have been able to complete their work.

I'm not going to announce a specific release date as I want this build to bake in the community for a little while just to be sure there are no ship stoppers or other significant issues. However we're at the point where we will not be making any further changes unless they are critical, hence the 'release candidate' label.

Thanks to everybody who has been downloading, running and providing feedback on Vienna 2.2 so far. We appreciate your input in helping to make Vienna better!

-Steve

Comments:
Just peeked at the latest build -- it looks great. Thanks for adding the tool bar icons to the top, as well as increasing the number of available tools. In following your blog and forums, I know you have wanted to keep Vienna lean and mean and uncluttered, but the customization options are very much appreciated for those of us who are not accustomed to using a lot of keystroke commands. Keep up the fabulous work.
 
Vienna is really developing well, and may attract me back from NetNewsWire. The single NNW feature that is missing is the ability to display an article list that looks like the Report layout (with columns for source, date, etc.) while still having the articles display on the right like the Condensed layout, which works great with wide screens. When you have long article lists, the requirement for two lines per article in the Condensed layout doubles the scrolling required and substantially slows down your ability to scan the list quickly. If Vienna had just a bit more display flexibility, I'd be back.
 
Any way of building Vienna as a native iPhone application?
 
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