The Vienna development team is pleased to announce the official release of the next major version of Vienna, the open-source, freeware, Mac OSX newsreader. Since 2.1 was released last year, we've been busy focusing on a few new major changes as well as a number of minor bug fixes. The chosen theme for 2.2 has been UI refresh and global searching.

When you upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2, you'll notice that the familiar three pane layout is still there but there is now the addition of a customisable toolbar. The search field has moved to the toolbar and has been upgraded to a global search field. You can now quickly retrieve articles that match a specified search string and Vienna will aggregate them all into a Search Results folder. However per-feed filtering has been retained with the addition of the new filter bar.

To the list of supported languages we have now added Euskara (Basque), Ukrainian and Russian.

Below is a list of the major changes between 2.1 and 2.2:

• Major UI improvements. Switched to polished metal style and cleaned up layout.


• Add global search bar for searching all feeds and showing the results in the new Search Results folder.


• Added more built-in display styles.


• Added toolbar and moved buttons to toolbar. (Thanks to David Kocher for the prototyping).


• Add filter bar to more easily filter the article list.


• Feed auto-discovery. Enter a web site in the New Subscription panel and Vienna will attempt to locate a newsfeed on the web site.


• Added the ability to subscribe to newsfeeds from the built-in browser.


• Added support for RSS/Atom enclosures and new Enclosure panel for articles that contain enclosures.


• Added ability to drop OPML files onto Vienna's dock icon.


• Added option to add Vienna to the system menu bar.


• Added Basque localization. (Thanks to Aitor Zubizarreta).


• Added Russian localization. (Thanks to Taras "sacrat" Brizitsky).


• Added Ukrainian localisation. (Thanks to Andrew Kachalo).


• If Vienna doesn't handle the URL scheme (e.g., itms), open the URL with the default application for its scheme.


• Allow refreshing of unsubscribed feeds if they are specifically selected. (Thanks to ytrewq1 for submitting a patch.)


• Updated to SQLite 3.3.17.


• Change exported file format to UTF8. (Thanks to Kiyu Horiuti).


• Added flagged article filter.


• Refresh all subscriptions now refreshes in the folder list sorted order.


• Add unsubscribe/resubscribe command to File menu.


• Add Growl events for file download success and failure.


• Add patch to pass selected text to blogging clients. (Contributed by Pukka author Justin R. Miller).

You can download Vienna 2.2 from the web site or choose Check for Updates from the Vienna menu.

Thanks to everybody who assisted with the beta testing and for the valuable and constructive feedback we've received over the months.

- The Vienna Dev Team

posted by StevePa  # 10:37 AM