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Versoline 0.4.0

A new reader, fewer duplicate stories, more control over the library, and a fix for memory growth while reading.

What is new

  • Native reader. Articles are drawn with SwiftUI instead of a web view, so reading no longer starts WebKit's helper processes. Menus, share bars, related links and ads are removed from the page; the web view is still one click away.
  • Reader tools: translate an article on your Mac, highlights and notes on paragraphs, Find in Article (⌥⌘F), continue where you left off, and tables.
  • The same story, once. When several of your feeds report the same news, lists show one row with the number of sources, and a Top Stories list shows what three or more feeds are covering. It is computed on your Mac and can be turned off.
  • Library: backup and restore, marking older articles as read (by hand or automatically), rules that mark new articles read or bookmark them, a command palette (⌘K) and Focus Mode (⇧⌘F).
  • Feeds: add a feed from a site or article address, open feed:// links and OPML files with the app, and feeds that keep failing are retried less often.
  • Optional: bookmarks in Spotlight, an unread count on the Dock icon, and Shortcuts actions to refresh the feeds and read the unread count.
  • Nearby sync between your own Macs now requires pairing with a confirmed six-digit code, and deletions and edits propagate.

Fixed

  • Memory grew by about 1 MB for every article read, without limit. Opening 100 articles took the app from 81 MB to 203 MB; it now goes from 48 MB to 74 MB and stays there.
  • Podcast downloads could fail or save an error page as an episode.
  • Feed Health reported working feeds as broken when their server rejected HEAD requests.
  • Several duplicate-identity and library-protection problems (see the changelog).

Privacy

  • Site icons are now fetched from the site itself. Earlier versions asked an icon service for them by host name, which told that service which sites you follow.
  • Feeds, article pages and images are only fetched over http and https.

Notes

  • Requires macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later. Apple silicon and Intel.
  • The app is signed ad hoc. If macOS says the developer cannot be verified, right-click the app and choose Open, or run xattr -cr /Applications/Versoline.app.
  • Versoline imports its data from the earlier easyRSS folder on first launch and leaves that folder untouched.

Checksum

Versoline-0.4.0.dmg SHA-256: eb69fdcf2ed413ccb06f0702acb5b30855c7864e724c6eea43cb71d250210cd9

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