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	1 # 2021-01-24 19:00:00.133769 UTC (+0000)
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	3 sfeed 0.9.21 and sfeed_curses 0.9.8 was released.
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	5 sfeed is a tool to convert RSS or Atom feeds from XML to a TAB-separated…
	6
	7 It can be found at:
	8 * git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed
	9 * gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/sfeed
	10 * https://codemadness.org/releases/sfeed/
	11 * gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/sfeed/
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	14 sfeed_curses is a curses UI front-end for sfeed.
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	16 It can be found at:
	17 * git://git.codemadness.org/sfeed_curses
	18 * gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/sfeed_curses
	19 * https://codemadness.org/releases/sfeed_curses/
	20 * gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/sfeed_curses/
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	23 sfeed has the following changes:
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	25 * sfeed: fix 2 regressions in parsing content fields:
	26 * It ignored other tags such as link field after parsing content field…
	27 * It incorrectly set the content-type of a lesser priority field.
	28 Thanks to pazz0 for reporting it!
	29
	30 * XML parser: do not allow UTF-16 surrogate pair in numeric entity code-…
	31 to prevent an invalid UTF-8 stream.
	32
	33 * sfeed_update:
	34 * If baseurl is empty then use the path from the feed by default.
	35 Feeds should contain absolute urls, but if it does not have it then …
	36 makes it more convenient to configure such broken feeds in the sfeed…
	37 * Improve consistency of feed creation and merging
	38 * Improve feed creation with empty results and new feed files.
	39 Always make sure the file is created even when it is new and the…
	40 items (after filtering).
	41 * Consistency: always use the same feed file for merging.
	42 Do not use "/dev/null" when it is a new file. This works using s…
	43 ugly when the merge() function is overridden and does something …
	44 be the feed file always.
	45 * Make convertencoding() consistent with other overridable functions
	46 This adds the name as the first parameter for the convertencoding() …
	47 like filter, merge, order, etc.
	48 This can be useful to make an exception rule for text decoding in a …
	49 way.
	50 ! This may require to change your configuration file if this function …
	51
	52 * sfeed_plain:
	53 * printutf8pad: fix byte-seek issue with negative width codepoints.
	54 For example: "\xef\xbf\xb7" (codepoint 0xfff7), returns wcwidth(wc) …
	55 The next byte was incorrected seeked, but the codepoint itself was v…
	56 (mbtowc). This now uses the unicode replacement symbol.
	57 * printutf8pad: improve padding when the codepoint is invalid.
	58
	59 * sfeed_gopher:
	60 * Tighten filesystem permissions on OpenBSD using unveil(2).
	61 Prompted by a suggestion from vejetaryenvampir, thanks!
	62
	63 * Testing:
	64 * sfeed compiles with lacc: a simple, self-hosting C compiler:
	65 https://github.com/larmel/lacc .
	66 * Tested on an old Debian install on Malta MIPS32 big-endian (this fou…
	67 endianness issue in sfeed_curses before, but not in sfeed).
	68 * Ran a local test-suite (not public yet) on Clang ASAN and found no i…
	69
	70 * Documentation:
	71 * Man pages: add more real world examples to the man pages: sfeed_goph…
	72 sfeed_opml_import, sfeed_ opml_export.
	73 * newsboat sqlite3 export script
	74 * Export the read/unread state also to a plain-text urls file. This …
	75 used for sfeed_curses.
	76 * Escape white-space and control-characters in reverse, just like sf…
	77 processes the data.
	78 * Document behaviour of handling page redirects.
	79 Prompted by a question via e-mail from Aleksei, thanks!
	80
	81 * Optimizations:
	82 * Optimize converting UNIX timestamp to localtime. This makes a huge d…
	83 on glibc. Affects: sfeed_frames, sfeed_gopher, sfeed_html and sfeed_…
	84 * Micro-optimization: use putc instead of fputc, which can be optimize…
	85 inline macro.
	86 * Optimize printutf8pad for the typical ASCII-case. Affects sfeed_plai…
	87 glibc (no difference on musl).
	88
	89 * Misc:
	90 * Fixed various small typos, code-style and documentation improvements.
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	92
	93 sfeed_curses has the following changes compared to 0.9.7:
	94
	95 * Fix byte-seek issue with negative width codepoints.
	96 For example: "\xef\xbf\xb7" (codepoint 0xfff7), returns wcwidth(wc) …
	97 The next byte was incorrected seeked, but the codepoint itself was v…
	98 (mbtowc). This now uses the unicode replacement symbol.
	99 * Improve padded printing when the codepoint is invalid.
	100 * Micro-optimization: using putc (macro) vs fputc (function).
	101
	102 * Notable changes compared to the previous newspost are:
	103 * Easier theme support (compile-time using make SFEED_THEME=newsboat…
	104 * Resizable sidebar: keybinds <, > and = (thanks to adc and surround…
	105 * Fixes for serial consoles (such as qemu -nographic).
	106 * Fixes for minicurses (useful for systems not having [n]curses).
	107 * Endianness fix (found on Malta MIPS32BE) when searching using /.
	108 * sfeed_content script improvements and cleanup.
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