Sunrise XP alpha 4 released

[Laurens]

Usually, I'm pleased to announce a new Sunrise XP alpha, but in this case I'm not.

This release removes support for non-Western language encodings. There were several problems with the encoding library I was using for alpha 3 that I could not resolve due to technical and legal issues. I will reimplement encoding support in a future, post-v2.0 release. Don't expect anything for the next few months, though. I'm too far ahead in v2.0 development to retrofit this functionality at this stage.

On a brighter note, this release fixes some bugs and adds some minor features. I will post more info later.

• New: Option to output only new feed items.
• New: Ability to specify link rewriting filters in the interface. See "Links" tab on the Document Properties dialog.
• Fixed: Crash when opening the HotSync Conduit configuration dialog.
• Fixed: Text links containing line breaks now use the correct link colour. (Regression bug, due to change in alpha 3b.)
• Fixed: RSS feeds with CDATA sections containing raw HTML are now parsed correctly.
• Fixed: Publication dates in Atom 0.3 feeds were not handled correctly.
• Fixed: Date stamp was not used for the PDB filename.

See the full change log for more information. This also includes a roadmap for future releases.

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[Laurens]

Just released alpha 4a, which fixes an issue with the "Update only if sources have changed" setting. (Arguably one of the most useful functions.)