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Hogwasher release notes.

The most significant changes for each new release of Hogwasher are listed below.

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5.24

Fixed hang when download connections switch from one nzb or subscription to another.
Fixed column sizes not being preserved (hopefully once and for all).
Several bug fixes.

5.23

Fixed problem saving NZB files on MacOS Catalina.
Updated iTunes integration features to work with the new Music app.
Fixed incompatibility with news.newsdirect.com.

5.22

Improved support for MacOS Catalina.
Several bug fixes.

5.21

Support for MacOS Catalina.
Leading whitespace in messages is now preserved.
Passwords embedded in nzb files are now used correctly.
IPv6 is now fully supported.
Several performance improvements (less rainbow cursor in large subscriptions).
Fixed error -38 and -49 logged during downloads.
Numerous bug fixes.

5.20

Fixed column widths not being preserved.
Fixed crash editing rules.
Improved handling of obfuscated filenames in yEnc headers.
New subscription options to automatically retrieve latest headers.
Several bug fixes.

5.19

Fixed certain toolbar buttons not working when in icon-only mode.
Added new message filter, Unread Thread, for showing complete threads containing unread messages.
Rule criteria beyond the first twenty five are no longer ignored.
Several bug fixes, including one causing frequent crashes for some users.
Removed Growl support.

5.18

New functionality in group lists, including display of header counts and subscribed groups.
Fixed message deletions causing threads to be split into multiple sub-threads.
Fixed Hogwasher Help not displaying since the last release.
Fixed lone messages displaying thread marker rather than the subject when viewing unread messages.
Fixed outgoing message edits lost when changing font.
Fixed UI glitches on High Sierra (collapse/uncollapse all).
Default User-Agent header will now be suppressed if one is provided in the custom header field.

5.17

Fixed inability to save user data when running MacOS X.13 on an APFS volume.
More improvements to subject analysis for accurately grouping files into collections.
Fixed certain message content appearing twice with full headers.
Fixed marking entire threads when the original root of the thread has been deleted.
Fixed incorrect display of subject instead of thread marker when subject did not change.
Changed Edit Subscription window to NSPanel unless option key is pressed.
Fixed crash clearing subscription if thread window is open.

5.16

Improved subject analysis for more accurate grouping of files into collections.
Fixed potential crash displaying extremely large threads.
Fixed potential crash executing location rules after file extraction.
Improved handling of misnamed files when par2 checking and unpacking rar archives.
Fixed sorting file collections by series.
Fixed Group As Collection command for manually fixing incorrect file groupings.
Numerous minor bug fixes and UI improvements.

5.15

Fixed potential crash retrieving new headers.
Fixed several memory leaks.
Added "no new news" sound option in Preferences.
Added "no new news" indicator to progress area.
Hogwasher folder in Application Support/ can now be aliased.

5.14

New uploading/downloading progress area in Browser window.
Optional dark theme for Browser sidebar.
Par2 will now rename incorrectly named archives before processing.
Many bug fixes.

5.13

The Forward message command now works as expected.
Fixed problem whereby columns could get reordered and stuck in place.
The More command will now first retrieve any excess headers skipped while getting the Latest.
Added support for text Snippets, including new Followup with snippet... command.
Several additional bug fixes.

5.12

Improvements to rules, including new notification and colorization options.
Added colorize contextual menu, for highlighting text or background of row elements.
New subscription option to override maximum number of messages to retrieve to prevent gaps.
Numerous minor improvements and bug fixes.

5.11

New subscription option to cache files or images until saved by user.
Many improvements to image viewer.
Fixed/improved context menus throughout.
Share menus now work properly.
Fixed potential sandbox errors in App Store version.
Fixed UI glitch in message window.
Fixed copy/paste functionality.
Many bug fixes.

5.10

Subscription list can now be collapsed into minimalist sidebar view.
New sidebar view offers a light or dark theme.
Copy command now enabled in message lists.
Download Selected command will now open multiple connections as appropriate.
Numerous minor bug fixes.

5.09

Added location rules for fine control over where downloaded files are saved.
The Copy Self alias feature now uses the correct From: address.
Copy Self emails now contain the Newsgroups: header.
Renamed the "Archive" toolbar button "Move".
Added optional toolbar button "Copy", as well as "Copy to" and "Move to" menu items.
The Download Filetype command now works correctly when in text mode.
The delete button for NZB sets now works when the set is not selected.
Fixed case where a message saved as draft could lose all text after quitting and restarting.
The Queue and Kill Series commands now work correctly when the top-level file series row is selected.

5.08

Fixed potential hang at the conclusion of retrieving new headers.
Fixed hang displaying message window for message not in the currently shown subscription.
Navigation in message window now enabled even when not in the current subscription.
Updated message window toolbar icons.
Subscription searches are no longer restored if the search term consists entirely of whitespace.
Fixed UI glitch with progress indicator while retrieving headers.
Fixed problem loading subscriptions containing very large number of newsgroups.
Expansion state of threads is now preserved after retrieving new headers.
Fixed parsing of date strings using non-English day of week abbreviations.
Improved decoding of badly formatted UTF-8 quoted printable subject strings.
Improved decoding of Asian charsets.
Sorting messages by size now works correctly.
New preference to always add nzb files to a user-specified folder.
Fixed the incorrect wrapping of long lines of quoted text.

5.07

Added Copy Self option to aliases.
Added "Export as nzb..." command for selected files in message list.
Updated SMTP code to support StartTLS connections on port 587.
Added option to Hide Activity Window after all connections have finished.
Column settings can now be adjusted by Cmd-clicking in the message list column headers.
Improved performance loading image viewer for large subscriptions.
Fixed the loading of secure "https" links directly in the message window.
Fixed cases where toolbar buttons didn't update in response to completed network activity.
Fixed potential crash when selecting Drafts or Sent in the Browser window.
Fixed potential crash replying to a message.

5.06

Original Poster now highlighted in threaded display.
Number of replies now indicated in threaded display.
Added pie-chart progress indicator to subscription list when retrieving headers.
Added optional Score column to message lists.
Updated unrar to the latest version so files archived with RAR v5 can now be unarchived.
Root message in thread now displays "unread" icon if any message in thread is unread.
Message restrictions now maintained when changing View or Mode.
Subscriptions can now display unread, new, or ignored message counts, or amount of queued data.
Purging subscriptions from memory now occurs in background thread to improve app responsiveness.
Fixed potential hang whenever a rule deletes a message after downloading.
Fixed drawing overlap problems in Activity window.
Fixed incorrect information in Activity window when downloading switches subscription.
Download command now respects multiple selections in the subscription list.
Fixed post processing log displaying blank if it contains any ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) special characters.
Fixed the naming of series folders for downloaded files, broken in v5.05.
Fixed tooltips not displaying for truncated text in certain situations.
Fixed minor glitch whereby scroll position was not restored after loading subscription.
Fixed clipping of bookmark button icon in Search view.
Clicking Search tab now properly advances focus to WebView.
Icons in thread tree no longer drawn upside down.
Unchecking "Collapse threads and file series by default" in Preferences now works as expected.
Fixed "Download Selected" command not working for collapsed threads and file collections.
Fixed potential for multiple threads to run redundant par2 checks at the same time.
Fixed crash unqueuing a collapsed file collection.

5.05

Fixed serious performance issues with subscriptions containing a huge number of messages.
Moved the loading of large subscriptions into background thread to keep app responsive.
Fixed inability to retrieve headers from certain newsgroups with large article numbers.
Fixed redraw anomaly and potential lag when expanding or collapsing threads.
Fixed the stripping of the closing space in the signature delimiter when posting.
Fixed crash resulting from badly formatted overview data from a specific news server.
Updated some menu item names for clarity.

5.04

Sped up the processing of new headers.
Significant performance improvements with large subscriptions.
Improved selection maintenance when switching between views and modes.
Fixed display of message dates in nzb files.
Threads are now expanded when navigating with the space bar.
Changed default sort order for new subscriptions from subject to date.
Bandwidth menu now uses turtle icon to indicate when bandwidth is limited.
Fixed the ability to specify a custom default nzb search site in Search preferences.
Fixed inability to delete last remaining digit in port field.
Added support for specifying passwords for encrypted rar archives.
Added commands for re-downloading files or entire nzb sets.
Fixed potential crash closing outgoing message window.
Clear command can now apply to multiple subscriptions at once.

5.03

Added French localization.
Fixed numerous problems displaying quoted-printable and ISO Latin-1 accented characters.
Fixed additional cases of whitespace being stripped from saved drafts.
Spaces in filenames are no longer translated to underscores when posting with uuencode.
Improved message navigation via the space bar.

5.02

Added warning if user attempts to post without an alias established in Preferences.
Fixed the ability to check periodically for Hogwasher updates.
Enlarged the message split view dimple and increased the grabbable area for resizing.
Improved subject analysis for more accurate grouping of files into collections.
Fixed crash deleting the last file collection in file mode/collection view.
Fixed another redraw anomaly deleting file collections.
Fixed Post Queued Messages potentially posting drafts that haven't yet been queued.
Fixed removing the space in the signature divider when saving or posting drafts.
Fixed the stripping of whitespace after punctuation when saving or posting drafts.
Fixed Wrap Text adding extra newlines.
Fixed Wrap Text skipping characters after quoted-printable soft line breaks.

5.01

Fixed Wrap Text not inserting spaces in place of hard line breaks.
Select None command now works as expected.
Fixed potential crash from Delete Read Messages command.
Fixed potential crash creating or opening message with custom headers.
Assemble command is now functional while in text mode.
Fixed random crashes that could occur after customizing toolbar.
Sent messages are no longer editable.
Fixed redraw anomalies after deleting files or collections.
Improved maintenance of selections when merging collections.
Fixed closing > delimiter of url links from being included in the actual url.
Numerous other bug fixes.

5.0

Many years in the making, rewritten from scratch, a modern Mac newsreader....