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Install RSS Guard 5

Feed reader (podcast player and also Gemini protocol client) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.

Install with winget
winget install --id martinrotter.RSSGuard5
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id martinrotter.RSSGuard5
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id martinrotter.RSSGuard5

About RSS Guard 5

Feed reader (podcast player and also Gemini protocol client) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.

What's new in 5.2.3

Added: - Highlighting the Windows taskbar after feed-fetching errors can now be disabled in settings. - Article and feed list titles now use available horizontal space by default. - Feed fetching can now be paused or resumed from the tray icon menu. When paused and there are no unread articles, a pause symbol is shown in the tray icon and Windows taskbar badge. - Windows taskbar previews can now show buttons for pausing feed fetching, fetching all feeds, and opening settings. - Article filters can now be generated with a visual rule builder for common conditions and actions, without writing JavaScript. (#930) - Article-list notifications can now switch pages with the mouse wheel while hovering the article list. - Custom skin colors can now be reset all at once to the colors defined by the current skin. - Image height optional limit returns. Now you can set image height separately for enclosures and for main article content. (#2339) - Show some additional information when hovering author/feed/date header in article previewer. (#2346) - Minimal-* skins now have separator drawn between article header and article body. (#2345) - RSS Guard now asks for confirmation before assigning or removing an article filter for all feeds in a folder or by using "Check all"/"Uncheck all". (#2355) - Errors in article filters (like bad syntax) now causes the feed marked as failed (instead of failing silently like it was up until now). Fixed: - Importing from RSS Guard 4.x now preserves feeds with the same URL in different folders. (#2155) - Article preview URLs with anchors now open the complet...

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Version history

Version Updated Notes
5.2.3 Unknown Added: - Highlighting the Windows taskbar after feed-fetching errors can now be disabled in settings. - Article and feed list titles now use available horizontal space by default. - Feed fetching can now be paused or res...
5.2.2 Unknown I used AI to perform static codebase analysis and the analysis discovered many many bugs vast majority of which I was able to subsequently reproduce. Most of them were crashing bugs. I fixed them but it is possible (and...
5.2.1 Unknown Added: - Feed and article lists now share common handling for column visibility, order, width and sort state. - Feed list column order is now saved and restored together with other column settings. - Column header contex...
5.2.0 Unknown Added: - Feed auto-fetch can now also be delayed while Feral GameMode is active on Linux and startup auto-fetch is skipped when GameMode is already active. (#2265) - WebEngine builds can now use RSS Guard generated proxy...
5.1.2 Unknown Added: - Show URL of loaded website in status bar. (#2097) - Article extractor now can be called with existing article HTML and thus can run Readability algorithm directly on the existing article data instead of download...
5.1.1 Unknown If your RSS Guard crashes on Windows upon article selection, then you might have some DirectX libraries missing. Install them with this command. dism /Online /Add-Capability /CapabilityName:Tools.Graphics.DirectX~~~~0.0....
5.1.0 Unknown This release brings back built-in web browsing in selected packages, adds the new experimental XMPP plugin and improves feed discovery, article browsing and packaging in many places. Downloads are now split into viewer-s...
5.0.4 Unknown If you have 5.0.0 or 5.0.1 installed via official installer (.exe) then MAKE SURE TO BACKUP your data5 and (potentially) data4 folders manually BEFORE you perform the upgrade. These 5.0.0/5.0.1 installers have the bug an...