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+6.7 (2015-07-21)
+----------------
+ New:
+ * a filter mechanism for feeds has been added (PR #14);
+ * icon of feeds is now an url retrieved from the feed or the site link (PR #15).
+ Improvements:
+ * improvements for the bookmarklet (PR #16 and PR #18);
+ * performance improvements (display of the /feed page);
+ * enhancements for the two crawlers;
+ * enhancements of the UI (PR #14);
+ * misc changes to the models and controllers.
+
+6.6 (2015-06-02)
+----------------
+ New:
+ * it is now possible to sort the list of articles by feed title or
+ article title;
+ * added base unittests.
+ Improvements:
+ * fixed some minor bugs;
+ * improved the asyncio crawler;
+ * automatically use the good Python executable for the asyncio crawler;
+ * improved controllers (enforcing better use of user_id);
+ * the search is now case insensitive.
+
+6.5.5 (2015-04-22)
+------------------
+ The full text search powered by Whoosh has been removed.
+
+6.5.4 (2015-04-16)
+------------------
+ This release introduces a new config module and a new search functionality.
+ The result of a search is integrated in the main page.
+
+6.5.3 (2015-04-14)
+------------------
+ The fetch call is now dependent to the selected crawling method.
+
+6.5.2 (2015-04-14)
+------------------
+ The look and feel has been globally improved.
+ It is now possible to add a new feed from any page via a dropdown menu.
+
+6.5.1 (2015-04-08)
+------------------
+ Improvements:
+ * improvements on the controllers;
+ * the minimum error count is now specified in the configuration file.
+
+6.5 (2015-04-07)
+----------------
+ Improvements:
+ * new CSS;
+ * improved installation script;
+ * it is now possible to delete all duplicate articles with one HTTP
+ delete request.
+
+6.4 (2015-03-17)
+----------------
+ New:
+ * a new page 'history' to explore your database of articles.
+ Changes:
+ * updated documentation;
+ * minor improvements.
+ Fixes:
+ * changed the type of the column 'last_modified' to string.
+
+6.3 (2015-03-08)
+----------------
+ New:
+ * a new architecture with base for controllers;
+ * new, more complete RESTful API;
+ * a crawler handling errors and cache control;
+ * the new crawler takes advantage of the RESTful API
+ (can be run on the client side).
+
+6.2 (2015-02-26)
+----------------
+ The system of email notifications for new articles has been removed.
+ This feature was hardly used.
+
+6.1 (2015-02-23)
+----------------
+ Improvements: articles are now identified with the id provided
+ by the RSS/ATOM feed.
+ Prevent BeautifulSoup4 from adding extra '<html><body>' tags to
+ the soup with the 'lxml' parser.
+ Indexation is now used with the new crawler.
+ The documentation has been updated.
+
+6.0 (2015-02-08)
+----------------
+ New: pyAggr3g470r is now working with Python 3.4. Tested on Heroku
+ with Python 3.4.2.
+ Improvements: The feed crawler uses the PEP 3156 (asyncio). The action
+ buttons are now on the left. It is easier to mark an article as read.
+
+5.7.0 (2014-11-20)
+------------------
+ Improvements: major improvements of the email notifications system.
+ Notifications are now sent through Postmark (for example for Heroku)
+ or a standard SMTP server.
+ Bug fix: activation key was too long for the database column.
+
+5.6.6 (2014-09-24)
+------------------
+ Improvements: Significant performance improvement for the views
+ /favorites and /unread. The performance problem has been introduced
+ with the release 5.6.5.
+
+5.6.5 (2014-09-15)
+------------------
+ This release fixes a major bug introduced with the version 0.9.7 of SQLAlchemy
+ (conflicts between persistent ant transcient SQLAlchemy objects).
+
+5.6.4 (2014-09-12)
+------------------
+ Translations have been updated.
+ Gravatar extension has been removed.
+ Minor fix.
+
+5.6.3 (2014-08-27)
+------------------
+ News: It is now possible to delete articles older than a given number
+ of weeks. This can be done via the management page.
+ A new environment variable enables to activate or deactivate the
+ self-registration.
+ Changes: translations were updated. Some minor bugfixes. Improved
+ deployment instructions in the README.
+
+5.6.2 (2014-08-10)
+------------------
+ Minor improvements: Articles are automatically retrieved after the import
+ of an OPML file.
+ When displaying all articles (unread + read), titles of unread articles
+ are emphasized in bold.
+ A new tab is opened when clicking on the title of an article.
+ New: pyAggr3g470r can be deployed with the Heroku auto deploy button.
+
+5.6.1 (2014-07-13)
+------------------
+ Performance improvements: faster database insertion of articles by
+ the crawler and loading of the management page.
+ Minor bug fixes.
+
+5.6 (2014-07-05)
+----------------
+ pyAggr3g470r has now a RESTful JSON API which enables to manage Feed and
+ Article objects. The API is documented in the README file.
+ The main page is using a subset of this API with jQuery HTTP requests.
+
+5.5 (2014-06-14)
+----------------
+ This release introduces a redesigned homepage which loads much faster and
+ is easier to read. pyAggr3g470r can now be run by Apache.
+ Adding a feed no longer requires a title and a site link.
+
+5.4 (2014-05-28)
+----------------
+ This version makes it possible for a user to export all of their feeds and
+ articles as a JSON file for later restoration.
+
+5.3 (2014-05-23)
+----------------
+ This release introduces some UI improvements, especially for the home page.
+
+5.2 (2014-05-16)
+----------------
+ This release adds minor bug fixes and UI improvements.
+
+5.1 (2014-05-13)
+----------------
+ When deployed on Heroku, the platform now uses the Postmark service to
+ send account confirmation emails to users. It is no longer required to
+ enter a first name and a last name to create an account.
+
+5.0 (2014-05-04)
+----------------
+ pyAggr3g470r is now translated into English and French. Improvements
+ concerning the news retriever and the Whoosh search functionality have
+ been made. The user can now export all articles in JSON format.
+ The user of the platform now has the possibility to delete his or her
+ account.
+
+4.9 (2014-04-24)
+----------------
+ This version introduces minor improvements to the Jinja templates and
+ bugfixes (relating to the import of OPML files with sub-categories and
+ relating to the Whoosh index generation).
+
+4.8 (2014-04-13)
+----------------
+ Feeds are now retrieved in a separated process with the Gevent library.
+ This offers the best performance on Heroku.
+
+4.7 (2014-04-12)
+----------------
+ pyAggr3g470r can now be deployed on Heroku or on a traditional server.
+ Moreover, several users can use an instance of pyAggr3g470r. A platform is
+ managed by the administrator, a user with specific rights.
+
+4.6 (2014-02-09)
+----------------
+ This release introduces the import of OPML files of subscriptions.
+ Minor improvements have been made to the templates.
+
+4.5 (2014-01-29)
+----------------
+ This release introduces a one step installation process with a simple
+ script. Minor improvements to the feedgetter module have been introduced
+ (the feed description is now stored in the database). Miscellaneous
+ improvements to the Jinja templates. Finally, more configuration options
+ are now offered to the user.
+
+4.4 (2013-12-27)
+----------------
+ This version introduces some improvements for the feedgetter module
+ including automatic retrieval of the URL behind feedproxy.google.com,
+ and support for configuring the user agent and proxy. Minor improvements
+ were made to the MongoEngine models. Notifications are displayed with
+ Flask flash messages.
+
+4.3 (2013-12-03)
+----------------
+ With this release, the user is able to update her personal information.
+ It is now possible to enable/disable the checking of updates for a feed.
+ Some performance improvements and user interface optimizations have been
+ done.
+
+4.2 (2013-11-10)
+----------------
+ This is the first release of the new version of pyAggr3g470r.
+ The code has been rewritten with the Flask microframework and the
+ Bootstrap frontend framework.
+
+4.1 (2013-08-11)
+----------------
+ HTTP proxy support has been added for the fetching of feeds. This is
+ useful, for example, if you are using Privoxy/Tor.
+
+4.0 (2013-06-25)
+----------------
+ Searching of articles is now achieved with Whoosh, a fast full-text
+ indexing and searching library.
+
+3.9 (2013-04-14)
+----------------
+ The code has been tested and ported to Python 3.3.1. Some minor bugs have
+ been fixed, with a lot of improvements concerning the Mako templates,
+ MongoDB database management, and management of exceptions.
+
+3.8 (2013-01-12)
+----------------
+ This release introduces a reworked management page; it is now possible to
+ change the username and password via this page.
+ Some improvements concerning the HTML export of the database have been
+ made. Finally, indexed MongoDB full text searching provides a much faster
+ search.
+
+3.7 (2012-12-29)
+----------------
+ pyAggr3g470r is now using the Mako template library.
+ Performance improvements for the MongoDB database have been made, and some
+ minor bugfixes. Stop words (a, of, the, an, for...) are now ignored when
+ calculating top words for the generation of the tag cloud.
+ A new page indicates the list of inactive feeds (with no new published
+ articles since a given number of days).
+
+3.6 (2012-11-08)
+----------------
+ pyAggr3g470r is now running with Python 3.2(.3). It uses CherryPy 3.2.2,
+ BeautifulSoup4, and feedparser3.Your old MongoDB database can be used
+ without any problem.
+
+3.5 (2012-10-28)
+----------------
+ Some minor bugfixes and improvements.
+ An authentication screen has been added, which is useful if pyAggr3g470r
+ is running on an EC2 instance, for example.
+
+3.4 (2012-05-01)
+----------------
+ This version introduces some minor improvements and bugfixes.
+ All features of pyAggr3g470r are now back (with MongoDB).
+
+3.3 (2012-04-16)
+----------------
+ This version introduces minor improvements and a bugfix.
+ Publication dates of articles are now stored as a datetime object.
+ A bug in the script that converts an SQLite database to a MongoDB database
+ is now fixed.
+ A little documentation has been added.
+
+3.2 (2012-03-20)
+----------------
+ A MongoDB database is now used instead of the SQLite database. This change
+ offers a significant performance improvement. The database has been tested
+ with more than 30,000 articles, but version 3.2 is still a test version.
+ A more stable version will arrive soon.
+
+3.1 (2011-11-29)
+----------------
+ A new version of the QR Code module is used. For each article, a QR Code
+ is generated based on the content of the article. If the article is too
+ long, only the article's URL is encoded in the QR Code. For a given
+ string, the algorithm tries the generate as small a QR Code as possible.
+ Minor bugs were fixed.
+
+3.0 (2011-10-25)
+----------------
+ This release introduces exportation of articles to the HTML format and to
+ the PDF format (there is still exportation to ePub).
+ The sharing of articles with delicious.com was replaced by pinboard.in.s
+
+2.9 (2011-08-26)
+----------------
+ Some minor improvements. A bug with the HTML <code> tag bas been fixed.
+ Cleanup was done with Pylint.
+ The test database of pyAggr3g470r contains more than 22000 articles,
+ and it runs perfectly.
+
+2.8 (2011-07-08)
+----------------
+ The feed summary page, which displays general information about a feed,
+ now lets you change the feed metadata (feed logo, feed name, and feed URL
+ if changed). Moreover, this page displays the activity of a feed and other
+ useful information. It is now possible to set a different POD for Diaspora
+ in the configuration file and to share an article with Google +1.
+ A control file to start or stop pyAggr3g470r has been added.
+ From the GUI side, a new transparent CSS tooltip has been introduced in
+ order to preview an article.
+ Finally, some minor performance improvements and bugfixes were made.
+
+2.7 (2011-04-15)
+----------------
+ Minor improvements.
+ It is now possible to set a maximum number of articles to be loaded from
+ the database for each feed (via the management page).
+
+2.6 (2011-03-21)
+----------------
+ This version introduces a new page that displays general information about
+ a feed. There are some minor improvements in the Web interface.
+ The version of pyAggr3g470r for Python 3 is now fully ready and has been
+ tested with Python 3.2.
+
+2.5 (2011-01-19)
+----------------
+ A bug when removing a feed from the data base was fixed.
+ Minor improvements were made for export of articles and the size of HTML
+ forms.
+
+2.4 (2010-12-07)
+----------------
+ The GUI uses more HTML 5 features like HTML5 Forms Validation
+ (email input, URL input), an HTML5 month+year date picker, and a
+ placeholder. From each article it is possible to access the
+ following and previous article (and a new main menu with CSS ToolTip).
+ Articles can now be exported to the EPUB format. Articles loaded from the
+ SQLite base are now stored in memory in a better data structure. With more
+ than 10,000 articles, pyAggr3g470r starts in 3 seconds. Finally, email
+ notifications are now sent with HTML message content and with an
+ alternative plain text version (MIMEMultipart).
+
+2.3 (2010-11-15)
+----------------
+ This version introduces HTML5 Forms Validation and a HTML5 month+year date
+ picker for the history page, which can be used to search for articles.
+ This currently only works with Opera.
+
+2.2 (2010-11-03)
+----------------
+ There is now a third way to export articles from the SQLite base.
+ There is an export method for the wiki DokuWiki (example in the commit
+ message).
+
+2.1 (2010-10-25)
+----------------
+ The export of articles to HTML has been updated, with better output.
+ There are a number of improvements (the search function, generation of
+ tags cloud, display of article content, CSS, bugfixes, etc.).
+ There is a new Wiki.
+
+2.0 (2010-09-03)
+----------------
+ It is now possible to browse articles by year and month with tag clouds
+ (see new screenshots).
+ In addition, URL errors are detected before downloading feeds.
+ There are some improvements in the user interface.
+
+1.9 (2010-09-02)
+----------------
+ The feedgetter module was improved. More details about articles are stored
+ in the database when possile. An attempt is made to get the whole article
+ (a_feed['entries'][i].content[j].value), and in the event of failure,
+ the description/summary is used (a_feed['entries'][i].description).
+
+1.8 (2010-08-25)
+----------------
+ It is now easier to install pyAggr3g470r.
+ There is no longer any need to set any path in the configuration file.
+
+1.7 (2010-07-23)
+----------------
+ This release generates QR codes with URLs of articles, so you can read an
+ article later on your smartphone (or share with friends).
+
+1.6 (2010-07-08)
+----------------
+ It is now possible to automatically add a feed (with the URL of the site),
+ delete an article, delete a feed with all its articles, and to delete all
+ articles from the database.
+ There are also some nice improvements to performance, tested with more
+ than 3000 articles.
+ Furthermore, HTML export of all the articles of the database was improved.
+ You can also export the articles in raw text. Finally, some minor bugs
+ were fixed.
+
+1.5 (2010-07-05)
+----------------
+ Now pyAggr3g470r only works with Python 2.7.
+ OrderedDict objects are used in order to sort the feeds alphabetically in
+ a simple way.
+
+1.4 (2010-06-10)
+----------------
+ It is now possible to remove all articles of a given feed from the SQLite
+ base via the management page. You can also add a feed just with the URL
+ of the Web page. The URL of the feed is obtained by parsing the Web page
+ with the module BeautifulSoup.
+
+1.3 (2010-05-04)
+----------------
+ All articles stored in the SQLite database can now be exported as HTML or
+ raw text via the management page.
+
+1.2 (2010-04-29)
+----------------
+ This version introduces a tag cloud with variable word length.
+ Some improvements were made to the CSS and a bug was fixed.
+
+1.1 (2010-04-15)
+----------------
+ Introduction of a Google Buzz button.
+ It is now possible to mark or unmark articles as favorites.
+
+1.0 (2010-03-23)
+----------------
+ The database of feeds is monitored with the Python gamin module,
+ if present. Otherwise it is done with a classic function.
+ You now have the option to be informed of new articles by email. To
+ receive these notifications, just click on "Stay tuned" for the
+ desired feed(s) at the main page of pyAggr3g470r in the browser.
+
+0.9 (2010-02-28)
+----------------
+ TuxDroid tells you when there are unread articles (this module is
+ independent in case you don't have a TuxDroid). Moreover, the language of
+ articles is detected (thanks to the oice.langdet Python module). This
+ allows you to search for articles by language.
+
+0.8 (2010-02-24)
+----------------
+ It is now possible to share articles with delicious, Digg, reddit,
+ Scoopeo, and Blogmarks.
+ The "Management of feeds" page presents information on the database and
+ statistics on articles (with a histogram). HTML tags are now skipped for
+ the search. Some other improvements were made.
+
+0.7 (2010-02-15)
+----------------
+ It is now possible to search for an article, through the titles and
+ descriptions.
+
+0.6 (2010-02-05)
+----------------
+ Unread articles are now shown in bold. This was implemented using a new
+ field in the SQLite database. New tabs for article descriptions are opened
+ with the _rel=noreferrer_ option in order to separate processes (useful
+ with Chromium). It is now possible to see only unread articles for each feed.
+
+0.5 (2010-02-02)
+----------------
+ It is now possible to fetch feeds manually by clicking on "Fetch all feeds"
+ and/or with cron. Better navigation between feeds and improvements to the
+ SQLite database have been added.
+
+0.4 (2010-02-01)
+----------------
+ Release 0.4. The main page display only 10 articles by feeds.
+ For each feeds a page present the list of all articles. The SQLite base is
+ smaller than before (removed hashed value).
+ A lot of improvements.
+
+0.3 (2010-02-01)
+----------------
+ A new menu was added for faster access to feeds. Some improvements were
+ made to the CSS.
+
+0.2 (2010-01-31)
+----------------
+ Articles are now sorted by date, and it is possible to read just a
+ description of an article. There are some improvements in the code and
+ SQLite base management.
+
+0.1 (2010-01-29)
+----------------
+ First release of pyAggr3g470r.
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