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Only a + nickname and a password are required to create an account; + * deployment is now done with poetry; + * removed a lot of bad JavaScript code. + + +## 8.0 (2017-05-24) + + New: + * you can now manage your bookmarks with Newspipe; + * a bookmarklet is available in order to quickly bookmark Web pages; + * import of bookmarks from Pinboard (JSON export); + * new logo; + Improvements: + * refactoring and code cleaning; + * improved Heroku auto-deploy functionality. + Fixes: + * crawler: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable in html.unescape(). + + +## 7.1.3 (2016-11-14) + + New: + * a template for the articles of public feeds has been added; + * the template of the feeds is now also used for users who are not + authenticated (if the feed is not private); + * tags of articles are now displayed in the UI. + Improvements: + * it is now possible to configure the feeds refresh interval (in minutes) + for the crawler (even if the crawler is used with cron); + * various improvements to the UI of the public profile page; + * simpler format for the logs when the application is running on Heroku. + + +## 7.1.2 (2016-11-08) + + New: + * the new name of JARR is now Newspipe; + * the user can now add its twitter link through the profile page; + * it is now possible to edit the visibility of a feed (if it should be + listed in the list of the user's public profile); + * tags of articles are now retrieved in order to use k-means clustering + on tags (will be faster than on the article's content); + * various improvements to the crawler (test if an article should be + updated and better use of coroutines). + Improvements: + * improved the layout of the profile page; + * the React.js page now only lists the feeds with unread articles by + default; + * improvements for the crawler. + Removal: + * removed the 'refresh_rate' column from the user table; + * removed the export to HTML webzine functionality. + + +## 7.1.1 (2016-10-04) + + Improvements: + * improved the installation script; + * improved the deployment process with Vagrant. + Fixes: + * fixed a bug that occurred when deleting a user who has categories with + feeds in it; + * fixed a bug that occurred when the user wants to use SQLite. + + +## 7.1 (2016-09-26) + + New: + * public profile page for users (private by default); + * popular page: displays the most popular feeds recentlty added by the users; + * new logo. + Improvements: + * the profile edition page has been improved; + * the generation of the tag cloud has been improved (faster). + Fixes: + * fixed a bug when loading the list of stop words. + + +## 7.0 (2016-04-07) + + New: + * redoing entierly the home page with react; + * implementing category; + * the classic crawler is now taking into account updated articles from feeds; + * support of HTTP proxy has been removed; + * article URL resolving has been removed (wasn't used); + * improvement of the management of users in the dashboard; + * account confirmation is now achieved with a token that expires in a + specified time. + Improvements: + * Code re-arangement: move all code to /src/ + + +## 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. |