#Release note history for 1.11.5 Release Candidate 1

Mobile RSS Reader Release Notes

Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Tommi Laukkanen http://www.substanceofcode.com Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Irving Bunton Jr

Contributors: Irving Bunton Jr

Release Notes

v1.5 (July 23th 2007)

• Open links in device browser
• Allow long feed URLs

v1.9 (August 14rd 2007)

• Support ISO8859-1, windows-1252, UTF-8, UTF-16 (partial support
• Fixed import feeds replacing current feed and importing only 1 feed.

v1.10 (August 23rd 2007)

• Reduced memory overflows while saving
• Fix '|' in header name and item
• Prompt to delete feed
• Fix delete of feed and add with the same name
• Full/fixed support for ISO8859-1, windows-1252, UTF-8, UTF-16
• Support for some redirects
• Optionally mark unread items in feed
• Show memory usage
• Prepare to allow saving of log level for test version.
• Replace HTML entities and numeric entitites from OPML title
• Replace more HTML entities and hex numeric entitites
• Read all unread items in list
• Update only modified feeds.
• Use summary if no description in atoms.
• Use dates in atoms.
• Support more date formats.
• Save if opening link closes the application
• Save without exit
• Show error for import feed parsing error
• Show and open enclosure
• Support more time formats

v1.10.1 (August 24rd 2007)

• Fixed about not being shown the first time of use
• Fixed intermittent exit problem

v1.10.2 (August 24rd 2007)

• Fixed infinate loop in emulator on exit.
• Take version from mainifest file.

v1.10.3 (August 28th 2007)

• Fixed date formatting if it has '-' for RSS date.
• Use alternate link for atoms of self and related are not present.
• Rename New Items form to Unread Items form.
• Remove unused test logging classes.

v1.10.4 (September 4th 2007)

• Fixed allowing pasting for some devices. (Other devices may not have had

any problem.)

• Fixed redirect problem with capitalized HTML tags.
• Show used/available memory in addition to DB memory used/available.
• Allow copy of enclosure.
• Give alert for out of memroy that is there until it is dismissed.
• Fixed initial run problem with bookmarks shown before about screen.
• Fixed intermittent start hang with MIDP 1.0 version.
• Added more logging for test version.
• Set focus when setting copy link/enclosure (Focus does not work

on all devices including the emulator.)

v1.10.5 (September 17th 2007)

• Allow non utf-16 to be faster.
• Allow windows single quote for attributes.
• Fixed attributes not handling encoding.
• Allow descending sort of unread items dates.
• Don't give error if missing title.
• Allow reading of missing titles from OPML.
• Get redirection from URLs with redirection statuses.
• More error messages for feed problems.
• Test logging changes (not in released binaries. In test only).
• Fixed add new bookmark not showing previous user name/password.
• Increased size of bookmarks that can be restored.
• Logging changes (for test only).

v1.10.6 (September 20th 2007)

• Fix serious problem with import not working

v1.10.7 (October 2nd 2007)

• Give error for forbidden and not found
• Allow optional prevention of redirect for bad HTML mime types
• Allow files in memory for feed files and import files
• Allow paste for MIDP-1.0 (dependent on device)
• Show program and device midp, cldc, jsr75 settings on settings form

v1.11

• New river of news options to sort by date and feed for all items, only unread,

or only read.

• Mark item as read or unread on river of news
• Fix install problem on some MIDP 1.0 phones
• Allow import to insert, add to current or end.
• Allow add bookmark to insert, add to current or end.
• Use allow paste from regular command for MIDP 2.0 instead of item command
• Create forms only when needed to reduce memory usage
• Support metadata re-direct
• Support HTML RSS/Atom autolinks
• Minor performance enhancements
• Fix prologue handling to fix styleset handling
• Itunes version for phones with lots of memory (high end smartphones).

This gets subtitle, summary, author, explicit, language, and duration

• Support description and for date (name space other than dc) from Dublin Core
• Support two namespaces if present only itunes and Dublin core
• Support link for feed. Use link of feed if no link for item for

Itunes version (to save on memory since Itunes vers if for phones with more memory)

• Support future user defined category for feed.
• Support accessing memory without JSR-75 if phone supports, but the

file path needs to be know as browser is not possible, so this may not be very useful. Memory URL must begin with file://

• Support opening of files in the jar (jar:///) for future use of

files in the jar file

• Do not add feeds from HTML links which have 0 length
• Allow passwords to contain '|'
• Fix problem where textinput description is used instead of item description
• Fix problem where update of redirected feed twice while on the bookmark/feed

caused an error. (The previous workaround was to go back to bookmarks and then open the book mark and update)

• Fix problem with redirect not working for OPML files
• Fix problem with some HTML imports not giving any values
• Fix problem with some   not being removed
• Have error screen for errors during feed import.
• Give error when imporing and existing feed that it is not updated

(workaround is to delete and then re-import)

• Support HTML links without quotes for href
• Better error when redirect is a second time
• Allow logging of input/output with TESTUI define for test version.
• Allow testing of compatibilty of the record store from previous versions
• Allow change in order of back and open for headers/items list
• Testing form to show encoding
• Convert more entities. Also, convert hex numeric entities
• Support dates with non-breaking space
• Prevent infinate loop when removing HTML which has unmatched '<'
• Fix handling of out of memory while storing bookmarks
• Stop thread when exiting
• Memory not updated after first time viewed on settings.
• Allow items without a title. Use 1st 10 words (configurable in settings)

of the title for the item in headers list and title of item form

• Give correct error message if JSR75 not supported on the phone
• Don't have open/copy link command if no link
• Give out of memory errors when applicable
• Support phones with encoding aliases not documented in J2SE list

(e.g. ISO-8859-1 instead of ISO8859_1).

v1.11.1 (August 13th 2008)

• Fix bug when opening feeds on Sony Ericsson emulators and possiblely

affecting Sony Ericsson devices

• Fix bug with storing Itunes attributes
• Workaround VM problems with synchronized methods that prevent update of

settings

• Allow choice to use standard exit or not in exit. (Some phones the user may

not know which key is the exit key).

• Only remove new lines from title if there is a description.
• If atom has summary, but no title or description, use the summary as the

description

• Support CLDC 1.1 versions all MIDP 2.0 versions.
• Minor performance improvement for creating items, reading stored feeds.
• Allow feeds with '^' in title, description, subtitle, summary,

and author.

• Workaround loading form not being shown on N95. With the workaround the

problem is fixed.

• Prepare for future store of items without encoding
• Show microedition platform.
• Workaround problem with some Sony Ericsson phones with dynamic retrieval

of display. Need to use setCurrent using original display for alerts. This problem prevented exit/delete of feed, but is not fixed.

• Update exit key of when change of standard exit enabling.
• Allow feeds with '^' in title, description, subtitle, summary, and author.
• Use gauge to show progress of saving/loading.
• Fix dates in yyyy-mm-dd format
• Fix standard dates with 2 or more consecutive spaces
• Workaround Sony Ericsson T637 problem with Exit and Delete (Alerts on MIDP
1. 0 device)
• Handle Content module
• Add to disclamer
• Include jadsrc and manifestsrc directories in source zip
• Allow '|' in feed name, password, and podcast attributes author, subtitle,

summary.

• Fix bugs in wtk-build.xml when properties suffixes not used.
• Allow creation of jar using Free software: Phone ME, ECJ (Eclipse compiler),

GNU Classpath, and JamVM or GNU JavaVM (gcj)

• Workaround for MicroEmulator
• Optionally create PRC if present.
• Put in correct URL for jad for jar midlets.
• Put in optional midlet permissions
• Make creation of RIM optional
• Put missing directories into released zip
• Allow build of novice version with dist.midp.2.0.novice. Can take novice.txt

from a different file using ant -Dnovice.txt=(full path) dist.midp.2.0.novice The novice version has novice property true in manifest disables add, edit, delete, and import and reads from /data/novice.txt line by line file. The novice version is not the default, normally all functions are enabled.

• Only copy to device bin if midlet.home exists during build.
• Remove html from link for rss like from EBay.
• Allow override in place of existing feeds that are also in the import file.

This means that the feed in the import file will be used instead of what was loaded earlier. Override in place means that the overrided feed will be in the same place as it was before. This is different from the non-overrided feeds which will be added based on command used either insert, add, or append.

• Support RSS Atoms without published tag (version 0.3, 1,0 e.g. from google)

by using updated or modified for date if not published tag.

v1.11.2 Development 2 (dev2) (Dec 12th 2008)

• Check in the rest of novice enhancement
• Fix OPML with line feed/carriage return immediately after 'outline' tag.
• Combine if statements
• Changes from code analysis: Remove unnecessary modifiers. Put stack trace

into empty catch statements. Combine if statements. Remove unused equals.

• Fix problems with hangs (not present on most devices). Some methods are

required to not spend much time. As features are added to these methods, they become too long and cause a hang as J2ME has limited resources. This change worksaround this by doing operations in a separate thread.

• Allow options to change font size for lists.
• Turn on/off wraparound for lists
• Need serial version id for serializable classes.
• Fix river of news sort problem.
• Allow ascending and descending for river of news.
• Encode passwords
• Fix handling passwords for feeds
• Allow findbugs and PMD analyzers
• Give error if having problem doing find files
• Fix development 1 introduced problem with find files aborting (this problem

is not in stable versions)

• Allow bookmark/feed name at the beginning of river of news items.

v1.11.2 Development 3 (dev2) (Dec 22th 2008)

• Allow export of files on devices with JSR-75. This is not usable on most

devices as they require that the user accept the write of each BYTE. Yes, each byte so this takes forever to the point that I gave up.

• Attempts to fix problem on some devices where River of News leaves cursor is

put in the middle of the screen

• Progress bars for large memory version (future)
• Braces around optional feed names in River of News
• Better handling of forms/lists wakeup for command and other events.
• Show device locale in settings
• Fix problem of loss of data when going to link. This fixes a possibly

introduced defect into dev-2.

• Changes for next release of JLogMicro
• Fix turning on/off wraparound for lists

v1.11.2 Beta 1 (beta1) (Feb 2nd 2008)

• Show language for podcast version
• Allow sorting, etc from River of News for showing headers/items screen
• Have semi-automated tests go from the last item down to the first item
• Fixed problem where if sort yielded 0 items, the loading form is displayed without showing the list with 0 items.
• Fix if CDATA and a tag is embedded in it, the text following the last tag is now displayed
• Fix problem where if using "River of News" or Header sort of the number of items is 0, but a previous command displayed some results, there are items shown instead of 0 items.
• Synchronize sort variables to prevent unintended results
• Enhance to replace p, td, and br tags with a space.
• Fix test ui logging
• Have separate RIM (cod) jad file to prevent conversion of jar from corrupting the main jad file.
• Make building in windows and linux easier to switch between the two choices
• Change load for to have it's own logging methods to allow future putting load of form in a separate thread
• Combine classes for future enhancements.
• Fix description problem introduced in previous Alpha release
• Log command for testui for semi-automated tests
• More logging

v1.11.2 Release Candidate 1 (rc1) (March 11th 2009)

• Allow optional font size for forms. This only works for display only items and ChoiceGroups.
• Allow export only for podcast version.
• Separate saved items for export form.
• Use method for getting fields to save/restore.
• Changes for next release of JLogMicro.
• Changed disclaimer to take from a standard one from modified BSD.
• Include modified BSD license file with source/binary tar/zip.
• Use export to get source instead of checkout.

v1.11.2 Release Candidate 2 (rc2) (April 17th 2009)

• Allow optional retrieval of previous (last) values used by the previous add bookmark and import feeds.
• Do redirect for see other status from HTTP.
• If the feed name is changed with edit feed, remove the previous one.
• More logging.
• Fix logging typeos.
• Use less finals.
• Use printStackTrace in catch.
• Redirect for HTTP other status.
• Combine nested if's.
• Get file only in URLHandler.
• Remove unused variables.
• Allow descending feed sorted for headers/river of news.
• Remove empty if statements.
• Put parsing of feed from bookmarks in separate thread to prevent hang if the internet is not accessible (or someone selected the wrong access point).
• Better logging form info.
• Change final modifiers for methods/classes.
• Conditional get with last-modified or ETag.
• For MIDP 1.0 create GMT date string as JVM does not have to make toString give the date.
• Trim title, description, and link.
• Allow 3 redirects for getting to a feed.
• Allow name/title for bookmark/feed to be up to 100 bytes long.
• Better error message if problem loading edit bookmark.
• Log imported feed for import current with test.
• Fix 1.11.2 not recognizing data from 1.11.1.
• Better tests for equals to show more differences.
• Allow compatibility testing for the previous rms version layout.
• Put ascending/descending as last command.

v1.11.2 Release

• See notes above for beta and release candidate releases.

v1.11.3 Release Candidate 1 (rc1) (Sep 22st 2009)

• Simplify distribution.
• Remove unused fields.
• Handle Big5, BIG-HSCS, MS932, MS936, EUC_CN, SJIS, EUC_JP, EUC_JP_LINUX, ISO-2202-JP, MS949, MS950, ISCII91, EUC_TW, TIS-620, GBK, GB18030, and other encodings (only Big5 tested).
• Allow logging characters read for testing other encodings.
• Use/write JMUnit tests.
• Use interfaces for equals.
• Simplify/fix compatibility tests.
• Have dist-private to have a release with the private directory.
• Simplify explicit.
• Trim title for atoms if both title and description are present.
• Allow using RIM building of cod file using jar files.
• Export source without authorization as it is read only.

v1.11.3 (Oct 2nd 2009)

• Cosmetic source change.
• This contains all previous changes (see above).

v1.11.5 Release Candidate 2 (Mar 9th 2010)

• Use latest antenna 1.2.1 beta.
• Use latest proguard 4.5 beta3.
• Prevent override message from causing hang on import feeds.
• Use NULL pattern.
• Use observer pattern for feed parsing to prevent hangs from spotty networks and bad URLs.
• Use observer pattern for OPML/list parsing to prevent hangs from spotty networks and bad URLs.
• Don't use observer pattern for MIDP 1.0 as it increases size.
• Get feed titles for blank names in OPML in FeedListParser.
• Have next item command on item display.
• Use antenna to create manifest and jad.
• Remove unused methods.
• Fixed loop.
• Fix testing code of explicit.
• Use googlecode_upload.pl to upload to Google Project Hosting.
• Create smartphone version with just MIDP 2.0
• Create archive files.
• Don't create empty version directory.
• Use zip for src as the file paths are too long for non-GPL tar.
• Use - in cod files before version instead of .
• Make test distribution target with only MIDP 2.0 and MIDP 2.0 with JSR-75.
• Remove unneeded directories.
• Fix properties for MIDP 2.0 podcast/itunes.
• Create itunes test target.

Device Notes

• Phone must support MP3 links, etc to play enclosures (many phones do not allow an MP3 to be read from a URL, but play them from the file system)

TODO

• Check if need to set to itunes feed if not in header, but in items.
• Add some media fields.
• Use decorator patteren for media fields.
• Minimizer for open link or use to show link in RSS Reader.
• Methods for booleans for EncodingUtil.
• Fix new View. Get prev pos. in PageMgr.
• Fix removing command if change in PageMgr.
• Remove extra spaces between description item 7 of imbed. This happens from removing of HTML which is replaced by spaces.
• Handle content element with attribute type=html for HTML formating.
• Add Twim to RSS.
• Use multiple links in atom for twitter.
• Use twim menu.