Sage Blog

We've rolled out a new look and feel for our project site today, a change that will give us a little more breathing room as we add new content.

Along with the updated appearance comes a new addition to the site. The Styles section is a first step toward providing an organized collection of Sage customizations from the community. If you know of a Sage Style that you'd like to see in our collection, feel free to submit it to the mailing list. Thanks to Ben Branders for his help in creating this resource.

Sage 1.3.6 has been released. This is a maintenance release adding Atom 1.0 support and Firefox 1.5b compatibility.

• Atom 1.0 support
• Compatibility with Firefox 1.5 Beta
• Add da-DK locale
• Fix item content overflow in rendered feed

Sage 1.3.5 has been released. This is a maintenance release that cleans up a few lingering Deer Park compatibility issues.

• uncaught exception in discover feeds on Deer Park
• Deer Park compatibility

Sage 1.3.4 has been released. This is a maintenance release that provides Deer Park compatibility and fixes an Atom parsing bug.

• Deer Park incompatibilities
• Atom XHTML content parsing issue

Sage 1.3.3 has been released. This is a maintenance release that fixes a regression in the date parsing logic.

• fix parsing of non-standard RFC 822 dates

Sage 1.3.2 has been released. This is a maintenance release that includes six new locales and a handful of bug fixes that we felt shouldn't wait until our 1.4 release. Changes are detailed below.

• repair es-AR locale
• stop whitespace normalization in feed parser
• keep Live Bookmarks from being skipped by update checker
• use better feed signature algorithm for update checker
• fix crash on blank space click
• use TreeBoxObject API changes
• support for pubDates with two digit year
• add bookmark datasource flushing
• add six new locales: el-GR, pl-PL, pt-BR, sl-SI, zh-CN, cs-CZ

After some delay, Sage 1.3.1 has be released. This is a maintenance release that includes a feed parsing bug fix, a proper Catalan locale identifier (ca-AD), as well as new Finnish, Serbian, and Argentine Spanish locales.

Our friends at Mozilla Update have been dealing with lots of change over the last few months and have been unable to process extension updates until recently, hence the delay in getting this release listed.

• Live Bookmarks Integration
  Sage now interprets Live Bookmarks just as it does regular bookmarks, allowing the user to subscribe to feeds using the auto-discovery mechanism in Firefox. Live Bookmarks may be added to your Sage Feeds folder using Firefox's orange feed indicator icon, making them available for reading in the Sage sidebar. This gives users a quick and easy subscription method, while Sage's built-in 'Discover Feeds' function provides a more thorough scan.
• Feed Item Toolbar and Mark Read/Unread
  Sage now supports marking feed items as read or unread. To do this you can either use the feed item context menu or the Feed Item List Toolbar. The following keyboard shortcuts are available (As usual you can hold down shift or ctrl when clicking the feed item to open it a new window or tab):
  
  

  M	Toggles the read state of the selected feed item
  Ctrl+Shift+C	Marks all feed items as read.
  Enter	Open selected feed item in current tab/window
  Shift+Enter	Open selected feed item in a new window
  Ctrl+Enter	Open selected feed item in a new tab

• Enhanced Locale Support
  Thanks to the efforts of our localization group, Sage now has full native support for Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Swedish locales.
• Many bug fixes and miscellaneous enhancements.

Sage 1.2.2 has been released. This is a maintenance release that repairs problems with the French locale and fixes minor RSS parsing and update checking bugs.

Sage 1.2.1 has been released. This is a maintenance release that fixes a few RSS and OPML parsing issues as well as an encoding problem in the French locale.

Sage 1.2 has been released. Changes include:

• Feed Discovery: one click finds any feeds in the current document
• Zero configuration install: much easier getting started for new users
• French, Italian, Dutch, and Hungarian locale support
• Many bug fixes, tweaks, and enhancements

Thanks to all those who have been participating through feature suggestions, bug reports, locale translations, and patches. Keep the feedback coming.

Sage 1.1 has been released. Changes include:

• New feed parsing model, much improved update detection
• Technorati integration
• Automatic feed bookmark titling
• Firefox 0.9 Extension Manager support

Sage 1.0 is available. It adds:

• Parsing and display of item publish dates
• Various UI tweaks
• More robust uninstall
• Atom parsing fix, broken html tags fix (hat tip to Chris Farmer)

Sage will build on flyson's excellent RSS Reader Panel extension to create a well rounded, lightweight feed reader for Mozilla Firefox. A first release will be available soon, containing fixes and enhancements that I've made over the last few months as well as some patches from the community. Many thanks to flyson for laying the foundation with one of the most useful Firefox extentions available.