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NetNewsWire @NetNewsWire@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

What We’ve Been Doing This Past Year: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/06/15/what-weve-been-doing-this.html

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NetNewsWire - What We’ve Been Doing This Past Year

On his blog, Brent writes about the past year of NetNewsWire development.

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NetNewsWire @NetNewsWire@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

NetNewsWire 7.1 for Mac: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/06/26/netnewswire-for-mac.html

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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 7.1 for Mac

NetNewsWire 7.1 for Mac includes new features that help you understand what’s up with your feeds: The Current Activity window shows what the app is doing right now The Activity Log window shows what the app did recently The Account Stats window shows per-account article and status counts and database sizes, and it includes a Vacuum Databases button which can help with database size and performance The Dinosaurs window lists feeds that haven’t updated in n months (with a text field where you spe

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· 3mo ago

NetNewsWire 7.1 for iOS: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/06/26/netnewswire-for-ios.html

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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 7.1 for iOS

NetNewsWire 7.1 for iOS, now available on the App Store, has the same new features as the Mac version… The Current Activity screen shows what the app is doing The Activity Log screen shows what the app did The Account Stats screen shows various stats The Dinosaurs screen lists stale feeds …plus a bunch more changes, including some performance enhancements. See the release notes for the big list.

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· 5mo ago

NetNewsWire Now Getting Feed Images from RSS: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/04/28/netnewswire-now-getting-feed-images.html

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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire Now Getting Feed Images from RSS

In NetNewsWire 7.0.5 we made a change to get the feed image from RSS via the image element. Weren’t we already doing this? Seems surprising that we weren’t! It’s because, historically, these images were often rectangular — but the app wants square images. These days, probably due to the influence of mobile apps, images tend to be square, which is great. It means we can use these. Note to feed publishers We suggest checking your feeds to see if they are supplying an image URL.

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· 6mo ago

NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for Mac — new iCloud features: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/04/03/netnewswire-for-mac-new-icloud.html

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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for Mac — new iCloud features

We’ve just released NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for Mac. Do a Check for Updates or download it directly to get the update. The big new changes are to iCloud syncing: there’s a new setting to not sync the content of unread articles, since that’s the biggest part of your iCloud database and what takes the longest to sync. Another change is a new iCloud Storage Stats window that tells you exactly what’s in your iCloud storage — and it includes a Clean Up button that will trim down your storage (and lead to f

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· 6mo ago

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NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for iOS — runs on iOS 17 and up: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/04/06/netnewswire-for-ios-runs-on.html

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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for iOS — runs on iOS 17 and up

NetNewsWire 7.0.4 is out — get your updates the normal way or download from the App Store. There are two big changes in this release: it now runs on iOS 17 and up (it no longer requires iOS 26), and it includes the same new iCloud syncing enhancements that the Mac version has. See the new How to Optimize iCloud Syncing page for details on the iCloud changes, and read the release notes for details on all the changes.

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· 6mo ago

NetNewsWire User Creates MCP Support Via AppleScript: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/03/21/netnewswire-user-creates-mcp-support.html

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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire User Creates MCP Support Via AppleScript

Jelly writes on the NetNewsWire Discourse forum: I’ve drafted a naive implementation of NNW MCP support through AppleScript. It supports listing feeds, getting/searching articles, subscribing new feeds… I can now schedule a daily task that lets Claude summarize that day’s new articles and order them based on my previous behaviors every morning. We love how AppleScript support is worth way more than the effort we put into it — users can keep creating cool things that we couldn’t have imagined b

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· 3mo ago

How to Beta Test NetNewsWire: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/06/29/how-to-beta-test-netnewswire.html

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NetNewsWire - How to Beta Test NetNewsWire

We very much appreciate the bug reports and feedback from NetNewsWire beta testers — and we want to make sure that everyone who might be interested in helping this way knows how to get started. It’s easy. 😀 So we’ve written up a new How to Beta Test NetNewsWire page. Want to help make NetNewsWire a better app? This is how!

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· 8mo ago

Boosted by @gedeonm@mastodon.social

NetNewsWire Turns 23: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/02/11/netnewswire-turns.html

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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire Turns 23

NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today! 🎸🎩🕶️ Here’s where things are on this particular February 11: we just shipped 7.0 for Mac and iOS, and now we’re working on NetNewsWire 7.0.1. After a big release, no matter how careful we are, there are often some regressions to fix and tweaks to make right away, so we’re working on those. Here’s the milestone with the current to-do list.

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· 6mo ago

NetNewsWire 7.0.2: The Return of the Error Log: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/03/19/netnewswire-the-return-of-the.html

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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 7.0.2: The Return of the Error Log

NetNewsWire of Yore had an Error Log window (on Mac) which could help you figure out what’s going on when a feed or account is acting weird — when it’s stopped updating, for instance. NetNewsWire 7.0.2 brings that feature back, and we’ve already used it to help fix a syncing authentication bug (bug fix will be in 7.0.3). Get your updates the usual way and enjoy the return of the Error Log!

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· 7mo ago

Testing help for NetNewsWire 7.0.1 beta needed — runs on macOS 15: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/02/27/testing-help-for-netnewswire-beta.html

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NetNewsWire - Testing help for NetNewsWire 7.0.1 beta needed — runs on macOS 15

NetNewsWire 7.0 required macOS 26, but now we’re working on making it compatible with macOS 15. This latest beta — either do a check-for-updates or download it manually to get it — runs on macOS 15. So far we’ve found just a couple cosmetic glitches, but we’d like to do a lot more testing than just a few quick looks around. We appreciate all the help! You can report bugs on the bug tracker or on the Discourse forum topic for this beta.

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· 6mo ago

Testing Help for NetNewsWire 7.0.4 — runs on iOS 17 and iOS 18: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/03/30/testing-help-for-netnewswire-runs.html

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NetNewsWire - Testing Help for NetNewsWire 7.0.4 — runs on iOS 17 and iOS 18

We just released a TestFlight build of NetNewsWire 7.0.4 (which includes iCloud syncing enhancements) that runs on iOS 17 and up. (It had required iOS 26.) If you have a device running one of these versions of iOS, we’d appreciate it if you would help test. Here’s where to sign up for TestFlight for NetNewsWire. Thanks! You can report bugs via TestFlight feedback, on the forum, or on the bug tracker.

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· 6mo ago

Replying to

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place NetNewsWire 7.0.1 and up runs on macOS 15 and up, which means you can get the version with the Error Log. https://netnewswire.blog/2026/03/04/netnewswire-for-mac-runs-on.html

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NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 7.0.1 for Mac runs on macOS 15

We’ve just released NetNewsWire 7.0.1 for Mac. To get it, do a check-for-updates or download it directly. The big new thing is that runs on macOS 15. 💥 It fixes several bugs as well: see the change notes on GitHub for details. Thanks to everyone who helped test! PS NetNewsWire 7.0.1 for iOS in waiting for review. Hopefully it will be out in the next few days.

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· 7mo ago

Replying to

@NeueWelle@mastodon.social We will not be supporting earlier versions of iOS or iPadOS — it’s way too much work. (Supporting the earlier macOS version turns out to be little work.)

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NetNewsWire @NetNewsWire@indieweb.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@rosyna@mastodon.social We forget the details, but the numbers suggested it would get us another several percent of iOS users with almost no additional work over the effort of supporting iOS 18. The line between iOS 18 and iOS 26 is way bigger than the line between iOS 17 and iOS 18.

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NetNewsWire @NetNewsWire@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@shrugg1e@mastodon.social MacRumors does not specify an image in its feed, so NetNewsWire gets the image by looking at the s in the MacRumors home page. Ends up looking like the attached screenshot. Do you see something different?

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NetNewsWire @NetNewsWire@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

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@shrugg1e@mastodon.social It’s likely we’re talking about two different things. We’re talking about feed images, as in the image that identifies the feed (the logo for the site). We’re not talking about per-article images. (That’s a different thing.)

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