NetNewsWire

• Changed Markdown behavior — it now prefers source:markdown, when present, over description and content:encoded, and renders the Markdown as HTML and uses it as the article body
• Added a dotted underline to links in the Sepia theme, to make links more visible

• Added support for source:markdown to the RSS parser. Markdown is stored in the database. When an article doesn’t already have HTML content, the Markdown will be rendered as HTML. (Note: anyone reading this in October 2025 almost surely does not have any source:markdown elements in their feeds, so this won’t affect you — though that may change in the future. Here’s more info, for the curious http://scripting.com/2022/07/19/152235.html?title=devNotesForMarkdownInFeeds)

• Made scrolling of the timeline view faster

• Improved http/https caching, reducing bandwidth and battery use
• Fixed bug where a feed could be read twice on being added
• Fixed bug where the initial download for a new feed didn’t store conditional GET info
• Added some special cases where we can and should avoid doing some specific work (such as downloading the home page to find a feed icon)
• Worked around a server bug where a server would always respond with a 304 when any conditional GET info is sent (the app drops conditional GET info every 8 days)
• Fixed a possible cause of feeds not updating by caching (non-429) 4xx responses for some hours rather than for the duration of the app run
• Fixed Atom parser bug with relative URLs

• Fixed bug with some favicons rendering weird, with dark vertical lines. Note: due to caching, the fix may take a few days to take effect

Changes since 6.1.9:

• Added caching to the downloader (the one that downloads feed icons, favicons, etc.) — make fewer network requests
• Worked around The Verge’s bug with character encoding
• Fixed bug where links in footnotes — in light mode, using the default theme — would be invisible
• Fixed double-underlines on 404 Media links. (Fixed bug where using tag inside an would cause two underlines.)
• Added &smallcircle; to the entities decoder
• Synced the Mac default theme with the iOS version
• Adopted secure state restoration

• Adopt secure state restoration; fix bug with state restoration not working in previous betas.

• Fixed bug, introduced in previous test build, that prevented choosing an OPML file to import

• Fixed bug, introduced in previous test build, that prevented adding a Feedly account

• Added caching to the downloader (the one that downloads feed icons, favicons, etc.) — make fewer network requests
• Worked around The Verge’s bug with character encoding
• Fixed bug where links in footnotes — in light mode, using the default theme — would be invisible
• Fixed double-underlines on 404 Media links. (Fixed bug where using tag inside an would cause two underlines.)
• Added &smallcircle; to the entities decoder
• Synced the Mac default theme with the iOS version

• Fix some glitches in the default article theme
• Fix an issue with slow updates for some feeds (by not paying attention to http Cache-Control response headers [except for openrss.org])