Vienna Files

Vienna 3.10.0

This version is recommended for all Vienna users. Development has focused on stability and consistency, in the spirit of Apple's "Snow Leopard".

1. Evolutions since Vienna 3.9.5

🚲 Changes

• Support closing tabs by clicking the middle button of the mouse
• Add a command to reopen the last closed tab
• Use a new icon
• Make other visual adaptations necessary for macOS Tahoe (macOS 26), while avoiding Tahoe's tendency to put icons on every menu item
• Distribute Vienna in .dmg disk images instead of .tgz archives
• Add a button to access notifications settings from Vienna's settings
• Use Command-Control-0 to Command-Control-2 shortcuts for layout selection (these replace Control+Number shortcuts which are reserved)
• Use green double dot instead of yellow sparkle as mark of revised articles in article list
• Change filter bar position in vertical layout and refactor filter bar into its own view controller
• Display new downloads at the top of the download window
• Group file download notifications in Notification Center
• Add a Mastodon plugin (based on AppleScript) : configuration can be modified by holding down the Option key when invoking the plugin
• Remove deprecated Pocket and Google Current plugins
• Replace Twitter plugin with X plugin
• Remove obsolete sources of RSS feeds
• Make search plug-in names in toolbar more explicit
• Register Vienna as being able to open OPML files, e.g. in "Open With" menus
• Add keywords for Spotlight search
• Disable in the user interface the "Subscribe in Open Reader" option if syncing is not yet configured
• Suspend (up to 5 minutes) connection attempts when the computer is disconnected from network
• Be more tolerant with feeds using RSS tags instead of Atom tags (or vice-versa)
• Display details about failures on parsing feed in activity window
• Update translations

🤷🏻 Bugfixes

• Prevent some freezes related to attempts to detect RSS feeds
• Fix date 1.1.1970 or 31.12.1969 appearing for "Last Update"
• Prevent some of the situations which led Vienna to reset its folder order to alphabetical order
• Fix search plugins
• Fix search of plugins on case-sensitive file systems
• Multiple improvements and fixes to AppleScript support
• Fix icons not being visible in table header on macOS 26
• Improve handling and retention of the font selected in settings
• Fix / improve validation for many menu / toolbar items
• Fix text-only mode of toolbar and support of palette-color icons on macOS 15+
• Fix minimum font size setting
• Update link underline color to match system link color
• Fix animation bug when collapsing/expanding groups in folder list sidebar
• Fix bug that caused an invalid (duplicate) folder name being displayed while it has been rejected by the app
• Trim whitespaces at start or end of folder names entered by user
• Fix enclosure detection in OPDS acquisition feeds
• Fix crash or inability to parse some feeds containing HTML tags instead of their XHTML equivalent
• Fix relative URLs for certain feeds

⚙️ Internals improvements

• Have article controller fetch articles asynchronously (makes the application more responsive on folder selection)
• Improve detection and repair of inconsistent counts of unread articles
• Improve management of feed articles cache
• Overhaul plugin manager with NSBundle instances to enable plugins localization
• Improve error handling in OpenReader
• Rebalance AppController role:
  • move parts of the layout code and many actions to ArticleController
  • modify handling of keyboard events to avoid doing everything in AppController
  • diminish ArticleListView and UnifiedDisplayView reliance on AppController
  • move Sparkle Updater controller to ViennaApp
• Remove unused methods from BaseView protocol
• Optimize notifications timings during feed refreshes
• Improve lookup/selection of the "Unread Articles" smart folder
• Use storyboards as starting points for application, activity window, NewSubscription
• Refactor feed discovery
• Use view-based table view in download window; refactor the window and its contextual menus
• Remove ExtendedTableViewDelegate in favor of NSMenuDelegate
• Remove NSKeyedArchiver/NSKeyedUnarchiver methods which were needed for macOS 10.12 backwards compatibility
• Mimic Safari for web browser's user agent
• Remove legacy address bar
• Use find(_:configuration:completionHandler:) for searching in WKWebView in macOS 11.0+
• Remove unnecessary debugging code using some private properties of WKWebView
• Fix discrepancy in HTTP user-agent when adding a new subscription
• Reorganize the code used for fetching and caching websites' favicons
• Improve the code which manages the size of a split view involving web view
• Remove deprecated network calls
• Update document type declarations in Info.plist
• Clean up imports and class forward declaration
• Refactor Article's properties and accessors
• Declare some Objective-C designated initializers
• Rename multiple actions/variables/constants for consistency
• Reorganize items in Xcode
• Update tests
• Simplify our version of Autorevision

🛤️ Infrastructure updates

• Build on macOS 26.3 / Xcode 26.2
• Update FMDB to version 2.7.12, Sparkle to version 3.8.0
• Add Crowdin CLI configuration for translations management
• Clarify the directories used for derived files during build process
• Update Github checkout action to version 6
• Update SwiftLint settings

📖 Documentation

• Add documentation about usage of large language models (so-called "AI")
• Minor fix in Changelog regarding versions 2.6.0
• Various updates

2. Evolutions since Vienna 3.10.0 Beta 7

• Add keywords for Spotlight search
• Replace some toolbar icons with symbols having a higher resolution
• Update translations
• Fix enclosure detection in OPDS acquisition feeds
• Optimize asynchronous articles refresh
• Improve handling of "Check for Updates" menu item
• Remove a documentation file from bundle resources
• Build on macOS 26.3 / Xcode 26.2