NetNewsWire 7.1b1 for Mac — new tools

Beta Testing
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Earlier today we released NetNewsWire 7.1b1 for Mac with some useful new tools.

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/releases/tag/mac-7.1b1

Some of them were features in NetNewsWire of Yore, and some are new.

Old features that have come back:

Dinosaurs window

Current Activity window

New features:

Activity Log

Account Stats

The goal of these tools is to make it so that you can find out what NetNewsWire is doing and why — so you can troubleshoot on your own and so you can post here or on the bug tracker with additional information about what’s happening. (So we don’t have to guess.)

If you have any feedback about these — bugs, feature requests, ideas — let me know here or on the bug tracker. Thanks!

PS Yes, these will be coming to the iOS TestFlight build as soon as we get those features done on iOS.

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Welcome back dinosaurs!

@brent Looking at my rather long dinosaur list (Show feeds not updated in: 6 months) I noticed an item that had updates today. Then I noticed there is no date in it’s Last article column. What might this feed be missing exactly?:

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What happens if you select that feed in the Dinosaurs window and click Select in Sidebar?

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Ah — I see the problem. The feed, almost unbelievably, does not have dates.

    <item>
      <title>Magnitude 3.0, Goldfields, WA</title>
      <link>https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/event/ga2026liqxru</link>
      <description>2026-06-09T12:42:44.508Z(UTC)</description>
      <summary>Depth 10km, Felt Radius 22km</summary>
      <georss:point>-33.285 121.036</georss:point>
    </item>

Yes, there’s a date in the description, but dates belong in a pubDate element, not the description.

There must be a Dinosaurs bug with feeds with no dates. It should consider not just pubDate but also the date NetNewsWire first saw the article (we do store that date also).

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I’ve got it fixed here — the fix will be in the next beta.

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Wow. I’ll do my bit and see if they are responsive to a fix. Thanks @brent

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Occurred to me to put it in the feed validator:

It has a pubDate at the channel level – although the validator is upset by its lack of explicit timezone.

Makes sense (at least to me) that earthquake events would be dated though — I’ve asked.

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Confirmed fixed in Version 7.1b2 (Build 7101)

:sauropod::folded_hands: