Aggie 10 RC4 I Am Pleased To Annouce The Release Of

I am pleased to annouce the release of Aggie 1.0 RC4.

Special thanks to: Simon Fell, Eric Vitiello, Ziv Caspi, Ingve Voremstrand, and everybody that has submitted bug reports and enhancement requests.

Highlights for the RC4 release

Internationalization

Aggie now has better support for international feeds.

Proxy Support

Now you can use Aggie with a proxy server.

Stylesheets

Aggie supports having different stylesheets to style the resulting HTML. Each stylesheet can have it's own configuration dialog and saved parameters. Here is a detailed explaination of how this system works. How Templates Work In Aggie.

Speed Improvements

There have been many improvements that help Aggie get the news faster. There is now support for the "If-Modified-Since" HTTP header, meaning Aggie will only download a file if it has changed since the last time it was retrieved. Also the HTTP Redirection header is obeyed and stored to reduce the number of round trips retrieving files. In addition all this information is stored in a seperate file so that if you are using Aggie to read an OPML file from a remote site you still get all the speed enhancements.

Command-Line

Aggie now ships with a command line version of Aggie that can be used in background tasks.

Referer Logs

Aggie now supports placing a link back to the users website in the referer logs. The genesis and explaination of this idea is documented on Content Syndication with XML and RSS. The page that the referer log entry points to is here (using bitworking.org as the example site) http://bitworking.org/AggieReferrers.html?userWeblog=http://bitworking.org