ANN: Inbox 3.0 Beta 3 Now Available

Nick Harris — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:23:40 GMT

NewsGator Inbox 3.0 Beta 3 is now available:
[url=http://www.newsgator.com/download/NGInbox/NGInboxSetup.msi]
http://www.newsgator.com/download/NGInbox/NGInboxSetup.msi[/url]

This is an official beta release but is still incomplete. Please don't download it unless you're comfortable using incomplete software that may still contain bugs.

Please report any issues here in the forums!

Release Notes (Build 3.0.497)
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Enhancements:
- Added the ability for users to change the URL of a feed
- Added the Profile Manager back into Inbox 3.0 so users can select which profiles Inbox gets loaded with
- Added a program files menu option to submit diagnostic information
- Added the ability to rename subscriptions in the Subscription Settings dialog
- Added a new alert that lets users know that a folder could not be created - this happens in some installs of Outlook where a feeds name contains characters that are not allowed in folder names
- Performance enhancements when deleting multiple subscriptions
- Performance enhancements around synchronization by using new API calls

Bug Fixes:
- Added ngstyles.css into the installer
- Fixed bug where moving your base newsfolder would lose track of folders and items already created
- Fixed bug with NGPublisherPlugin.dll which made it incompatible with Vista and UAC
- Fixed bug where styles in ngstyles.css were not picked up by Outlook 2007
- Fixed bug where folders with special characters were not being loaded correctly into folder management memory. This caused a handful of other issues.
- Fixed bug where data stores were being loaded twice on startup
- Fixed bug where NumVisits count was incrementing way too often
- Fixed bug where other attention details were recorded with Int16's instead of UInt32's
- Fixed bug where bad data in a subscriptions’ saved OPML settings would cause that subscription to be lost on load
- Fixed bug where clipping items from a private subscription caused errors and duplicate posts
- Fixed a bunch of bugs around manual folders and auto-folders and how they get treated when turning sync off and on
- Fixed bug that allowed non-synced users to move subscription folders into other subscription folders
- Fixed bug where some folders deleted in Inbox were not deleted online
- Fixed bug where "Folder Not Empty" error messages could occur on uninstall
- (Case 113829) - If a subscription cannot be downloaded because it's name has incorrect character, once the user fixes it, ask to download the subscription
- (Case 126922) - Fixed bug where double clicking a subscription in the List view of Manage Subscriptions caused an exception
- (Case 126923) - Fixed bug where adding a NewsGator Keyword search crashed Outlook
- (Case 127227) - Added code to load plugins from the old directory as well as the new one for backward compatibility
- (Case 127529) - Fixed bug where subscription may not be written to the correct parent in OPML
- (Case 127851) - Fixed a few bugs around Last Update in the list view of Manage Subscriptions
- (Case 128262) - Added the ability to not mark clipped posts as read when clipping from the NewsPage
- (Case 128327) - Fixed bug where tree view wouldn't scroll to show other folders
- (Case 128345) - Fixed bug where some posts did not display descriptions in the NewsPage
- (Case 128346) - Fixed bug where OPML was being written twice on retrieves
- (Case 128722) - Fixed bug where dragging a folder onto its self in Manage Subscriptions caused Outlook to hang
- (Case 128852) - Fixed bug where base news folder could get deleted when you deleted the last subscription adding its posts to it
- (Case 128953) - Fixed bug where clipping items non-sync always asked to setup sync
- (Case 129955) - Added a registry setting to turn off showing the author on the NewsPage (NewsPageShowAuthor, REG_DWORD, 0 for off)
- (Case 131026) - Fixed bugs that occur after a user deletes their base clippings folder
- (http://forum.newsgator.com/Topic36742-1-1.aspx) - Fixed the ProcessProcSite bug

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