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compactRSS 1.5 Beta available for download

UPDATE: compactRSS 1.5 final has now been sent to certification and the download links have been removed.

As mentioned in my previous post, compactRSS will be soon available on Windows Marketplace for Mobile and will come with some nice new features.

One big part is localization. compactRSS 1.5 will come with 2 available languages, English and German. Also, some major code refactoring has happened and the performance should be noticeably better already now.

If you want to try it out, please feel free to download the 1.5 Beta from the product page. Please be aware that the localization to German is still in the works and therefore not complete.

Feedback is very welcome - please use the contact form on this website to send it to me.

New compactRSS release – Live Search is now working again

Just as I was not able to take care of bpk.cc in the last months, I was also not able to take care of compactRSS as much as I wanted.

But as bpk.cc is now up and alive again, it's also time to push out a new release of compactRSS with a few bugfixes.

The most important fix of course is that Live Search works again now (and is now rebranded to the new "Bing" brand). While Microsoft seemed to have fixed the issue with empty results for a couple of months, the problem popped up again (and was never fixed).

Now I digged deeper into the Bing API and found a solution that brings you a permanent fix. At least I hope so (seriously, Redmond!).

Here's the complete list what have been fixed in release 1.0.12.26:

  • Web search for feeds is now working again
    Searching by using Live Search returned no result over the last couple of months
  • Rebranded "Live Search" to "Bing"
  • Dropped support for Live Search 1.x API
    You cannot fallback to the 1.x API in compactRSS now by setting the relevant flag in the config file. Live Search / Bing API 2.0 is now the only supported version.
  • "Trace" menu entry is now removed completely if tracing is not enabled
    Until now, it was just disabled ("grayed out"). In fact, this menu entry was never meant to be seen by the end-user.
  • Fixed wrong header text in OPML Import explorer window
  • A few other small fixes or optimizations

As the update service is currently still not available, you will have to manually download the setup (cab) file to your phone from this website and execute it. It will update the old version automatically so you won't have to remove your current installation of compactRSS at least.

Version 1.0.12.26 will be available shortly for download from the product page and the download section of this website.