FeedTree Version 0.6

Feature & Change summary

• new cross-platform client GUI application
  • double-clickable application on Windows and MacOS X
  • graphical JAR for other platforms (<tt>java -jar ftproxygui.jar</tt>)
  • startup feedback and error reporting
  • log viewer
  • display proxy host/port in use
  • allow user to configure network ports (easing configuration of multiple clients behind a NAT)
  • link to web console (not currently functioning in Linux)
• improved data-collection for research (the current reporting system is at once over-designed and under-useful)
  • somewhat anonymized (no full IP addresses or feed URLs, but nodeId and topicId will be included)
  • data to collect:
    • nodeId
    • FeedTree software version/svn change
    • uptime
    • memory usage
    • triples of <topicid, parent-nodeid, #entries>
• include Rome v0.8 with Atom 1.0 support patch

Bugs fixed

[See the reports available from milestone:0.6 .]

• #6 proxy status seems to use absolute URLs
• #13 ftproxy should forget about feeds which haven't been accessed in some
• #14 Feature: FeedTree exceptions injected into the feed should be more rare
• #15 RSS <description>s become Atom <content type="text/plain">
• #17 ftproxy doesn't recognize Atom 1.0 feed
• #18 wgetting a non-feed file from a gzip-encoding web server returns a gzipped file
• #21 ftproxy UI is nonexistant
• #23 JavaApplicationStub is not executable
• #26 GUI doesn't give enough startup feedback
• #27 ftproxy dies when you close the window on OSX
• (others which were not filed with the ticket system)