SmallNews 2.0 released

Thursday, February 25, 2010

SmallNews 2.0 is (finally) available for download. It's taken a long time because I kept adding features I want to put in, rather than finishing the others ones I'd already started.

This version adds three new features:

Purging of the database. This can be performed manually from the Settings tab, and you can specify how many days of articles you want to keep.
Experimental ePub support. You can now specify that an ePub version of the newspaper is created either as well or instead of the PDF version. It works very well for The Guardian, but can be a little more unpredictable for other feeds. More information about that to follow.
Wait for publication. The handler for the The Guardian has the (as yet, undocumented) ability to generate the newspaper in the same order as the printed version. This makes it a great deal more coherent, but The Guardian don't always get around to publishing this until mid-morning. This option can instruct SmallNews to wait until today's edition has been published before starting a scheduled run. More info to follow on that too.

All of these need a bit more documentation, which I will aim to do shortly. I have added quite a bit of extra documentation since 2.0b3; you can find it on the SmallNews page.

Also, the source code for SmallNews is now available. It has always been an open source application in principle, I just never got round to publishing the source.

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