The first beta of FeedDemon 1.10 is now available to registered customers.

Please note that this beta release will not work on your computer unless you’ve purchased FeedDemon 1.0.

Along with the usual bug fixes, version 1.10 includes a number of new features, including:

New Features

Keyword search of existing news items

Basic support for Atom 0.3 feeds

Update all groups

Support for the “feed URI scheme” (feed:// protocol)

New watches may be run on existing news items

And more…

Changes

The system tray “info balloon” has been replaced with an Outlook-style desktop alert

And more…

Please refer to the release notes for complete details on changes in version 1.10.

Download beta 1 (2.41MB), but make sure you read the release notes first.

Just install this directly on top of version 1.0 and your existing settings will be retained.

If you’re using the trial version of FeedDemon, this beta will not run on your computer.

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