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Release Thu, Jun 25, 2026 2 min read

NetNewsWire 7.1

Changes since 7.0.6: - Added Activity Log window - shows what the app has been doing - Added Current Activity window - shows what the app is doing right now - Added Account Stats window - shows per-account article and status counts and database sizes, plus a Vacuum Databases button - Added Dinosaurs

Changes since 7.0.6:

  • Added Activity Log window - shows what the app has been doing <https://netnewswire.com/help/activity-log.html>
  • Added Current Activity window - shows what the app is doing right now <https://netnewswire.com/help/current-activity.html>
  • Added Account Stats window - shows per-account article and status counts and database sizes, plus a Vacuum Databases button <https://netnewswire.com/help/account-stats.html>
  • Added Dinosaurs window - lists feeds that haven't updated in n months (with a text field where you specify n) <https://netnewswire.com/help/dinosaurs.html>
  • Started deleting feeds and folders optimistically from iCloud - sidebar updates immediately instead of waiting for the server
  • Fixed a memory use issue with marking read/unread/starred/unstarred
  • Made timeline scrolling faster and smoother
  • Fixed bug where iCloud feed renames could fail on transient network errors - they're now retried
  • Started backing off Feedly status sync to 30 minutes between checks when the last sync had no changes
  • Stopped feed refreshing while the Mac is asleep
  • Started handling transient feed-refresh failures (DNS, certificate, etc.) by retrying after a few hours instead of treating them as permanent failures
  • Fixed bug parsing feeds where a title (or other tag) without a prefix appears inside a namespaced section (<s:variant>, for instance)
  • Added more trackers to the block list
  • Fixed WebKit crash in the detail view caused by re-entrancy
  • Started saving the response code for 4xx and 5xx responses so the error log shows the right info
  • Reduced disk writes while syncing article statuses
  • Fixed a crash that could happen when deleting Feedly folders
  • Fixed a crash that could happen when building notification thumbnails
  • Removed images from items in contextual menus in sidebar and timeline
  • Fixed bug (introduced in 7.0.6) where newly-arrived articles weren't added to the search index