Newsgroup: it.comp.macintosh
Titolo: Fwd: Unison 1.5 (Finally) Here


Newsgroups:  comp.sys.mac.apps
Date:        Mon, 30 Aug 2004 01:11:54 -0700
Just a brief note that after a far-too-long period of re-writing gobs 
of code and adding lots of requested features, we've finally released 
Unison 1.5!
You can grab it here:
http://www.panic.com/unison/
I'll spare you guys the wordy press release (unless you're curious), 
but suffice it to say we've been working quite hard at making Unison 
even better since the last release. The bulk of the delay with this 
update -- and we are truly sorry it took a little bit longer than we 
expected -- came from our realization that our method of storing posts 
was simply not going to cut it for high-volume groups, ever. So, we've 
totally ripped out and replaced our article storage system with a brand 
new, very efficient database. That took a few painful months of Dave's 
time, but it was worth it. :) Not only do groups open very very quickly 
now on subsequent visits (grouping information is stored as well), but 
memory usage is a mere pittance of what it used to be -- seriously. If 
any of you use Unison, I think you'll find it a great improvement.
Other than being generally more efficient, there are a few other new 
features probably of note for this message-oriented crowd:
- Rules!
        - You might call them "filters"
        - You can now highlight or kill messages automatically based on 
various criteria
        - Note: we know that there are a LOT more Actions to be added in the 
future. Think of this as our "Rules 1.0". I hope you guys will e-mail 
us with what you'd like the Rules to do in the future.
- Switchable posting personalities
- Customizable message headers (both viewing and posting)
- Improved, pausable download manager
- Favorites drawer, switch groups from within a group
- Hot Rot-13 Action (it's in the Edit menu)
- Image groups / sortable images
- .NZB file support (well, I guess that's more for the file jockeys)
and probably our number one request:
- You can now mark ANYTHING as read in ANY of the views.
In other words, now you can "catch up" with Files, Music, and the like. 
(Yes, marking files as "read" is a little syntactically awful. That was 
a matter of fierce debate. :))
Of course there were a ton of fixes as well -- home and end keys 
actually work, spell check settings are maintained, memory leaks were 
plugged, crashes de-crashed.
While Unison is still a mere 7 months old, and still has some roads to 
travel, we're very sincere about making it the best we possibly can.
Thanks again for your patience during these last few months, and we 
hope you enjoy 1.5!
** BIG NOTE ** If you have feedback, or if you encounter invetible bugs 
(we're on standby for 1.5.1), please send them to me directly via 
e-mail (remove the nojunk), so I can properly file them, follow up, 
etc. Thanks.
-- 
Cabel Sasser
Co-Founder
Panic
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I don't do things I don't like.

Pare finalmente un ottimo programma ed infatti lo ho subito registrato.
Finalmente veloce nel mostrare e caricare i newsgroup. Particolarmente
gradita la possibilità di avere una finestra singola con drawer laterale per
cambiare newsgroup senza passare per la group window. Si abbina
perfettamente a mail.
Ci manca ancora:
- va migliorato il supporto per i server multipli (sarebbe bello averli nel
drawer)
- un tastoo scarica tutti che ti aggiorni tutti i newsgroup preferiti
- supporto per applescript
Alex