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NetNewsWire spent 7.1.3 rebuilding Feedly sync, and is now polishing the result.

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◆Current state
The 7.1.3 cycle was dominated by one thing: a Feedly syncing overhaul that stopped users getting rate-limited into temporary bans, fixed a mark-as-read backlog that could grow without bound, and repaired a long list of folder and feed corruption bugs. With that shipped on Mac, the work has dropped to single-fix betas and a 7.1.4 build on iOS carrying no release notes yet.
◆Where it's heading
Mac and iOS move in lockstep a few days apart, each fix landing on both platforms in turn. Nothing in the window adds a feature; the entire cycle is correctness in the sync layer and the feeds list. For a reader whose value is that the unread count is right, that is the product work — but it also means the roadmap is invisible from the changelog alone.
◆Prediction
7.1.4 looks like a small follow-up rather than a feature release, given the beta carries a single rendering fix and the iOS build ships without notes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 18d ago

    iOS-7.1.4-7210

    An iOS build tagged with a version bump and the note that release notes still need writing. There is no description of what changed, so no direction can be read from it.

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  2. 20d ago

    Article text no longer overlaps the top image in some feeds

    A single rendering fix for article text overlapping the top image in some feeds. The 7.1.4 beta opens quietly after the large 7.1.3 sync cycle.

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  3. 27d ago

    7.1.3 final lands the Feedly sync rebuild and rate-limit backoff on Mac

    The centrepiece of the cycle: Feedly syncing overhauled to avoid rate-limit bans, the mark-as-read backlog capped, and a long run of folder, rename and restore bugs closed. It fixes the failure mode most likely to make a synced reader untrustworthy.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Feeds stop losing their names and showing as Untitled

    Feeds no longer lose their names and display as Untitled — one of the corruption bugs the Feedly rebuild was chasing, landing on Mac first.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Two feeds-list crashes and unresponsive timeline taps fixed on iOS

    The same Untitled-feed fix on iOS, with two feeds-list crashes and unresponsive timeline taps. Platform catch-up a few hours behind the Mac beta.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Feed requests wait for connectivity instead of failing after sleep

    Feed and sync requests now wait for connectivity instead of failing outright after waking from sleep, and a failed attempt no longer causes the next refresh to skip the feed. Small, but it removes a recurring source of phantom unread counts.

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