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NetNewsWire's 7.1.3 train has moved from rebuilding sync to sweeping up what the rebuild disturbed.

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◆Current state
NetNewsWire is deep in a 7.1.3 stabilization cycle, shipping paired Mac betas and iOS builds within half an hour of each other. The heavy work — the Feedly sync overhaul, Reader API rate-limit backoff, connectivity-aware refresh — landed earlier in August. What is shipping now is the residue: feeds losing their names, two crashes in the feeds list, timeline rows that stop answering taps.
◆Where it's heading
The character of the releases has changed inside the same version number. Early August rewrote behavior, and the last two builds only repair defects, several of them in the feeds list and article view that the sync rework touched. The Mac and iOS builds now move as a pair on nearly every release, with the iOS side carrying the longer fix list — a sign the shared sync layer is settling while the iOS UI still has surface bugs to clear.
◆Prediction
The b-numbered Mac builds and the shrinking fix lists point at 7.1.3 going final once the feeds-list crashes stop recurring; nothing in these entries suggests new capability before that ships.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Feeds stop losing their names and showing as Untitled

    A single repair: feeds could lose their names and fall back to Untitled. It ships alongside the iOS build carrying the same fix, and it is the kind of metadata bug the Feedly sync rework was liable to expose.

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  2. 2d ago

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

    The iOS half of the same-day pair, with six defect fixes: the Untitled-feed bug, two crashes in the feeds list, timeline rows that stopped responding to taps, and selection and animation errors after the list changed. All repair work in the surfaces the sync overhaul churned, with nothing new behind it.

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  3. 7d ago

    Feed requests wait for connectivity instead of failing after sleep

    This build changed how the app treats a network that isn't ready yet: requests wait for connectivity rather than failing after a wake from sleep, and a feed that failed on a connectivity error is no longer skipped next pass. That is a behavioral rule, not a patch, and it extended the Feedly reliability work down into the fetch layer.

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  4. 7d ago

    iOS gets the connectivity-aware refresh and a feeds-list row fix

    iOS received the same connectivity-aware refresh, which mattered more here — returning to the foreground could previously time out every feed at once. The accompanying feeds-list row fixes are early instances of the UI churn the later builds are still working through.

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  5. 8d ago

    Fullscreen video crash and iPad timeline clipping fixed on iOS

    Defect cleanup plus a reversal: the prominent filter-button style from the previous build was rolled back. The fullscreen-video crash is marked as fixed again, which puts it in the category of bugs this cycle keeps reopening.

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  6. 8d ago

    FreshRSS titles no longer show full-width ampersands

    One fix, for FreshRSS-sourced titles and author names rendering full-width ampersands and angle brackets. It belongs to the article-rendering thread running parallel to the sync work.

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