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I just uploaded the new release of newsbeuter 0.8 to Debian.
Like every release this one also has cool new features:

• It implements custom configurability of feed list and article list format like we know it from mutt
• improved reload speed
• special tags to rename feeds
• macro support, they let you define one key for multiple actions (open a feed and reload it for example)

The 0.8 release also adds ruby scripting support which is not enabled yet in the Debian package because it's undocumented at the moment.

This release also forked the mrss and nxml libs which caused a lot of breakage in newsbeuter related to ABI changes in the past and integrated them into newsbeuter.

I did not link the package against this fork because I think doing it this way is not the right solution for several reasons (fixing bugs in static code copies rather than just in the shared library is always a PITA) but I also can understand Andreas that he does not want to rely on the upstream author of these libs since he showed multiple times that he does not really have a clue of writing shared libraries and how to keep the ABI stable.

I have a different fix in the package which hopefully solves that two for future updates of these libraries.