To get Gregarius to speak to you in your mother tongue, all you have to do is configure your browser and instruct it to download pages in your preferred language. At the time of writing, 16 languages are supported, and more are being added every week.

What if yours isn’t supported yet? Well, the best solution is to write a translation yourself:

1. Register for a Launchpad.net account.
2. Select the language(s) you would like to translate Gregarius into
3. The selected language(s) should now be available in the Gregarius translations page
4. Translate Gregarius into your language, either online on the Launchpad.net website, or offline, using a tool like poedit (Win32, Mac OS X) or KBabel (Linux)
5. Get in touch with me and ask me to import your languages into the development version of Gregarius

Note: a more in-depth (and slightly more technical) description of this process is available on the Wiki.

Either way, if you’re interested in the internationalization and localization processes of Gregarius, please join the gregarius-i18n mailing list.

As I don’t have admin privileges on that box, I have no way to restart the server.

I have emailed the server owner, but haven’t heard back from him yet.

Sorry for the inconvenience: we hope to have everything back to normal operations as soon as possible.

EDIT: Aug 21st, 2006. As Lycos (our Subversion-BOFH-in-charge) pointed out, the server was restarted and everything is fine again. Happy SVN’ing!

More information can be found on the Gregarius forums.

• Multi User Support

  This is probably the single most requested feature, e.g. being able to have several users, each one having his/her own set of feeds and playing a distinct role (Admin, User, Visitor), … everything happily running off a single installation.

  Now, the reasons why this hasn’t been done before are rather simple: 99% of the current Gregarius users won’t need this feature, and it’ll require a huge refactoring both of the code and the database schema.

  Nevertheless, we think it’s a necessary step on the road to TWD and have started discussing the design.

  Database Gurus willing to lend a hand, please contact your nearest Gregarius developer.

• Better Localization

  We’re currently migrating from an clunky, label-files-based localization system to a more modern gettext-powered l10n engine. We’ve picked the excellent PHP-gettext library, which is also used by WordPress, among others.

  Still, it’s a tedious and repetitive search-and-replace work, which I hope to finish as soon as possible.

• New RSS Parser?

  We’ve started evaluating SimplePie as a drop-in replacement of the aging MagpieRSS, whose Atom 1.0 support isn’t quite there yet.

  Although still in beta phase, SimplePie looks quite sexy and well designed.

In a nutshell, these should be the most interesting new features in the next release. We’re still in the design phase, so you still got plenty of time to suggest killer-features you would like to see included, before 0.6.0 goes gold :)

In order to rectify this oversight for you, our loyal readers, read on to learn about a number of the new features in Gregarius 0.5.4.
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svn co http://svn.gregarius.net/svn/release-branches/0.5.4/gregarius/

If you prefer to download a compressed archive, a nightly is available in the nightly bin.

0.5.4 has some great new features and has lots of bug fixes and security fixes and its faster than 0.5.2.

Here is a run down of what’s new and exciting.

• Support for podcasts. (Check out the cool podcast player plugin)

• Built in password protection for your admin section. (No more rss_extra.php or messing with .htaccess files)

• A Dashboard section so that you can keep tabs on what is happenning in the world of gregarius

• Updating your feeds in parallel with Ajax

• Plugins now have config options and you can check to see if there are new versions directly from your admin section.

• Themes are supercool now. They can have different colour/layout schemes (css files), mobile versions, config options and other crazy things.

• Support for mobile devices

• Better handling of feeds which provide unique identifiers for their items. (Less duplicates!!)

• Deciding on a per-feed basis whether you want modified items to show up as unread

• A tiny smidgen of extra (experimental patch) ATOM 1.0 support

We would appreciate any help with testing. The best way is to install the release candidate and report any funny business :)

It appears that the exact cause for this bug is in Bugzilla Bug 252241. Please vote for this bug so that it gets some attention. In the mean time we have hacked the rounded corners plugin to work around this bug. You can download the new version by clicking here and overwriting this file onto /rss/plugins/roundedcorners.php. It should be safe to do this even with version 0.5.2.

Why do we love rounded corners? It is because as children we quickly discover that sharp corners hurt us and smooth rounded objects are usually delicious. Mmm… Ever seen kids try to eat smooth pebbles that they find lying around?

I wanted a way to control the amount of each item that was displayed so I wrote the slider plugin. You can shrink all the displayed items down to their titles, or you expand them all out fully or you can set it so that only a few lines are displayed. The nice thing is that this setting is stored in a cookie and Gregarius remembers the setting when you move to another page or if you visit the site later using the same browser. You can also expand out a single item by simply hovering over it with your mouse for around 1 second. You would need to use a recent subversion snapshot or one of the nightlies to use this plugin. It is possible to use it with version 0.5.2 if you apply this one line patch.

The lilina theme is to attempt to mimic the interface of the Lilina aggregator. It is quite compact and allows you to scan a large number of feed titles and expand out (by clicking on the titles) only those items you are interested in reading. It also allows you to collapse the sidemenu so that you do not waste precious browser space. I am still working on this theme, so suggestions, ideas and comments are welcome.

Gregarius is easily extensible via plugins and themes and follows the wordpress model quite closely. The theme engine is quite powerful and will let you create almost any interface you would want to. A good starting point is the Plugin Authoring and the Theme Authoring documents on the wiki. If you get stuck, help is always available on the forums or on the dev-mailing list. Good luck!!

Only Gregarius installations which are publicly accessible on the Internet, and whose administration area is not password-protected are affected, but to avoid unnecessary risk Gregarius 0.5.2 has been re-released with a fix for this security hole. You are strongly encouraged to upgrade your installation.

You should either:

• Download the updated release from sourceforge.net: make sure you download either of rss-0.5.2a.tar.gz or rss-0.5.2a.zip, or:

• Replace the rss/extlib/Snoopy.inc.php file with the fixed version, or:

• Upgrade your installation using a nightly build.

We apologize for the inconvenience :)

Thanks to a patch James submitted, Gregarius just got podcasting support!

If you would like to give it a try, help yourself to a nightly build or update your Subversion tree, and you’ll probably want to install the player plugin, which you can download from the plugin repository.

Changes since 0.5.0:

• Support for SQLite databases

• Feed tagging

• RSS Rendering theme

• Greatly improved OPML Import features

• Many, many bugs fixed!

Please refer to the Upgrading document if you are upgrading from a previous release, to the Installation document if this is your first install!

• We’re getting close to the 0.5.2 release: the last bugs have been fixed and lots of new features have been added. Here is the complete list of what you can expect in 0.5.2!

• If you would like to play with the new features but don’t feel comfortable with Subversion you could download a nightly release. These are automatic builds generated by pulling the latest version from the Subversion repository once a day.

• With the invaluable help of Sameer and Martey the Gregarius documentation is being moved to the Gregarius Wiki. Have a look around and feel free to edit Wiki articles yourself if you spot any mistakes or would like to add new documents!

• Last but not least, we’ve just launched the Gregarius Forums. This is the preferred way to ask for support: if you need help or would like to ask a question feel free to sign up and voice your opinion.

Changes since 0.4.2:

• About 60% of the Gregarius code was rewritten into a slick, object oriented, system.

• A WordPress-like theme engine has been implemented, allowing for much more powerful customization of the application’s look and feel

• Feed and Folder collapsing, as well as feed updating, are now handled via AJAX.

• An RSS feed for tags has been added.

• Some 54 new features added and bugs fixed.

And while we’re there, please allow me thank the crew from the gregarius-dev mailing list for their contributed code, their suggestions and support!

Update: because of tiny mistake in the dbstruct.sql file (unneeded for most users) I decided to re-release the packages. Make sure you download rss-0.5.0a.tar.gz or rss-0.5.0a.zip

First of all, a new development mailing list has been created, which is the perfect place for the community to discuss Gregarius bugs and possible new feature ideas to implement.

If you are running the CVS Subversion version of Gregarius (currently at version 0.4.3), or simply because you are curious about what is going on behind the scenes, you are more than encouraged to join us by subscribing to the mailing list.

Another point worth mentioning is that the Gregarius development trunk has been migrated from the sourceforge.net CVS-based repository to the slicker Subversion version control system!

Several reasons have motivated this choice, but the most important are sourceforge’s very annoying one-day lag between the developer- and the anonymous-CVS, and that Subversion is tightly integrated with the wonderful trac project management system.

So, the main Gregarius source repository is now being hosted on svn.gregarius.net. The service is kindly offered by Lycos (no, not that other Lycos, despite the fact that recently search-engine companies have been flirting with blogging/syndication services *hint, hint*)

Anyway, up-to-date information on the Gregarius development path can be found the on the project timeline page, and details on known bugs and open feature requests are available on the Active Tickets page.

Everyone is invited to report new bugs and feature requests and share their experiences on the public Wiki.

If you are interested to run the development version of Gregarius, make sure that the Subversion client is installed (download page) on your web server, then check out the current trunk:

svn co http://svn.gregarius.net/svn/trunk/rss

If you already have a working copy of Gregarius, either a release or a CVS version, follow the steps described in our Cvs To Svn migration guide.