Feed Viewer has faster synchronization

Feed Viewer is receiving a significant update that improves its usability and performance. Headlines download much faster compared to the previous version. There is a new category of headlines, so you don’t have to go to settings to view recently read headlines anymore. The new category contains only read headlines from all sources. Feed search has been greatly improved. Searching is much faster, and results contain additional details about article frequency or feed popularity. It also includes a warning when a feed is known for spreading fake news. There are more actions you can perform even if you are offline. Unsubscribing, renaming, or categorizing feeds is propagated to other devices during synchronization. Although the minimum supported Windows version is still 1507, refreshing the app when it is closed requires at least version 1607.

The list of improvements is quite long, but the cadence of new updates has also been slower than usual. One important feature is not yet complete because of a Windows 10 bug awaiting a fix from Microsoft. Unfortunately, a workaround is not possible in this case. This feature was the main goal for the current Feed Viewer version, but all secondary improvements together were significant enough to release the new version without it.