After a whole night of database churning (we need a faster server), alpha 8 is here. Send your bug reports and/or compliments to frassle@rura.org.

From yesterday:

Josh and I have been working hard on the next version of frassle. The scope of this release has sprawled; it started with a couple of features, ballooned into many more features and bugfixes, and then into bugfixes on the bugfixes. There's also the impending open source release, now with a somewhat barren SourceForge project page.

But tonight, features will be frozen. Bugs (OK, noncritical bugs) will be pushed aside. For this will be the evening of our deployment.

New features in alpha 8:

  • major usability improvements to the publisher, including a wizard to shield you from the horrid complexity of noteset expressions
  • an all-new aggregator, styled like Bloglines — and it actually works!
  • an all-new full text search system — and it actually works fast!
  • OPML import, so you can copy subscriptions from your favorite aggregator (so far) into frassle
  • a smattering of icons, thanks to David
  • pagination of the recent posts page, so you can go back in history
  • many more small improvements and bugfixes