A standalone desktop application is now available with:

• System tray integration
• Automatic database sync with VPS
• No Python installation required for end users
• One-click build process

See QUICKSTART_WINDOWS.md for building and README_DESKTOP.md for full documentation.

Fix:

• Resolves "mktime argument out of range" by using safe date conversion for feedparser struct_time values.
  • Some feeds emit invalid years (e.g. 0001 or 9999), which can crash time.mktime() on Windows.
  • We clamp absurd years and fall back to "now" rather than crashing the whole update job.
• Per-entry and per-feed parsing errors are counted as errors and the update continues.

Everything else:

• Progress + Cancel for Update now
• Background updating toggle
• DB write serialization to avoid "database is locked"

If you want to identify which feed caused the bad date, we can add a small log file later.

v0.4.8 UI tweaks:

• Expand is instant (mark-read happens in background)
• Relative/same-origin links inside entry content open in a new tab

v0.4.8:

• All links in feed content (internal and external) open in a new tab

v0.4.8 performance:

• Stops re-rendering the entire list on every click/keypress
• Injects entry HTML only when you expand that entry (huge speed-up for big feeds)

v0.4.8 keyboard:

• J/K now move selection AND expand the newly selected entry (collapsing the previous one)

v0.4.8 UI/keyboard:

• Adds a Collapse button on expanded entries
• J/K now expand and scroll the selected entry so its headline is at the top of the viewport

v0.4.8 display:

• Images inside entries are constrained to a maximum width of 500px

v0.4.8 images:

• Images are responsive (max-width: min(500px, 100%))
• Click-to-zoom: clicking an image in an expanded entry opens the image in a new tab

v0.4.8 layout:

• Adds collapsible left sidebar (hamburger)
• Mobile sidebar overlays at 100% width; desktop sidebar max 400px
• Sidebar + main never exceed 100% width (flex layout / overlay)

v0.4.8 startup:

• Prevents double-launch (single-instance lock + port check)
• Only the batch file opens the browser (no second window from app.py)

v0.4.8 startup:

• run_localrss.bat no longer spawns a second terminal window
• uses venv\Scripts\python.exe explicitly (no activate), so it can't accidentally use an old venv
• only one long-running python.exe remains (the server)

v0.4.8 layout:

• Sidebar overlay starts hidden; hamburger toggles open/closed
• CSS cleaned to remove conflicting prior sidebar rules
• Zip root folder name matches release version

v0.4.8 DB visibility:

• run_localrss.bat sets RSS_DB=E:\localRSS\rss.db by default
• UI shows DB path at top (and marks it missing if not found)

v0.4.8 diagnostics:

• run_localrss.bat logs to localrss_run.log and pauses on errors so crashes are visible

v0.4.8 robustness:

• Creates missing DB directory for RSS_DB paths.
• If configured DB can't be opened, falls back to local rss.db instead of crashing.
• UI shows Active vs Configured DB path.