11-09-2010 - Version 2.3beta
This is a major release. We now have internal plugins to handle saving to content components - eg Joomla content, K2 etc. Also has Joomla plugin hooks to access the data generated by Feed Gator. This means that Feed Gator can save to anywhere!

There are also many code changes, improved full text importing and developments in image manipulation. Images can now be saved locally. Enclosure support will follow for the final 2.3 release.

Please take care to backup any important data prior to upgrading as this is a release for testing only. The installation process should update and upgrade any previously set parameters and feed details.

The uninstall process for the beta has been changed so that the database tables are removed. YOU WILL LOSE ALL FEED GATOR DATA WHEN UNINSTALLING.

28-08-2010 - Version 2.2.3
- FIXED - Another hotfix for duplicate checking issues caused by the new checking schema.

28-08-2010 - Version 2.2.2
- FIXED - Hotfix for a duplicate checking issue caused by the new checking schema.

28-08-2010 - Version 2.2.1
- IMPROVED - Image handling. Now able to remove styling and add new class.
- FIXED - Fixed an upgrade issue for some users who had no feeds set up.

26-08-2010 - Version 2.2
- ADDED - Full text importing even if the feed itself does not contain the full text.
- ADDED - Added Feed Gator tracking of imported articles.
- ADDED - Duplicates can now be added as new, merged or overwritten.
- ADDED - Preview mode - allows checking how your feed imports.
- ADDED - Feed parameter over-rides enabled.
- ADDED - Combining text sources enabled so that the intro text can be formed from the RSS feed and the full text from the source article.
- ADDED - Image import over-ride in case they are not coming through in fulltext mode.
- IMPROVED - K2 support improved and K2 category display fixed.
- IMPROVED - SimplePie "on steroids" mode activated!
- IMPROVED - Importing has a new method of checking for duplicates.
- IMPROVED - Multiple backend display improvements.
- FIXED - SimplePie caching has been fixed. Makes things much quicker there too.
- FIXED - Fixed errors on initial installation.
- FIXED - Fixed occasional upgrade error.

11-08-2010 - Version 2.1.3
- FIXED - K2 auto-publishing and featured (replaces standard show on front-page setting).
- ADDED - AAbility to choose from standard Joomla and K2 sections/categories at any time when adding/editing feeds.

10-08-2010 - Version 2.1.2
- ADDED - Initial support for K2 content importing including firing the onBeforeK2Save and onAfterK2Save plugin events.
- ADDED - Ability to set class and rel for trackback/read more links.

09-08-2010 - Version 2.1.1
- FIXED - Generation of intro text/full text to produce internal Read More links.
- IMPROVED - Some backend settings.
- ADDED - htmLawed 1.1.9.4 (X)HTML filter, processor, purifier, sanitizer and beautifier. Automatically set to sanitise and filter imported content. Current user options limited to XHTML compliance but to be expanded...
- ADDED - Icon

07-08-2010 - Version 2.1
- FIXED - Some articles with long titles would be imported each time Feed Gator ran.
- FIXED - Some feeds set dates in the future. This can be disabled to avoid articles which are set to publish in the future.
- FIXED - Broken toolbar image (missing CSS for Joomla admin templates NOT Feed Gator problem)
- IMPROVED - Option to only send admin email if an item is imported.
- IMPROVED - Metadata can now be added using Add Keywords plugin allowing finer control of keywords and description for tagging purposes.
- IMPROVED - Feed author can be added to the article text.
- IMPROVED - Mulitple code tidies and a few optimisations.
- IMPROVED - Security for all php files checked and updated.
- IMPROVED - Backend admin layout.
- ADDED - Keyword filtering based on whitelist/blacklist for each feed.
- ADDED - Native Joomla upgrade from this version.
- ADDED - English language file.
- REMOVED - SimplePie package. Now uses Joomla SimplePie library.

02-12-2008 FeedGator 2.0.3
- FIXED - show html
- FIXED some other small bugs
- ADDED - use Cache option
- UPDATED - SimplePie version

21-08-2008 FeedGator 2.0
- ADDED - strip html tags
- FIXED - original item date
- IMPROVED - duplicate articles - new checking method (beta)

05-06-2008 - Feed Gator 2.0RC2
- FIXED - problem with trackback link in some feeds
- ADDED - show html content instead of description (param in configuration)

04-06-2008 - Feed Gator 2.0 RC1
- FIXED - problem with duplicate articles
- FIXED - feedgator kills by some feeds
- FIXED - running cron from command line

13-05-2008 - Feed Gator 2.0 beta2
- FIXED - computing meta tags
- FIXED - send admin reports
- FIXED - duplicate articles (?)
- FIXED - saving feeds
- FIXED - duplicate introtext
- FIXED - saving categories and sections to metakey
- ADDED - list of ignore words in Parameters menu
- REMOVED - show trackabck link into introtext

1-January-2007 - Version SP_0.3
- FIXED - Trackback link was not showing in the intro text anymore. It is now.
- FIXED - cron.feedgator.php now also working on PHP installation on Windows systems. Thank to Jens Kirk Foged from Sunburst WebConsult for fixing this.
- IMPROVED - If a feed title was missing Feed Gator wouldn't process the feed even if it's a valid feed anyway. Feed Gator now uses a more robust method to determine if a feed is valid or not and will process feeds without a title.
- IMPROVED - Feed Gator now does a better job determining if an item has been imported earlier. This should avoid endless importing of items that have already been imported.
- ADDED - A backend option under the feed properties to set if the feed article content is only stored in the intro text (and NOT in the full article text). This option is disabled (set to 0) by default but if enabled it will only store the intro text in the Joomla content.
- REMOVED - Verbose trackback link from the configuration menu. This option was obsolete and confuses people.
- REMOVED - The language tab from the configuration menu because it is not being used.

24-December-2007 - Version SP_0.2
- Implemented a few options in the back panel.
   1) Force fsockopen in the Configuration. If Feed Gator doesn't work on your webserver you can try enabling this setting.
   2) Create Short link under Feeds. If the trackback link is too long you can set this option to enabled. It will show the Feed title instead.
   3) Add link to intro text under Feeds. Enable if you want the trackback link to show in the article intro.
- FIXED - Feed Gator wouldn't process feed items without a subject. It will now.
- IMPROVED - Feed Gator only looked for a matching item title to determine if it had imported the article already. Right now it will look for a match on both the Title (if available) and Intro text.
- FIXED - On some servers Feed Gator returned an 'XML error'. This happened mostly on PHP5.x servers and had to do with an empty line above an xajax call.
- ADDED - Automatic cache detection. If you enabled caching in Joomla Feed Gator will try to utilize it. This is expirimental.

27-October-2007 - Version SP_0.1
- Implemented the SimplePie parser and removed MagPie/Domit/Pear selection.
- Removed the XHTML Clean options because SimplePie already returns clean code.
- FIXED - A SQL error popped up if Joomla! debug feature was on and New feed was selected.
- IMPROVED - Started to clean up a lot of code. This is much more work than I expected so it's work in progress.

25-September-2007 - Version 0.96
- Reverted back to older copy of Snoopy.class.inc because certain feeds were not parsed by MagPie with the newer version.
- Changed link in footer to point to the feedgator project page.
- Changed version check link on the About Feed Gator page to point to the correct forum.

30-August-2007 - Version 0.95
- FIXED - error in parsing feeds if PEAR is not installed.
- Added a debugging routine to functions.feedgator.php
- Changed etc directory to etz to avoid problems with Apache filters denying access to anything with etc in directory name.

20-August-2007 - Version 0.94_unofficial
- FIXED - a huge pile of bugs. See the above Joomlacode.org link for details

29-September-06 - Version 0.7 alpha
- FIXED - Bug with cron not working with register globals off
- CHANGED - Upgraded Magpie Parser to version to 0.7a

27-September-06 - Version 0.6 alpha
- FIXED - Bug with frontpage/publish option
- ADDED - Frontpage option to feed list

26-September-06 - Version 0.5 alpha
- FIXED - Editing problems with Joomla 1.0.11
- CHANGED - Default Author can be set per feed
- CHANGED - Front Page can now be set per feed

20-April-06 - Version 0.4 alpha
- FIXED - Global configuration options were not respected for imported content items
- FIXED - Import runs would terminate if a bad feed was encountered - now all feeds will be attempted (introduced in 0.3)
- FIXED - Parser selection would refuse to check all available parsers in some cases
- FIXED - Duplicates were imported if content was marked unpublished
- FIXED - Miscellaneous minor fixes/adjustments

- ADDED - Automatic import runs via cron
- ADDED - Alternate meta tag computation algorithm using frequency analysis
- ADDED - Ability to specify the minimum number of characters in computed tags
- ADDED - Excluded words list for meta tag computation
- ADDED - Email reports sent to admins after import (with HTML option)
- ADDED - Ability to choose parser search order
- ADDED - More robust handling of invalid feeds
- ADDED - Additional status message to import status window
- ADDED - Help and Support page to admin back end

- CHANGED - Progress bar now ticks in a pretty green
- CHANGED - Replaced enabled icon on Feed Manager page
- CHANGED - Uninstall no longer deletes tables, to make future upgrades easier

06-Mar-06 - Version 0.3 alpha
- FIXED - Some data was not being properly escaped, could cause a hang during import operation
- FIXED - Xajax path problem on sites being run from a sub-directory caused hang during import

- ADDED - Imported items may now be promoted to the front page
- ADDED - Target frames may be specified for external links

- CHANGED - Better handling of invalid or problematic feeds, with 'report bad feed' feature
- CHANGED - Import progress bar ticker now ticks more slowly to help prevent filling screen for long runs
- CHANGED - Category and Section names are displayed instead of IDs in feed listing
- CHANGED - Minor changes to feed listing for improved usability
- CHANGED - Terminology for feeds from 'published' to 'enabled'

27-Feb-06 - Version 0.2 alpha
- FIXED - Leaving Trim Intro parameter blank on Edit Feed page caused nothing to be stored in intro column
- FIXED - Misaligned table columns on feeds listing page. Now properly aligned left.
- FIXED - Broken image on some admin pages
- FIXED - Warning if PEAR XML/RSS package is not installed

- ADDED - Completely new integrated backend administration
- ADDED - Integration with Yahoo's Term Extraction API for sophisticated tagging of content items
- ADDED - Replaced messy post-import status messages with clean AJAX-based log status window
- ADDED - Many new global configuration features:
- optionally include orignal link in content items, and make it conform to accessibility guidelines
- optionally extract most relevant tags in content and store as meta keywords
- optionally auto-publish content
- ability to set # of days content items will remain published
- optionally produce clean XHTML from content items using HTML Tidy
- ability to capture or set author_alias
- ability to capture feed category and store as tag
- ability to store Joomla section and category as tags
- descriptive help text for all parameters

- CHANGED - Temporarily reduced cache expiration for magpieRSS from 1 hour to 15 minutes for testing puposes
- CHANGED - Some code refactoring and clean up

23-Feb-06 - Version 0.1 alpha
- Initial public release
- Core features in place
- Apparently stable


I hope you find this component useful. If you have any questions or problems, I'll do my best to help you out, just stop by the forum: http://joomlacode. org/gf/project/feedgator.

The usual disclaimer stuff: I will not in any way be held responsible for any dire outcomes resulting from using this software, but if good things happen because you used it, we want all the credit :)