NewsTap Lite (Usenet Reader)

Because of a bug in iOS 14 very large and deep threads could not be read properly anymore. So articles of the groups could not be accessed. The new release will include a workaround for this iOS 14 issue, so articles do no longer get lost. There was no such problem under iOS 13 or older.

Fixes an issue with the keyboard which is sometimes covering the text when editing postings.

- Adds support for the dark mode of iOS 13
- Fixes a rare crash when processing links in postings

Fixes an issue with the iCloud sync

- There are a few usenet servers which send the groups list in an invalid or malformed format. NewsTap is now able to get the groups list from these servers as well.
- Fixes an issue where additional text could be interpreted as link, if the link was not delimited properly.

Fixes an issue when trying to save a photo into the album

- Added support for new iPhones (XS, XS Max, XR)

Fixes several glitches in the User Interface on an iPad running iOS 11.

- Support for the new iPhone X added
- Solves a few issues under iOS 11
- When writing a new article the text editor will now use the font size that is configured in the settings.
- On the iPad the tree view for the threads will now adapt correctly when enabling/disabling the splitview.

Fixes an issue when syncing the newsrc file if the clock of server and device are too far apart.

- Fixes an issue with the read counter when syncing with multiple servers.
- Certain malformed UU-encoded binaries can be decoded now as well.

- Fixes an issue with the attachments of articles which use a certain Chinese text encodings.
- Supports a lot of old DOS text encodings as well, in order to read articles from old Usenet archives.

- Fixes and issue with the Dropbox Sync

- Fixes an issue where the App could crash when messages contain invalid or damaged references information.

- Minor Bugfixes

- Solves an issue when processing an article with an invalid MIME structure
- Fixes an issue with the scrolling when composing a new post on the iPhone
- Added an option for displaying articles with an extra large text size

Better support for HTML messages without text section.

Fixes an issue where sometimes deleting old articles could take too long

Solves an issue under iOS 9.2 on the iPad where the article view would become slower over time

- Fixes an issue when an articles includes a corrupt or invalid „References“ header. This could result in articles not being included in a thread correctly.

- Fixes an issue with parsing „yEnc“ encoded data which could result in the App „hanging"

- Fixes a few minor issues

The App can now also load messages which do not follow the standards to encode the header lines. You need to set the correct text encoding in the settings before you can load these messages.

- A new option allows to encode attachments either via base64 or via UU encode
- Fixes an issue when posting attachments.

- On the iPad there's a new setting "2-column navigation" available. When enabled the navigation within the threads and articles will no longer use three columns (groups, threads, articles) but instead two (groups, and another where either the thread or the articles are shown). Especially when using the iPad in portrait orientation, this makes sure that the columns won't get too narrow.

- There are a few new filter options available. It is now possible to create a filter that marks all articles written by the user, and there's a new filter type available which marks all replies to the articles of the user (including replies to these replies - which means the whole subthread)

- ROT13 is now also available when writing a new article. This option is available in the "quotes" menu after selecting some text within the article editor window.

- Articles where the line breaks are encoded in the wrong way where not formatted correctly.

- Bugfix: when creating new articles on the iPad using the icon at the left, the articles were never sent.

- Bugfix: navigating across thread boundaries did not always work with certain sort orders.

- Bugfix: automatically deleting read articles while connecting to the server could also close the currently displayed article.

- Bugfix: if a new server was added by importing a newsrc file, the grups list for this server could be loded more than once

- Bugfix: several smaller fixes in the user interface

- Bugfix: better handling of "unusual" server responses

- Compatibility for iOS 9
- Supports the new "Split View“ mode of iOS 9 for the newer iPad models.
- Supports binary data (posting and receiving)
- Full "tree view“ of a discussion thread available on the iPhone as well

IMPORTANT: When updating from an older version of NewsTap, you need to enter the login passwords in the server settings again. The passwords can not be took over from the old version.

Bugfix: When using an iPad with iOS 5, there's an issue with scrolling when replying to a longer article.

If you already updated to iOS 6 or when using an iPhone or iPod Touch, you do not need this update.