This release fixes two issues affecting the recent v1.8.0.855 and v1.8.0.862 builds: a bug that could cause feed lists to be lost on upgrade, and a set of interface changes that made existing subscriptions look like they’d disappeared when they hadn’t — covered in more detail in Your feeds aren’t missing.
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Dennis has spent the past six years working at the intersection of AI, software, and digital media — building with AI, writing about it, and separating what’s genuinely useful from what’s simply noise.
With a background in software and web development, digital marketing, and copywriting, he takes a hands-on approach to the work behind this site. The focus is on practical AI tools and workflows that have been tested in the real world, not recycled theory.
In 2026, Dennis took on the publication behind RSS Bandit, an open-source feed reader with more than a decade of history. Today, he is applying that same core idea to the modern information overload: helping people keep up with what matters without drowning in tabs.
Release Overview Released ahead of Windows 7’s launch, v1.9.0.972 was primarily a bug-fix release, cleaning up issues from v1.8.0.870 to leave a stable base for more ambitious changes planned for version 2.0 (codenamed Gambit) — including the move to a ribbon-based interface (see the Roadmap for more on that redesign) and support for Windows 7’s…
Release Overview Development on this release focused on rewriting the RSS Bandit interface using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and moving to a ribbon-based UI — work that had to pause briefly to fix a break in Google Reader synchronization caused by a change in how Google Reader handled authenticated requests from client applications. That sync…
Release Overview Update — this release had a serious bug. The original installer caused some users to lose their entire feed list when upgrading from a previous version. If you’re looking at this for historical reference, the fix landed in v1.8.0.870, folded into what’s now the current stable release. This update covered new features and…