TR-NewsWall Release notes v2.2

Summary

    Messages can now be blocked relative to their article and
    image links; major performace improvements for fuzzy text
    comparison; improved rendering of very short messages.

Download

    Installer files can be downloaded here:

      https://timur.mobi/tr-newswall/#download

    Please read the v2.x setup instructions:

      https://timur.mobi/tr-newswall/#setup

    If you upgrade from a previous release, do the following:
    - Stop your NewsWall server.
    - Rename your existing NewsWall folder:
      mv newswall newswall-old
    - Unzipping the new installer archive.
    - Copy your custom configuration files (config.txt, rss.txt,
      ig.txt and accessToken.txt) over to the new folder.

All v2.2 changes:

    * social-parmeters removed from URL before imageMap and
      linkMap URL-comparison
      utm_brand= mbid= utm_source= utm_medium= utm_social-type=
      partner= emc= smtyp= smid= fsrc= share= ticket= utm_term=
      social= utm_content= [final]

    * Fixed imageMap and linkMap storage issue [final]

    * Rendering improvements for messages with short main text
      (less than 30 characters) + description text [final]

    * Fixed imageMap issue in markCurrentShown() was using
      currentMedia_slice[]; now parsetweet.CardImage [final]

    * imageMap will block original source and retweets from the
      original source [final]

    * If maintext shoter than 30 characters, then use same big
      font for description as used for maintext [beta3]

    * Fixed two minor issues with imageMap and linkMap [beta3]

    * Fixed getImageBrightness failed Get "unsupported protocol
      scheme """ [beta3]

    * Eliminated possibility for two identical rss-msgs to make it
      through to the user (wapo) [beta2]

    * Eliminated possibility for the RSS/Atom description field to
      get lost in special cases (wapo,HN) [beta2]

    * Next,Prev,Play buttons moved a bit further to the right [beta2]

    * Major performace improvements related to fuzzy text comparison;
      changed the default value of newswall_simOutFactor to 0.6
      effectively enabling it for all devices; measured continuous
      cpu load of well below 1% on Raspberry Pi:
      https://timur.mobi/tr-newswall/newswall-cpu-load.png

    * Improved code processing RSS/Atom feeds; fixed issues related
      to RSS feeds that do not provide parsable dates (WaPo and
      raspberrypi.org forum); fixed a data race issue;

    * The shown number of unread messages [n] now includes the
      number of (re)visited messages

    * Added linkMap support to filter out messages based on their
      target link; added CreateTime to link_entry structure;
      when comparing URL's for duplicate detection, we now use
      substring comparison (instead of exact compare) to ignore
      added parameters or http/https distinction

    * Added imageMap support to filter out messages based on their
      referenced main image;

    * linkMap/imageMap condition: only suppress a message if it
      came from the same feed source

    * All feed sources now use the same adder-method (copyMessage)