Vienna 3.10.0 Beta 5

released 2025-07-20

This is a 20th anniversary edition!

🚲 Changes

• Distribute Vienna in .dmg disk images instead of .tgz archives
• Use Command-Control-0 to Command-Control-2 shortcuts for layout selection (these replace Control+Number shortcuts which are reserved)
• Update some translations (Traditional Chinese, Swedish, Danish, Dutch)
• Modify article view in Unified layout to be borderless
• Disable back/forward navigation in main tab's article web views

🤷🏻 Bugfix

• Fix crashes and other potential problems caused by folder cache being emptied during refresh
• Work around incorrect support of palette-color icons by newer macOS versions (15 and +); reorganize the code used for fetching and caching websites' favicons

⚙️ Internals improvement

• Rebalance AppController role:
  • move parts of the layout code to ArticleController
  • modify handling of keyboard events to avoid doing everything in AppController
  • diminish ArticleListView and UnifiedDisplayView reliance on AppController
  • move Sparkle Updater controller to ViennaApp
• Use an Application.storyboard as the starting point in "Interface Builder" for the design and the main menu; connect Preferences and Downloads storyboards to it.
• Remove ExtendedTableViewDelegate in favor of NSMenuDelegate
• Remove NSKeyedArchiver/NSKeyedUnarchiver methods which were needed for macOS 10.12 backwards compatibility
• Remove unnecessary debugging code using some private properties of WKWebView

🛤️ Infrastructure updates

• Simplify our version of Autorevision
• Clarify the directories used for derived files during build process