SimplePie Beta 1

Released on 29 January 2006.

• Add to Digg, Furl, My Web 2.0, and Reddit
• One-click subscribing to My AOL, MSN, Newsburst, Odeo, and Podnova
• Support for podcast:// protocol
• Ultra-Liberal Feed Locator
• Support for iPhoto 6 photocasts
• Ability to bypass image hotlink blocking when reading feeds.
• Full support for feeds encoded as: UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE, UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-32, UCS-32BE, UCS-32LE, UCS-16, UCS-16BE, UCS-16LE, UTF-7, UTF7-IMAP, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, ASCII, EUC-JP, EUCJP-win, Shift_JIS, SJIS-win, ISO-2022-JP, JIS, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, byte2be, byte2le, byte4be, byte4le, BASE64, HTML-ENTITIES, 7bit, 8bit, EUC-CN, EUC-TW, EUC-KR, BIG5, GB2312, BIG5-HKSCS, Windows-1251, Windows-1252, KOI8-R, HZ, ISO-2022-KR, CP866, CP936, CP959, and CP949 via PHP's mbstring support.

• Handling of entities from htmlentities() to html_special_chars() which significantly helped in supporting international character sets.
• DOCTYPEs in feeds are now stripped out, since we don't do anything with them.
• User-Agent has again changed to the following format: SimplePie/1.0 Beta (Feed Parser; http://www.simplepie.org/; Allow like Gecko) Build/20060118

• Fixed an issue where cache files would stay for hours instead of minutes.
• Fixed an issue where extraneous space in a closing tag could crash the feed.
• Fixed a few other miscellaneous bugs

• http://simplepie.org/blog/2006/01/29/simplepie-10-beta-now-available/