NetNewsWire 6.2 is on the App Store for iOS, and you can download the Mac version (or do NetNewsWire > Check for Updates… if you’re already running the app).

Long-time Mac users will understand when we say that this is a Snow Leopard release — it fixes a bunch of bugs, makes some things faster, and adds only a couple features.

See the release notes for Mac and release notes for iOS for more details. (They’re largely the same.)

Note also that it doesn’t adopt Liquid Glass. We’ll be doing that in NetNewsWire 7, which we’re working on now. (See The Liquid Glass Plan.)

All that said — there is one new feature of potential interest: we’ve added support for Markdown in RSS feeds. When the parser encounters a source:markdown element, we save it in the database, and the app renders the Markdown as HTML and displays it in the article view.

There aren’t many feeds that include Markdown yet, but we hope that changes! You can read more about it in Dave Winer’s Dev notes for Markdown in RSS.

While we’re not sure where this feature will take us, we have some thoughts. One is that RSS and Markdown were always destined to meet in this way, and it’s about time. :) Another is that this is a part of making posting/editing/replying over the web — as opposed to closed social networks — easier. This is part of making the web itself the social network.

Anyway. It’s a foundation! We keep going.