RSS Guard 5 versus RSS Guard 4
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Over the course of RSS Guard's existence, it accumulated many features and became rather bloated. This is not quite what I, as the author of RSS Guard, had in mind when starting the project.

RSS Guard was meant to be a simple feed reader with good performance that also provides next-generation features for power users, such as scriptable filtering.

Therefore, the new major version, RSS Guard 5, returns the application to its core ideas. Some features found in version 4 are not present in version 5, such as AdBlock, the embedded file downloader, and some other features. Built-in [article and web viewing](features/article-display) exists, but its capabilities depend on whether you use the `web` or `text` package. This makes the codebase much slimmer and more maintainable. RSS Guard 4 now lives in a separate [branch](https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/tree/4.x) and **might** receive some critical updates in the future.

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As for data compatibility, version 5 is [NOT fully compatible](contrib/migrate) with version 4. See this [notice](contrib/migrate) on how to migrate data.
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