{"id":51698,"date":"2026-04-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51698"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:01:01","slug":"netnewswire-7-0-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/23\/netnewswire-7-0-4\/","title":{"rendered":"NetNewsWire 7.0.4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The big new changes are to iCloud syncing: there’s a new setting to not<\/em> sync the content of unread articles, since that’s the biggest part of your iCloud database and what takes the longest to sync.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

NetNewsWire<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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We’ve added a new weekly background iCloud storage cleanup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This happens automatically, but there’s also a status window with a Clean Up button to initiate it manually.<\/p>\n\n

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Your next syncs after cleaning up may take an extra long time! This is because iCloud syncs deletions<\/i>, and doing a cleanup means doing a lot of deletions.<\/p>\n

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From here on sync times should be faster and iCloud storage needs should be lower.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I’ve been syncing using Feedbin, and version 7.0.2 added an important fix<\/a> for that, with more to come in 7.1.<\/p>\n\n

Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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To be clear: we didn’t do anything in NetNewsWire to support AI, LLMs, or MCP, but, since the app is scriptable, you can do all kinds of useful things with it.<\/p>\n

Here’s the netnewswire-mcp repo<\/a> on GitHub.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Greg Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I’ve been feeling like MCP is a lot like x-callback-url. Kind of a janky, pragmatic solution to a problem that optimized for opportunities and constraints available at a particular moment.<\/p>\n

Maybe not built to last, but super useful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n