Flame vs NetNewsWire

The centerpiece of this window is a Feedly sync overhaul, shipped in parallel to iOS and Mac: syncing now backs off when Feedly reports rate limiting, fetches only what changed, caps downloads per refresh, and directly refreshes a few feeds each pass to backfill articles Feedly's aggregate stream omits. The mark-as-read backlog that could grow without bound and re-send the same statuses was fixed, and articles now use Feedly's reported publish dates instead of arriving all stamped today. Around it sits a dense stream of small point builds on both platforms, including a move to the current Sparkle framework and a filter-button style that was introduced and reverted within two days.

This is a maintenance-phase release train, and the work is concentrated where the app depends on someone else's service. Making sync well-behaved enough not to trigger bans is infrastructure debt being paid down rather than new capability, and the same is true of the Sparkle switch, which pre-empts breakage on macOS 27 betas. The parallel iOS and Mac numbering means most substantive changes land twice, so the feed reads busier than the change set actually is.

Expect 7.1.3 to converge to a shipping release on both platforms with no new capability, given the last several builds are fixes and one reverted style change. Further hardening of third-party account syncing is the most likely next area, since Feedly consumed this cycle.