The beta for the new version of the DNN News Feeds module has been released to all those that have contacted me expressing interest in being a beta tester.  This version of the module has the following changes:

Feed Viewing

• Ability to select sort by field (date or title) and sort order (ascending or descending).
• Ability to select maximum number of articles to display.
• Ability to select how often to refresh a feed.
• Ability to have articles popup in a new window.
• Ability to select a pre-defined news channel for display.

News Channels

• Ability to create pre-defined aggregations of feeds in a news ‘channel’ at both the host and portal levels.
• Ability to re-syndicate news channels.
• Ability to activate and de-activate channels.

News Channel Feeds

• Ability to manually refresh an individual feed.
• Ability to set a feed refresh rate. 

News Categories

• Ability to group news channels by category.
• Ability to re-syndicate a news category.

General

• Ability to automatically use RSS 2.0, 1.0, 0.91, 0.90 and Atom feeds without using a custom XSLT template.
• Ability to aggregate feeds of multiple types into a single feed.
• Ability to select the feed format to re-syndicate feeds in for channels, categories and individual feeds.
• Caching of all feeds (feeds, channels and categories) to improve performance.

Please do note that this is a beta release and is not recommended for use in a production environment.  This is one reason I have only released it to those who have volunteered to do beta testing for this module.  Anyone else interested in being a part of that group can email me at jmcwilliam@flatburger.com.