Vienna 3.8.8 is our current recommendation

[barijaona]

[Updated 9th July 2023)

Vienna 3.8.8 is out.

All users are advised to use this version (runs from macOS 10.12 to macOS 13). Natively supports machines based on Apple Silicon processors.

Users of macOS 10.13 or later are encouraged to test the Vienna 3.9 beta. Download.

OS X 10.11 users should use version 3.7.5 of Vienna.
OS X 10.9 or 10.10 users should use version 3.5.10 of Vienna.

Latest "stable" release of Vienna can always be found at https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss/releases/latest
All recent versions of Vienna are visible at https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss/releases

[philmur]

If Vienna 3.5.6 crashes on startup, when 3.5.5 does not, this fix worked for me.

In Terminal:

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echo 'pragma main.user_version=21;' | sqlite3 ~/'Library/Application Support/Vienna/messages.db'

These crashes (or sometimes hangs) have happened on every Vienna update since 2.0.9. They may have to do with the size of my messages.db file (250k+ messages, 615MB). Incrementing main.user_version fixed the crash problem every time.

[tut]

Well, 3.6.1 was the first update that gave me problems. After updating, it launched, but no windows appeared. I had to show the Main Window, but it's empty of any feeds.

Running macOS 10.15.7.

[barijaona]

Do you remember which version was used before ?

[tut]

3.6.0 :a0b1202c: (7300)

I've gone back to that build.

[sandstrom]

@ tut

Did you try the recently released 3.6.2 (which did fix that window issue for me on 10.15.7)?

[tut]

3.6.2 appears stable for this issue. Thanks!

[philmur]

If Vienna 3.5.6 crashes on startup, when 3.5.5 does not, this fix worked for me. …

Same crash-on-startup with 3.7.0. Fixed with:

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echo 'pragma main.user_version=22;' | sqlite3 "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Vienna/messages.db"

macOS 10.13.6 on MacPro5,1

[philmur]

If Vienna 3.5.6 crashes on startup, when 3.5.5 does not, this fix worked for me. …

Same crash-on-startup with 3.7.0. …

And again crash-on-startup with 3.7.2. Fixed with:

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echo 'pragma main.user_version=23;' | sqlite3 "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Vienna/messages.db"

macOS 10.13.6 on MacPro5,1

[karstenwo]

Version 3.7.4 worked as expected for exactly the first launch. Went through my ~120 subs like a breeze and showed results immediately. Wow.

Second launch and the brittle and slow behaviour is back

- Keep the app in foreground and leave it alone for some minutes for refresh.

- clicking on a sub takes up to a minute to display


I finally gave up on keeping my message archive, exported it via Terminal and deleted ALL messages whose "deleted_flag"=1.

That reduced the database from 900M to 32M and made Vienna very usable again.