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    2.2 Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • KOMK
      KOM
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      The RSS widget seems to have these funny black diamond question marks randomly sprinkled throughout the feed.  I don't see this behaviour with the 2.1.5 RSS widget.
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        phil.davis
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        Yes, it does that for me also. On a 2.1.5 system the same feed looks clean. I had a look at the page source from https://blog.pfsense.org and that looks like quite clean text.
        I put the rss.widget.php from 2.1.5 onto 2.2 - didn't fix it. Copied a few css, js from 2.1.5, refreshing each time. None of that fixed it.
        It uses simplepie.inc and strip_tags() to fetch and clean the content for display - can't see an obvious place where that changed.
        There will be something somewhere in css, js, inc file that changed - but I can't see it in a reasonable amount of time.
        (Or my testing is not effective - perhaps my refreshes are not really invoking the old code I copied on…)

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        • KOMK
          KOM
          last edited by

          IT'S A SHOW-STOPPER!  ICEBERG AHEAD!!

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            phil.davis
            last edited by

            I thought it would be a 5 to 10 minute job to find an obvious bit of code in a change that no longer stripped the RSS fed characters completely. But it seems to be a deep mystery of the universe, along with 42.

            As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
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            • ExolonE
              Exolon
              last edited by

              Appears to be a couple of issues:

              
We are proud to announce pfSense® software version 2.2 Release Candidate is now available! This should be a short release candidate cycle, so we encourage you to try it out ASAP to help us with the final push to release. Jim posted a [good overview of the significant changes](https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1486) previously. A more comprehensive list of changes can be found on the [2.2 New Features and Changes page](https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.2_New_Features_and_Changes).

              (1) The space has been hardcoded with HTML and
              (2) it appears that the feed doesn't like special characters, for example; the registration mark after pfSense.

              It does appear in both v2.1.5 (amd64) and v2.2-RC (amd64).

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              • KOMK
                KOM
                last edited by

                It does appear in both v2.1.5 (amd64) and v2.2-RC (amd64).

                I have 2 instances of pfSense running, 2.1.5 and 2.2-RC.  The problem only shows itself in the RSS feed of 2.2-RC.

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                  phil.davis
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                  @KOM:

                  It does appear in both v2.1.5 (amd64) and v2.2-RC (amd64).

                  I have 2 instances of pfSense running, 2.1.5 and 2.2-RC.  The problem only shows itself in the RSS feed of 2.2-RC.

                  Same for me - on 2.1.5 the widget handles and displays the non-breaking space thing OK. On 2.2-RC it displays the "?" diamond box.
                  Then I went to a 2.1.5 system that had not used RSS widget before. When I first enabled it, the "?" diamond boxes appeared, then it refreshed a few seconds later (maybe when I pressed Save Settings on the new dashboard layout) and the "?" diamond boxes were gone.
                  So, some more clues to track down this highly important bug  ;)

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                  • KOMK
                    KOM
                    last edited by

                    So, some more clues to track down this highly important bug

                    The Black Diamond bug is the kind of bug you can really sink your teeth into…

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                    • KOMK
                      KOM
                      last edited by

                      Black diamonds are missing from RSS feed's NTP story.  Hooray!

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