Ranchero’s been releasing updates to NetNewsWire (available only in beta thus far). Improvements include the following:

• Use of Web Kit (the Safari HTML renderer).
• A new feature that. when turned on, shows the differences in updated items.
• Performance enhancements, including some fundamental rearchitecting of elements of the software.
• Ability to delete read items.
• Better syntax coloring in the weblog editor.
• TypePad added as weblog publishing system choice.
• Bandwidth relief from gzip compression.
• Smart updating when encountering permanent redirects.

… and many others.

Oh, and Brent added Lockergnome’s RSS Resource to the defaults for new users!