NetNewsWire History
Indie Era
- May 2002: MacNewsWire 1.0b6 — NetNewsWire’s immediate predecessor — ships
- 2002 July 12: NetNewsWire Lite 1.0 public beta
- 2002 September 19: NetNewsWire Lite 1.0
- 2003 February 11: NetNewsWire 1.0
- 2005 May 12: NetNewsWire 2.0
NewsGator Era
- 2005 October 4: NewsGator acquires NetNewsWire
Brent takes a job at NewsGator and continues to work on NetNewsWire as lead (and usually only) developer. - 2007 June 5: NetNewsWire 3.0
- 2008 July 10: NetNewsWire 1.0 for iPhone ships on day one of the App Store
- 2009 September 23: NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone
- 2010 April 3: NetNewsWire 1.0 for iPad
- 2011 March 2: NetNewsWire Lite 4.0
Black Pixel Era
- 2011 June 3: NetNewsWire acquired by Black Pixel
Brent continues to work at NewsGator for a couple more years. He no longer works on NetNewsWire. - 2014: Brent begins work on a new RSS reader for Mac called Evergreen.
- 2015 September 3: Black Pixel releases NetNewsWire 4.0
Black Pixel also makes versions for iOS and Apple TV - 2017 June 1: Brent announces Evergreen
Back Home, Open Source Era
- 2018 August 31: NetNewsWire Comes Home
Black Pixel generously returns the name “NetNewsWire” to Brent. Brent renames Evergreen to NetNewsWire. What was to ship as Evergreen 1.0 will now ship as NetNewsWire 5.0. NetNewsWire is free and open source. - 2019 August 12: NetNewsWire 5.0 public beta
- 2019 August 26: NetNewsWire 5.0
- 2020 March 9: NetNewsWire 5.0 for iOS
- 2020 September 19: NetNewsWire 5.1 for Mac
- 2021 March 27: NetNewsWire 6.0 for Mac
- 2021 June 22: NetNewsWire 6.0 for iOS
- 2022 April 16: NetNewsWire 6.1 for Mac
- 2022 November 11: NetNewsWire 6.1 for iOS
- 2025 November 4: NetNewsWire 6.2 for Mac
- 2025 December 3: NetNewsWire 6.2.1 for Mac
- 2025 December 11: NetNewsWire 6.2.1 for iOS
- 2026 January 27: NetNewsWire 7.0 for Mac
- 2026 February 6: NetNewsWire 7.0 for iOS