NetNewsWire maintainer reports a year of modernization, not a sunset

Category: Apple
Status: discussion
Sources: inessential.com
Summary: Brent Simmons posted a status update on the open-source macOS and iOS RSS reader NetNewsWire on 2026-06-15. He describes a year out of retirement spent on modernization rather than features: about 2,188 commits, migration to Swift structured concurrency and async-await, adoption of the Liquid Glass UI, performance and bug fixes, new diagnostics such as iCloud Storage Stats and an error log, and a move from Slack to a public Discourse forum. There is no maintainer search and no sunsetting. HN discussion framing it as a project in trouble misreads the post.
Why it matters: A long-running open-source Apple-platform app moving to structured concurrency and Liquid Glass is a reference point for how mature SwiftUI and AppKit apps adopt the newer platform APIs.