MSI download feeds not showing latest entries

Thanks for the detailed report and for digging into the XML, that made this much faster to pin down.

I traced it through and it’s a bug on MSI’s side. Their per product download feed reuses the same <guid> across many different entries, and the RSS spec says a guid has to uniquely identify each item. NewsBlur (like most readers) treats the guid as the unique key for a story, so when MSI hands out the same guid for different downloads, those entries collapse into a single story.

The worst offenders are all the entries with a blank download name (the ones that show up as just “Download:”). MSI gives every one of them the same guid, so roughly twenty separate releases, including your May 25 2026 one, all merge into one story. That merged story keeps the date of the first one NewsBlur ever saw, which is back in 2022. The newest entry that still has its own unique title is the April 10 2025 “Warning Safety Notice”, which is why that’s the latest date you see.

So the out of order dates aren’t the issue, NewsBlur handles those fine. It’s purely the duplicate guids.

There isn’t a clean fix I can make on the NewsBlur side without breaking normal feeds. Reusing a guid is exactly how a publisher signals “this is an update to an existing story,” so I have no reliable way to tell that apart from MSI accidentally reusing a guid for a completely different file. The real fix is for MSI to give each download a stable, unique guid. Worth reporting it to them.