I’ve just pushed an update to XKit Control Panel, changing some stuff about the News Notifications:

1. Before, if you had News Notifications turned off, only “Important” (I didn’t send any of these yet, hopefully won’t for a long time) news would be delivered to your computer. With the update, the “unimportant” news gets delivered to your computer, but does not cause the “You have unread news” popup to appear.
2. Unchecking News Notifications under Control Panel > Other causes all the news items to be marked as read.

If you have that option turned off, but still get the “You have unread news”, after receiving the update (or forcing an update by going to XKit Control Panel > Other > Update All) just check/uncheck the checkbox and it will go away.

I hope this way, people will receive the news, but not get bothered with them. If, for some reason, you have News turned on but don’t get the notification popup in the next days, please let me know by sending me an ask. Thank you!