RSS Feed problem in Joomla 2.5

We just migrated from Joomla 1.5 to version 2.5. I've solved all of the migration problems except for one RSS feeds. When upgrading from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5, I was able to wrangle all of the stray feeds with the following.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} option=com_rss [NC]
RewriteRule ^index2\.php$ /rss.feed? [R=301,L]

This allowed me to point the old URI to:

example.com/rss.feed

I'm trying to use the same approach in Joomla 2.5 but I'm either brain dead at this point or missing something very obvious. In Joomla 2.5 the rss feeds can be found in this form:

example.com/?format=feed&type=rss/

So my solution is (the one that doesn't do anything):

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !format=feed [NC]
RewriteRule ^index2\.php$ /rss.feed? [R=301,L]

I've tried creating a redirect in SEF advance using Alias, but when I enter this as the source:

?format=feed&type=rss/

Is changed to this:

index.php

When I save the new Alias.

Bill

Hi

we have almost the same issue

simply that when SEF advance is ON the feed is rewrited to the home url.

So we can't access the frontpage default feed when Sef Advance is ON

Emir-  I noticed this in the changelog - I have not uploaded the new version:

1.6.5 (2015-01-09)
- Fixed a bug with RSS and Atom feeds and incorrect links in the source

Does this fix the issue I mention above?

Yes.