• Milestone

This is a quality-focussed release for the 1.24.x series meant to provide a good product to people blocked on PHP 7.4, while we will increase the requirements to PHP 8.1+ from the next 1.25.x series.

A few highlights ✨:

• New global option to automatically add articles to favourites
• New option to share articles from the article title line
• Add core extensions, shipped by default: UserCSS and UserJS
• Security: Force log out of users when they are disabled
• Many bug and regression fixes

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @ColonelMoutarde, @den13501, @hkcomori, @math-GH
and newcomers @dservian, @crisukbot, @TomW1605

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New global option to automatically add articles to favourites #6648
  • New possibility to share a user query in JSON GReader format #6655
  • New fields image and description for user query share #6541
  • Show article first words when an article title is empty #6240
  • New option to share articles from the article title line #6395
  • Improve JSON Dot Notation module to access more string-friendly types #6631
  • Improve detection of image types for enclosures not providing a type #6653
  • Add sharing to archive.is #6650
• Security
  • Force log out of users when they are disabled #6612
  • Increase default values for OpenID Connect OIDCSessionMaxDuration and OIDCSessionInactivityTimeout #6642
  • Add default API CORS HTTP headers to shareable user queries #6659
• Bug fixing
  • Fix parentheses for complex OR Boolean search expressions #6672
  • Fix keep max unread #6632
  • Fix regression in mark as read upon gone #6663
  • Fix regression on mark duplicate titles as read for modified articles #6664
  • Fix regression for Fever API, remove dependency to Exif extension #6624
  • Fix muted feeds for WebSub #6671
  • Fix performance / deadlock of PostgreSQL and MySQL / MariaDB during schema updates #6692
  • Fix HTTP cache of main page (regression since 1.18.0) #6719
  • Fix HTTP cache of shareable user queries #6718
  • Fix HTTP cache for feeds with modified Last-Modified when content is not modified #6723
• Extensions
  • Add core extensions, shipped by default: UserCSS and UserJS #6267
    • Replaces CustomCSS and CustomCS extensions
  • Strong type array parameter helper #6661
• CLI
  • Add quiet option to cli/db-backup.php #6593
• Compatibility
  • Initial support for PHP 8.4+ #6615
    • With upstream contributions php/php-src#14873, PhpGt/CssXPath#227
  • Fix SQLite on FreeBSD due to DQS #6701, #6702
• Deployment
  • Docker default image (Debian 12 Bookworm) updated to PHP 8.2.20 and Apache 2.4.61
  • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.20 with PHP 8.3.10 and Apache 2.4.62 #5383
  • Docker: Alpine dev image freshrss/freshrss:newest updated to PHP 8.4.0beta3 and Apache 2.4.62 #5764
• UI
  • Default dark mode to auto #5582
  • New option to control action icons position in reading view #6297
  • Sticky buttons at the bottom of settings #6304
  • Various UI and style improvements #6446, #6485,
    #6651
• I18n
  • Czech: use correct ISO 639-1 code cs (and not cz, which is the country) #6514
  • Improve Japanese #6564
  • Improve Spanish #6634
  • Improve Traditional Chinese #6691
• Misc.
  • Pass PHPStan Level 9 #6544
  • Migrate to ESLint 9 #6685
  • Minor update of PHPCS whitespace / formatting rules #6666
  • Markdownlint no-trailing-spaces #6668
  • Removed sharing with Blogotext #6225
  • Code improvements #6043
  • Update dev dependencies #6606, #6614,
    #6679, #6681, #6682,
    #6683, #6684

• Milestone

This is a bug-fix release for the 1.24.0 release, addressing several regressions.

A few highlights ✨:

• New button to export OMPL of a category
• Many bug fixes

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @math-GH, and newcomers @ramazansancar, @robinmetral

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New button to export OMPL of a category #6519
  • Better git error messages in built-in Web update #6496
• Bug fixing
  • Fix regression HTTP GET curl options #6492
  • Fix regression of mark as read if an identical title already exists #6536, #6543
  • Fix connection to PostgreSQL databases with uppercase letters #6482
  • Fix UI regression hover over title while having the navigation buttons in mobile view #6486
  • Fix UI for some drag & drops #6505, #6508
• i18n
  • Improve Czech #6504
  • Improve Turkish #6506
• Misc.
  • Update dev dependencies #6525, #6526, #6528,
    #6529, #6530

• Milestone
• Discussion

A few highlights ✨:

• New shareable user query mechanism to share lists of articles by HTML, RSS, OPML
  • Deprecates RSS sharing with master token
• New CLI for database backup & restore
  • Can also be used to migrate from one database to another, or to upgrade SQLite schema
• New JSON scraping mode to consume JSON data and JSON Feeds
• New support for HTTP POST
• New option to automatically add labels to incoming articles
• New button to download a feed configuration as OPML
• Many bug fixes

This release has been made by several contributors: @aledeg, @Alkarex, @andris155, @CilgaIscan, @cn-tools, @den13501, @eta-orionis, @Frenzie, @FromTheMoon85, @gmgall, @hkcomori, @jakopo87, @laxmanpradhan, @loviuz, @math-GH, @MayMeow, @OctopusET, @PedroPMS, @roughnecks, @soniyaprasad77, @th0mcat, @thomasrenes, @tiborepcek, @wolfpld, @yzqzss, @zukizukizuki
and several newcomers @eta-orionis, @gmgall, @hkcomori, @jakopo87, @jgtorcal, @krm-shrftdnv, @laxmanpradhan, @loviuz, @PedroPMS, @roughnecks, @soniyaprasad77, @th0mcat, @zukizukizuki

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New shareable user query mechanism to share list of articles by HTML, RSS, OPML #6052
    • Deprecates RSS sharing with master token
  • New JSON scraping mode to consume JSON data #5662, #6317,
    #6369, #6476
  • New support for JSON Feeds #5662
  • New support for HTTP POST #5662
  • New options to automatically add labels to incoming articles #5954
  • New button to download a feed configuration as OPML #6312
  • Web scraping support more encodings such as EUC-JP #6112
  • Web scraping support password-protected queries (refactor some cURL options and use CURLOPT_USERPWD) #6177
  • Web scraping HTTP GET allow UTF-8 even when charset is far from top #6271
  • Allow manual refresh of disabled feeds #6408
  • Allow multiple authors on enclosures #6272
  • New system option in data/config.php for number of feeds to refresh in parallel from UI #6124
• CLI
  • New CLI for database backup & restore #6387
    • Can also be used to migrate from one database to another, or to upgrade SQLite schema
    • ./cli/db-backup.php ; ./cli/db-restore.php
  • Improve CLI parameters #6028, #6036,
    #6099, #6214
  • Fix i18n cli/manipulate.translation.php ignore behaviour #6041
• API
  • New compatible app Read You #4633, #6050
  • Reduce API memory consumption #6137
  • Allow negative feed IDs for future special cases #6010
  • Only return OK for requests without query parameters #6238
• Bug fixing
  • Better account for some edge cases for cron and automatic labels during feed refresh #6117
  • Better support for thumbnails in RSS feeds #5972
  • Auto-update PostgreSQL or MariaDB / MySQL databases for column details changes since FreshRSS 1.21.0 #6279
    • For SQLite, DB update require running ./cli/db-backup.php ; ./cli/db-restore.php --force-overwrite
  • Fix SQLite import of exports produced before FreshRSS 1.20.0 #6450
  • Fix SQLite release handle to fix deleting users on Microsoft Windows #6285
  • Fix to allow admins to create user even when there are Terms Of Service #6269
  • Fix updating the uncategorized category deletes the title #6073
  • Fix disable master authentication token #6185
  • Fix CSS selector preview #6423
  • Fix CSS selector encoding #6426
  • Fix export of CSS selector in OPML of individual feeds #6435
  • Fix OPML import of CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE #6439
  • Fix favicon with protocol-relative URLs have duplicate slashes #6068
  • Fix feed TTL+muted logic #6115
  • Fix apply mark as read to updated articles too #6334
  • Fix ZIP export on systems with custom temp folder #6392
  • Fix number of posts per page during paging #6268
  • Fix clipboard sharing UI #6301
  • Fix shortcut for clipboard sharing #6277
  • Fix user-query filter display #6421
• SimplePie
  • Fix absolutize URL for several cases #6270, simplepie/#861
• Security
  • Replace iframe allow attribute #6274
• Deployment
  • Disable unused PHP modules in our Debian-based Docker image #5994
• UI
  • No warning for muted feeds #6114
  • Various UI and style improvements #6055, #6074,
    #6241, #6242, #6289,
    #6299, #6314, #6357,
    #6373, #6376, #6385,
    #6390, #6444, #6445
  • Improve theme Origine compact #6197
• i18n
  • Improve Brazilian Portuguese #6067
  • Improve Czech #6344
  • Improve Dutch #6343
  • Improve German #6313
  • Improve Hungarian #6005, #6377, #6464
  • Improve Indonesian #6473
  • Improve Italian #6018, #6060, #6329
  • Improve Japanese #6108, #6294
  • Improve Korean #6342
  • Improve Polish #6358
  • Improve Portuguese #6345
  • Improve Russian #6467
  • Improve Simplified Chinese #6336
  • Improve Slovakian #6356
  • Improve Spanish #6471
  • Improve Traditional Chinese #6350
  • Improve Turkish #6328
  • Misc. #6460
• Extensions
  • Sanitize parsing list of extensions names and version number #6016,
    #6155, Extensions#214, #6186
  • Apply filter actions such as mark as read after the entry_before_insert hook for extensions #6091
  • New developer command to test all third-party extensions Extensions#228, #6273
    • composer run-script phpstan-third-party
  • New function Minz_Extension::amendCsp() for extensions to modify HTTP headers for Content Security Policy #6246
  • New property FreshRSS_Entry::isUpdated() for extensions to know whether an entry is new or updated #6334
• Compatibility
  • Fix PHP 7.4 compatibility for automated tests #6038, #6039
  • Fix PHP 8.2+ compatibility for e-mails #6130
  • Use PHP 8.3+ #[\Override] #6273
• Misc.
  • Improve PHPStan #6037, #6459
  • Update PHPMailer #6022
  • Remove noisy name parameters in user-query URL #6371
  • Code improvements #6046, #6075,
    #6132
  • Add Dependabot for GitHub Actions #6164
  • Allow Ctrl+C for make start #6239
  • Update dev dependencies #6023, #6265

• Milestone

This is a bug-fix release for the 1.23.0 release, addressing several regressions.

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @andris155, @math-GH, @yzqzss, @zhzy0077

Full changelog:

• Bug fixing
  • Fix crash regression with the option Max number of tags shown #5978
  • Fix crash regression when enabling extensions defined by old FreshRSS installations #5979
  • Fix crash regression during export when using MySQL #5988
  • More robust assignment of categories to feeds #5986
  • Fix base_url being cleared when saving settings #5992
  • Fix unwanted button in UI of update page #5999
• Deployment
  • Exclude more folders with .dockerignore #5996
• i18n
  • Improve simplified Chinese #5977
  • Improve Hungarian #6000

• Milestone
• Discussion 🎄

A few highlights ✨:

• New Important feeds group in the main view, with corresponding new priority level for feeds #5782
  • Entries from important feeds are not marked as read during scroll, during focus, nor during Mark all as read
• Add filter actions (auto mark as read) at category level and at global levels #5942
• Increase SQL fields length to maximum possible #5788, #5570
• Many bug fixes

Breaking changes 💥:

• Require PHP 7.4+
• Soft require Apache 2.4+ (but repair minimal compatibility with Apache 2.2)
• Use GitHub Actions to build Docker images, offering architectures amd64, arm32v7, arm64v8 with automatic detection #5808
  • So no -arm suffix anymore
• Upgraded extensions require FreshRSS 1.23.0+ Extensions#181

This release has been made by several contributors: @Alkarex, @ColonelMoutarde, @FireFingers21, @Frenzie, @kasimircash, @andris155, @b-reich, @foux, @jaden, @jan-vandenberg, @joestump, @jtracey, @mark-monteiro, @martinrotter, @math-GH, @passbe

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New Important feeds group in the main view, with corresponding new priority level for feeds #5782
    • Entries from important feeds are not marked as read during scroll, during focus, nor during Mark all as read
  • Add filter actions (auto mark as read) at category level and at global levels #5942
  • Improve reliability of Max number of articles to keep unread #5905
  • New option to mark entries as read when focused from keyboard shortcut 5812
  • New display option to hide My labels in article footers #5884
  • Add support for more thumbnail types in feeds enclosures #5806
  • Support for favicons with non-absolute paths #5839
  • Increase SQL (VARCHAR) text fields length to maximum possible #5788
  • Increase SQL date fields to 64-bit to be ready for year 2038+ #5570
• Compatibility
  • Require PHP 7.4+, and implement typed properties #5720
  • Require Apache 2.4+ (but repair minimal compatibility with Apache 2.2) #5791, #5804
• Bug fixing
  • Fix regression in Docker CRON_MIN if any environment variable contains a single quote #5795
  • Improve filtering of cron environment variables #5898
  • Fix the TRUSTED_PROXY environment variable used in combination with trusted sources #5853
  • Fix regression in marking as read if an identical title already exists #5937
  • Fix JavaScript regression in label dropdown #5785
  • Fix regression when renaming a label #5842
  • Fix API for adding feed with a title #5868
  • Fix regression in UI of update page #5802
  • Fix XPath encoding #5912
  • Fix notifications, in particular during login #5959
• Deployment
  • Use GitHub Actions to build Docker images, offering architectures amd64, arm32v7, arm64v8 with automatic detection #5808
  • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.19 with PHP 8.2.13 and Apache 2.4.58 #5383
• Extensions
  • Upgrade extensions code to PHP 7.4+ #5901, #5957
  • Breaking change: upgraded extensions require FreshRSS 1.23.0+ Extensions#181
  • Pass FreshRSS version to JavaScript client side for extensions #5902
  • Add GitHub Actions and PHPStan for automatic testing of the Extensions repository Extensions#185
• API
  • Improve handling of new lines in enclosure descriptions (e.g., YouTube video descriptions) #5859
• Security
  • Avoid printing exceptions in favicons #5867
  • Remove unneeded execution permissions on some files #5831
• UI
  • Ensure that enough articles are loaded on window resize #5815
  • Improve Nord theme #5885
  • Do not show message Add some feeds #5827
  • Various UI and style improvements #5886
• i18n
  • Fix font priority for languages using Han characters #5930
  • Improve Dutch #5796
  • Improve Hungarian #5918
• Misc.
  • Increase PHPStan from Level 7 to Level 8 #5946
  • Compatibility PHP 8.2+ for running automated tests #5826
  • Use PHP declare(strict_types=1); #5830
  • Better stack trace for SQL errors #5916
  • Code improvements #5511, #5945
  • Update dev dependencies #5787

• Milestone

A few highlights ✨:

• Require PHP 7.2+ (drop support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1) #4848
• New XML+XPath mode for fetching XML documents when there is no RSS/ATOM feed #5076
• Better support of feed enclosures (image / audio / video attachments) #4944
• User-defined time-zone #4906
• New CLI script cli/sensitive-log.sh to help e.g. Apache clear logs for sensitive information such as credentials #5001
  • See also CVE-2023-22481
• Mark some themes as tentatively deprecated: BlueLagoon, Flat, Screwdriver #4807
  • 🙋 Reach out if you disagree, especially if you are interested in helping maintaining one of them
• Many UI improvements

This release has been made by several new contributors @axeleroy, @hippothomas, @mincerafter42, @sad270, @zhzy0077, in addition to our regular contributors @Alkarex, @ColonelMoutarde, @Frenzie, @myuki, @aledeg, @marienfressinaud, @math-GH, @miicat, @nicofrand, @yzqzss ... Thank you!

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New XML+XPath mode for fetching XML documents when there is no RSS/ATOM feed #5076
  • Better support of feed enclosures (image / audio / video attachments) #4944
  • User-defined time-zone #4906
  • Improve HTML+XPath mode by allowing HTML content #4878
  • Search only on full tag names and not on parts of tag names #4882
  • Allows searching for parentheses with \( or \) #4989
  • Firefox-compatible sharing service for mailto: links for webmail services #4680
  • Add sharing to archive.org #5096
  • Increase max HTTP timeout to 15 minutes #5074
• Compatibility
  • Require PHP 7.2+ (drop support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1) #4848
  • Workaround disabled openlog() or syslog() #5054
• Deployment
  • Docker default image (Debian 11 Bullseye) updated to PHP 7.4.33
  • Docker: alternative image updated to Alpine 3.17 with PHP 8.1.16 and Apache 2.4.55 #4886
  • More uniform time-zone behaviour #4903, #4905
  • New CLI script cli/sensitive-log.sh to help e.g. Apache clear logs for sensitive information such as credentials #5001
  • New CLI script cli/access-permissions.sh to help apply file permissions correctly #5062
  • Improve file permissions on ./extensions/ #4956
  • Update Apache mime type font/woff #4894
  • Re-added a git latest branch (instead of a tag) to track the latest FreshRSS stable releases #5148
• Bug fixing
  • Fix allow disabling curl proxy for specific feed, when proxy is defined globally #5082
  • NFS-friendly is_writable() checks #4780
  • Fix error handling when updating feed URL #5039
  • Fix feed favicon after editing feed URL #4975
  • Fix allow Ctrl+Click to open Manage feeds in new tab #4980
  • Fix empty window opened when pressing space after page load #5146
  • Fix keep current view when searching #4981
  • Fix mobile view: scroll main area again after closing slider #5092
  • Fix change confirmation when leaving sharing service config #5098
  • Fix sharing to Lemmy #5020
• Security
  • API avoid logging passwords CVE-2023-22481
  • Remove execution rights on some files not needing it #5065
  • More robust application of file access permissions #5062
• UI
  • Improve search box #4994
  • Improve navigation menu structure #4937
  • More consistent sorting of feeds alphabetically #4841
  • Improve reader view on mobile screen #4868
  • Various UI and style improvements #4681, #4794
    #4800, #4850, #4865,
    #4872, #4874, #4889,
    #4890, #4891, #4897,
    #4899, #4910, #4923,
    #4927, #4960, #4985,
    #4998, #5034, #5040,
    #5055, #5058, #5097,
    #5100
• Themes
  • Dark mode for Origine and Origine compact themes #4843
  • Improve Ansum and Mapco #4938, #4959, #4967,
    #4983, #4995
  • Improve Dark pink #4881
  • Improve Nord theme #4892, #4979
  • Improve Origine #4893
  • Improve Origine compact #4873
  • Improve Pafat #4909
  • Improve Swage #4875, #4922, #4936,
    #5029
  • Mark some themes as tentatively deprecated: BlueLagoon, Flat, Screwdriver #4807
• i18n
  • Improve Chinese #4853, #4856
• SimplePie
  • No URL Decode for enclosure links #768
  • Fix case of multiple RSS2.0 enclosures #769
  • Sanitize thumbnail URL #770
  • Use single constant for default HTTP Accept header #784
• Misc.
  • Increase max feed URL length and drop unicity in database #5038
  • New support of Development Containers / GitHub Codespaces to ease development #4859
  • Update library lib_opml #4403
  • Code improvements #4232, #4651,
    #5024, #5025, #5028,
    #5032, #5158, #5045,
    #5049, #5063, #5084
  • Update dev dependencies #4993, #5006, #5109

Quick fix for FreshRSS 1.16.1.

• Milestone

Changelog:

• Bug fixing (regressions)
  • Fix migration of the preference Show categories unfolded (from ≤ 1.16.0) to the new Categories to unfold #3019

• Milestone

This is a security release for a regression since FreshRSS 1.18.0.

A few highlights ✨:

• CVE-2022-23497 Fix security vulnerability in ext.php #4928 reported by @c3l3si4n

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Fix security vulnerability in ext.php #4928 fixed by @Alkarex
• Apache TraceEnable Off #4863

Revert PHP version

• Milestone
• Discussion

A few highlights ✨:

• Focusing mostly on bug-fixes of 1.20.0
• Several UI / themes improvements
• Improved and new translations (Greek, Indonesian)

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Features
  • Add support for custom XPath date/time format #4703
  • Add default redirect when authenticating #4778
  • Force default user before rendering login page #4620
• API
  • Minor Google Reader API improvements #4763
• Bug fixing
  • Fix SQL transaction rollbacks during auto-update #4622
  • Fix opcache bug during Web update #4629, update.freshrss.org#4
  • Fix export bug #4822
  • Fix OPML import of special feed attributes #4708
  • Fix JavaScript bug with remembering opened categories #4827
  • Fix curlopt options for HTML+XPath #4759
  • Fix charset bug for HTML+XPath #4623
  • Fix HTML-encoding of CSS selectors #4707, #4823
  • Fix some broken author links #4743
  • Fix show settings page after adding new feed #4631
  • Fix login page when user does not exist #4621
  • Fix feed manage link on stats page #4768
  • Fix minor layout bugs #4830
  • Fix minor UI bugs with Safari #4643
• UI
  • Change some default settings related to marking articles as read #4736
  • Improve scrollbar when slider is open #4692
  • Improve Subscription Management: Show the category position number #4679
  • Improve Reader view: Mark article as read while scrolling #4652
  • Improve sharing / integration page #4774
  • Improve article summary text cut #4666
  • Improve HTML semantics for some boxes #4665
  • Change dynamic OPML icon #4673, #4810
  • Improve box layout for global view #4791
  • Improve logs layout #4594
  • Improve Feed configuration: number of articles #4625
  • Improve drop-down menus #4597
  • Show tile with explanation when hovering empty feeds #4617
  • Added bottom nav padding for iOS #4741
• Themes
  • Implement CSS variables for easy colour customisation #4641, #4693, #4789
  • Improve CSS line height #4671, #4782
  • Improved reader view with framed articles #4663
  • Improve themes
    Alternative Dark #4635, #4797;
    Blue Lagon #4786;
    Dark #4806;
    Mapco #4648, #4709, #4711;
    Origine #4842;
    Origine Compact #4636, #4735, #4787;
    Pafat #4783, #4792, #4793,
    #4796, #4811;
    Swage #4799, #4828, #4829
  • Rename template.css to frss.css #4644
  • Misc. #4596, #4619, #4696
• i18n
  • Rename tag to label in some languages #4770
  • Improve typographic quotes #4714
  • Remove invalid i18n string #4844
  • Add Greek #4718, #4754
  • Add Indonesian #4706
  • Improve Brazilian Portuguese #4669
  • Improve Czech #4670
  • Improve Italian #4803
  • Improve Japanese #4668
  • Improve Russian #4719
  • Improve Spanish #4676, #4725
  • Improve Turkish #4715
  • Improve i18n tools #4742, #4756
• Compatibility
  • Compatibility PHP 8.1+ strip_tags() #4688
  • Fix GLOB_BRACE is not available on all platforms #4628
• Deployment
  • Docker default image (Debian 11 Bullseye) updated to PHP 7.4.33
  • Docker: alternative image (Alpine 3.16) updated to PHP 8.0.25
• Misc.
  • Added Linkding as a sharing method #4721
  • Exclude .git/ from tests #4824
  • Exclude extensions/ from eslint and stylelint tests #4606
  • Update GitHub Actions version #4717

• Milestone
• Discussion

A few highlights ✨:

• New Web scraping feature HTML+XPath for Web pages without any RSS/ATOM feed #4220
• Add support for Dynamic OPML #4407
• New search engine supporting (nested) parentheses, also with negation #4378
• Allow many (50k+) feeds #4347 and other performance improvements
• New option to exclude some DOM elements with a CSS Selector when retrieving an article full content #4501
• New option to automatically mark as read gone articles #4426
• 2 new themes and plenty of UI improvements
• Supported by Fluent Reader Lite client on Android and iOS #4595
• Several bug fixes
• 1.20.x will be the last release(s) to support PHP 7.0 before requiring PHP 7.2+

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New Web scraping feature HTML+XPath for Web pages without any RSS/ATOM feed #4220
  • Add support for Dynamic OPML #4407
    • Subscriber: Ability for a category to be dynamically populated with a list of feeds provided by a remote OPML
    • Publisher: Ability to dynamically export a FreshRSS view (all, feed, category) into a dynamic OPML
  • New search engine supporting (nested) parentheses #4378, #4503
    • (author:Alice OR intitle:hello) (author:Bob OR intitle:world)
    • also with negation: !((author:Alice intitle:hello) OR (author:Bob intitle:world))
    • and supporting calling user queries from the search field by name: search:"My query" or search:QueryA, or by ID: S:3
  • Allow many (50k+) feeds #4347
    • Note: only for new users or after an export/import or a manual database update
    • See also #4357, #4353,
      #4417, #4502
  • New option to exclude some DOM elements with a CSS Selector when retrieving an article full content #4501
  • New option to automatically mark as read gone articles #4426
  • New OPML export/import of some proprietary FreshRSS attributes #4342
  • Tolerate the import of some invalid OPML files #4591
  • New feed settings to allow cookies and HTTP redirects #4470
  • Performance: Easier text search indexes for fast searches with PostgreSQL #4505
    • The indexes must be manually added for now. Using GIN pg_trgm
  • Easier definition of default user queries for new users in data/config-user.custom.php #4360
  • New sharing through standard Web Share API #4271
  • New sharing with Xing, Reddit, Pinterest, WhatsApp #4270
  • New sharing with archive.today #4530
• SimplePie
  • New method rename_attribute() instead of removing attributes to better be able to style/hide content of articles #4175,
    simplepie#717
  • Fix parsing of HTTP Links simplepie#729
  • Fix status_code type for PHP 8.1+ simplepie#728
  • Fix relative URLs simplepie#744
• Bug fixing
  • Fix last update & archive logic (especially for very long feeds, for which some old items were marked as unread) #4422
  • Fix regression with Fever API on 32-bit platforms #4201
  • Fix read-when-same-title bug #4206
  • Fix some search expressions such as "ab cd" and ab-cd #4277
  • Fix auto-load of more articles when using shortcuts #4532
  • Fix space shortcut #4581
  • WebSub: Use hash instead of base64 to handle long URLs #4282
  • Fix handling of authors with ampersand & #4287
  • Fix lazy loading images containing a quote ' in the address #4330
  • Fix database size calculation for PostgreSQL #4249
  • Fix HTTP root redirection in some cases (trailing slash with a proxy) #4167
  • Fix htmlspecialchars() warnings with PHP 8.1+ #4411
  • Fix OPML category encoding #4427
  • Fix one category of favicon update problem #4358
  • Fix rare mark-as-read bug #4456
  • Add missing extension hook freshrss_user_maintenance in CLI #4495
  • Rename conflicting function errorMessage() which exists on some platforms #4289
  • Fix remain of bookmarklet #4240
• UI
  • Performance: Automatic simplification of layout for 1000+ feeds #4357
  • Performance: New option icons-as-emojis #4353
  • Manage feed configuration using a dynamic slider view #4226, #4297, #4394
  • New option for custom HTML logo/title in the main Web UI view #4369
  • Show errored, empty, muted feeds in statistics #4276
  • Improve configuration of registration form #3932
  • Improve subscription list drag & drop #3953
  • Improve extension manager #4181
  • Improve idle feeds list #4192
  • Improve feed link in normal view #4006
  • Improve browser notification for unread message #4193
  • Improve notification banner #4023
  • Improve new article banner #4037
  • Improve pagination + load more button #4125
  • Improve log view #4204
  • Improve unread articles counter in normal view #4166
  • Automatically set the category when adding a feed from an existing category #4333
  • Better PWA colours for mobile #4254
  • Improve article footer #4306
  • Various UI and style improvements #4205, #4212, #4218,
    #4238, #4455, #4298,
    #4383, #4452, #4455,
    #4466, #4471, #4472,
    #4474, #4498, #4502,
    #4504, #4558, #4546,
    #4541
• Themes
  • New theme Dark pink #4311
  • New theme Nord #4400
  • Improve themes Alternative Dark #4587;
    Ansum #4538, #4549;
    Flat #4575;
    Mapco #4491, #4491;
    Swage #4493, #4512, #4566
• Extensions
  • Allow extensions using entry_before_insert to change entry->isRead() #4331
• i18n
  • Improve i18n CLI #4197, #4199
  • Add Chinese (Traditional) #4578
  • Improve Chinese (Simplified) #4332, #4337, #4379,
    #4509, #4577
  • Improve English #4450
  • Improve German #4525
  • Improve Korean #4572
  • Improve Occitan #4548
  • Improve Polish #4363
  • Improve Russian #4385
  • Improve Slovak #4524
• API
  • Restrict maximum length of item content length for clients compatibility #4583
  • Supported by Fluent Reader Lite #4595
• Deployment
  • Docker: Performance: entrypoint fix buffering, problematic when importing large OPMLs during install #4417
  • Docker default image (Debian 11 Bullseye) updated to PHP 7.4.30 and Apache 2.4.54
  • Docker: alternative image updated to Alpine 3.16 with PHP 8.0.22 and Apache 2.4.54 #4391
    • Add PHP extensions php-openssl (used by PHPMailer) and php-xml (used by SimplePie) #4420
  • Docker: Upgraded dev image freshrss/freshrss:newest to PHP 8.2 #4420
  • Include PHP extensions in Composer for easier automated deployment #4497
  • Improved trimming of base_url to avoid some common configuration bugs, especially via Docker / CLI #4423
• CLI
  • Allow empty DB prefix #4488
• Compatibility
  • Initial support for PHP 8.2+ #4420, #4421
• Security
  • Improved error page, properly returning HTTP 500 and CSP #4465
• Misc.
  • Replace lib_phpQuery by PhpGt/CssXPath library for full content retrieval #4261
    • Add support for star CSS Selectors such as a[href*="example"] CssXPath#181
  • Performance: Do not render irrelevant HTML for Ajax calls #4310, #4366
  • Performance: New limit option when reloading a feed #4370
  • Optional possibility to use Composer to update some libraries #4329, #4368
    • Update to PHPMailer 6.6.0 #4329
  • Use .gitattributes export-ignore #4415
  • Remove HTTP Referer for HTML download #4372
  • Add database field attributes (JSON) for entries #4444
  • Improve dev automated checks #4209
  • Update dev dependencies #4173, #4203, #4241,
    #4419, #4424
  • Fix extension list warning when offline#4571
  • Code improvements #4130, #4194, #4201,
    #4202, #4258, #4263,
    #4356, #4436, #4489,
    #4490, #4496

• Milestone
• Discussion

A few highlights:

• Improve dropdown menus on mobile view #4141, #4128
• Fix regression regarding keeping read state after seeing favourites / labels #4178
• Lots of code improvements, including improved support of PHP 8.1
• And more!

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Bug fixing
  • Fix regression regarding keeping read state after seeing favourites / labels #4178
  • Fix migration system on Synology and systems adding custom files to folders #4163
  • Fix wrong dropdown triangle UI for labels #4174
  • Fix minor UI bugs #4169, #4189, #4188
  • Fix minor SCSS details for the themes Ansum and Mapco #4146
• UI
  • Improve dropdown menus on mobile view #4141, #4128
  • Improve menu icons #4004
• Features
  • Support JSON import with date in milliseconds (e.g., Feedly) #4186
• Deployment
  • Docker: development image :newest updated to PHP 8.1.1 and Apache 2.4.52 #3666
• i18n
  • Improve i18n CLI #4131
  • Use typographic quotes #4133
  • Improve message regarding forced feeds #4145
  • Improve Czech #4151
  • Improve English #4161
• Misc.
  • Increase PHPStan to level 5 for code quality, also fixing several PHP 8.1 warnings #4110, #4123, #4119, #4182
  • Clean temporary files generated by automated tests #4177
  • Add automated spell checking of the code using typos #4138, #4134
  • Enforce code style opening brace on same line in PHPCS #4122
  • Remove broken GitHub Action automatically adding the latest tag to git #4135

• Milestone
• Discussion

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Bug fixing
  • Fix some filters for automatic article actions (e.g., !pubdate:P3d) #4092
• Features
  • New search operator on article IDs (useful to show a single article, extensions) #4058
    • Entry (article) ID: e:1639310674957894 or multiple entry IDs (or): e:1639310674957894,1639310674957893
• UI
  • Fix left navigation with long category names #4055
  • Show My labels menu also when empty #4065
  • Improve category titles on global view #4059
  • Disable dynamic favicon for browser / extensions blocking canvas #4098
  • Minor UI and style improvements #4061, #4067, #4085
• SimplePie
  • Manual update to SimplePie 1.5.8 #4113
• Code improvements
  • Add PHPStan level 1 for code quality #4021

• Milestone
• Discussion

A few highlights:

• Drop support for PHP 5.x (require PHP 7.0+) and initial support for PHP 8.1+
• Drop support for Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE11)
• New thumbnail and/or summary options for the normal view #3805
  
• New setting to automatically mark as read a new article if there is already one with the same title in the same feed
• New setting to keep only a maximum number of unread articles in a given feed
• Mobile view can access the configuration menus

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New thumbnail and/or summary options for the normal view #3805
  • New setting to automatically mark as read a new article if there is already one with the same title in the same feed #3303
  • New setting to keep only a maximum number of unread articles in a given feed #3303
  • New search operator based on custom labels, or not #3709
    • Search articles with label IDs: L:12,13,14 or label names: label:something or labels:"my label,my other label,🧪"
    • Search articles with any label: L:* or no label: !L:*
  • Add support for installable progressive web app (PWA) #3890
• Bug fixing
  • Fix marking as read a label with SQLite and PostgreSQL #3711
  • Better fallback for feeds without title #3787
  • Fix auto-load articles in anonymous mode and global view #4082
  • Fix several typos found by PHPStan, including one affecting the cache of keep max unread articles #4019
  • Fix warning in Fever API #4056
  • Show no articles alert-box also in global view #4042, #3099
  • Fix theme selection when a theme has been deleted #3874
  • Fix keyboard shortcuts in anonymous mode #3945
  • Fix show password in settings #3966
  • Fix JavaScript warnings for non-validated users #3980
  • Fix drag & drop layout for subscriptions #3949
• Security
  • Better error handling when a user does not exist (especially for API) #3751, #4084
  • Do not show Add new feed for anonymous users #4040
  • Do not show Mark as read / unread / favourite for anonymous users #3871, #3876
  • Do not show back link on error pages if the user does not have access #3765
  • Only show Back to RSS feeds when logged-in #3790
  • Fix for special characters in keyboard shortcuts #3922
  • Remove old workarounds with white space to prevent password autocompletion #3814
• Compatibility
  • Require PHP 7.0+ (drop support for PHP 5.x) #3666
  • Drop support for Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE11) #3666
  • Fix some warnings with PHP 8.1+ #4012, #4018
  • Fix back-compatibility with Git 2.21- for automatic updates #3669
  • Fix JavaScript caching and compression for some Apache platforms #4075
• Deployment
  • Docker: development image :oldest is now based on alpine:3.5 with PHP 7.0.33 and Apache 2.4.35 #3666
  • Docker: default image updated to Debian 11 Bullseye with PHP 7.4.25 and Apache 2.4.51 #3782
  • Docker: alternative image updated to Alpine 3.15 with PHP 8.0.14 and Apache 2.4.52 #3996
  • Docker: fix inclusion of .htaccess for ./p/themes/ folder #4074
  • Docker: only add the crontab when CRON_MIN is set #3927
  • Docker: move logic to disable FreshRSS updates #3973
  • Docker: allow mounting a volume for the cron file #3927
  • Images on Docker Hub are automatically scanned for software vulnerabilities
• UI
  • Remember article filters when changing views (category / feed) #3986
  • Mobile view can access the configuration menu #3879, #3881
  • Improve layout of settings on small screen #3818, #3819
  • New shortcut to jump to next unread article #3891
  • New shortcut to actualise feeds #3900
  • Implement Escape shortcut to close panels #3901
  • Improve layout of subscription management page #3893
  • Use HTML5 tags with better semantics and structure #3651, #3676, #3713, #3747, #3830, #3851
  • Allow JavaScript in themes #3739
  • Improve layout of statistics #3797, #3799, #3803
    • Replace flotr2 with chart.js library #3858
    • Remove jQuery fully #3847
  • Improve label management #3959
  • Update layout of user queries #3827
  • Improve style of install procedure #3721
    • Add retry button when checking requirements during install #3771
  • Improve notification icon #3678
  • Add CSS class to back links #3761
  • Better support for 400 and 405 HTTP error codes #3981
  • Many minor UI and style improvements #3792, #3795, #3801, #3802, #3817, #3821, #3824, #3831, #3832, #3877, #3880, #3969, #3989, #3990, #4005, #4015
• Themes
  • Show search box for all themes in mobile view #4025
  • Fix alternative-dark theme to avoid bright elements #3774, #3806
  • Improve the contrast of message boxes for the Origine theme #3725
  • Uniformize the size of inputand select elements for the Origine theme #3727
  • Fix style of banner text for the Origine theme #3731
• i18n
  • Fix language of e-mail notifications #4076
  • Lint i18n #3841
  • Fix bug in French and German translations of new/old tags #3703, #3668
  • Fix name of keyboard shortcut to open in new tab #3899
  • Add Japanese #3828, #3834
  • Improve Chineese #3926, #3947, #3963, #4084
  • Improve Dutch #3844, #3928
  • Improve German #3720, #3846, #3913, #4008
  • Improve Italian #3939
  • Improve Korean #3914
  • Improve Occitan #3935
  • Improve Polish #4027
  • Improve Portuguese #3908, #3925
  • Improve Russian #3907
  • Improve Slovak #4036
  • Improve Spanish #3916
• Extensions
  • Add system configuration for extension #3626
• SimplePie
  • Merge from upstream, help with PHP 8.1+ #4011
  • Fallback to file extensions for enclosures not providing a media type #3861
• Misc.
  • Implement GitHub Actions for continuous integration / automated testing 3920
  • Use ESLint instead of JSHint #3906
  • Improve .editorconfig and .stylelintrc #3895, #3912
  • Simplify Minz code with PHP 7 ?? operator #4020
  • Upgrade PHPMailer to 6.5.1 #3977
  • Added Raindrop.io as sharing option #3717
  • Delete outdated information regarding Firefox feed reader list #3822

• Milestone
• Discussion

Note: Last release before dropping support for PHP 5 and Internet Explorer 11.

Changelog:

• Features
  • Support standard HTTP 410 Gone by disabling (muting) gone feeds #3561
  • Make advanced feed options such as SSL available to non-admins #3612
• API
  • Supported by Newsboat 2.24+ #3574
  • Supported by RSS Guard #3627
• UI
  • Allow Unicode for shortcuts #3548
• Bug fixing
  • Fix database lock during refresh with MariaDB #3559
  • Fix database creation from CLI #3544
  • Fix: pdo_sqlite is optional except for export/import SQLite #3545
  • Fix import of JSON and TT-RSS files, especially with PHP 8 #3553
    • Allow import of more than 999 favourites/labelled articles even with SQLite
  • Fix additional SQL limits, especially for SQLite #3586
  • Fix search param encoding in user query #3541
  • Fix undefined variable & dead code when adding feed #3546
  • Fix missing translation in feed configuration #3554
  • Fix double escaping in feed filters #3563
  • Fix bugs in migration system #3589
  • Fix regression preventing showing startup errors #3590
  • Fix form redirection after erroneous user creation #3656
  • Fix JavaScript error during navigation when no article is selected #3655
  • Fix link to add feeds from the empty homepage #3650
  • Fix git update error message #3645
• SimplePie
  • Fix regression about media attachments #3565
  • Fix regression about forcing HTTPS for enclosures #3568
  • Catch ValueError for loadHTML with PHP 8 simplepie#673
  • Provide access to latest HTTP status code simplepie#674
  • Fix wrong SimplePie type hint simplepie#678
  • Merge details from upstream PRs #3588, #3614
• API
  • Compatibility with Web servers providing ORIG_PATH_INFO #3560
• i18n
  • Improved Russian #3579
  • Improved Turkish #3604
  • Improved Chinese #3600
• Code improvements:
  • Friendly constant syntax for Intellisense #3577
  • Fix several comments syntaxes #3615
  • Minor uniform stricter HTML #3616
  • Removed unused variable #3587
  • Provide action name in Minz controller exception #3624
  • New convenience method to extract multiline GET parameters from e.g. <textarea> #3629
• Deployment
  • Automatically apply latest tag in git for the latest FreshRSS release #3524
• Misc.
  • Remove legacy data/do-install.txt for triggering install process #3555
  • If using built-in git updates, automatically change to git edge branch if using old master or dev branch names #3589

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Features
  • Allow parallel requests #3096
    • Much faster manual feeds refresh
  • Reload full article content when an article has changed #3506
  • New share article link to clipboard #3330
  • Improved OPML import of feeds with multiple categories #3286
  • Add a content action parameter to work with CSS selector #3453
  • New cURL options per feed: proxy, cookie, user-agent #3367, #3494, #3516
  • Do not import feeds causing database errors (e.g. due to conflicting HTTP redirections) ##3347
• UI
  • New option to remember open categories #3185
  • Remember the scroll position of the sidebar #3231
  • Feedback messages are now properly attached to a request, in case multiple tabs are open #3208
  • New user query configuration page #3366
  • Allow sorting and drag & drop in the list of user queries #3346, #3355
  • Change layout to add a subscription #3289
  • Change integration configuration page #3372
  • Improve author search when clicking on an author #3315
  • Allow typing a label name instead of selecting it #3213
  • Use same behaviour for labels than the option Show all articles in favourites #3472
  • Change naming from Tag management to Label management #3446
  • Sort options alphabetically in share menu #3331
  • Case-insensitive sort order of feeds in category settings #3466
  • Better compression of the images #3184
  • Fix minor jaggy motion of the sidebar #3266
  • Remove useless reset action in sharing configuration page #3365
  • Add autofocus on subscription page #3334
  • Fix contrast issue by enforcing black text in base theme #3196
  • Adjust brightness & contrast of images and videos in dark themes #3356
  • Improve menu bar of several themes for mobile view #3480, #3491
  • Fix dropdown menu for user queries with BlueLagoon and Screwdriver themes #3485
  • Upgrade to jQuery 3.6.0 for statistics #3501
• Bug fixing
  • Fix the reloading of full article content with SQLite #3461
  • Fix the caching of an SQL prepared statement affecting the read state of updated articles #3500
  • Better handle expected article conflicts in database #3409
  • Fix SQL syntax error/warning when deleting temporary articles #3357
  • Fix login and refresh bugs in anonymous mode #3305
  • Fix i18n init #3249
  • Fix tag management #3292
  • Fix user queries with labels #3285
  • Fix loading of default actions for shortcuts #3394
  • Fix extensions when using CLI #3443
  • Fix translation CLI #3364
  • Allow searching for + sign #3489
  • Fix cURL version detection in install script #3519
• Compatibility
  • Support PHP 8+ #3186, #3207, #3459, #3487
    • Note: needed for MySQL 8+ with default authentication settings
    • Change ZIP-handling method #3470
• API
  • Supported by FocusReader (Android) #3478
  • Implement OPML import/export #3424
  • Add canonical field for fluent-reader, better compatibility InoReader #3391
  • Better compatibility with BazQux API #3320
  • Fix continuation token by ensuring it is a string (for Reeder) #3247
• CLI
  • Add requirements check in relevant CLI #3410
• Deployment
  • Possibility to auto-install via e.g. docker-compose #3353
    • New tolerance when the database is not available / up (yet) by trying a few times to connect
  • Docker: use Apache remoteip to log the client remote IP instead of the local proxy IP #3226
  • Docker: new environment variable LISTEN to change the internal Apache port when running in host network mode #3343
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to 3.13 with PHP 8.0.3 and Apache 2.4.46 #3375
    • Note: needed for MySQL 8+ with default authentication settings #3191
  • Docker default image (Debian 10 Buster) updated to PHP 7.3.27
  • New Docker development image based on alpine:edge to test the latest PHP 8+ version #3294
  • New Docker development image based on alpine:3.4 to test oldest supported PHP 5.6.36 version with Apache 2.4.43 #3274
  • Disable built-in update mechanism for new installations using Docker #3496
  • Check that PHP session is working during install #3430
• Security
  • Auto-renew login cookie #3287
  • Remove referer check, already replaced by CSRF token #3432
  • Increase login cookie duration to 3 months by default #3170
  • Prevent click on login button until JavaScript is fully loaded #3275
  • Add toggle password visibility button on login form UI #3205
  • Better sanitize feed description #3222
  • Allow @-sign in database username (for Azure) #3241
  • Add username hint for permissions during install #3373
• SimplePie
  • SimplePie prevent cache pollution #3502
  • Update to SimplePie 1.5.6 with PHP8 support #3469, #3206
  • Reduce memory consumption to handle very big feeds #3416
  • Replace ceil() by intval() for edge cases with PHP8 #3404
  • Strip HTML comments in feeds #3288
  • Minor fix of return type for broken feeds #3423
  • Fix images in enclosures without MIME type #3361
• Extensions
  • New user maintenance hooks #3440
  • New hooks js_vars and nav_menu #3342
  • Add class autoload for extensions #3350
  • Add support for extension user files #3433
  • Add user configuration in extensions #3397
  • Add a method to retrieve a configuration value #3422
  • Search files for both core and third-party extensions #3413
  • Updated base extension class #3333, #3335
  • Refactor extension file script #3399
• i18n
  • Fix some translation inconsistencies #3316, #3240
  • Add Polish #3190
  • Improve Chinese #3473
  • Improve Dutch #3468
  • Improve English #3248
    • Improve British English date format #3326
  • Improve German #3237, #3317, #3318, #3325, #3379, #3448, #3455
  • Improve Occitan #3245, #3511
• Code improvements
  • Improve FreshRSS system initialisation #3070
  • Improve session code during install #3276
  • Enforce phpcs (PHP_CodeSniffer) line length + whitespace #3488
    • Improve settings and applies to *.phtml, *.css, *.js as well
  • Fix superfluous Minz check during install #3302
  • Extract some classes to their own files #3301, #3298, #3297
  • Explicit git declaration of .png files as binary #3211
  • Remove Minz validation #3439
  • Explicit PDO::ERRMODE_SILENT #3048
  • Add constant for minimal PHP version #3369
  • Refactor requirements check during install #3368
• Misc.
  • Check access rights to temp folder during install #3312
  • Ensure maximum integer for a date to avoid some database issues #3259
  • Upgrade PHPMailer to 6.3.0 #3457
  • Make our Travis greener by testing only our oldest and newest supported PHP versions #3492

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Features
  • New tag management page #3121
  • New page to add feeds and categories #3027
  • Add a way to disable/enable users #3056
• Security
  • Add user auto-registration when using HTTP Basic authentication login method #3003
  • Fix special characters in user queries #3037
  • Hide feed credentials when adding a new feed #3099
  • Trim whitespace for feed passwords #3158
  • Updated PHPMailer library to 6.1.6 #3024
  • Add blogger.com to the default list of forced HTTPS #3088
• UI
  • Show feed name and date inside the article (especially good on mobile) #3081
  • Add shortcut to control media elements (video, audio) #3036
  • New option to disable shortcuts #3114
  • Case-insensitive sort order of feeds in categories #3131
  • Use machine-readable <time datetime=""> for entry dates #3106
  • Add tooltips on entry icons #3115
  • Limit dropdown menus max-height #3102
  • Fix inline code tag contrast in Ansum and Mapco themes #3048, #3050
  • Fix login form in BlueLagoon and Screwdriver themes #3028
• API
  • Supported by Fluent Reader (Windows, Linux, MacOS) #3140
  • Fix API quickadd #3051
  • Fix warning when adding a feed #3075
  • Work-around for common API address errors #3061
• Compatibility
  • Add fall-backs for compatibility with OPMLs from The Old Reader #3071
  • Relaxed to allow underscore _ in feed addresses #3133
• Deployment
  • Docker default image rebased on Debian 10 Buster, with Apache 2.4.38 and PHP 7.3.19 #3159
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to 3.12 with Apache/2.4.46 and PHP 7.3.21 #3025
  • Update example of Dockerfile #3108
• CLI
  • Re-introduce --api_password option (vanished in 1.16.0) #3179
  • Modify shebang to be more portable #3038
• Bug fixing
  • SimplePie: Fix compliance with HTTP 301 Moved Permanently #3180
• i18n
  • Add language negotiation when the user is not logged in #3022
  • New United States English #3060
  • Improved British English #3068
  • Improved Dutch #3063
  • Improved Slovak #3020
  • Add a language reference when adding a new one #3044
  • Change how updating a key works #3072
  • Add missing translations #3034
• Misc.
  • Return proper MIME type for favicons #3032
  • Add a migration system #2760
  • Makefile support for FreshRSS extensions #3042
  • Update rules to use Make syntax #3062
  • Refactor the export feature #3045