• 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

Prepare 1.18.1-dev

• 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

Revert PHP version

• 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

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
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Features
  • Add the possibility to filter by feed IDs #2892
    • like f:123 more-search or multiple feed IDs like f:123,234,345 more-search or an exclusion like !f:456,789 more-search
  • Show users last activity date #2936
  • Ability to follow HTML redirections when retrieving full article content #2985
• API
  • New table of compatible clients #2942
  • Expose podcasts in API (used by e.g. FeedMe) #2898
  • Workaround for clients not sending a clean login request #2961
  • Relaxed detection of GReader short/long ID form (for Reeder) #2957
  • Fix warning with FeedReader #2947
  • Fix GReader string type for Usec fields #2935
  • Fix Fever integers type #2946
• CLI
  • JSON output option for ./cli/user-info.php --json #2968
  • Add language and e-mail in ./cli/user-info.php #2958
  • Fix filenames for exported files #2932
• UI
  • Access to feed configuration in mobile view #2938
  • Use standard loading="lazy" for favicons #2962
  • New option to control which categories to unfold #2888
  • Turn off autocapitalization in login fields #2907
  • Minor layout improvement of help labels #2911
  • Minor layout improvement of checkbox labels #2937
  • Fix styling of search input fields in Safari #2887
  • Fix styling of .stick elements in older Webkit browsers #2995
  • Use common CSS template for Alternative-Dark theme #3000
  • Upgrade to jQuery 3.5.1 for statistics #2982
• Compatibility
  • Relax OPML parsing to allow importing not strictly-valid ones #2983
• Deployment
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to PHP 7.3.17
  • Add reference documentation for using Apache as a reverse proxy #2919
  • Enforce Unix line endings when checking out via git #2879
• Bug fixing
  • Fix regression when marking all articles as read, risking to mark newer articles as read #2909
  • Fix memory leak when using lib_phpQuery for full-content retrieval #3004
  • Fix preview of CSS selector to retrieve full article content #2993
  • Fix PostgreSQL install when user has limited connection rights #3013
  • Fix Docker make cron use FRESHRSS_ENV environment variable #2963
  • Fix e-mail validation bug for admins #2917
  • Fix some cases when WebSub-enabled feeds change address #2922
  • Fix ensuring that wrong login attempts generate HTTP 403 (e.g. for fail2ban) #2903
  • Fix archiving options layout in Edge #2906
  • Fix form in statistics for article repartition #2896
  • Fix double-HTML-encoding of category names in statistics #2897
  • Fix password reveal button during install #2999
  • Fix Makefile rules when PHP is not installed #3010
• i18n
  • Improve Simplified Chinese #2891
  • Improve Dutch #3005
  • Reformat i18n files #2976
  • Add a Makefile rule to produce PO4A i18n files #3006
• Misc.
  • Reduce memory consumption during feed refresh #2972, #2955
    • and improved logs containing memory consumption #2964
  • Reduce the risk of DB lock errors #2899
  • Update PHPMailer library to 6.1.5 #2980
  • Initial rules for Markdown linting #2880
  • Add a Makefile rule for linting #2996
  • Add a Makefile rule to refresh feeds #3014

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Features
  • Allow multiple users to have administration rights #2096
  • Preview the CSS rule to retrieve full article content #2778
  • Improve CSS selector ordering in the full-text retrieval (lib_phpQuery) #2874
    • Allow combining selectors with a comma such as #article .title, #article .content
  • New search option !date: allowing to exclude any date interval #2869
    • For instance !date:P1W (exlude articles newer than 1 week), !pubdate:2019, -date:2020-01-01/P5d, etc.
  • New option to show all articles in the favourites view #2434
  • Allow feed to be actualized just after being truncated #2862
  • Fallback to showing a GUID when an article title is empty #2813
• API
  • Supported by Readrops (Android, open source) #2798
  • Improve consistency of the default category #2840
  • Return proper newestItemTimestampUsec #2853
  • Return HTTP/1.x 200 OK for an empty request, to ease discovery #2855
  • Add ability to customise dates shown in API #2773
  • Minor clearing of unused parameters #2816
• Compatibility
  • Support PHP 7.4
• Bug fixing
  • Fix regression causing a login bug in some situations related to e-mail login #2686
  • Fix regression in feed refresh when there are users whose e-mail is not verified #2694
  • Fix PostgreSQL install when using a username different than database name #2732
  • Fix error with advanced searches using SQLite #2777
  • Fix feed action filter when filtering on author: #2806
  • Fix warning in WebSub #2743
  • Fix environment variables COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG and FRESHRSS_ENV controlling logging #2745
  • Fix UI flickering when hovering over articles when authors are displayed #2701
  • Fix array error with PHP 7.4 #2780
  • Fix wrong foreach in applyFilterActions #2809
  • Fix encoding bug in lib_phpQuery when fetching the full content of HTML documents with a complex <head ...> #2864
  • Fix minor bug in “articles to display” configuration UI #2767
  • Fix sharing with Wallabag #2817
  • Fix UI background bug when hovering over a long title that overlaps the date #2755
• UI
  • Better UI / client network performance (time to first byte) thanks to a data streaming pipeline with yield #2588
    • Improved buffering strategy accordingly, with a loading animation while waiting for the first articles to arrive (e.g. complex / slow search) #2845
    • To benefit from it, requires that the full Web stack allow efficient streaming / flushing of data. Check our reference Docker + Traefik documentation.
  • Support RTL (right-to-left) languages #2776
  • New keyboard shortcut Alt ⎇+r to mark previous articles as read #2843
  • In the statistics page, show feeds inactive for 1, 2, 3, 5 years #2827
  • Reset FreshRSS page scroll when restoring a browser session, to avoid inadvertently marking as read new articles #2842
  • Fix scrolling of labels dropdown #2727
  • Enlarge <audio> widgets to use the full width of the reading zone, to help navigation in e.g. podcasts #2875
  • Use <p> instead of <pre> to display <media:description> information #2807
  • Show language and e-mail address in the list of users #2703
  • Change logic when using shortcuts to navigate between feeds, in the case some are empty #2687
  • Option to show/hide favicons (e.g. to reduce the number of requests) #2821
  • Improve loader animation colour in the Dark theme #2753
• SimplePie
  • Use distinct cache for feeds retrieved with #force_feed simplepie#643
    • Fix the issue of not being able to immediately try to add an invalid feed again #2524
  • Update to SimplePie 1.5.4 #2702, #2814
    • Require PHP 5.6+, and add PHP 7.4+ compatibility
    • Add Russian and German dates
    • Etc.
• Deployment
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to 3.11 with PHP 7.3.16 and Apache 2.4.43 #2729
  • Move core extensions (shipped with FreshRSS) to their own directory, so that ./extensions/ is solely for third-party extensions #2837
    • This allows mounting ./extensions/ as a Docker volume, to ease adding third-party extensions
• Extensions
  • New core extension to find feeds for Google Groups #2835
  • New hooks check_url_before_add and feed_before_actualize #2704
  • Execute the entry_before_display hook also through the API #2762
  • Allow extensions to change CSP (security) rules #2708
  • Expose the article ID in the share system (for a new e-mail sharing extension) #2707
• i18n
  • Improve French #2878
  • Improve German #2690
  • Improve Occitan #2873
  • Improve Portuguese #2833
  • Improve Simplified Chinese #2730
  • Improve Spanish #2823
• Misc.
  • Improve logging of database errors #2734
  • Remove the min_posts_per_rss configuration, which made efficient buffering difficult #2588
  • Add a test target to Makefile #2725
  • Fix test suite #2721
  • Refactor request class #2373
  • Remove deprecated magic quotes logic #2698

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Bug fixing (regressions from 1.15.x)
  • Fix adding categories in MySQL 5.5 #2670
  • Fix saving sharing integrations #2669
• Compatibility
  • Add fallback for systems with old ICU < 4.6 (International Components for Unicode) #2680
• API
  • Do not obey rel=self feed redirections when WebSub is disabled #2659
• UI
  • Start adding support for RTL (right-to-left) languages #2656
• Deployment
  • Docker: Ubuntu image updated to PHP 7.3.11
• Misc.
  • Add more log when errors occur when saving a profile #2663
  • Improve Makefile with port override #2660
  • Update a few external links to HTTPS #2662

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Bug fixing (regressions from 1.15.x)
  • Fix CLI failing due to new test against empty usernames #2644
  • Fix CLI install for SQLite #2648
  • Fix database optimize action for MySQL/MariaDB #2647
• Bug fixing (misc.)
  • Sanitize Unicode UTF-8 before insertion of entries, especially needed for PostgreSQL #2645
• Misc.
  • Rename sharing action to avoid erroneous blocking by some ad-blockers #2509

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Features
  • New approach based on OPML to definite default feeds for new users #2627
• API
  • Always send articles IDs as string, to fix compatibility with Reeder #2621
• Bug fixing (regressions from 1.15.0)
  • Fix database auto-creation at install #2635
  • Fix bug in database size estimation with PostgreSQL for users with uppercase names #2631
  • Reset name of default category (which cannot be customised anymore) #2639
  • Fix UI style details #2634
• Security
  • Improve cookie security with policy SameSite=Lax #2630
• Misc.
  • Perform automatic git updates with safer fetch+reset instead of clean+fetch+merge #2625

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• CLI
  • Command line to export/import any database to/from SQLite #2496
• Features
  • New archiving method, including maximum number of articles per feed, and settings at feed, category, global levels #2335
  • New option to control category sort order #2592
  • New option to display article authors underneath the article title #2487
  • Add e-mail capability #2476, #2481
  • Ability to define default user settings in data/config-user.custom.php #2490
    • Including default feeds #2515
  • Allow recreating users if they still exist in database #2555
  • Add optional database connection URI parameters #2549, #2559
  • Allow longer articles with MySQL / MariaDB (up to 16MB compressed instead of 64kB) #2448
  • Add support for terms of service #2520
  • Add sharing with Lemmy #2510
• API
  • Add support for Reeder-4 client #2513
• Compatibility
  • Require at least PHP 5.6+ #2495, #2527, #2585
  • Require php-json and remove remove JSON.php fallback #2528
  • Require at least PostgreSQL 9.5+ #2554
• Deployment
  • Take advantage of mod_authz_core instead of mod_access_compat when running on Apache 2.4+ #2461
  • Docker: Ubuntu image updated to 19.10 with PHP 7.3.8 and Apache 2.4.41 #2577
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to 3.10 with PHP 7.3.11 and Apache 2.4.41 #2238
  • Docker: Increase default PHP POST/upload size to ease importing ZIP files #2563
  • New environment variable COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG to see all logs at once in e.g. docker logs -f #2591
  • New environment variable FRESHRSS_ENV to control Minz development mode #2508
  • Git ignore themes/xTheme-* #2511
• Bug fixing
  • Fix missing PHP opcache package in Docker Alpine #2498
  • Fix IE11 / Edge keyboard compatibility #2507
  • Use <dc:creator> instead of <author> for RSS 2.0 outputs #2542
  • Fix PostgreSQL and SQLite database size estimation #2562
  • Fix broken SVG icons in Swage theme #2568, #2571
• Security
  • Fix referrer vulnerability when opening an article original link with a shortcut #2506
  • Slight refactoring of access check #2471
• UI
  • Optimize dynamic favicon for HiDPI screens #2539
  • Hide the admin checkbox if user is not admin #2531
• I18n
  • Add Slovak #2497
  • Improve Dutch #2503
  • Improve Occitan #2519, #2583, #2603
• Extensions
  • Additional hooks #2482
  • New call to change the layout #2467
• Misc.
  • Make our JavaScript compatible with LibreJS #2576
  • PDO (database) refactoring for code simplification #2522
  • Automatic check of CSS syntax in Travis CI #2477
  • Make our Travis greener by reducing redundant tests #2589
  • Remove support for sharing with Google+ #2464
  • Redirect connected users accessing registration page #2530
  • Add Makefile #2481

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• UI
  • New configuration page for each category #2369
  • Update shortcut configuration page #2405
  • CSS style for printing #2149
  • Do not hide multiple <br /> tags #2437
  • Updated to jQuery 3.4.1 (only for statistics page) #2424
• Bug fixing
  • Fix wrong mark-as-read limit #2429
  • Fix API call for removing a category #2411
  • Fix user self-registration #2381
  • Make CGI Authorization configuration for API more compatible #2446
  • Fix refresh icon in Swage theme #2375
  • Fix message banner in Swage theme #2379
  • Docker: Add php-gmp for API support in Ubuntu 32-bit #2450
• Deployment
  • Docker: Add automatic health check #2438, #2455
  • Docker: Add a version for ARM architecture such as for Raspberry Pi #2436
  • Docker: Ubuntu image updated to 19.04 with PHP 7.2.19 and Apache 2.4.38 #2422
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to 3.10 with PHP 7.3.7 and Apache 2.4.39 #2238
  • Add hadolint automatic check of Docker files in Travis #2456
• Security
  • Allow @- as valid characters in usernames (i.e. allow most e-mails) #2391
• I18n
  • Improve Occitan #2358
• Misc.
  • New parameter ?maxFeeds=10 to control the max number of feeds to refresh manually #2388
  • Default to SQLite during install #2443
  • Add automatic check of shell scripts in Travis with shellcheck and shfmt #2454

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Bug fixing (regressions introduced in 1.14.X)
  • Fix PHP 5.5- compatibility #2359
• Bug fixing (misc.)
  • Fix minor code syntax warning in API #2362
• Misc.
  • Add Travis check for PHP syntax #2361