• 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

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

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

• 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

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