• 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