• 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 ✨:

• 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

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

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

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

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
  • 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

Release FreshRSS 1.20.0