• 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 1.18.1

Release 1.18.1

• 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

• 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