• Milestone

In this release, the coding focus has been on moving to PHP 8.1+ and refactoring the integration of the SimplePie library (which was long due). At the same time, plenty of new features have been added. Enjoy! 🎄

Breaking changes 💥:

• Require PHP 8.1+ (and improved support of PHP 8.4+)
• Require PostgreSQL 10+ or MariaDB 10.0.5+ or MySQL 8+

A few highlights ✨:

• Add support for regex search (regular expressions)
  • ⚠️ Advanced regex syntax for searches depends on the database used (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL),
    but FreshRSS filter actions such as auto-mark-as-read and auto-favourite always use PHP PCRE2 syntax.
• Allow dynamic search operator in user queries, like search:UserQueryA date:P1d
• New feed mode HTML+XPath+JSON dot notation (JSON in HTML)
• Better HTTP compliance with support for HTTP response headers Cache-Control: max-age and Expires
• New unicity policies and heuristic for feeds with bad article IDs (reduce the problem of duplicated articles)
• New option to automatically mark new articles as read if an identical title already exists in the same category
• Add ability to remove content from articles with CSS selectors, also when not using full content
• New condition option to selectively retrieve full content of articles
• New UI feature to download a user’ SQLite database or a database SQLite export (to be produced by CLI)
• Supported by Capy Reader (Android, open source)
• Many bug fixes, UI improvements, and a lot more

This release has been made by @aledeg, @Alkarex, @Art4, @ColonelMoutarde, @Frenzie, @math-GH, @ramazansancar
and newcomers @DevGrohl, @UserRoot-Luca, @aarnej, @andrey-utkin, @bhj, @christophehenry, @davralin, @drego85, @ev-gor, @killerog, @kwarraich, @minna-xD, @mtalexan, @oshaposhnyk, @patHyatt

Full changelog:

• Features
  • Add support for regex search (regular expressions) #6706, #6926
    • ⚠️ Advanced regex syntax for searches depends on the database used (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL),
      but FreshRSS filter actions such as auto-mark-as-read and auto-favourite always use PHP PCRE2 syntax.
  • Allow dynamic search operator in user queries, like search:UserQueryA date:P1d #6851
  • New feed mode HTML+XPath+JSON dot notation (JSON in HTML) #6888
  • Better HTTP compliance with support for HTTP response headers Cache-Control: max-age and Expires #6812, FreshRSS/simplepie#26
  • Support custom HTTP request headers per feed (e.g. for Authorization) #6820
  • New unicity policies and heuristic for feeds with bad article IDs #4487, #6900
  • Fallback to GUID if article link is empty #7051
  • New option to automatically mark new articles as read if an identical title already exists in the same category #6922
  • New reading view option to display unread articles + favourites #7088
    • And corresponding new filter state &state=96 (no UI button yet)
  • Add ability to remove content from articles with CSS selectors, also when not using full content #6786, #6807
  • Update phpgt/cssxpath library with improved CSS selectors #6618
    • Support for :last-child, :first-of-type, :last-of-type, ^=, |=
  • New condition option to selectively retrieve full content of articles
    #33fd07f6f26310d4806077cc87bcdf9b8b940e35, #7082
  • Allow parentheses in quoted search #7055
  • New UI feature to download a user’ SQLite database or a database SQLite export (to be produced by CLI) #6931
  • New button to delete errored feeds from a category #7030
  • Better import of Inoreader user labels #6791
  • Rebuild feed favicon on cache clear #6961
  • New sharing with Bluesky #7116
  • New sharing with Telegram #6838
• Bug fixing
  • Fix searches with a parenthesis before an operator like ("a b") or (!c) #6818
  • Fix auto-read tags #6790
  • Fix CSS selector for removing elements #7037, #7073,
    #7081, #7091, #7083
  • Fix redirection error after creating a new user #6995
  • Fix favicon error in case of wrong URL #6899
  • Use cURL to fetch extensions list (allows e.g. IPv6) #6767
  • Fix XML encoding in cURL options #6821
  • Fix initial UI scroll for some browsers #7059
  • Fix menu for article tags in some cases #6990
  • Fix share menu shortcut #6825
  • Fix HTML regex pattern during install for compatibility with v mode #7009
  • More robust creation of user data folder #7000
• API
  • Fix API for categories and labels containing a + #7033
    • Compatibility with FocusReader
  • Supported by Capy Reader (Android, open source) capyreader#492
  • Improved UI for API #7048
  • Allow adding multiple feeds to a category via API #7017
  • API support edit multiple tags #7060
  • API return all categories also those without any feed #7020
• Compatibility
  • Require PHP 8.1+ (drop PHP 7.4) #6711
  • Improved support of PHP 8.4+ #6618, PhpGt/CssXPath#227,
    #6781, #4374
  • Require PostgreSQL 10+ (drop PostgreSQL 9.5) #6705
  • Require MariaDB 10.0.5+ (drop MariaDB 5.5) #6706
  • Requiring MySQL 8+ (drop MySQL 5.5.3) #6706
• Deployment
  • Docker: dev image freshrss/freshrss:oldest updated to Alpine 3.16 with PHP 8.1.22 and Apache 2.4.59 #6711
  • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.21 with PHP 8.3.14 and Apache 2.4.62 #5383
  • Update Dockerfiles to newer key-value format #6819
  • Docker minor improvement of entrypoint #6827
• SimplePie
  • Refactor our embedding of SimplePie #4374
    • Our fork is maintained in its own repository.
  • Remove HTTP Referer #6822, FreshRSS/simplepie#27
    • If some sites require it, add Referer: https://example.net/ to the custom HTTP headers of the feed #6820
  • Upstream fixes simplepie#878, simplepie#883
  • Sync upstream #6840, #7067
• Security
  • Apache protect more non-public folders and files #6881, #6893, #7008
  • Add privacy settings on extension list retrieval #4603, #7132
  • Fix login in unsafe mode when using a password with special XML characters #6797
  • Fix login in e.g. Brave browser by avoiding synchronous XHR #7023
  • Fix invalid login message #7066
  • Modernise windows.open noopener (to avoid flash of white page in dark mode) #7077, #7089
• UI
  • Searchable My Labels field #6753
  • Add subscription management button to reading view #6946
  • New option for showing label menu in article row #6984
  • Move to next unread label on mark as read #6886
  • Improved article footer for small / mobile screens #7031
  • Improve Web accessibility: fix aria-hidden bug, and use HTML5 hidden #6910
  • Default styles for <pre> and <code> #6770
  • Refactor the sharing menu to use a <template> instead of duplicated HTML code #6751, #7113
  • Refactor the label menu to use a <template> #6864
  • Rework UI for authors #7054
    • Avoid Unicode escape of authors in HTML UI #7056
  • Improved subscription management page #6816
  • Improve user query management page #7062
  • Restore JavaScript form validation compatibility with Web browsers using older engines (SeaMonkey) #6777
  • Reorganise some options #6920
  • New shortcut ? to show shortcut page and help #6981
  • Use of consistent colours in statistics #7090
  • Various UI and style improvements #6959
• Extensions
  • New extension hook simplepie_after_init #7007
• I18n
  • Add Finnish #6954
  • Improve English #7049, #7053
  • Improve German #6847, #7068, #7128
  • Improve Italian #6872, #7069, #7086
  • Improve Spanish #6894, #6908
  • Improve Turkish #6960
• Misc.
  • Better cache name for JSON feeds #6768
  • Fix inversed encoding logic in Minz_Request::paramArray() #6800
  • Pass PHPStan booleansInConditions #6793
  • Rename PHPStan configuration file to phpstan.dist.neon to allow custom configuration in phpstan.neon #6892
  • Code improvements #6800, #6809, #6983
  • Makefile improvements #6913
  • Fix PHPCS ControlSignature #6896
  • Update PHPMailer #6968, #7046
  • Code updates to PHP 8.1 syntax #6748
  • Update dev dependencies #6780, #6964, , #6965,
    #6966, #6967, #6970,
    #7042, #7043, #7044,
    #7045, #7047, #7052

• 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 release.

A few highlights ✨:

• Last version supporting PHP 7.4 before requiring PHP 8.1+
• Last version supporting PostgreSQL 9.5 before requiring PostgreSQL 10+
• Last version supporting MariaDB 5.5 before requiring MariaDB 10.0.5+
• Last version supporting MySQL 5.5.3 before requiring MySQL 8+
• Many bug and regression fixes

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @math-GH and newcomer @pando85

Full changelog:

• Bug fixing
  • Fix mark-as-read from user query #6738
  • Fix regression for shortcut to move between categories #6741
  • Fix feed title option #6771
  • Fix XPath for HTML documents with broken root (used by CSS selectors to fetch full content) #6774
  • Fix UI regression in Mapco/Ansum themes #6740
  • Fix minor style bug with some themes #6746
  • Fix export of OPML information for date format of JSON and HTML+XPath feeds #6779
• Security
  • OpenID Connect better definition of session parameters #6730
• Compatibility
  • Last version supporting PHP 7.4
• Misc.
  • Use charset for JSON requests from the UI #6710
  • Use .html extension for the local cache of full content pages instead of .spc #6724
  • Update dev dependencies #6739, #6758,
    #6759, #6760

• 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