• Milestone

This is a major release, just in time for the holidays 🎄

Selected new features ✨:

• New sorting and filtering by date of User modified, with corresponding search operator, e.g. userdate:PT1H for the past hour
• New sorting by article length
• New advanced search form
• New overview of dates with most unread articles
• New ability to share feed visibility through API (implemented by e.g. Capy Reader)
  • Bonus: Capy Reader is also the first open source Android app to support user labels
• Better transitions UI between groups of articles
• New links in UI for transitions between groups of articles, and jump to next transition
• Docker default image updated to Debian 13 Trixie with PHP 8.4.11
• And much more…

Improved performance 🏎️:

• Scaling of user statistics in Web UI and CLI, to help instances with 1k+ users
• Improve SQL speed for some critical requests for large databases
• API performance optimisation thanks to streaming of large responses

Selected bug fixes 🐛:

• Fix OpenID Connect with Debian 13
• Fix MySQL / MariaDB bug wrongly sorting new articles
• Fix SQLite bind bug when adding tag

Breaking changes 💥:

• Move unsafe autologin to an extension
• Potential breaking changes for some extensions (which have to rename some old functions)

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @Frenzie, @Inverle, @aledeg, @andris155, @horvi28, @math-GH, @minna-xD and newcomers @Darkentia, @FollowTheWizard, @GreyChame1eon, @McFev, @jocmp, @larsks, @martinhartmann, @matthew-neavling, @pudymody, @raspo, @scharmach, @scollovati, @stag-enterprises, @vandys, @xtmd, @yzx9.

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New sorting and filtering by date of User modified #7886, #8090,
    #8105, #8118, #8130
    • Corresponding search operator, e.g. userdate:PT1H for the past hour #8093
    • Allows finding articles marked by the local user as read/unread or starred/unstarred at specific dates for e.g. undo action.
  • New sorting by article length #8119
  • New advanced search form #8103, #8122, #8226
  • Add compatibility with PCRE word boundary \b and \B for regex search using PostgreSQL #8141
  • More uniform SQL search and PHP search for accents and case-sensitivity (e.g. for automatically marking as read) #8329
  • New overview of dates with most unread articles #8089
  • Allow marking as read articles older than 1 or 7 days also when sorting by publication date #8163
  • New option to show user labels instead of tags in RSS share #8112
  • Add new feed visibility (priority) Show in its feed #7972
  • New ability to share feed visibility through API (implemented by e.g. Capy Reader) #7583, #8158
  • Configurable notification timeout #7942
  • OPML export/import of unicity criteria #8243
  • Ensure stable IDs (categories, feeds, labels) during export/import #7988
  • Add username and timestamp to SQLite export from Web UI #8169
  • Add option to apply filter actions to existing articles #7959, #8259
  • Support CSS selector ~ subsequent-sibling #8154
    • Upstream PR phpgt/CssXPath#231
  • Rework saving of configuration files for more reliability in case of e.g. full disk #8220
  • Web scraping support date format as milliseconds for Unix epoch #8266
  • Allow negative category sort numbers #8330
• Performance
  • Improve SQL speed for updating cached information #6957, #8207,
    #8255, #8254, #8255
  • Fix SQL performance issue with MySQL, using an index hint #8211
  • Scaling of user statistics in Web UI and CLI, to help instances with 1k+ users #8277
  • API streaming of large responses for reducing memory consumption and increasing speed #8041
• Security
  • 💥 Move unsafe autologin to an extension #7958
  • Fix some CSRFs #8035
  • Strengthen some crypto (login, tokens, nonces) #8061, #8320
  • Create separate HTTP Retry-After rules for proxies #8029, #8218
  • Add data: to CSP in subscription controller #8253
  • Improve anonymous authentication logic #8165
  • Enable GitHub release immutability #8205
• Bug fixing
  • Exclude local networks for domain-wide HTTP Retry-After #8195
  • Fix OpenID Connect with Debian 13 #8032
  • Fix MySQL / MariaDB bug wrongly sorting new articles #8223
  • Fix MySQL / MariaDB database size calculation #8282
  • Fix SQLite bind bug when adding tag #8101
  • Fix SQL auto-update of field f.kind to ease migrations from FreshRSS versions older than 1.20.0 #8148
  • Fix search encoding and quoting #8311, #8324, #8338
  • Fix handling of database unexpected null content (during migrations) #8319, #8321
  • Fix drag & drop of user query losing information #8113
  • Fix DOM error while filtering retrieved full content #8132, #8161
  • Fix config.custom.php during install #8033
  • Fix do not mark important feeds as read from category #8067
  • Fix regression of warnings in Web browser console due to lack of window.bcrypt object #8166
  • Fix chart resize regression due to chart.js v4 update #8298
  • Fix CLI user creation warning when language is not given #8283
  • Fix merging of custom HTTP headers #8251
  • Fix bug in the case of duplicated mark-as-read filters #8322
• SimplePie
  • Fix support of HTTP trailer headers #7983, simplepie#943
  • Apply HTTPS policy also on GUIDs and permalinks #8037, simplepie#951
    • Fix WordPress.com HTTP duplicates with WebSub Automattic/pushpress#16
  • Implement HTML whitelist for SimplePie sanitizer #7924, simplepie#947
  • Various upstream contributions simplepie#940, simplepie#944
• Deployment
  • Docker default image updated to Debian 13 Trixie with PHP 8.4.11 and Apache 2.4.65 #8032
  • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.23 with PHP 8.4.15 and Apache 2.4.65 #8285
  • Fix Docker healthcheck cli/health.php compatibility with OpenID Connect #8040
  • Improve Docker for compatibility with other base images such as Arch Linux #8299
    • Improve cli/access-permissions.sh to detect the correct permission Web group such as www-data, apache, or http
  • Update PostgreSQL volume for Docker #8216, #8224
  • Catch lack of exec() function for git update #8228
  • Work around DOMDocument::saveHTML() scrambling charset encoding in some versions of libxml2 #8296
  • Improve configuration checks for PHP extensions (in Web UI and CLI), including recommending e.g. php-intl #8334
• UI
  • New button for toggling sidebar on desktop view #8201, #8286
  • Better transitions between groups of articles #8174
  • New links in transitions and jump to next transition #8294
  • More visible selected article #8230
  • Show the parsed search query instead of the original user input #8293,
    #8306, #8341
  • Show search query in the page title #8217
  • Scroll into filtered feed/category on page load in the sidebar #8281, #8307
  • Fix autocomplete issues in change password form #7812
  • Fix navigating between read feeds using shortcut shift+j/k #8057
  • Dark background in Web app manifest to avoid white flash when opening #8140
  • Increase button visibility in UI to change theme #8149
  • Replace arrow navigation in theme switcher with <select> #8190
  • Improve scroll of article after load of user labels #7962
  • Keep scroll state of page when closing the slider #8295, #8301
  • Scroll into filtered feed/category on page load #8281
  • Display sidebar dropdowns above if no space below #8335, #8336
  • Use native CSS instead of SCSS #8200, #8241
    • Using CSS nesting and relative colours.
  • Various UI and style improvements: #8171, #8185, #8196
  • JavaScript finalise migration from Promise to async/await: #8182
• API
  • API performance optimisation: streaming of large responses #8041
  • Fever API: Add with_ids parameter to mass-change read/unread/saved/unsaved on lists of articles #8312
  • Misc API: better REST error semantics #8232
• Extensions
  • Add support for extension priority #8038
  • Add support for extension compatibility #8081
  • Improve PHP code with hook enums #8036
  • New hook nav_entries #8054
  • Rename Extensions default branch from master to main #8194
• I18n
  • Translation status as text in README #7842
  • Add new translate CLI commands move #8214
  • Change some regional language codes to comply with RFC 5646 / IETF BCP 47 / ISO 3166 / ISO 639-1 #8065
  • Improve German #8028
  • Improve Greek #8146
  • Improve Finnish #8073, #8092
  • Improve Hungarian #8244
  • Improve Italian #8115, #8186
  • Improve Polish #8134, #8135
  • Improve Russian #8155, #8197
  • Improve Simplified Chinese #8308, #8313
• Misc.
  • Add code to modify a search expression #8293
  • Remove Pocket sharing service #8127, #8128
  • Update to PHPMailer 7.0.1 #8048, #8180, #8272
  • 💥 Housekeeping of lib_rss.php with potential breaking changes for some extensions #8193,
  • Use native PHP #[Deprecated] #8325
  • Improve PHP code #8156, #8203, #8284,
    #8292, #8297
  • GitHub Actions: --no-progress #8315
  • Update dev dependencies #8043, #8044,
    #8045, #8046, #8047,
    #8052, #8176, #8177,
    #8178, #8179, #8210,
    #8270, #8271, #8273,
    #8274, #8275, #8276