• 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

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