• Milestone

This is a security-oriented major release with several important security patches, so users are encouraged to update without delay.

From this release, we are also making it clear that our rolling-release channel (edge) is recommended for faster security patches.

Breaking change 💥:

• Disallow access to local networks such as 127.0.0.1 by default, for security reasons

Feature highlights✨:

• Filter global view feed list by state and search
• New option to hide badges showing number of unread articles (Phantom Obligation)
• Refresh only feeds in the current view
• Offer to add a prefix when re-sharing user labels

Bug fixes highlights 🐛:

• Several security attack scenarios patched
• Fix lost elements while parsing search query
• Fix “mark as read older than…” widening the active search
• Fix saving user queries
• Fix SQL errors breaking some regex searches with MySQL / MariaDB

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @andris155, @ColonelMoutarde, @Frenzie, @IEEE-754, @Inverle, @math-GH, @nykula, @polybjorn, @Stunkymonkey and newcomers @0xdeadrelay, @AdamKorcz, @aligundogar, @bossaarebecca-alt, @Cactys12, @chrislongros, @Divinelink, @Elgeryy1, @featurecreep-cron, @Fripix, @fzlzjerry, @georatas, @gshimo, @iatman ,@ihsanarifr, @jamalkamaladdin, @JamBalaya56562, @jbrayton, @jeremy-code, @juherr, @kobihikri, @LeeXiaolan, @masskrdjn, @mohammadlashkari, @nathanpixodeo, @Otolock, @payaci, @salvador-castro, @SamCyber001, @satyvm, @senti-man, @simitana, @ThomasVermeer, @Totara-thib, @TowyTowy, @utkutibet, @XiaoSong1223

Full changelog:

• Security
  • 💥 Disallow access to local networks such as 127.0.0.1 by default, for security reasons (breaking change) #8400,
    #9195
    • Selected local networks can be allowed under System configuration or using the INTERNAL_HOST_ALLOWLIST environment variable
    • Passing * allows all networks like before (unsafe)
  • Improve SSRF mitigations by restricting CURLOPT_PROXY #8950
  • Fix auth CSRFs (login and register actions) #9171
  • Log invalid challenge and ignore JSON error during login #9278
  • Disallow fetching of non remote URI #9215
  • Only allow HTTP/HTTPS schemes for enclosure and thumbnail URLs #9272
  • Fix access control in rss and opml actions #8912
  • Refactor to use CSRF field directly instead of borrowing it from a form #9169, #9205
  • Cleaner limit anonymous mode to default user #9235
  • Fix HTML ingestions in templates #9146, #9170
  • Fix bad header filtering bypass #8964
  • Sanitize all fields during JSON import #9168
  • Gate greader (JSON) user query share format behind Share by OPML #9248
  • Public OPML should not contain cURL parameters #9070
  • Ignore security-relevant OPML attributes for dynamic OPML sources #9276
  • Strip feed URL credentials from anonymous user query output #9246
  • Set limits for regex during search #8913
  • Fix path disclosure in cache error message #9206
  • Limit the length and parentheses nesting depth of a search query #9277
  • Use timing-safe comparison for tokens #8945
  • Use hash_equals() for GReader API token comparison #9183
  • Mailer: allow disabling SMTPAutoTLS via config #9026
  • Warn during install if document root does not point to ./p/ #9010
  • Stop the unread-count poller after the session ends #9065
  • Add remote IP address to warning on form login #8942
  • Pin the GitHub actions using SHA #9200
  • Harden cache and SimplePie cache deserialization #9273
• SimplePie
  • Security: Disallow javascript: URI scheme (protocol) #8263
  • Fix wrong player parent logic leading to invalid type #8893, simplepie#978
  • Consistently enable XML_OPTION_PARSE_HUGE #8894, simplepie#977
  • Fix null warning in IRI for PHP 8.5+ #8918, simplepie#979
  • Fix sanitizer whitelist stripping order #9066
  • Show only one representation per media:group #9009
  • Bump upstream SimplePie #8947
• Features
  • Filter global view feed list by state and search #9132
    • Use global view when searching from subscription page #9144
  • New option to hide badges showing number of unread articles (Phantom Obligation) #8844
  • Refresh only feeds in the current view #9060
  • Offer to add a prefix when resharing user labels #9236
  • Add log search to the logs page #9059
  • Add configurable log_level system setting #9185
  • New option to keep or not the custom sort order when navigating between categories and feeds #8969
  • New per-feed option to show or hide enclosures (attachments) #9015
  • Detect JSON feeds from URLs containing json #9058
    • Also when subscribing via the API #9167
  • Order categories during OPML import/export according to position #9203
  • OPML: include each feed’s refresh interval (TTL) in export/import #8982
  • Log failed CSS content retrieval (Web scraping) #9077
  • Allow providing a category when adding a feed by bookmarklet #9047
  • Add LinkAce sharing service #9024
  • Add Nextcloud Bookmarks sharing service #9032
• Bug fixing
  • Fix lost elements while parsing search query #8884
  • Fix “mark as read older than…” widening the active search #9173
  • Fix saving user queries #9190
  • Fix SQL errors breaking some regex searches with MySQL / MariaDB #9036
  • Fix marking filtered label articles as read in SQLite and PostgreSQL #9264
  • Fix tagging an already-tagged entry on PostgreSQL raising a SQL error instead of being a no-op #9136
  • PostgreSQL: make committing new entries resilient to duplicate keys #9231
  • Preserve negative timezone offsets in date intervals #9071
  • Fix feed dropdown bugs due to hash desync #8949
  • Fix slider not reinitializing after form submit #8973
  • Minz: Skip loading duplicated JS/CSS assets #9000
  • Respect simplepie_syslog_enabled for the uses cache logs #8986
  • Fix statistics repartition averages #8996
  • Fix article hover date visibility #8997
  • Keep search and state filters when marking articles as read #9007
  • Fix --db-prefix silently drops following CLI flags #9042
  • Remove stale dynamic favicon links #9127
  • Fix desync between favicon and title unread counters #9262
  • Fix outdated username length hint on registration and install forms #9013
  • Redirect away from wrong URL paths #9075
  • Fix auto-share shortcut on first use #9072
  • Exclude hidden feeds from global view counts #9152
  • Fix only the last <media:credit> being written to the RSS output #9174
• CLI
  • New cli/reconfigure-user.php to read/write per-user config attributes #8873
  • Report new articles count per feed in app/actualize_script.php output #8948
  • Output a diagnostic when the cli/health.php check fails #8980
• API
  • Add a warning message to the API password section and a log warning when a client uses GET instead of recommended POST #8845
  • Fever API: log the client IP address on authentication failure #8981
  • WebSub: ignore HTTP/HTTPS scheme difference in Self URL comparison #9005
• Deployment
  • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.24 with PHP 8.5.7 and Apache 2.4.67 #8916
  • Start supporting PHP 8.6+
    • Docker dev :newest with PHP 8.6 #9155
  • Docker: attach provenance and SBOM attestations to the published image #9150
  • Apache use only CONN_REMOTE_ADDR in logs when mod_remoteip is available, for compatibility with LiteSpeed Web Server #8890
  • Fix .dockerignore being ignored during build in CI #9001
  • New ENABLE_ACCESS_LOG environment variable to disable access logs #9191
  • Check GMP during 32-bit installation #9046
  • Improve actualize mutex to allow multiple instances #9045
  • OIDC: redirect to a default URL on expired auth state instead of 400 #9143
• UI
  • Always jump article to top when header is offscreen, also when Stick the article to the top when opened is disabled #8870
  • Move article header/footer options (feed title, authors and date, icons position, tags) from Reading to Display configuration #9139
  • Move disable button before remove button in user management #8944
  • Keep scroll position of slider after form submit #8974
  • Group export feeds by category #9079, #9154
  • Sort feed names with locale-aware collation #8985
  • Sort labels with locale-aware collation #9023
  • Format unread counter in title on page load #9263
  • Display slider after submit for all buttons in feed update UI #8999
  • Improve aside keyboard navigation #9202
  • Allows usage of Ctrl/Shift keys with the open website shortcut #9186
  • Fix padding for .nav_menu in Alternative-Dark, Flat, and Nord themes #8901
  • Fix typo in alert error border color variable #9266
  • Use JavaScript Event() constructor instead of deprecated initEvent() #9035
  • Use :user-invalid instead of :invalid for CSS form field styling #9025
  • Remove unused simple layout #8998
  • Various UI and style improvements: #8823, #8824,
    #9140, #9145
• Extensions
  • Minor Minz_Extension typing #8952
  • Improve extension list fetch diagnostics #9055
  • Fix a PHP warning in Serve action #9267
  • Fix extension settings cancel action #9053
  • Fix sharing menu conflicts with extensions #9074
  • Add read status hook for entries #8995
  • Dispatch a new JavaScript event freshrss:entryStateChange when an entry finishes being marked read/unread #9031
  • Redirect after saving user CSS/JS so changes apply immediately #9006
• I18n
  • New plural system #8988
    • Pluralize the new articles count message
  • Prefer OS-bundled Japanese fonts when UI language is Japanese #9002
  • Add Azerbaijani #9269
  • Add Lithuanian #9201, #9213
  • Improve Brazilian Portuguese #9240, #9242
  • Improve German #9149
  • Improve Greek #8977, #9038
  • Improve Hungarian #8879
  • Improve Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) #9220
  • Improve Italian #8880
  • Improve Japanese #9064
  • Improve Persian #8923
  • Improve Spanish #8878, #9245
  • Improve Traditional Chinese #9037, #9069, #9223
  • Improve Turkish #8966, #8971, #8970,
    #8989
  • Improve Ukrainian #8871
  • Refactor user query translation keys #9049
• Misc.
  • Update to PHPMailer 7.1.1 #8907
  • Improve PHP code #8906, #9156
  • Fix PHPStan 2.2.2 in CLI #8911
  • Migrate markdownlint-cli to markdownlint-cli2 #8987
  • Update dev dependencies #8904, #8905, #8926,
    #8939, #8940, #8963,
    #8961, #8959, #8958,
    #8962, #8960, #9148,
    #9162, #9165, #9158,
    #9159, #9176, #9178,
    #9179, #9219, #9253,
    #9254, #9255, #9257

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