• 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