• Milestone

This is a major release.

Feature highlights✨:

• New sort order preferences at global, category, and feed levels
• Use feed-provided icon
• New option to hide sidebar by default
• Show time since when a feed has problems
• New functions to handle plural in internationalisation
• New cli/purge.php to apply purge policy from command line

Bug fixes highlights 🐛:

• Improve support of PHP 8.5+
• Several fixes related to searches

Security highlights 🛡:

• Limit cURL to protocols HTTP, HTTPS

UI highlights 🖼:

• Improve mobile view with multiple lines when thumbnails and summaries are shown
• Several themes improved

Extensions highlights 🧩:

• New Webhook extension for automated RSS notifications
• New LLM Classification extension to automatically tag incoming articles based on a prompt sent to an LLM

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @Inverle, @Kiblyn11, @math-GH, @rupakbajgain, @xtmd and newcomers @polybjorn, @olivluca, @tomasodehnal, @PeterVavercak, @mrtnrdl, @ale-rt, @cweiske, @rid3r45, @gabbihive, @drosell271, @Kachelkaiser, @zanivann, @nanos, @bowencool, @pe1uca, @matheusroberson, @DenuxPlays, @rlrs, @chanse-syres, @IEEE-754, @umaidshahid, @michi-onl

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New sort order preferences at global, category, and feed levels #8234
  • New filtering by date of Server modification date #8131, #8576
    • Corresponding search operator, e.g. mdate:P1D for finding articles modified by the author / server during the past day.
    • Especially useful for optimising the API synchronisation.
  • Use feed-provided icon #8633
  • New option to automatically mark new articles as read if an identical GUID already exists in the same category #8673
  • Automatic feed visibility/priority during search #8609
  • Add feed visibility filter to statistics view unread dates #8489
  • Add option to enable/disable notifications, also for PWA #8458
  • Add a form to create new user queries on the User Queries page #8623
  • Allow WebSub hub push from same private network #8450
  • Support category field in JSON feed import #8786
• Bug fixing
  • Fix wrong search toString in case of regex-looking string #8479
  • Fix article last seen date in case of feed errors #8646
  • Fix search expansion with backslash #8497
  • Fix user query parsing #8543
  • Fix search in shared user queries #8789
  • Fix redirect to wrong view after mark as read in reader and global views #8552
  • Fix SQLite paging when sorting by article length #8594
  • Fix change sorting during paging #8688
  • Fix SQL keyset pagination when sorting by category name #8597
  • Fix SQL duplicates in the user labels when sorting randomly #8626
  • Fix wrong error redirect in subscription management #8625
  • Fix do not include hidden feeds when counting total number of unread articles #8715
  • Update user modify date when changing extensions UserJS / UserCSS #8607
  • Non-strict OPML export #eedefb
• Security
  • Limit cURL to protocols HTTP, HTTPS #8713
  • Better sanitise favicon URLs #8714
  • New setting for <iframe> referrer allow list #8672
  • Fix email validation and allow error page for unverified email users #8582
  • Add allowfullscreen to <iframe> #8467
  • Rewrite Set-Cookie using native PHP support of SameSite #8447, #8778
    • Sanitize lifetime of session cookies from session.cookie-lifetime in php.ini
  • Update to <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" /> from deprecated never #8725
  • Preventive measure against search ingestion #8777
• UI
  • New option to hide sidebar by default #8528
  • Improve mobile view with multiple lines when thumbnails and summaries are shown #8631
  • New option to disable unread counter in tab title and favicon #8728
  • Show time since when a feed has problems #8670
  • Improve add feed UI #8683
  • Improve slider behaviour when using navigate back button #8496, #8524
  • Improve consistency of slider behaviour after submitting form #8612
  • Create dynamic favicons from SVG instead of PNG canvas #8577, #8588
  • Only display scrollbar everywhere if there's an overflow (especially for Chromium) #8542
  • Fix CSS padding of .content pre code #8620
  • Fix wrong navigation buttons layout on Chromium #8606
  • Fix don’t mark as read if middle click is outside of article link #8553
  • More robust JS #8595
  • Fix sidebar slide animation at narrow viewports #8747
  • Visually dim disabled users in user management table #8768
  • Improve multiple UI themes #8711, #8732,
    #8733, #8734, #8735,
    #8736, #8737, #8738,
    #8739, #8743, #8746,
    #8749, #8761, #8781,
    #8784, #8785
  • Various UI and style improvements: #8537, #8538,
    #8541, #8624, #8731,
    #8774
• Deployment
  • Also push Docker images to GitHub registry #8669
  • Improve support of PHP 8.5+ using Pdo\Mysql #8526
  • Add support for Podman in Makefile #8456
  • Re-add database status in installation check #8510
  • Docker / CLI: Allow chown/chmod to fail with warning #8635
• Extensions
  • New Webhook extension for automated RSS notifications Extensions#456
  • New LLM Classification extension to automatically tag incoming articles based on a prompt sent to an LLM Extensions#458
  • New extension methods to get typed configuration values #8696
  • New hook: Minz_HookType::ActionExecute #8599, #8603
  • New hook to modify the list of feeds to actualize #8655, #8675
  • Allow passing Minz_HookType as hook name in registerHook() #8600
  • Return more info and status from httpGet() #8700
  • Make httpGet() cache nullable #8705
  • Allow extensions’ configuration UI to use select-input-changer JavaScript helper #8721
• SimplePie
  • Bump upstream #8628, simplepie#71
  • New function get_icon_url() for feed favicon simplepie#974
  • Fix Undefined array key in get_thumbnail() #8634, simplepie#970
  • Fix int types for enclosures #8702, simplepie#975
  • Fix HTTPS headers given to SimplePie, e.g. for some HTTP/2 cases #8742
• CLI
  • New cli/purge.php to apply purge policy #8740
• I18n
  • CLI validate language directory names #8767
  • New functions to handle plural, and new timeago() #8670
  • Improve German #8491, #8557, #8689,
    #8704
  • Improve Italian #8517, #8519, #8554,
    #8555, #8556, #8566
  • Improve Latvian #6553
  • Improve Polish #8536
  • Improve Portuguese #8649
  • Improve Simplified Chinese #8474, #8475, #8476
  • Improve Traditional Chinese #8709, #8716, #8723,
    #8730, #8748
  • Improve Spanish #8572
• Misc.
  • Initial conventions for AI agents and humans: AGENTS.md, SKILLS.md, instructions.md #8478
  • Update to CSSXPath 1.5.0 #8642
  • Update to PHPMailer 7.0.2 #8483
  • SQL improve PHP syntax uniformity #8604
  • Trim SQL whitespace before parenthesis #8522
  • Improve PHP code #8627, #8644, #8753,
    #8697
  • Add dev legacy rules PHPCS 3 #8645
  • Update dev dependencies #8469, #8480, #8499,
    #8545, #8546, #8547,
    #8617, #8638, #8660,
    #8661, #8662, #8663,
    #8664, #8665, #8666,
    #8667, #8668, #8685,
    #8752, #8754, #8755,
    #8756, #8757, #8758,
    #8772, #8798