• Milestone

In this release, besides adding some initial support for OpenID Connect, the focus has been on increasing the quality rather than adding new features (which will have more focus again in the next release).
This version 1.22.x is also the last to support PHP 7.2 before requiring PHP 7.4+.

A few highlights ✨:

• Add support for OpenID Connect (only in our Debian-based Docker image for x86_64, not Alpine, and not ARM) through libapache2-mod-auth-openidc. See our documentation
• Rework trusted proxies
• Improve scaling with many feeds and long processes, reduce database locks
• Fix many bugs and regressions
• Improve themes Origine (also with automatic dark mode), Nord, etc.
• Several UI / UX improvements
• New languages Hungarian, Latvian, Persian
• Docker default image updated to Debian 12 Bookworm with PHP 8.2
• Increase our code base from PHPStan level 5 to level 7
• And more!

This release has been made by several contributors: @Alkarex, @Alwaysin, @ColonelMoutarde, @Exerra, @FromTheMoon85, @LleanaRuv, @Marjani, @NaeiKinDus, @Rufubi, @V-E-O, @aaronschif, @acbgbca, @aledeg, @andris155, @becdetat, @belidzs, @kemayo, @kgraefe, @marienfressinaud, @math-GH, @msdlr, @obrenckle, @otaconix, @robertdahlem, @sad270, @samc1213, @squaregoldfish, @vrachnis, @witchcraze, @yubiuser, @zhaofengli

Full changelog:

• Features
  • Add support for OpenID Connect (only in our default Debian-based Docker image for x86_64, not Alpine) through libapache2-mod-auth-openidc
    #5351, #5463, #5481,
    #5523, #5646
  • Allow sharing in anonymous mode #5261
  • Support Unix socket for MySQL / MariaDB #5166
  • Use proxy settings also for fetching favicons #5421
  • Add mutual exclusion semaphore for better scaling of actualize script #5235
  • Better reporting of XPath failures #5317
  • Add sharing with Buffer.com #5286
  • Add sharing with Omnivore #5477
  • Improve sharing with Linkding #5433
  • Do not automatically update feeds after import, to better support multiple imports #5629
  • Compatibility for servers disabling set_time_limit() #5675
  • New configuration constant CLEANCACHE_HOURS #5144
• Bug fixing
  • Fix cache refresh #5562
  • Fix and improvement of hash of articles using load full content #5576
  • Fix case of falsy GUIDs #5412
  • Fix and improve JSON export/import #5332, #5626
  • Fix enclosures in RSS output #5540
  • Fix parenthesis escaping bug in searches #5633
  • Fix regression in Fever API enclosures #5214
  • Fix regression in Fever API mark-all-as-read #5185
  • Fix regression in OPML export of single feeds #5238
  • Fix warning during OPML export with empty attributes #5559
  • Fix extensions in actualize script #5243
  • Fix link to configuration (system or user) for extensions #5394
  • Fix mark as read upon gone option in some conditions #5315,
    #5382, #5404
  • Fix mark selection as unread #5367
  • Fix warning in articles repartition statistics #5228
  • Fix count entries with some databases #5368
  • Fix MariaDB database size calculation #5655
  • Fix feed position attribute #5203
  • Fix warning when tagging entries #5221
  • Fix labels in anonymous mode #5650
  • Fix bug not allowing strings for tags in XPath #5653
  • Fix get and order when saving user query #5515
  • Fix search using user queries #5669
  • Fix regression of access to logs even when auto-update is disabled #5577
  • Fix access to Apache logs from Dev Container #5660
  • Fix malformed HTTP header in case of internal fatal error #5699
  • Fix rare exception for HTML notifications #5690
• UI
  • New option to display website name and/or favicon of articles #4969
  • Support <meta name="theme-color" .../> #5105
  • Config user settings in slider #5094
  • Improve theme selector #5281, #5688
  • Improve share to clipboard with animation and icon #5295
  • Allow share to clipboard even for localhost and without HTTPS #5606
  • Feedback when tag with same name as category already exists #5181
  • Show base URL in configuration #5656, #5657
  • Show Terms of Service in config menu #5215
  • Show Terms of Service in footer #5222
  • Improve about page #5192
  • Improve update page #5420, #5636,
    #5647
  • Improve Step 1 of install process #5350
  • Improve Global view on mobile #5297
  • Reduce network overhead for Global view #5496
  • Fix Global view: Stick the article to the top when opened #5153
  • Fix configuration views that are using a slider #5469
  • Fix highlight next/prev article while using shortcuts #5211
  • Fix regression in statistics column name % of total #5232
  • Fix macOS feed title meta-click behaviour #5492
  • Improve themes
    • Origine (dark mode) #5229,
      #5288, #5437
    • Alternative Dark #5206
    • Ansum / Mapco #5453
    • Dark #5280, #5439
    • Flat (un-deprecated) #5316
    • Nord #5689, #5719
  • Delete previously deprecated themes: BlueLagoon, Screwdriver #5374,
    #5694
  • Various UI and style improvements #5147, #5216,
    #5303, #5304, #5397,
    #5398, #5400, #5603,
    #5695
• Security
  • Rework trusted proxies (especially with Docker) #5549
  • Automatic trusted sources during install #5358
  • Show remote IP address in case of HTTP Basic Auth error #5314
• Deployment
  • Docker listen on all interfaces by default, including IPv6 #5180
  • Docker default image updated to Debian 12 Bookworm with PHP 8.2.7 and Apache 2.4.57 #5461
  • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.18 with PHP 8.1.23 and Apache 2.4.58 #5383
  • Docker quiet Apache a2enmod #5464
  • Docker: Add DATA_PATH to cron env #5531
• i18n
  • Fix i18n for automatic dark mode configuration #5168
  • Clarify that maximum number to keep is per feed #5458
  • Add Hungarian #5589, #5593
  • Add Latvian #5254
  • Add Persian #5571
  • Remove unneeded quotes in feed warning #5480
  • Improve German #5171, #5468,
    #5640
  • Improve Spanish #5408, #5436,
    #5609
• Extensions
  • Fix fallback to English for extensions #5426
  • Allow deep-link to extension configuration #5449
  • New extension hook entry_auto_read #5505, #5561
  • Simplify extension method #5234
  • Remove obsolete core extensions Google Group and Tumblr #5457
• SimplePie
  • Fix error_reporting for PHP 8.1+ #5199
• Misc.
  • Reduce database locks #5576, #5625,
    #5648, #5649
  • Improve MySQL / MariaDB performance for updating cached SQL values #5648
  • Increase time limit import OPML #5231
  • Save SQL attributes as native Unicode #5371
  • Remove old SQL auto-updates #5625, #5649
  • Improve Dev Container (update to Alpine 3.18, use DATA_PATH environment variable) #5423
  • Update lib_opml #5188
  • Update lib/http-conditional #5277
  • Update PHPMailer #5389
  • Use typed access to request parameters #5267
  • Typed view model classes #5380
  • Remove ConfigurationSetter #5251, #5580
  • Ignore ./data.back/ in .gitignore #5359
  • Composer dev command compatibility with macOS #5379
  • Code improvements #5089,
    #5212, #5213, #5362,
    #5470, #5501, #5504,
    #5667
  • Increase PHPStan from Level 5 to level 7 #4112,
    #5064, #5087, #5090,
    #5106, #5108, #5230,
    #5239, #5258, #5263,
    #5264, #5269, #5272,
    #5275, #5279, #5282,
    #5283, #5289, #5290,
    #5291, #5292, #5299,
    #5305, #5307, #5309,
    #5313, #5318, #5319,
    #5327, #5328, #5352,
    #5353, #5354, #5361,
    #5366, #5370, #5373,
    #5376, #5384, #5388,
    #5393, #5400, #5406,
    #5429, #5431, #5434,
    #5578
  • Update dev dependencies #5336, #5339,
    #5478, #5513, #5541,
    #5691, #5693

• Milestone

A few highlights ✨:

• Require PHP 7.2+ (drop support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1) #4848
• New XML+XPath mode for fetching XML documents when there is no RSS/ATOM feed #5076
• Better support of feed enclosures (image / audio / video attachments) #4944
• User-defined time-zone #4906
• New CLI script cli/sensitive-log.sh to help e.g. Apache clear logs for sensitive information such as credentials #5001
  • See also CVE-2023-22481
• Mark some themes as tentatively deprecated: BlueLagoon, Flat, Screwdriver #4807
  • 🙋 Reach out if you disagree, especially if you are interested in helping maintaining one of them
• Many UI improvements

This release has been made by several new contributors @axeleroy, @hippothomas, @mincerafter42, @sad270, @zhzy0077, in addition to our regular contributors @Alkarex, @ColonelMoutarde, @Frenzie, @myuki, @aledeg, @marienfressinaud, @math-GH, @miicat, @nicofrand, @yzqzss ... Thank you!

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New XML+XPath mode for fetching XML documents when there is no RSS/ATOM feed #5076
  • Better support of feed enclosures (image / audio / video attachments) #4944
  • User-defined time-zone #4906
  • Improve HTML+XPath mode by allowing HTML content #4878
  • Search only on full tag names and not on parts of tag names #4882
  • Allows searching for parentheses with \( or \) #4989
  • Firefox-compatible sharing service for mailto: links for webmail services #4680
  • Add sharing to archive.org #5096
  • Increase max HTTP timeout to 15 minutes #5074
• Compatibility
  • Require PHP 7.2+ (drop support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1) #4848
  • Workaround disabled openlog() or syslog() #5054
• Deployment
  • Docker default image (Debian 11 Bullseye) updated to PHP 7.4.33
  • Docker: alternative image updated to Alpine 3.17 with PHP 8.1.16 and Apache 2.4.55 #4886
  • More uniform time-zone behaviour #4903, #4905
  • New CLI script cli/sensitive-log.sh to help e.g. Apache clear logs for sensitive information such as credentials #5001
  • New CLI script cli/access-permissions.sh to help apply file permissions correctly #5062
  • Improve file permissions on ./extensions/ #4956
  • Update Apache mime type font/woff #4894
  • Re-added a git latest branch (instead of a tag) to track the latest FreshRSS stable releases #5148
• Bug fixing
  • Fix allow disabling curl proxy for specific feed, when proxy is defined globally #5082
  • NFS-friendly is_writable() checks #4780
  • Fix error handling when updating feed URL #5039
  • Fix feed favicon after editing feed URL #4975
  • Fix allow Ctrl+Click to open Manage feeds in new tab #4980
  • Fix empty window opened when pressing space after page load #5146
  • Fix keep current view when searching #4981
  • Fix mobile view: scroll main area again after closing slider #5092
  • Fix change confirmation when leaving sharing service config #5098
  • Fix sharing to Lemmy #5020
• Security
  • API avoid logging passwords CVE-2023-22481
  • Remove execution rights on some files not needing it #5065
  • More robust application of file access permissions #5062
• UI
  • Improve search box #4994
  • Improve navigation menu structure #4937
  • More consistent sorting of feeds alphabetically #4841
  • Improve reader view on mobile screen #4868
  • Various UI and style improvements #4681, #4794
    #4800, #4850, #4865,
    #4872, #4874, #4889,
    #4890, #4891, #4897,
    #4899, #4910, #4923,
    #4927, #4960, #4985,
    #4998, #5034, #5040,
    #5055, #5058, #5097,
    #5100
• Themes
  • Dark mode for Origine and Origine compact themes #4843
  • Improve Ansum and Mapco #4938, #4959, #4967,
    #4983, #4995
  • Improve Dark pink #4881
  • Improve Nord theme #4892, #4979
  • Improve Origine #4893
  • Improve Origine compact #4873
  • Improve Pafat #4909
  • Improve Swage #4875, #4922, #4936,
    #5029
  • Mark some themes as tentatively deprecated: BlueLagoon, Flat, Screwdriver #4807
• i18n
  • Improve Chinese #4853, #4856
• SimplePie
  • No URL Decode for enclosure links #768
  • Fix case of multiple RSS2.0 enclosures #769
  • Sanitize thumbnail URL #770
  • Use single constant for default HTTP Accept header #784
• Misc.
  • Increase max feed URL length and drop unicity in database #5038
  • New support of Development Containers / GitHub Codespaces to ease development #4859
  • Update library lib_opml #4403
  • Code improvements #4232, #4651,
    #5024, #5025, #5028,
    #5032, #5158, #5045,
    #5049, #5063, #5084
  • Update dev dependencies #4993, #5006, #5109

• Milestone

This is a security release for a regression since FreshRSS 1.18.0.

A few highlights ✨:

• CVE-2022-23497 Fix security vulnerability in ext.php #4928 reported by @c3l3si4n

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Fix security vulnerability in ext.php #4928 fixed by @Alkarex
• Apache TraceEnable Off #4863

• Milestone
• Discussion

A few highlights ✨:

• Focusing mostly on bug-fixes of 1.20.0
• Several UI / themes improvements
• Improved and new translations (Greek, Indonesian)

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Features
  • Add support for custom XPath date/time format #4703
  • Add default redirect when authenticating #4778
  • Force default user before rendering login page #4620
• API
  • Minor Google Reader API improvements #4763
• Bug fixing
  • Fix SQL transaction rollbacks during auto-update #4622
  • Fix opcache bug during Web update #4629, update.freshrss.org#4
  • Fix export bug #4822
  • Fix OPML import of special feed attributes #4708
  • Fix JavaScript bug with remembering opened categories #4827
  • Fix curlopt options for HTML+XPath #4759
  • Fix charset bug for HTML+XPath #4623
  • Fix HTML-encoding of CSS selectors #4707, #4823
  • Fix some broken author links #4743
  • Fix show settings page after adding new feed #4631
  • Fix login page when user does not exist #4621
  • Fix feed manage link on stats page #4768
  • Fix minor layout bugs #4830
  • Fix minor UI bugs with Safari #4643
• UI
  • Change some default settings related to marking articles as read #4736
  • Improve scrollbar when slider is open #4692
  • Improve Subscription Management: Show the category position number #4679
  • Improve Reader view: Mark article as read while scrolling #4652
  • Improve sharing / integration page #4774
  • Improve article summary text cut #4666
  • Improve HTML semantics for some boxes #4665
  • Change dynamic OPML icon #4673, #4810
  • Improve box layout for global view #4791
  • Improve logs layout #4594
  • Improve Feed configuration: number of articles #4625
  • Improve drop-down menus #4597
  • Show tile with explanation when hovering empty feeds #4617
  • Added bottom nav padding for iOS #4741
• Themes
  • Implement CSS variables for easy colour customisation #4641, #4693, #4789
  • Improve CSS line height #4671, #4782
  • Improved reader view with framed articles #4663
  • Improve themes
    Alternative Dark #4635, #4797;
    Blue Lagon #4786;
    Dark #4806;
    Mapco #4648, #4709, #4711;
    Origine #4842;
    Origine Compact #4636, #4735, #4787;
    Pafat #4783, #4792, #4793,
    #4796, #4811;
    Swage #4799, #4828, #4829
  • Rename template.css to frss.css #4644
  • Misc. #4596, #4619, #4696
• i18n
  • Rename tag to label in some languages #4770
  • Improve typographic quotes #4714
  • Remove invalid i18n string #4844
  • Add Greek #4718, #4754
  • Add Indonesian #4706
  • Improve Brazilian Portuguese #4669
  • Improve Czech #4670
  • Improve Italian #4803
  • Improve Japanese #4668
  • Improve Russian #4719
  • Improve Spanish #4676, #4725
  • Improve Turkish #4715
  • Improve i18n tools #4742, #4756
• Compatibility
  • Compatibility PHP 8.1+ strip_tags() #4688
  • Fix GLOB_BRACE is not available on all platforms #4628
• Deployment
  • Docker default image (Debian 11 Bullseye) updated to PHP 7.4.33
  • Docker: alternative image (Alpine 3.16) updated to PHP 8.0.25
• Misc.
  • Added Linkding as a sharing method #4721
  • Exclude .git/ from tests #4824
  • Exclude extensions/ from eslint and stylelint tests #4606
  • Update GitHub Actions version #4717

• 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

Client: “I need the number for Jack. Can you give me his number, please?”

Me: “Jack? Jack who?”

Client: “The manual for the modem said that I need to connect to Jack, so if you could give me his number, then I can connect with him.”

• 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

I work as dispatch for a trucking company. One of my duties is to provide the closest truck driver for shipment. I get a call from a customer.

Customer: We can pay [generous amount] for this shipment, can you please check with your driver if that will be enough for him?”

I ask the driver:

Driver: “Yes, lock it down!”

Customer: “Alright, send your driver to the address.”

When the driver arrives at the address, he needs to wait for a couple of hours because they “made a mistake” with the paperwork. After asking them when they will be ready, only at the end do they tell him they sent their shipment with another courier for less money, and they didn’t even contact us. The driver tells me this and I call them asking for an explanation. They only said “sorry “and hung up.

Related:
Absolutely Trucking Mad, Part 4
Absolutely Trucking Mad, Part 3
Absolutely Trucking Mad, Part 2
Absolutely Trucking Mad

A client wants his dissertation laid out for print. It’s a pretty complicated task; it has tons of special characters and specific formatting, so I have lots of trouble with fixing all the little fails in the document.

One step before I am finished (and have already have been paid a fixed price – stupid me!), the publishers find out the author hasn’t even read the annotations of the second reviewer and it has almost a thousand mistakes left in the document that he just ignored. At this point, I have already worked hours for free just to finish this project.

The publishers and I tell him to give me the list with the mistakes, so I can fix them in the fragile, complicated, easy-to-destroy document. He refuses. We try to convince him for weeks. He refuses. We tell him if he does it himself, it will be more work for him, me, and the publishers and will result in a worse-looking book. He refuses.

Client: “I’ll pay 100 extra euros.”

Me: “That’s not even enough for three hours of work, and I will need eight to ten hours to fix what you will be ruining.”

The client goes on with doing whatever he’s doing and ignores me. When I get his document back, it will be h*** for almost no pay. Why can’t they just listen to the professionals?

I work as a graphic designer at a sign shop that makes, well, signs. We also do some car decals and wraps from time to time, but mainly it’s large format signs, banners, channel letters, and so on.

This time it’s a client for some truck decals. They come in and we take measurements and photos of the existing graphics. They want the same exact decals that are there but larger, so that’s what I set up in a proof, set up pricing, and send it over to them. They approve the proof in the portal, which is time-stamped with his email showing it was approved and paid and everything. Seems like an easy job and super simple to do.

Fast forward to when I email him to get scheduled for installation. I tell them the decals are ready and list the dates for installation. They pick a date and time and we get them on the schedule. All of this is through email.

Client: “Can I see how the decals will look?”

Me: “Here’s a screenshot of the proof. This was the same one we sent over to you for approvals when the order was first placed and was approved by you. Let me know if you have questions.”

Client: “Let’s take this part of the sentence we have on there and move it. Also, in this other decal, I want the logo flipped so it’s facing the other way. Does that make sense?”

The logo part they are referring to is inside of the blue portion of a stylized American Flag. It’s cut out of the vinyl and flipping it would cause the logo to be backward from how it normally looks. The sentence was just cutting off a word and moving it elsewhere, which is super easy for production to do.

Me: “The sentence part is something we can accommodate. However, the decals were made once the proof was approved and are based on that. It looks like the proof was approved on [date] and we moved forward with that.”

Client: “I am not happy at all. I refuse to put the logo on my car backward.”

This logo is facing the right way all along. They wanted it flipped around and backward. 

Of course, now I go into a panic. I talk with my coworker, who works in the production room, and he’s like “yeah the decals are already made so we can’t do anything unless they buy a new one”. My boss isn’t there, as he’s out doing installs all day long, so it’s just me vs the client. I go back to my email and see that the client has emailed again. It hasn’t even been a few minutes.

Client: “Reimburse me my money or let’s get this right. I admit I didn’t look at the proof but approved it via the portal assuming you’d make it look EXACTLY how it looks like in the photos, which is why you took them.”

Once they said this, my panic instantly goes away. I know I have the trump card as I saved those photos from my phone to my work computer so I could reference them. I go back to the photos and took a look and, lo and behold, I did it right. The photo is even on the side of the truck the client had wanted it flipped on. I had mimicked it per their words when I spoke with them.

Me: “I did reference the photo and mimicked it when I was setting up this proof. Here’s the photo I referenced.” *Shows them the photo.*

Client: *Immediately apologetic.* “Oh. I’m sorry. I didn’t realize it was backward on my truck currently as well. I’ll still proceed with the install as is, but is it hard to order a new decal? If so, how much?”

In the end, the client came in and said to just install them as they are. They apologized for being a pain and didn’t like to be a complainer, which was nice of them. They said they were going to do some other decals once their new business got off the ground on this same truck, so we can make the change then.

Me: “Hey, I’m glad I caught you. I’m calling about that request that I made five weeks ago. You never responded to any of my emails or voice messages. I’m just wondering what the status on that is?”

Client: “Well, the reason I didn’t respond was because your first email about it was unprofessional. We’re all professionals here, and I expect to be treated professionally. You really need to work on your communication skills, and I expect better from you if we’re going to continue working together.”

Me: “I’m looking at the whole email chain right now, and it seems fine to me. What seems wrong with it?”

Client: “Well, for starters, you could ask how my day’s been. Or you could put a joke at the bottom of the email. And you should really get rid of that line with all your company information at the bottom, it looks so unprofessional.”

I’m designing a photographic history exhibit for a prestigious university. The project requires a series of panels that each depict a different decade, from the 1930s to the present.

Client: “You know, this is all great, but it could use a little more diversity. Right now, there are a lot of photos of all white men, and we don’t want to send the wrong message.”

Me: “Okay, that’s a reasonable request. I could pull some photos of your black student organizations and women’s center and add those to the panels showing the school’s more recent history.”

Client: “Actually, we’d love more diversity in the early panels too.”

Me: “What do you mean?”

Client: “Like this panel depicting the university in the 30s. All the photos are of white men!”

The school did not admit black students until the 1970s.

Me: “I’ve looked at the brief and it’ll cost [total].”

Client: “I thought you were a freelancer.”

Me: “I am.”

Client: “No, you’re not. You’re a chargelancer!”

This story happened a few years ago. A friend refers me to his mother, a real estate agent who wants a new website for her business. I call her to set up an appointment.

Client: “So, what is your expertise in real estate?”

Me: “I’ve done two real-estate websites in the past, and they’ve been quite successful. I can provide you with a searchable database of listings where buyers can filter by price and other factors, as well as a homepage with featured listings, your bio, and anything else you’d like to include.”

Client: “Yes, but have you ever sold a house before?”

Me: “No.”

Client: “Why not?”

Me: “Because I’m not a real estate agent. I’m a web developer.”

Client: “So how do you expect to do a website for me if you don’t know anything about being a realtor?”

Me: “I know enough to build a website with a listing database which you can very easily populate with descriptions, photos, and any other info you wish to provide the buyers with. I can also provide other tools, such as a mortgage calculator and a lead-tracking system that allows potential buyers to contact you with listings they are interested in.”

Client: “I really don’t think you know what you’re doing. I think I’m going to have to pass and find someone who knows how to sell a house.”

Later, I discovered she had finished her website. On Geocities. Yellow background. 50pt font. Seemingly designed by a ‘real’ real estate agent…

Client: “We would like a drawing of a moose on skis.”

I send the art.

Client: “Why there were two feet on each ski?”

Me: “People ski on two skis and a moose has four feet so I put two on each ski.”

Client: “That is ridiculous!”

Me: “Which part? You’ll have to be more specific?”

Client: “Well, I’m pretty sure they don’t make skis that can accommodate two feet each!”

Me: “Right. That was a pretty big leap on my part, sorry.”

I’m a year and a half into the development of a new web application for managing complex data sets. Our boss has never been able to provide proper specifications for what he needs, just a flood of vague ideas with no real detail and constantly changing scope.

My job is to try and turn this into a comprehensible list of tasks that the dev team can actually follow. Each month, I have a planning session with the boss where we hash out the next period of work. Each session, I remind him that changing the scope means adding more time.

We agree and sign off the work to be delivered by the end of the month. So far, we’ve hit every deadline.

I thought we had a pretty good system in place until:

Boss: “I can’t believe we’re so far behind and how poorly you’ve managed this project.”

Me: “What do you mean? Haven’t we met all the agreed deadlines throughout the project?”

Boss: “I’ve made a spreadsheet of all the dates I wanted each feature done by. So far, you’ve missed every single one of them.”

Me: “Excuse me? We’ve always delivered what’s been agreed on time. Where have these new dates come from?”

Boss: “This is how long I thought the work should take and I made up my own timeline.”

Me: “I’ve never seen these dates before, let alone agreed to them. At a glance, many of them seem extremely optimistic.”

That’s business talk for “f****** mad”.

Me: “We agreed at the start this would be at least a three-year project.”

Boss: “Well, I decided it should take less time and you’re late. I’m going to have to pull the plug on this project if you can’t have everything wrapped up within the next month.”

I politely remind the boss that there was at least another year and a half of work left to complete the project. I’ll probably be looking for a new job shortly.

• 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

• Milestone
• Discussion

A few highlights:

• Drop support for PHP 5.x (require PHP 7.0+) and initial support for PHP 8.1+
• Drop support for Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE11)
• New thumbnail and/or summary options for the normal view #3805
  
• New setting to automatically mark as read a new article if there is already one with the same title in the same feed
• New setting to keep only a maximum number of unread articles in a given feed
• Mobile view can access the configuration menus

Detailed tracked changes.

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New thumbnail and/or summary options for the normal view #3805
  • New setting to automatically mark as read a new article if there is already one with the same title in the same feed #3303
  • New setting to keep only a maximum number of unread articles in a given feed #3303
  • New search operator based on custom labels, or not #3709
    • Search articles with label IDs: L:12,13,14 or label names: label:something or labels:"my label,my other label,🧪"
    • Search articles with any label: L:* or no label: !L:*
  • Add support for installable progressive web app (PWA) #3890
• Bug fixing
  • Fix marking as read a label with SQLite and PostgreSQL #3711
  • Better fallback for feeds without title #3787
  • Fix auto-load articles in anonymous mode and global view #4082
  • Fix several typos found by PHPStan, including one affecting the cache of keep max unread articles #4019
  • Fix warning in Fever API #4056
  • Show no articles alert-box also in global view #4042, #3099
  • Fix theme selection when a theme has been deleted #3874
  • Fix keyboard shortcuts in anonymous mode #3945
  • Fix show password in settings #3966
  • Fix JavaScript warnings for non-validated users #3980
  • Fix drag & drop layout for subscriptions #3949
• Security
  • Better error handling when a user does not exist (especially for API) #3751, #4084
  • Do not show Add new feed for anonymous users #4040
  • Do not show Mark as read / unread / favourite for anonymous users #3871, #3876
  • Do not show back link on error pages if the user does not have access #3765
  • Only show Back to RSS feeds when logged-in #3790
  • Fix for special characters in keyboard shortcuts #3922
  • Remove old workarounds with white space to prevent password autocompletion #3814
• Compatibility
  • Require PHP 7.0+ (drop support for PHP 5.x) #3666
  • Drop support for Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE11) #3666
  • Fix some warnings with PHP 8.1+ #4012, #4018
  • Fix back-compatibility with Git 2.21- for automatic updates #3669
  • Fix JavaScript caching and compression for some Apache platforms #4075
• Deployment
  • Docker: development image :oldest is now based on alpine:3.5 with PHP 7.0.33 and Apache 2.4.35 #3666
  • Docker: default image updated to Debian 11 Bullseye with PHP 7.4.25 and Apache 2.4.51 #3782
  • Docker: alternative image updated to Alpine 3.15 with PHP 8.0.14 and Apache 2.4.52 #3996
  • Docker: fix inclusion of .htaccess for ./p/themes/ folder #4074
  • Docker: only add the crontab when CRON_MIN is set #3927
  • Docker: move logic to disable FreshRSS updates #3973
  • Docker: allow mounting a volume for the cron file #3927
  • Images on Docker Hub are automatically scanned for software vulnerabilities
• UI
  • Remember article filters when changing views (category / feed) #3986
  • Mobile view can access the configuration menu #3879, #3881
  • Improve layout of settings on small screen #3818, #3819
  • New shortcut to jump to next unread article #3891
  • New shortcut to actualise feeds #3900
  • Implement Escape shortcut to close panels #3901
  • Improve layout of subscription management page #3893
  • Use HTML5 tags with better semantics and structure #3651, #3676, #3713, #3747, #3830, #3851
  • Allow JavaScript in themes #3739
  • Improve layout of statistics #3797, #3799, #3803
    • Replace flotr2 with chart.js library #3858
    • Remove jQuery fully #3847
  • Improve label management #3959
  • Update layout of user queries #3827
  • Improve style of install procedure #3721
    • Add retry button when checking requirements during install #3771
  • Improve notification icon #3678
  • Add CSS class to back links #3761
  • Better support for 400 and 405 HTTP error codes #3981
  • Many minor UI and style improvements #3792, #3795, #3801, #3802, #3817, #3821, #3824, #3831, #3832, #3877, #3880, #3969, #3989, #3990, #4005, #4015
• Themes
  • Show search box for all themes in mobile view #4025
  • Fix alternative-dark theme to avoid bright elements #3774, #3806
  • Improve the contrast of message boxes for the Origine theme #3725
  • Uniformize the size of inputand select elements for the Origine theme #3727
  • Fix style of banner text for the Origine theme #3731
• i18n
  • Fix language of e-mail notifications #4076
  • Lint i18n #3841
  • Fix bug in French and German translations of new/old tags #3703, #3668
  • Fix name of keyboard shortcut to open in new tab #3899
  • Add Japanese #3828, #3834
  • Improve Chineese #3926, #3947, #3963, #4084
  • Improve Dutch #3844, #3928
  • Improve German #3720, #3846, #3913, #4008
  • Improve Italian #3939
  • Improve Korean #3914
  • Improve Occitan #3935
  • Improve Polish #4027
  • Improve Portuguese #3908, #3925
  • Improve Russian #3907
  • Improve Slovak #4036
  • Improve Spanish #3916
• Extensions
  • Add system configuration for extension #3626
• SimplePie
  • Merge from upstream, help with PHP 8.1+ #4011
  • Fallback to file extensions for enclosures not providing a media type #3861
• Misc.
  • Implement GitHub Actions for continuous integration / automated testing 3920
  • Use ESLint instead of JSHint #3906
  • Improve .editorconfig and .stylelintrc #3895, #3912
  • Simplify Minz code with PHP 7 ?? operator #4020
  • Upgrade PHPMailer to 6.5.1 #3977
  • Added Raindrop.io as sharing option #3717
  • Delete outdated information regarding Firefox feed reader list #3822

• Milestone
• Discussion

Note: Last release before dropping support for PHP 5 and Internet Explorer 11.

Changelog:

• Features
  • Support standard HTTP 410 Gone by disabling (muting) gone feeds #3561
  • Make advanced feed options such as SSL available to non-admins #3612
• API
  • Supported by Newsboat 2.24+ #3574
  • Supported by RSS Guard #3627
• UI
  • Allow Unicode for shortcuts #3548
• Bug fixing
  • Fix database lock during refresh with MariaDB #3559
  • Fix database creation from CLI #3544
  • Fix: pdo_sqlite is optional except for export/import SQLite #3545
  • Fix import of JSON and TT-RSS files, especially with PHP 8 #3553
    • Allow import of more than 999 favourites/labelled articles even with SQLite
  • Fix additional SQL limits, especially for SQLite #3586
  • Fix search param encoding in user query #3541
  • Fix undefined variable & dead code when adding feed #3546
  • Fix missing translation in feed configuration #3554
  • Fix double escaping in feed filters #3563
  • Fix bugs in migration system #3589
  • Fix regression preventing showing startup errors #3590
  • Fix form redirection after erroneous user creation #3656
  • Fix JavaScript error during navigation when no article is selected #3655
  • Fix link to add feeds from the empty homepage #3650
  • Fix git update error message #3645
• SimplePie
  • Fix regression about media attachments #3565
  • Fix regression about forcing HTTPS for enclosures #3568
  • Catch ValueError for loadHTML with PHP 8 simplepie#673
  • Provide access to latest HTTP status code simplepie#674
  • Fix wrong SimplePie type hint simplepie#678
  • Merge details from upstream PRs #3588, #3614
• API
  • Compatibility with Web servers providing ORIG_PATH_INFO #3560
• i18n
  • Improved Russian #3579
  • Improved Turkish #3604
  • Improved Chinese #3600
• Code improvements:
  • Friendly constant syntax for Intellisense #3577
  • Fix several comments syntaxes #3615
  • Minor uniform stricter HTML #3616
  • Removed unused variable #3587
  • Provide action name in Minz controller exception #3624
  • New convenience method to extract multiline GET parameters from e.g. <textarea> #3629
• Deployment
  • Automatically apply latest tag in git for the latest FreshRSS release #3524
• Misc.
  • Remove legacy data/do-install.txt for triggering install process #3555
  • If using built-in git updates, automatically change to git edge branch if using old master or dev branch names #3589

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