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

Revert PHP version

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Features
  • Allow parallel requests #3096
    • Much faster manual feeds refresh
  • Reload full article content when an article has changed #3506
  • New share article link to clipboard #3330
  • Improved OPML import of feeds with multiple categories #3286
  • Add a content action parameter to work with CSS selector #3453
  • New cURL options per feed: proxy, cookie, user-agent #3367, #3494, #3516
  • Do not import feeds causing database errors (e.g. due to conflicting HTTP redirections) ##3347
• UI
  • New option to remember open categories #3185
  • Remember the scroll position of the sidebar #3231
  • Feedback messages are now properly attached to a request, in case multiple tabs are open #3208
  • New user query configuration page #3366
  • Allow sorting and drag & drop in the list of user queries #3346, #3355
  • Change layout to add a subscription #3289
  • Change integration configuration page #3372
  • Improve author search when clicking on an author #3315
  • Allow typing a label name instead of selecting it #3213
  • Use same behaviour for labels than the option Show all articles in favourites #3472
  • Change naming from Tag management to Label management #3446
  • Sort options alphabetically in share menu #3331
  • Case-insensitive sort order of feeds in category settings #3466
  • Better compression of the images #3184
  • Fix minor jaggy motion of the sidebar #3266
  • Remove useless reset action in sharing configuration page #3365
  • Add autofocus on subscription page #3334
  • Fix contrast issue by enforcing black text in base theme #3196
  • Adjust brightness & contrast of images and videos in dark themes #3356
  • Improve menu bar of several themes for mobile view #3480, #3491
  • Fix dropdown menu for user queries with BlueLagoon and Screwdriver themes #3485
  • Upgrade to jQuery 3.6.0 for statistics #3501
• Bug fixing
  • Fix the reloading of full article content with SQLite #3461
  • Fix the caching of an SQL prepared statement affecting the read state of updated articles #3500
  • Better handle expected article conflicts in database #3409
  • Fix SQL syntax error/warning when deleting temporary articles #3357
  • Fix login and refresh bugs in anonymous mode #3305
  • Fix i18n init #3249
  • Fix tag management #3292
  • Fix user queries with labels #3285
  • Fix loading of default actions for shortcuts #3394
  • Fix extensions when using CLI #3443
  • Fix translation CLI #3364
  • Allow searching for + sign #3489
  • Fix cURL version detection in install script #3519
• Compatibility
  • Support PHP 8+ #3186, #3207, #3459, #3487
    • Note: needed for MySQL 8+ with default authentication settings
    • Change ZIP-handling method #3470
• API
  • Supported by FocusReader (Android) #3478
  • Implement OPML import/export #3424
  • Add canonical field for fluent-reader, better compatibility InoReader #3391
  • Better compatibility with BazQux API #3320
  • Fix continuation token by ensuring it is a string (for Reeder) #3247
• CLI
  • Add requirements check in relevant CLI #3410
• Deployment
  • Possibility to auto-install via e.g. docker-compose #3353
    • New tolerance when the database is not available / up (yet) by trying a few times to connect
  • Docker: use Apache remoteip to log the client remote IP instead of the local proxy IP #3226
  • Docker: new environment variable LISTEN to change the internal Apache port when running in host network mode #3343
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to 3.13 with PHP 8.0.3 and Apache 2.4.46 #3375
    • Note: needed for MySQL 8+ with default authentication settings #3191
  • Docker default image (Debian 10 Buster) updated to PHP 7.3.27
  • New Docker development image based on alpine:edge to test the latest PHP 8+ version #3294
  • New Docker development image based on alpine:3.4 to test oldest supported PHP 5.6.36 version with Apache 2.4.43 #3274
  • Disable built-in update mechanism for new installations using Docker #3496
  • Check that PHP session is working during install #3430
• Security
  • Auto-renew login cookie #3287
  • Remove referer check, already replaced by CSRF token #3432
  • Increase login cookie duration to 3 months by default #3170
  • Prevent click on login button until JavaScript is fully loaded #3275
  • Add toggle password visibility button on login form UI #3205
  • Better sanitize feed description #3222
  • Allow @-sign in database username (for Azure) #3241
  • Add username hint for permissions during install #3373
• SimplePie
  • SimplePie prevent cache pollution #3502
  • Update to SimplePie 1.5.6 with PHP8 support #3469, #3206
  • Reduce memory consumption to handle very big feeds #3416
  • Replace ceil() by intval() for edge cases with PHP8 #3404
  • Strip HTML comments in feeds #3288
  • Minor fix of return type for broken feeds #3423
  • Fix images in enclosures without MIME type #3361
• Extensions
  • New user maintenance hooks #3440
  • New hooks js_vars and nav_menu #3342
  • Add class autoload for extensions #3350
  • Add support for extension user files #3433
  • Add user configuration in extensions #3397
  • Add a method to retrieve a configuration value #3422
  • Search files for both core and third-party extensions #3413
  • Updated base extension class #3333, #3335
  • Refactor extension file script #3399
• i18n
  • Fix some translation inconsistencies #3316, #3240
  • Add Polish #3190
  • Improve Chinese #3473
  • Improve Dutch #3468
  • Improve English #3248
    • Improve British English date format #3326
  • Improve German #3237, #3317, #3318, #3325, #3379, #3448, #3455
  • Improve Occitan #3245, #3511
• Code improvements
  • Improve FreshRSS system initialisation #3070
  • Improve session code during install #3276
  • Enforce phpcs (PHP_CodeSniffer) line length + whitespace #3488
    • Improve settings and applies to *.phtml, *.css, *.js as well
  • Fix superfluous Minz check during install #3302
  • Extract some classes to their own files #3301, #3298, #3297
  • Explicit git declaration of .png files as binary #3211
  • Remove Minz validation #3439
  • Explicit PDO::ERRMODE_SILENT #3048
  • Add constant for minimal PHP version #3369
  • Refactor requirements check during install #3368
• Misc.
  • Check access rights to temp folder during install #3312
  • Ensure maximum integer for a date to avoid some database issues #3259
  • Upgrade PHPMailer to 6.3.0 #3457
  • Make our Travis greener by testing only our oldest and newest supported PHP versions #3492

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Features
  • New tag management page #3121
  • New page to add feeds and categories #3027
  • Add a way to disable/enable users #3056
• Security
  • Add user auto-registration when using HTTP Basic authentication login method #3003
  • Fix special characters in user queries #3037
  • Hide feed credentials when adding a new feed #3099
  • Trim whitespace for feed passwords #3158
  • Updated PHPMailer library to 6.1.6 #3024
  • Add blogger.com to the default list of forced HTTPS #3088
• UI
  • Show feed name and date inside the article (especially good on mobile) #3081
  • Add shortcut to control media elements (video, audio) #3036
  • New option to disable shortcuts #3114
  • Case-insensitive sort order of feeds in categories #3131
  • Use machine-readable <time datetime=""> for entry dates #3106
  • Add tooltips on entry icons #3115
  • Limit dropdown menus max-height #3102
  • Fix inline code tag contrast in Ansum and Mapco themes #3048, #3050
  • Fix login form in BlueLagoon and Screwdriver themes #3028
• API
  • Supported by Fluent Reader (Windows, Linux, MacOS) #3140
  • Fix API quickadd #3051
  • Fix warning when adding a feed #3075
  • Work-around for common API address errors #3061
• Compatibility
  • Add fall-backs for compatibility with OPMLs from The Old Reader #3071
  • Relaxed to allow underscore _ in feed addresses #3133
• Deployment
  • Docker default image rebased on Debian 10 Buster, with Apache 2.4.38 and PHP 7.3.19 #3159
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to 3.12 with Apache/2.4.46 and PHP 7.3.21 #3025
  • Update example of Dockerfile #3108
• CLI
  • Re-introduce --api_password option (vanished in 1.16.0) #3179
  • Modify shebang to be more portable #3038
• Bug fixing
  • SimplePie: Fix compliance with HTTP 301 Moved Permanently #3180
• i18n
  • Add language negotiation when the user is not logged in #3022
  • New United States English #3060
  • Improved British English #3068
  • Improved Dutch #3063
  • Improved Slovak #3020
  • Add a language reference when adding a new one #3044
  • Change how updating a key works #3072
  • Add missing translations #3034
• Misc.
  • Return proper MIME type for favicons #3032
  • Add a migration system #2760
  • Makefile support for FreshRSS extensions #3042
  • Update rules to use Make syntax #3062
  • Refactor the export feature #3045

Quick fix for FreshRSS 1.16.1.

• Milestone

Changelog:

• Bug fixing (regressions)
  • Fix migration of the preference Show categories unfolded (from ≤ 1.16.0) to the new Categories to unfold #3019

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Features
  • Add the possibility to filter by feed IDs #2892
    • like f:123 more-search or multiple feed IDs like f:123,234,345 more-search or an exclusion like !f:456,789 more-search
  • Show users last activity date #2936
  • Ability to follow HTML redirections when retrieving full article content #2985
• API
  • New table of compatible clients #2942
  • Expose podcasts in API (used by e.g. FeedMe) #2898
  • Workaround for clients not sending a clean login request #2961
  • Relaxed detection of GReader short/long ID form (for Reeder) #2957
  • Fix warning with FeedReader #2947
  • Fix GReader string type for Usec fields #2935
  • Fix Fever integers type #2946
• CLI
  • JSON output option for ./cli/user-info.php --json #2968
  • Add language and e-mail in ./cli/user-info.php #2958
  • Fix filenames for exported files #2932
• UI
  • Access to feed configuration in mobile view #2938
  • Use standard loading="lazy" for favicons #2962
  • New option to control which categories to unfold #2888
  • Turn off autocapitalization in login fields #2907
  • Minor layout improvement of help labels #2911
  • Minor layout improvement of checkbox labels #2937
  • Fix styling of search input fields in Safari #2887
  • Fix styling of .stick elements in older Webkit browsers #2995
  • Use common CSS template for Alternative-Dark theme #3000
  • Upgrade to jQuery 3.5.1 for statistics #2982
• Compatibility
  • Relax OPML parsing to allow importing not strictly-valid ones #2983
• Deployment
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to PHP 7.3.17
  • Add reference documentation for using Apache as a reverse proxy #2919
  • Enforce Unix line endings when checking out via git #2879
• Bug fixing
  • Fix regression when marking all articles as read, risking to mark newer articles as read #2909
  • Fix memory leak when using lib_phpQuery for full-content retrieval #3004
  • Fix preview of CSS selector to retrieve full article content #2993
  • Fix PostgreSQL install when user has limited connection rights #3013
  • Fix Docker make cron use FRESHRSS_ENV environment variable #2963
  • Fix e-mail validation bug for admins #2917
  • Fix some cases when WebSub-enabled feeds change address #2922
  • Fix ensuring that wrong login attempts generate HTTP 403 (e.g. for fail2ban) #2903
  • Fix archiving options layout in Edge #2906
  • Fix form in statistics for article repartition #2896
  • Fix double-HTML-encoding of category names in statistics #2897
  • Fix password reveal button during install #2999
  • Fix Makefile rules when PHP is not installed #3010
• i18n
  • Improve Simplified Chinese #2891
  • Improve Dutch #3005
  • Reformat i18n files #2976
  • Add a Makefile rule to produce PO4A i18n files #3006
• Misc.
  • Reduce memory consumption during feed refresh #2972, #2955
    • and improved logs containing memory consumption #2964
  • Reduce the risk of DB lock errors #2899
  • Update PHPMailer library to 6.1.5 #2980
  • Initial rules for Markdown linting #2880
  • Add a Makefile rule for linting #2996
  • Add a Makefile rule to refresh feeds #3014

• Milestone
• Discussion

Changelog:

• Features
  • Allow multiple users to have administration rights #2096
  • Preview the CSS rule to retrieve full article content #2778
  • Improve CSS selector ordering in the full-text retrieval (lib_phpQuery) #2874
    • Allow combining selectors with a comma such as #article .title, #article .content
  • New search option !date: allowing to exclude any date interval #2869
    • For instance !date:P1W (exlude articles newer than 1 week), !pubdate:2019, -date:2020-01-01/P5d, etc.
  • New option to show all articles in the favourites view #2434
  • Allow feed to be actualized just after being truncated #2862
  • Fallback to showing a GUID when an article title is empty #2813
• API
  • Supported by Readrops (Android, open source) #2798
  • Improve consistency of the default category #2840
  • Return proper newestItemTimestampUsec #2853
  • Return HTTP/1.x 200 OK for an empty request, to ease discovery #2855
  • Add ability to customise dates shown in API #2773
  • Minor clearing of unused parameters #2816
• Compatibility
  • Support PHP 7.4
• Bug fixing
  • Fix regression causing a login bug in some situations related to e-mail login #2686
  • Fix regression in feed refresh when there are users whose e-mail is not verified #2694
  • Fix PostgreSQL install when using a username different than database name #2732
  • Fix error with advanced searches using SQLite #2777
  • Fix feed action filter when filtering on author: #2806
  • Fix warning in WebSub #2743
  • Fix environment variables COPY_LOG_TO_SYSLOG and FRESHRSS_ENV controlling logging #2745
  • Fix UI flickering when hovering over articles when authors are displayed #2701
  • Fix array error with PHP 7.4 #2780
  • Fix wrong foreach in applyFilterActions #2809
  • Fix encoding bug in lib_phpQuery when fetching the full content of HTML documents with a complex <head ...> #2864
  • Fix minor bug in “articles to display” configuration UI #2767
  • Fix sharing with Wallabag #2817
  • Fix UI background bug when hovering over a long title that overlaps the date #2755
• UI
  • Better UI / client network performance (time to first byte) thanks to a data streaming pipeline with yield #2588
    • Improved buffering strategy accordingly, with a loading animation while waiting for the first articles to arrive (e.g. complex / slow search) #2845
    • To benefit from it, requires that the full Web stack allow efficient streaming / flushing of data. Check our reference Docker + Traefik documentation.
  • Support RTL (right-to-left) languages #2776
  • New keyboard shortcut Alt ⎇+r to mark previous articles as read #2843
  • In the statistics page, show feeds inactive for 1, 2, 3, 5 years #2827
  • Reset FreshRSS page scroll when restoring a browser session, to avoid inadvertently marking as read new articles #2842
  • Fix scrolling of labels dropdown #2727
  • Enlarge <audio> widgets to use the full width of the reading zone, to help navigation in e.g. podcasts #2875
  • Use <p> instead of <pre> to display <media:description> information #2807
  • Show language and e-mail address in the list of users #2703
  • Change logic when using shortcuts to navigate between feeds, in the case some are empty #2687
  • Option to show/hide favicons (e.g. to reduce the number of requests) #2821
  • Improve loader animation colour in the Dark theme #2753
• SimplePie
  • Use distinct cache for feeds retrieved with #force_feed simplepie#643
    • Fix the issue of not being able to immediately try to add an invalid feed again #2524
  • Update to SimplePie 1.5.4 #2702, #2814
    • Require PHP 5.6+, and add PHP 7.4+ compatibility
    • Add Russian and German dates
    • Etc.
• Deployment
  • Docker: Alpine image updated to 3.11 with PHP 7.3.16 and Apache 2.4.43 #2729
  • Move core extensions (shipped with FreshRSS) to their own directory, so that ./extensions/ is solely for third-party extensions #2837
    • This allows mounting ./extensions/ as a Docker volume, to ease adding third-party extensions
• Extensions
  • New core extension to find feeds for Google Groups #2835
  • New hooks check_url_before_add and feed_before_actualize #2704
  • Execute the entry_before_display hook also through the API #2762
  • Allow extensions to change CSP (security) rules #2708
  • Expose the article ID in the share system (for a new e-mail sharing extension) #2707
• i18n
  • Improve French #2878
  • Improve German #2690
  • Improve Occitan #2873
  • Improve Portuguese #2833
  • Improve Simplified Chinese #2730
  • Improve Spanish #2823
• Misc.
  • Improve logging of database errors #2734
  • Remove the min_posts_per_rss configuration, which made efficient buffering difficult #2588
  • Add a test target to Makefile #2725
  • Fix test suite #2721
  • Refactor request class #2373
  • Remove deprecated magic quotes logic #2698