• 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

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Medellín floreció el domingo 11 de agosto con el majestuoso desfile de más de medio millar de campesinos cargando en sus espaldas enormes arreglos florales durante la edición 67 del Desfile de Silleteros que cerró la Feria de las Flores ante la mirada de unos 800 mil espectadores.

Después de abandonar en la madrugada sus pintorescas fincas en el caserío de Santa Elena, donde hace más de seis décadas nació esta florida tradición, los silleteros presentaron las obras de arte que diseñaron y elaboraron con las flores que ellos mismos cultivan en sus jardines.

Al ser el corazón de la feria, que cada año, durante agosto, llena de millones de flores a esta ciudad colombiana, los silleteros pasaron los últimos días concentrados en las creaciones, que fueron aclamadas en un recorrido de 2.8 kilómetros, vividos al ritmo de música tropical, aplausos y el canto de “vuelta, vuelta” que en cada tramo soltó la multitud para poder disfrutar de cada detalle de los arreglos.

Un hombre prepara su silleta para participar en la edición 67 del Desfile de Silleteros de la Feria de las Flores. EFE/ Luis Eduardo Noriega Arboleda (Luis Eduardo Noriega A/)

Con la silleta a cuestas, como sucedió en 1957 con el primer desfile realizado por cargueros del departamento de Antioquia, apareció en primera fila Juan Ortiz, de la vereda (aldea) El Placer, como el ganador absoluto del desfile al imponerse con su arreglo floral en la categoría ‘Monumental’.

“Estoy muy contento. El año pasado por un error me descalificaron. Me puse triste, pero mis hijos me animaron a hacer otra. Les dije que para este año iba a hacer casi la misma silleta porque sabía que con esa iba a estar entre los finalistas. Este premio gordo, como decimos, no me lo esperaba”, expresó a periodistas Ortiz.

Para el ganador este triunfo representó una “revancha” y un premio a hacer “las cosas con amor y en familia” luego de más de 18 horas de trabajo en la silleta que deslumbró al jurado.

También brillaron los silleteros ganadores María Carolina Atehortúa, en la categoría “Emblemática”; Edwin Camilo Ramírez, en “Artística”; Dórigo de Jesús Zapata, en “Tradicional”; Juan Camilo Atehortúa, en “Comercial”; Samuel Morales Henao, en “Junior”, y Julián Ramírez, en “Infantil”.