Changelog

[5.3.4]

Added support for Internationalized Domain Names (#1588)

[5.3.3]

Removed image bottom margins (#1587)

[5.3.2]

Fixed an issue that could cause some images from not being rendered correctly (#1587)

[5.3.1]

Fixed an issue that could cause some HTTP feeds to return a 400 error (#1572)

[5.3.0]

Added a setting to set a cooldown on the "fetch all my feeds" action, disabled by default (#1556)
Fixed an issue that could cause entries to not correctly load when using the "next" header button (#1557)

[5.2.0]

Added an option to keep a number of entries above the selected entry when scrolling
Added a cache to the HTTP client to reduce the number of requests made to feeds when subscribing (#1431)
Feeds are no longer refreshed between the moment its last user unsubscribes and the moment the feed is cleaned up (every hour)
Fixed an issue that could cause entries to not correctly load when using keyboard navigation (#1557)

[5.1.1]

Fixed database migration issue when upgrading from 5.0.0 to 5.1.0 on MariaDB (#1544)
When feeds without unread entries are hidden from the tree, the feed is displayed in the tree until another one is selected (#1543)

[5.1.0]

Added a setting for showing/hiding unread count in the browser's tab title/favicon (#1518)
Fixed an issue that could prevent the app from starting on some systems (#1532)
Added a cache busting filter for the webapp index.html and openapi documentation to make sure they are always up to date
Reduced database cleanup log verbosity

[5.0.2]

Fix favicon fetching for Youtube channels in native mode when Google auth key is set
Fix an error that appears in the logs when fetching some favicons

[5.0.1]

Configure native compilation to support older CPU architectures (#1524)

[5.0.0]

CommaFeed is now powered by Quarkus instead of Dropwizard. Read the rationale behind this change in the announcement. The gist of it is that CommaFeed can now be compiled to a native binary, resulting in blazing fast startup times (around 0.3s) and very low memory footprint (< 50M).

CommaFeed now has a different package for each supported database.
- If you are deploying CommaFeed with a precompiled package, please read this section of the README.
- If you are building CommaFeed from sources, please read this section of the README.
- If you are using the Docker image, please read the instructions on the Docker Hub page.
Due to the switch to Quarkus, the way CommaFeed is configured is very different (the config.yml file is gone). Please read this section of the README. Note that a lot of configuration elements have been removed or renamed and are now nested/grouped by feature.
Added a setting to prevent parsing large feeds to avoid out of memory errors. The default is 5MB.
Use a different icon for filtering unread entries and marking an entry as read (#1506)
Added various HTML attributes to ease custom JS/CSS customization (#1507)
The Redis cache has been removed. There have been multiple enhancements to the feed refresh engine and it is no longer needed, even for instances with a large number of feeds.
The H2 migration tool that automatically upgrades H2 databases from format 2 to 3 has been removed. If you're using the H2 embedded database, please upgrade to at least version 4.3.0 before upgrading to CommaFeed 5.0.0.

[4.6.0]

switched from Temurin to OpenJ9 as the JVM used in the Docker image, resulting in memory usage reduction by up to 50%
fix an issue that could cause old entries to reappear if they were updated by their author (#1486)
show all entries regardless of their read status when searching with keywords, even if the ui is configured to show unread entries only

[4.5.0]

significantly reduce the time needed to retrieve entries or mark them as read, especially when there are a lot of entries (#1452)
fix a race condition where a feed could be refreshed before it was created in the database
fix an issue that could cause the websocket notification to contain the wrong number of unread entries when using mysql/mariadb
fix an error when trying to mark all starred entries as read
remove the onlyIds parameter from REST endpoints since retrieving all the entries is now just as fast
remove support for microsoft sqlserver because it's not covered with integration tests (please open an issue if you'd like it back)

[4.4.1]

fix vertical scrolling issues with Safari (#1168)
the default value for new users for the "star entry" button and the "open in new tab" button in the entry headers is now "on desktop" instead of "always"
the "keyboard shortcuts" help page now shows "Cmd" instead of "Ctrl" on macOS (#1389)
remove a superfluous feed fetch when subscribing to a feed (#1431)
the Docker image now uses Java 21

[4.4.0]

add support for sharing using the browser native capabilities if available (#1255)
add a button in the entry headers to star an entry (#1025)
add a button in the entry headers to open links in a new tab (#1333)
add two options in the settings to toggle those buttons
accept .opml file extension when importing and export with the .opml extension
the "mark as read" option is no longer shown in the context menu for entries that are too old to be marked as read ( older than keepStatusDays) (#1303)

[4.3.3]

fix OPML import (#1279)

[4.3.2]

added support for unix sockets (#1278)

[4.3.1]

fix an issue that prevents new feeds from being added when mysql/mariadb is used as the database and the database timezone is not UTC (#1239)
videos in enclosures can no longer have a width larger than the page (#1240)

[4.3.0]

h2 (the embedded database) has been upgraded to 2.2.224
- this version uses a different file format than 2.1.x, the first time you start CommaFeed with this version, the database will be automatically converted to the new format
add a setting to completely disable scrolling to selected entry (#1157)
add a css class reflecting the current view mode to ease custom css rules (#1232)
fix an issue that prevents new feeds from being added when mysql/mariadb is used as the database (#1239)

[4.2.1]

fix an issue that caused the tree to show an incorrect unread count after a websocket notification because entries that were already marked as read by a filtering expression were not ignored (#1191)

[4.2.0]

add a setting to display the action buttons in the footer instead of in the header on mobile (#1121)
the websocket notification now contains everything needed to update the UI, the client no longer needs to make an API call to get the latest data when receiving the notification
add a workaround to the Fever API for the Unread iOS app (#1188)
fix an issue that caused dates to be saved incorrectly if the database server and the application server were in different timezones (#1187)

[4.1.0]

it is now possible to open the sidebar on mobile by swiping to the right (#1098)
swiping to mark entries as read/unread changed from swiping right to left because swiping right now opens the sidebar
the full hierarchy of categories are now displayed in the category dropdown (#1045)
added a setting maxEntriesAgeDays to delete old entries based on their age during database cleanup. The setting is disabled by default for existing installations, except for the docker image where it is enabled and set to 365 days
if user registrations are disabled on your instance which is the default behavior, users are redirected on the login page instead of the welcome page when not logged in (#1185)
the sidebar resizer is no longer shown in the middle of the screen on mobile
when using the system color scheme and the system is using a dark theme, feed entries no longer flicker on load
the demo account (if enabled) cannot register custom javascript code anymore
removed the usage of toSorted in the client because older browsers do not support it (#1183)
the openapi documentation is no longer cached by the browser so you always have access to the latest version
added a memory management section to the readme, reading it is recommended if you are running CommaFeed on a server with limited memory
fixed an issue that caused users without an email address set to be unable to edit their profile (#1184)

[4.0.0]

migrated from dropwizard 2 to dropwizard 4, Java 17+ is now required
entries that were fetched and inserted in the database but not yet shown in the UI are no longer marked as read when marking all entries as read
your custom sidebar width is now persisted in the local storage of your browser
there is now a third color scheme option in addition to light and dark: system (follows the system color scheme)
added support for youtube playlist favicons
custom JS code is now executed when the app is done loading instead of when the page is loaded
the favicon is now correctly returned for feeds that return an invalid content type
the feed refresh engine now uses httpclient5 with connection pooling and no longer creates a new client for each request, reducing CPU usage
updated UI library Mantine to 7.0, improving performance
the h2 embedded database is now compacted on shutdown to reclaim unused space
the admin connector on port 8084 is now disabled in config.yml.example. Disabling it in your config.yml is recommended (see https://github.com/Athou/commafeed/commit/929df60f09cce56020b0962ab111cd8349b271b0)
migrated documentation from swagger 2 to openapi 3
added a GET method to the fever api to indicate that the endpoint is working correctly when accessed from a browser
the websocket connection can now be disabled, the websocket ping interval and the tree reload interval can now be configured (see config.yml.example)
the websocket connection now works correctly when the context root of the application is not "/"
unstable pubsubhubbub support was removed

[3.10.1]

swap next and previous buttons (#1159)
unread count for subscriptions will now be shortened starting at 10k instead of 1k
increased websocket ping interval to just under a minute to reduce data and battery usage on mobile
only refresh subscription tree on a timer if websocket connection is unavailable
the Docker image now uses less memory by returning unused memory to the OS
add support for Java 21

[3.10.0]

added a Fever-compatible API that is usable with mobile clients that support the Fever API (see instructions in Settings -> Profile)
long entry titles are no longer shortened in the detailed view
added the "s" keyboard shortcut to star/unstar entries
http sessions are now stored in the database (they were stored on disk before)
fixed an issue that made it impossible to override the database url in a config.yml mounted in the Docker image

[3.9.0]

improve performance by disabling the loader when nothing is loading (most noticeable on mobile)
added a setting to disable the 'mark all as read' confirmation
added a setting to disable the custom context menu
if the custom context is enabled, it can still be disabled by pressing the shift key
the announcement feature is now working again and supports html ('announcement' configuration element in config.yml)
add support for MariaDB 11+
fix entry header shortly rendered as mobile on desktop, causing a small visual glitch
fix an issue that could cause a feed to not refresh correctly if the url was very long
database cleanup batch size is now configurable
css parsing errors are no longer logged to the standard output
fix small errors in the api documentation

[3.8.1]

in expanded mode, don't scroll when clicking on the body of the current entry
improve content cleanup task performance for instances with a very large number of feeds

[3.8.0]

add previous and next buttons in the toolbar
add a setting to always scroll selected entry to the top of the page, even if it fits entirely on screen
clicking on the body of an entry in expanded mode selects it and marks it as read
add rich text editor with autocomplete for custom css and js code in settings (desktop only)
dramatically improve performance while scrolling
fix broken welcome page mobile layout
format dates in user locale instead of GMT in relative date popups

[3.7.0]

the sidebar is now resizable
added the "f" keyboard shortcut to hide the sidebar
added tooltips to relative dates with the exact date
add a setting to hide commafeed from search engines (exposes a robots.txt file, enabled by default)
the browser extension unread count now updates when articles are marked as read/unread in the app
The "b" keyboard shortcut now works as expected on Chrome but requires the browser extension to be installed
dark mode has been disabled on the api documentation page as it was unreadable
improvement to the feed refresh queuing logic when "heavy load" mode is enabled
fix a bug that could prevent feeds and categories from being edited

[3.6.0]

add a button to open CommaFeed in a new tab and a button to open options when using the browser extension
clicking on the entry title in expanded mode now opens the link instead of doing nothing
add tooltips to buttons when the mobile layout is used on desktop
redirect the user to the welcome page if the user was deleted from the database
add link to api documentation on welcome page
the unread count is now correctly updated when using the "/next" bookmarklet while redis cache is enabled

[3.5.0]

add compatibility with the new version of the CommaFeed browser extension
disable pull-to-refresh on mobile as it messes with vertical scrolling
add css classes to feed entries to help with custom css rules
api documentation page no longer requires users to be authenticated
add a setting to limit the number of feeds a user can subscribe to
add a setting to disable strict password policy
add feed refresh engine metrics
fix redis timeouts

[3.4.0]

add support for arm64 docker images
add divider to visually separate read-only information from form on the profile settings page
reduce javascript bundle size by 30% by loading only the necessary translations
add a standalone donate page with all ways to support CommaFeed
fix an issue introduced in 3.1.0 that could make CommaFeed not refresh feeds as fast as before on instances with lots of feeds
fix alignment of icon with text for category tree nodes
fix alignment of burger button with the rest of the header on mobile

[3.3.2]

restore entry selection indicator (left orange border) that was lost with the mantine 6.x upgrade (3.3.0)
add dividers to visually separate read-only information from forms on feed and category details pages
reduced javascript bundle size by 10%

[3.3.1]

fix long feed names not being shortened to respect tree max width

[3.3.0]

there are now database changes, rolling back to 2.x will no longer be possible
restore support for user custom CSS rules
add support for user custom JS code that will be executed on page load

[3.2.0]

restore the welcome page
only apply hover effect for unread entries (same as commafeed v2)
move notifications at the bottom of the screen
always use https for sharing urls
add support for redis ACLs
transition to google analytics v4

[3.1.0]

add an even more compact layout
restore hover effect from commafeed 2.x
view mode (compact, expanded, ...) is now stored on the device so you can have a different view mode on desktop and mobile
fix for the "Illegal attempt to associate a collection with two open sessions." error
feed fetching workflow is now orchestrated with rxjava, removing a lot of code

[3.0.1]

allow env variable substitution in config.yml
e.g. having a custom config.yml file with app.session.path=${SOME_ENV_VAR} will substitute SOME_ENV_VAR with its value
allow env variable prefixed with CF_ to override config.yml properties
e.g. setting CF_APP_ALLOWREGISTRATIONS=true will set app.allowRegistrations to true

[3.0.0]

complete overhaul of the UI
backend and frontend are now in separate maven modules
no changes to the api or the database
Docker images are now automatically built and available at https://hub.docker.com/r/athou/commafeed

[2.6.0]

add support for media content as a backup for missing content (useful for youtube feeds)
correctly follow http error code 308 redirects
fixed a bug that prevented users from deleting their account
fixed a bug that made commafeed store entry contents multiple times
fixed a bug that prevented the app to be used as an installed app on mobile devices if the context path of commafeed was not "/"
fixed a bug that prevented entries from being "marked as read older than xxx" for a feed that was just added
removed support for google+ and readability as those services no longer exist
removed support for deploying on openshift
removed alphabetical sorting of entries because of really poor performance (title cannot be indexed)
improve performance for instances with the heavy load setting enabled by preventing CommaFeed from fetching feeds from users that did not log in for a long time
various dependencies upgrades (notably dropwizard from 1.3 to 2.1)
add support for mariadb
add support for java17+ runtime
various security improvements

[2.5.0]

unread count is now displayed in a favicon badge when supported
the user agent string for the bot fetching feeds is now configurable
feed parsing performance improvements
support for java9+ runtime
can now properly start from an empty postgresql database

[2.4.0]

users were not able to change password or delete account
fix api key generation
feed entries can now be sorted alphabetically
fix facebook sharing
fix layout on iOS
postgresql driver update (fix for postgres 9.6)
various internationalization fixes
security fixes

[2.3.0]

dropwizard upgrade 0.9.1
feed enclosures are hidden if they already displayed in the content
fix youtube favicons
various internationalization fixes

[2.2.0]

fix youtube and instagram favicon fetching
mark as read filter was lost when a feed was rearranged with drag&drop
feed entry categories are now displayed if available
various performance and dependencies upgrades
java8 is now required

[2.1.0]

dropwizard upgrade to 0.8.0
you have to remove the "app.contextPath" setting from your yml file, you can optionally use server.applicationContextPath instead
new setting app.maxFeedCapacity for deleting old entries
ability to set filtering expressions for subscriptions to automatically mark new entries as read based on title, content, author or url.
ability to use !keyword or -keyword to exclude a keyword from a search query
facebook feeds now show user favicon instead of facebook favicon
new dark theme 'nightsky'

[2.0.3]

internet explorer ajax cache workaround
categories are now deletable again
openshift support is back
youtube feeds now show user favicon instead of youtube favicon

[2.0.2]

api using the api key is now working again
context path is now configurable in config.yml (see app.contextPath in config.yml.example)
fix login on firefox when fields are autofilled by the browser
fix scrolling of subscriptions list on mobile
user is now logged in after registration
fix link to documentation on home page and about page
fields autocomplete is disabled on the profile page
users are able to delete their account again
chinese and malaysian translation files are now correctly loaded
software version in user-agent when fetching feeds is no longer hardcoded
admin settings page is now read only, settings are configured in config.yml
added link to metrics on the admin settings page
Rome (rss library) upgrade to 1.5.0

[2.0.1]

the redis pool no longer throws an exception when it is unable to aquire a new connection

[2.0.0]

The backend has been completely rewritten using Dropwizard instead of TomEE, resulting in a lot less memory consumption and better overall performances. See the README on how to build CommaFeed from now on.
CommaFeed should no longer fetch the same feed multiple times in a row
Users can use their username or email to log in

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