Release candidate FreshRSS 1.23.0

[Alkarex]

Hello fellow FreshRSS users and contributors,
It looks like we might be able to have a new FreshRSS release 🎁 under the Christmas tree 🎄 for those with that tradition.

So please go ahead and upgrade your git /edge branch, or Docker :edge image, or download an archive from edge, and report any issue or comment, and also when it just works 😃

🙋 Please reach out before the 24th for any outstanding bug you might have found or be aware of, in particular if it is a regression compared to 1.22.1.

A few highlights ✨:

• New Important feeds group in the main view, with corresponding new priority level for feeds #5782
  • Entries from important feeds are not marked as read during scroll, during focus, nor during Mark all as read
• Add filter actions (auto mark as read) at category level and at global levels #5942
• Increase SQL fields length to maximum possible #5788, #5570
• Many bug fixes

Breaking changes 💥:

• Require PHP 7.4+
• Soft require Apache 2.4+ (but repair minimal compatibility with Apache 2.2)
• Use GitHub Actions to build Docker images, offering architectures amd64, arm32v7, arm64v8 with automatic detection #5808
  • So no -arm suffix anymore
• Upgraded extensions require FreshRSS 1.23.0+ Extensions#181

20 contributors for this release, including several newcomers such as @b-reich, @EdJoPaTo, @FireFingers21, @jaden, @jtracey, @KasimirCash, @mark-monteiro, @foux, @passbe, @joestump ... Thank you!

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Detailed tracked changes (20 contributors, 78 commits, 420 changed files with 4,416 additions and 3,520 deletions).

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New Important feeds group in the main view, with corresponding new priority level for feeds #5782
    • Entries from important feeds are not marked as read during scroll, during focus, nor during Mark all as read
  • Add filter actions (auto mark as read) at category level and at global levels #5942
  • Improve reliability of Max number of articles to keep unread #5905
  • New option to mark entries as read when focused from keyboard shortcut 5812
  • New display option to hide My labels in article footers #5884
  • Add support for more thumbnail types in feeds enclosures #5806
  • Support for favicons with non-absolute paths #5839
  • Increase SQL (VARCHAR) text fields length to maximum possible #5788
  • Increase SQL date fields to 64-bit to be ready for year 2038+ #5570
• Compatibility
  • Require PHP 7.4+, and implement typed properties #5720
    • Enforce PHP strict typing #5830
  • Require Apache 2.4+ (but repair minimal compatibility with Apache 2.2) #5791, #5804
• Bug fixing
  • Fix regression in Docker CRON_MIN if any environment variable contains a single quote #5795
  • Improve filtering of cron environment variables #5898
  • Fix the TRUSTED_PROXY environment variable used in combination with trusted sources #5853
  • Fix regression in marking as read if an identical title already exists #5937
  • Fix JavaScript regression in label dropdown #5785
  • Fix regression when renaming a label #5842
  • Fix API for adding feed with a title #5868
  • Fix regression in UI of update page #5802
  • Fix XPath encoding #5912
• Deployment
  • Use GitHub Actions to build Docker images, offering architectures amd64, arm32v7, arm64v8 with automatic detection #5808
  • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.19 with PHP 8.2.13 and Apache 2.4.58 #5383
• Extensions
  • Upgrade extensions code to PHP 7.4+ #5901
  • Breaking change: upgraded extensions require FreshRSS 1.23.0+ Extensions#181
  • Pass FreshRSS version to JavaScript client side for extensions #5902
  • Add GitHub Actions and PHPStan for automatic testing of the Extensions repository Extensions#185
• API
  • Improve handling of new lines in enclosure descriptions (e.g., YouTube video descriptions) #5859
• Security
  • Avoid printing exceptions in favicons #5867
  • Remove unneeded execution permissions on some files #5831
• UI
  • Ensure that enough articles are loaded on window resize #5815
  • Improve Nord theme #5885
  • Do not show message Add some feeds #5827
  • Various UI and style improvements #5886
• i18n
  • Fix font priority for languages using Han characters #5930
  • Improve Dutch #5796
  • Improve Hungarian #5918
• Misc.
  • Increase PHPStan from Level 7 to level 8 #5946
  • Compatibility PHP 8.2+ for running automated tests #5826
  • Use PHP declare(strict_types=1); #5830
  • Better stack trace for SQL errors #5916
  • Code improvements #5511, #5945
  • Update dev dependencies #5787

[Alkarex]

https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/tag/1.23.0

[Alkarex]

Yes, we typically do it a few days later. Ping @marienfressinaud

[beerisgood]

I understand the reason but it’s annoying for all who doesn’t want or can update manually.

[Alkarex]

Docker, git, and Web update using git, are all instantly available. It is only the Web update using ZIP, which comes a bit later

[beerisgood]

Yes and the internal updater use the zip version.

[marienfressinaud]

@beerisgood You should be able to update now!

Just a friendly reminder that we are releasing this version in our spare time and during holidays. No offence, but I just want to avoid putting too much pressure on our shoulders. FreshRSS is being used more and more, and small individual expectations can become a lot of pressure for us. I understand that you would like to get new versions of FreshRSS faster, but it's never more than a few days (unless there are too many problems). You can also switch to the edge version if you're fine with a less stable version of FRSS (a lot of people use it and it's never broken for too long ;))