Newspipe 12.1.0

New

• Users can now write personal notes on articles.
• Added a German translation of the application.
• Added a three-column reading layout to the home page.

Improvements

• Modernized and harmonized many pages: the user profile, data management, feeds list, feed detail and duplicates, feed create/edit, admin dashboard, bookmarks, popular, and public profile pages.
• Added a button to open an article on its original website.
• The home reading pane is now aligned with the article list, has a draggable width, scrolls in its own region, and keeps the article list header pinned while scrolling.
• An article can now be opened by clicking anywhere on its row.
• The crawler now uses conditional requests (ETag / Last-Modified), streams feed results to the consumer as they complete, batches the per-article dedup lookups, caps the feed body size, and makes the fetch concurrency configurable.
• The crawler now auto-disables repeatedly failing feeds and retries them weekly, and logs expected fetch failures concisely.
• The minimum supported version of Python is now 3.12.0.
• Updated Python dependencies.
• Fixed the French grammar of the AGPL notice on the about page.

Fixes

• Reject non-http(s) article links in the reading pane.
• Serialize all database access in the crawler to protect the shared Session (only on SQLite) and run the blocking construct_feed_from in a thread.