Release candidate FreshRSS 1.24.0

[Alkarex]

Hello fellow FreshRSS users and contributors,
A new release candidate is ready for feedback. As it will be the last release to support PHP 7 before jumping to PHP 8.1+, extra care is given to stability.

So please go ahead and try our rolling release edge: 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 within the coming days for any outstanding bug you might have found or be aware of, in particular if it is a regression compared to 1.23.1.

A few highlights ✨:

• New shareable user query mechanism to share lists of articles by HTML, RSS, OPML
  • Deprecates RSS sharing with master token
• New CLI for database backup & restore
  • Can also be used to migrate from one database to another, or to upgrade SQLite schema
• New JSON scraping mode to consume JSON data and JSON Feeds
• New support for HTTP POST
• New option to automatically add labels to incoming articles
• New button to download a feed configuration as OPML
• Many bug fixes

37 contributors for this release: @aledeg, @Alkarex, @andris155, @CilgaIscan, @cn-tools, @den13501, @eta-orionis, @Frenzie, @FromTheMoon85, @gmgall, @hkcomori, @jakopo87, @laxmanpradhan, @loviuz, @math-GH, @MayMeow, @OctopusET, @PedroPMS, @roughnecks, @soniyaprasad77, @th0mcat, @thomasrenes, @tiborepcek, @wolfpld, @yzqzss, @zukizukizuki
and several newcomers such as @eta-orionis, @gmgall, @hkcomori, @jakopo87, @laxmanpradhan, @loviuz, @PedroPMS, @roughnecks, @soniyaprasad77, @th0mcat, @zukizukizuki ... Thank you!

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Detailed tracked changes

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New shareable user query mechanism to share lists of articles by HTML, RSS, OPML #6052
    • Deprecates RSS sharing with master token
  • New JSON scraping mode to consume JSON data #5662, #6317, #6369
  • New support for JSON Feeds #5662
  • New support for HTTP POST #5662
  • New option to automatically add labels to incoming articles #5954
  • New button to download a feed configuration as OPML #6312
  • Web scraping support more encodings such as EUC-JP #6112
  • Web scraping support password-protected queries (refactor some cURL options and use CURLOPT_USERPWD) #6177
  • Web scraping HTTP GET allow UTF-8 even when charset is far from top #6271
  • Allow manual refresh of disabled feeds #6408
  • Allow multiple authors on enclosures #6272
  • New system option in data/config.php for number of feeds to refresh in parallel from UI #6124
• CLI
  • New CLI for database backup & restore #6387
    • Can also be used to migrate from one database to another, or to upgrade SQLite schema
    • ./cli/db-backup.php ; ./cli/db-restore.php
  • Improve CLI parameters #6028, #6036,
    #6099, #6214
  • Fix i18n cli/manipulate.translation.php ignore behaviour #6041
• API
  • New compatible app Read You #4633, #6050
  • Reduce API memory consumption #6137
  • Allow negative feed IDs for future special cases #6010
  • Only return OK for requests without query parameters #6238
• Bug fixing
  • Better account for some edge cases for cron and automatic labels during feed refresh #6117
  • Better support for thumbnails in RSS feeds #5972
  • Auto-update PostgreSQL or MariaDB / MySQL databases for column details changes since FreshRSS 1.21.0 #6279
    • For SQLite, DB update require running ./cli/db-backup.php ; ./cli/db-restore.php --force-overwrite
  • Fix SQLite import of exports produced before FreshRSS 1.20.0 #6450
  • Fix SQLite release handle to fix deleting users on Microsoft Windows #6285
  • Fix to allow admins to create user even when there are Terms Of Service #6269
  • Fix updating the uncategorized category deletes the title #6073
  • Fix disable master authentication token #6185
  • Fix CSS selector preview #6423
  • Fix CSS selector encoding #6426
  • Fix export of CSS selector in OPML of individual feeds #6435
  • Fix OPML import of CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE #6439
  • Fix favicon with protocol-relative URLs have duplicate slashes #6068
  • Fix feed TTL+muted logic #6115
  • Fix apply mark as read to updated articles too #6334
  • Fix ZIP export on systems with custom temp folder #6392
  • Fix number of posts per page during paging #6268
  • Fix clipboard sharing UI #6301
  • Fix shortcut for clipboard sharing #6277
  • Fix user-query filter display #6421
• SimplePie
  • Fix absolutize URL for several cases #6270, simplepie/#861
• Security
  • Replace iframe allow attribute #6274
• Deployment
  • Disable unused PHP modules in our Debian-based Docker image #5994
• UI
  • No warning for muted feeds #6114
  • Various UI and style improvements #6055, #6074,
    #6241, #6242, #6289,
    #6299, #6314, #6357,
    #6373, #6376, #6385,
    #6390, #6444, #6445
  • Improve theme Origine compact #6197
• i18n
  • Improve Brazilian Portuguese #6067
  • Improve Czech #6344
  • Improve Dutch #6343
  • Improve German #6313
  • Improve Hungarian #6005, #6377
  • Improve Italian #6018, #6060, #6329
  • Improve Japanese #6108, #6294
  • Improve Korean #6342
  • Improve Polish #6358
  • Improve Portuguese #6345
  • Improve Simplified Chinese #6336
  • Improve Slovakian #6356
  • Improve Traditional Chinese #6350
  • Improve Turkish #6328
  • Misc. #6460
• Extensions
  • Sanitize parsing list of extensions names and version number #6016,
    #6155, Extensions#214, #6186
  • Apply filter actions such as mark as read after the entry_before_insert hook for extensions #6091
  • New developer command to test all third-party extensions Extensions#228, #6273
    • composer run-script phpstan-third-party
  • New function Minz_Extension::amendCsp() for extensions to modify HTTP headers for Content Security Policy #6246
  • New property FreshRSS_Entry::isUpdated() for extensions to know whether an entry is new or updated #6334
• Compatibility
  • Restore PHP 7.4 compatibility for automated tests #6038, #6039
  • Fix PHP 8.2+ compatibility for e-mails #6130
  • Use PHP 8.3+ #[\Override] #6273
• Misc.
  • Improve PHPStan #6037, #6459
  • Update PHPMailer #6022
  • Remove noisy name parameters in user-query URL #6371
  • Code improvements #6046, #6075,
    #6132
  • Add Dependabot for GitHub Actions #6164
  • Allow Ctrl+C for make start #6239
  • Update dev dependencies #6023, #6265

[math-GH]

Sorry, I cannot find any bug that blocks us from release :)

[Frenzie]

I haven't had time yet, but what I've tested in between was fine.

[Alkarex]

https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/tag/1.24.0

[math-GH]

Greatest thing for RSS, since sliced bread.
https://mastodon.social/@pax0707/112492154094498998

🤣

[Eoin-ONeill-Yokai]

Awesome work, thank you for all the love and effort put into this webapp!