selfoss 2.19
13 October 2022
selfoss version 2.19 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to selfoss 2.19
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What's New in selfoss 2.19
New Features
- Thumbnails can be disabled (#897)
- Reddit spout replaced fragile imgur heuristics with previews provided by the JSON API (#1033)
- Experimental support for using selfoss offline was added. Note that this is only available in secure contexts, that is, over HTTPS, and can be very buggy. (#1014)
- Long articles will no longer be arranged into columns, allowing for smoother reading experience (#1081)
- Diaspora share button was added, you can enable it with d. (#1121)
- “Copy to clipboard” share button was added, you can enable it with c. (#1142)
- Native sharer is available in secure contexts in browsers that support it. You can enable it by adding a to share key in your config. (#1035)
- Data directory can be configured (#1043)
- New spout for searching Twitter (e.g. following hashtags) was added. (#1213)
- Added option reading_speed_wpm for showing estimated reading time. (#1232)
- Added option db_socket for connecting to MySQL database through UNIX domain. (#1284)
- Search query is now part of URL. (#1216)
- A page that will pre-fill a form for adding a source with URL has been added. You can find it on https://yourselfossurl.com/manage/sources/add?url=some-feed-url. (#1310, #254)
- Search will be carried out using regular expressions when the search query is wrapped in forward slashes, e.g. /regex/. The expression syntax is database specific. (#1205)
- YouTube spout now supports following playlists. (#1260)
- Confirmation is now required when leaving the setting page with unsaved source changes. (#1300)
- Add link from settings page to individual sources and vice versa. (#1329, #1340)
- Tag colour can be now changed using keyboard. (#1335)
- YouTube spout now supports all YouTube URLs that provide feeds. (#1273)
- Add open_in_background_tab option to try to make v shortcut open articles in a background tab (does not work in Chromium-based browsers). (#1354)
- GitHub sources now include author. (#1367)
- Twitter sources now indicate author using the author field rather than including in the title. (#1367)
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Reddit spout allows wider range of URLs, including absolute URLs and searches (#1033)
- Improved compatibility with newer versions of PHP (#1049, #1157, #1236, #1294)
- logger_level=NONE is now handled correctly (#1077)
- URLs containing special characters like commas in query string are now handled correctly (#1082)
- Set 60 second timeout to spout HTTP requests to prevent a single feed blocking other updates (#1104)
- Significantly improved accessibility (#1133, #1134, #1141 and #1345)
- Fixed marking more than 1000 items as read at the same time (#1182)
- Fixed loading full text on pages containing ampersands in URLs (#1188)
- Fixed missing styling in article contents (#1221)
- Golem, Lightreading and Heise spouts now use Graby for extracting article contents instead of our own defunct extraction rules. (#1245)
- The tag colour picker now pre-selects the current colour instead of a placeholder colour. (#1269)
- OPML import now correctly handles valid files. (#1366)
- OPML import will prefer title attribute over text for feed names. (#1366)
- OPML import is now able to read files when the browser sends an incorrect MIME type. (#1366)
