commafeed/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[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 929df60f09)
• 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 accesed 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