v1.8.0

This release adds GitHub as a platform, allowing you to subscribe to recently-released trending repositories. Dial in your GitHub feed to subscribing to only the languages and topics you care about with optional language and topic filtering.

Added

• GitHub support
• Additional 32-bit architectures for image build
  • ARMv7
  • i386

Changed

• Improved demo mode handling for the public instance
• Improved HTTP/HTTPS protocol detection to prevent mixed-content console warnings
• Improved preview image selection logic
• Stricter post score handling and score filter availability, allowing for returning posts with zero score
• Updated link color for header links (in use on the public instance)

Fixed

• Refactored dark mode attribute handling
• Removed unused getProgress functionality from AJAX handler

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0

v1.7.0

This release brings substantial performance, reliability, and accessibility improvements. The front end UI has been moved from Vue to a native web component, cache performance is improved with APCu and serialized storage, and some media handling (Reddit/Imgur) has been made more robust. There are also resilience fixes around Mbin, better URL redirection handling, and a handful of UX/polish and documentation updates. Accessibility for screen readers has been much improved.

Added

• Front end
  • Platform preview icons in the Platform dropdown
  • Server‑Sent Events for live progress updates on long‑running operations
• Caching
  • APCu support in the app and APCu installation in the Docker image for Reddit auth and progress updates

Changed

• Front end
  • Converted the UI from Vue to a native web component. It's now faster, more lightweight, and it means one fewer dependency.
  • Improved accessibility for screen readers and keyboard navigation
  • Added rel="noopener noreferrer" to external links for better security and privacy
• Hacker News
  • Use Algolia API for Hacker News for way better efficiency
  • Switch from "topstories" to "frontpage" list
  • Enable the Threshold filter for HN with the switch to the Algolia API
• Caching
  • Switched cache files to a serialized format
  • More efficient cleanup of expired cache entries
• Architecture/infra
  • Replace manual logger instantiation with a global logger() helper
  • Refactor Reddit authentication to a singleton for efficiency
  • Enable CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION in curlURL to handle redirects better
• Parsing/normalization
  • Improved post title normalization
• Autocomplete
  • Refactor subreddit autocomplete for better filter handling
• UI/UX
  • Disable “Refresh cache” while posts are loading
• Dev experience
  • Versioned style/script URLs for cache‑busting in debug mode
• Docs/housekeeping
  • Update README for clarity on supported platforms and features

Fixed

• Reddit
  • Better MIME type detection and preview image handling for videos
  • Correct thumbnail URL assignment for specific edge cases
• Imgur
  • Video controls fixes
• Post model
  • Cleaned up image URL handling to avoid incorrect/unstable URLs
• Mbin
  • Handle more empty API responses with appropriate logging
  • Increase cURL timeouts to accommodate slower instances
• Cache
  • Create the cache directory in a race‑safe way and suppress noisy warnings
• Scoring
  • Avoid null issues in top_posts array during score calculation

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.7.0

v1.6.0

This release adds an option to filter out pinned moderator comments on the platforms that support it, along with some refactoring and bugfixes.

Added

• Option to filter pinned moderator comments on the following platforms:
  • Reddit
  • Lemmy
  • Piefed
• Filter out comments that are empty or that have been removed or deleted

Changed

• Changed default Mbin instance and magazine now that Fedia.io is behind a login
• Refactored caching for a faster, more reliable cache, especially comments

Fixed

• Mbin magazine caching
• Better Mbin top posts fetching
• Fix bug with included scores in feeds

Full Changelog: v1.5.1...v1.6.0

v1.5.1

Changed

• Changed logging instantiation to use singleton pattern for better efficiency

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.5.1

v1.5.0

This release adds a bunch of article summarizer options.

Added

• Article summarizers
  • Anthropic
  • Mistral
  • DeepSeek
  • OpenAI-compatible
    • Any LLM provider with an OpenAI-compatible API can be used to summarize articles.
• Summaries can now be generated on the demo instance: https://www.upvote-rss.com

Fixed

• SUMMARY_TEMPERATURE SUMMARY_MAX_TOKENS should work as expected for Ollama now.

Changed

• Moved summarizer logic into a SummarizerFactory class for better maintainability.

Full Changelog: v1.4.1...v1.5.0

v1.4.1

Fixes

• Only grab top-level PieFed comments

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.4.1

v1.4.0

Added

• Support for PieFed

Fixed

• Better URL handling for links in RSS feeds
• Exclude publisher and author info from summaries unless relevant

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0

v1.3.0

Added

• Google Gemini can now be used as a summary provider.
• Added SUMMARY_MAX_TOKENS environment variable to set a maximum number of tokens the LLM will use to generate a summary response.

Full Changelog: v1.2.5...v1.3.0

v1.2.5

Fixed

• The SUMMARY_TEMPERATURE environment variable is now validated to prevent errors with the OpenAI API.

Full Changelog: v1.2.4...v1.2.5

v1.2.4

Updates dependencies

Full Changelog: v1.2.3...v1.2.4