---
Type: desktop-application
ID: net.sourceforge.liferea
Package: liferea
ProjectLicense: GPL-2.0+
Name:
C: Liferea
Summary:
C: Keep up with your feeds
Description:
C: >-
<p>Liferea is a feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions
into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds. Its GUI is similar to a desktop mail/news
client, with an embedded web browser.
</p>
<p>Distinguishing features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Read articles when offline</li>
<li>Force fetch full article text using HTML5 extraction</li>
<li>Subscribe to HTML5 websites that do not even have a feed!</li>
<li>Synchronizes with Google Reader API (TheOldReader, FreshRSS, FeedHQ, Miniflux, ...)</li>
<li>Synchronizes with Reedah</li>
<li>Synchronizes with TinyTinyRSS</li>
<li>Permanently save headlines in news bins</li>
<li>Match items using search folders</li>
<li>Play Podcasts</li>
</ul>
Developer:
id: de.lzone
name:
C: Lars Windolf
Categories:
- Network
- News
Keywords:
sq:
- lajme
- prurje
- grumbullues
- blog
- podkast
- syndication
- rss
- atom
id:
- news
- feed
- aggregator
- blog
- podcast
- syndication
- rss
- atom
fr:
- news
- feed
- aggregator
- blog
- podcast
- syndication
- rss
- atom
- nouvelle
- actualité
- agrégateur
cs:
- zprávy
- zdroj
- zdroje
- agregátor
- blog
- blogy
- podcast
- podcasty
- publikování
- rss
- atom
es:
- noticias
- canal
- agregador
- blog
- podcast
- sindicación
- rss
- atom
de:
- Nachrichten
- News
- Feed
- Abonnement
- Aggregator
- Blog
- Podcast
- RSS
- Atom
nl:
- nieuws
- feed
- aggregator
- blog
- podcast
- syndicatie
- rss
- atom
hu:
- hír
- hírek
- hírforrás
- hírcsatorna
- aggregátor
- összegző
- blog
- podcast
- szindikáció
- rss
- atom
it:
- notizie
- notiziario
- feed
- aggregatore
- blog
- podcast
- rss
- atom
pt-BR:
- notícias
- fonte
- agregador
- blog
- podcast
- sindicação
- rss
- atom
C:
- news
- feed
- aggregator
- blog
- podcast
- syndication
- rss
- atom
ru:
- новости
- лента
- агрегатор
- блог
- подкаст
- синдикация
- rss
- atom
tr:
- news
- feed
- aggregator
- blog
- podcast
- syndication
- rss
- atom
- haber
- besleme
- toplayıcı
- kaynak
- günlük
- sendikasyon
- ortam akışı
pl:
- news
- feed
- aggregator
- blog
- podcast
- syndication
- rss
- atom
zh-CN:
- 新闻
- feed
- 搜集器
- 博客
- 播客
- 源
- rss
- atom
Url:
bugtracker: https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/issues/new
homepage: https://lzone.de/liferea/
help: https://lzone.de/liferea/help1140/topics_en.html
translate: https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea?tab=readme-ov-file#new-translations
Icon:
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height: 48
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stock: net.sourceforge.liferea
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- net.sourceforge.liferea.desktop
Provides:
ids:
- net.sourceforge.liferea.desktop
mediatypes:
- application/rss+xml
- application/atom+xml
- application/rdf+xml
- x-scheme-handler/feed
Screenshots:
- default: true
caption:
C: Read feeds in an email like interface
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- caption:
C: Integrated browser support
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- caption:
C: Read your favourite comics
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- caption:
C: Play and download podcasts
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- caption:
C: Install plugins from the community
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- caption:
C: Preferences window
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height: 508
- caption:
C: Privacy settings to prevent tracking
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height: 508
- caption:
C: Add various feed sources
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height: 466
Languages:
- locale: ar
percentage: 68
- locale: ast
percentage: 61
- locale: be@latin
percentage: 46
- locale: bg
percentage: 26
- locale: ca
percentage: 66
- locale: cs
percentage: 99
- locale: da
percentage: 66
- locale: de
percentage: 99
- locale: el
percentage: 45
- locale: en_US
percentage: 100
- locale: es
percentage: 100
- locale: eu
percentage: 66
- locale: fi
percentage: 72
- locale: fr
percentage: 99
- locale: gl
percentage: 56
- locale: he
percentage: 71
- locale: hu
percentage: 92
- locale: id
percentage: 78
- locale: it
percentage: 98
- locale: ja
percentage: 69
- locale: ko
percentage: 25
- locale: lt
percentage: 50
- locale: lv
percentage: 66
- locale: nl
percentage: 95
- locale: pl
percentage: 98
- locale: pt
percentage: 56
- locale: pt_BR
percentage: 99
- locale: ro
percentage: 56
- locale: ru
percentage: 98
- locale: sk
percentage: 56
- locale: sq
percentage: 99
- locale: sv
percentage: 72
- locale: tr
percentage: 99
- locale: uk
percentage: 72
- locale: vi
percentage: 72
- locale: zh_CN
percentage: 98
- locale: zh_TW
percentage: 25
Branding:
colors:
- type: primary
scheme-preference: light
value: '#CBCFD3'
- type: primary
scheme-preference: dark
value: '#64647D'
Releases:
- version: 1.15.9
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1737763200
description:
C: >-
<p>Today sees a new release of Liferea with fixes, translation updates and some major changes.</p>
<p><em>Integrated Download Manager</em></p>
<p>Starting with Liferea 1.15.9 there is a simple integrated download manager. The idea is to
be roughly on-par with the features modern browsers support. While the download manager
is basic it should improve user experience a lot.Up until now we had a hard-coded list of
typical download managers. This had several disadvantages. Now Liferea has a very simple
download manager implemented using simple single thread Python network fetching. Hopefully
this will increase usability and download workflows.</p>
<p><em>Rendering Changes</em></p>
<p>This release fixes the dark theme switching regression in the item view. The dark mode item view
feature was lost some releases ago because of GTK4 deprecations. Since GTK4 there is no more
GTK supported way to determine theme colors.
To still do dark mode switching Liferea follows (Devhelp and other tools using WebkitGTK) which
switch light/dark mode purely with CSS and static theme-independant colors.
Sadly this will mean a visible color mismatch to the GTK theme. This is mostly appearant in
dark mode. Also the link color is set to blueish and can't follow the GTK theme color for links anymore.
Many other applications are also suffering from this. Sorry there is just no way to do it anymore.
If you really hate the default CSS style please consider changing them using custom CSS.</p>
<p><em>Item View Layout Redesign</em></p>
<p>Along with the theme adaptions come a redesign of the item view. To be honest the look and feel
is heavily inspired by Jan Lukas Gernert's NewsFlashGTK which I consider very well done. It is a very
calm theme reducing distraction and a good balance for reading longer and shorter texts.</p>
<p><em>Reader Mode Removed</em></p>
<p>The user facing options to enable/disable "Reader Mode" in the preferences and the item view pane
content menu are now gone. The code paths were too complicated and the results and fallback in case
of errors was very unsatisfactory.
Still the use of "Readability.js" the library behind "Reader Mode" is still active. It is now automatically
applied when the HTML scraping is used. No user interaction needed.</p>
<p><em>Changes:</em></p>
<ul>
<li>#1391: GObject refactoring nodePtr -> Node, updateJobPtr -> UpdateJob to allow plugins modifying the feed
list. (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes #1387: Dark theme lost in preview window (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes HTTP redirects not working (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes memory leaks in network callbacks (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes unnecessary LifereaBrowser clearing on layout change (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>New unit tests for update handling code (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>#1388 Implemented download manager plugin, all preferences for external tools were dropped (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Refactoring of plugin management, code reorganized. Disabling plugins now does not disable base plugins (needed
for auth and node sources) as this would prevent startup (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Refactoring of content scraping, processing now happens in Javascript on entire source documents. We now store
a bit more data, but get better extraction results (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Support for lazy loading <img data-src=""> definitions. This unbreaks images when scraping some websites
(Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Redesign of the HTML view. Look and feel is adapted from Newsflash. There is now a max-width and less cluttered
reading. (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Getting rid of XSLT in favor of using Handlebars.js (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Updated Czech translation (Amereyeu)</li>
<li>Updated Albanian translation (Besnik Bleta)</li>
</ul>
- version: 1.15.8
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1727308800
description:
C: >-
<p>Changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Solve some Webkit deprecations (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes #1359: Prevent passing "" as CLI argument causing a useless subscription. Also checks for duplicates when
subscribing from CLI/DBUS. (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes #1372: Fix feed icon not parsing if the URL doesn't have a file extension bug (Stomern)</li>
<li>Fixes #1382: Doesn't recognize atom:link element with no rel attribute bug (Lars Windolf, reported by Ed Davies)</li>
<li>Update of Turkish translation (emintufan)</li>
</ul>
- version: 1.15.7
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1718841600
description:
C: >-
<p>This is a release introducing some changes. First there is a new privacy setting you can
enable: additionally to Do-Not-Track Liferea now supports the Do-Not-Sell user data setting.</p>
<p>There is a major change to the enclosure (media attachments) handling. The build in media player
working on a "attachment" style list view under the item content was removed. Now enclosures
are added via HTML audio and video tags below the item content. The idea is to play those
purely with WebkitGTK support. Downloading is still supported by right clicking on those tags.</p>
<p>Finally a long standing issue was improved: when a feed does not provide item titles Liferea now
uses a teaser of the item content as the title. This for example fixes the usability of Mastodon feeds.</p>
<p>Changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add Sec-GPC header support via new preference to prevent user data selling (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Drop enclosure list view in favour of embedded HTML5 audio and video elements (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes #1332: Improve "*** No title! ***" for items without title (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Update appdata for 1.15.6 by (bbhtt)</li>
<li>appdata: Update screenshot captions and remove dead link by (bbhtt)</li>
<li>Allow building with libsoup 3.0.7 by (ittner)</li>
</ul>
- version: 1.15.6
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1710460800
description:
C: >-
<p>This is a small bugfix release with several translation updates and optimizations for better handling HTML content.</p>
<p>Changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Automatically drop empty content elements (e.g. placeholders for images/iframes/ads not loaded)</li>
<li>Automatically set inline SVG sizes from viewBox attribute to prevent max-width SVGs</li>
<li>Hide <code> nav </code> elements extracted by HTML5 content extraction</li>
<li>Remove G_REGEX_OPTIMIZE flag from DHTML stripping regex handling as valgrind reports memory errors with this.</li>
<li>src/node_type.h: add #include <code>libxml/tree.h</code> for xmlNodePtr type (@trofi)</li>
</ul>
ContentRating:
oars-1.1: {}
