# FreshRSS 1.28.0 — FreshRSS 1.28.0

- Product: FreshRSS (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/freshrss)
- Vendor: FreshRSS
- Date: 2025-12-24
- Version: 1.28.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/tag/1.28.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/freshrss/releases/1.28.0

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- **added** — New sorting and filtering by date of User modified with corresponding search operator, e.g. userdate:PT1H for the past hour
- **added** — New sorting by article length
- **added** — New advanced search form
- **added** — New overview of dates with most unread articles
- **added** — New ability to share feed visibility through API
- **added** — Add new feed visibility (priority) Show in its feed
- **added** — Add compatibility with PCRE word boundary \b and \B for regex search using PostgreSQL
- **added** — Allow marking as read articles older than 1 or 7 days also when sorting by publication date
- **added** — New option to show user labels instead of tags in RSS share
- **added** — Configurable notification timeout
- **added** — OPML export/import of unicity criteria
- **added** — Ensure stable IDs (categories, feeds, labels) during export/import
- **added** — Add username and timestamp to SQLite export from Web UI
- **added** — Add option to apply filter actions to existing articles
- **added** — Support CSS selector ~ subsequent-sibling
- **added** — Web scraping support date format as milliseconds for Unix epoch
- **added** — Allow negative category sort numbers
- **changed** — More uniform SQL search and PHP search for accents and case-sensitivity
- **changed** — Rework saving of configuration files for more reliability in case of e.g. full disk
- **changed** — Scaling of user statistics in Web UI and CLI to help instances with 1k+ users
- **changed** — Improve SQL speed for some critical requests for large databases
- **changed** — API performance optimisation thanks to streaming of large responses
- **changed** — Docker default image updated to Debian 13 Trixie with PHP 8.4.11
- **fixed** — Fix OpenID Connect with Debian 13
- **fixed** — Fix MySQL / MariaDB bug wrongly sorting new articles
- **fixed** — Fix SQLite bind bug when adding tag
- **fixed** — Fix some CSRFs
- **removed** — Move unsafe autologin to an extension
- **deprecated** — Potential breaking changes for some extensions which have to rename some old functions

* [Milestone](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/milestones/1.28.0)

This is a major release, just in time for the holidays 🎄

Selected new features ✨:
* New sorting and filtering by date of *User modified*, with corresponding search operator, e.g. `userdate:PT1H` for the past hour
* New sorting by article length
* New advanced search form
* New overview of dates with most unread articles
* New ability to share feed visibility through API (implemented by e.g. [Capy Reader](https://github.com/jocmp/capyreader))
    * Bonus: Capy Reader is also the first open source Android app to support *user labels*
* Better transitions UI between groups of articles
* New links in UI for transitions between groups of articles, and jump to next transition
* Docker default image updated to Debian 13 Trixie with PHP 8.4.11
* And much more…

Improved performance 🏎️:
* Scaling of user statistics in Web UI and CLI, to help instances with 1k+ users
* Improve SQL speed for some critical requests for large databases
* API performance optimisation thanks to streaming of large responses

Selected bug fixes 🐛:
* Fix OpenID Connect with Debian 13
* Fix MySQL / MariaDB bug wrongly sorting new articles
* Fix SQLite bind bug when adding tag

Breaking changes 💥:
* Move unsafe autologin to an extension
* Potential breaking changes for some extensions (which have to rename some old functions)

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @Frenzie, @Inverle, @aledeg, @andris155, @horvi28, @math-GH, @minna-xD and newcomers @Darkentia, @FollowTheWizard, @GreyChame1eon, @McFev, @jocmp, @larsks, @martinhartmann, @matthew-neavling, @pudymody, @raspo, @scharmach, @scollovati, @stag-enterprises, @vandys, @xtmd, @yzx9.

Full [changelog](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/blob/1.28.0/CHANGELOG.md):

* Features
	* New sorting and filtering by date of *User modified* [#7886](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/7886), [#8090](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8090),
		[#8105](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8105), [#8118](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8118), [#8130](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8130)
		* Corresponding search operator, e.g. `userdate:PT1H` for the past hour [#8093](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8093)
		* Allows finding articles marked by the local user as read/unread or starred/unstarred at specific dates for e.g. undo action.
	* New sorting by article length [#8119](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8119)
	* New advanced search form [#8103](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8103), [#8122](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8122), [#8226](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8226)
	* Add compatibility with PCRE word boundary `\b` and `\B` for regex search using PostgreSQL [#8141](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8141)
	* More uniform SQL search and PHP search for accents and case-sensitivity (e.g. for automatically marking as read) [#8329](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8329)
	* New overview of dates with most unread articles [#8089](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8089)
	* Allow marking as read articles older than 1 or 7 days also when sorting by publication date [#8163](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8163)
	* New option to show user labels instead of tags in RSS share [#8112](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8112)
	* Add new feed visibility (priority) *Show in its feed* [#7972](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/7972)
	* New ability to share feed visibility through API (implemented by e.g. Capy Reader) [#7583](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/7583), [#8158](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8158)
	* Configurable notification timeout [#7942](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/7942)
	* OPML export/import of unicity criteria [#8243](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8243)
	* Ensure stable IDs (categories, feeds, labels) during expor

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