# Karakeep v0.30.0 — 0.30.0

- Product: Karakeep (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/karakeep)
- Vendor: Karakeep
- Date: 2026-01-01
- Version: v0.30.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/releases/tag/v0.30.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/karakeep/releases/v0.30.0

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- **added** — 2025 Wrapped feature to celebrate your year in Karakeep
- **added** — PDF archives that can be generated automatically during crawling or on-demand
- **added** — Unified reader settings for font, size, and other options that sync across devices with per-device overrides
- **added** — Upload custom user avatars for more personal profiles
- **added** — Customize tag styling per user including case, separators, and language
- **added** — Per-user toggles to disable auto-tagging and/or auto-summarization
- **added** — Import libraries from Matter with full export support
- **added** — Bulk remove bookmarks from lists
- **added** — New rule condition for rule engine: URL Does Not Contain
- **added** — Configure an OpenAI proxy via OPENAI_PROXY_URL environment variable
- **added** — Search qualifier is:broken to show links that failed crawling
- **added** — Edit list functionality in the mobile app
- **added** — OpenTelemetry integration with OTLP exporter
- **added** — CLI can list users for admins
- **changed** — Better metadata extraction for Reddit posts, YouTube thumbnails and authors, and Amazon product images
- **changed** — Replace bookmark banners and download attachments directly from the drop down menu
- **changed** — Improved Ollama summaries by using the generate endpoint
- **changed** — In bookmark APIs includeContent now defaults to false
- **changed** — Default to Node.js 24 as the current LTS
- **fixed** — Missing database indices that were causing slow bookmark queries
- **fixed** — HTML bookmark imports failing on empty folder names

#### 0.30.0 (New year release 🎁)

Welcome to the 0.30.0 release of Karakeep and happy new year! This release comes with "2025 wrapped" (a bit late), PDF archives, new reader settings, avatars, reddit crawling improvements, and more! Huge thanks to our contributors for this release @esimkowitz, @Moondragon85, @rzxczxc, @colado, @Yeraze, @eriktews and everyone who shipped code, triaged bugs, or shared feedback for this release.

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And in case you missed it, we now have a ☁️ managed offering ☁️ for those who don't want to self-host. We're in public beta now and you can signup [here](https://cloud.karakeep.app) 🎉.

#### New Features 🚀

- 2025 Wrapped is here to celebrate your year in Karakeep (#2322).
- PDF archives
  - Archive bookmarks as PDFs, generated automatically during crawling or on-demand (#2309).
  - Set `CRAWLER_STORE_PDF=true` to enable auto PDF archiving.
- Unified reader settings (font, size, etc) across all devices with per-device overrides (#2230). By @esimkowitz!
- Better metadata extraction:
  - Reddit posts should now be crawled correctly, and banners should be fetched more reliably.
  - Fixed YouTube thumbnail and author extraction.
  - Fixed Amazon product image extraction (where it was sometimes showing the prime logo) (#2204, #2108). By @Yeraze
- Upload custom user avatars for more personal profiles (#2296).
- AI Setting customization:
  - Customize tag styling (case, separators, language) per user. It's highly recommended to set the tag style for more consistent tags (#2312).
  - Per-user toggles to disable auto-tagging and/or auto-summarization (#2275).
- Others:
  - Import libraries from Matter with full export support (#2245). By @Moondragon85
  - Bulk remove bookmarks from lists (#2279).
  - Add a new rule condition to rule engine: "URL Does Not Contain" (#2280).
  - Configure an OpenAI proxy via `OPENAI_PROXY_URL` (#2231). By @rzxczxc
  - Added `is:broken` search qualifier to show links that failed crawling (#2225).
  - Edit list now in the mobile app (#2310). By @colado 

#### UX Improvements ✨

- Our docs got a facelift! The docs got some styling, the pages got re-organized and we now have a "Using Karakeep" section that explains some of the core concepts of Karakeep.
- Replace bookmark banners and download attachments directly from the drop down menu (#2328).
- Sidebar scrollbar looks cleaner, and pending list invites show as a badge in the sidebar.
- Bookmark edit dialog now includes notes.
- Bookmark owner avatars now show up in collaborative lists.
- Mobile UI/UX improvements:
  - Fixed title on mobile to be at most 2 lines long.
  - Mobile settings screens should now feel more native (#2307).
  - OLED-friendly colors in the Android app matching the colors of the ios app (#1958).
  - Toasts on iOS now appear correctly above the open modals (#2320). By @colado
  - Shared lists now appear in a dedicated subsection on mobile.
  - Adding a bookmark to a list now shows a spinner during loading (#2283).
  - Server version now appears in mobile settings (#2276).
  - Fixed the confusing "tick button" beside the server address during login.

#### Fixes 🔧

- Fixed missing db indicies that was causing slow bookmark queries (#2246, #2287).
- Improved Ollama summaries by using the generate endpoint (#2324). By @eriktews
- Fixed HTML bookmark imports failing on empty folder names (#2300).
- Fixed non-link bookmarks stuck in pending summarization (#1605).
- Improved tagging prompts and error-page detection.
- Reject spoofed content types on file uploads.
- Preserve failure counts when rescheduling

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