- Highlight text in the reader view with four color options and attach notes to highlights
- Notes & Highlights view per article to skim marked content and jump to it in the text
- True offline mode that downloads all preserved formats in the background when enabled in settings
- Link details sheet accessible by long-pressing any link, showing all link information in one sheet
- Customizable reader view with adjustable font, text size, line height, and background color
- Generic OpenID Connect identity provider support for self-hosters
- Reduced idle memory usage from approximately 700 MB to approximately 350 MB
- Docker image size reduced from approximately 3.0 GB to 1.5 GB
- Enhanced security hardening across the application
Hello everyone!
Today, we’re excited to announce that Linkwarden is getting one of its largest mobile updates so far, along with a web app that’s much lighter to run.
For those who are new here, Linkwarden is a tool for collecting, organizing, reading, and preserving webpages, articles, and documents in one place. Linkwarden is available as a Cloud offering, or you can self-host it on your own server.
Let's get into it.
What's new on mobile:
🖍️ Highlight and annotate
You can now highlight text in the reader view, pick from four colors, and attach a note to any highlight.
There's also a new Notes & Highlights view per article which lets you skim what you've marked and jump to it in the text.
📥 True offline mode
Previously, the app only saved preserved formats for links you had already opened. Now, you can turn on Save for offline access in the settings, and the app will download every preserved format in the background as you browse.
🪪 Link details sheet
Long-press any link to open Link Details, which shows all the information about a link in one sheet, similar to the web app.
📖 Customizable reader view
Adjust font, text size, line height, and background color as you read.
What's new on the web:
🧠 Much lower memory usage
Linkwarden 2.15 roughly halves idle memory usage, from around 700 MB down to about 350 MB.
It's worth mentioning that after a heavy workload, memory may stay higher because the runtime keeps previously allocated memory ready for reuse. This is expected and is not a memory leak.
If you don't need webpage preservation, setting DISABLE_BROWSER=true skips that work entirely, keeping the instance right at the ~350 MB mark. Otherwise, for a leaner setup, you can use:
MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=2
NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=400
ARCHIVE_TAKE_COUNT=1
These settings limit memory pools, cap the app's heap, and preserve one link at a time to keep spikes smaller.
🐳 A much smaller Docker image
The Docker image has also been cut in half, dropping from roughly 3.0 GB to 1.5 GB.
🔑 Generic OIDC provider
Self-hosters can now connect any OpenID Connect identity provider. Check it out in the docs!
🔒 Increased security
A good chunk of this release went into security hardening. We strongly recommend updating to 2.15.
There's more...
As always, there's a long tail of smaller improvements across the web and the mobile app.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.14.1...v2.15.0
Thanks!
Thanks to everyone using Linkwarden, reporting bugs, suggesting improvements, contributing to the project, responsibly disclosing security issues, and supporting its development. Your contributions genuinely shape every release.
Special thanks to @profiteroles1, @bebound, @zero77, @idarlafish, @martiGIT, @Anthomos, @christopherjnash, @saschabuehrle, @ppfeister, @nekros1xx, @mvalentsev, @datosh, @Dredsen, @SakusenSec, @kah-ja, @kocaemre, @eddieran, @5ud0er, @clzoom, @guervild, @ashvinctrl, @456789TZ, and @Faze-up for their code contributions, bug reports, testing, security research, and responsible vulnerability disclosures. They all rock! 💙
If you'd like to try Linkwarden without dealing with server setup and maintenance, our Cloud offering is the easiest way to get started.
We hope you enjoy the latest Linkwarden updates!