When you upgrade to 1.8 you might be searching for new features and be a bit disappointed. The thing is that we put our development focus into performance improvements and removing bottlenecks. Still there are some hidden small functional improvements (I'll leave out the performance measures) that I want to outline in the following...

That's it. As I said not much on the feature side, but we did a lot of work on performance. Maybe this is even more important. I'm also aware that the performance improvements did not satisfy our power users with >100k headlines in cache, but there'll be a followup post on the performance measures soon.

The new stable releases seemingly get finished only around christmas each year. Summer just isn't a good time for getting things done. Well, here it is: It's finally done. The new stable line with many performance improvements and better Google Reader and TinyTinyRss 1.5+ support. Grab it from the project page or ask your package maintainers to upload it!

Many bug reporters mentioned accidentally subscribing to arbitrary text "URLs" by selecting stuff in the HTML pane and then unwillingly dragging it. This always led to a new subscription in the feed list.

The new releases 1.6.6 and 1.7.6 provide a fix requiring links to be dragged over the feed list. When dragging and dropping in the HTML pane or elsewhere in the window nothing happens now.

Many users have asked for quite some time... Yesterday we added Google Reader label support to git. So now you get Google Reader labels as folders in Liferea. This sync feature was contributed by Peter Oliver and Sergey Snitsaru.

Right now labels are only sync'ed from Google to Liferea, but not yet the other way around.

Support will first be included with 1.7.6

TinyTinyRSS has changed the JSON API in an incompatible way with tt-rss release 1.5. If you are using the tt-rss support with Liferea 1.7.5 you will not be able to connect to tt-rss 1.5+ anymore.

Support for the new tt-rss JSON API will be provided with the next unstable release of Liferea 1.7.6. If you really need to use tt-rss in the meantime please use the latest code from our git repository.

Also starting with Liferea 1.7.6 you will not be able to access tt-rss 1.4 setups anymore. Please upgrade your tt-rss to the newest release.

Previously we were asked why we do not support the Ubuntu menu indicator applet as another notification variant. The reason was simple: all active developers did use Debian so far.

Now Maia Kozheva offered to maintain the indicator code in Liferea, so starting with 1.7.6 we will include a both compile and runtime optional libindicate support. Compile time optional meaning libindicate auto-detection and runtime optional meaning indicator applet auto-detection with tray icon fallback and flexible preferences.

One thing I'm wondering about: are Liferea users interested in a full screen mode? For example for viewing websites after opening them in a tab, or to simply have Liferea use all available screen space.