Current - RSS Feed Reader

- You can now set a custom velocity / age out date for a source! - You can now configure the app to use the “since it first appeared in the river” date as the age out start so that you don’t miss content if you have long periods of away time (good for you!) - Sped up reader extraction. - Sped up fetching for iCloud only accounts. - Fixed a bug where on cold launch the loader may get stuck. - Fixed a bug where iCloud sync can overwrite current membership and appear as though pausing is broken. - Improvements to the river position on iOS when new content arrives. - Youtube rss should no longer discover random channels. - Keyboard focus on macOS should be restored much more reliably for shortcuts access. - Command + Z to undo release is now available on macOS.

- You can now save articles on macOS via the plus button on the saved view, or by pasting a url into the command palette (cmd+k) - You can now right click any source or current in sidebar on macOS and release all, or release all read. - Added changelog rss feed quick add under help (so you can keep up to date with what’s changing inside Current) - Fixed an issue where Inoreader users would get duplicated currents created from folders. - Fixed an issue where Currents may un-delete themselves from sync provider. - Added a feature to re-build currents from sync provider tags/folders at any time. - Fixed an issue where after editing a source the list would jump to the top on macOS. - Fixed an issue where feedbin may give us urls with hashes that don’t map to feed locations (for newsletters for example). - You can now set a default browser to open in on macOS (not just safari anymore) - Made logged in sessions persist more reliably. - KaTeX and MathJax are now supported for all the math. - Many other small tweaks and bug fixes.

- Significant performance updates across the board - Feedly is now available - Most feeds that don’t work are blocking us with Cloudflare, so now we provide that detail when adding a feed, rather than “no feed found” (and are still working on being allow-listed w/ them) - A11y Scrub has been extended and is now fully implemented - Fixed an issue where linkblogs (daring fireball, etc) sometimes link to themselves and get suppressed. - Adjust the feed picker to disambiguate each feed when a source has multiple. - Blackholed a handful of “helper cards” that were indeed not helpful. - Fixed an issue where if you don’t launch the app on the 2nd device within 7 days you could end up with orphaned stories that don’t expire. - Fixed an issue where the source list could fall out of sync between two devices related to above. - Fixed an issue where offline requests may clog up the queue once you go back online. - Adjusted the reading time insights to account for when you leave an article open in a pane (iPad primarily) and aren’t actually reading. - Fixed an issue where “Auto advance after release” would get reset by the cloud. - Over 30(!) small visual and interaction fixes across macOS, iPadOS and iOS. - Over 50(!) source fixes for parsing and identifying feeds.

Auto-Advance Reading Keep the flow going: a new setting lets you automatically advance to the next article when you release one, instead of returning to the river. Enable it in Settings → Reading. Show Original Website Some sites are best read in their original form. You can now set any source to load its full website in the reader instead of the extracted article. Pair it with "Sign in to site" for paywalled sources. Discussion Links Articles from feeds that include comment links (like Hacker News) now show a "Comments" link in the reader header. Smarter Background Refresh Background refresh now prioritizes the feeds in your active current, and a new deep-refresh mode prefetches article content so articles open instantly. More Improvements - Font size setting now scales river and voices text, not just the reader - Font size slider added to the theme picker for quick access - Long-press context menu on river items (save, share, show more/less) - Readwise OPML category import support - Reader drop cap rendering fix - Code block formatting preserved in extracted articles - Preference sync reliability improvements across devices - Various reader layout and image fixes

Redesigned Settings Settings has been completely reorganized with clear sections and icon badges. App Theme and Reader Theme are now independent. Changing one no longer forces the other to match. A new Text Size screen gives you dedicated sliders for both the reader and the feed list. Source Cleanup and OPML Import have moved up to Sources & Data for easier access. Thumbnails in the Feed Article rows can now display thumbnail images alongside excerpts. Enable Show Thumbnails in Settings. Compact Mode A new high-density layout for the feed list. Just titles and sources, no excerpts. Great for scanning through busy feeds. Enable Compact Mode in Settings. Improved Reader * Font size changes apply instantly without reloading the page * Reading position is preserved when rotating your device * Better extraction quality. The app now scores extraction results and falls back to feed content when extraction is poor * Per-site extraction overrides * Linkblog support. When a source links to external articles, the linked article is extracted instead Image Viewer The image lightbox has been completely rewritten with native pinch-to-zoom, double-tap to zoom, and smooth pull-to-dismiss. Smarter Refresh * Feeds that have not changed since the last check are skipped entirely, making large refreshes significantly faster * Feeds returning errors are temporarily paused instead of retried every cycle * When a server blocks requests (HTTP 429), all feeds on that host are paused for the rest of the cycle * Background refresh now prioritizes your active current’s feeds first CloudKit Sync * Fixed an issue where approximately 800 or more records were re-sent to iCloud on every launch instead of flushing * Preferences now sync with conflict resolution. Edits on both devices are merged instead of one overwriting the other * Voice and person metadata edits now sync between devices * Larger sync batches and less frequent polling reduce iCloud overhead Feedbin and Miniflux * Feedbin mute rules are now respected. Muted articles will not appear in your feed * Faster sync for both Feedbin and Miniflux * Better source matching after OPML import iPad * Selecting an article now auto-collapses the sidebar. The drag handle is always visible and easier to grab Share Extension * Fixed URL detection when sharing from Brave and Chrome

iPhone River - "Release All Above" and "Release All Below" swipe actions with batch animation and undo - Oldest-first sort works correctly - Show or hide favicons on river cards from Settings (partially implemented, more to come) - Context menu on items includes "Edit Source" Reader - Source tap goes directly to Edit Source when no custom currents exist - Image lightbox centers properly with smooth pan-to-dismiss - Reader palette reordered: Ocean now appears before Paper - Removed right-edge swipe gesture Currents - Voices and Saved tabs switch cleanly without toggling off - Source toggles show which other currents use each source - Currents count no longer includes the default River Share Extension - New segmented picker: Save Article or Subscribe - Subscribe mode detects and adds the feed from any shared URL - Both modes show confirmation on success Settings - Navigation path persists when leaving and returning to the app - Favicons toggle in River section - Source Cleanup has a dismiss button - Clear Data sheet padding corrected Voices - Activity and writing rhythm shown on a single line (e.g. "Writes daily, quiet lately") - Context menu on voice posts: Read, View Voice, Edit Source Search - Context menu on search results includes "Edit Source" iPad Keyboard Navigation - j/k and arrow keys navigate the river list - Return or Space opens the highlighted article - Inside an article: arrows scroll, j/k move between articles - Cmd+. dismisses the article - s to save, o to open in Safari - / and Cmd+F open search, Cmd+R refreshes, [ ] switch currents - Keyboard navigation persists after dismissing an article Sidebar - River, Saved, and Voices pinned at the top of the collapsed sidebar - Custom currents scroll below without breaking layout - Tapping any tab expands the sidebar - Opening an article no longer auto-collapses the sidebar Reader - Stage Manager: content no longer cut off by the toolbar - Pull-to-refresh: no visual glitches when hovering over items during refresh - Share button presents a single system share sheet - Tap the compact toolbar title to scroll to top Sources - Edit Source: "Use feed content only" and "Show original website" are mutually exclusive - Sources list: Edit button exposes minus-circle delete - Pinned sources show a yellow pin icon Touch - All touch gestures work normally without interference from the keyboard bridge - Search field focuses correctly with the software keyboard

iPhone What’s New * Improved river display pipeline: read status changes from sync now appear immediately * Smarter thumbnail extraction from RSS feeds, filtering out tracking pixels and spacer images * Better readability for secondary text throughout the app (improved contrast) * Share sheet now shares clean URLs for easier copying and pasting Sync & Feeds * Miniflux: surface actual server error messages instead of generic failures; detect duplicate feeds * Failed feed subscribes now roll back cleanly instead of leaving orphaned sources * Duplicate sync call prevention when tapping articles quickly * Server errors (5xx) no longer retry endlessly in the sync queue * Video-only sites (YouTube, Vimeo) skip expensive full-page extraction Fixes * Fixed reader body injection race condition where content could fail to appear * Much more reliable favicon discovery * Significantly more reliable velocity pruning * Significantly more reliable cross platform iCloud sync * Fixed offline content store race condition during concurrent prune operations * Blank/white favicons are now detected and purged automatically --- iPad Everything in the iPhone notes, plus: Voices * Improved typography and accessibility labels throughout Voices * Smoother profile band animations in Voices timeline All Platforms * New RiverPipeline architecture: centralized, testable filtering for the article river * Host-level 429 rate limit handling: blocked hosts are skipped for the rest of the refresh cycle * Released items now expire after 1 hour instead of persisting forever * Person source detection no longer fires automatically, removing many such bugs!

All Platforms * Added Inoreader as a sync service * Significant fixes for iCloud sync between devices * Currents now obey source velocity * Saved articles do not refetch content (no duplicate fetches!) * Clear all data now completely wipes iCloud settings as well so connected devices also clear * Auto advance on release now works properly when oldest first is set * Fully redesigned settings (much simpler, more calm and no more overwhelming list of options) * Many improvements to parsing and rendering in line images, videos, bluesky posts (now uses native AT proto fetch) * Webcomics mode now displays full untruncated caption / alt text * Japanese (and other languages) parse and display correctly in reader * Code formats correctly in reader now * OPML exports now include Currents (and their belongings) in standardized format * Source name changes now persist back to sync service (if used) * Resolved an issue where authors don’t sync down from sync services on bootstrap for new device iOS / iPad * Fixed a crash when trying to save images * Resolved intermittent blank spaces showing in the river * Significantly improved moments where scrolling is locked due to background activity * Removed “default” theme which could sometimes cause corruption and a crash * Fixed issue where release might not actually unsave from saved * Rotating to landscape on iPhone is /much better/ * Removed sync toast that would block the voices navigation bar * Significantly sped up saving * Fixed a bug where reading stats might include time the app has spent in the background * Many small design / layout enhancements * Resolved an issue on iPad where sidebar would auto collapse

All Platforms * Significant updates to the parser so more content will show, more reliably * Full rebuild of iCloud sync engine for reliability (HUGE improvement) * Significant performance improvements to opening articles * Significant performance improvements to scrolling * Improvements to Miniflux * Expanded iCloud logging and new “full sync” and “sync now” button actions iOS * New in-app browser navigation with back swipe * Global setting for “always fetch full content” iPadOS * New sidebar layout with settings, search, and collapse buttons moved to bottom * Sidebar can now be brought back from all screens * Keyboard shortcuts are much more reliable

- New in-app feedback feature to capture app logs and sync logs - Newsletters now render nicely! - Redesigned "release" bar at bottom of articles with multiple actions, additionally you can tap anywhere to show it (no more scrolling down to release) - You can now turn off icloud sync entirely - Mute option for specific feeds to avoid showing them at all (but stay subscribed) - Many additional iPad keyboard shortcuts (? to show) - Lots of additional parser / rendering / sync enhancements

- Significant performance improvements - New in-app feedback feature to capture app logs and sync logs - Newsletters now render nicely! - Mute option for specific feeds to avoid showing them at all (but stay subscribed) - Lots of additional parser / rendering / sync enhancements - Unified context menus: iPhone and iPad now show the same long-press actions on articles - Releasing articles no longer marks them as read on your sync service - Reader "Back" button now appears on iPad (was iPhone-only) - "Open in Safari" option added to reader overflow menu on iOS - Webcomic alt text now displayed below images (xkcd hover text, etc.) - Removed fragile link-chasing for link posts (was following wrong links) macOS - Big UI overhaul - macOS settings parity: "Always Fetch Full Article" and "Show source icons" toggles added - Fixed Mark All as Read not dimming cards on Mac