Elytra

Major improvements to the app, multiple bug fixes, and more coming soon... ### New - The apps now use the new Spotlight Search Query to provide semantic search results, which is faster, and more context aware than the previous implementation! - Light/Dark/Tinted icon assets! - Article reader now shows a "Headings" button in the bottom bar to quickly scroll to headings in long articles. - New Swift 6.0 foundation for the app ### Improvements - Major performance improvements to widgets. Images are now loaded more reliably. - Improved syncing performance, with no more UI lags - Improved background syncing - Improved article rendering performance ### Fixes - Fixed Folders widget article sorting - Fixed crash when selecting a sidebar item to view articles list - Fixed selection state appearance on iPadOS - Fixed a bug with Spotlight indexing - Fixed margins for the articles list - Fixed redownloading of articles - Fixed rendering links in the article reader - Fixed a bug with sync where the app would stop syncing completely due to an incorrectly encoded sync token. - Shows browser icon for articles that open in the browser - Fixed filtered articles appearing in some timelines

Major improvements to the app, multiple bug fixes, and more coming soon... ### New - The apps now use the new Spotlight Search Query to provide semantic search results, which is faster, and more context aware than the previous implementation! - Light/Dark/Tinted icon assets! - Article reader now shows a "Headings" button in the bottom bar to quickly scroll to headings in long articles. - New Swift 6.0 foundation for the app ### Improvements - Major performance improvements to widgets. Images are now loaded more reliably. - Improved syncing performance, with no more UI lags - Improved background syncing - Improved article rendering performance ### Fixes - Fixed Folders widget article sorting - Fixed crash when selecting a sidebar item to view articles list - Fixed selection state appearance on iPadOS - Fixed a bug with Spotlight indexing - Fixed margins for the articles list - Fixed redownloading of articles - Fixed rendering links in the article reader - Fixed a bug with sync where the app would stop syncing completely due to an incorrectly encoded sync token. - Shows browser icon for articles that open in the browser - Fixed filtered articles appearing in some timelines

Major improvements to the app, multiple bug fixes, and more coming soon... ### New - The apps now use the new Spotlight Search Query to provide semantic search results, which is faster, and more context aware than the previous implementation! - Light/Dark/Tinted icon assets! - Article reader now shows a "Headings" button in the bottom bar to quickly scroll to headings in long articles. - New Swift 6.0 foundation for the app ### Improvements - Major performance improvements to widgets. Images are now loaded more reliably. - Improved syncing performance, with no more UI lags - Improved background syncing - Improved article rendering performance ### Fixes - Fixed Folders widget article sorting - Fixed crash when selecting a sidebar item to view articles list - Fixed selection state appearance on iPadOS - Fixed a bug with Spotlight indexing - Fixed margins for the articles list - Fixed redownloading of articles - Fixed rendering links in the article reader - Fixed a bug with sync where the app would stop syncing completely due to an incorrectly encoded sync token. - Shows browser icon for articles that open in the browser - Fixed filtered articles appearing in some timelines

Major improvements to the app, multiple bug fixes, and more coming soon... ### New - The apps now use the new Spotlight Search Query to provide semantic search results, which is faster, and more context aware than the previous implementation! - Light/Dark/Tinted icon assets! - Article reader now shows a "Headings" button in the bottom bar to quickly scroll to headings in long articles. - New Swift 6.0 foundation for the app ### Improvements - Major performance improvements to widgets. Images are now loaded more reliably. - Improved syncing performance, with no more UI lags - Improved background syncing - Improved article rendering performance ### Fixes - Fixed Folders widget article sorting - Fixed crash when selecting a sidebar item to view articles list - Fixed selection state appearance on iPadOS - Fixed a bug with Spotlight indexing - Fixed margins for the articles list - Fixed redownloading of articles - Fixed rendering links in the article reader - Fixed a bug with sync where the app would stop syncing completely due to an incorrectly encoded sync token. - Shows browser icon for articles that open in the browser - Fixed filtered articles appearing in some timelines

The 2024.9.4 release contains some critical on-going fixes and stability improvements. - Fixed logging in using the Auth URI scheme from support - Fixed a bug where the app would crash in the background when syncing and indexing with Spotlight. - Fixed a bug where background notification for new articles would sometimes crash the app after it finished syncing. - Fixed a bug where the app would not sync in the background in response to new articles becoming available.

The 2025.1.0 release contains on-going bug fixes and stability improvements. - Massively improved speed, stability, and error reporting in the app. - Fixed a bug where feeds inside folders would sometimes not appear. - Massively reduced memory usage.

The 2025.10.0 release brings Liquid Glass design, underlying improvements, and more… ### New - The "Previous Article" and "Next Article" implementations were missing in the "Go" app menu. These are now available once again, with the keyboard shortcuts `J` and `K` respectively. - The app uses new APIs for importing and exporting OPML files. These are faster, and include better compatibility for handling invalid or malformed outline markups. - Improved parsing of feed icons from feed metadata ### Technical - The app now uses a newer DNS system to connect to the API. In most cases, this should be completely transparent to you. However, if you're having trouble using the app after updating, I'd recommend you switch to an older version of the app, and immediately notify me at [email protected]

The 2025.10.1 release brings Liquid Glass design, underlying improvements, and more… ### Improved - Massively improved code rendering and supported list of languages for code rendering - Improved detection of code languages when mentioned in the header ### Fixes - Fixed a bug causing bookmarked articles to never appear in the bookmarks list. - Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur when tasks were running in the background. From the v2025.10.0 release: ### New - The "Previous Article" and "Next Article" implementations were missing in the "Go" app menu. These are now available once again, with the keyboard shortcuts `J` and `K` respectively. - The app uses new APIs for importing and exporting OPML files. These are faster, and include better compatibility for handling invalid or malformed outline markups. - Improved parsing of feed icons from feed metadata ### Technical - The app now uses a newer DNS system to connect to the API. In most cases, this should be completely transparent to you. However, if you're having trouble using the app after updating, I'd recommend you switch to an older version of the app, and immediately notify me at [email protected]

The 2025.1.1 release fixes some bugs: - Fixed a bug where expanding a folder would do an incorrect lookup and crash the app. - Fixed a bug where saving changes to a feed would sometimes crash the app. ------ The 2025.1.0 release contains on-going bug fixes and stability improvements. - Massively improved speed, stability, and error reporting in the app. - Fixed a bug where feeds inside folders would sometimes not appear. - Massively reduced memory usage.

v2025.5.0 is a LTM (Long Term Maintenance) release which fixes bugs and crashes. This is the precursor the the new release pipeline which will be initiate after WWDC25. This release contains the following fixes: - Fixes a rare crash where custom tints would sometimes crash the app on launch. - Fixes a bug where the app would incorrectly check folder - feed mappings on launch or after OPML import. - Fixes a bug where the app would hang/crash when changing folders for a feed from the feed inspector UI. - Fixed a sync UI bug where it would sometimes displays completed (100%) and then start from the beginning as expected. - Fixed a bug when deleting a feed inside a folder would not correctly update it on other devices leaving Elytra on the other device in an inconsistent state.

Elytra 2025.9.0 delivers a fresh Liquid Glass look, performance improvements, and deeper customization for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. ### New - All-new app icon featuring the Liquid Glass design aesthetic for a modern, vibrant look. - Enhanced menu integration on iPadOS for smoother usage with external keyboards and input devices. - Revamped onboarding experience for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 newcomers. ### Improvements - Major engine overhaul with new APIs—enjoy faster responses, smoother caching, and greater stability. - Cover images now smartly display only if defined by articles, matching iOS 26’s cover art style. - Cover images are now showcased above article titles by default on iOS 26, with flexible preferences in Settings. - Find interaction and image loading are more responsive and efficient. - Smoother switching between full-text and original source views for articles. - Custom feed accent colours and improved appearance customisation, including glass effect on iOS 26. - Liquid Glass toolbars now animate and respond with greater accuracy. ### Fixes - Numerous crash fixes and stability updates, especially for expanding windows on iPadOS. - Sidebar and navigation bar layout tweaks for better alignment and visual consistency. - Bookmarks, feeds, and folder management are more reliable, with enhanced syncing and assignment. - Resolved issues with notifications, search crashes, text decoding, dark mode, feed indentations, favicon display, localisation, article rendering, and more - ensuring the smoothest Elytra experience yet.

The 2026.1.0 release brings Liquid Glass design, underlying improvements, and more… ### Fixes - Fixed a bug where an expired subscription would not be displayed leaving the app in an uncertain state during syncing. - Fixed a bug where downloading full-text for an article would complete successfully but cause a memory leak.

### Fixes - Fixed a bug when the app would run cleanup in the background and would leave around stale data - Fixed a bug where sync in the background would sometimes not update the UI correctly - Fixed a bug where sync data would sometimes gets lost after a successful sync.

The 2026.2.0 release brings Liquid Glass design, underlying improvements, and more… ### New - Footnotes now can be displayed inline. New preference has been added under the Misc. settings to enable this behaviour. Disabled by default. - Uses the common rendering framework, which is now mostly shared by the iOS & Mac app. ### Improved - Massively improved performance for loading images in articles - Improved support for videos - especially those which list multiple sources and formats - and videos which use unsupported attributes like `data-src` and `data-poster` - Improved handling of overlapping text style ranges for CJK scripts ### Fixes - Fixed opening URLs in the app - Fixed a bug where clearing a notification from the Notification Center would bring the app to the foreground - Fixed a bug extracting image URLs from srcSets leading to forming an incorrect URL

### Improved - OPML import is now faster and more reliable. Feeds appear in the list immediately and update in real-time as they are imported, with no waiting between each feed. (H/T Krishna P) - Improved re-sync experience after OPML import completes, no more jitters. - Improved articles list rendering performance - HTML tags removed from summary tags (H/T Krishna P) ### Fixes - Fixes a Core Data crash when merging background context updates on the main thread due to relationship set corruption. - Stop Spotlight indexing when resetting account

Fixed a rare crash that sometimes occurred when syncing new feeds

- Fixed a rare crash that sometimes occurred when syncing new feeds - Fixed a crash in the Sidebar when feed or folder lookups failed by adding a database fallback and removing unsafe initializations - Fixed an issue where marking articles as unread would incorrectly decrease unread counts instead of increasing them - Updated data models to use Swift 6 Observation for efficient state updates

- Fixed sidebar unread counters not updating after recent migration - Fixed memory leaks pertaining to the sidebar cells - Fixed streaming for certain media services - Fixed Unread Articles widget displaying articles in wrong order instead of newest first - Fixed widgets not updating when articles are marked read or unread due to a race between saving CoreData and reloading widget timelines - Fixed widgets showing stale articles after a sync by ensuring all data is written to disk before WidgetKit reloads timelines - Fixed widgets not refreshing after background syncs - Fixed Spotlight search results not reflecting feed metadata changes (custom titles, etc.) when no new articles were synced - Fixed a potential race condition in the sync task that could have allowed two concurrent syncs to start

- Fixed a crash that could occur on first launch after installing the app - Improved stability when adding, moving, or removing feeds and folders - Fixed a crash that could occur when removing a feed from a folder - Fixed a crash that could occur when unread counts were being updated

New - Text in article paragraphs can now be selected across multiple paragraphs. - Code blocks now display in a dedicated horizontally-scrollable cell with syntax highlighting, a monospace font, and a rounded background, matching the experience on macOS. - Code block text is now selectable. - Tapping the cover image now opens it in Quick Look. - Tapping an image in a gallery now opens it in Quick Look. Improvements - The article reader now uses TextKit 2 throughout on both iOS and macOS, improving text layout correctness and performance for complex scripts. - Code blocks in the article reader now use the same modern text engine as body paragraphs on iOS. - The macOS article reader no longer manually manages the text layout stack; paragraph sizing is now driven by live layout geometry instead of a string-measurement approximation. - Cover images now appear behind the navigation bar on iOS 26, matching the transparent glass look. Scrolling up to the cover works as expected with no anchoring or jumping. - Code blocks in articles can now scroll horizontally as expected. - Article list cells are now properly reused as you scroll, reducing memory use in long articles. - Cover images in articles now share the image cell pool with inline images, reducing memory use when browsing long articles. - Code blocks in articles now appear fully highlighted immediately when scrolled into view, with no rendering delay. - Improved app launch speed by fixing CoreData model validation issues that were slowing startup. - Improved reliability of deep link and URL scheme handling, including links opened from notifications, Spotlight search results, and third-party apps. - Article images now span edge-to-edge on iPhone, while text content stays within comfortable reading margins (respecting the readable content guide on iPad). - Cover images for articles load at the top of the article view, above the title and author, and the view automatically scrolls to position the cover just below the navigation bar. Fixes - Fixed code blocks in articles blocking vertical scrolling when a touch started on them. - Fixed GIF images not loading or displaying in the article reader on iOS. - Fixed image cells retaining the previous image's height when scrolled and reused. - Fixed scrolling to headings and footnotes targeting the wrong row when an article has a cover image. - Moving a feed to a different folder now rolls back correctly if the network request fails. - Fixed a bug where footnote and link highlight positioning in the article reader could silently revert to the legacy text engine, causing mis-positioned popovers on iOS. - Tapping the status bar to scroll to the top of an article now works correctly on all article layouts. - Fixed a potential crash when tapping on images in articles where the image URL needed to be resolved against the article's base URL. - Fixed a potential crash in the article header when the selected font preference was not recognised. - GIF images now load correctly when the cell is scrolled off-screen and back during the download. - YouTube and video cells no longer accumulate hidden thumbnail images across reuses, preventing a gradual increase in memory use. - Fixed a potential crash when quickly switching between articles while a full-text fetch was still in progress. - Fixed blockquote text rendering at the correct reduced opacity. - Fixed rare crash when image dimensions were not yet available during initial layout. - Fixed an issue where tapping a YouTube video link with extra URL parameters (timestamps, share tracking) could fail to play the video. - Tapping an image in the article reader now opens it correctly in Quick Look, instead of showing a blank preview with an unrecognised file type. - Images that are not currently visible on screen now load correctly when browsing through them in Quick Look.