The Liferea feed reader reached the 1.12.3 release earlier today with various bug fixes. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04.

“Today sees a new 1.12 release which addresses some long-standing user concerns. One being accidentally marking all your headlines as read, we have no a confirmation dialog. Another issue addressed is that of custom download tools. The list provided is not always sufficient so we now provide a CLI command you can enter to use you favorite downloader. A lot of refactoring also allowed us to provide a GTK headerbar plugin for all fans of GNOME style window decorations.”

Liferea 1.12.3 release highlights:

• Added setting for custom download commands
• GTK Headerbar support via plugin
• Refactoring UI code to switch to GAction and GtkBuilder
• Item list view column order rework as a preparation for possible real column drag&drop. Introduces a new DConf setting for the column order.
• Mark read toolbar button always disabled for search folders
• Please add a safety question when “marking all read”
• Avoid exception in trayicon.py
• GnomeKeyring plugin fails to activate when keyring doesn’t exist
• Fix feed list selection after DnD
• Big Memory leak in date code

How to Install Liferea 1.12.3 in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04, and derivatives, the new release is available in a third-party PPA repository.

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for ‘terminal’ from app launcher. When it opens, run command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

Type your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it asks and hit Enter.

2. Then upgrade Liferea via Software Updater utility:

or run commands one by one to install the Linux feed reader:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install liferea

Finally launch the news reader from your application launcher and enjoy! (Log out and log back if you don’t see the icon).

Uninstall Liferea:

To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove liferea

To remove the PPA repository, open “Software & Updates” utility and navigate to Other Software tab.

A new bug-fix release for Liferea 1.12 was released earlier today. A plugin installer plugin was introduced that allows easy discovery and installation of 3rd party plugins.

Full changes in Liferea 1.12.2 include:

• Adding a plugin installer plugin that allows discovering and automatically installing 3rd party plugins
• Drop language from user agent to increase privacy
• Add transmission-gtk and aria2 as download tool options
• New command line option --disable-plugins (-p) to start with all plugins disabled.
• Fix that Liferea not showing up in GNOME Software
• Correctly print error message when failing to unlock GNOME keyring
• Fix that CSS style for GTK link colors not used
• Redirect location updates and adds HTTP 308 (RFC 7538) support
• Fix unable to set unread items in bold
• Fix broken OPML feed list entries
• Add Norwegian feed list
• Translation updates.

How to Install Liferea 1.12.2 in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04, and derivatives, the new release is available in a third-party PPA repository.

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for ‘terminal’ from app launcher. When it opens, run command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

Type your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it asks and hit Enter.

2. Then upgrade Liferea via Software Updater utility:

or run commands one by one to install the Linux feed reader:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install liferea

Finally launch the news reader from your application launcher and enjoy! (Log out and log back if you don’t see the icon).

Uninstall Liferea:

To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove liferea

To remove the PPA repository, open “Software & Updates” utility and navigate to Other Software tab.

The open-source Liferea feed reader finally reached the new stable 1.12.0 release after months of development. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04.

Liferea 1.12.0 release highlights:

• Wide view is now default view
• HTML view now has a ‘View Image’ context menu
• Redesign of the wide view: large icons with teaser text for better using 16:9 screen ratios and making Liferea usable on touchscreen
• Optional AMP / HTML5 rich content fetching feature
• Upgrade to WebKit2: This is an important security improvement!
• Added a “Do Not Track” preference (disabled per-default)
• Reordered columns in ‘Normal’ email-like view to have the date column always at the end
• Plugins switched to Python3 libpeas loader
• Full screen support for videos
• Simplified external browser support
• Experimental support for InoReader and Reedah online services
• Added category/folder support for TheOldReader
• Added folder auto-removal for TinyTinyRSS & TheOldReader
• Removed libindicate, libnotify code, tray icon code (re-added as a plugins)
• Some important bug-fixes.

How to Install Liferea 1.12.0 in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 16.04 and higher, you can easily install the new release from this PPA repository.

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for ‘terminal’ from app launcher. When it opens, run command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

Type your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it asks and hit Enter.

2. Then upgrade Liferea via Software Updater utility:

or run commands one by one to install the Linux feed reader:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install liferea

Uninstall Liferea:

To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove liferea

To remove the PPA repository, open “Software & Updates” utility and navigate to Other Software tab.