RSS Guard feed reader 3.8.0 was released today. The new release adds supporting for labels and basic CLI interface.

RSS Guard is simple, light and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator based on Qt. It support online feed synchronization with:

• Tiny Tiny RSS,
• Inoreader,
• Nextcloud News,
• Gmail API.

RSS Guard 3.8.0 was released with following changes:

• Add support for labels:
  • Labels are even synchronizable for Inoreader and TT-RSS
  • Each message can have assigned multiple labels
  • Feed’s view now offers “Labels” folder with handy per-label filtering
  • Labels assigned in message are now even available in message filtering
  • You can assign arbitrary color to each of your labels
• New bundled icon theme – Numix (Windows only)
• Numix is now default icon theme
• Use mini.css instead of Bootstrap as built-in web-base message viewer
• Message body now has “auto” reading direction
• JSON feeds are now supported
• Added basic CLI interface

Install RSS Guard in Ubuntu:

There’s no deb packages for the feed reader so far. It however offers official .Appimage for 64-bit Linux.

1. Download the .Appimage package from the github releases page.

RSS Guard Releases

2. Right click on the file, and go to its Properties dialog. Under ‘Permissions’ tab, tick the box which says “Allow executing file as program”.

3. Finally, right-click on the Appimage file and select “Run” to launch the application.

The feed reader is also available as Flatpak package, though it’s not been updated to v3.8.0 at the moment.

Liferea, Linux Feed Reader, released version 1.3.3 a few days ago with a lot of improvements. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04.

Liferea 1.3.3 release highlights:

• Implement support for Webkits Intelligent Tracking Protection
• Add Ctrl + 0 hotkey to reset zoom
• Add debug printing of SAX parser errors
• CSS color update on theme change without restart
• Fixes view mode switch
• Default to https:// instead of http://
• Progress bar support when loading web pages
• Drop CDF channel support
• Drop PIE aka. Atom 0.2/0.3 support
• Drop RSS namespace “blogChannel” support

Install Liferea 1.3.3 via PPA:

1.) Open terminal from application launcher and run command to add the unofficial PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

Type your password when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.

2.) Then check updates and install the news reader via commands:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install liferea

or update the old package (if installed) via Software Updater utility:

Uninstall:

As the PPA also contains many other applications, you may remove the PPA either via Software & Updates > Other Software, or by running command:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

And remove the feed reader if want via command:

sudo apt remove liferea