{"id":43207,"date":"2022-10-14T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=43207"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:12:07","slug":"liferea-feed-reader-got-first-rc-release-for-next-1-4-stable-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/10\/liferea-feed-reader-got-first-rc-release-for-next-1-4-stable-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Liferea Feed Reader got first RC release for next 1.14 Stable series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/liferea-feature.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-36141\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/liferea-feature-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/liferea-feature-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/liferea-feature-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/liferea-feature-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/liferea-feature-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/liferea-feature.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liferea finally announced the first release candidate for the next stable release line 1.14. Here&#8217;s the new features and Ubuntu PPA packages.<\/p>\n<p>Linux Feed Reader, Liferea in short, is a GTK3 new reader for Linux. It&#8217;s in the 1.13 pre-release series for more than 2 years, until released 1.14 RC1 few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The new release fixed an annoying bug that certain desktop environments or themes may make the pane invisible and hard to restore.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now Liferea will never allow the panes to be smaller than 5% in height or width regarding to there orientation. If a pane is smaller than 5% height\/width it will be set to 30% width or 50% height on startup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other changes in Liferea 1.14 rc1 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supports gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme based dark mode switching.<\/li>\n<li>Add search rule to find items from a given author.<\/li>\n<li>Exported OPML feed lists are now UTF-8 encoded for better readability.<\/li>\n<li>Render <code>&lt;media:description&gt;<\/code> field for Youtube feeds<\/li>\n<li>Updated default feed sources from HTTP to HTTPS.<\/li>\n<li>Add new &#8220;podcast&#8221; search folder rule.<\/li>\n<li>Also add enclosures when saving items to file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_43208\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/liferea-gnomecsd.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43208\" class=\"size-large wp-image-43208\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/liferea-gnomecsd-600x362.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/liferea-gnomecsd-600x362.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/liferea-gnomecsd-300x181.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/liferea-gnomecsd-768x463.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/liferea-gnomecsd.webp 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liferea with GNOME style header bar<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>How to Install Lifera 1.4 RC1 in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>For Ubuntu based user prefer the classic <code>.deb<\/code> package, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unofficial PPA<\/a> contains the new packages for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04.<\/p>\n<p>1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command below to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33087\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hugin-unofficial-ppa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hugin-unofficial-ppa.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hugin-unofficial-ppa-450x101.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Next, either update the feed reader from an existing release via &#8220;Software Updater&#8221; or run command below to install it:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install liferea<\/pre>\n<p><i>NOTE: Linux Mint user need to first run <code>sudo apt update<\/code> to refresh package cache manually.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36143\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/apt-liferea.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/apt-liferea.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/apt-liferea-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>NOTE:<\/b> Liferea still shows v1.13.9 in about dialog for unknown reason. Unknown if it&#8217;s building issue or a software bug, and I&#8217;ve report it to the project page.<\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall:<\/h3>\n<p>For any issue, you may uninstall the PPA repository by running the command below in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the Liferea news reader either via your system package manager or by running command below in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove liferea liferea-data<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liferea finally announced the first release candidate for the next stable release line 1.14. Here&#8217;s the new features and Ubuntu PPA packages. Linux Feed Reader, Liferea in short, is a GTK3 new reader for Linux. It&#8217;s in the 1.13 pre-release series for more than 2 years, until released 1.14 RC1 few days ago. 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