2.0-RC2

[lwindolf]

This is the 2nd 2.0 release candidate. Thank you for reporting problems.
This release further reduces deprecation warning and fixes functional problems
as well as an important bug in the update handling. Please leave comments in
the Github discussion for this release.

Open TODOs for final 2.0

Right now there are quite some issues left for a 2.0 release mostly critical and
fatal log messages during update handling and in some dialogs (#1519).

Changes

* Fixes #1515: Ctrl-R does not work
  (Lars Windolf)

* Fixes #1514: Internal browser URL submit broken
  (Lars Windolf)

* Fixes #1510: <media:content> images are not displayer
  (Lars Windolf)

* Fixes #1508: Duplicate favicon fetch
  (Lars Windolf)

* Fixes a lot of deprecations in GTK, libxml2
  (Lars Windolf)

* Fixes broken update state persistence that causes unnecessary
  feed updates. Documents compliance with feed reader requirements 
  https://rachelbythebay.com/frb/ in net.c
  (Lars Windolf)

* Add new feature to make search folders show the total count 
  instead of the unread count. This is useful for example with the
  "Important" search folder.
  (Lars Windolf)

* Add Georgian translation
  (Ekaterine Papava)

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This discussion was created from the release 2.0-RC2.

[yaneti]

The asset tarball is still called liferea-2.0-RC1.tar.xz for some reason

[lwindolf]

Arg... fixed. I forgot to "meson compile" after changing the release in meson.build

Thanks for the hint!

[AndyM48]

Thank you for RC2

Some initial comments:

Continual error message on start up:
Edit: relates to the https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/rss feed, maybe others?

Entity: line 3: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
<test>Work & careers</test>
            ^
Entity: line 3: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
<test>Food & drink industry</test>
            ^
Entity: line 3: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
<test>Work & careers</test>
            ^

Right click menu in feed list is truncated (ignore the extra border which is due to my compositor settings)

Mark all as read, menu and button, opens empty window and fails:

Gtk-Message: 11:50:46.685: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

** (net.sourceforge.liferea:9861): WARNING **: 11:50:46.695: Could not load dialog UI file '/org/gnome/liferea/ui/mark_read_dialog.ui': .:30:37 Object with ID  not found
<sys>:0: Warning: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(net.sourceforge.liferea:9861): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:50:46.695: gtk_message_dialog_format_secondary_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_MESSAGE_DIALOG (message_dialog)' failed

(net.sourceforge.liferea:9861): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 11:50:46.695: g_settings_bind_with_mapping: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
<sys>:0: Warning: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
<sys>:0: Warning: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

• Fixes <media:content tags - images are not displayed #1510: media:content images are not displayer
  (Lars Windolf)
  does not show image. For example from https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/rss

<item>
<title>
BP boardroom turmoil deepens as ousted chair hits back at ‘lies’ over conduct
</title>
<link>
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/28/bp-boardroom-turmoil-deepens-as-ousted-chair-hits-back-at-lies-over-conduct-albert-manifold
</link>
<description>
<p>Albert Manifold disputes reports about his behaviour and says he always tried to set example</p><p>The boardroom turmoil at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/bp">BP</a> deepened after its ousted chair, Albert Manifold, claimed allegations about his conduct were “lies”.</p><p>In a new and lengthy statement, Manifold disputed reports about his conduct, insisting “at no point in my tenure as chairman of BP has anyone raised with me any issue about my conduct or my relationship with my colleagues”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/28/bp-boardroom-turmoil-deepens-as-ousted-chair-hits-back-at-lies-over-conduct-albert-manifold">Continue reading...</a>
</description>
<category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/bp">BP</category>
<category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/oilandgascompanies">Oil and gas companies</category>
<category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category>
<category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/energy-industry">Energy industry</category>
<category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 08:57:43 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/28/bp-boardroom-turmoil-deepens-as-ousted-chair-hits-back-at-lies-over-conduct-albert-manifold
</guid>
<media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4a9cd4ea64ccbd03ea98ef03576d08f9fe1ebbf5/199_190_2863_2292/master/2863.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=779601f4d51b1f7e943b75df5e587ba7">
<media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit>
</media:content>
<media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4a9cd4ea64ccbd03ea98ef03576d08f9fe1ebbf5/199_190_2863_2292/master/2863.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=41a5084dba6f2b8d1d2a5c843a66dcf4">
<media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit>
</media:content>
<media:content width="700" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4a9cd4ea64ccbd03ea98ef03576d08f9fe1ebbf5/199_190_2863_2292/master/2863.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6676883ba369a39255c1832f2f45f0a3">
<media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit>
</media:content>
<dc:creator>Joanna Partridge</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-05-28T08:57:43Z</dc:date>
</item>

• Add new feature to make search folders show the total count
  instead of the unread count. This is useful for example with the
  "Important" search folder.
  (Lars Windolf)
  does not show the total of read items in the "Flagged"" search folder:

[lwindolf]

Thank you for the extensive testing.

Regarding the issues

1. XML parsing logging: I'm aware of it, but will address it at a later point
2. Overflow in popup menues: I'm aware of it, have no clue why this happens. I see this with other apps (e.g. transmission-gtk) too. Please note that the menues are not truncated, if you hover over them you can scroll them.
3. Mark-all-read dialog: reproduced, tracking in mark all read dialog broken in 2.0-RC2 #1524
4. media:content image not shown: fixed with 7bf25a4
5. Flagged search folder item count: not a bug, the feature was added but does not become active automatically. Please open the search folder preference and click the new option.

[AndyM48]

OK Thank you

[AndyM48]

PS. I think you installed the icon in the wrong folder?

/usr/share/liferea/pixmaps/22x22/net.sourceforge.liferea.png

[lwindolf]

Yep, this is definitively wrong. Fixed with b097165

[AndyM48]

Thank you

[AndyM48]

• The icon file is now correct, but for some reason the icon is not showing on the left of the title bar on my system.

• The buttons < > move to the previous or next read item, skipping any unread items

• The next button on my screen has no icon and moves to the next unread item

If these are the intended actions then that's fine, but for me < > seems counter intuitive.

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Pick a feed, select Properties from the right click menu , select the Source tab, tick Use conversion filter, click Select File
Now select a file and Open, the screen returns to the Main window instead of the Subscription Properties window which remains below Main.

[lwindolf]

I plan to move all dialogs to libadwaita. This will ensure they all stay on top of the window. The subscription dialog is not yet migrated.

[AndyM48]

Where there is a problem fetching a subscription, a yellow page is shown:

Right click on the feed and select update, the feed is updated but

1. the yellow page is still shown
2. the article list does not move to show the updated items

Item 1. is not correct
Item 2. may or may not be the desired result?

[lwindolf]

Will have to look into this. Can you please open an issue? I could already reproduce the yellow error box staying.

[AndyM48]

I opened issues for this and the other outstanding items above.

Forgive me if this is not what you wanted.

[AndyM48]

Add new feature to make search folders show the total count

This is working fine, except that where there are no marked search items, the count displays a 0. All the other feeds display blank when there are zero items unread.

[lwindolf]

I guess that might be unexpected. Still having no flagged items is probably a border use case.

[AndyM48]

Agreed, but it just looks strange to me: