- New App Icon (which supports tints, dark, glass) by Matthew Skiles! - You can now log in w/ any site and reader mode will fetch the logged in full content - macOS now has a safari share extension - Feed detection on add a source catches more sneaky edge cases - macOS got a visual design and interaction overhaul - Sometimes a source feed doesn’t update regularly and so when it does, it can provide content that pops into current way down the river (due to chronological item order), so now there is a new ‘hey we just found this but it was published in the past’ function that will put those items up towards the top for a few hours so you can see them. - Action bar at end of articles now displays more reliably at end of article and doesn’t disappear (and you can still tap anywhere to present it) - Miniflux could create duplicate currents, and no longer does - Youtube videos (and many other video embeds) now play in line. - In app browser now has more options (release, share, etc) - You can use spacebar to scroll (and shift space) in reader on macOS

Swipe & Gesture Improvements - Significantly improved swipe / scroll performance - Swipe from anywhere on the screen to return to the river, not just the screen edge Reader & Rendering - Twitter/X embeds now display as styled cards with the post text and a "View on X" link instead of broken embed blocks - Newsletter rendering dramatically improved: fixed-width tables, inline pixel widths, and email layout cruft no longer cause horizontal overflow - Empty newsletter layout elements (leftover divs, table cells) are now collapsed so they don't create blank gaps - More bottom padding in the reader for comfortable end-of-article reading New Feature: Bottom Navigation Bar (iPhone) - New toggle in Settings → Appearance to move the navigation bar to the bottom of the screen iPad Fixes - Fixed blank screen when making the iPad window very narrow (compact width) - Fixed article reader background color clashing with the app chrome in dark mode macOS Fixes - Fixed sidebar auto-closing on app relaunch - macOS "Always Fetch Full Article" toggle now properly works and doesn't get reset between devices Settings & Sync - Text size and font scale settings are now per-device and not sync'd - Navigation bar position (bottom bar toggle) is also per-device - Disconnecting a sync service now clears stale sync metadata from sources, preventing ghost unsubscribe operations on reconnect

- Significant performance improvements - New in-app feedback feature to capture app logs and sync logs - Newsletters now render nicely! - Mute option for specific feeds to avoid showing them at all (but stay subscribed) - Lots of additional parser / rendering / sync enhancements - Unified context menus: iPhone and iPad now show the same long-press actions on articles - Releasing articles no longer marks them as read on your sync service - Reader "Back" button now appears on iPad (was iPhone-only) - "Open in Safari" option added to reader overflow menu on iOS - Webcomic alt text now displayed below images (xkcd hover text, etc.) - Removed fragile link-chasing for link posts (was following wrong links) macOS - Big UI overhaul - macOS settings parity: "Always Fetch Full Article" and "Show source icons" toggles added - Fixed Mark All as Read not dimming cards on Mac

- New in-app feedback feature to capture app logs and sync logs - Newsletters now render nicely! - Redesigned "release" bar at bottom of articles with multiple actions, additionally you can tap anywhere to show it (no more scrolling down to release) - You can now turn off icloud sync entirely - Mute option for specific feeds to avoid showing them at all (but stay subscribed) - Many additional iPad keyboard shortcuts (? to show) - Lots of additional parser / rendering / sync enhancements

All Platforms * Significant updates to the parser so more content will show, more reliably * Full rebuild of iCloud sync engine for reliability (HUGE improvement) * Significant performance improvements to opening articles * Significant performance improvements to scrolling * Improvements to Miniflux * Expanded iCloud logging and new “full sync” and “sync now” button actions iOS * New in-app browser navigation with back swipe * Global setting for “always fetch full content” iPadOS * New sidebar layout with settings, search, and collapse buttons moved to bottom * Sidebar can now be brought back from all screens * Keyboard shortcuts are much more reliable

All Platforms * Added Inoreader as a sync service * Significant fixes for iCloud sync between devices * Currents now obey source velocity * Saved articles do not refetch content (no duplicate fetches!) * Clear all data now completely wipes iCloud settings as well so connected devices also clear * Auto advance on release now works properly when oldest first is set * Fully redesigned settings (much simpler, more calm and no more overwhelming list of options) * Many improvements to parsing and rendering in line images, videos, bluesky posts (now uses native AT proto fetch) * Webcomics mode now displays full untruncated caption / alt text * Japanese (and other languages) parse and display correctly in reader * Code formats correctly in reader now * OPML exports now include Currents (and their belongings) in standardized format * Source name changes now persist back to sync service (if used) * Resolved an issue where authors don’t sync down from sync services on bootstrap for new device iOS / iPad * Fixed a crash when trying to save images * Resolved intermittent blank spaces showing in the river * Significantly improved moments where scrolling is locked due to background activity * Removed “default” theme which could sometimes cause corruption and a crash * Fixed issue where release might not actually unsave from saved * Rotating to landscape on iPhone is /much better/ * Removed sync toast that would block the voices navigation bar * Significantly sped up saving * Fixed a bug where reading stats might include time the app has spent in the background * Many small design / layout enhancements * Resolved an issue on iPad where sidebar would auto collapse

iPhone What’s New * Improved river display pipeline: read status changes from sync now appear immediately * Smarter thumbnail extraction from RSS feeds, filtering out tracking pixels and spacer images * Better readability for secondary text throughout the app (improved contrast) * Share sheet now shares clean URLs for easier copying and pasting Sync & Feeds * Miniflux: surface actual server error messages instead of generic failures; detect duplicate feeds * Failed feed subscribes now roll back cleanly instead of leaving orphaned sources * Duplicate sync call prevention when tapping articles quickly * Server errors (5xx) no longer retry endlessly in the sync queue * Video-only sites (YouTube, Vimeo) skip expensive full-page extraction Fixes * Fixed reader body injection race condition where content could fail to appear * Much more reliable favicon discovery * Significantly more reliable velocity pruning * Significantly more reliable cross platform iCloud sync * Fixed offline content store race condition during concurrent prune operations * Blank/white favicons are now detected and purged automatically --- iPad Everything in the iPhone notes, plus: Voices * Improved typography and accessibility labels throughout Voices * Smoother profile band animations in Voices timeline All Platforms * New RiverPipeline architecture: centralized, testable filtering for the article river * Host-level 429 rate limit handling: blocked hosts are skipped for the rest of the refresh cycle * Released items now expire after 1 hour instead of persisting forever * Person source detection no longer fires automatically, removing many such bugs!

iPhone River - "Release All Above" and "Release All Below" swipe actions with batch animation and undo - Oldest-first sort works correctly - Show or hide favicons on river cards from Settings (partially implemented, more to come) - Context menu on items includes "Edit Source" Reader - Source tap goes directly to Edit Source when no custom currents exist - Image lightbox centers properly with smooth pan-to-dismiss - Reader palette reordered: Ocean now appears before Paper - Removed right-edge swipe gesture Currents - Voices and Saved tabs switch cleanly without toggling off - Source toggles show which other currents use each source - Currents count no longer includes the default River Share Extension - New segmented picker: Save Article or Subscribe - Subscribe mode detects and adds the feed from any shared URL - Both modes show confirmation on success Settings - Navigation path persists when leaving and returning to the app - Favicons toggle in River section - Source Cleanup has a dismiss button - Clear Data sheet padding corrected Voices - Activity and writing rhythm shown on a single line (e.g. "Writes daily, quiet lately") - Context menu on voice posts: Read, View Voice, Edit Source Search - Context menu on search results includes "Edit Source" iPad Keyboard Navigation - j/k and arrow keys navigate the river list - Return or Space opens the highlighted article - Inside an article: arrows scroll, j/k move between articles - Cmd+. dismisses the article - s to save, o to open in Safari - / and Cmd+F open search, Cmd+R refreshes, [ ] switch currents - Keyboard navigation persists after dismissing an article Sidebar - River, Saved, and Voices pinned at the top of the collapsed sidebar - Custom currents scroll below without breaking layout - Tapping any tab expands the sidebar - Opening an article no longer auto-collapses the sidebar Reader - Stage Manager: content no longer cut off by the toolbar - Pull-to-refresh: no visual glitches when hovering over items during refresh - Share button presents a single system share sheet - Tap the compact toolbar title to scroll to top Sources - Edit Source: "Use feed content only" and "Show original website" are mutually exclusive - Sources list: Edit button exposes minus-circle delete - Pinned sources show a yellow pin icon Touch - All touch gestures work normally without interference from the keyboard bridge - Search field focuses correctly with the software keyboard

Redesigned Settings Settings has been completely reorganized with clear sections and icon badges. App Theme and Reader Theme are now independent. Changing one no longer forces the other to match. A new Text Size screen gives you dedicated sliders for both the reader and the feed list. Source Cleanup and OPML Import have moved up to Sources & Data for easier access. Thumbnails in the Feed Article rows can now display thumbnail images alongside excerpts. Enable Show Thumbnails in Settings. Compact Mode A new high-density layout for the feed list. Just titles and sources, no excerpts. Great for scanning through busy feeds. Enable Compact Mode in Settings. Improved Reader * Font size changes apply instantly without reloading the page * Reading position is preserved when rotating your device * Better extraction quality. The app now scores extraction results and falls back to feed content when extraction is poor * Per-site extraction overrides * Linkblog support. When a source links to external articles, the linked article is extracted instead Image Viewer The image lightbox has been completely rewritten with native pinch-to-zoom, double-tap to zoom, and smooth pull-to-dismiss. Smarter Refresh * Feeds that have not changed since the last check are skipped entirely, making large refreshes significantly faster * Feeds returning errors are temporarily paused instead of retried every cycle * When a server blocks requests (HTTP 429), all feeds on that host are paused for the rest of the cycle * Background refresh now prioritizes your active current’s feeds first CloudKit Sync * Fixed an issue where approximately 800 or more records were re-sent to iCloud on every launch instead of flushing * Preferences now sync with conflict resolution. Edits on both devices are merged instead of one overwriting the other * Voice and person metadata edits now sync between devices * Larger sync batches and less frequent polling reduce iCloud overhead Feedbin and Miniflux * Feedbin mute rules are now respected. Muted articles will not appear in your feed * Faster sync for both Feedbin and Miniflux * Better source matching after OPML import iPad * Selecting an article now auto-collapses the sidebar. The drag handle is always visible and easier to grab Share Extension * Fixed URL detection when sharing from Brave and Chrome

Auto-Advance Reading Keep the flow going: a new setting lets you automatically advance to the next article when you release one, instead of returning to the river. Enable it in Settings → Reading. Show Original Website Some sites are best read in their original form. You can now set any source to load its full website in the reader instead of the extracted article. Pair it with "Sign in to site" for paywalled sources. Discussion Links Articles from feeds that include comment links (like Hacker News) now show a "Comments" link in the reader header. Smarter Background Refresh Background refresh now prioritizes the feeds in your active current, and a new deep-refresh mode prefetches article content so articles open instantly. More Improvements - Font size setting now scales river and voices text, not just the reader - Font size slider added to the theme picker for quick access - Long-press context menu on river items (save, share, show more/less) - Readwise OPML category import support - Reader drop cap rendering fix - Code block formatting preserved in extracted articles - Preference sync reliability improvements across devices - Various reader layout and image fixes

- New “voices” view that I think a /lot/ of people will make their default screen. - Fetch has been made less aggressively concurrent to account for older devices - Fixed fetching for feeds with Cloudflare backing with a proper user agent so they don’t tarpit us and give us random 12-15 second timeouts because they think we’re a bot. - Added an option to the long press “river” - you can now release all READ articles in addition to releasing all articles.