Liferea is a feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds. Its GUI is similar to a desktop mail/news client, with an embedded web browser.
Distinguishing features:
- Read articles when offline
- Force fetch full article text using HTML5 extraction
- Subscribe to HTML5 websites that do not even have a feed!
- Synchronizes with Google Reader API including TheOldReader, FreshRSS, FeedHQ, Miniflux etc.
- Synchronizes with Reedah
- Synchronizes with TinyTinyRSS
- Permanently save headlines in news bins
- Match items using search folders
- Play Podcasts
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Observed history
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Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
1.16.1217 Jun 2025
This is a security bugfix release. Please urgently!
- Fixes a RCE vulnerability when importing OPML files containing script commands.
- Fixes a RCE vulnerability in the download manager plugin where a command could have been injected into file paths.
1.16.1111 Jun 2025
This is a security bugfix release. Please urgently upgrade if you use Liferea with Reedah or TheOldReader sync.
- Fixes a long-standing security bug causing unencrypted connections when fetching feed content from Reedah and TheOldReader
- Fixes TinyTinyRSS not working due to Content-Encoding header not indicating JSON
- Fixes outdated feedburner URL in default feed list OPML