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Update appdata with changes for 1.15.9 #1407

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<color type="primary" scheme_preference="dark">#64647D</color>
</branding>
<releases>
<release date="2025-01-25" version="1.15.9">
<description>
<p>Today sees a new release of Liferea with fixes, translation updates and some major changes.</p>
<p><em>Integrated Download Manager</em></p>
<p>Starting with Liferea 1.15.9 there is a simple integrated download manager. The idea is to
be roughly on-par with the features modern browsers support. While the download manager
is basic it should improve user experience a lot.Up until now we had a hard-coded list of
typical download managers. This had several disadvantages. Now Liferea has a very simple
download manager implemented using simple single thread Python network fetching. Hopefully
this will increase usability and download workflows.</p>
<p><em>Rendering Changes</em></p>
<p>This release fixes the dark theme switching regression in the item view. The dark mode item view
feature was lost some releases ago because of GTK4 deprecations. Since GTK4 there is no more
GTK supported way to determine theme colors.

To still do dark mode switching Liferea follows (Devhelp and other tools using WebkitGTK) which
switch light/dark mode purely with CSS and static theme-independant colors.

Sadly this will mean a visible color mismatch to the GTK theme. This is mostly appearant in
dark mode. Also the link color is set to blueish and can't follow the GTK theme color for links anymore.

Many other applications are also suffering from this. Sorry there is just no way to do it anymore.
If you really hate the default CSS style please consider changing them using custom CSS.</p>
<p><em>Item View Layout Redesign</em></p>
<p>Along with the theme adaptions come a redesign of the item view. To be honest the look and feel
is heavily inspired by Jan Lukas Gernert's NewsFlashGTK which I consider very well done. It is a very
calm theme reducing distraction and a good balance for reading longer and shorter texts.</p>
<p><em>Reader Mode Removed</em></p>
<p>The user facing options to enable/disable "Reader Mode" in the preferences and the item view pane
content menu are now gone. The code paths were too complicated and the results and fallback in case
of errors was very unsatisfactory.

Still the use of "Readability.js" the library behind "Reader Mode" is still active. It is now automatically
applied when the HTML scraping is used. No user interaction needed.</p>
<p><em>Changes:</em></p>
<ul>
<li>#1391: GObject refactoring nodePtr -> Node, updateJobPtr -> UpdateJob to allow plugins modifying the feed list. (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes #1387: Dark theme lost in preview window (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes HTTP redirects not working (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes memory leaks in network callbacks (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Fixes unnecessary LifereaBrowser clearing on layout change (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>New unit tests for update handling code (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>#1388 Implemented download manager plugin, all preferences for external tools were dropped (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Refactoring of plugin management, code reorganized. Disabling plugins now does not disable base plugins (needed for auth and node sources) as this would prevent startup (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Refactoring of content scraping, processing now happens in Javascript on entire source documents. We now store a bit more data, but get better extraction results (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Support for lazy loading &lt;img data-src=""&gt; definitions. This unbreaks images when scraping some websites (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Redesign of the HTML view. Look and feel is adapted from Newsflash. There is now a max-width and less cluttered reading. (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Getting rid of XSLT in favor of using Handlebars.js (Lars Windolf)</li>
<li>Updated Czech translation (Amereyeu)</li>
<li>Updated Albanian translation (Besnik Bleta)</li>
</ul>
</description>
</release>
<release date="2024-09-26" version="1.15.8">
<description>
<p>Changes:</p>
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</release>
<release date="2023-12-24" version="1.15.5">
<description>
<p>This release brings small improvements to the trayicon plugin and content filtering
using DOMPurify which should increase security against XSS attacks via feeds providing
<p>This release brings small improvements to the trayicon plugin and content filtering
using DOMPurify which should increase security against XSS attacks via feeds providing
rich HTML content.</p>
<p>Changes:</p>
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