Newsboat 2.41 is out

[Alexander Batischev]

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According to the changelog, this is yet another small bugfix-ish
release. Nothing major. I’d certainly like for it to appear so :)

Under the hood though, there’s the biggest refactor we did to date. When
we started porting Newsboat to Rust, some of you ran into a bug where
the program couldn’t read the cache file due to some "non-UTF-8" data in
it. The core of the issue is that not enough care was given to separate
strings in different encodings. Rust exposed those problems because it’s
way more strict about string encodings. With 2.41, we make the first
step towards resolving those problems, by separating filesystem paths
and other strings.

In parallel to that, there is work ongoing to improve Newsboat’s ability
to convert all incoming articles to UTF-8. This helps with some feeds
today, but most importantly, it prepares us for the future when all text
in Newsboat would be encoded in UTF-8.

Please check out the links below, and don't hesitate to open issues if
there’s something amiss:

- - https://newsboat.org/releases/2.41/newsboat-2.41.tar.xz
- - https://newsboat.org/releases/2.41/newsboat-2.41.tar.xz.asc
- - https://newsboat.org/releases/2.41/docs/newsboat.html
- - https://newsboat.org/releases/2.41/docs/faq.html
- - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#241---2025-09-21

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Regards,
Alexander Batischev

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