{"id":13862,"date":"2026-06-08T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13862"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:46:14","slug":"elfeed-4-0-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13862","title":{"rendered":"Elfeed 4.0.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDaniel Mendler, who took over as maintainer of the world&rsquo;s best RSS reader, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/emacs-elfeed\/elfeed\">Elfeed<\/a>, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/1tyq0xz\/new_elfeed_400_release\/?solution=16b207f9fd9c61a116b207f9fd9c61a1&amp;js_challenge=1&amp;token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ece35831f9f1fd8ae830c5acdc446ec168&amp;jsc_orig_r=\">announced the release of Elfeed 4.0.0<\/a>. You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/emacs-elfeed\/elfeed\/blob\/main\/NEWS.org#version-400-2026-06-06\">Change File<\/a> to see what&rsquo;s new but the most important point for me is that the maintainership of Elfeed has successfully transitioned from Chris Wellons to Mendler.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen Wellons <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13775\">announced his retirement from the Emacs ecosphere<\/a>, I, and I&rsquo;m sure others, had a moment of apprehension. We all wondered if anyone could fill Wellons&rsquo; large shoes. I&rsquo;m happy to say that Mendler has shown himself up to the task and is doing a great job moving Elfeed forward.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs I&rsquo;ve said before, I consider Elfeed an almost perfect RSS reader. It&rsquo;s easy to configure it to operate the way you need it to. One of Mendler&rsquo;s changes that I <i>really<\/i> like is the ability to pop into EWW if you need to. I use it from the default Elfeed text buffer but also from the WebKit mediated display if there are too many ads and blinkenlights on the default page. As I&rsquo;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13846\">said before<\/a>, I have a growing appreciation of EWW and am a bit surprised to find it becoming one of my go to tools.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe important point, though, is that if you&rsquo;re an Emacs user who has an RSS feed, you should definitely try out Elfeed. You won&rsquo;t, believe me, want to go back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Mendler, who took over as maintainer of the world&rsquo;s best RSS reader, Elfeed, has announced the release of Elfeed 4.0.0. You can read the Change File to see what&rsquo;s new but the most important point for me is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-13862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13863,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions\/13863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}