New Release: A new chapter for Serial

Releases

  • Many performance improvements and a message about project funding.

  • Invite users via link, email verification on sign-up, and infrastructural work.

  • Bulk feed management, Resend email support, and a handful of UI improvements.

  • Feeds can now be directly linked to views in Serial. Also, feed data can now be exported to a .opml file.

  • Here are a collection of nice-to-have updates for Serial. Plus, the groundwork for background refreshing and better financial sustainability for Serial.

  • Serial now stores progress through articles and videos, making it much easier to come back to content later.

  • Keyboard navigation

    March 29, 2026

    Serial now supports full keyboard navigation in views and articles, enabling nearly full app keyboard navigation.

  • Fresh coat of paint

    February 09, 2026

    There's a fresh coat of paint on the Serial homepage, and a de-emphasis of monospace styles generally. Also, some other nice incremental improvements.

  • Custom player QOL

    January 20, 2026

    The Serial custom player now supports captions, true fullscreen, and muting support. Also, some additional non-player quality of life improvements.

  • Views are now much more powerful in Serial, with greater filtering abilities. Plus, content will be loaded for more than 30 days.

  • Serial can now be hosted entirely locally through Docker and a local libsql server. Also, feed management got a noticable upgrade.

  • Serial now has Instapaper support, among many more behind-the-scenes improvements.

  • Loaders & Feed Streaming

    November 25, 2025

    Serial's data fetching has been reworked, giving more clarity on loading statuses and feed errors.

  • Unified Importing

    November 07, 2025

    Serial now supports one unified import UI, making it much easier and consistent to import data from YouTube and other RSS readers.

  • Article Support

    August 28, 2025

    Serial now supports adding generic RSS feeds, allowing you to add articles and blog posts to your views

  • A selection of quality of life updates!

  • Serial gets the largest update in its recorded history, most notably adding views – a new way to customize your feed.

  • Quality of Life

    April 18, 2025

    Serial gets a variety of UI/UX improvements and a way to send feedback both good and bad

  • Livelier Livestreams

    April 16, 2025

    Serial now differentiates between standard videos and livestreams, offering better UI/UX for watching content live.

  • Sidebar Sunday

    April 14, 2025

    Serial's categories and feeds have moved to a brand new sidebar, making it easier than ever to filter your content

  • Hello, Open Source

    April 12, 2025

    Serial no longer relies on an external auth provider, and is now open source!

  • Super Speed

    April 10, 2025

    Serial now has lightning-fast bootup times thanks to local caching of feeds and videos.

  • Imports & Shorts

    March 16, 2025

    Serial now supports imports from users' two most popular feed formats: OPML and YouTube's subscriptions.csv.

  • After a long time away, Serial gets its first substantial contributions of the new year!