Rentry Changelog 2026
July 15th
Added a safety warning to page edit when a SECRET_ item has been removed from metadata, preventing accidental removals, which was disconnecting the page from accounts and causing them to be lost.
Fixed how CSS and JS files are cached solving two issues: The high contrast button was not working on Opera and future changes no longer require me to remember to update the cache clear system.
Updated API to also require flag to remove secret items.
Reworked API example repo
July 8th
Fixed issue with underlying database connections causing some page loads to report that this failed as the main .co server was hogging 70/100 available connections permanently and backup servers subsequently had trouble when kicking in. Now all servers use a pooling system to max out at 15 each with zero failed connections)
Added more rate limits to the API for page create and edit
Important internal improvements making it possible to spin up a new Rentry server in 10 mins, rather than 1 hour.
June 5th
Fixed /warning
Fixed a bug where changing metadata only did not trigger an internal record to save that indicated the page was edited.
Added a new internal record that saves when a page is edited without any changes. Together with the above this resolves an issue where URLs would seemingly be unedited for 1 year, trigger a reclaim correctly, but appear in the admin system to be a standard claim, leading to appeals incorrectly being accepted.
May 22nd
Major efficiency improvement to the view updator. Solves a problem where millions of pages would get a view, creating a massive backlog of views to update that left many pages without updates for a long time.
February 23rd
Updated comment extension to support anything inside the [], like it was before. See: rentry.co/comment-test
(org might be different for a few days while I switch the DNS over to a new provider, still need to carry out Feb 20th updates on main org server. Will remove this when done.)
February 20th
Updated server OS, Framework(Django), Code language (Python) + Markdown. Broke comments as they are no longer supported, but added a custom extension to enable them again.
February 16th
Added Request Mode to claims: check availability and make claim. Fixes issue with previous update where logged in users could not check claim availability as you can no longer remove your email.
February 3rd
Fixed a bug with claims that allowed logins to be used abusively
Removed code to email when claim fails due to multiple emails and replaced with breakdown of why the message is showing, also replacing the warning that showed previously.
January 27th
Fixed a bug with claims that allowed cancellations to be used abusively.
Added ability to grant claim credits to a specific user
Added Bitcoin address to /what - bitcoin donations can be converted to membership if you email about it beforehand.
January 26th
Export requests now show a captcha unless you are logged in as exports were being overwhelmed with bot requests.
/png and /pdf now load as normal pages rather than being used by the export system.
January 9th
The Export tool on Rentry has been fully overhauled! Requests are now queued and cached and will be available to download at any time. This means that the export won't keep breaking and causing problems.
Also added:
- JPG Format
- Webp Format
- Quality Setting
- Page Width Setting
- Theme Setting (also takes note of ACCESS_RECOMMENDED_THEME)
- Content warning support