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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• newsboat
• podboat

Projektgeschichte

Newsboat exists because Newsbeuter, Andreas Krennmair's older text-console feed reader, stopped being maintained. The old Newsbeuter repository now points users to Newsboat, and Newsboat's official site describes the project as an actively maintained fork. The name is an intentional play on Newsbeuter, keeping continuity while making clear that it is the maintained successor.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Newsboat became the default answer for users who still want RSS without a browser, web service, or GUI. It is packaged across mainstream Unix-like distributions and Homebrew, and its own docs cover Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS. Its adoption is durable because it fills the same niche as Mutt or Vim-style tools: a local, scriptable reader controlled by plain text files.

Homebrew analytics reported 488 installs in 30 days, 928 in 90 days, and 4,393 in 365 days for the formula when queried on July 1, 2026. The official site listed version 2.44 as released on June 21, 2026, showing an active release stream years after the fork.

Wie es verwendet wird

Package nerds use Newsboat by maintaining a urls file and a config file, often under XDG paths, then wiring it into the rest of their terminal environment. Common setups point the browser command to Firefox, open, mpv, urlscan, or custom scripts; import feeds through OPML; use query feeds for unread/starred subsets; and run Podboat or external media tools for podcast enclosures.

The practical appeal is control: feeds are local, cached, searchable, and usable offline; refreshes use feed metadata such as ETag and Last-Modified where available; and service integrations let users sync with systems such as Tiny Tiny RSS, NewsBlur, Inoreader, Nextcloud News, and similar readers.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Newsboat is one of the canonical terminal RSS packages. It matters less because RSS is fashionable and more because it is stable infrastructure for people who treat subscriptions as a personal data file instead of a hosted timeline.

Zeitleiste

• 2007: Newsbeuter began the lineage that Newsboat later continued.
• 2017: Newsboat emerged as the maintained fork after Newsbeuter was abandoned.
• 2026-06-21: Newsboat 2.44 was released according to the official Newsboat site.
• 2026-07-01: Homebrew formula version observed as 2.44, with 4,393 formula installs over the preceding 365-day analytics window.

Related projects

• Newsbeuter
• Podboat
• Tiny Tiny RSS
• NewsBlur
• Inoreader
• Nextcloud News
• Snownews

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/newsboat.json
• https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter
• https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
• https://newsboat.org/
• https://newsboat.org/releases/2.44/docs/newsboat.html