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.
January 20, 2026
The Serial custom player now supports captions, true fullscreen, and muting support. Also, some additional non-player quality of life improvements.
January 20, 2026
Views are now much more powerful in Serial, with greater filtering abilities. Plus, content will be loaded for more than 30 days.
January 18, 2026
Serial can now be hosted entirely locally through Docker and a local libsql server. Also, feed management got a noticable upgrade.
January 16, 2026
Serial now has Instapaper support, among many more behind-the-scenes improvements.
November 25, 2025
Serial's data fetching has been reworked, giving more clarity on loading statuses and feed errors.
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.
August 28, 2025
Serial now supports adding generic RSS feeds, allowing you to add articles and blog posts to your views
June 07, 2025
A selection of quality of life updates!
May 17, 2025
Serial gets the largest update in its recorded history, most notably adding views – a new way to customize your feed.
April 18, 2025
Serial gets a variety of UI/UX improvements and a way to send feedback both good and bad
April 16, 2025
Serial now differentiates between standard videos and livestreams, offering better UI/UX for watching content live.
April 14, 2025
Serial's categories and feeds have moved to a brand new sidebar, making it easier than ever to filter your content
April 12, 2025
Serial no longer relies on an external auth provider, and is now open source!
April 10, 2025
Serial now has lightning-fast bootup times thanks to local caching of feeds and videos.
March 16, 2025
Serial now supports imports from users' two most popular feed formats: OPML and YouTube's subscriptions.csv.
March 10, 2025
After a long time away, Serial gets its first substantial contributions of the new year!