January and February focused on making feeds more reliable and giving you more control over your podcast's presence in directories.
Features
- Apple Podcasts claim token — You can now add your Apple Podcasts verification token directly in Fireside. This lets you verify ownership of your podcast in Apple Podcasts Connect without any manual feed editing.
Performance
- Faster content delivery — Integrated Cloudflare CDN purging so your published changes reach listeners faster.
- Better feed caching — Improved cache headers help podcast apps pick up your latest episodes more quickly.
Fixes
- Fixed collaboration invites that weren't sending properly.
- RSS feeds now serve correctly to LinkedIn, Facebook, and other services that use non-standard request headers.
- Fixed RSS feed routing issues on feeds.fireside.fm.
- Fixed episode chapters not loading on custom domains.
- RSS publication dates now display consistently in UTC.
- Fixed an issue with the account cancellation flow.
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