Priority queues, clearer analytics, Preferred Sources

This release focuses on keeping the product responsive under load and making admin reporting easier to trust. It also adds a quick way to open Google Preferred Sources from article previews.

Faster, more predictable background processing

Background work is now organized into high, default, and low priority queues with independent worker capacity. This helps ensure fresh article processing and interactive feed preparation are not slowed down by lower-priority work like notifications.

Queue dispatch and worker controls are also more resilient when a slow or contended dependency is involved, so other partner jobs can continue progressing while a blocked job waits to retry.

Admin reporting and analytics: clearer, more consistent, more reliable

All Overview panels now use the selected UTC date range, including reviews, queues, feed health, and topic demand. Relative ranges like Today resolve once across panels and advance together at UTC midnight, so charts stay in sync even after the page has been inactive.

When an Overview chart query fails, the chart now shows a retryable error instead of spinning as if data is still preparing. Reports that are genuinely still preparing continue to retry automatically.

Queue pressure and pipeline boards now recover from missed analytics updates, fixing stale running-job counts and outdated pipeline cards. The UI also indicates when current views are catching up or have become stale, while keeping existing data visible.

Reader and extensions updates

You can now open Google Preferred Sources selection directly from article previews. The control follows your theme on the website, Chrome, and Edge, and required profile icons and favicons remain included in the packaged Chrome and Edge extensions.

Faro browser telemetry and its collection endpoints have been removed from the reader and administration app.