# RSS Issues With Version 11

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/rss-issues-with-version-11/425>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 27, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/rss-issues-with-version-11/425 "2020-05-27T08:45:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![SgtIria](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/sgtiria/32/85_2.png) [@SgtIria](https://zola.discourse.group/u/SgtIria)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/rss-issues-with-version-11/425/1 "2020-05-27T08:45:40Z")

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Hi,

I’ve just tried to generate our website using Zola V11. RSS functionality has breaking changes, which we have changed.

**BTW: Not easy to find these release notes, why arn’t they linked on Zola main page? not the github release page the nicely formatted ones like bellow?**

```auto
    RSS feed support has been altered to allow, and default to, Atom feeds, Atom being technically superior and just as widely-supported in normal use cases.
        New config value feed_filename, defaulting to atom.xml (change to rss.xml to reinstate the old behaviour)
        Config value rss_limit is renamed to feed_limit
        Config value languages.*.rss is renamed to languages.*.feed
        Config value generate_rss is renamed to generate_feed

    Users with existing feeds should either set feed_filename = "rss.xml" in config.toml to keep things the same, or set up a 3xx redirect from rss.xml to atom.xml so that existing feed consumers aren’t broken.

    The feed template variable last_build_date is renamed to last_updated to more accurately reflect its semantics

    The sitemap template’s SitemapEntry type’s date field has been renamed to updated to reflect that it will use the updated front-matter field if available, rather than date

```

Our website builds, with no errors.

However…

**The RSS feed we normally expect to be generated is does not exist.**

Our `config.toml` is:

```auto
# New in Version 11 - Zola moved to default to atom.xml to to keep our old podcast names we need to use this config var
feed_filename = "rss.xml"
feed_limit = 75
generate_feed = true

# The taxonomies to be rendered for that site and their configuration
# Example:
taxonomies = [
    {name = "tags", rss = false, paginate_by = 6}, 
    {name = "english", rss = false, paginate_by = 6},  
    {name = "authors", rss = true, paginate_by = 2}, 
    {name = "downloads", rss = false, paginate_by = 8},
    {name = "podcast", rss = true, paginate_by = 75}, 
]

```

We would expect

`\podcast\feed\rss.xml`

and

`\authors\hilary\rss.xml`

etc…

to be generated. They are not.

**However** there is a spurious `rss.xml` in the root of the website. Which contains an generic ATOM feed.

```auto
	<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">
		<channel>
			<title>ATOM</title>
			<link>http://192.168.1.96:2015</link>

```

Which we don’t use or ask to be generated.

**This file was not generated in previous releases**

The ability generate individual feeds for each taxonomy seems broken. Or are we not implementing something to specify that a taxonomy should have a feed properly?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/rss-issues-with-version-11/425/2 "2020-05-27T09:20:09Z")

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In the config for taxonomies, replace `rss` by `feed`.

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**Author:** ![SgtIria](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/sgtiria/32/85_2.png) [@SgtIria](https://zola.discourse.group/u/SgtIria)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 9:27am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/rss-issues-with-version-11/425/3 "2020-05-27T09:27:03Z")

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Ah this was a change from version `10.1` to `11`? I missed that in the documentation. I’ll give it a try, thanks for the super quick response.

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**Author:** ![SgtIria](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/sgtiria/32/85_2.png) [@SgtIria](https://zola.discourse.group/u/SgtIria)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/rss-issues-with-version-11/425/4 "2020-05-27T09:53:33Z")

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OK thanks, that **fixed** the problems. Maybe mention that `rss > feed` name change in the `breaking changes` list for others?

Once again, thank you.

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/rss-issues-with-version-11/425/5 "2020-05-27T19:18:51Z")

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Done in the `next` branch.