We just posted the latest edition of our Trunk & Tidbits blog series, with our development updates for October. Welcoming a new team member, some small fixes in version 4.3.1, what we are working on next, and more.
@MastodonEngineering You've set the wrong PR link for the "Improved the instrctions to set up the 'fediverse:creator' tag"
It links to "Add back a 6 hours mute duration option" instead.
It contains some bug fixes and a few small features, like (optional) grouping of follow notifications and improvements the fediverse:creator setup instructions.
@MastodonEngineering Iโm New to mastodon still. Is there a way I can throttle my feeds? Some people I follow and topics I am interested in .. I really do want to follow them, and/or I have interest in them, but they drown out everyone else.
This might be particularly acute for newer users. So I think it might already be a problem you folks investigated, and Iโm just missing the solution :)
@MastodonEngineering Is it possible that there is no step-by-step procedure to upgrade from 4.2.13 or install 4.3.0 on ubuntu? I'm talking about a beginner's guide, without taking any steps for granted, otherwise I'll never learn ๐ญ . Thank you.
Our September engineering blog post is out. Read about our recent releases, what we did last month, our progress on the Fediscovery project and what's coming next !
#Mastodon 4.3 is out! ๐ We've made notifications easier to manage and improved the look and feel of the whole app across the board. And that's just the tip of the iceberg! See what you can expect once your server upgrades:
@Mastodon Hey there. I have a custom background on my server and ever since this update, all of my posts are transparent. So none of the text is readable. I haven't been able to get help anywhere. Would you be able to tell me how to make the background of my posts white as it was before? I would be very grateful.
We just released Mastodon 4.2.13 and 4.1.20. They contain a few bug fixes, a security fix (high severity, only impacting Ruby <= 3.2) and a critical security in a dependency is you use SAML authentication (CVE-2024-45409).
The first release candidate of #Mastodon 4.3 is ready! We expect this to very soon become the stable release, but if you encounter anything unexpected, please open a GitHub issue! This is also the last opportunity to submit translations for new and changed strings in CrowdIn.
This version contains a security fix for an issue present in Mastodon 4.3 beta 1, (moderate severity) so we strongly suggest admins running on our beta versions to update as soon as possible.
We expect this to be the final beta, and to release our Release Candidate next week. Please open GitHub issues if you encounter anything unexpected!
@MastodonEngineering would have been nice to have included instructions for upgrading from beta.1, I'm trying to use the supplied instructions and am now stuck
@MastodonEngineering Upgraded from 4.3.0-beta.1 earlier today when the new release appeared on Github and did not encounter any problem. Solid like the first prerelease :-)
We are excited to launch a new project that will help small and medium-sized fediverse servers and their users have better access to search and discovery through the use of pluggable Fediverse Discovery Providers, supported by a grant from @EC_NGI. See our new dedicated website for details:
@MastodonEngineering "Once 4.3 is branched out and in Release Candidate, we will focus on specification work for Quote Posts.
We are also starting brainstorming around block list improvements. We did some preliminary work on this in 4.3, and we expect this to be one of the big features for 4.4"
@MastodonEngineering interesting to see the "stoot" Hugo shortcode, I built something very similar myself, doesn't do polls or CWs but does manage to handle icons in the user handles.
We intend to mark this API as stable in our next 4.3 beta release, so if you are a client developer now is the time to have a look at it and tell us what you think!
We are considering dropping support for using Azure Blob as a media storage in Mastodon 4.4, as the official Ruby Azure SDK has been abandoned. If you are currently using this feature, please check this discussion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/31617
We are happy to announce the first beta release of Mastodon 4.3 ๐ 11 months in the works, it is chock-full of improvements, the most prominent being notification grouping and new filtering capabilities, as well as extensive usability overhauls.
Please note that this is a beta, and the stable release is still to come. If you are upgrading your server to it, read the changelog carefully, and open GitHub issues if you encounter anything unexpected.
We are happy to announce the first beta release of Mastodon 4.3 ๐ 11 months in the works, it is chock-full of improvements, the most prominent being notification grouping and new filtering capabilities, as well as extensive usability overhauls.
Please note that this is a beta, and the stable release is still to come. If you are upgrading your server to it, read the changelog carefully, and open GitHub issues if you encounter anything unexpected.
We just released Mastodon 4.2.12, fixing a bug introduced in 4.2.11 which caused notifications for mentions from local moderator accounts to be dropped. If you updated to 4.2.11, we strongly recommend you to upgrade to 4.2.12.
Previously when the 9 o'clock hashtag games rolled around, I'd have to wait for them to show up in the trending tab before I could approve it. Now I can search for it and approve it ahead of time
Are you an #iOS Developer who wants to lead our official #Mastodon iOS #App?
This is a remote full-time position and requires an overlap with the CET timezone.
Ideally:
1. You are a senior iOS Developer comfortable with a mature codebase
2. Proficient in #Swift and #Apple Frameworks (UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine)
3. Prior experience with social media networks is a big plus!
Are you an #iOS Developer who wants to lead our official #Mastodon iOS #App?
This is a remote full-time position and requires an overlap with the CET timezone.
Ideally:
1. You are a senior iOS Developer comfortable with a mature codebase
2. Proficient in #Swift and #Apple Frameworks (UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine)
3. Prior experience with social media networks is a big plus!
We just released security patches for versions 4.1, 4.2, and nightly. If you are using nightly, you can upgrade to nightly.2024-07-05-security. Please upgrade as soon as possible!
We are planning to release new Mastodon security updates for versions 4.1, 4.2 and nightly this Thursday, Jul 04, at 15:00 UTC. It solves multiple security issues, including a major one. We encourage server administrators to plan for a timely upgrade to ensure their Mastodon server is protected.
We just released security patches for versions 4.1, 4.2, and nightly. If you are using nightly, you can upgrade to nightly.2024-05-31-security. We strongly suggest you upgrade to one of those versions.
@MastodonEngineering beautiful blog post! Didn't know about Trunk & Tidbits - subscribe subscribe :)
@MastodonEngineering You've set the wrong PR link for the "Improved the instrctions to set up the 'fediverse:creator' tag"
It links to "Add back a 6 hours mute duration option" instead.
Should be 32383 (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32383).