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Latest releases, progress on Fediscovery, FOSDEM plans, and community highlights - catch up on all the latest news from the core team in our November Trunk & Tidbits post.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/12/trunk-tidbits-november-2024/
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We just released Mastodon 4.3.2, 4.2.14 and 4.1.21. They contain a few bug fixes, and we recommend every server admin to update. Release notes and upgrade instructions are available on our GitHub Releases page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/
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@MastodonEngineering Hiring...๐ฅณHiring......๐ฅณHiring๐ฅณ Full Time & Part Time Job Work $30-$50 Hourly - Work from home USA opportunity. Don't miss anyone. Click the link and register.   @MastodonEngineering Thanks for lettung us know that this one isn't a suuuper urgent one this time. 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. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/11/trunk-tidbits-october-2024/  @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" Should be 32383 (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32383).  @MastodonEngineering Are there any informations why Mastodon has so many bugs the last days? The official Mastodon app constantly crashes completely. Via Firefox: error 500 so often. Boosting only works by chance, answering is difficult, posting, too. Weโre excited to welcome Shannon (@whattherestimefor) to the Mastodon core team as our full-time iOS developer! She will be enhancing the official iOS Mastodon app, ensuring it delivers the best possible experience for our users.
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  We just released Mastodon 4.3.1! It contains some bug fixes and a few small features, like (optional) grouping of follow notifications and improvements the fediverse:creator setup instructions. Upgrading requires re-compiling frontend assets (if not using Docker), instructions are in the release notes : https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.1
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@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. @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. @MastodonEngineering 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 ! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2024/ #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:
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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). Release notes and upgrade instructions are available on our GitHub Releases page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/  @MastodonEngineering Thanks for the update! ๐ I appreciate the hard work that goes into keeping Mastodon secure and stable. ๐ค 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. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.0-rc.1
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 @MastodonEngineering  We just released the second beta of Mastodon 4.3. 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! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.0-beta.2
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 @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:
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 Are you considering whether licences could be added / tagged to content to make it clear content can be used? - Is that relevant?  @MastodonEngineering @EC_NGI Where do I sign up to become notified once there is a spec regarding ascension from Relay to Provider? @MastodonEngineering @EC_NGI so cool! And will the moderation tools get some work too, to help people manage their communities? Our August engineering blog post is out - read about the first beta of 4.3, what's coming next, and what the community has been sharing! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/09/trunk-tidbits-august-2024/
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 @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" ๐ #mastodonDev   @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. https://realmenweardress.es/2022/11/2022-11-30-s3-hugo-toot-embeds/ We are looking for feedback on our new grouped notifications API from Mastodon client developers. All the details about this API are available at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/31618 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
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 @MastodonEngineering @MastodonEngineering > notification grouping That's why I left the official client for Phanpy and Elk. Great. @MastodonEngineering Do you have a blog article that explains the new features for a wide non-technical audience ? 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. Version 4.1.19 is not impacted. Release notes and upgrade instructions are available on our GitHub Releases page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases 
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@MastodonEngineering Any chance we will ever see an ability to schedule our toots? We just released Mastodon 4.2.11 and 4.1.19, fixing various small issues. Release notes and upgrade instructions are available on our GitHub release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases
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Mastodon 4.2.11 and 4.1.19, why are they both versions available at the same time and what is the difference? @MastodonEngineering Updated to v4.1.19 without problems, thank you! One warning I encountered when compiling assets: > Browserslist: caniuse-lite is outdated. Please run: Our monthly engineering updates post is out! In July, we reviewed and merged 186 Pull Requests from 14 contributors. Here's what we worked on, and what's next. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2024/
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 @MastodonEngineering for other #MastoAdmin people out there I want to highlight the new hashtag search functionality https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30880 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   @MastodonEngineering So iOS gets new features + new dev, and Android gets a donation banner? ๐
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@MastodonEngineering looks interesting, but I (and my of my friends I would recommend) unfortunately fall outside of the 4-hour window for CET @MastodonEngineering At least you're using Swift and Apple Frameworks on iOS... You should use Kotlin and Google libraries on Android as well.  @MastodonEngineering teo things: 1. Is there a way to apply without providing data to a corporation with inacceptable ToS? (In this case, Google). 2. You didn't resolve the 2nd * at the bottom... 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!
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@MastodonEngineering nice, please keep us updated with this Fediscovery thing, very important milestone for ActivityPub as a whole