v4.6.3

Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog

Security

• Update dependencies

Added

• Add “Update available” navigation item at top of navbar when new Mastodon versions are available (mastodon#39705 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add rendering of post images in emails (mastodon#39636 by @diondiondion)

Fixed

• Fix “view collection” menu item appearing on collection page (mastodon#39694 by @mkljczk)
• Fix incorrect filter cache key sometimes causing incorrect filters to be applied (mastodon#39698 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix missing to_json to publish announcement reaction worker (mastodon#39685 by @mjankowski)
• Fix duplicate "clear" button shown in main search input in Chrome (mastodon#39679 by @diondiondion)
• Fix visual glitch with the spoiler button (mastodon#39677 by @ChaosExAnima)
• Fix invisible username during post highlight animation (mastodon#39659 by @diondiondion)
• Fix follow button floating on profiles when overview landing page is enabled (mastodon#39650 by @FFederi)
• Fix encryption warning "read more" link (mastodon#39635 by @thomas-pike)
• Fix tootctl media lookup failing on some setups (mastodon#39615 by @brookmiles)
• Fix visible transparent navigation link borders in Windows forced-contrast mode (mastodon#39614 by @diondiondion)
• Fix crash with some browser extensions injecting custom elements in the page (mastodon#39507 by @OriginalRoOhi)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.6.3, use git fetch && git checkout v4.6.3.

Note

As always, make sure you have backups of the database before performing any upgrades. If you are using docker-compose, this is how a backup command might look: docker exec mastodon_db_1 pg_dump -Fc -U postgres postgres > name_of_the_backup.dump

Dependencies

External dependencies have not changed since v4.6.0.

• Ruby: 3.3 or newer
• PostgreSQL: 14 or newer
• Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
• LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
• Redis: 7.0 or newer
• Node: 22 or newer
• libvips: 8.13 or newer
• FFMpeg: 5.1 or newer

Update steps

The following instructions are for updating from 4.6.2.

If you are upgrading directly from an earlier release, please carefully read the upgrade notes for the skipped releases as well, as they often require extra steps such as database migrations. In particular, it is very important to read the 4.6.0 release notes.

Non-Docker

Tip

The charlock_holmes gem may fail to build on some systems with recent versions of gcc.
If you run into this issue, try BUNDLE_BUILD__CHARLOCK_HOLMES="--with-cxxflags=-std=c++17" bundle install.

1. Install dependencies with bundle install and yarn install --immutable
2. Precompile the assets: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
3. Restart all Mastodon processes.

When using Docker

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.

v4.6.2

This release is made solely to update FFmpeg in our docker container images to fix CVE-2026-8461 (critical severity). It is critical to update if you use our docker container images.

If you are not using our docker container images, please make sure your system FFmpeg is updated to a fixed version, that is, 8.1.2, 7.1.5, 6.1.6, or 5.1.10.

For the recently released v4.6.1, see 4.6.1 release notes for information.

Changelog

Security

• Update FFMpeg version used in the container image to fix CVE-2026-8461 (critical severity)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.6.2, use git fetch && git checkout v4.6.2.

Note

As always, make sure you have backups of the database before performing any upgrades. If you are using docker-compose, this is how a backup command might look: docker exec mastodon_db_1 pg_dump -Fc -U postgres postgres > name_of_the_backup.dump

Dependencies

External dependencies have not changed since v4.6.0.

• Ruby: 3.3 or newer
• PostgreSQL: 14 or newer
• Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
• LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
• Redis: 7.0 or newer
• Node: 22 or newer
• libvips: 8.13 or newer
• FFMpeg: 5.1 or newer

Update steps

The following instructions are for updating from 4.6.1.

If you are upgrading directly from an earlier release, please carefully read the upgrade notes for the skipped releases as well, as they often require extra steps such as database migrations. In particular, it is very important to read the 4.6.0 release notes.

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.

v4.5.13

This release is made solely to update FFmpeg in our docker container images to fix CVE-2026-8461 (critical severity). It is critical to update if you use our docker container images.

If you are not using our docker container images, please make sure your system FFmpeg is updated to a fixed version, that is, 8.1.2, 7.1.5, 6.1.6, or 5.1.10.

For the recently released v4.5.12, see 4.5.12 release notes for information.

Changelog

Security

• Update FFMpeg version used in the container image to fix CVE-2026-8461 (critical severity)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.5.13, use git fetch && git checkout v4.5.13.

Note

As always, make sure you have backups of the database before performing any upgrades. If you are using docker-compose, this is how a backup command might look: docker exec mastodon_db_1 pg_dump -Fc -U postgres postgres > name_of_the_backup.dump

Dependencies

External dependencies have not changed since v4.5.0.

• Ruby: 3.2 or newer
• PostgreSQL: 14 or newer
• Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
• LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
• Redis: 7.0 or newer
• Node: 20.19 or newer
• libvips (optional, instead of ImageMagick): 8.13 or newer
• ImageMagick (optional if using libvips): 6.9.7-7 or newer

Update steps

The following instructions are for updating from 4.5.12.

If you are upgrading directly from an earlier release, please carefully read the upgrade notes for the skipped releases as well, as they often require extra steps such as database migrations. In particular, it is very important to read the 4.5.0 release notes.

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.

v4.4.20

Note

While we continue to support Mastodon 4.4 and release patches for it, please note that Mastodon 4.5 is available with new features, changes and fixes. We encourage administrators to update to the latest 4.5 version when they can.

This release is made solely to update FFmpeg in our docker container images to fix CVE-2026-8461 (critical severity). It is critical to update if you use our docker container images.

If you are not using our docker container images, please make sure your system FFmpeg is updated to a fixed version, that is, 8.1.2, 7.1.5, 6.1.6, or 5.1.10.

For the recently released v4.4.19, see 4.4.19 release notes for information.

Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog

Security

• Update FFMpeg version used in the container image to fix CVE-2026-8461 (critical severity)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.4.20, use git fetch && git checkout v4.4.20.

Note

As always, make sure you have backups of the database before performing any upgrades. If you are using docker-compose, this is how a backup command might look: docker exec mastodon_db_1 pg_dump -Fc -U postgres postgres > name_of_the_backup.dump

Dependencies

External dependencies have not changed since v4.4.1:

• Ruby: 3.2 or newer
• PostgreSQL: 13 or newer
• Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
• LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
• Redis: 6.2 or newer
• Node: 20 or newer
• libvips (optional, instead of ImageMagick): 8.13 or newer
• ImageMagick (optional if using libvips): 6.9.7-7 or newer

Update steps

The following instructions are for updating from 4.4.19.

If you are upgrading directly from an earlier release, please carefully read the upgrade notes for the skipped releases as well, as they often require extra steps such as database migrations. In particular, it is very important to read the 4.4.0 release notes.

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.

v4.6.1

This is a patch release for 4.6.

Check out the 4.6.0 release notes for information.

Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog

Security

• Update dependencies

Added

• Add avatar_description and header_description to /api/v1/accounts/update_credentials (mastodon#39547 and mastodon#39574 by @ClearlyClaire and @mkljczk)
  • This is available starting from Mastodon API version 11 and intended to provide an easier implementation path for clients implementing a similar feature in forks.
  • The new /api/v1/profile API remains the recommended API for setting avatar and header description as well as other profile values.

Fixed

• Fix combobox menu not closing after a selection (mastodon#39595 by @diondiondion)
• Fix Emoji IndexedDB upgrades when multiple tabs are open (mastodon#39576 by @ChaosExAnima)
• Fix combobox listbox not scrolling up when new suggestions have loaded (mastodon#39588 by @diondiondion)
• Fix media modal navigation in RTL languages (mastodon#39587 by @diondiondion)
• Fix accounts not visible in collection editor in advanced web interface (mastodon#39586 by @diondiondion)
• Fix error on login with certain LDAP configurations (mastodon#39571 by @oneiros)
• Fix simplified layout applying to other pages in web UI (mastodon#39570 by @Gargron)
• Fix emoji database loading in web worker (mastodon#39558 and mastodon#39562 by @ChaosExAnima)
• Fix display name length limit being incorrectly enforced in web UI (mastodon#39499 by @shleeable)
• Fix advanced UI columns not using mobile styles (mastodon#39528 by @diondiondion)
• Fix "private mention" post heading overlapping thread line (mastodon#39521 and mastodon#39554 by @diondiondion)
• Fix misattribution of remote featured collections in some cases (mastodon#39523, mastodon#39525, and mastodon#39550 by @oneiros)
• Fix custom profile field overflow (mastodon#39513 by @diondiondion)
• Fix fetching unknown key when it's not the actor's first, and add error handling for unavailable keys (mastodon#39512 by @ClearlyClaire)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.6.1, use git fetch && git checkout v4.6.1.

Note

As always, make sure you have backups of the database before performing any upgrades. If you are using docker-compose, this is how a backup command might look: docker exec mastodon_db_1 pg_dump -Fc -U postgres postgres > name_of_the_backup.dump

Dependencies

External dependencies have not changed since v4.6.0.

• Ruby: 3.3 or newer
• PostgreSQL: 14 or newer
• Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
• LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
• Redis: 7.0 or newer
• Node: 22 or newer
• libvips: 8.13 or newer
• FFMpeg: 5.1 or newer

ImageMagick removal and libvips replacement

ImageMagick has been deprecated since Mastodon 4.4.0 and is now unsupported. If you used MASTODON_USE_LIBVIPS=false, this will be ignored and you will need to install libvips.

Theming system changes

The theming system has changed substantially, changing how light and dark themes work, as well as high-contrast. We also overhauled the whole theme to use design tokens and CSS variables.

Custom themes will most likely require significant changes to work with Mastodon 4.6.0.

If you are a theme author, please see our documentation at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/dev/frontend/theming/ and https://docs.joinmastodon.org/dev/frontend/design-tokens/

Email subscription feature and additional costs

Mastodon 4.6 introduces a new feature that lets users turn their public posts into mailing lists. This can result in an increased amount of sent emails and thus increased costs.

This feature needs to be enabled by a Mastodon user with administrator privileges, then opted-in by individual users.

In situations where the Mastodon administrators and the people hosting the server are not the same people, such as providers that offer Mastodon as a service, the system administrators may want to disable this feature. This can be done by setting the DISABLE_EMAIL_SUBSCRIPTIONS environment variable to true.

Update steps

The following instructions are for updating from 4.6.0.

If you are upgrading directly from an earlier release, please carefully read the upgrade notes for the skipped releases as well, as they often require extra steps such as database migrations. In particular, it is very important to read the 4.6.0 release notes.

Non-Docker

Tip

The charlock_holmes gem may fail to build on some systems with recent versions of gcc.
If you run into this issue, try BUNDLE_BUILD__CHARLOCK_HOLMES="--with-cxxflags=-std=c++17" bundle install.

1. Install dependencies with bundle install and yarn install --immutable
2. Precompile the assets: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
3. Restart all Mastodon processes.

When using Docker

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.

v4.5.12

Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog

Security

• Fix TLS certificate verification being disabled on setups with LDAP_TLS_NO_VERIFY=true (GHSA-3rhr-8phh-jm86)
• Update dependencies

Fixed

• Fix being unable to unmark media as sensitive when "always mark media as sensitive" is enabled in web UI (mastodon#39339 by @matrix07012)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.5.12, use git fetch && git checkout v4.5.12.

Note

As always, make sure you have backups of the database before performing any upgrades. If you are using docker-compose, this is how a backup command might look: docker exec mastodon_db_1 pg_dump -Fc -U postgres postgres > name_of_the_backup.dump

Dependencies

External dependencies have not changed since v4.5.0.

• Ruby: 3.2 or newer
• PostgreSQL: 14 or newer
• Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
• LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
• Redis: 7.0 or newer
• Node: 20.19 or newer
• libvips (optional, instead of ImageMagick): 8.13 or newer
• ImageMagick (optional if using libvips): 6.9.7-7 or newer

Update steps

The following instructions are for updating from 4.5.11.

If you are upgrading directly from an earlier release, please carefully read the upgrade notes for the skipped releases as well, as they often require extra steps such as database migrations. In particular, it is very important to read the 4.5.0 release notes.

Non-Docker

Tip

The charlock_holmes gem may fail to build on some systems with recent versions of gcc.
If you run into this issue, try BUNDLE_BUILD__CHARLOCK_HOLMES="--with-cxxflags=-std=c++17" bundle install.

1. Install dependencies with bundle install and yarn install --immutable
2. Precompile the assets: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
3. Restart all Mastodon processes.

When using Docker

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.

v4.6.0

For a user-focused highlight of these changes, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/
For changes of particular interest to application developers, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4-6-for-devs/
For a more detailed run-down on the changes, see the Changelog section below!

Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

⚠️ The minimum supported version for Ruby has been bumped to 3.3
⚠️ The minimum supported version for Node.JS has been bumped to 22
⚠️ The minimum supported version for FFMpeg has been bumped to 5.1
⚠️ ImageMagick support has been dropped, libvips is required
⚠️ Custom themes need to be updated
ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation
ℹ️ Requires streaming server restart
ℹ️ Requires database migrations

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog

Added

• Add collections (mastodon#37992, mastodon#37005, mastodon#37049, mastodon#37020, mastodon#37053, mastodon#37110, mastodon#37117, mastodon#37122, mastodon#37154, mastodon#37157, mastodon#37176, mastodon#37192, mastodon#37222, mastodon#37225, mastodon#37254, mastodon#37277, mastodon#37298, mastodon#37322, mastodon#37434, mastodon#37468, mastodon#37514, mastodon#37512, mastodon#37549, mastodon#37556, mastodon#37560, mastodon#37580, mastodon#37591, mastodon#37552, mastodon#37618, mastodon#37643, mastodon#37658, mastodon#37731, mastodon#37678, mastodon#37741, mastodon#37762, mastodon#37790, mastodon#37805, mastodon#37823, mastodon#37837, mastodon#37842, mastodon#37850, mastodon#37848, mastodon#37812, mastodon#37950, mastodon#37898, mastodon#37916, mastodon#37920, mastodon#37927, mastodon#37928, mastodon#37961, mastodon#37967, mastodon#37974, mastodon#37989, mastodon#37986, mastodon#38004, mastodon#38026, mastodon#38027, mastodon#38030, mastodon#38038, mastodon#38065, mastodon#38081, mastodon#38082, mastodon#38096, mastodon#38106, mastodon#38113, mastodon#38124, mastodon#38133, mastodon#38144, mastodon#38153, mastodon#38166, mastodon#38167, mastodon#38169, mastodon#38170, mastodon#38177, mastodon#38193, mastodon#38213, mastodon#38251, mastodon#38255, mastodon#38256, mastodon#38282, mastodon#38298, mastodon#38292, mastodon#38307, mastodon#38306, mastodon#38316, mastodon#38115, mastodon#38329, mastodon#38334, mastodon#38337, mastodon#38351, mastodon#38368, mastodon#38370, mastodon#38356, mastodon#38383, mastodon#38386, mastodon#38385, mastodon#38394, mastodon#38393, mastodon#38399, mastodon#38402, mastodon#38409, mastodon#38414, mastodon#38413, mastodon#38424, mastodon#38425, mastodon#38450, mastodon#38508, mastodon#38528, mastodon#38534, mastodon#38536, mastodon#38540, mastodon#38543, mastodon#38491, mastodon#38586, mastodon#38611, mastodon#38588, mastodon#38612, mastodon#38628, mastodon#38626, mastodon#38630, mastodon#38633, mastodon#38629, mastodon#38638, mastodon#38645, mastodon#38644, mastodon#38636, mastodon#38660, mastodon#38657, mastodon#38688, mastodon#38690, mastodon#38672, mastodon#38698, mastodon#38697, mastodon#38708, mastodon#38712, mastodon#38713, mastodon#38709, mastodon#38719, mastodon#38728, mastodon#38730, mastodon#38732, mastodon#38739, mastodon#38749, mastodon#38751, mastodon#38750, mastodon#38767, mastodon#38769, mastodon#38783, mastodon#38785, mastodon#38959, mastodon#38786, mastodon#38794, mastodon#38776, mastodon#38817, mastodon#38792, mastodon#38822, mastodon#38827, mastodon#38831, mastodon#38830, mastodon#38844, mastodon#38843, mastodon#38852, mastodon#38850, mastodon#38847, mastodon#38865, mastodon#38897, mastodon#38900, mastodon#38919, mastodon#38933, mastodon#38934, mastodon#38935, mastodon#38942, mastodon#38941, mastodon#38954, mastodon#38961, mastodon#38957, mastodon#38962, mastodon#38991, mastodon#39009, mastodon#39062, mastodon#39029, mastodon#39069, mastodon#39020, mastodon#39073, mastodon#39082, mastodon#39096, mastodon#39080, mastodon#39182, mastodon#39143, mastodon#39127, mastodon#37929, mastodon#38029, mastodon#39194, mastodon#39198, mastodon#39210, mastodon#39211, mastodon#39202, mastodon#39214, mastodon#39215, mastodon#39220, mastodon#39234, mastodon#39260, mastodon#39251, mastodon#39361, mastodon#39357, mastodon#39349, mastodon#39287, mastodon#39376, mastodon#39289, mastodon#39342, mastodon#38711, mastodon#39379, mastodon#39282, mastodon#39286, mastodon#39296, mastodon#39047, mastodon#39346, mastodon#39373, mastodon#39372, mastodon#39429, and mastodon#39457 by @ChaosExAnima, @ClearlyClaire, @Gargron, @arte7, @diondiondion, @mjankowski, @oneiros, and @shleeable)
  • Create collections with up to 25 accounts each, then share them with others. You can read more about this feature on our blog. This is based on FEP-7aa9 (Featured Collections) to be interoperable with the wider Fediverse. All the new API methods are documented here.
• Add email subscriptions (mastodon#38163, mastodon#38507, mastodon#38502, mastodon#38487, mastodon#38527, mastodon#38582, mastodon#38741, mastodon#38907, mastodon#39162, mastodon#39271 by @ClearlyClaire and @Gargron)
  • Admins can allow specific roles to enable email subscriptions on their profile, allowing anonymous visitors to subscribe to their posts via email.
• Add new overview landing page setting (mastodon#39074, mastodon#39170, mastodon#39163, and mastodon#39138 by @Gargron, @diondiondion, and @zunda)
  • Admins can choose a new frontpage for anonymous visitors, which combines the about page and most recent posts from local profiles.
• Add ability to require 2FA for specific roles (including Everybody) (mastodon#37701, mastodon#37846, and mastodon#38906 by @ClearlyClaire and @mjankowski)
• Add import and export for custom filters (mastodon#39085, mastodon#39256, mastodon#39386 by @arte7)
• Add ability to search email blocks by domain in admin UI (mastodon#38923 by @arte7)
• Add new endpoints for profile editing in REST API (mastodon#37912, mastodon#37934, mastodon#37932, mastodon#38221, and mastodon#38339 by @ClearlyClaire)
  • Add GET /api/v1/profile and PATCH /api/v1/profile to replace the existing update_credentials endpoint. See the documentation for more information.
• Add missing_attribution boolean to preview cards in REST API (mastodon#38043 by @ClearlyClaire)
  • Documentation: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/PreviewCard/#missing_attribution
• Add exclude_direct flag to /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses to exclude direct messages (mastodon#37763 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add max_note_length and max_display_name_length attributes to configuration.accounts in Instance entity (mastodon#37991 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add profile field limits to instance entity in REST API (mastodon#37535 by @mkljczk)
  • This adds attributes configuration.accounts.max_profile_fields, configuration.accounts.profile_field_name_limit and configuration.accounts.profile_field_value_limit to the Instance entity.
• Add unresolved flag to /api/v1/admin/reports to query both resolved and unresolved reports (mastodon#38323 by @mkljczk)
• Add fallback attributes to notifications for new and infrequent notifications in REST API (mastodon#38832 and mastodon#38860 by @ClearlyClaire)
  • This adds a supported_types parameter to GET /api/v1/notifications, GET /api/v1/notifications/:id, GET /api/v2/notifications, and GET /api/v2/notifications/:group_key along with a new fallback attribute for notifications and notification groups.
• Add support for posts in vertical languages in web UI (mastodon#37204, mastodon#38205, and mastodon#38797 by @shimon1024)
• Add Alt + PageUp and Alt + PageDown hotkeys for list navigation (mastodon#39252 and mastodon#39427 by @diondiondion)
• Add g+e keyboard shortcut to access the trending page in web UI (mastodon#38014 by @antoinecellerier)
• Add Cmd/Ctrl+Enter for form submissions in more text areas in web UI (mastodon#37821 by @diondiondion)
• Add support for quoting by dragging a link into the compose form in web UI (mastodon#36859 and mastodon#36896 by @ClearlyClaire and @tribela)
• Add text-autospace to posts to improve rendering of mixed script posts in web UI (mastodon#37694 by @ahxxm)
• Add Taiwanese (Minnan), Lazuri, Mingrelian and Ottoman Turkish to supported locales (mastodon#37650, mastodon#34923, mastodon#37822, mastodon#37721, mastodon#38648 by @ClearlyClaire and @Yoxem)
• Add ability to filter notifications from bots (mastodon#38809 and mastodon#39377 by @evanp and @shleeable)
• Add support for hosts resolver in request socket DNS lookup (mastodon#38699, mastodon#38866, and mastodon#39030 by @ClearlyClaire and @mjankowski)
• Add support for FEP-2c59 (Webfinger Backlink) (mastodon#38239, mastodon#38538, and mastodon#38639 by @ClearlyClaire and @shleeable)
• Add support for FEP-3b86 (Activity Intents) (mastodon#38120 and mastodon#38130 by @ClearlyClaire and @Gargron)
• Add support for alt text for profile pictures and headers (mastodon#37634, mastodon#37641, mastodon#38000, mastodon#39352 by @ClearlyClaire and @Doxterpepper)
• Add support for multiple keypairs for remote accounts (mastodon#38279, mastodon#38407, mastodon#38419, mastodon#38511, mastodon#38516, mastodon#38515, mastodon#38555 and mastodon#39235 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add duration to ActivityPub representation of media attachments (mastodon#38061 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add Stoplight circuit-breaker on Elasticsearch endpoints to better handle some Elasticsearch failures (mastodon#39323 and mastodon#39375 by @ClearlyClaire and @shleeable)
• Add support for the “require approval” feature for email domain blocks to tootctl email_domain_blocks (mastodon#34579 and mastodon#38107 by @ClearlyClaire and @e-nomem)
• Add --keep-interacted flag to tootctl media remove to preserve cached media on cleanup (mastodon#36200 by @northerner)
• Add systemd service file for prometheus exporter (mastodon#35130 by @ThisIsMissEm)

Changed

• Change design of profiles in web UI (mastodon#37472, mastodon#37490, mastodon#37479, mastodon#37513, mastodon#37527, mastodon#37550, mastodon#37538, mastodon#37632, mastodon#37627, mastodon#37593, mastodon#37638, mastodon#37626, mastodon#37645, mastodon#37653, mastodon#37683, mastodon#37707, mastodon#37682, mastodon#37742, mastodon#37747, mastodon#37760, mastodon#37761, mastodon#37831, mastodon#37766, mastodon#37811, mastodon#37813, mastodon#37825, mastodon#37854, mastodon#37851, mastodon#37876, mastodon#37885, mastodon#37892, mastodon#37890, mastodon#37907, mastodon#37922, mastodon#37952, mastodon#37958, mastodon#37996, mastodon#37990, mastodon#37994, mastodon#38005, mastodon#38012, mastodon#38040, mastodon#38052, mastodon#38066, mastodon#38083, mastodon#38147, mastodon#38148, mastodon#38152, mastodon#38168, mastodon#38156, mastodon#38175, mastodon#38191, mastodon#38189, mastodon#38235, mastodon#38283, mastodon#38310, mastodon#38309, mastodon#38315, mastodon#38314, mastodon#38365, mastodon#38366, mastodon#38363, mastodon#38346, mastodon#38382, mastodon#38384, mastodon#38400, mastodon#38404, mastodon#38417, mastodon#38426, mastodon#38440, mastodon#38442, mastodon#38443, mastodon#38445, mastodon#38446, mastodon#38451, mastodon#38456, mastodon#38509, mastodon#38510, mastodon#38512, mastodon#38513, mastodon#38517, mastodon#38529, mastodon#38531, mastodon#38535, mastodon#38532, mastodon#38544, mastodon#38549, mastodon#38575, mastodon#38579, mastodon#38580, mastodon#38581, mastodon#38585, mastodon#38584, mastodon#38604, mastodon#38605, mastodon#38606, mastodon#38607, mastodon#38622, mastodon#38616, mastodon#38625, mastodon#38632, mastodon#38640, mastodon#38663, mastodon#38667, mastodon#38646, mastodon#38691, mastodon#38692, mastodon#38766, mastodon#38791, mastodon#38687, mastodon#38826, mastodon#38828, mastodon#38863, mastodon#38845, mastodon#38870, mastodon#38872, mastodon#38932, mastodon#38945, mastodon#38963, mastodon#38964, mastodon#39055, mastodon#39042, mastodon#38893, mastodon#39079, mastodon#39084, mastodon#39160, mastodon#39070, mastodon#39217, mastodon#39309, mastodon#39354, mastodon#39324, mastodon#39387, mastodon#39452, mastodon#39467 by @ChaosExAnima, @ClearlyClaire, @Coro365, @diondiondion, and @shleeable)
  • The profile screen has been entirely redesigned, has new features, and allows you to update your own profile directly without going into the preferences panel. You can read more about it on our blog.
• Change how #Wrapstodon reports are generated and displayed (mastodon#37033, mastodon#37045, mastodon#37093, mastodon#37055, mastodon#37096, mastodon#37047, mastodon#37103, mastodon#37104, mastodon#37106, mastodon#37109, mastodon#37121, mastodon#37138, mastodon#37134, mastodon#37177, mastodon#37182, mastodon#37169, mastodon#37186, mastodon#37187, mastodon#37188, mastodon#37189, mastodon#37190, mastodon#37193, mastodon#37198, mastodon#37201, mastodon#37203, mastodon#37205, mastodon#37206, mastodon#37207, mastodon#37209, mastodon#37202, mastodon#37216, mastodon#37219, mastodon#37224, mastodon#37226, mastodon#37229, mastodon#37249, mastodon#37251, mastodon#37256, mastodon#37261, mastodon#37269, mastodon#37270, mastodon#37273, and mastodon#37289 by @ChaosExAnima, @ClearlyClaire, @channyeintun, and @diondiondion)
  • This finishes up work started in 2024 by completely revamping how Wrapstodon reports are gener...

v4.6.0-rc.2

Warning

This is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will not be able to safely downgrade to the existing stable releases. You will, however, be able to upgrade to later nightly releases or pre-releases, as well as the upcoming 4.6.0 stable release.

Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

⚠️ The minimum supported version for Ruby has been bumped to 3.3
⚠️ The minimum supported version for Node.JS has been bumped to 22
⚠️ The minimum supported version for FFMpeg has been bumped to 5.1
⚠️ ImageMagick support has been dropped, libvips is required
⚠️ Custom themes need to be updated
ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation
ℹ️ Requires streaming server restart
ℹ️ Requires database migrations

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog (v4.6.0-rc.2)

Added

• Add alt text for default server thumbnail (mastodon#39439 by @diondiondion)

Changed

• Change Page Up/Page Down hotkeys to require Alt modifier key (mastodon#39427 by @diondiondion)

Fixed

• Fix service worker failing to load due to 404 on chunk dependencies (mastodon#39433 by @oliinykdm)
• Fix bio text overflow on account profile page (mastodon#39418 by @Coro365)
• Fix hovercard not showing in compose column (mastodon#39430 by @diondiondion)
• Fix categorised custom emojis missing from the emoji picker (mastodon#39421 by @Hanage999)
• Fix notifications about collections not being destroyed with the underlying collection (mastodon#39429 by @oneiros)
• Fix crash on load and navigation in some cases (mastodon#39408 by @diondiondion)
• Fix some errors when loading emoji data (mastodon#39402 by @ChaosExAnima)
• Fix error with audio player in Safari Lockdown Mode (mastodon#39397 by @Federicorao)
• Fix crash of standalone wrapstodon and embedded status pages (mastodon#39400 by @diondiondion)

Changelog (v4.6.0-rc.1)

Added

• Add import for custom filters (mastodon#39256 by @arte7)
• Add redirection when collection AP ID is requested as HTML (mastodon#39361 by @oneiros)
• Add meta tags to Collection HTML (mastodon#39357 by @oneiros)
• Add Deprecation headers to collections alpha API (mastodon#39349 by @oneiros)
• Add ability to filter notifications from bots (mastodon#38809 and mastodon#39377 by @evanp and @shleeable)
• Add duration to ActivityPub representation of media attachments (mastodon#38061 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add Stoplight circuit-breaker on Elasticsearch endpoints to better handle some Elasticsearch failures (mastodon#39323 and mastodon#39375 by @ClearlyClaire and @shleeable)
• Add support for collection URLs in authorized_interactions endpoint (mastodon#39287 and mastodon#39376 by @ClearlyClaire and @shleeable)
• Add support for collections in search results when searched by URL in web UI (mastodon#39289 by @diondiondion)
• Add link to profile editing from “Privacy and reach” (mastodon#39309 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add ability to view individual newsletters in admin UI (mastodon#39271 by @Gargron)
• Add Lazuri, Mingrelian and Ottoman Turkish to languages helper (mastodon#38648 by @batumi14)
• Add avatar and profile header descriptions to ActivityPub serialization (mastodon#39352 by @ClearlyClaire)

Changed

• Change limitation to allow posts with both media and a poll to be created (mastodon#39203 and mastodon#39368 by @ClearlyClaire and @Gargron)
• Change links to unknown objects to be resolved when posting (mastodon#38711 and mastodon#39379 by @ClearlyClaire and @shleeable)
• Change web UI navigation to automatically focus the navigated-to modal, post, column header, or compose form (mastodon#39350, mastodon#39358, and mastodon#39360 by @diondiondion)
• Change web UI emoji autocompletion to perform substring search (mastodon#39353 and mastodon#39382 by @ChaosExAnima)
• Change wording of tootctl preview_cards remove command description to clearly state it only removes media (mastodon#39348 by @mjankowski)
• Change rule acceptance link to a form to prevent some crawling behavior (mastodon#39283 and mastodon#39345 by @ClearlyClaire and @mjankowski)
• Change collection API to enforce a maximum for the pagination limit param (mastodon#39342 by @oneiros)
• Change alerts ("toasts") to be announced by assistive tech in web UI (mastodon#39335 by @diondiondion)
• Change media attachment limit to 10000 characters (mastodon#39306 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Change column headers to move extra buttons out of h1 in web UI (mastodon#39305, mastodon#39331, and mastodon#39356 by @diondiondion)

Removed

• Remove outdated hint for "Use system scrollbar" preference (mastodon#39297 by @diondiondion)

Fixed

• Fix account hovercard sometimes not triggering (mastodon#39381 by @diondiondion)
• Fix loading/errored emoji in detailed status display name causing line break in web UI (mastodon#39378 by @diondiondion)
• Fix empty modal when adding an account to collections from profile when no collection has been created (mastodon#39372 by @diondiondion)
• Fix "unlisted collections" profile section incorrectly listing empty collections as unlisted in web UI (mastodon#39373 by @diondiondion)
• Fix display of sensitive media cards in web UI according to settings (mastodon#39366 by @nshki)
• Fix Elasticsearch connections not being cleaned up properly in Sidekiq middleware (mastodon#39359 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix font size of Callout component actions in Safari in web UI (mastodon#39354 by @diondiondion)
• Fix being unable to unmark media as sensitive when "always mark media as sensitive" is enabled (mastodon#39339 by @matrix07012)
• Fix featured collection updates not always being delivered to all featured collection members (mastodon#39346 by @oneiros)
• Fix handling of offset in timezone list in settings (mastodon#39334 by @mjankowski)
• Fix Delete activities on quote approval stamps and featured collection stamps not being signed (mastodon#39047 by @shleeable)
• Fix various accessibility issues caused by "simple" ruby gems (mastodon#39325 by @diondiondion)
• Fix tiny checkboxes and radio buttons in Safari (mastodon#39332 by @diondiondion)
• Fix inconsistent keyboard_shortcuts.translate string (mastodon#39328 by @noelleleigh)
• Fix alignment of icon and text in Callout component (mastodon#39324 by @diondiondion)
• Fix naming of custom filter export attribute (mastodon#39304 by @arte7)
• Fix "change thumbnail" button being visible when it shouldn't (mastodon#38467 by @dpbento)
• Fix collections editor allowing to add the same account multiple times (mastodon#39296 by @diondiondion)
• Fix robustness of post/feed navigation by hotkey (mastodon#39270 by @diondiondion)
• Fix blocked domains not being removed from the Instance search index (mastodon#39109 by @shleeable)
• Fix account data fetching when loading many collections at once (mastodon#39286 by @diondiondion)
• Fix logged out users being able to access confusing collection and list creation routes (mastodon#39282 by @diondiondion)
• Fix some inputs incorrectly having resize handles in Firefox (mastodon#39274 by @diondiondion)

Changelog (v4.6.0-beta.1)

Added

• Add collections (mastodon#37992, mastodon#37005, mastodon#37049, mastodon#37020, mastodon#37053, mastodon#37110, mastodon#37117, mastodon#37122, mastodon#37154, mastodon#37157, mastodon#37176, mastodon#37192, mastodon#37222, mastodon#37225, mastodon#37254, mastodon#37277, mastodon#37298, mastodon#37322, mastodon#37434, mastodon#37468, mastodon#37514, mastodon#37512, mastodon#37549, mastodon#37556, mastodon#37560, mastodon#37580, mastodon#37591, mastodon#37552, mastodon#37618, mastodon#37643, mastodon#37658, mastodon#37731, mastodon#37678, mastodon#37741, mastodon#37762, mastodon#37790, mastodon#37805, mastodon#37823, mastodon#37837, mastodon#37842, mastodon#37850, mastodon#37848, mastodon#37812, mastodon#37950, mastodon#37898, mastodon#37916, mastodon#37920, mastodon#37927, mastodon#37928, mastodon#37961, mastodon#37967, mastodon#37974, mastodon#37989, mastodon#37986, mastodon#38004, mastodon#38026, mastodon#38027, mastodon#38030, mastodon#38038, mastodon#38065, mastodon#38081, mastodon#38082, mastodon#38096, mastodon#38106, mastodon#38113, mastodon#38124, mastodon#38133, mastodon#38144, mastodon#38153, mastodon#38166, mastodon#38167, mastodon#38169, mastodon#38170, mastodon#38177, mastodon#38193, mastodon#38213, mastodon#38251, mastodon#38255, mastodon#38256, mastodon#38282, mastodon#38298, mastodon#38292, mastodon#38307, mastodon#38306, mastodon#38316, mastodon#38115, mastodon#38329, mastodon#38334, mastodon#38337, mastodon#38351, mastodon#38368, mastodon#38370, mastodon#38356, mastodon#38383, mastodon#38386, mastodon#38385, mastodon#38394, mastodon#38393, mastodon#38399, mastodon#38402, mastodon#38409, mastodon#38414, mastodon#38413, mastodon#38424, mastodon#38425, mastodon#38450, mastodon#38508, mastodon#38528, mastodon#38534, mastodon#38536, mastodon#38540, mastodon#38543, mastodon#38491, mastodon#38586, mastodon#38611, mastodon#38588, mastodon#38612, mastodon#38628, mastodon#38626, mastodon#38630, mastodon#38633, mastodon#38629, mastodon#38638, mastodon#38645, mastodon#38644, mastodon#38636, mastodon#38660, mastodon#38657, mastodon#38688, mastodon#38690, mastodon#38672, mastodon#38698, mastodon#38697, mastodon#38708, mastodon#38712, mastodon#38713, mastodon#38709, mastodon#38719, mastodon#38728, mastodon#38730, mastodon#38732, mastodon#38739, mastodon#38749, mastodon#38751, mastodon#38750, mastodon#38767, mastodon#38769, mastodon#38783, mastodon#38785, mastodon#38959, mastodon#38786, mastodon#38794, mastodon#38776, mastodon#38817, mastodon#38792, mastodon#38822, mastodon#38827, mastodon#38831, mastodon#38830, mastodon#38844, mastodon#38843, mastodon#38852, mastodon#38850, mastodon#38847, mastodon#38865, mastodon#38897, mastodon#38900, mastodon#38919, mastodon#38933, mastodon#38934, mastodon#38935, mastodon#38942, mastodon#38941, mastodon#38954, mastodon#38961, mastodon#38957, mastodon#38962, mastodon#38991, mastodon#39009, mastodon#39062, mastodon#39029, mastodon#39069, mastodon#39020, mastodon#39073, mastodon#39082, mastodon#39096, mastodon#39080, mastodon#39182, mastodon#39143, mastodon#39127, mastodon#37929, mastodon#38029, mastodon#39194, mastodon#39198, mastodon#39210, mastodon#39211, mastodon#39202, mastodon#39214, mastodon#39215, mastodon#39220, mastodon#39234, mastodon#39260, and mastodon#39251 by @ChaosExAnima, @ClearlyClaire, @Gargron, @arte7, @diondiondion, @mjankowski, @oneiros, and @shleeable)
  • Create collections with up to 25 accounts each, then share them with others. You can read more about this feature on our blog. This is based on FEP-7aa9 (Featured Collections) to be interoperable with the wider Fediverse. All the new API methods are documented here.
• Add email subscriptions (mastodon#38163, mastodon#38507, mastodon#38502, mastodon#38487, mastodon#38527, mastodon#38582, mastodon#38741, mastodon#38907, and mastodon#39162 by @ClearlyClaire and @Gargron)
  • Admins can allow specific roles to enable email subscriptions on their profile, allowing anonymous visitors to subscribe to their posts via email.
• Add new overview landing page setting (mastodon#39074, mastodon#39170, mastodon#39163, and mastodon#39138 by @Gargron, @diondiondion, and @zunda)
  • Admins can choose a new frontpage for anonymous visitors, which combines the about page and most recent posts from local profiles.
• Add ability to require 2FA for specific roles (including Everybody) (mastodon#37701, mastodon#37846, and mastodon#38906 by @ClearlyClaire and @mjankowski)
• Add export for custom filters (mastodon#39085 by @arte7)
• Add ability to search email blocks by domain in admin UI (mastodon#38923 by @arte7)
• Add new endpoints for profile editing in REST API (mastodon#37912, mastodon#37934, mastodon#37932, mastodon#38221, and mastodon#38339 by @ClearlyClaire)
  • Add GET /api/v1/profile and `...

v4.6.0-rc.1

Warning

This is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will not be able to safely downgrade to the existing stable releases. You will, however, be able to upgrade to later nightly releases or pre-releases, as well as the upcoming 4.6.0 stable release.

Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

⚠️ The minimum supported version for Ruby has been bumped to 3.3
⚠️ The minimum supported version for Node.JS has been bumped to 22
⚠️ The minimum supported version for FFMpeg has been bumped to 5.1
⚠️ ImageMagick support has been dropped, libvips is required
⚠️ Custom themes need to be updated
ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation
ℹ️ Requires streaming server restart
ℹ️ Requires database migrations

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog (v4.6.0-rc.1)

Added

• Add import for custom filters (mastodon#39256 by @arte7)
• Add redirection when collection AP ID is requested as HTML (mastodon#39361 by @oneiros)
• Add meta tags to Collection HTML (mastodon#39357 by @oneiros)
• Add Deprecation headers to collections alpha API (mastodon#39349 by @oneiros)
• Add ability to filter notifications from bots (mastodon#38809 and mastodon#39377 by @evanp and @shleeable)
• Add duration to ActivityPub representation of media attachments (mastodon#38061 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add Stoplight circuit-breaker on Elasticsearch endpoints to better handle some Elasticsearch failures (mastodon#39323 and mastodon#39375 by @ClearlyClaire and @shleeable)
• Add support for collection URLs in authorized_interactions endpoint (mastodon#39287 and mastodon#39376 by @ClearlyClaire and @shleeable)
• Add support for collections in search results when searched by URL in web UI (mastodon#39289 by @diondiondion)
• Add link to profile editing from “Privacy and reach” (mastodon#39309 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add ability to view individual newsletters in admin UI (mastodon#39271 by @Gargron)
• Add Lazuri, Mingrelian and Ottoman Turkish to languages helper (mastodon#38648 by @batumi14)
• Add avatar and profile header descriptions to ActivityPub serialization (mastodon#39352 by @ClearlyClaire)

Changed

• Change limitation to allow posts with both media and a poll to be created (mastodon#39203 and mastodon#39368 by @ClearlyClaire and @Gargron)
• Change links to unknown objects to be resolved when posting (mastodon#38711 and mastodon#39379 by @ClearlyClaire and @shleeable)
• Change web UI navigation to automatically focus the navigated-to modal, post, column header, or compose form (mastodon#39350, mastodon#39358, and mastodon#39360 by @diondiondion)
• Change web UI emoji autocompletion to perform substring search (mastodon#39353 and mastodon#39382 by @ChaosExAnima)
• Change wording of tootctl preview_cards remove command description to clearly state it only removes media (mastodon#39348 by @mjankowski)
• Change rule acceptance link to a form to prevent some crawling behavior (mastodon#39283 and mastodon#39345 by @ClearlyClaire and @mjankowski)
• Change collection API to enforce a maximum for the pagination limit param (mastodon#39342 by @oneiros)
• Change alerts ("toasts") to be announced by assistive tech in web UI (mastodon#39335 by @diondiondion)
• Change media attachment limit to 10000 characters (mastodon#39306 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Change column headers to move extra buttons out of h1 in web UI (mastodon#39305, mastodon#39331, and mastodon#39356 by @diondiondion)

Removed

• Remove outdated hint for "Use system scrollbar" preference (mastodon#39297 by @diondiondion)

Fixed

• Fix account hovercard sometimes not triggering (mastodon#39381 by @diondiondion)
• Fix loading/errored emoji in detailed status display name causing line break in web UI (mastodon#39378 by @diondiondion)
• Fix empty modal when adding an account to collections from profile when no collection has been created (mastodon#39372 by @diondiondion)
• Fix "unlisted collections" profile section incorrectly listing empty collections as unlisted in web UI (mastodon#39373 by @diondiondion)
• Fix display of sensitive media cards in web UI according to settings (mastodon#39366 by @nshki)
• Fix Elasticsearch connections not being cleaned up properly in Sidekiq middleware (mastodon#39359 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix font size of Callout component actions in Safari in web UI (mastodon#39354 by @diondiondion)
• Fix being unable to unmark media as sensitive when "always mark media as sensitive" is enabled (mastodon#39339 by @matrix07012)
• Fix featured collection updates not always being delivered to all featured collection members (mastodon#39346 by @oneiros)
• Fix handling of offset in timezone list in settings (mastodon#39334 by @mjankowski)
• Fix Delete activities on quote approval stamps and featured collection stamps not being signed (mastodon#39047 by @shleeable)
• Fix various accessibility issues caused by "simple" ruby gems (mastodon#39325 by @diondiondion)
• Fix tiny checkboxes and radio buttons in Safari (mastodon#39332 by @diondiondion)
• Fix inconsistent keyboard_shortcuts.translate string (mastodon#39328 by @noelleleigh)
• Fix alignment of icon and text in Callout component (mastodon#39324 by @diondiondion)
• Fix naming of custom filter export attribute (mastodon#39304 by @arte7)
• Fix "change thumbnail" button being visible when it shouldn't (mastodon#38467 by @dpbento)
• Fix collections editor allowing to add the same account multiple times (mastodon#39296 by @diondiondion)
• Fix robustness of post/feed navigation by hotkey (mastodon#39270 by @diondiondion)
• Fix blocked domains not being removed from the Instance search index (mastodon#39109 by @shleeable)
• Fix account data fetching when loading many collections at once (mastodon#39286 by @diondiondion)
• Fix logged out users being able to access confusing collection and list creation routes (mastodon#39282 by @diondiondion)
• Fix some inputs incorrectly having resize handles in Firefox (mastodon#39274 by @diondiondion)

Changelog (v4.6.0-beta.1)

Added

• Add collections (mastodon#37992, mastodon#37005, mastodon#37049, mastodon#37020, mastodon#37053, mastodon#37110, mastodon#37117, mastodon#37122, mastodon#37154, mastodon#37157, mastodon#37176, mastodon#37192, mastodon#37222, mastodon#37225, mastodon#37254, mastodon#37277, mastodon#37298, mastodon#37322, mastodon#37434, mastodon#37468, mastodon#37514, mastodon#37512, mastodon#37549, mastodon#37556, mastodon#37560, mastodon#37580, mastodon#37591, mastodon#37552, mastodon#37618, mastodon#37643, mastodon#37658, mastodon#37731, mastodon#37678, mastodon#37741, mastodon#37762, mastodon#37790, mastodon#37805, mastodon#37823, mastodon#37837, mastodon#37842, mastodon#37850, mastodon#37848, mastodon#37812, mastodon#37950, mastodon#37898, mastodon#37916, mastodon#37920, mastodon#37927, mastodon#37928, mastodon#37961, mastodon#37967, mastodon#37974, mastodon#37989, mastodon#37986, mastodon#38004, mastodon#38026, mastodon#38027, mastodon#38030, mastodon#38038, mastodon#38065, mastodon#38081, mastodon#38082, mastodon#38096, mastodon#38106, mastodon#38113, mastodon#38124, mastodon#38133, mastodon#38144, mastodon#38153, mastodon#38166, mastodon#38167, mastodon#38169, mastodon#38170, mastodon#38177, mastodon#38193, mastodon#38213, mastodon#38251, mastodon#38255, mastodon#38256, mastodon#38282, mastodon#38298, mastodon#38292, mastodon#38307, mastodon#38306, mastodon#38316, mastodon#38115, mastodon#38329, mastodon#38334, mastodon#38337, mastodon#38351, mastodon#38368, mastodon#38370, mastodon#38356, mastodon#38383, mastodon#38386, mastodon#38385, mastodon#38394, mastodon#38393, mastodon#38399, mastodon#38402, mastodon#38409, mastodon#38414, mastodon#38413, mastodon#38424, mastodon#38425, mastodon#38450, mastodon#38508, mastodon#38528, mastodon#38534, mastodon#38536, mastodon#38540, mastodon#38543, mastodon#38491, mastodon#38586, mastodon#38611, mastodon#38588, mastodon#38612, mastodon#38628, mastodon#38626, mastodon#38630, mastodon#38633, mastodon#38629, mastodon#38638, mastodon#38645, mastodon#38644, mastodon#38636, mastodon#38660, mastodon#38657, mastodon#38688, mastodon#38690, mastodon#38672, mastodon#38698, mastodon#38697, mastodon#38708, mastodon#38712, mastodon#38713, mastodon#38709, mastodon#38719, mastodon#38728, mastodon#38730, mastodon#38732, mastodon#38739, mastodon#38749, mastodon#38751, mastodon#38750, mastodon#38767, mastodon#38769, mastodon#38783, mastodon#38785, mastodon#38959, mastodon#38786, mastodon#38794, mastodon#38776, mastodon#38817, mastodon#38792, mastodon#38822, mastodon#38827, mastodon#38831, mastodon#38830, mastodon#38844, mastodon#38843, mastodon#38852, mastodon#38850, mastodon#38847, mastodon#38865, mastodon#38897, mastodon#38900, mastodon#38919, mastodon#38933, mastodon#38934, mastodon#38935, mastodon#38942, mastodon#38941, mastodon#38954, mastodon#38961, mastodon#38957, mastodon#38962, mastodon#38991, mastodon#39009, mastodon#39062, mastodon#39029, mastodon#39069, mastodon#39020, mastodon#39073, mastodon#39082, mastodon#39096, mastodon#39080, mastodon#39182, mastodon#39143, mastodon#39127, mastodon#37929, mastodon#38029, mastodon#39194, mastodon#39198, mastodon#39210, mastodon#39211, mastodon#39202, mastodon#39214, mastodon#39215, mastodon#39220, mastodon#39234, mastodon#39260, and mastodon#39251 by @ChaosExAnima, @ClearlyClaire, @Gargron, @arte7, @diondiondion, @mjankowski, @oneiros, and @shleeable)
  • Create collections with up to 25 accounts each, then share them with others. You can read more about this feature on our blog. This is based on FEP-7aa9 (Featured Collections) to be interoperable with the wider Fediverse. All the new API methods are documented here.
• Add email subscriptions (mastodon#38163, mastodon#38507, mastodon#38502, mastodon#38487, mastodon#38527, mastodon#38582, mastodon#38741, mastodon#38907, and mastodon#39162 by @ClearlyClaire and @Gargron)
  • Admins can allow specific roles to enable email subscriptions on their profile, allowing anonymous visitors to subscribe to their posts via email.
• Add new overview landing page setting (mastodon#39074, mastodon#39170, mastodon#39163, and mastodon#39138 by @Gargron, @diondiondion, and @zunda)
  • Admins can choose a new frontpage for anonymous visitors, which combines the about page and most recent posts from local profiles.
• Add ability to require 2FA for specific roles (including Everybody) (mastodon#37701, mastodon#37846, and mastodon#38906 by @ClearlyClaire and @mjankowski)
• Add export for custom filters (mastodon#39085 by @arte7)
• Add ability to search email blocks by domain in admin UI (mastodon#38923 by @arte7)
• Add new endpoints for profile editing in REST API (mastodon#37912, mastodon#37934, mastodon#37932, mastodon#38221, and mastodon#38339 by @ClearlyClaire)
  • Add GET /api/v1/profile and PATCH /api/v1/profile to replace the existing update_credentials endpoint. See the documentation for more information.
• Add missing_attribution boolean to preview cards in REST API (mastodon#38043 by @ClearlyClaire)
  • Documentation: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/PreviewCard/#missing_attribution
• Add exclude_direct flag to /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses to exclude direct messages (mastodon#37763 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add max_note_length and max_display_name_length attributes to configuration.accounts in Instance entity (mastodon#37991 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add profile field limits to instance entity in REST API (mastodon#37535 by @mkljczk)
  • This adds attributes configuration.accounts.max_profile_fields, configuration.accounts.profile_field_name_limit and configuration.accounts.profile_field_value_limit to the Instance entity.
• Add unresolved flag to `/api/v1/admin/r...

v4.6.0-beta.1

Warning

This is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on some servers. If you update to this release, you will not be able to safely downgrade to the existing stable releases. You will, however, be able to upgrade to later nightly releases or pre-releases, as well as the upcoming 4.6.0 stable release.

Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

⚠️ The minimum supported version for Ruby has been bumped to 3.3
⚠️ The minimum supported version for Node.JS has been bumped to 22
⚠️ The minimum supported version for FFMpeg has been bumped to 5.1
⚠️ ImageMagick support has been dropped, libvips is required
⚠️ Custom themes need to be updated
ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation
ℹ️ Requires streaming server restart
ℹ️ Requires database migrations

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog

Added

• Add collections (mastodon#37992, mastodon#37005, mastodon#37049, mastodon#37020, mastodon#37053, mastodon#37110, mastodon#37117, mastodon#37122, mastodon#37154, mastodon#37157, mastodon#37176, mastodon#37192, mastodon#37222, mastodon#37225, mastodon#37254, mastodon#37277, mastodon#37298, mastodon#37322, mastodon#37434, mastodon#37468, mastodon#37514, mastodon#37512, mastodon#37549, mastodon#37556, mastodon#37560, mastodon#37580, mastodon#37591, mastodon#37552, mastodon#37618, mastodon#37643, mastodon#37658, mastodon#37731, mastodon#37678, mastodon#37741, mastodon#37762, mastodon#37790, mastodon#37805, mastodon#37823, mastodon#37837, mastodon#37842, mastodon#37850, mastodon#37848, mastodon#37812, mastodon#37950, mastodon#37898, mastodon#37916, mastodon#37920, mastodon#37927, mastodon#37928, mastodon#37961, mastodon#37967, mastodon#37974, mastodon#37989, mastodon#37986, mastodon#38004, mastodon#38026, mastodon#38027, mastodon#38030, mastodon#38038, mastodon#38065, mastodon#38081, mastodon#38082, mastodon#38096, mastodon#38106, mastodon#38113, mastodon#38124, mastodon#38133, mastodon#38144, mastodon#38153, mastodon#38166, mastodon#38167, mastodon#38169, mastodon#38170, mastodon#38177, mastodon#38193, mastodon#38213, mastodon#38251, mastodon#38255, mastodon#38256, mastodon#38282, mastodon#38298, mastodon#38292, mastodon#38307, mastodon#38306, mastodon#38316, mastodon#38115, mastodon#38329, mastodon#38334, mastodon#38337, mastodon#38351, mastodon#38368, mastodon#38370, mastodon#38356, mastodon#38383, mastodon#38386, mastodon#38385, mastodon#38394, mastodon#38393, mastodon#38399, mastodon#38402, mastodon#38409, mastodon#38414, mastodon#38413, mastodon#38424, mastodon#38425, mastodon#38450, mastodon#38508, mastodon#38528, mastodon#38534, mastodon#38536, mastodon#38540, mastodon#38543, mastodon#38491, mastodon#38586, mastodon#38611, mastodon#38588, mastodon#38612, mastodon#38628, mastodon#38626, mastodon#38630, mastodon#38633, mastodon#38629, mastodon#38638, mastodon#38645, mastodon#38644, mastodon#38636, mastodon#38660, mastodon#38657, mastodon#38688, mastodon#38690, mastodon#38672, mastodon#38698, mastodon#38697, mastodon#38708, mastodon#38712, mastodon#38713, mastodon#38709, mastodon#38719, mastodon#38728, mastodon#38730, mastodon#38732, mastodon#38739, mastodon#38749, mastodon#38751, mastodon#38750, mastodon#38767, mastodon#38769, mastodon#38783, mastodon#38785, mastodon#38959, mastodon#38786, mastodon#38794, mastodon#38776, mastodon#38817, mastodon#38792, mastodon#38822, mastodon#38827, mastodon#38831, mastodon#38830, mastodon#38844, mastodon#38843, mastodon#38852, mastodon#38850, mastodon#38847, mastodon#38865, mastodon#38897, mastodon#38900, mastodon#38919, mastodon#38933, mastodon#38934, mastodon#38935, mastodon#38942, mastodon#38941, mastodon#38954, mastodon#38961, mastodon#38957, mastodon#38962, mastodon#38991, mastodon#39009, mastodon#39062, mastodon#39029, mastodon#39069, mastodon#39020, mastodon#39073, mastodon#39082, mastodon#39096, mastodon#39080, mastodon#39182, mastodon#39143, mastodon#39127, mastodon#37929, mastodon#38029, mastodon#39194, mastodon#39198, mastodon#39210, mastodon#39211, mastodon#39202, mastodon#39214, mastodon#39215, mastodon#39220, mastodon#39234, mastodon#39260, and mastodon#39251 by @ChaosExAnima, @ClearlyClaire, @Gargron, @arte7, @diondiondion, @mjankowski, @oneiros, and @shleeable)
  • Create collections with up to 25 accounts each, then share them with others. You can read more about this feature on our blog. This is based on FEP-7aa9 (Featured Collections) to be interoperable with the wider Fediverse. All the new API methods are documented here.
• Add email subscriptions (mastodon#38163, mastodon#38507, mastodon#38502, mastodon#38487, mastodon#38527, mastodon#38582, mastodon#38741, mastodon#38907, and mastodon#39162 by @ClearlyClaire and @Gargron)
  • Admins can allow specific roles to enable email subscriptions on their profile, allowing anonymous visitors to subscribe to their posts via email.
• Add new overview landing page setting (mastodon#39074, mastodon#39170, mastodon#39163, and mastodon#39138 by @Gargron, @diondiondion, and @zunda)
  • Admins can choose a new frontpage for anonymous visitors, which combines the about page and most recent posts from local profiles.
• Add ability to require 2FA for specific roles (including Everybody) (mastodon#37701, mastodon#37846, and mastodon#38906 by @ClearlyClaire and @mjankowski)
• Add export for custom filters (mastodon#39085 by @arte7)
• Add ability to search email blocks by domain in admin UI (mastodon#38923 by @arte7)
• Add new endpoints for profile editing in REST API (mastodon#37912, mastodon#37934, mastodon#37932, mastodon#38221, and mastodon#38339 by @ClearlyClaire)
  • Add GET /api/v1/profile and PATCH /api/v1/profile to replace the existing update_credentials endpoint. See the documentation for more information.
• Add missing_attribution boolean to preview cards in REST API (mastodon#38043 by @ClearlyClaire)
  • Documentation: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/PreviewCard/#missing_attribution
• Add exclude_direct flag to /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses to exclude direct messages (mastodon#37763 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add max_note_length and max_display_name_length attributes to configuration.accounts in Instance entity (mastodon#37991 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add profile field limits to instance entity in REST API (mastodon#37535 by @mkljczk)
  • This adds attributes configuration.accounts.max_profile_fields, configuration.accounts.profile_field_name_limit and configuration.accounts.profile_field_value_limit to the Instance entity.
• Add unresolved flag to /api/v1/admin/reports to query both resolved and unresolved reports (mastodon#38323 by @mkljczk)
• Add fallback attributes to notifications for new and infrequent notifications in REST API (mastodon#38832 and mastodon#38860 by @ClearlyClaire)
  • This adds a supported_types parameter to GET /api/v1/notifications, GET /api/v1/notifications/:id, GET /api/v2/notifications, and GET /api/v2/notifications/:group_key along with a new fallback attribute for notifications and notification groups.
• Add support for posts in vertical languages in web UI (mastodon#37204, mastodon#38205, and mastodon#38797 by @shimon1024)
• Add PageUp and PageDown hotkeys for list navigation (mastodon#39252 by @diondiondion)
• Add g+e keyboard shortcut to access the trending page in web UI (mastodon#38014 by @antoinecellerier)
• Add Cmd/Ctrl+Enter for form submissions in more text areas in web UI (mastodon#37821 by @diondiondion)
• Add support for quoting by dragging a link into the compose form in web UI (mastodon#36859 and mastodon#36896 by @ClearlyClaire and @tribela)
• Add text-autospace to posts to improve rendering of mixed script posts in web UI (mastodon#37694 by @ahxxm)
• Add nan-TW to supported locales (mastodon#37650, mastodon#34923, mastodon#37822, and mastodon#37721 by @ClearlyClaire and @Yoxem)
• Add support for hosts resolver in request socket DNS lookup (mastodon#38699, mastodon#38866, and mastodon#39030 by @ClearlyClaire and @mjankowski)
• Add support for FEP-2c59 (Webfinger Backlink) (mastodon#38239, mastodon#38538, and mastodon#38639 by @ClearlyClaire and @shleeable)
• Add support for FEP-3b86 (Activity Intents) (mastodon#38120 and mastodon#38130 by @ClearlyClaire and @Gargron)
• Add support for alt text for profile pictures and headers (mastodon#37634, mastodon#37641, and mastodon#38000 by @ClearlyClaire and @Doxterpepper)
• Add support for multiple keypairs for remote accounts (mastodon#38279, mastodon#38407, mastodon#38419, mastodon#38511, mastodon#38516, mastodon#38515, mastodon#38555 and mastodon#39235 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add support for the “require approval” feature for email domain blocks to tootctl email_domain_blocks (mastodon#34579 and mastodon#38107 by @ClearlyClaire and @e-nomem)
• Add --keep-interacted flag to tootctl media remove to preserve cached media on cleanup (mastodon#36200 by @northerner)
• Add systemd service file for prometheus exporter (mastodon#35130 by @ThisIsMissEm)

Changed

• Change design of profiles in web UI (mastodon#37472, mastodon#37490, mastodon#37479, mastodon#37513, mastodon#37527, mastodon#37550, mastodon#37538, mastodon#37632, mastodon#37627, mastodon#37593, mastodon#37638, mastodon#37626, mastodon#37645, mastodon#37653, mastodon#37683, mastodon#37707, mastodon#37682, mastodon#37742, mastodon#37747, mastodon#37760, mastodon#37761, mastodon#37831, mastodon#37766, mastodon#37811, mastodon#37813, mastodon#37825, mastodon#37854, mastodon#37851, mastodon#37876, mastodon#37885, mastodon#37892, mastodon#37890, mastodon#37907, mastodon#37922, mastodon#37952, mastodon#37958, mastodon#37996, mastodon#37990, mastodon#37994, mastodon#38005, mastodon#38012, mastodon#38040, mastodon#38052, mastodon#38066, mastodon#38083, mastodon#38147, mastodon#38148, mastodon#38152, mastodon#38168, mastodon#38156, mastodon#38175, mastodon#38191, mastodon#38189, mastodon#38235, mastodon#38283, mastodon#38310, mastodon#38309, mastodon#38315, mastodon#38314, mastodon#38365, mastodon#38366, mastodon#38363, mastodon#38346, mastodon#38382, mastodon#38384, mastodon#38400, mastodon#38404, mastodon#38417, mastodon#38426, mastodon#38440, mastodon#38442, mastodon#38443, mastodon#38445, mastodon#38446, mastodon#38451, mastodon#38456, mastodon#38509, mastodon#38510, mastodon#38512, mastodon#38513, mastodon#38517, mastodon#38529, mastodon#38531, mastodon#38535, mastodon#38532, mastodon#38544, mastodon#38549, mastodon#38575, mastodon#38579, mastodon#38580, mastodon#38581, mastodon#38585, mastodon#38584, mastodon#38604, mastodon#38605, mastodon#38606, mastodon#38607, mastodon#38622, mastodon#38616, mastodon#38625, mastodon#38632, mastodon#38640, mastodon#38663, mastodon#38667, mastodon#38646, mastodon#38691, mastodon#38692, mastodon#38766, mastodon#38791, mastodon#38687, mastodon#38826, mastodon#38828, mastodon#38863, mastodon#38845, mastodon#38870, mastodon#38872, mastodon#38932, mastodon#38945, mastodon#38963, mastodon#38964, mastodon#39055, mastodon#39042, mastodon#38893, mastodon#39079, mastodon#39084, mastodon#39160, mastodon#39070, and mastodon#39217 by @ChaosExAnima, @ClearlyClaire, @Coro365, @diondiondion, and @shleeable)
  • The profile screen has been entirely redesigned, has new features, and allows you to update your own profile directly without going into the preferences panel. You can read more about it on our blog.
• Change how #Wrapstodon reports are generated and displayed (mastodon#37033, mastodon#37045, mastodon#37093, mastodon#37055, mastodon#37096, mastodon#37047, mastodon#37103, mastodon#37104, mastodon#37106, mastodon#37109, mastodon#37121, mastodon#37138, mastodon#37134, mastodon#37177, mastodon#37182, mastodon#37169, mastodon#37186, mastodon#37187, mastodon#37188, mastodon#37189, mastodon#37190, mastodon#37193, mastodon#37198, mastodon#37201, mastodon#37203, mastodon#37205, mastodon#37206, mastodon#37207, mastodon#37209, mastodon#37202, mastodon#37216, mastodon#37219, mastodon#37224, mastodon#37226, mastodon#37229, mastodon#37249, mastodon#37251, mastodon#37256, mastodon#37261, mastodon#37269, mastodon#37270, mastodon#37273, and mastodon#37289 by @ChaosExAnima, @ClearlyClaire, @channyeintun, and @diondiondion)
  • This finishes up work started in 2024 by completely revamping how Wrapstodon reports are generated and displayed, reducing the amount of data collected and generating reports when active users ask for them.
  • Instead of requiring manual generation from a server administrator, this is now offered between the 10th of December and the end of each year if enabled in the server settings.
  • The design of the Wrapstodon report has also been fully reworked to be more delightful and easier to share!
  • The relevant API endpoints are documented at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/annual_reports/
• Change pending user notification email to link directly to the pending acco...