The first beta release of Mastodon 4.4.0 is ready for testing! Many user-facing improvements: featured content, updates for lists, follower management, new emoji, and refreshed audio and media players. For server owners: new legal features, moderation tweaks, announcements updates, upgraded software stack, and some experimental feature options. Please test it out, and provide feedback 💬

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Release v4.4.0-beta.1 · mastodon/mastodon

WarningThis 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...

Our latest post marks one year of monthly engineering blog updates. We hope you've been finding them useful! Read about what's changed recently, ahead of a planned beta release of Mastodon 4.4 later this month.

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Trunk & Tidbits, April 2025

Mastodon development news for April 2025: team changes, releases, future deprecations, and new features in the works.

We just released Mastodon 4.3.8 and 4.2.21. They contain a few minor bug fixes and a minor security fix. If you are running nightly versions, an updated container image is available under the `nightly.2025-05-07-security` tag Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:

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Releases · mastodon/mastodon

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Very happy to welcome our second front-end developer to the core team - hey there, @npub1fatc...8pfv 🥳 We've got plenty of improvements in the pipeline, and we're glad to have Dion onboard to make Mastodon better for everyone!

We're laying the groundwork to retire Redis namespaces from a future release of the Mastodon server code. See the update from @npub1jcpp...927t on GitHub - and let us know in that discussion if you have additional questions.

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Retiring Redis Namespaces · mastodon/mastodon · Discussion #34198

Background Mastodon has supported using a dedicated namespace for keys in redis for a long time. The idea was that several applications (or instanc...

Note for app developers 💻 the future Mastodon 4.4 release will contain an option for server admins to require a minimum age for user sign-up. If enabled, the sign-up API will behave differently. This is a change that some developers will need to know about, so we wanted to tell you about it in advance. More background in the discussion post on our repository.

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Upcoming change affecting sign-up API for app developers · mastodon/mastodon · Discussion #34495

In the next minor release of Mastodon (4.4) we are introducing a new option for server administrators to set a minimum age required for sign-up. Wh...

New Trunk & Tidbits post, with many updates that happened over the past month, team news, and a whole lot of community shout-outs! Final reminder that tomorrow (2025-04-08) is end of life for Mastodon 4.1 - upgrade to a supported version asap.

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Trunk & Tidbits, March 2025

News from the Mastodon engineering team for March 2025 - including some big changes to the main code, updates to the mobile apps, Fediscovery progr...

We just released Mastodon 4.3.7 and 4.2.20 and 4.1.25. They contain a few minor bug fixes. Note that this will most likely be the last Mastodon 4.1 release, and 4.1 will be unsupported in 6 days, so we highly advise you to update if you run it. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:

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Releases · mastodon/mastodon

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We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to work alongside our frontend and mobile devs. Ideally: 1. You’re highly skilled in UX design, having led product strategy & design process 2. Proficient in Figma/Penpot, with interaction & usability design skills 3. Experienced in accessibility & privacy-conscious design This remote fulltime position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone. For more info/to apply:

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We are thrilled to welcome Echo (@npub19td6...g68x) to the Mastodon core team as our first front-end developer! Look out for future enhancements to the web user interface and user experience as we expand the range of expertise on the team. 🥳