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!

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Trunk & Tidbits, August 2024

Updates, news, and code changes from the Mastodon engineering team, for August 2024. The 4.3 beta is here!

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We are looking for feedback on our new grouped notifications API from Mastodon client developers. All the details about this API are available at

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Feedback on the new 4.3 grouped notifications API · mastodon/mastodon · Discussion #31618

In Mastodon 4.3, we are adding support for server-side notification grouping. This is intended to make notifications more usable for people with a ...

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! #mastodev #mastodonapi

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:

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Incoming Azure storage driver deprecation · mastodon/mastodon · Discussion #31617

We are strongly considering deprecating the support for Azure Blob storage as a media backend in Mastodon 4.3 (currently targeted for release in Se...

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We are happy to announce the first beta release of Mastodon 4.3 🎉 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.

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Release v4.3.0-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...

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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:

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Releases · mastodon/mastodon

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