Here is our engineering update for December, featuring the latest code changes, news on #Fediscovery, a RubyWorld keynote, and our plans for #FOSDEM.
Mastodon Blog
Trunk & Tidbits, December 2024
The latest engineering updates from the Mastodon team technical updates covering December 2024: including Fediscovery, FOSDEM... and, holidays.
New year, new role @npub163hd...mv0n! Our core team is looking for a senior Front-end Developer to elevate the web UI/UX experience for our users. Ideally: 1. You are highly skilled in accessible and semantic #HTML 2. Proficient in modern #CSS 3. Experienced with #Javascript, #Typescript and complex React/Redux applications This remote full-time position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone. For more info/to apply:
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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.
Mastodon Blog
Trunk & Tidbits, November 2024
Mastodon core team technical updates for November 2024: the latest point releases, progress on Fediscovery, FOSDEM planning, and projects from the ...
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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:
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Releases · mastodon/mastodon
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - mastodon/mastodon
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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.
Mastodon Blog
Trunk & Tidbits, October 2024
Engineering updates from the Mastodon core team, October 2024. Initial updates post-4.3, a new team member, and lots of community news.
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We’re excited to welcome Shannon (@npub17ruc...z6ez) 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.
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 :
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Release v4.3.1 · mastodon/mastodon
Changelog Added Add more explicit explanations about author attribution and fediverse:creator (#32383 by @ClearlyClaire) Add ability to group foll...
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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 Blog
Trunk & Tidbits, September 2024
Engineering updates from the Mastodon team for September 2024. Behind-the-scenes of the 4.3 release.
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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:
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Releases · mastodon/mastodon
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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.
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Release v4.3.0-rc.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...