jormungandr-bite/CHANGELOG.md

v2023.09.13-rc1

Highlights

• New branding & documentation
• Proper support for split domain deployments, both local and remote
• Configurable automatic remote media pruning (disabled by default)
• Reworked content warnings (three different styles for CW'd posts, 'Expand all CWs in thread' button, 'Expand all CWs by default' client option)

Bug fixes

• CW-only quotes now function correctly
• Relative timestamps (1m ago) are now updated as time passes
• Replies to inaccessible posts are now displayed correctly instead of causing timeline errors
• Antenna pagination is now handled correctly, including for posts received out of order
• Inbox URLs are now checked in the deliver manager (a broken akkoma commit was briefly causing delivery queue crashes)
• The chats page title no longer occasionally displays undefined
• Fixed an edge case where account deletion could time out
• Antennas now also match on CW text
• Local only posts now correctly display on the timeline without having to reload
• The migration that moves antennas to the redis/dragonflydb cache server now works with password protected redis servers
• You can now no longer edit a post to include a quote of itself
• Post edits no longer support post visibility changes
• Full text search is now restricted to logged in users
• Local only posts are no longer accessible to guest users
• The web client now shows local users with the instance account domain instead of the web domain
• New replies in a thread are now displayed correctly
• User update no longer fails for users who don't have a sharedInbox
• Follow requests now paginate properly
• Fetching pinned posts from users on GoToSocial instances (or other AP implementations that return a collection of URIs instead of objects) now works properly

UI/UX

• Ads, donation nag prompts & the patreon integration have been removed
• The blinking notification indicator has been replaced with a static one
• Replies to inaccessible posts now have an indicator explainin this
• Protected posts now have a lock indicator instead of a disabled boost button
• The navbar editor now has a proper UI
• The instance ticker is now much more readable in light mode
• The post visibility picker is now mobile-optimized
• The search button in the guest view is now a button instead of a fake search bar
• Blur is now disabled by default
• When blur is disabled, UI elements are now properly opaque
• The antenna timeline now has a help text explaining why posts can be out of order
• Status images have been replaced with configurable status emoji
• The navbar layout has been tweaked
• Various inconsistencies as well as alignment & animation issues have been fixed

Mastodon client API

• /api/v1/instance is now more accurate
• Emoji reactions are now supported
• The 'pinned' parameter is now supported for individual profile timelines
• Improved handling for quotes
• Post edits are now supported
• Post deletion now returns the correct response
• OAuth registration now correctly supports multiple callback URIs

Backend

• Cache<T> .getAll and .delete functions now work as expected
• Deleted users are now purged from user lookup and public key caches
• Proper support for host-meta style WebFinger
• Stricter compliance with the WebFinger spec
• Support for WebFinger remotes that don't handle queries for object URIs correctly

Performance

• The project is now built with yarn berry (with zero installs) instead of pnpm
• The docker build process now properly caches rust and yarn deps
• The migration rust crate now builds much faster

Miscellaneous

• The MFM search engine is now configurable
• Various translation updates

Infrastructure and governance

• Commits are now tested with basic CI on push
• Docker builds are now automatic for amd64 and arm64
• The code of conduct has been updated

Attribution

This release was made possible by project contributors: Anthial, AntoineD, April John, aylamz, Froggo, Jeder, Laura Hausmann, Luna, maikelthedev, moshibar, ShittyKopper & Vyr Cossont

It also includes cherry-picked contributions from external contributors: Namekuji, Natty, ThatOneCalculator & Naskya

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This file lists all major changes made since the fork from Firefish on 2023-07-21. For changes prior to that date, please reference the Firefish repository.