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.
Mastodon Blog
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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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 (@echo ✨) 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. πŸ₯³
We will need to retire the option to use namespaces in Redis (i.e. setting the REDIS_NAMESPACE environment variable) in Mastodon 4.4. If you run a Mastodon server and currently use Redis namespaces, please have a look at this discussion and leave some feedback:
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Retiring Redis Namespaces Β· mastodon/mastodon Β· 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...
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We just released Mastodon 4.3.6, 4.2.19 and 4.1.24. They contain important security fixes. We recommend server administrators to update as soon as possible if they use SAML, or are on the development version. If you are using our nightly releases, a container image with the fix has been published with the nightly.2025-03-14-security tag. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:
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We just released Mastodon 4.3.5 and 4.2.18. They contain a few minor bug fixes. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:
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We posted our monthly engineering update, Trunk & Tidbits - a bit lighter than usual, but there is still plenty going on. We are about to end support for version 4.1.x, so upgrade now! Also, check out our picks from around the community πŸ‘πŸ»
Mastodon Blog
Trunk & Tidbits, February 2025
Development updates from the Mastodon team. Code changes and updates made during February 2025.
We just released Mastodon 4.3.4, 4.2.17 and 4.1.23. They contain bug fixes as well as security fixes (medium severity) We recommend every instance administrator to update as soon as possible. If you are using our nightly releases, a container image with the fix has been published with the `nightly.2025-01-27-security` tag. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:
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