We just tagged the release candidate for Mastodon 4.4.0 for testing. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page.
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Release v4.4.0-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...
We've released the second beta of #Mastodon 4.4 - including some UI fine tuning and new updates, additional integration for Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers, and more progress on support for incoming quote posts. Please give it a try on your instance, if you can - we appreciate feedback. 🪧 Next up will be a Release Candidate, and then the full release itself 🤞🏻
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Release v4.4.0-beta.2 · 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...
This week, we are excited to welcome @Imani as our new product designer! In their words, a weaver of "pixels, words, and fibres" - look out for what's coming next to the Mastodon user experience 🎨 📏 Great to have you here, Imani!
We just shared our monthly engineering update from May - some big under-the-covers updates as we got ready to ship the first beta of Mastodon 4.4. Plus, a selection of links to cool projects from our community members.
Mastodon Blog
Trunk & Tidbits, May 2025
News and updates from the Mastodon developers. Mastodon 4.4 beta is out, and we had a busy month with events.
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.
Mastodon Blog
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 @David Roetzel 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...