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Mastodon v3.3.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-12-27 // over 3 years ago

  • ➕ Added

    • ➕ Add hotkeys for audio/video control in web UI (Gargron, Gargron)
      • Space and k to toggle playback
      • m to toggle mute
      • f to toggle fullscreen
      • j and l to go back and forward by 10 seconds
      • . and , to go back and forward by a frame (video only)
    • ➕ Add expand/compress button on media modal in web UI (mashirozx, mashirozx, mashirozx)
    • ➕ Add border around 🕺 emoji in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add border around 🐞 emoji in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add home link to the getting started column when home isn't mounted (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add option to disable swiping motions across the web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add pop-out player for audio/video in web UI (Gargron, Gargron, Gargron, noellabo)
      • Continue watching/listening when you scroll away
      • Action bar to interact with/open toot from the pop-out player
    • ➕ Add unread notification markers in web UI (ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, noellabo, noellabo)
    • ➕ Add paragraph about browser add-ons when encountering errors in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add import and export for bookmarks (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add cache buster feature for media files (Gargron)
      • If you have a proxy cache in front of object storage, deleted files will persist until the cache expires
      • If enabled, cache buster will make a special request to the proxy to signal a cache reset
    • ➕ Add duration option to the mute function (aquarla)
    • ➕ Add replies policy option to the list function (ClearlyClaire, trwnh)
    • ➕ Add og:published_time OpenGraph tags on toots (nornagon)
    • ➕ Add option to be notified when a followed user posts (Gargron, ClearlyClaire, Gargron)
      • If you don't want to miss a toot, click the bell button!
    • ➕ Add client-side validation in password change forms (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add client-side validation in the registration form (ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add support for Gemini URLs (joshleeb)
    • ➕ Add app shortcuts to web app manifest (mkljczk)
    • ➕ Add WebAuthn as an alternative 2FA method (santiagorodriguez96, jiikko)
    • ➕ Add honeypot fields and minimum fill-out time for sign-up form (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add icon for mutual relationships in relationship manager (noellabo)
    • ➕ Add follow selected followers button in relationship manager (noellabo)
    • ➕ Add subresource integrity for JS and CSS assets (Gargron)
      • If you use a CDN for static assets (JavaScript, CSS, and so on), you have to trust that the CDN does not modify the assets maliciously
      • Subresource integrity compares server-generated asset digests with what's actually served from the CDN and prevents such attacks
    • ➕ Add ku, sa, sc, zgh to available locales (ykzts)
    • ➕ Add ability to force an account to mark media as sensitive (noellabo)
    • ➕ Add ability to block access or limit sign-ups from chosen IPs (Gargron, ClearlyClaire)
      • Add rules for IPs or CIDR ranges that automatically expire after a configurable amount of time
      • Choose the severity of the rule, either blocking all access or merely limiting sign-ups
    • ➕ Add support for reversible suspensions through ActivityPub (Gargron)
      • Servers can signal that one of their accounts has been suspended
      • During suspension, the account can only delete its own content
      • A reversal of the suspension can be signalled the same way
      • A local suspension always overrides a remote one
    • ➕ Add indication to admin UI of whether a report has been forwarded (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add display of reasons for joining of an account in admin UI (mashirozx)
    • ➕ Add option to obfuscate domain name in public list of domain blocks (Gargron)
    • ➕ Add option to make reasons for joining required on sign-up (ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add ActivityPub follower synchronization mechanism (ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add outbox attribute to instance actor (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add featured hashtags as an ActivityPub collection (Gargron, noellabo)
    • ➕ Add support for dereferencing objects through bearcaps (Gargron, noellabo)
    • Add S3_READ_TIMEOUT environment variable (tateisu)
    • Add ALLOWED_PRIVATE_ADDRESSES environment variable (ClearlyClaire)
    • ➕ Add --fix-permissions option to tootctl media remove-orphans (Gargron, uist1idrju3i)
    • ➕ Add tootctl accounts merge (Gargron, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire)
      • Has someone changed their domain or subdomain thereby creating two accounts where there should be one?
      • This command will fix it on your end
    • ➕ Add tootctl maintenance fix-duplicates (ClearlyClaire, Gargron, ClearlyClaire)
      • Index corruption in the database?
      • This command is for you
    • ➕ Add support for managing multiple stream subscriptions in a single connection (Gargron, Gargron, mfmfuyu, zunda)
      • Previously, getting live updates for multiple timelines required opening a HTTP or WebSocket connection for each
      • More connections means more resource consumption on both ends, not to mention the (ever so slight) delay when establishing a new connection
      • Now, with just a single WebSocket connection you can subscribe and unsubscribe to and from multiple streams
    • Add support for limiting results by both min_id and max_id at the same time in REST API (tateisu)
    • ➕ Add GET /api/v1/accounts/:id/featured_tags to REST API (noellabo, noellabo)
    • ➕ Add stoplight for object storage failures, return HTTP 503 in REST API (Gargron)
    • ➕ Add optional tootctl remove media cronjob in Helm chart (dunn)
    • ➕ Add clean error message when RAILS_ENV is unset (ClearlyClaire)

    🔄 Changed

    • 🔄 Change media modals look in web UI (Gargron, Gargron, Gargron, Gargron, Kjwon15, noellabo, ClearlyClaire)
      • Background of the overlay matches the color of the image
      • Action bar to interact with or open the toot from the modal
    • 🔄 Change order of announcements in admin UI to be newest-first (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🔄 Change account suspensions to be reversible by default (Gargron, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, noellabo, ClearlyClaire, Gargron, Gargron)
      • Suspensions no longer equal deletions
      • A suspended account can be unsuspended with minimal consequences for 30 days
      • Immediate deletion of data is still available as an explicit option
      • Suspended accounts can request an archive of their data through the UI
    • 🔄 Change REST API to return empty data for suspended accounts (14765)
    • 🔄 Change web UI to show empty profile for suspended accounts (Gargron, Gargron)
    • 🔄 Change featured hashtag suggestions to be recently used instead of most used (abcang)
    • 🔄 Change direct toots to appear in the home feed again (Gargron, ClearlyClaire, noellabo)
      • Return to treating all toots the same instead of trying to retrofit direct visibility into an instant messaging model
    • 🔄 Change email address validation to return more specific errors (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🔄 Change HTTP signature requirements to include Digest header on POST requests (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🔄 Change click area of video/audio player buttons to be bigger in web UI (ariasuni)
    • 🔄 Change order of filters by alphabetic by "keyword or phrase" (ariasuni)
    • 🔄 Change suspension of remote accounts to also undo outgoing follows (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🔄 Change string "Home" to "Home and lists" in the filter creation screen (ariasuni)
    • 🔄 Change string "Boost to original audience" to "Boost with original visibility" in web UI (3n-k1)
    • 🔄 Change string "Show more" to "Show newer" and "Show older" on public pages (ariasuni)
    • 🔄 Change order of announcements to be reverse chronological in web UI (dariusk, dariusk)
    • 🔄 Change RTL detection to rely on unicode-bidi paragraph by paragraph in web UI (Gargron)
    • 🔄 Change visibility icon next to timestamp to be clickable in web UI (ariasuni, mayaeh)
    • 🔄 Change public thread view to hide "Show thread" link (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🔄 Change number format on about page from full to shortened (Gargron)
    • 🔄 Change how scheduled tasks run in multi-process environments (noellabo)
      • New dedicated queue scheduler
      • Runs by default when Sidekiq is executed with no options
      • Has to be added manually in a multi-process environment

    ✂ Removed

    • ✂ Remove fade-in animation from modals in web UI (Gargron)
    • ✂ Remove auto-redirect to direct messages in web UI (Gargron)
    • ✂ Remove obsolete IndexedDB operations from web UI (Gargron)
    • ✂ Remove dependency on unused and unmaintained http_parser.rb gem (ClearlyClaire)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fix layout on about page when contact account has a long username (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix follow limit preventing re-following of a moved account (Gargron, ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix deletes not reaching every server that interacted with toot (Gargron)
      • Previously, delete of a toot would be primarily sent to the followers of its author, people mentioned in the toot, and people who reblogged the toot
      • Now, additionally, it is ensured that it is sent to people who replied to it, favourited it, and to the person it replies to even if that person is not mentioned
    • 🛠 Fix resolving an account through its non-canonical form (i.e. alternate domain) (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix sending redundant ActivityPub events when processing remote account deletion (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix Move handler not being triggered when failing to fetch target account (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix downloading remote media files when server returns empty filename (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix account processing failing because of large collections (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix not being able to unfavorite toots one has lost access to (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix not being able to unbookmark toots one has lost access to (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix possible casing inconsistencies in hashtag search (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix updating account counters when association is not yet created (Gargron)
    • 🛠 Fix cookies not having a SameSite attribute (Gargron)
    • 🛠 Fix poll ending notifications being created for each vote (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix multiple boosts of a same toot erroneously appearing in TL (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix asset builds not picking up CDN_HOST change (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix desktop notifications permission prompt in web UI (Gargron, Gargron, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire)
      • Some time ago, browsers added a requirement that desktop notification prompts could only be displayed in response to a user-generated event (such as a click)
      • This means that for some time, users who haven't already given the permission before were not getting a prompt and as such were not receiving desktop notifications
    • 🛠 Fix "Mark media as sensitive" string not supporting pluralizations in other languages in web UI (ariasuni)
    • 🛠 Fix glitched image uploads when canvas read access is blocked in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix some account gallery items having empty labels in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix alt-key hotkeys activating while typing in a text field in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix wrong seek bar width on media player in web UI (mfmfuyu)
    • 🛠 Fix logging out on mobile in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix wrong click area for GIFVs in media modal in web UI (noellabo)
    • 🛠 Fix unreadable placeholder text color in high contrast theme in web UI (Gargron)
    • 🛠 Fix scrolling issues when closing some dropdown menus in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix notification filter bar incorrectly filtering gaps in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix disabled boost icon being replaced by private boost icon on hover in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix hashtag detection in compose form being different to server-side in web UI (kedamaDQ, ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix home last read marker mishandling gaps in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix unnecessary re-rendering of various components when typing in web UI (Gargron)
    • 🛠 Fix notifications being unnecessarily re-rendered in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix column swiping animation logic in web UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix inefficiency when fetching hashtag timeline (noellabo, akihikodaki)
    • 🛠 Fix inefficiency when fetching bookmarks (akihikodaki)
    • 🛠 Fix inefficiency when fetching favourites (akihikodaki)
    • 🛠 Fix inefficiency when fetching media-only account timeline (akihikodaki)
    • 🛠 Fix inefficiency when deleting accounts (Gargron, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, ClearlyClaire, Gargron)
    • 🛠 Fix redundant query when processing batch actions on custom emojis (niwatori24)
    • 🛠 Fix slow distinct queries where grouped queries are faster (Gargron)
    • 🛠 Fix performance on instances list in admin UI (Gargron)
    • 🛠 Fix server actor appearing in list of accounts in admin UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix "bootstrap timeline accounts" toggle in site settings in admin UI (ClearlyClaire)
    • 🛠 Fix PostgreSQL secret name for cronjob in Helm chart (metal3d)
    • 🛠 Fix Procfile not being compatible with herokuish (acuteaura)
    • 🛠 Fix installation of tini being split into multiple steps in Dockerfile (ryncsn)

    🔒 Security

    • 🛠 Fix streaming API allowing connections to persist after access token invalidation (Gargron)
    • 🛠 Fix 2FA/sign-in token sessions being valid after password change (Gargron)
    • 🛠 Fix resolving accounts sometimes creating duplicate records for a given ActivityPub identifier (ClearlyClaire)