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Good morning! What are your favorite preset themes in #GoToSocial 0.15.0? (multiple choice poll)

Hello sportsfans!

The proper release of #GoToSocial v0.15.0 Shagadelic Sloth has emerged blinking into the sun, fresh from the release candidate process :) One of our funkiest releases ever, since it contains some beautiful new themes you can try out (see screenshots).

You can get the release here:

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.15.0

As always, please read the migration notes carefully! This release contains important database migrations that you should not interrupt!

Highlights of this release:

• Incoming and outgoing Move Activities are now processed properly. This means you will automatically follow other people when they move their accounts, and you can also Move your own account from your GtS instance to somewhere else, or move your account from somewhere else to your GtS instance!
  User docs here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#migration
  Federation docs (for devs) here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/federation/federating_with_gotosocial/#actor-migration-aliasing
• You can hide your followers and following collections now! When hidden, your followers/following count will no longer appear on your profile, and your collections of followers/following will be hidden from other servers (and other accounts on your server).
  User docs here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#hide-who-you-follow-are-followed-by
• V1 Filter support! Depending on the client you're using, you will now be able to add filters to hide certain phrases from your timeline.
• Preset user-selectable CSS themes are here! In the settings page, you can now choose a theme for your profile, which will change how it appears in the web view of your account! For now we added 5 different themes to choose from, screenshots below!
  User docs: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#select-theme
  Docs for admins (how to add your own themes to your instance): https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/themes/

Hey nerds! 🌸

First spring time release of #GoToSocial, here's the first release candidate for version 0.15.0 Shagadelic Sloth!

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.15.0-rc1

For adventurous admins updating to this release candidate, please read the migration notes carefully, especially regarding database migrations :)

Release highlights

• Incoming and outgoing Move Activities are now processed properly. This means you will automatically follow other people when they move their accounts, and you can also Move your own account from your GtS instance to somewhere else!
  User docs here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#migration
  Federation docs (for devs) here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/federation/federating_with_gotosocial/#actor-migration-aliasing
• You can hide your followers and following collections now! When hidden, your followers/following count will no longer appear on your profile, and your collections of followers/following will be hidden from other servers (and other accounts on your server).
  User docs here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#hide-who-you-follow-are-followed-by
• Preset user-selectable CSS themes are here! In the settings page, you can now choose a theme for your profile, which will change how it appears in the web view of your account! For now we added 5 different themes to choose from, screenshots below!
  User docs: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#select-theme
  Docs for admins (how to add your own themes to your instance): https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/themes/

Another day another #GoToSocial bugfix release 😎

We fixed a bug present in v0.14.0 and v0.14.1 that was causing 404 errors sometimes when viewing an account or its statuses, if that account had moved at some point.

You can get v0.14.2 from here:

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.14.2

No db migrations or config file changes between v0.14.1 and this version, so upgrading is as simple as updating your docker container or stopping GtS, untarring the release, and starting GtS again.

For instructions to update to this release from versions < v0.14.0, see the v0.14.0 release notes, but replace v0.14.0 with v0.14.2 throughout.

#GoToSocial bugfix release v0.14.1!

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https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.14.1

There was a bug in 0.14.0 which was causing SQLite-backed instances to sometimes become unresponsive, with lots of errors in the logs containing interrupted(9) (see https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/2728).

We poked around and this looks like an issue in our SQLite dependency, so we stepped down to the most recent stable version, and also added some code to prevent the problem from rendering an instance unresponsive.

No db migrations or config file changes between v0.14.0 and this version, so upgrading is as simple as updating your docker container or stopping GtS, untarring the release, and starting GtS again.

For instructions to update to this release from versions < v0.14.0, see the v0.14.0 release notes, but replace v0.14.0 with v0.14.1 throughout.

Thanks!

Hi everyone!

We've just released v0.14.0 of #GoToSocial! Say hello to the Spoiled Sloth

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.14.0

We're really proud of this release! It fixes a lot of longstanding annoying bugs, and adds some very neat features tooooo

Thanks to everyone who helped us with code and trying out release candidates and filing issues, and a big thank you to all our financial supporters who help us out via opencollective and liberapay :)

When upgrading to this version from a previous release, please note that there are CSS and HTML updates, config file changes, and several database migrations which may take a while to run! So please read the migration notes carefully :)

Release highlights:

• Account aliasing. You can now set the alsoKnownAs field on your account via the settings panel, to indicate other accounts you own. This doesn't do much now, but it's the first step towards the Move implementation for account migration coming in v0.15.0. We originally wanted to include Move in this release but it needs more testing so we pushed it back. Hang in there :)
• Much better thread sorting. Conversation threads on both the web view and client API use a new sorting mechanism which makes them way more readable. No longer will replies in a thread be scattered all over the place.
• Better HTTP signature support. We fixed a longstanding issue with including vs not including query parameters in signed GET requests. We now try (and accept) both methods of constructing signatures. Which leads to...
• Improved thread fetching. You'll see far fewer "orphaned" statuses in your timeline now, and you'll see more replies on statuses from other instances.
• Syntax highlighting for code blocks on the web UI. When you include a code block in your markdown now, and correctly indicate the language the code is written in, it will be syntax highlighted when rendered on your profile in the web UI. This requires javascript, but it's a progressive enhancement feature. Visitors to your profile with javascript turned off will just see the code block without syntax highlighting :)
• Improved "about this instance" page, with a link to the page in the nav bar. Previously the "about this instance" page was more or less hidden. We've now surfaced it better, so you can write all your terms and conditions and instance description stuff there. Relatedly....
• Parse instance descriptions and terms and conditions as markdown. Previously it was very difficult to properly edit these fields, because you had to read + write HTML to do so. Now they're parsed as markdown. This means you can more easily include things like blockquotes, lists, etc.
• Big refactor of HTML templates + CSS. We did a serious rework of HTML templates to fix indentation. Previously if you did "view source" on a GoToSocial profile page, you'd see a mess of sloppily-indented HTML. With this refactor, the HTML is now nicely indented and much more readable. We also did an accessibility pass and tested our HTML with various screen readers to try to make the web view a bit less annoying to navigate.
• First pass at a basic spam filtering system. In light of spam waves happening on the fediverse recently we took a crack at implementing a filter to drop messages identified as spam. This is still in the experimental stage, but it's included in this release so you can try it out already. See the docs for details.

Hi everyone! We just made the second release candidate (rc2) for #GoToSocial v0.14.0. Here it is!

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.14.0-rc2

What happened to the first release candidate, you say? Well, it didn't work properly 🤦 But this one does.

If you're the type of badass admin who uses release candidates, please give it a shot :) If you find any bugs particular to this release candidate, let us know on our issues page so we can fix them before 0.14.0 proper.

As always, please read the migration notes carefully!

Highlights of this release (candidate):

• Account aliasing. You can now set the alsoKnownAs field on your account via the settings panel, to indicate other accounts you own. This doesn't do much now, but it's the first step towards the Move implementation for account migration coming in v0.15.0. We originally wanted to include Move in this release but it needs more testing so we pushed it back. Hang in there :)
• Much better thread sorting. Conversation threads on both the web view and client API use a new sorting mechanism which makes them way more readable. No longer will replies in a thread be scattered all over the place.
• Better HTTP signature support. We fixed a longstanding issue with including vs not including query parameters in signed GET requests. We now try (and accept) both methods of constructing signatures. Which leads to...
• Improved thread fetching. You'll see far fewer "orphaned" statuses in your timeline now, and you'll see more replies on statuses from other instances.
• Syntax highlighting for code blocks on the web UI. When you include a code block in your markdown now, and correctly indicate the language the code is written in, it will be syntax highlighted when rendered on your profile in the web UI. This requires javascript to be enabled in a visitor's web browser, but it's a progressive enhancement feature. Visitors to your profile with javascript turned off will just see the code block without syntax highlighting :)
• Improved "about this instance" page, with a link to the page in the nav bar. Previously the "about this instance" page was more or less hidden. We've now surfaced it better, so you can write all your terms and conditions and instance description stuff there. Relatedly....
• Parse instance descriptions and terms and conditions as markdown. Previously it was very difficult to properly edit these fields, because you had to read + write HTML to do so. Now they're parsed as markdown. This means you can more easily include things like blockquotes, lists, etc.
• Big refactor of HTML templates + CSS. We did a serious rework of HTML templates to fix indentation. Previously if you did "view source" on a GoToSocial profile page, you'd see a mess of sloppily-indented HTML. With this refactor, the HTML is now nicely indented and much more readable. We also did an accessibility pass and tested our HTML with various screen readers to try to make the web view a bit less annoying to navigate.
• First pass at a basic spam filtering system. In light of spam waves happening on the fediverse recently we took a crack at implementing a filter to drop messages identified as spam. This is still in the experimental stage, but it's included in this release so you can try it out already. See the docs for details.

Thanks for reading!

Hi everyone! We just made another security + bugfix release for #GoToSocial

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.13.3

If you're running on v0.13.2 or below, you should update to this release as soon as you have the time. There are no database migrations or frontend file changes, so this should be fairly easy!

Similar to the v0.13.2 release, this one closes a couple gaps with regard to ensuring that remote accounts and statuses can't be imitated.

It also fixes a couple different bugs with regard to your instance trying to dereference accounts who've blocked you, or whose instances have blocked you, leading to less weird-looking behavior from the user's side :)

Oh, and as a nice side effect of the above changes, federation with Bookwyrm should work a bit better now too! 📖 🪱

If you're running on a main snapshot build, you should update to the latest code on main by either refreshing the Docker snapshot tag, or taking the latest binary snapshot bundle.

Now with that out of the way we can get on with working on features for 0.14.0 :P

Thanks for reading! Have a good Thursday!

Hello hello! We just made a bugfix/security release of GoToSocial, v0.13.2.

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.13.2

Background

After Mastodon announced some vulnerabilities last week we looked through equivalent parts of our own code to make sure GtS isn't vulnerable in the same way.

Good news

We didn't find anything that would allow anyone to take over an account, or to post statuses or do updates as someone else: we check Create and Update activities carefully.

Bad news

We did find some areas where remote accounts could, with persistence and custom software, make a nuisance of themselves by pretending to be other accounts and sending fakes of a subset of activities such as Likes, Blocks, Follows, Announces (boosts), and Undo's of those things.

The above is not really easy to do, and we don't have any evidence that anyone's actually done it, but hey, now it's fixed just in case.

So, if you're running v0.13.1 or below, we recommend updating to v0.13.2 using the link above. The release doesn't contain any changes to the config file or templates or anything, so it should be a quick and easy update.

If you're running on main/snapshot: we recommend updating your snapshot to the latest code on main, which includes the fix. You can get the latest snapshot binary build from here or, for docker, update your docker image to the latest snapshot tag. Depending on how far back in commits you were before this release, there may be config file changes or other things, but likely nothing breaking.

As always, thanks for reading, and enjoy your week!

We're well on the way to #GoToSocial 0.14.0 release candidate 1!

Based on the sheer amount of fixes and improvements included, 0.14.0 will probably be the biggest release we've done so far

It will also (probably, unless something goes wrong) be the first GoToSocial release to include support for the Move activity, which will let you migrate an existing account to or from a GoToSocial instance, while keeping your followers and following relationships intact :) We waited a long time to write this functionality because we wanted to make sure GoToSocial was in a decent state before people start migrating accounts to it.

So, very exciting! If all goes well, expect more news on the first release candidate in a couple weeks (we're still fixing some bugs, as always).