Notices by Mastodon Engineering (mastodonengineering@mastodon.social)

We’re excited to welcome Shannon (@whattherestimefor) to the Mastodon core team as our full-time iOS developer!

She will be enhancing the official iOS Mastodon app, ensuring it delivers the best possible experience for our users.

We just released Mastodon 4.3.1!

It contains some bug fixes and a few small features, like (optional) grouping of follow notifications and improvements the fediverse:creator setup instructions.

Upgrading requires re-compiling frontend assets (if not using Docker), instructions are in the release notes : https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.1

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We just released the second beta of Mastodon 4.3.

This version contains a security fix for an issue present in Mastodon 4.3 beta 1, (moderate severity) so we strongly suggest admins running on our beta versions to update as soon as possible.

We expect this to be the final beta, and to release our Release Candidate next week. Please open GitHub issues if you encounter anything unexpected!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.0-beta.2

#mastoadmin #mastodev

We are excited to launch a new project that will help small and medium-sized fediverse servers and their users have better access to search and discovery through the use of pluggable Fediverse Discovery Providers, supported by a grant from @EC_NGI. See our new dedicated website for details:

https://fediscovery.org/

We are planning to release new Mastodon security updates for versions 4.1, 4.2 and nightly this Thursday, Jul 04, at 15:00 UTC. It solves multiple security issues, including a major one. We encourage server administrators to plan for a timely upgrade to ensure their Mastodon server is protected.

We just released security patches for versions 4.1, 4.2, and nightly. If you are using nightly, you can upgrade to nightly.2024-05-31-security. We strongly suggest you upgrade to one of those versions.

We just released important security patches for versions 4.1, 4.2, nightly, and the already discontinued 3.5 and 4.0.

If you are using nightly, you can upgrade to the 4.3.0-nightly.2024-02-15-security tag to get the patches.

Please upgrade as soon as possible!

We just released critical security patches for versions 4.1, 4.2, nightly, and the already discontinued 3.5 and 4.0.

If you are using nightly, you can upgrade to the `4.3.0-nightly.2024-02-02-security` tag to get the patch.

Please upgrade as soon as possible!

We are planning to release critical security patches for versions 3.5, 4.1, 4.2 and nightly this Thursday, Feb 01, at 15:00 UTC. We encourage server administrators to plan for a timely upgrade to ensure their Mastodon server is protected.

We've released the patches 4.2.1, 4.1.10, 4.0.12 and 3.5.15 today with some regular bug fixes. This is probably the last release on the 4.0 line as it's nearing its EOL.

#Mastodon 4.2 is out! This massive update features new search functionality and many usability improvements. See the extensive changelog and upgrade instructions here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0

Please note that Mastodon 3.5 will reach end-of-life at the end of the year, and 4.0 at the end of October. We strongly suggest you upgrade to 4.1 or 4.2 by that point! Mastodon 4.2 will be released this Thursday.

We just released security patches for versions 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2. If you are using nightly, you can upgrade to 4.2.0-rc2 safely. We strongly suggest you upgrade to one of those versions in the coming days.

#Mastodon 4.2 has entered the release candidate stage. We expect the stable to drop next week!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0-rc1

The 4.2 release is dropping soon. Help us get all the new labels and messages translated into your language through Crowdin!

https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

The third beta of #Mastodon 4.2.0 is now available. We're pretty much just fine tuning search now!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0-beta3

The first beta of #Mastodon 4.2.0 is now available for testing! There are too many improvements to count. See the extensive changelog and upgrade instructions here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0-beta1