There's a HUGE changelist in this release, because we've spent some time on a whole load of features for people running public servers as well as the usual collection of bugfixes and minor improvements.
All the appearance and customisation options are now built in to the settings pages, so the old SITE_NAME environment variables have gone away; you can also open and close signups from within settings. There's a new about page, a place to specify server rules and a donation link, and a change to how site statistics are displayed which makes more sense for big instances. Add on email notifications, editable fediverse usernames, and the list gets pretty huge!
We also have a brand new translation into Czech, courtesy of @ichlubna, bringing us to 6 languages now!
There's quite a big UI change though - you may notice that libraries have disappeared. We found that in general people don't use them for organisation, and on public instances they're confusing, so we've hidden them away by default. Now they're really just a way to configure storage locations. You can set default library for uploads, and admins can still move models between libraries. Don't worry though, if you want it back how it was before, you can enable the previous behaviour in the site appearance settings.
What's Changed
💥 Breaking Changes 💥
- Hide libraries by default, with admin option to show them again by @Floppy in #3848
- Require moderator approval for signups by default by @Floppy in #3860
✨ New Features ✨
- Change user fediverse handles to editable username by @Floppy in #3839
- Add editing for creator slugs (aka fedi usernames) by @Floppy in #3844
- Add setting for default library, used when uploading by @Floppy in #3846
- Hide "unassigned" creator/collection if empty by @Floppy in #3852
- Send email to moderators when new accounts are created and need approval by @Floppy in #3853
- Send notifications to moderators when a new report is received by @Floppy in #3862
- Change "enable signup" environment setting into a settings page option by @Floppy in #3865
- Move site name, icon, and tagline into site settings appearance page by @Floppy in #3867
- Add server rules to site settings, with markdown support and automatically shown at signup by @Floppy in #3868
- Add customisable "about" page for specific instance by @Floppy in #3871
- Add setting for an instance-specific financial support link by @Floppy in #3874
- Czech translation by @Floppy in #3882
- Show follower counts for Models, Creators and Collections by @Floppy in #3887
🐛 Bug Fixes 🐛
- Ignore self in multimodel uniqueness check by @Floppy in #3838
- Remove punctuation that breaks links in mailers by @Floppy in #3854
- Fix signup validation failure bug by @Floppy in #3859
- Don't include "JSON files only" as a download option by @Floppy in #3880
- Remove debug output that was accidentally left in by @Floppy in #3883
- Don't store incoming activities by @Floppy in #3889
🛠️ Other Improvements 🛠️
- Add custom validator for checking uniqueness across different tables by @Floppy in #3837
- Disambiguate usernames on startup by @Floppy in #3845
- Improve wording for Creator slug/handle/username edit box by @Floppy in #3847
- Enable cs locale (Czech) on translation.io by @Floppy in #3863
- Remove statistics from footer, and move to admin area by @Floppy in #3872
- Reorganised footer with local instance links by @Floppy in #3873
- Only show version in footer to administrators by @Floppy in #3879
- Translation updates for DE, ES, & PL by @Floppy in #3881
- Reimplement timeline without using Federails Activities by @Floppy in #3891
Full Changelog: v0.105.0...v0.106.0