mastodon/mastodon v4.4.26 on GitHub

Note

While we continue to support Mastodon 4.4 and release patches for it, please note that Mastodon 4.7 is available with new features, changes and fixes. We encourage administrators to update to the latest 4.7 version when they can.

Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog

Security

Update dependencies

Added

Add logging of account data removal (#40572 by @ClearlyClaire)

Changed

Change account self-deletion page to always ask to confirm username (#40576 and #40733 by @ClearlyClaire)

Fixed

Fix POST /api/v1/accounts still being accessible when SSO_ACCOUNT_SIGN_UP is set (#40681 by @ClearlyClaire)
Fix reported statuses not being deleted after account deletion (#40650 by @ClearlyClaire)
Fix rate limits not normalizing submitted e-mail addresses (#40658 by @Gargron)
Fix moderators being able to issue a warning on moderators of higher position (#40646 by @ClearlyClaire)
Fix PreviewCardsStatus records not being deleted on account deletion (#40624 by @ClearlyClaire)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.4.26, use git fetch && git checkout v4.4.26.

Note

As always, make sure you have backups of the database before performing any upgrades. If you are using docker-compose, this is how a backup command might look: docker exec mastodon_db_1 pg_dump -Fc -U postgres postgres > name_of_the_backup.dump

Dependencies

External dependencies have not changed since v4.4.1:

Ruby: 3.2 or newer
PostgreSQL: 13 or newer
Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
Redis: 6.2 or newer
Node: 20 or newer
libvips (optional, instead of ImageMagick): 8.13 or newer
ImageMagick (optional if using libvips): 6.9.7-7 or newer

Update steps

The following instructions are for updating from 4.4.25.

If you are upgrading directly from an earlier release, please carefully read the upgrade notes for the skipped releases as well, as they often require extra steps such as database migrations. In particular, it is very important to read the 4.4.0 release notes.

Non-Docker

Tip

The charlock_holmes gem may fail to build on some systems with recent versions of gcc.
If you run into this issue, try BUNDLE_BUILD__CHARLOCK_HOLMES="--with-cxxflags=-std=c++17" bundle install.

Install dependencies with bundle install and yarn install --immutable
Precompile the assets: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
Restart all Mastodon processes.

When using Docker

Restart all Mastodon processes.