Upgrade overview
For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.
Changelog
Fixed
- Fix forwarder being called with
nilstatus when quote post is soft-deleted (#36463 by @ClearlyClaire) - Fix moderation warning e-mails that include posts (#36462 by @ClearlyClaire)
- Fix allow_referrer_origin typo (#36460 by @ShadowJonathan)
Upgrade notes
To get the code for v4.4.7, use git fetch && git checkout v4.4.7.
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 4.4.6.
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
- Restart all Mastodon processes.
When using Docker
- Restart all Mastodon processes.