Hello earthlings!

Here's the v0.3.4 Salacious Sloth release of GoToSocial that all the cool kids have been talking about!

This is the tenth ALPHA release of GoToSocial 🎆

Highlights

• Unused avatars and headers are cleaned up now, in addition to old media attachments. This will lead to some disk space savings :)
• We did a lot of performance improvements in this release! Things will feel nippier in general thanks to improved database indexes.
• We tightened up some of the block checking logic, so you should see fewer posts mentioning or replying to domains or accounts that you have blocked.
• We have a new endpoint for manually triggering media cleanup, check the swagger docs :)
• Custom emojis endpoint is now implemented. We don't yet federate custom emojis, but this brings us a step closer to that functionality.

Migration notes

This release adds a couple of indexes to the database during a migration step. You don't need to do anything special for this, just let it run (it will likely take less than a minute), and don't interrupt it.

Detailed Changelog

Features

• caa0cde [feature] implement custom_emojis endpoint (#563)
• b915a41 [feature] Basic config validation (#562)
• b143877 [feature] Unused avatar and header cleanup (#574)
• 6e947ff [feature] Media cleanup endpoint (#560)

Performance

• 1cdc163 [performance] Don't retry/backoff invalid http requests that will never succeed (#609)
• 0f01f72 [performance] Bump default workers to CPUs * 2 (#608)
• f4b0d76 [performance] Add further indexes to mitigate laggy queries (#586)

Bug fixes

• 5668ce1 [bugfix] Fix HTML escaping in instance title (#607)
• 196d542 [bugfix] Don't serialize instance account if not set (#603)
• 2d748a6 [bugfix] Only search remote if protocol is http(s) (#601)
• 21557c9 [bugfix] Set refetch to true in iterateDescendants (#600)
• f0c9f41 [bugfix] Fix multiple dereferences of boosted status causing media duplication (#589)
• f5a4f43 [bugfix] Fix error extracting status content: no content found (#598)
• a09e101 [bugfix] If status URL is empty, use URI instead and don't log unnecessary error (#597)
• 62d4d75 [bugfix] Stop some statuses from being home timelined when they shouldn't be (#585)
• b2810fe [bugfix] Clean up boosts of status when the status itself is deleted (#579)

Security

• f848aaa [security] Set SameSite to strict instead of browser default (#606)
• 469da93 [security] Check all involved IRIs during block checking (#593)
• 223025f [security] transport.Controller{} and transport.Transport{} security and performance improvements (#564)

Chores

• a54efa0 [chore] Serialize times as UTC ISO8601 instead of RFC3339 (#602)
• 5ef41ba [chore] Timeline test updates (#578)
• 27a3c1d testrig: override bind address from environment variable (#577)
• 4ac508f [chore] Update LE server to use copy of main http.Server{} to maintain server timeouts etc (#571)
• 9f2a2ab [bugfix] update syslog tests to listen/connect specifically to ipv4 loopback (#561)

Documentation

• 1461adf [docs] document a checklist for how to go about a release (#592)
• d6abe10 [docs] Add Caddy instructions to the documentation (#594)
• 6838b32 [docs] Mention AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in example systemd service (#576)
• 545b16a [documentation] Nlnet application (#572)

Accessibility

• 8085310 [accessibility] Add description for the pinafore logo (#568)