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Mastodon v2.8.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-05-19 // almost 5 years ago

  • Mastodon

    🔄 Changelog

    ➕ Added

    • ➕ Add og:image:alt OpenGraph tag (BenLubar)
    • ➕ Add clickable area below avatar in statuses in web UI (Dar13)
    • ➕ Add crossed-out eye icon on account gallery in web UI (Kjwon15)
    • ➕ Add media description tooltip to thumbnails in web UI (ThibG)

    🔄 Changed

    • 🔄 Change "mark as sensitive" button into a checkbox for clarity (ThibG)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fix bug allowing users to publicly boost their private statuses (ThibG, ThibG)
    • 🛠 Fix performance in formatter by a little (ThibG)
    • 🛠 Fix some colors in the light theme (yuzulabo)
    • 🛠 Fix some colors of the high contrast theme (yuzulabo)
    • 🛠 Fix ambivalent active state of poll refresh button in web UI (MaciekBaron)
    • 🛠 Fix duplicate posting being possible from web UI (hinaloe)
    • 🛠 Fix "invited by" not showing up in admin UI (ThibG)

    ⬆️ Upgrade notes

    Because this is a backport, it is not available with git pull. Use git fetch && git checkout v2.8.3

    ⬆️ > 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

    🐳 Both Docker and non-Docker:

    1. Run database migrations:
      • Non-Docker: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails db:migrate
      • Docker: docker-compose run --rm web rails db:migrate 🍱 2. Precompile the assets:
      • Non-Docker: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
      • Docker: The assets are already precompiled during the build step
    2. Restart all Mastodon processes