Mastodon v4.4.23

[!NOTE] While we continue to support Mastodon 4.4 and release patches for it, please note that Mastodon 4.6 is available with new features, changes and fixes. We encourage administrators to update to the latest 4.6 version when they can.

Changelog

Changed

• Change mastodon:setup task warning about trademark to match masto but ignore subdomains (#40143 by @ClearlyClaire)

Fixed

• Fix connection errors when processing fediverse:creator preventing creation of preview cards (#40135 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix Web UI being inaccessible with URLs ending with .zip (#40134 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix domain block impact queries being rejected (#40122 by @ClearlyClaire)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.4.23, use git fetch && git checkout v4.4.23.

[!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 4.4.22.

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.

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.