Mastodon v4.4.24

[!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

Security

• Update dependencies
• Fix password authentication bypass in 2FA auth for LDAP/PAM/SSO accounts (GHSA-vx32-x96w-qq65)
• Fix Denial of Service when processing pathological JSON-LD activities (GHSA-vgm8-frgh-rh2v)
• Fix disabled staff accounts still having access to admin API (GHSA-62j4-hvj7-px3f)

Fixes

• Fix config/ directory missing from Bootsnap precompilation options in Dockerfile (#40255 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix various off-by-one errors in statistics time ranges (#40193 by @ClearlyClaire)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.4.24, use git fetch && git checkout v4.4.24.

[!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 4.4.23.

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.

1. Install dependencies with bundle install
2. Restart all Mastodon processes.

When using Docker

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.