# Mastodon v4.5.16

- Product: Mastodon (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mastodon)
- Vendor: Mastodon gGmbH
- Date: 2026-08-13
- Version: v4.5.16
- Original notes: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.16
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mastodon/releases/v4.5.16

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- **changed** — Change mastodon:setup task warning about trademark to match masto but ignore subdomains
- **fixed** — Fix connection errors when processing fediverse:creator preventing creation of preview cards
- **fixed** — Fix Web UI being inaccessible with URLs ending with .zip
- **fixed** — Fix domain block impact queries being rejected

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##### 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 v4.5.16, use `git fetch && git checkout v4.5.16`.

> [!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 v4.5.0.

- Ruby: 3.2 or newer
- PostgreSQL: 14 or newer
- Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
- LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
- Redis: 7.0 or newer
- Node: 20.19 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 4.5.15.

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 [4.5.0 release notes](https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0).

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.