Mastodon v4.7.1

Changelog

Security

• 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 invited-without-approval-bypass not being asked for a textual reason (#40332 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix email blocks domain filter not being kept through pagination (#40254 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix config/ directory missing from Bootsnap precompilation options in Dockerfile (#40255 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix some of 4.7 migrations not re-running cleanly when interrupted (#40264 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix account creation failing on ActiveRecord::Encryption configuration in mastodon:setup rake task (#40275 by @ClearlyClaire)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.7.1, use git fetch && git checkout v4.7.1.

[!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 v4.6.0.

• Ruby: 3.3 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: 22 or newer
• libvips: 8.13 or newer
• FFMpeg: 5.1 or newer

Update steps

The following instructions are for updating from 4.7.0.

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 4.7.0 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.