pleroma/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

Unreleased

Changed

Added

• Support for Image activities, namely from Hubzilla

Fixed

• rel="me" was missing its cache

Removed

• BREAKING: Support for passwords generated with crypt(3) (Gnu Social migration artifact)

2.5.1

Added

• Allow customizing instance languages

Fixed

• Security: uploading HTTP endpoint can no longer create directories in the upload dir (internal APIs, like backup, still can do it.)
• ~ character in urls in Markdown posts are handled properly
• Exiftool upload filter will now ignore SVG files
• Fix block_from_stranger setting
• Fix rel="me"
• Docker images will now run properly
• Fix inproper content being cached in report content
• Notification filter on object content will not operate on the ones that inherently have no content
• ZWNJ and double dots in links are parsed properly for Plain-text posts
• OTP releases will work on systems with a newer libcrypt
• Errors when running Exiftool.ReadDescription filter will not be filled into the image description

2.5.0 - 2022-12-23

Removed

• MastoFE
• Quack, the logging backend that pushes to Slack channels

Changed

• Breaking: Elixir >=1.11 is now required (was >= 1.9)
• Allow users to remove their emails if instance does not need email to register
• Uploadfilter Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Exiftool has been renamed to Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Exiftool.StripLocation
• Breaking: /api/v1/pleroma/backups endpoints now requires read:backups scope instead of read:accounts
• Updated the recommended pleroma.vcl configuration for Varnish to target Varnish 7.0+
• Set timeout values for Oban queues. The default is infinity and some operations may not time out on their own.
• Delete activities are federated at lowest priority
• CSP now includes wasm-unsafe-eval

Added

• activeMonth and activeHalfyear fields in NodeInfo usage.users object
• Experimental support for Finch. Put config :tesla, :adapter, {Tesla.Adapter.Finch, name: MyFinch} in your secrets file to use it. Reverse Proxy will still use Hackney.
• ForceMentionsInPostContent MRF policy
• PleromaAPI: Add remote follow API endpoint at POST /api/v1/pleroma/remote_interaction
• MastoAPI: Add GET /api/v1/accounts/lookup
• MastoAPI: Profile Directory support
• MastoAPI: Support v2 Suggestions (handpicked accounts only)
• Ability to log slow Ecto queries by configuring :pleroma, :telemetry, :slow_queries_logging
• Added Phoenix LiveDashboard at /phoenix/live_dashboard
• Added /manifest.json for progressive web apps.
• MastoAPI: Support for birthday and show_birthday field in /api/v1/accounts/update_credentials.
• Configuration: Add birthday_required and birthday_min_age settings to provide a way to require users to enter their birth date.
• PleromaAPI: Add GET /api/v1/pleroma/birthdays API endpoint
• Make backend-rendered pages translatable. This includes emails. Pages returned as a HTTP response are translated using the language specified in the userLanguage cookie, or the Accept-Language header. Emails are translated using the language field when registering. This language can be changed by PATCH /api/v1/accounts/update_credentials with the language field.
• Add fine grained options to provide privileges to moderators and admins (e.g. delete messages, manage reports...)
• Uploadfilter Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Exiftool.ReadDescription returns description values to the FE so they can pre fill the image description field
• Added move account API
• Enable remote users to interact with posts
• Possibility to discover users like user@example.org, while Pleroma is working on pleroma.example.org. Additional configuration required.

Fixed

• Subscription(Bell) Notifications: Don't create from Pipeline Ingested replies
• Handle Reject for already-accepted Follows properly
• Display OpenGraph data on alternative notice routes.
• Fix replies count for remote replies
• Fixed hashtags disappearing from the end of lines when Markdown is enabled
• ChatAPI: Add link headers
• Limited number of search results to 40 to prevent DoS attacks
• ActivityPub: fixed federation of attachment dimensions
• Fixed benchmarks
• Elixir 1.13 support
• Fixed crash when pinned_objects is nil
• Fixed slow timelines when there are a lot of deactivated users
• Fixed account deletion API
• Fixed lowercase HTTP HEAD method in the Media Proxy Preview code
• Removed useless notification call on Delete activities
• Improved performance for filtering out deactivated and invisible users
• RSS and Atom feeds for users work again
• TwitterCard meta tags conformance

2.4.5 - 2022-11-27

Fixed

• Image class attributes not being scrubbed, allowing to exploit frontend special classes !3792
• Delete report notifs when demoting from superuser !3642
• Validate mediaType only by it's format rather than using a list !3597
• Pagination: Make mutes and blocks lists behave the same as other lists !3693
• Compatibility with Elixir 1.14 !3740
• Frontend installer: FediFE build URL !3736
• Streaming: Don't stream ChatMessage into the home timeline !3738
• Streaming: Stream local-only posts in the local timeline !3738
• Signatures: Fix keyId lookup for GoToSocial !3725
• Validator: Fix replies handling for GoToSocial !3725

2.4.4 - 2022-08-19

Security

• Streaming API sessions will now properly disconnect if the corresponding token is revoked

2.4.3 - 2022-05-06

Security

• Private /objects/ and /activities/ leaking if cached by authenticated user
• SweetXML library DTD bomb

2.4.2 - 2022-01-10

Fixed

• Federation issues caused by HTTP pool checkout timeouts
• Compatibility with Elixir 1.13

Upgrade notes

1. Restart Pleroma

2.4.1 - 2021-08-29

Changed

• Make mix pleroma.database set_text_search_config run concurrently and indefinitely

Added

• AdminAPI: Missing configuration description for StealEmojiPolicy

Fixed

• MastodonAPI: Stream out Create activities
• MRF ObjectAgePolicy: Fix pattern matching on "published"
• TwitterAPI: Make change_password and change_email require params on body instead of query
• Subscription(Bell) Notifications: Don't create from Pipeline Ingested replies
• AdminAPI: Fix rendering reports containing a nil object
• Mastodon API: Activity Search fallbacks on status fetching after a DB Timeout/Error
• Mastodon API: Fix crash in Streamer related to reblogging
• AdminAPI: List available frontends when static/frontends folder is missing
• Make activity search properly use language-aware GIN indexes
• AdminAPI: Fix suggestions for MRF Policies

2.4.0 - 2021-08-08

Changed

• Breaking: Configuration: :chat, enabled moved to :shout, enabled and :instance, chat_limit moved to :shout, limit
• Breaking Entries for simple_policy, transparency_exclusions and quarantined_instances now list both the instance and a reason.
• Support for Erlang/OTP 24
• The application metadata returned with statuses is no longer hardcoded. Apps that want to display these details will now have valid data for new posts after this change.
• HTTPSecurityPlug now sends a response header to opt out of Google's FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) targeted advertising.
• Email address is now returned if requesting user is the owner of the user account so it can be exposed in client and FE user settings UIs.
• Improved Twittercard and OpenGraph meta tag generation including thumbnails and image dimension metadata when available.
• AdminAPI: sort users so the newest are at the top.
• ActivityPub Client-to-Server(C2S): Limitation on the type of Activity/Object are lifted as they are now passed through ObjectValidators
• MRF (AntiFollowbotPolicy): Bot accounts are now also considered followbots. Users can still allow bots to follow them by first following the bot.

Added

• MRF (FollowBotPolicy): New MRF Policy which makes a designated local Bot account attempt to follow all users in public Notes received by your instance. Users who require approving follower requests or have #nobot in their profile are excluded.
• Return OAuth token id (primary key) in POST /oauth/token.
• AdminAPI: return created_at date with users.
• AdminAPI: add DELETE /api/v1/pleroma/admin/instances/:instance to delete all content from a remote instance.
• AnalyzeMetadata upload filter for extracting image/video attachment dimensions and generating blurhashes for images. Blurhashes for videos are not generated at this time.
• Attachment dimensions and blurhashes are federated when available.
• Mastodon API: support poll notification.
• Pinned posts federation

Fixed

• Don't crash so hard when email settings are invalid.
• Checking activated Upload Filters for required commands.
• Remote users can no longer reappear after being deleted.
• Deactivated users may now be deleted.
• Deleting an activity with a lot of likes/boosts no longer causes a database timeout.
• Mix task pleroma.database prune_objects
• Fixed rendering of JSON errors on ActivityPub endpoints.
• Linkify: Parsing crash with URLs ending in unbalanced closed paren, no path separator, and no query parameters
• Try to save exported ConfigDB settings (migrate_from_db) in the system temp directory if default location is not writable.
• Uploading custom instance thumbnail via AdminAPI/AdminFE generated invalid URL to the image
• Applying ConcurrentLimiter settings via AdminAPI
• User login failures if their notification_settings were in a NULL state.
• Mix task pleroma.user delete_activities query transaction timeout is now :infinity
• MRF (SimplePolicy): Embedded objects are now checked. If any embedded object would be rejected, its parent is rejected. This fixes Announces leaking posts from blocked domains.
• Fixed some Markdown issues, including trailing slash in links.

Removed

• Breaking: Remove deprecated /api/qvitter/statuses/notifications/read (replaced by /api/v1/pleroma/notifications/read)

[2.3.0] - 2021-03-01

Security

• Fixed client user agent leaking through MediaProxy

Removed

• :auth, :enforce_oauth_admin_scope_usage configuration option.

Changed

• Breaking: Changed mix pleroma.user toggle_confirmed to mix pleroma.user confirm
• Breaking: Changed mix pleroma.user toggle_activated to mix pleroma.user activate/deactivate
• Breaking: NSFW hashtag is no longer added on sensitive posts
• Polls now always return a voters_count, even if they are single-choice.
• Admin Emails: The ap id is used as the user link in emails now.
• Improved registration workflow for email confirmation and account approval modes.
• Search: When using Postgres 11+, Pleroma will use the websearch_to_tsvector function to parse search queries.
• Emoji: Support the full Unicode 13.1 set of Emoji for reactions, plus regional indicators.
• Deprecated Pleroma.Uploaders.S3, :public_endpoint. Now Pleroma.Upload, :base_url is the standard configuration key for all uploaders.
• Improved Apache webserver support: updated sample configuration, MediaProxy cache invalidation verified with the included sample script
• Improve OAuth 2.0 provider support. A missing fqn field was added to the response, but does not expose the user's email address.
• Provide redirect of external posts from /notice/:id to their original URL
• Admins no longer receive notifications for reports if they are the actor making the report.
• Improved Mailer configuration setting descriptions for AdminFE.
• Updated default avatar to look nicer.

API Changes

• Breaking: AdminAPI changed User field confirmation_pending to is_confirmed
• Breaking: AdminAPI changed User field approval_pending to is_approved
• Breaking: AdminAPI changed User field deactivated to is_active
• Breaking: AdminAPI GET /api/pleroma/admin/users/:nickname_or_id/statuses changed response format and added the number of total users posts.
• Breaking: AdminAPI GET /api/pleroma/admin/instances/:instance/statuses changed response format and added the number of total users posts.
• Admin API: Reports now ordered by newest
• Pleroma API: GET /api/v1/pleroma/chats is deprecated in favor of GET /api/v2/pleroma/chats.
• Pleroma API: Reroute /api/pleroma/* to /api/v1/pleroma/*

• Improved hashtag timeline performance (requires a background migration).

Added

• Reports now generate notifications for admins and mods.
• Support for local-only statuses.
• Support pagination of blocks and mutes.
• Account backup.
• Configuration: Add :instance, autofollowing_nicknames setting to provide a way to make accounts automatically follow new users that register on the local Pleroma instance.
• [:activitypub, :blockers_visible] config to control visibility of blockers.
• Ability to view remote timelines, with ex. /api/v1/timelines/public?instance=lain.com and streams public:remote and public:remote:media.
• The site title is now injected as a title tag like preloads or metadata.
• Password reset tokens now are not accepted after a certain age.
• Mix tasks to help with displaying and removing ConfigDB entries. See mix pleroma.config.
• OAuth form improvements: users are remembered by their cookie, the CSS is overridable by the admin, and the style has been improved.
• OAuth improvements and fixes: more secure session-based authentication (by token that could be revoked anytime), ability to revoke belonging OAuth token from any client etc.
• Ability to set ActivityPub aliases for follower migration.
• Configurable background job limits for RichMedia (link previews) and MediaProxyWarmingPolicy
• Ability to define custom HTTP headers per each frontend
• MRF (NoEmptyPolicy): New MRF Policy which will deny empty statuses or statuses of only mentions from being created by local users
• New users will receive a simple email confirming their registration if no other emails will be dispatched. (e.g., Welcome, Confirmation, or Approval Required)

API Changes

• Admin API: (GET /api/pleroma/admin/users) filter users by unconfirmed status and actor_type.
• Admin API: OpenAPI spec for the user-related operations
• Pleroma API: GET /api/v2/pleroma/chats added. It is exactly like GET /api/v1/pleroma/chats except supports pagination.
• Pleroma API: Add idempotency_key to the chat message entity that can be used for optimistic message sending.
• Pleroma API: (GET /api/v1/pleroma/federation_status) Add a way to get a list of unreachable instances.
• Mastodon API: User and conversation mutes can now auto-expire if expires_in parameter was given while adding the mute.
• Admin API: An endpoint to manage frontends.
• Streaming API: Add follow relationships updates.
• WebPush: Introduce pleroma:chat_mention and pleroma:emoji_reaction notification types.
• Mastodon API: Add monthly active users to /api/v1/instance (pleroma.stats.mau).
• Mastodon API: Home, public, hashtag & list timelines accept only_media, remote & local parameters for filtration.
• Mastodon API: /api/v1/accounts/:id & /api/v1/mutes endpoints accept with_relationships parameter and return filled pleroma.relationship field.
• Mastodon API: Endpoint to remove a conversation (DELETE /api/v1/conversations/:id).
• Mastodon API: expires_in in the scheduled post params field on /api/v1/statuses and /api/v1/scheduled_statuses/:id endpoints.

Fixed

• Users with is_discoverable field set to false (default value) will appear in in-service search results but be hidden from external services (search bots etc.).
• Streaming API: Posts and notifications are not dropped, when CLI task is executing.
• Creating incorrect IPv4 address-style HTTP links when encountering certain numbers.
• Reblog API Endpoint: Do not set visibility parameter to public by default and let CommonAPI to infer it from status, so a user can reblog their private status without explicitly setting reblog visibility to private.
• Tag URLs in statuses are now absolute
• Removed duplicate jobs to purge expired activities
• File extensions of some attachments were incorrectly changed. This feature has been disabled for now.
• Mix task pleroma.instance creates missing parent directories if the configuration or SQL output paths are changed.

API Changes

• Mastodon API: Current user is now included in conversation if it's the only participant.
• Mastodon API: Fixed last_status.account being not filled with account data.
• Mastodon API: Fix not being able to add or remove multiple users at once in lists.
• Mastodon API: Fixed own_votes being not returned with poll data.
• Mastodon API: Fixed creation of scheduled posts with polls.
• Mastodon API: Support for expires_in/expires_at in the Filters.

[2.2.2] - 2021-01-18

Fixed

• StealEmojiPolicy creates dir for emojis, if it doesn't exist.
• Updated elixir_make to a non-retired version

Upgrade notes

1. Restart Pleroma

[2.2.1] - 2020-12-22

Changed

• Updated Pleroma FE

Fixed

• Config generation: rename Pleroma.Upload.Filter.ExifTool to Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Exiftool.
• S3 Uploads with Elixir 1.11.
• Mix task pleroma.user delete_activities for source installations.
• Search: RUM index search speed has been fixed.
• Rich Media Previews sometimes showed the wrong preview due to a bug following redirects.
• Fixes for the autolinker.
• Forwarded reports duplication from Pleroma instances.

• Emoji Reaction activity filtering from blocked and muted accounts.

• API
  • Statuses were not displayed for Mastodon forwarded reports.

Upgrade notes

1. Restart Pleroma

[2.2.0] - 2020-11-12

Security

• Fixed the possibility of using file uploads to spoof posts.

Changed

• Breaking Requires libmagic (or file) to guess file types.
• Breaking: App metrics endpoint (/api/pleroma/app_metrics) is disabled by default, check docs/API/prometheus.md on enabling and configuring.
• Breaking: Pleroma Admin API: emoji packs and files routes changed.
• Breaking: Sensitive/NSFW statuses no longer disable link previews.
• Search: Users are now findable by their urls.
• Renamed :await_up_timeout in :connections_pool namespace to :connect_timeout, old name is deprecated.
• Renamed :timeout in pools namespace to :recv_timeout, old name is deprecated.
• The discoverable field in the User struct will now add a NOINDEX metatag to profile pages when false.
• Users with the is_discoverable field set to false will not show up in searches (bug).
• Minimum lifetime for ephmeral activities changed to 10 minutes and made configurable (:min_lifetime option).
• Introduced optional dependencies on ffmpeg, ImageMagick, exiftool software packages. Please refer to docs/installation/optional/media_graphics_packages.md.
• API Changes
• API: Empty parameter values for integer parameters are now ignored in non-strict validaton mode.

Removed

• Breaking: Pleroma.Workers.Cron.StatsWorker setting from Oban :crontab (moved to a simpler implementation).
• Breaking: Pleroma.Workers.Cron.ClearOauthTokenWorker setting from Oban :crontab (moved to scheduled jobs).
• Breaking: Pleroma.Workers.Cron.PurgeExpiredActivitiesWorker setting from Oban :crontab (moved to scheduled jobs).
• Removed :managed_config option. In practice, it was accidentally removed with 2.0.0 release when frontends were switched to a new configuration mechanism, however it was not officially removed until now.

Added

• Media preview proxy (requires ffmpeg and ImageMagick to be installed and media proxy to be enabled; see :media_preview_proxy config for more details).
• Mix tasks for controlling user account confirmation status in bulk (mix pleroma.user confirm_all and mix pleroma.user unconfirm_all)
• Mix task for sending confirmation emails to all unconfirmed users (mix pleroma.email resend_confirmation_emails)
• Mix task option for force-unfollowing relays
• App metrics: ability to restrict access to specified IP whitelist.

API Changes

• Admin API: Importing emoji from a zip file
• Pleroma API: Importing the mutes users from CSV files.
• Pleroma API: Pagination for remote/local packs and emoji.

Fixed

• Add documented-but-missing chat pagination.
• Allow sending out emails again.
• Allow sending chat messages to yourself
• OStatus / static FE endpoints: fixed inaccessibility for anonymous users on non-federating instances, switched to handling per :restrict_unauthenticated setting.
• Fix remote users with a whitespace name.

Upgrade notes

1. Install libmagic and development headers (libmagic-dev on Ubuntu/Debian, file-dev on Alpine Linux)
2. Run database migrations (inside Pleroma directory):
   • OTP: ./bin/pleroma_ctl migrate
   • From Source: mix ecto.migrate
3. Restart Pleroma

[2.1.2] - 2020-09-17

Security

• Fix most MRF rules either crashing or not being applied to objects passed into the Common Pipeline (ChatMessage, Question, Answer, Audio, Event).

Fixed

• Welcome Chat messages preventing user registration with MRF Simple Policy applied to the local instance.
• Mastodon API: the public timeline returning an error when the reply_visibility parameter is set to self for an unauthenticated user.
• Mastodon Streaming API: Handler crashes on authentication failures, resulting in error logs.
• Mastodon Streaming API: Error logs on client pings.
• Rich media: Log spam on failures. Now the error is only logged once per attempt.

Changed

• Rich Media: A HEAD request is now done to the url, to ensure it has the appropriate content type and size before proceeding with a GET.

Upgrade notes

1. Restart Pleroma

[2.1.1] - 2020-09-08

Security

• Fix possible DoS in Mastodon API user search due to an error in match clauses, leading to an infinite recursion and subsequent OOM with certain inputs.
• Fix metadata leak for accounts and statuses on private instances.
• Fix possible DoS in Admin API search using an atom leak vulnerability. Authentication with admin rights was required to exploit.

Changed

• Breaking: The metadata providers RelMe and Feed are no longer configurable. RelMe should always be activated and Feed only provides a header tag for the actual RSS/Atom feed when the instance is public.
• Improved error message when cmake is not available at build stage.

Added

• Rich media failure tracking (along with :failure_backoff option).
Admin API Changes
• Add PATCH /api/pleroma/admin/instance_document/:document_name to modify the Terms of Service and Instance Panel HTML pages via Admin API

Fixed

• Default HTTP adapter not respecting pool setting, leading to possible OOM.
• Fixed uploading webp images when the Exiftool Upload Filter is enabled by skipping them
• Mastodon API: Search parameter following now correctly returns the followings rather than the followers
• Mastodon API: Timelines hanging for (number of posts with links * rich media timeout) in the worst case. Reduced to just rich media timeout.
• Mastodon API: Cards being wrong for preview statuses due to cache key collision.
• Password resets no longer processed for deactivated accounts.
• Favicon scraper raising exceptions on URLs longer than 255 characters.

[2.1.0] - 2020-08-28

Changed

• Breaking: The default descriptions on uploads are now empty. The old behavior (filename as default) can be configured, see the cheat sheet.
• Breaking: Added the ObjectAgePolicy to the default set of MRFs. This will delist and strip the follower collection of any message received that is older than 7 days. This will stop users from seeing very old messages in the timelines. The messages can still be viewed on the user's page and in conversations. They also still trigger notifications.
• Breaking: Elixir >=1.9 is now required (was >= 1.8)
• Breaking: Configuration: :auto_linker, :opts moved to :pleroma, Pleroma.Formatter. Old config namespace is deprecated.
• Breaking: Configuration: :instance, welcome_user_nickname moved to :welcome, :direct_message, :sender_nickname, :instance, :welcome_message moved to :welcome, :direct_message, :message. Old config namespace is deprecated.
• Breaking: LDAP: Fallback to local database authentication has been removed for security reasons and lack of a mechanism to ensure the passwords are synchronized when LDAP passwords are updated.
• Breaking Changed defaults for :restrict_unauthenticated so that when :instance, :public is set to false then all :restrict_unauthenticated items be effectively set to true. If you'd like to allow unauthenticated access to specific API endpoints on a private instance, please explicitly set :restrict_unauthenticated to non-default value in config/prod.secret.exs.
• In Conversations, return only direct messages as last_status
• Using the only_media filter on timelines will now exclude reblog media
• MFR policy to set global expiration for all local Create activities
• OGP rich media parser merged with TwitterCard
• Configuration: :instance, rewrite_policy moved to :mrf, policies, :instance, :mrf_transparency moved to :mrf, :transparency, :instance, :mrf_transparency_exclusions moved to :mrf, :transparency_exclusions. Old config namespace is deprecated.
• Configuration: :media_proxy, whitelist format changed to host with scheme (e.g. http://example.com instead of example.com). Domain format is deprecated.
API Changes
• Breaking: Pleroma API: The routes to update avatar, banner and background have been removed.
• Breaking: Image description length is limited now.
• Breaking: Emoji API: changed methods and renamed routes.
• Breaking: Notification Settings API for suppressing notifications has been simplified down to block_from_strangers.
• Breaking: Notification Settings API option for hiding push notification contents has been renamed to hide_notification_contents.
• MastodonAPI: Allow removal of avatar, banner and background.
• Streaming: Repeats of a user's posts will no longer be pushed to the user's stream.
• Mastodon API: Added pleroma.metadata.fields_limits to /api/v1/instance
• Mastodon API: On deletion, returns the original post text.
• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.unread_count to the Marker entity.
• Mastodon API: Added pleroma.metadata.post_formats to /api/v1/instance
• Mastodon API (legacy): Allow query parameters for /api/v1/domain_blocks, e.g. /api/v1/domain_blocks?domain=badposters.zone
• Mastodon API: Make notifications about statuses from muted users and threads read automatically
• Pleroma API: /api/pleroma/captcha responses now include seconds_valid with an integer value.
Admin API Changes
• Breaking Changed relay /api/pleroma/admin/relay endpoints response format.
• Status visibility stats: now can return stats per instance.
• Mix task to refresh counter cache (mix pleroma.refresh_counter_cache)

Removed

• Breaking: removed with_move parameter from notifications timeline.

Added

• Frontends: Add mix task to install frontends.
• Frontends: Add configurable frontends for primary and admin fe.
• Configuration: Added a blacklist for email servers.
• Chats: Added accepts_chat_messages field to user, exposed in APIs and federation.
• Chats: Added support for federated chats. For details, see the docs.
• ActivityPub: Added support for existing AP ids for instances migrated from Mastodon.
• Instance: Add background_image to configuration and /api/v1/instance
• Instance: Extend /api/v1/instance with Pleroma-specific information.
• NodeInfo: pleroma:api/v1/notifications:include_types_filter to the features list.
• NodeInfo: pleroma_emoji_reactions to the features list.
• Configuration: :restrict_unauthenticated setting, restrict access for unauthenticated users to timelines (public and federate), user profiles and statuses.
• Configuration: Add :database_config_whitelist setting to whitelist settings which can be configured from AdminFE.
• Configuration: filename_display_max_length option to set filename truncate limit, if filename display enabled (0 = no limit).
• New HTTP adapter gun. Gun adapter requires minimum OTP version of 22.2 otherwise Pleroma won’t start. For hackney OTP update is not required.
• Mix task to create trusted OAuth App.
• Mix task to reset MFA for user accounts
• Notifications: Added follow_request notification type.
• Added :reject_deletes group to SimplePolicy
• MRF (EmojiStealPolicy): New MRF Policy which allows to automatically download emojis from remote instances
• Support pagination in emoji packs API (for packs and for files in pack)
• Support for viewing instances favicons next to posts and accounts
• Added Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Exiftool as an alternate EXIF stripping mechanism targeting GPS/location metadata.
• "By approval" registrations mode.
• Configuration: Added :welcome settings for the welcome message to newly registered users. You can send a welcome message as a direct message, chat or email.
• Ability to hide favourites and emoji reactions in the API with [:instance, :show_reactions] config.
API Changes
• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.parent_visible field to statuses.
• Mastodon API: Extended /api/v1/instance.
• Mastodon API: Support for include_types in /api/v1/notifications.
• Mastodon API: Added /api/v1/notifications/:id/dismiss endpoint.
• Mastodon API: Add support for filtering replies in public and home timelines.
• Mastodon API: Support for bot field in /api/v1/accounts/update_credentials.
• Mastodon API: Support irreversible property for filters.
• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.favicon field to accounts.
• Admin API: endpoints for create/update/delete OAuth Apps.
• Admin API: endpoint for status view.
• OTP: Add command to reload emoji packs

Fixed

• Fix list pagination and other list issues.
• Support pagination in conversations API
• Breaking: SimplePolicy :reject and :accept allow deletions again
• Fix follower/blocks import when nicknames starts with @
• Filtering of push notifications on activities from blocked domains
• Resolving Peertube accounts with Webfinger
• blob: urls not being allowed by connect-src CSP
• Mastodon API: fix GET /api/v1/notifications not returning the full result set
• Rich Media Previews for Twitter links
• Admin API: fix GET /api/pleroma/admin/users/:nickname/credentials returning 404 when getting the credentials of a remote user while :instance, :limit_to_local_content is set to :unauthenticated
• Fix CSP policy generation to include remote Captcha services
• Fix edge case where MediaProxy truncates media, usually caused when Caddy is serving content for the other Federated instance.
• Emoji Packs could not be listed when instance was set to public: false
• Fix whole_word always returning false on filter get requests
• Migrations not working on OTP releases if the database was connected over ssl
• Fix relay following

[2.0.7] - 2020-06-13

Security

• Fix potential DoSes exploiting atom leaks in rich media parser and the UserAllowListPolicy MRF policy

Fixed

• CSP: not allowing images/media from every host when mediaproxy is disabled
• CSP: not adding mediaproxy base url to image/media hosts
• StaticFE missing the CSS file

Upgrade notes

1. Restart Pleroma

[2.0.6] - 2020-06-09

Security

• CSP: harden image-src and media-src when MediaProxy is used

Fixed

• AP C2S: Fix pagination in inbox/outbox
• Various compilation errors on OTP 23
• Mastodon API streaming: Repeats from muted threads not being filtered

Changed

• Various database performance improvements

Upgrade notes

1. Run database migrations (inside Pleroma directory):
   • OTP: ./bin/pleroma_ctl migrate
   • From Source: mix ecto.migrate
2. Restart Pleroma

[2.0.5] - 2020-05-13

Security

• Fix possible private status leaks in Mastodon Streaming API

Fixed

• Crashes when trying to block a user if block federation is disabled
• Not being able to start the instance without erlang-eldap installed
• Users with bios over the limit getting rejected
• Follower counters not being updated on incoming follow accepts

Upgrade notes

1. Restart Pleroma

[2.0.4] - 2020-05-10

Security

• AP C2S: Fix a potential DoS by creating nonsensical objects that break timelines

Fixed

• Peertube user lookups not working
• InsertSkeletonsForDeletedUsers migration failing on some instances
• Healthcheck reporting the number of memory currently used, rather than allocated in total
• LDAP not being usable in OTP releases
• Default apache configuration having tls chain issues

Upgrade notes

Apache only

1. Remove the following line from your config:

   SSLCertificateFile      /etc/letsencrypt/live/${servername}/cert.pem
   

Everyone

1. Restart Pleroma

[2.0.3] - 2020-05-02

Security

• Disallow re-registration of previously deleted users, which allowed viewing direct messages addressed to them
• Mastodon API: Fix POST /api/v1/follow_requests/:id/authorize allowing to force a follow from a local user even if they didn't request to follow
• CSP: Sandbox uploads

Fixed

• Notifications from blocked domains
• Potential federation issues with Mastodon versions before 3.0.0
• HTTP Basic Authentication permissions issue
• Follow/Block imports not being able to find the user if the nickname started with an @
• Instance stats counting internal users
• Inability to run a From Source release without git
• ObjectAgePolicy didn't filter out old messages
• blob: urls not being allowed by CSP

Added

• NodeInfo: ObjectAgePolicy settings to the federation list.
• Follow request notifications
  API Changes
• Admin API: GET /api/pleroma/admin/need_reboot.

Upgrade notes

1. Restart Pleroma
2. Run database migrations (inside Pleroma directory):
   • OTP: ./bin/pleroma_ctl migrate
   • From Source: mix ecto.migrate
3. Reset status visibility counters (inside Pleroma directory):
   • OTP: ./bin/pleroma_ctl refresh_counter_cache
   • From Source: mix pleroma.refresh_counter_cache

[2.0.2] - 2020-04-08

Added

• Support for Funkwhale's Audio activity
• Admin API: PATCH /api/pleroma/admin/users/:nickname/update_credentials

Fixed

• Blocked/muted users still generating push notifications
• Input textbox for bio ignoring newlines
• OTP: Inability to use PostgreSQL databases with SSL
• user delete_activities breaking when trying to delete already deleted posts
• Incorrect URL for Funkwhale channels

Upgrade notes

1. Restart Pleroma

[2.0.1] - 2020-03-15

Security

• Static-FE: Fix remote posts not being sanitized

Fixed

• Rate limiter crashes when there is no explicitly specified ip in the config
• 500 errors when no Accept header is present if Static-FE is enabled
• Instance panel not being updated immediately due to wrong Cache-Control headers
• Statuses posted with BBCode/Markdown having unncessary newlines in Pleroma-FE
• OTP: Fix some settings not being migrated to in-database config properly
• No Cache-Control headers on attachment/media proxy requests
• Character limit enforcement being off by 1
• Mastodon Streaming API: hashtag timelines not working

Changed

• BBCode and Markdown formatters will no longer return any \n and only use <br/> for newlines
• Mastodon API: Allow registration without email if email verification is not enabled

Upgrade notes

Nginx only

1. Remove proxy_ignore_headers Cache-Control; and proxy_hide_header Cache-Control; from your config.

Everyone

1. Run database migrations (inside Pleroma directory):
   • OTP: ./bin/pleroma_ctl migrate
   • From Source: mix ecto.migrate
2. Restart Pleroma

[2.0.0] - 2019-03-08

Security

• Mastodon API: Fix being able to request enormous amount of statuses in timelines leading to DoS. Now limited to 40 per request.

Removed

• Breaking: Removed 1.0+ deprecated configurations Pleroma.Upload, :strip_exif and :instance, :dedupe_media
• Breaking: OStatus protocol support
• Breaking: MDII uploader

• Breaking: Using third party engines for user recommendation

  API Changes

• Breaking: AdminAPI: migrate_from_db endpoint

Changed

• Breaking: Pleroma won't start if it detects unapplied migrations
• Breaking: Elixir >=1.8 is now required (was >= 1.7)
• Breaking: Pleroma.Plugs.RemoteIp and :rate_limiter enabled by default. Please ensure your reverse proxy forwards the real IP!
• Breaking: attachment links (config :pleroma, :instance, no_attachment_links and config :pleroma, Pleroma.Upload, link_name) disabled by default
• Breaking: OAuth: defaulted [:auth, :enforce_oauth_admin_scope_usage] setting to true which demands admin OAuth scope to perform admin actions (in addition to is_admin flag on User); make sure to use bundled or newer versions of AdminFE & PleromaFE to access admin / moderator features.
• Breaking: Dynamic configuration has been rearchitected. The :pleroma, :instance, dynamic_configuration setting has been replaced with config :pleroma, configurable_from_database. Please backup your configuration to a file and run the migration task to ensure consistency with the new schema.
• Breaking: :instance, no_attachment_links has been replaced with :instance, attachment_links which still takes a boolean value but doesn't use double negative language.
• Replaced pleroma_job_queue and Pleroma.Web.Federator.RetryQueue with Oban (see docs/config.md on migrating customized worker / retry settings)
• Introduced quantum job scheduler
• Enabled :instance, extended_nickname_format in the default config
• Add rel="ugc" to all links in statuses, to prevent SEO spam
• Extract RSS functionality from OStatus
• MRF (Simple Policy): Also use :accept/:reject on the actors rather than only their activities
• OStatus: Extract RSS functionality
• Deprecated User.Info embedded schema (fields moved to User)
• Store status data inside Flag activity
• Deprecated (reorganized as UserRelationship entity) User fields with user AP IDs (blocks, mutes, muted_reblogs, muted_notifications, subscribers).
• Rate limiter is now disabled for localhost/socket (unless remoteip plug is enabled)
• Logger: default log level changed from warn to info.
• Config mix task migrate_to_db truncates config table before migrating the config file.
• Allow account registration without an email
• Default to prepare: :unnamed in the database configuration.

• Instance stats are now loaded on startup instead of being empty until next hourly job.

  API Changes

• Breaking EmojiReactions: Change endpoints and responses to align with Mastodon

• Breaking Admin API: PATCH /api/pleroma/admin/users/:nickname/force_password_reset is now PATCH /api/pleroma/admin/users/force_password_reset (accepts nicknames array in the request body)

• Breaking: Admin API: Return link alongside with token on password reset

• Breaking: Admin API: PUT /api/pleroma/admin/reports/:id is now PATCH /api/pleroma/admin/reports, see admin_api.md for details

• Breaking: /api/pleroma/admin/users/invite_token now uses POST, changed accepted params and returns full invite in json instead of only token string.

• Breaking replying to reports is now "report notes", endpoint changed from POST /api/pleroma/admin/reports/:id/respond to POST /api/pleroma/admin/reports/:id/notes

• Mastodon API: stopped sanitizing display names, field names and subject fields since they are supposed to be treated as plaintext

• Admin API: Return total when querying for reports

• Mastodon API: Return pleroma.direct_conversation_id when creating a direct message (POST /api/v1/statuses)

• Admin API: Return link alongside with token on password reset

• Admin API: Support authentication via x-admin-token HTTP header

• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.direct_conversation_id to the status endpoint (GET /api/v1/statuses/:id)

• Mastodon API: pleroma.thread_muted to the Status entity

• Mastodon API: Mark the direct conversation as read for the author when they send a new direct message

• Mastodon API, streaming: Add pleroma.direct_conversation_id to the conversation stream event payload.

• Admin API: Render whole status in grouped reports

• Mastodon API: User timelines will now respect blocks, unless you are getting the user timeline of somebody you blocked (which would be empty otherwise).

• Mastodon API: Favoriting / Repeating a post multiple times will now return the identical response every time. Before, executing that action twice would return an error ("already favorited") on the second try.

• Mastodon API: Limit timeline requests to 3 per timeline per 500ms per user/ip by default.

• Admin API: PATCH /api/pleroma/admin/users/:nickname/credentials and GET /api/pleroma/admin/users/:nickname/credentials

Added

• :chat_limit option to limit chat characters.
• cleanup_attachments option to remove attachments along with statuses. Does not affect duplicate files and attachments without status. Enabling this will increase load to database when deleting statuses on larger instances.
• Refreshing poll results for remote polls
• Authentication: Added rate limit for password-authorized actions / login existence checks
• Static Frontend: Add the ability to render user profiles and notices server-side without requiring JS app.
• Mix task to re-count statuses for all users (mix pleroma.count_statuses)
• Mix task to list all users (mix pleroma.user list)
• Mix task to send a test email (mix pleroma.email test)
• Support for X-Forwarded-For and similar HTTP headers which used by reverse proxies to pass a real user IP address to the backend. Must not be enabled unless your instance is behind at least one reverse proxy (such as Nginx, Apache HTTPD or Varnish Cache).
• MRF: New module which handles incoming posts based on their age. By default, all incoming posts that are older than 2 days will be unlisted and not shown to their followers.
• User notification settings: Add privacy_option option.
• Support for custom Elixir modules (such as MRF policies)
• User settings: Add This account is a option.
• A new users admin digest email
• OAuth: admin scopes support (relevant setting: [:auth, :enforce_oauth_admin_scope_usage]).
• Add an option authorized_fetch_mode to require HTTP signatures for AP fetches.
• ActivityPub: support for replies collection (output for outgoing federation & fetching on incoming federation).

• Mix task to refresh counter cache (mix pleroma.refresh_counter_cache)

  API Changes

• Job queue stats to the healthcheck page

• Admin API: Add ability to fetch reports, grouped by status GET /api/pleroma/admin/grouped_reports

• Admin API: Add ability to require password reset

• Mastodon API: Account entities now include follow_requests_count (planned Mastodon 3.x addition)

• Pleroma API: GET /api/v1/pleroma/accounts/:id/scrobbles to get a list of recently scrobbled items

• Pleroma API: POST /api/v1/pleroma/scrobble to scrobble a media item

• Mastodon API: Add upload_limit, avatar_upload_limit, background_upload_limit, and banner_upload_limit to /api/v1/instance

• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.unread_conversation_count to the Account entity

• OAuth: support for hierarchical permissions / Mastodon 2.4.3 OAuth permissions

• Metadata Link: Atom syndication Feed

• Mix task to re-count statuses for all users (mix pleroma.count_statuses)

• Mastodon API: Add exclude_visibilities parameter to the timeline and notification endpoints

• Admin API: /users/:nickname/toggle_activation endpoint is now deprecated in favor of: /users/activate, /users/deactivate, both accept nicknames array

• Admin API: Multiple endpoints now require nicknames array, instead of singe nickname:

  • POST/DELETE /api/pleroma/admin/users/:nickname/permission_group/:permission_group are deprecated in favor of: POST/DELETE /api/pleroma/admin/users/permission_group/:permission_group
  • DELETE /api/pleroma/admin/users (nickname query param or nickname sent in JSON body) is deprecated in favor of: DELETE /api/pleroma/admin/users (nicknames query array param or nicknames sent in JSON body)

• Admin API: Add GET /api/pleroma/admin/relay endpoint - lists all followed relays

• Pleroma API: POST /api/v1/pleroma/conversations/read to mark all conversations as read

• ActivityPub: Support Move activities

• Mastodon API: Add /api/v1/markers for managing timeline read markers

• Mastodon API: Add the recipients parameter to GET /api/v1/conversations

• Configuration: feed option for user atom feed.

• Pleroma API: Add Emoji reactions

• Admin API: Add /api/pleroma/admin/instances/:instance/statuses - lists all statuses from a given instance

• Admin API: Add /api/pleroma/admin/users/:nickname/statuses - lists all statuses from a given user

• Admin API: PATCH /api/pleroma/users/confirm_email to confirm email for multiple users, PATCH /api/pleroma/users/resend_confirmation_email to resend confirmation email for multiple users

• ActivityPub: Configurable type field of the actors.

• Mastodon API: /api/v1/accounts/:id has source/pleroma/actor_type field.

• Mastodon API: /api/v1/update_credentials accepts actor_type field.

• Captcha: Support native provider

• Captcha: Enable by default

• Mastodon API: Add support for account_id param to filter notifications by the account

• Mastodon API: Add emoji_reactions property to Statuses

• Mastodon API: Change emoji reaction reply format

• Notifications: Added pleroma:emoji_reaction notification type

• Mastodon API: Change emoji reaction reply format once more

• Configuration: feed.logo option for tag feed.

• Tag feed: /tags/:tag.rss - list public statuses by hashtag.

• Mastodon API: Add reacted property to emoji_reactions

• Pleroma API: Add reactions for a single emoji.

• ActivityPub: [:activitypub, :note_replies_output_limit] setting sets the number of note self-replies to output on outgoing federation.

• Admin API: GET /api/pleroma/admin/stats to get status count by visibility scope

• Admin API: GET /api/pleroma/admin/statuses - list all statuses (accepts godmode and local_only)

Fixed

• Report emails now include functional links to profiles of remote user accounts
• Not being able to log in to some third-party apps when logged in to MastoFE
• MRF: Delete activities being exempt from MRF policies
• OTP releases: Not being able to configure OAuth expired token cleanup interval
• OTP releases: Not being able to configure HTML sanitization policy
• OTP releases: Not being able to change upload limit (again)
• Favorites timeline now ordered by favorite date instead of post date

• Support for cancellation of a follow request

  API Changes

• Mastodon API: Fix private and direct statuses not being filtered out from the public timeline for an authenticated user (GET /api/v1/timelines/public)

• Mastodon API: Inability to get some local users by nickname in /api/v1/accounts/:id_or_nickname

• AdminAPI: If some status received reports both in the "new" format and "old" format it was considered reports on two different statuses (in the context of grouped reports)

• Admin API: Error when trying to update reports in the "old" format

• Mastodon API: Marking a conversation as read (POST /api/v1/conversations/:id/read) now no longer brings it to the top in the user's direct conversation list

[1.1.9] - 2020-02-10

Fixed

• OTP: Inability to set the upload limit (again)
• Not being able to pin polls
• Streaming API: incorrect handling of reblog mutes
• Rejecting the user when field length limit is exceeded
• OpenGraph provider: html entities in descriptions

[1.1.8] - 2020-01-10

Fixed

• Captcha generation issues
• Returned Kocaptcha endpoint to configuration
• Captcha validity is now 5 minutes

[1.1.7] - 2019-12-13

Fixed

• OTP: Inability to set the upload limit
• OTP: Inability to override node name/distribution type to run 2 Pleroma instances on the same machine

Added

• Integrated captcha provider

Changed

• Captcha enabled by default
• Default Captcha provider changed from Pleroma.Captcha.Kocaptcha to Pleroma.Captcha.Native
• Better Cache-Control header for static content

Bundled Pleroma-FE Changes

Added

• Icons in the navigation panel

Fixed

• Improved support unauthenticated view of private instances

Removed

• Whitespace hack on empty post content

[1.1.6] - 2019-11-19

Fixed

• Not being able to log into to third party apps when the browser is logged into mastofe
• Email confirmation not being required even when enabled
• Mastodon API: conversations API crashing when one status is malformed

Bundled Pleroma-FE Changes

Added

• About page
• Meme arrows

Fixed

• Image modal not closing unless clicked outside of image
• Attachment upload spinner not being centered
• Showing follow counters being 0 when they are actually hidden

[1.1.5] - 2019-11-09

Fixed

• Polls having different numbers in timelines/notifications/poll api endpoints due to cache desyncronization
• Pleroma API: OAuth token endpoint not being found when ".json" suffix is appended

Changed

• Frontend bundle updated to 044c9ad0

[1.1.4] - 2019-11-01

Fixed

• Added a migration that fills up empty user.info fields to prevent breakage after previous unsafe migrations.
• Failure to migrate from pre-1.0.0 versions
• Mastodon API: Notification stream not including follow notifications

[1.1.3] - 2019-10-25

Fixed

• Blocked users showing up in notifications collapsed as if they were muted
• pleroma_ctl not working on Debian's default shell

[1.1.2] - 2019-10-18

Fixed

• pleroma_ctl trying to connect to a running instance when generating the config, which of course doesn't exist.

[1.1.1] - 2019-10-18

Fixed

• One of the migrations between 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 wiping user info of the relay user because of unexpected behavior of postgresql's jsonb_set, resulting in inability to post in the default configuration. If you were affected, please run the following query in postgres console, the relay user will be recreated automatically:

  delete from users where ap_id = 'https://your.instance.hostname/relay';
  

• Bad user search matches

[1.1.0] - 2019-10-14

Breaking: The stable branch has been changed from master to stable. If you want to keep using 1.0, the release/1.0 branch will receive security updates for 6 months after 1.1 release.

OTP Note: pleroma_ctl in 1.0 defaults to master and doesn't support specifying arbitrary branches, making ./pleroma_ctl update fail. To fix this, fetch a version of pleroma_ctl from 1.1 using the command below and proceed with the update normally:

curl -Lo ./bin/pleroma_ctl 'https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/raw/develop/rel/files/bin/pleroma_ctl'

Security

• Mastodon API: respect post privacy in /api/v1/statuses/:id/{favourited,reblogged}_by

Removed

• Breaking: GNU Social API with Qvitter extensions support
• Emoji: Remove longfox emojis.
• Remove Reply-To header from report emails for admins.
• ActivityPub: The /objects/:uuid/likes endpoint.

Changed

• Breaking: Configuration: A setting to explicitly disable the mailer was added, defaulting to true, if you are using a mailer add config :pleroma, Pleroma.Emails.Mailer, enabled: true to your config
• Breaking: Configuration: /media/ is now removed when base_url is configured, append /media/ to your base_url config to keep the old behaviour if desired
• Breaking: /api/pleroma/notifications/read is moved to /api/v1/pleroma/notifications/read and now supports max_id and responds with Mastodon API entities.
• Configuration: added config/description.exs, from which docs/config.md is generated
• Configuration: OpenGraph and TwitterCard providers enabled by default
• Configuration: Filter.AnonymizeFilename added ability to retain file extension with custom text
• Federation: Return 403 errors when trying to request pages from a user's follower/following collections if they have hide_followers/hide_follows set
• NodeInfo: Return skipThreadContainment in metadata for the skip_thread_containment option
• NodeInfo: Return mailerEnabled in metadata
• Mastodon API: Unsubscribe followers when they unfollow a user
• Mastodon API: pleroma.thread_muted key in the Status entity
• AdminAPI: Add "godmode" while fetching user statuses (i.e. admin can see private statuses)
• Improve digest email template – Pagination: (optional) return total alongside with items when paginating
• The Pleroma.FlakeId module has been replaced with the flake_id library.

Fixed

• Following from Osada
• Favorites timeline doing database-intensive queries
• Metadata rendering errors resulting in the entire page being inaccessible
• federation_incoming_replies_max_depth option being ignored in certain cases
• Mastodon API: Handling of search timeouts (/api/v1/search and /api/v2/search)
• Mastodon API: Misskey's endless polls being unable to render
• Mastodon API: Embedded relationships not being properly rendered in the Account entity of Status entity
• Mastodon API: Notifications endpoint crashing if one notification failed to render
• Mastodon API: exclude_replies is correctly handled again.
• Mastodon API: Add account_id, type, offset, and limit to search API (/api/v1/search and /api/v2/search)
• Mastodon API, streaming: Fix filtering of notifications based on blocks/mutes/thread mutes
• Mastodon API: Fix private and direct statuses not being filtered out from the public timeline for an authenticated user (GET /api/v1/timelines/public)
• Mastodon API: Ensure the account field is not empty when rendering Notification entities.
• Mastodon API: Inability to get some local users by nickname in /api/v1/accounts/:id_or_nickname
• Mastodon API: Blocks are now treated consistently between the Streaming API and the Timeline APIs
• Rich Media: Parser failing when no TTL can be found by image TTL setters
• Rich Media: The crawled URL is now spliced into the rich media data.
• ActivityPub S2S: sharedInbox usage has been mostly aligned with the rules in the AP specification.
• ActivityPub C2S: follower/following collection pages being inaccessible even when authentifucated if hide_followers/ hide_follows was set
• ActivityPub: Deactivated user deletion
• ActivityPub: Fix /users/:nickname/inbox crashing without an authenticated user
• MRF: fix ability to follow a relay when AntiFollowbotPolicy was enabled
• ActivityPub: Correct addressing of Undo.
• ActivityPub: Correct addressing of profile update activities.
• ActivityPub: Polls are now refreshed when necessary.
• Report emails now include functional links to profiles of remote user accounts
• Existing user id not being preserved on insert conflict
• Pleroma.Upload base_url was not automatically whitelisted by MediaProxy. Now your custom CDN or file hosting will be accessed directly as expected.
• Report email not being sent to admins when the reporter is a remote user
• Reverse Proxy limiting max_body_length was incorrectly defined and only checked Content-Length headers which may not be sufficient in some circumstances

Added

• Expiring/ephemeral activites. All activities can have expires_at value set, which controls when they should be deleted automatically.
• Mastodon API: in post_status, the expires_in parameter lets you set the number of seconds until an activity expires. It must be at least one hour.
• Mastodon API: all status JSON responses contain a pleroma.expires_at item which states when an activity will expire. The value is only shown to the user who created the activity. To everyone else it's empty.
• Configuration: ActivityExpiration.enabled controls whether expired activites will get deleted at the appropriate time. Enabled by default.
• Conversations: Add Pleroma-specific conversation endpoints and status posting extensions. Run the bump_all_conversations task again to create the necessary data.
• MRF: Support for priming the mediaproxy cache (Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.MediaProxyWarmingPolicy)
• MRF: Support for excluding specific domains from Transparency.
• MRF: Support for filtering posts based on who they mention (Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.MentionPolicy)
• Mastodon API: Support for the tagged filter in GET /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses
• Mastodon API, streaming: Add support for passing the token in the Sec-WebSocket-Protocol header
• Mastodon API, extension: Ability to reset avatar, profile banner, and background
• Mastodon API: Add support for fields_attributes API parameter (setting custom fields)
• Mastodon API: Add support for categories for custom emojis by reusing the group feature. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/11196
• Mastodon API: Add support for muting/unmuting notifications
• Mastodon API: Add support for the blocked_by attribute in the relationship API (GET /api/v1/accounts/relationships). https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/10373
• Mastodon API: Add support for the domain_blocking attribute in the relationship API (GET /api/v1/accounts/relationships).
• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.deactivated to the Account entity
• Mastodon API: added /auth/password endpoint for password reset with rate limit.
• Mastodon API: /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses now supports nicknames or user id
• Mastodon API: Improve support for the user profile custom fields
• Mastodon API: Add support for fields_attributes API parameter (setting custom fields)
• Mastodon API: Added an endpoint to get multiple statuses by IDs (GET /api/v1/statuses/?ids[]=1&ids[]=2)
• Admin API: Return users' tags when querying reports
• Admin API: Return avatar and display name when querying users
• Admin API: Allow querying user by ID
• Admin API: Added support for tuples.
• Admin API: Added endpoints to run mix tasks pleroma.config migrate_to_db & pleroma.config migrate_from_db
• Added synchronization of following/followers counters for external users
• Configuration: enabled option for Pleroma.Emails.Mailer, defaulting to false.
• Configuration: Pleroma.Plugs.RateLimiter bucket_name, params options.
• Configuration: user_bio_length and user_name_length options.
• Addressable lists
• Twitter API: added rate limit for /api/account/password_reset endpoint.
• ActivityPub: Add an internal service actor for fetching ActivityPub objects.
• ActivityPub: Optional signing of ActivityPub object fetches.
• Admin API: Endpoint for fetching latest user's statuses
• Pleroma API: Add /api/v1/pleroma/accounts/confirmation_resend?email=<email> for resending account confirmation.
• Pleroma API: Email change endpoint.
• Admin API: Added moderation log
• Web response cache (currently, enabled for ActivityPub)
• Reverse Proxy: Do not retry failed requests to limit pressure on the peer

Changed

• Configuration: Filter.AnonymizeFilename added ability to retain file extension with custom text
• Admin API: changed json structure for saving config settings.
• RichMedia: parsers and their order are configured in rich_media config.
• RichMedia: add the rich media ttl based on image expiration time.

[1.0.7] - 2019-09-26

Fixed

• Broken federation on Erlang 22 (previous versions of hackney http client were using an option that got deprecated)

  Changed

• ActivityPub: The first page in inboxes/outboxes is no longer embedded.

[1.0.6] - 2019-08-14

Fixed

• MRF: fix use of unserializable keyword lists in describe() implementations
• ActivityPub S2S: POST requests are now signed with (request-target) pseudo-header.

[1.0.5] - 2019-08-13

Fixed

• Mastodon API: follower/following counters not being nullified, when hide_follows/hide_followers is set
• Mastodon API: muted in the Status entity, using author's account to determine if the thread was muted
• Mastodon API: return the actual profile URL in the Account entity's url property when appropriate
• Templates: properly style anchor tags
• Objects being re-embedded to activities after being updated (e.g faved/reposted). Running 'mix pleroma.database prune_objects' again is advised.
• Not being able to access the Mastodon FE login page on private instances
• MRF: ensure that subdomain_match calls are case-insensitive
• Fix internal server error when using the healthcheck API.

Added

• Breaking: MRF describe API, which adds support for exposing configuration information about MRF policies to NodeInfo. Custom modules will need to be updated by adding, at the very least, def describe, do: {:ok, %{}} to the MRF policy modules.
• Relays: Added a task to list relay subscriptions.
• MRF: Support for filtering posts based on ActivityStreams vocabulary (Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.VocabularyPolicy)
• MRF (Simple Policy): Support for wildcard domains.
• Support for wildcard domains in user domain blocks setting.
• Configuration: quarantined_instances support wildcard domains.
• Mix Tasks: mix pleroma.database fix_likes_collections
• Configuration: federation_incoming_replies_max_depth option

Removed

• Federation: Remove likes from objects.
• Breaking: ActivityPub: The accept_blocks configuration setting.

[1.0.4] - 2019-08-01

Fixed

• Invalid SemVer version generation, when the current branch does not have commits ahead of tag/checked out on a tag

[1.0.3] - 2019-07-31

Security

• OStatus: eliminate the possibility of a protocol downgrade attack.
• OStatus: prevent following locked accounts, bypassing the approval process.
• TwitterAPI: use CommonAPI to handle remote follows instead of OStatus.

[1.0.2] - 2019-07-28

Fixed

• Not being able to pin unlisted posts
• Mastodon API: represent poll IDs as strings
• MediaProxy: fix matching filenames
• MediaProxy: fix filename encoding
• Migrations: fix a sporadic migration failure
• Metadata rendering errors resulting in the entire page being inaccessible
• Federation/MediaProxy not working with instances that have wrong certificate order
• ActivityPub S2S: remote user deletions now work the same as local user deletions.

Changed

• Configuration: OpenGraph and TwitterCard providers enabled by default
• Configuration: Filter.AnonymizeFilename added ability to retain file extension with custom text

[1.0.1] - 2019-07-14

Security

• OStatus: fix an object spoofing vulnerability.

[1.0.0] - 2019-06-29

Security

• Mastodon API: Fix display names not being sanitized
• Rich media: Do not crawl private IP ranges

Added

• Digest email for inactive users
• Add a generic settings store for frontends / clients to use.
• Explicit addressing option for posting.
• Optional SSH access mode. (Needs erlang-ssh package on some distributions).
• MongooseIM http authentication support.
• LDAP authentication
• External OAuth provider authentication
• Support for building a release using mix release
• A job queue for federation, emails, web push, etc.
• Prometheus metrics
• Support for Mastodon's remote interaction
• Mix Tasks: mix pleroma.database bump_all_conversations
• Mix Tasks: mix pleroma.database remove_embedded_objects
• Mix Tasks: mix pleroma.database update_users_following_followers_counts
• Mix Tasks: mix pleroma.user toggle_confirmed
• Mix Tasks: mix pleroma.config migrate_to_db
• Mix Tasks: mix pleroma.config migrate_from_db
• Federation: Support for Question and Answer objects
• Federation: Support for reports
• Configuration: poll_limits option
• Configuration: pack_extensions option
• Configuration: safe_dm_mentions option
• Configuration: link_name option
• Configuration: fetch_initial_posts option
• Configuration: notify_email option
• Configuration: Media proxy whitelist option
• Configuration: report_uri option
• Configuration: email_notifications option
• Configuration: limit_to_local_content option
• Pleroma API: User subscriptions
• Pleroma API: Healthcheck endpoint
• Pleroma API: /api/v1/pleroma/mascot per-user frontend mascot configuration endpoints
• Admin API: Endpoints for listing/revoking invite tokens
• Admin API: Endpoints for making users follow/unfollow each other
• Admin API: added filters (role, tags, email, name) for users endpoint
• Admin API: Endpoints for managing reports
• Admin API: Endpoints for deleting and changing the scope of individual reported statuses
• Admin API: Endpoints to view and change config settings.
• AdminFE: initial release with basic user management accessible at /pleroma/admin/
• Mastodon API: Add chat token to verify_credentials response
• Mastodon API: Add background image setting to update_credentials
• Mastodon API: Scheduled statuses
• Mastodon API: /api/v1/notifications/destroy_multiple (glitch-soc extension)
• Mastodon API: /api/v1/pleroma/accounts/:id/favourites (API extension)
• Mastodon API: Reports
• Mastodon API: POST /api/v1/accounts (account creation API)
• Mastodon API: Polls
• ActivityPub C2S: OAuth endpoints
• Metadata: RelMe provider
• OAuth: added support for refresh tokens
• Emoji packs and emoji pack manager
• Object pruning (mix pleroma.database prune_objects)
• OAuth: added job to clean expired access tokens
• MRF: Support for rejecting reports from specific instances (mrf_simple)
• MRF: Support for stripping avatars and banner images from specific instances (mrf_simple)
• MRF: Support for running subchains.
• Configuration: skip_thread_containment option
• Configuration: rate_limit option. See Pleroma.Plugs.RateLimiter documentation for details.
• MRF: Support for filtering out likely spam messages by rejecting posts from new users that contain links.
• Configuration: ignore_hosts option
• Configuration: ignore_tld option
• Configuration: default syslog tag "Pleroma" is now lowercased to "pleroma"

Changed

• Breaking: bind to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0 by default
• Breaking: Configuration: move from Pleroma.Mailer to Pleroma.Emails.Mailer
• Thread containment / test for complete visibility will be skipped by default.
• Enforcement of OAuth scopes
• Add multiple use/time expiring invite token
• Restyled OAuth pages to fit with Pleroma's default theme
• Link/mention/hashtag detection is now handled by auto_linker
• NodeInfo: Return safe_dm_mentions feature flag
• Federation: Expand the audience of delete activities to all recipients of the deleted object
• Federation: Removed inReplyToStatusId from objects
• Configuration: Dedupe enabled by default
• Configuration: Default log level in prod environment is now set to warn
• Configuration: Added extra_cookie_attrs for setting non-standard cookie attributes. Defaults to ["SameSite=Lax"] so that remote follows work.
• Timelines: Messages involving people you have blocked will be excluded from the timeline in all cases instead of just repeats.
• Admin API: Move the user related API to api/pleroma/admin/users
• Admin API: POST /api/pleroma/admin/users will take list of users
• Pleroma API: Support for emoji tags in /api/pleroma/emoji resulting in a breaking API change
• Mastodon API: Support for exclude_types, limit and min_id in /api/v1/notifications
• Mastodon API: Add languages and registrations to /api/v1/instance
• Mastodon API: Provide plaintext versions of cw/content in the Status entity
• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.conversation_id, pleroma.in_reply_to_account_acct fields to the Status entity
• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.tags, pleroma.relationship{}, pleroma.is_moderator, pleroma.is_admin, pleroma.confirmation_pending, pleroma.hide_followers, pleroma.hide_follows, pleroma.hide_favorites fields to the User entity
• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.show_role, pleroma.no_rich_text fields to the Source subentity
• Mastodon API: Add support for updating no_rich_text, hide_followers, hide_follows, hide_favorites, show_role in PATCH /api/v1/update_credentials
• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.is_seen to the Notification entity
• Mastodon API: Add pleroma.local to the Status entity
• Mastodon API: Add preview parameter to POST /api/v1/statuses
• Mastodon API: Add with_muted parameter to timeline endpoints
• Mastodon API: Actual reblog hiding instead of a dummy
• Mastodon API: Remove attachment limit in the Status entity
• Mastodon API: Added support max_id & since_id for bookmark timeline endpoints.
• Deps: Updated Cowboy to 2.6
• Deps: Updated Ecto to 3.0.7
• Don't ship finmoji by default, they can be installed as an emoji pack
• Hide deactivated users and their statuses
• Posts which are marked sensitive or tagged nsfw no longer have link previews.
• HTTP connection timeout is now set to 10 seconds.
• Respond with a 404 Not implemented JSON error message when requested API is not implemented
• Rich Media: crawl only https URLs.

Fixed

• Follow requests don't get 'stuck' anymore.
• Added an FTS index on objects. Running vacuum analyze and setting a larger work_mem is recommended.
• Followers counter not being updated when a follower is blocked
• Deactivated users being able to request an access token
• Limit on request body in rich media/relme parsers being ignored resulting in a possible memory leak
• Proper Twitter Card generation instead of a dummy
• Deletions failing for users with a large number of posts
• NodeInfo: Include admins in staffAccounts
• ActivityPub: Crashing when requesting empty local user's outbox
• Federation: Handling of objects without summary property
• Federation: Add a language tag to activities as required by ActivityStreams 2.0
• Federation: Do not federate avatar/banner if set to default allowing other servers/clients to use their defaults
• Federation: Cope with missing or explicitly nulled address lists
• Federation: Explicitly ensure activities addressed to as:Public become addressed to the followers collection
• Federation: Better cope with actors which do not declare a followers collection and use as:Public with these semantics
• Federation: Follow requests from remote users who have been blocked will be automatically rejected if appropriate
• MediaProxy: Parse name from content disposition headers even for non-whitelisted types
• MediaProxy: S3 link encoding
• Rich Media: Reject any data which cannot be explicitly encoded into JSON
• Pleroma API: Importing follows from Mastodon 2.8+
• Twitter API: Exposing default scope, no_rich_text of the user to anyone
• Twitter API: Returning the role object in user entity despite show_role = false
• Mastodon API: /api/v1/favourites serving only public activities
• Mastodon API: Reblogs having in_reply_to_id - null even when they are replies
• Mastodon API: Streaming API broadcasting wrong activity id
• Mastodon API: 500 errors when requesting a card for a private conversation
• Mastodon API: Handling of reblogs in /api/v1/accounts/:id/follow
• Mastodon API: Correct reblogged, favourited, and bookmarked values in the reblog status JSON
• Mastodon API: Exposing default scope of the user to anyone
• Mastodon API: Make irreversible field default to false [POST /api/v1/filters]
• Mastodon API: Replace missing non-nullable Card attributes with empty strings
• User-Agent is now sent correctly for all HTTP requests.
• MRF: Simple policy now properly delists imported or relayed statuses

Removed

• Configuration: config :pleroma, :fe in favor of the more flexible config :pleroma, :frontend_configurations

[0.9.99999] - 2019-05-31

Security

• Mastodon API: Fix lists leaking private posts

[0.9.9999] - 2019-04-05

Security

• Mastodon API: Fix content warnings skipping HTML sanitization

[0.9.999] - 2019-03-13

Frontend changes only.

Added

• Added floating action button for posting status on mobile

  Changed

• Changed user-settings icon to a pencil

  Fixed

• Keyboard shortcuts activating when typing a message

• Gaps when scrolling down on a timeline after showing new

[0.9.99] - 2019-03-08

Changed

• Update the frontend to the 0.9.99 tag

  Fixed

• Sign the date header in federation to fix Mastodon federation.

[0.9.9] - 2019-02-22

This is our first stable release.