Pleroma Release: 2.1.0

Pleroma 2.1.0 is a feature release that also contains many bugfixes and general improvements.

Upgrade notes

From-source only

1. Install cmake

Everyone

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

Frontend changes

Added

• Added private notifications option for push notifications
• ‘Copy link’ button for statuses (in the ellipsis menu)
• Autocomplete domains from list of known instances
• ‘Bot’ settings option and badge
• Added profile meta data fields that can be set in profile settings
• Added option to reset avatar/banner in profile settings
• Descriptions can be set on uploaded files before posting
• Added status preview option to preview your statuses before posting
• When a post is a reply to an unavailable post, the ‘Reply to’-text has a strike-through style
• Added ability to see all favoriting or repeating users when hovering the number on highlighted statuses

Changed

• Registration page no longer requires email if the server is configured not to require it
• Change heart to thumbs up in reaction picker
• Close the media modal on navigation events
• Add colons to the emoji alt text, to make them copyable
• Add better visual indication for drag-and-drop for files
• When disabling attachments, the placeholder links now show an icon and the description instead of just IMAGE or VIDEO etc
• Remove unnecessary options for ‘automatic loading when loading older’ and ‘reply previews’
• Greentext now has separate color slot for it
• Removed the use of with_move parameters when fetching notifications
• Push notifications now are the same as normal notfication, and are localized.
• Updated Notification Settings to match new BE API

Fixed

• Custom Emoji will display in poll options now.
• Status ellipsis menu closes properly when selecting certain options
• Cropped images look correct in Chrome
• Newlines in the muted words settings work again
• Clicking on non-latin hashtags won’t open a new window
• Uploading and drag-dropping multiple files works correctly now.
• Subject field now appears disabled when posting
• Fix status ellipsis menu being cut off in notifications column
• Fixed autocomplete sometimes not returning the right user when there’s already some results
• Videos and audio and misc files show description as alt/title properly now
• Clicking on non-image/video files no longer opens an empty modal
• Audio files can now be played back in the frontend with hidden attachments
• Videos are not cropped awkwardly in the uploads section anymore
• Reply filtering options in Settings -> Filtering now work again using filtering on server
• Don’t show just blank-screen when cookies are disabled
• Add status idempotency to prevent accidental double posting when posting returns an error
• Weird bug related to post being sent seemingly after pasting with keyboard (hopefully)
• Multiple issues with muted statuses/notifications

Backend changes

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.

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.

Fixed

• 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

AdminFE changes

Added

• Create /statuses/:id route that shows single status
• Add link to the user’s account in Pleroma on the user’s profile page
• On Reports page add links to reported account and the author of the report
• In Notes add link to the note author’s profile page
• In Moderation log add link to the actor’s profile page
• Support pagination of local emoji packs and files
• Add MRF Activity Expiration setting
• Add ability to disable multi-factor authentication for a user
• Add ability to configure Invalidation settings on MediaProxy tab
• Ability to configure S3 settings on Upload tab, Pleroma.Web.ApiSpec.CastAndValidate and :modules settings on Other tab, :pools, :connections_pool and :hackney_pools settings on Job Queue tab, :restrict_unauthenticated settings on Authentication tab, :favicons and :welcome settings on Instance tab, :frontends and Pleroma.Web.Preload settings on Frontend tab
• Show number of open reports in Sidebar Menu
• Add confirmation message when deleting a user
• Add new MediaProxy Cache Tab with ability to manually evict and ban objects from the Pleroma MediaProxy cache
• Allow managing user’s actor_type field via Admin API

Changed

• Statuses count changes when an instance is selected and shows the amount of statuses from an originating instance
• Add a confirmation dialog window when Remove button is clicked on the Settings page
• Disable tab on the Settings page if there are no settings on this tab that can be changed in Admin FE
• Settings that can’t be altered in Admin FE are removed: HTTP Signatures settings, Federation publisher modules and Oban Repo
• When rendering user’s profile, statuses, reports and notes check if required properties exist
• Remove ability to moderate users that don’t have valid nicknames
• Displays both labels and description in the header of group of settiings
• Ability to add custom values in Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Mogrify setting in the following format: ‘{"implode”, “1”}’
• Change types of the following settings: ‘:groups’, ‘:replace’, ‘:federatedtimelineremoval’, ‘:reject’, ‘:match_actor’. Update functions that parses and wraps settings data according to this change.
• Move rendering Crontab setting from a separate component to EditableKeyword component
• Show only those MRF settings that have been enabled in MRF Policies setting
• Move Auto Linker settings to Link Formatter Tab as its configuration was moved to :pleroma, Pleroma.Formatter
• Active and Local filters are applied by default on the Users tab

Fixed

• Send true and false as booleans if they are values of single selects on the Settings page
• Fix sorting users on Users page if there is an acount with missing nickname or ID
• Add new type of settings: ['string', 'image']. Render Image upload Input depending on the type of setting, not its key
• Fix displaying Pending tag and filtering by Pending Approval status
• Fix following and unfollowing relays from Admin-FE, update mobile UI