PleromaFE Major Release: 2.8.0

Pleroma 2.8.0 is a major release of PleromaFE (Frontend). Highlight of this release is introduction of Themes 3. Please check it out.

You can update frontend separately from backend, see documentation.

Changed

• BREAKING: static/img/nsfw.2958239.png is now static/img/nsfw.DepQPhG0.png, which may affect people who specify exactly this path as the cover image
• BREAKING: static/emoji.json is replaced with a properly hashed path under static/js in the production build, meaning server admins cannot provide their own set of unicode emojis by overriding this file (custom (image-based) emojis not affected)
• Speed up initial boot.
• Updated our build system to support browsers:
  Safari >= 15
  Firefox >= 115
  Android > 4
  no Opera Mini support
  no IE support
  no “dead” (unmaintained) browsers support
  This does not guarantee that browsers will or will not work.
• Use /api/v1/accounts/:id/follow for account subscriptions instead of the deprecated routes
• Modal layout for mobile has new layout to make it easy to use
• Better display of mute reason on posts
• Simplify the OAuth client_name to ‘PleromaFE’
• Partially migrated from vuex to pinia
• Authenticate and subscribe to streaming after connection
• Tabs now have indentation for better visibility of which tab is currently active
• Upgraded Vue to version 3.5

Added

• Support bookmark folders
• Some new default color schemes
• Added support for fetching /{resource}.custom.ext to allow adding instance-specific themes without altering sourcetree
• Post actions customization
• Support displaying time in absolute format
• Add draft management system
• Compress most kinds of images on upload.
• Added option to always convert images to JPEG format instead of using WebP when compressing images.
• Added configurable image compression option in general settings, allowing users to control whether images are compressed before upload.
• Inform users that Smithereen public polls are public
• Splash screen + loading indicator to make process of identifying initialization issues and load performance
• UI for making v3 themes and palettes, support for bundling v3 themes
• Make UserLink wrappable

Fixed

• Fixed occasional overflows in emoji picker and made header scrollable
• Updated shadow editor, hopefully fixed long-standing bugs, added ability to specify shadow’s name.
• Checkbox vertical alignment
• Check for canvas extract permission when initializing favicon service
• Fix some of the color manipulation functions
• Fix draft saving when auto-save is off
• Switch from class hack to normalButton attribute for emoji count popover
• Fix emoji inconsistencies in notifications,
• Fix some emoji not scaling with interface
• Make sure hover style is also applied to :focus-visible
• Improved ToS and registration
• Fix small markup inconsistencies
• Fixed modals buttons overflow
• Fix whitespaces for multiple status mute reasons, display bot status reason
• Create an OAuth app only when needed
• Fix CSS compatibility issues in style_setter.js for older browsers like Palemoon
• Proper sticky header for conversations on user page
• Add text label for more actions button in post status form
• Reply-or-quote buttons now take less space
• Allow repeats of own posts with private scopes
• Bookmarks visible again on mobile
• Remove focusability on hidden popover in subject input
• Show only month and day instead of weird “day, hour” format.

Removed

• BREAKING: drop support for browsers that do not support <script type="module">
• BREAKING: css source map does not work in production (see https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/2830 )
• Remove emoji annotations code for unused languages from final build