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Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog

Security

• Update dependencies
• Fix incorrect rate-limit handling GHSA-84ch-6436-c7mg

Fixed

• Fix race condition caused by ActiveRecord query cache in Create critical path (#35662 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix race condition caused by quote post processing (#35657 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix WebUI crashing for accounts with null URL (#35651 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix friends-of-friends recommendations suggesting already-requested accounts (#35604 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix synchronous recursive fetching of deeply-nested quoted posts (#35600 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Fix “Expand this post” link including user @undefined (#35478 by @ClearlyClaire)

Changed

• Change StatusReachFinder to consider quotes as well as reblogs (#35601 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Add restrictions on which quote posts can trend (#35507 by @ClearlyClaire)
• Change quote verification to not bypass authorization flow for mentions (#35528 by @ClearlyClaire)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.4.3, use git fetch && git checkout v4.4.3.

[!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 v4.4.1:

• Ruby: 3.2 or newer
• PostgreSQL: 13 or newer
• Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
• LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
• Redis: 6.2 or newer
• Node: 20 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 4.4.2.

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 4.4.0 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. Precompile the assets: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
3. Restart all Mastodon processes.

When using Docker

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.