6.0.0 – New Kids on the Block
The Follow Me and Followers blocks now have a fresh design, better interactivity, and broader support for ActivityPub-enabled users.
The Reactions block and “Reply on the Fediverse” feature also now take advantage of the latest Block Editor features and are built on the Interactivity API for a smoother experience.
We’ll follow up soon with a deeper dive into the new block features — stay tuned!
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Beyond blocks, publishing new blog posts now reliably sends a Create activity to the Fediverse, so your followers won’t miss a thing. We’ve also improved how hashtags and @-mentions appear when posts federate to Mastodon and other platforms.
Under the hood, we’ve cleaned up and modernized the codebase — and the plugin now requires WordPress 6.5 to take full advantage of the latest WordPress features.
Meanwhile, we’re kicking off a major rework of the Followers/Following system. Expect more enhancements to roll out over the next few weeks. Plus, we’ll be publishing a blog post with our roadmap plans in the coming days — exciting things ahead! 🚀
Full Changelog
Added
- Enhanced markup of the “follow me” block, for a better Webmention and IndieWeb support.
- The actor of the replied-to post is now included in cc or to based on the post’s visibility.
Changed
- “Reply on the Fediverse” now uses the Interactivity API for display on the frontend.
- Bumped minimum required WordPress version to 6.5.
- Default avatar and error handling for the reactions popover list.
- Ensured that publishing a new blog post always sends a Create to the Fediverse.
- Followers block has an updated design, new block variations, and uses the Interactivity API for display on the frontend.
- Follow Me and Followers blocks can now list any user that is Activitypub-enabled, even if they have the Subscriber role.
- Likes and Reposts for comments to a post are no longer attributed to the post itself.
- New system to manage followers and followings more consistently using a unified actor type.
- Re-enabled HTML support in excerpts and summaries to properly display hashtags and @-replies, now that Mastodon supports it.
- Refactored to use CSS for effects instead of JavaScript, simplifying the code.
- Refine the plugin’s handling and storage of remote actor data.
- The Follow Me block now uses the latest Block Editor technology for display on the frontend.
- The Reactions block now uses the latest Block Editor technology for display on the frontend.
Removed
- Cleaned up the codebase and removed deprecated functions.
Fixed
- Added forward compatibility for Editor Controls, fixing deprecated warnings in the Editor.
- Avoid type mismatch when updating
activitypub_content_warningmeta values. - Default number of attachments now works correctly in block editor.
- Fixed a bug in Site Health that caused a PHP warning and missing details for the WebFinger check.
- Fixes a bug in WordPress 6.5 where the plugin settings in the Editor would fail to render, due to a backwards compatibility break.
- Improved automated setup process for the Surge caching plugin.
- Improved excerpt handling by removing shortcodes from summaries.