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We just released Mastodon 4.7.0!
This version contains very few user-facing changes, but significantly reworks the backend code to improve security and support new protocol features.
You can read more about it on our blog: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mastodon-4.7/
Note for admins: the database migrations might take a long time, this is expected (see the release notes).
Release notes and upgrade instructions are available here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0
@MastodonEngineering Congratulations!
@MastodonEngineering In the past, Mastodon had become a generic trademark for both the software and the whole "fediverse". It made it easy to convince someone to move from Twitter to Mastodon for instance.
With "Mastondon Inc" recently asserting control over the "Mastodon" brand, does this have any impact on the Mastodon branded software when used on non Mastodon-branded instances ? I know we can't use "Mastodon" and have to use "fediverse" now when trying to get people to sig up.
@MastodonEngineering when released mastodon 5.0 on Android Play Store ?
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