Post by @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social

@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

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

#mastoadmin

GitHub

Release v4.7.0 · mastodon/mastodon

This version introduces very few user-facing changes but substantially reworks Mastodon's internals to increase security, support new protocols, and pave the way for new features. Updating to this ...

Mastodon Blog

Mastodon 4.7

This release is full of technical improvements focusing on bug fixes, performance and interoperability with other fediverse platforms.

#mastoadmin

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Jordan

@jordan@mastodon.subj.am 43 min. ago

@MastodonEngineering Thanks to the awesome dev & other teams for this! Just finished updating.

Ryan Finnie

@ryan@m29.us 1 hr. ago

@MastodonEngineering Good stuff overall, but please stop putting "(OpenSearch should also work)" in the release notes. A few months ago I went down a rabbit hole of trying to replace Elasticsearch with OpenSearch, and determined OpenSearch does not and cannot work with Mastodon, in Mastodon's current state. And funny enough, just a week ago the 2-year-old issue for this was closed without comment. I can understand not having the resources to support two paths, but Mastodon doesn't work with OpenSearch.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35237

GitHub

Opensearch 3.1.0 detected as Elasticsearch 3.1.0 · Issue #35237 · mastodon/mastodon

Steps to reproduce the problem /admin/dashboard shows the message Incompatible Elasticsearch version: Elasticsearch 3.1.0 is running while 7.x is required when running opensearch 3.x Expected behav...

WarpinWolf

@WarpinWolf@mastodon.egroc.de 2 hr. ago

@MastodonEngineering

GUT!!!

Danke !!!!

War hilfreich in den release notes: 'podman-compose run --rm -e SKIP_POST_DEPLOYMENT_MIGRATIONS=true web bundle exec rails db:migrate

Sylvhem

@Sylvhem@eldritch.cafe 2 hr. ago

@MastodonEngineering Congratulations!

Rihards Olups

@richlv@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

cc @lastguru !

Jean-François Mezei

@jfmezei@cosocial.ca 2 hr. ago

@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.

Eugen Rochko

@Gargron@mastodon.social 1 hr. ago

@jfmezei @MastodonEngineering Mastodon has never been a generic trademark. It's been a registered trademark since 2021 and the trademark policy has been in effect since 2022.

Arun Shah™

@arunshah240@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

@MastodonEngineering when released mastodon 5.0 on Android Play Store ?