@cxxvii and @ferda both reported problems with #Pachli 3.9.0 that necessitated a new release while I'm travelling.

- A possible crash on startup
- List management wasn't working

Pachli 3.9.1 has been released with fixes for these. Thanks to both of them for reporting the issues.

#androiddev #mastodev

#Mitra v5.11.0

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra/releases/tag/v5.11.0
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-web/releases/tag/v5.11.0

- Posts from followed FEP-1b12 groups are displayed in home timeline. Reposts attributed to a group account are no longer generated.
- Posts can be quoted on Mastodon (contributed by @lnkr)
- Support for text/plain post format.
- Database integrity violations that occurred when multiple queue workers were running have been fixed (contributed by @nak).

• Gallery posts, which is an image post with multiple images in it, compatible with Mastodon and Pixelfed. Check out this example from Mastodon.

• “Reposters” as a separate thing from “Bots” with the same Show and Hide options for filtering that bots have. Reposters are more targeted, with higher quality content than true bots and often have a human operator writing comments. However many people find this inauthentic so now they can be filtered out. More details

• /c/microblogs can show posts from people you’re following OR all posts.

• Recent hashtags shown on the home page sidebar.

• Support for receiving posts with jpegxl images.

• Communities can have a default hashtag for new posts - posters can edit or remove it if they want.

For admins:

• Option to manually approve posts by new accounts, to cut down on spam while having open registrations (no approval on the new account). This will let people dip their toes in without waiting.

• Easily contact other instance admins, see /admin/instances

• Vote manipulation detection tools for simple sockpuppets and complex coordinated voting networks. See /admin/voting

• Serial downvoter report showing who made lots of downvotes against a single person in a short time.

• Other bot detection tools - e.g. easily spot unnatural runs of very quick post creation.

• Display list of alts on user profiles to more easily investigate activity by alts.

• Filter emoji with keywords rather than importing absolutely everything - this will speed up the emoji reaction dialog.

• Identify instances likely to be used by spammers in future. See /admin/instances?filter=liability

• Microblog posts with no replies can be automatically deleted - set the MICROBLOG_CONTENT_RETENTION environment variable to how many months you want to keep them for.

To upgrade from 1.7.x

git pull
git checkout v1.8.x

Then,

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh

Donations

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Tusky 33 is out!

https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/src/branch/develop/CHANGELOG.md

improving notification support, post rendering and a few bugfixes

Week in Fediverse 2026-10-02

Servers

- PeerTube v8.3.1
- Hollo v0.9.20
- Mastodon v4.7.3
- Ibis v0.3.4
- Wafrn v2026.10.01
- Hometown v1.3.0
- Misskey v2026.10.0
- NeoDB v0.19.5
- Hatsu v0.3.5
- Wanderer v0.21.0

Clients

- Pachli v3.9.0
- Fedilab v3.45.0
- chan-fe v0.4.0
- PeerTube Mobile v2.3.0

For developers

- Fedify v2.4.0
- activitypub-federation-rust v0.6.6
- Fedipub v0.10.0

Protocol

- FEP-070c: Block synchronization across servers
- FEP-302f: QuantPub — federated personal metrics for quantified-self sharing
- FEP-6757: Content License Metadata in ActivityPub

Articles

- Why Does Nobody Use Lemmy?
- Fediverse News – Summer 2026

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