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:skull360: We have successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.7.0-alpha.1+mementomods-2026-07-26, running Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0 nightly branch (new alpha for Mastodon v4.7.0-alpha coming soon). This daily build stays on the v4.7.0-alpha.1 nightly line, so this is a within-cycle daily build rather than a version jump, we've just brought it fully up to date with upstream, as our bi-weekly upgrades go. This update includes 142 new commits from upstream since our 5.7.2026 build (mementomods-2026-07-05). The Docker build is also being updated according to our automatic workflow. What's new in Mastodon core, these are the changes the Mastodon Team have introduced in the latest nightly version we are running: ✨️ New features - Groundwork for the Mastodon 5.0 redesign started landing: new design tokens, webfonts and redesigned buttons, toggles and text inputs. It all sits behind a feature flag for now, so nothing changes visually yet https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39802 - Emoji search was improved, so shortcodes find better matches https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39815 - Remote accounts can now change their handle without breaking follows https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39785 - Boosts are deduplicated across the last 80 posts instead of the last 40, so the same post repeats less often in your timeline https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39784 - Admins now get notified about out of support Mastodon versions, with end of support dates shown next to available updates https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39734 🔧 Fixes & improvements - "Hide media with a warning" filters are applied correctly again https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39946 - Very wide images no longer overflow posts horizontally https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39812 - Embedded videos no longer restart when you interact with the post, or with other posts in the same feed https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39746 - Quote post text can be edited again https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39837, and the content warning is no longer copied into the body when editing a quote with empty text https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39823 - The accept and reject actions in follow requests are no longer swapped https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39862 - Saving custom profile fields no longer refreshes the page https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39828 - The account language selector works again https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39801 - Relative timestamps were fixed https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39742 - Timelines can load more posts again when the last item is a follow suggestion carousel https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39773 - Notification filter selection is kept after changing settings https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39872 - Announcement reaction bars no longer overlap pagination https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39814 - The admin dashboard and the admin collection page got noticeably faster queries https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39929 🔒 Federation & security (under the hood) - Added support for outgoing HTTP Message Signatures, part of the ongoing work to harden how servers verify each other's requests https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39756 - Added ML-DSA-44 support for Object Integrity Proofs and keys, a post quantum signature scheme https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39522 - Tightened the relevancy check on incoming activities https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39892 - Remote accounts are now deleted when fetching them returns 410 Gone https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39865 - Suspended accounts no longer linger in the follow request count https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39858 📦 Dependency updates - Routine bumps this round (Ruby 4.0.6, Bundler 4.0.16, Yarn, Vite, formatjs, AWS SDK, CI actions and translation updates). 🏠 Changes specific to our server - The "For you" feed is a lot faster and no longer times out when the server is busy. The ranking is now cached and refreshed in the background instead of being calculated from scratch on every single load. - Emoji autocomplete now puts whole word matches first, so typing :sweat also finds :grinning_face_with_sweat: instead of only custom emojis that happen to contain those letters. - Lots of performance improvements under the hood. 🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI (nightly) Still on unreleased nighly branch, with a batch of navigation fixes vendored in this round: - The left navigation scrolls properly at extreme browser zoom on low resolution screens, and only on desktop, so the mobile drawer is left alone. - The mobile navigation bar sits above the slideout pane again, so it no longer covers the hamburger menu, and the mobile navigation links got proper padding. - Fixed the compact navigation font size on screens below 1080px height, which was being overridden by the desktop rule. - Navigation hover highlights are no longer clipped on their left edge on larger screens. Source code for our Mastodon: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts. :bunhdheart: If anything feels off, please let us know! #MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin