Trunk & Tidbits, December 2025

Welcome back, friends: and, happy 2026. Our team is anticipating a lot of exciting developments this year!

As we write this update in early January, FOSDEM is just a few weeks away. We will have a stand at the event for the third year in a row, where you’ll be able to talk to folks from the team. If you’ve visited us at FOSDEM in the past, you should expect a different setup this year. We will have less merchandise to pick up from us in person, for logisical reasons: you can still order merch online, but we don’t plan to have t-shirts, plushies or mugs with us this year, only some of the smaller items.

Apart from our table, we also have a presence in a couple of devrooms. Our Community Director, Hannah will be on stage in the Social Web Devroom with a session entitled Tending the Herd, and will be on a panel on another track as well. We hope to meet some Trunk & Tidbits readers in the Social Web Devroom, so please say hello 🫶🏻

Releases

In the past week, we released versions 4.5.4, 4.4.11, 4.3.17 and 4.2.29.

These versions contain fixes for various bugs, and include important security fixes (one high severity, and one moderate severity). We recommend that all server administrators update to the new point releases for the Mastodon version they are running.

Note the end-of-life dates. Mastodon v4.2.29 will be the final update for the Mastodon v4.2 branch. Coming up, he 4.3 branch will reach EOL on May 6, 2026.

Backend and Web

In December 2025 we reviewed and merged 183 Pull Requests (137 with translation and dependency updates removed) from 10 contributors. A quieter month - mostly as expected at this time of year, when folks take a break for the holiday.

Thank you to everyone who helped with code contributions and issue triage.

iOS

We shipped 2025.09 with Liquid Glass controls, better scrolling on iPad, some crash fixes, and a few more localized languages. It was followed quickly by 2025.10, to correct the appearance of the new Liquid Glass icon on the App Store.

Community

• If you like the multi-column view of Mastodon’s Advanced Mode, you might also like to take a look at FediDeck, an in-progress app with some similarities. It is marked as alpha, so be kind!
• If you’re an iOS user, our friends at Tapbots shipped an update for Ivory with support for Mastodon’s consent-respecting quote posts feature.
• Finally, Fediway is “a recommendation engine for Mastodon” that you may be curious to investigate.

As always: if you’re building with the Mastodon API, let us know!

We Appreciate You

As we enter a new year, we’re tremendously grateful for your support and contributions. We’re building a people-powered social web, and depend on your donations. Please click below to help out. Thank you!