Trunk & Tidbits, September 2026
The Mastodon Team
Building a better social web
Welcome to the 30th edition of Trunks & Tidbits!
Releases
We made two patch releases for all supported versions since our last Trunk & Tidbits post. As of this publication, our latest supported versions are 4.7.3, 4.6.9, 4.5.19 and 4.4.26.
Please note that Mastodon 4.4 will stop being maintained in less than 2 months, and we advise any server running it to update to a more recent version.
Mastodon 5.0 release is coming soon, and we shared an update of the upcoming interface changes. You can expect a first beta version very soon.
Backend & Web
In September 2026 we reviewed and merged 287 Pull Requests (202 with translation and dependency updates removed) from 17 contributors.
This month, a lot of the activity was again to work on our upcoming Mastodon 5.0 redesign. In addition to this, here are the most significant changes:
- Limit the number of deletion notices sent to other servers by storing the list of servers which fetched an account in a bloom filter. This is strongly recommended on large servers who regularly delete many accounts as it heavily decreases the number of federation
Deleteactivities. This feature introduces a new setting to require signed requests for accounts in order to know where the request comes from. —
PR #40283
(by
ClearlyClaire) - Added information about the trends and follow recommendation status of an account in the moderation panel —
PR #40398
(by
jhbabon)
- Show the app used for registering an account in the moderation panel —
PR #40567
(by
jhbabon)
- Added a server-side way to filter direct mentions, boosts, quotes and replies from the home feed —
PR #40468
(by
ClearlyClaire)
- Refactored FASP capabilities integration so they can be toggled individually —
PR #40763
(by
oneiros)
- David has been working on a new flow to register a FASP with a Fediverse server. You can read it and provide feedback on GitHub.
Android & iOS
We’re hard at work bringing a new navigational structure and features to align with the upcoming 5.0 design. Stay tuned!
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