v4.5.7

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Upgrade overview

This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm:

ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation

For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section.

Changelog

Security

• Reject unconfirmed FASPs (#​37926 by @​oneiros, GHSA-qgmm-vr4c-ggjg)
• Re-use custom socket class for FASP requests (#​37925 by @​oneiros, GHSA-46w6-g98f-wxqm)

Added

• Add --suspended-only option to tootctl emoji purge (#​37828 and #​37861 by @​ClearlyClaire and @​mjankowski)

Fixed

• Fix emoji data not being properly cached (#​37858 by @​ChaosExAnima)
• Fix delete & redraft of pending posts (#​37839 by @​ClearlyClaire)
• Fix processing separate key documents without the ActivityStreams context (#​37826 by @​ClearlyClaire)
• Fix custom emojis not being purged on domain suspension (#​37808 by @​ClearlyClaire)
• Fix users without special permissions being able to stream disabled timelines (#​37791 by @​ClearlyClaire)
• Fix processing of object updates with duplicate hashtags (#​37756 by @​ClearlyClaire)

Upgrade notes

To get the code for v4.5.7, use git fetch && git checkout v4.5.7.

[!NOTE]
As always, make sure you have backups of the database before performing any upgrades. If you are using docker-compose, this is how a backup command might look: docker exec mastodon_db_1 pg_dump -Fc -U postgres postgres > name_of_the_backup.dump

Dependencies

External dependencies have not changed since v4.5.0.

• Ruby: 3.2 or newer
• PostgreSQL: 14 or newer
• Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x (OpenSearch should also work)
• LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
• Redis: 7.0 or newer
• Node: 20.19 or newer
• libvips (optional, instead of ImageMagick): 8.13 or newer
• ImageMagick (optional if using libvips): 6.9.7-7 or newer

Update steps

The following instructions are for updating from 4.5.6.

If you are upgrading directly from an earlier release, please carefully read the upgrade notes for the skipped releases as well, as they often require extra steps such as database migrations. In particular, it is very important to read the 4.5.0 release notes.

Non-Docker

[!TIP]
The charlock_holmes gem may fail to build on some systems with recent versions of gcc.
If you run into this issue, try BUNDLE_BUILD__CHARLOCK_HOLMES="--with-cxxflags=-std=c++17" bundle install.

1. Precompile the assets: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
2. Restart all Mastodon processes.

When using Docker

1. Restart all Mastodon processes.