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Hello there! We hope you enjoy the summer with a cold drink (if you live in the northern hemisphere) or the winter with a warm drink (if you live in the southern hemisphere). Regardless of where you live, you not only deserve peace and happiness, but also the 2024.6-release of Mastodon for iOS. And that comes with this: - A new Privacy & Safety-section in the Settings-part of the app. Here you can configure the default visibility for new posts, for example. (IOS-168) - A bug fix for our Number One-crash! When tapping in your own profile too quickly, this resulted in a crash. But don't worry: We got this! (IOS-255, GH-1257) - Speaking of bug fixes: When you tried to change your profile fields, some content got erased. We are really for if this happened to you. (GH-1290) - A little cleanup, that won't affect you: We removed old persistence code for cards and polls (IOS-178, IOS-182) - We improved "Load more"-behaviour in several parts throughtout the entire app. Loading new content should be waaaaaaayyyyyy faster now, nearly at the speed of light! (IOS-272) - When you update your profile-image, you will see that change now in the Tab-bar (IOS-277) - We fixed a bug that showed the "Load more"-button in your Home-timeline when there was no new content (GH-1288) We hope that these fixes and improvements make your Mastodon-life a little easier. This release wouldn't have been possible without your ongoing support. Thank you so much for that and for using Mastodon and making the Web (and the world) a better place.

Hey there! Welcome to the 2024.5 release of Mastodon for iOS. It's been a while but we worked on lots of bug fixes and (minor) improvements since the last version. 2024.5 comes with this: - We fixed some issues with the new, fancy "New Posts"-pill. For example, it disappears now if you scroll to top (like it is supposed to) (GH-1278) - Remember the screen to login when you have an existing account? We made the server selection more elegant (IOS-226) - Also related to Onboarding: We slightly updated the Privacy-screen and improved Keyboard-handling. (IOS-221) - You can finally change your profile picture again from the app. We introduced a bug in one of the last versions, but got it fixed with 2024.5. Sorry for any inconveniences. Now go and update your profile picture! (GH-1276) - Don't want to miss any content, but missed the "Load More"-button between posts? Great news: We found and fixed a bug so that it's finally there again, so you don't miss any of the great content any longer! (IOS-266) - We improved the stability of the app by reducing the crashes. Promise! (IOS-257, IOS-254) - If there's a loooooong toot with a Content Warning, we limited the height of that Content Warning. (IOS-278) - We fixed a bug related to polls: Your own choice is visible now (GH-1278) - The avatar-image in the bottom bar doesn't flicker anymore when switching tabs (IOS-238) - The menus for both profiles and toots got an update (IOS-231, IOS-229) - We removed some clutter on the Mentions-screen (IOS-270) - Once it'll be available on your instance, you'll see moderation warnings on the Notification-screen if you someone complained about you (IOS-264) That's it! We hope, you enjoy those bug fixes and notice the new features. Thank you so much for supporting us and using Mastodon!

Hello! Hello and welcome to another version of hand-written release notes for Mastodon for iOS. This time it's the 2024.4-release and we're working hard to keep up the schedule: One release per month! Just kiddin. Truth to be told: We're basically a bunch of lazy people but from time to time we think: Well, we should ship another release. And then we work really, REALLY hard to make the Mastodon-app better. And this is why the 2024.4-version contains this: - We (hopefully!) improved the polls! Voting and poll creation should be much smoother and way more stable now. Give it a try and ask those nice and helpful people on Mastodon what to have for dinner tonight! (IOS-181) - New month, new me! We updated the designs of the Home-screen, you can switch between your local community-timeline and the people you're following. We also updated the little indicator (we call it: Pill) that shows if there are new posts or if that toot was sent. Let us know how you like those changes! (IOS-234, IOS-235) - We also updated how we present the timestamp and other meta-information of a post (IOS-232) - Under the Explore-tab, we improved the interface which lets you choose between the most popular posts and other things to explore (IOS-237) - Remember that we added Domain-blocking a few releases ago? Turns out: You could block the community you're part of. This wasn't intended at all and we just missed that, sorry and thanks for reporting! (GH-1269) - We added a new visibility option to post. It's called either "Unlisted" or "Quiet public" and modernized the icons for those different options. (GH-1271) - Temporarily we turned off haptic feedback. But same as with the community timeline or a famous killing machine: I(t) will be back! (IOS-247) - Last, but not least we tweaked how the number of people is presented. (GH-1266) You see: Lots of new bits and pieces to improve the Mastodon-experience step by step. And we will keep making it better. Thank you so much for supporting us and using Mastodon and enjoy the rest of this day and week and month and year and so on!

Hello and welcome to the release notes of the 2024.03-version of Mastodon for iOS. We're working hard to fix the bugs we introduced a few versions earlier and so this release mostly contains bug fixes and improvements. And without further ado it's an honor to present the release notes: - Have you checked out the new Dettings-area yet? We added some more options there. For example you can set the default language for posts there or activate if you want to be asked before unfollowing someone. (IOS-166) - Pardon my french: We fixed a bug for french-speaking users. If you wanted to compose a long post, the app crashed when it was too long. Thanks to you for reporting it and thanks to us for fixing it. Great teamwork! (GH-1255) - We switched the tabs on the notification-screen so that it matches the other Mastodon-apps. (IOS-240) - When you wanted to reply to a status, your handle showed up twice. Sure, your name is really nice, but once is enough (GH-1254) - We fixed the cursor-color for the input for image descriptions. Now it sparks more joy to write image descriptions. This is a subtle hint: WRITE IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS!. (GH-1253) - The app has its own User-Agent now. It also constains the version number. (GH-1098) - We removed the Community-tab from the Explore-tab. It was kind of hidden but don't worry: It'll come back soon, stay tuned! (IOS-236) - We fixed a bug (twice!) that didn't let you edit your profile. Now you can change your handle and your bio again and upload a nice avatar. Sometimes you need more than one shot. (GH-1244, IOS-239, GH-1259) - We cleaned up some dust in the project. This won't affect your daily use. Promise! (GH-1248, GH-1247, GH-1252) That's it! We're steadily working on improving the app, adding new features (and the community-tab!) and fixing nasty bugs. And, as always, this wouldn't be possible without you! And you are also the reason why we keep making things better: It's some awesome and wholesome to see all you people actually use Mastodon. So: Keep using it, please!

Welcome to another release of Mastodon for iOS. Some time has passed, but the latest version is finally here: Say hello to 2024.02! It's mostly a maintenance release, nothing special: We fixed some bugs related to widgets (GH-1234) and hashtag-search (GH-1233) and improved performance throughout the entire app (GH-1237, GH-1192, GH-1230, GH-1229, GH-1227). Oh, and we improved sharing (GH-1199). That's it, please enjoy the latest and greatest of Mastodon so far. In the meantime we're improving the app step by step. Have a great day!

This is a first! Hello and welcome to the first release of Mastodon for iOS in 2024. We've worked hard, searched (and found and fixed) bugs and looked for other improvements. And we increased the speed, otherwise this wouldn't be the first release, right? Still, it comes with a truckload of stuff: - Say hello to my little friend: Domain blocks! You're really annoyed by a bunch of people from the very same instance? Well, instead of blocking them individually, you can block the entire instance now, right from the app. To do so, head to the profile of that person as if you wanted to block them but block the domain. Now you can rest in peace and by resting in peace I mean enjoying Mastodon more than ever, of course! (IOS-5) - We made some huge progress in our long-term project: Performance Improvements. Using the app should be significantly faster now, as we reworked the Status-handling throughout the entire app. (GH-1167, GH-1210, IOS-214) - Speaking of speed: We reduced the amount of Network-requests sent to your Mastodon-instance when you scroll the Home-timeline. And we also don't fetch data anymore we don't need in the Status-menu. Why downloading stuff you don't need, right? Instead the app now fetches the data for the menu, when you need them. (GH-1214, GH-1213) - You know, that you can edit your statuses afterwards, right? This comes in super handy when you fidn a tpyo in a status, for example. What you couldn't edit were image descriptions, also known as alt text. Well, now you can. This will also be super useful as it means that you can — and should! — add descriptions to images later, if you forgot that in the first place. (GH-1138) - We fixed a bug that the app didn't respect the post-length defined on your server. (GH-1049) - When we improved the credentials-handling in 2023.14, we forgot to make the Widgets use the new code. As a consequence the Wdgets couldn't login into your account which means that you couldn't use the Widgets. Sorry! (GH-1201) - Search also got a little better: We fixed an endless loop when something went wrong. (GH-1188) - Last but not least, we fixed a nasty bug that one offline account affected other accounts. In other words: If you have multiple accounts in the app with one being a suspended or expired account, this prevented the other accounts from being used, too. We cut the ties here. (GH-1178) That's it! This is all the 2024.1-release of Mastodon contains. We didn't hide any other things like secret bug fixes or various improvements in there. Maybe we should declare it organic software? Anyway, thank you for reading these hand-crafted release notes. And, of course: Thank you for using Mastodon!

Welcome to another release of Mastodon for iOS. Consider this our special offer: It's free! We've been quite busy in the last couple of days, but we want you to enjoy the latest and greatest bug fixes as soon as possible. This release is the 16. this year, that's why the version number is 2023.16. And it features this: - We fixed a bug that wouldn't let you logout on iPad. When you tried to logout, well, the app crashed, but only on iPad. Thanks to everyone who reported it (and sorry for the crash)! (GH-1172) - Speaking of logging out: When you restarted the app right after logging out, well, you were still logged in as we didn't remove the credentials properly. (GH-1181) - Another credential-related bug: In the 2023.14-release, we added a bug so you couldn't share to Mastodon from another app. It resulted in the very precise error message "No available account". Well, good news everyone: We found your account! And we fixed the bug, so that you can share interesting articles and memes with your friends on Mastodon. Right in time for #Caturday. (GH-1168) - This is the first contribution of Rizwan and we're very grateful for that: When you double-tap the search tab, it focuses the search bar so that you can start searching right away. Thank you, Rizwan! (GH-748) - You Hometimeline shouldn't forget your position any longer when you switched tabs. (GH-744) - We added some performance improvements for "Familiar Followers". (IOS-195) That's it for now. We hope, that you didn't spend too much on special offers. Although Mastodon is free for you to use, it's not free to develop. That's why we're so grateful for your ongoing support. The less you spend on special offers, the more you can spend on us! Just kidding, have a lovely time.

Another day, another release? Yes, sadly, because we screwed up and we'd like to apologize for that. Remember that we changed the required iOS-version in the 2023.14-release? Saying, that not many people would be affected? Turns out: Too many people couldn't use the app this morning because it crashed. But only on iOS 16. And this release fixes that. Thanks to all of you who quickly reported it. I was awake very fast this morning due to that. (GH-1161) Again: We're really sorry that you couldn't use the app for a few hours. In the end, we are humans, programmers, who care about their work, but humans are known to make mistakes from time to time. Thank you so much for using Mastodon (although it might have its rough edges here and there) and for your ongoing support — we're really grateful for that.

Dear Mastodon-user, dear (unknown) friend, welcome to another release of Mastodon for iOS in 2023. This year we've shipped 14 new versions in total so far, including this one. That's why this version is 2023.14. It contains this: - We changed the required iOS-version. From now on your device needs to run iOS 16 or later. We checked how many users would be affected by this (spoiler: not many) before making this decision. (GH-1125) - Mastodon is more fun with friends! If you don't follow any other accounts (yet), the app suggests some accounts to follow. On that very screen we fixed that the convenient "Follow all"-button is enabled only when there are suggestions (GH-1124) - We added another localization: From now on you can use the app in Armenian, too. We also updated the translations. This wouldn't be possible without the help of the amazing community. So: Thank you! (GH-1147) - The checkmark next to verified links on a profile got a little visual update (IOS-130) - If people want to talk to you because you are a very interesting and lovely person (which is true!) or you post lots of #CatsOfMastodon on #Caturday, you might receive llots of notifications. In that case the little indicator-dot on the Notification-screen-icon is red now (GH-1132) - We started to rework the Settings-part of the app and will improve it in the upcoming versions (GH-1073, IOS-14). As a first step, we show information about your instance (IOS-20) and updated the UI. - We fixed a crash on the Profile-screen that happened when you wanted to reorder the field in your profile (GH-1154) - No more improvements or bug fixes other than those mentioned here (Promise!) - The app isn't perfect, we have to admit (although pretty good), so we work on it and steadily improve it. This time, we also fixed a security issue by migrating the credentials over to the encrypted Keychain so that they're safe there. (GH-1131) - This might be more interesting for developers: We switched over to fastlane (GH-1130), updated dependencies (GH-1122), cleaned logging (GH-1120) we started to remove Core Data piece by piece (GH-1135, GH-1137, GH-1139) Thank you for taking the time to read these hand-crafted release notes. You know, that Mastodon and all the servers wouldn't be possible without you, right? Thank you so much for using it and for your ongoing support — we're really grateful for that. We hope that you've enjoyed this year so far. Take care of yourself and others as life is also more fun and better with friends. You never know how much time is left or what life brings, so please: Make the best out of it. You'll always be remembered.

Hello and welcome to 13. release of Mastodon for iOS in 2023. We hope, that you've had a wonderful day so far! Search got heavily improved in Mastodon and so we thought: Why not improving the iOS-app a bit, too? We hope, that the new search makes it easier for you to find interesting conversations and people on Mastodon. And so, that you spend more time looking for those interesting conversations and people than spending your time reading release notes, we keep them short this time: - Better Search-screen (IOS-141) Thank you so much for using Mastodon and for taking the time to read these release notes. Have a great day today and tomorrow and the day after and so on! Don't forget to enjoy the summer