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0.7.0 (unreleased)

Warning

This release marks the rename of the project from Lysand to Versia.

Backwards Compatibility

Versia Server 0.7.0 is backwards compatible with 0.6.0. However, some new features may not be available to older clients. Notably, versia-fe has had major improvements and will not work with 0.6.0.

Features

  • Upgraded Bun to 1.1.34. This brings performance upgrades and better stability.
  • Added support for the ActivityPub Federation Bridge.
  • Added support for the Sonic search indexer.
  • Note deletions are now federated.
  • Note edits are now federated.
  • Added support for Sentry.
  • Added option for more federation debug logging.
  • Added Roles API.
  • Added Permissions API and enabled it for every route.
  • Added TOS and Privacy Policy endpoints.
  • Added Challenge API. (basically CAPTCHAS). This can be enabled/disabled by administrators. No versia-fe support yet.
  • Added ability to refetch user data from remote instances.
  • Added ability to change the username of a user. (Mastodon API extension).
  • Added an endpoint to get a user by its username.
  • Add OpenID Connect registration support. Admins can now disable username/password registration entirely and still allow users to sign up via OpenID Connect.
  • Add option to never convert vector images to a raster format.
  • Refactor logging system to be more robust and easier to use. Log files are now automatically rotated.
  • Add support for HTTP proxies.
  • Add support for serving Versia over a Tor hidden service.
  • Add global server error handler, to properly return 500 error messages to clients.
  • Sign all federation HTTP requests.
  • Add JSON schema for configuration file.
  • Rewrite federation stack
  • Updated federation to Versia 0.4
  • Implement OAuth2 token revocation
  • Add new Plugin API

Plugin System

A new plugin system for extending Versia Server has been added in this release!

Note

This is an internal feature and is not documented. Support for third-party plugins will be given on a "if we have time" basis, until the API is fully stabilized and documented

Plugins using this framework support:

  • Plugin hotswapping and hotreloading
  • Manifest files (JSON, JSON5, JSONC supported) with metadata (JSON schema provided)
  • Installation by dropping a folder into the plugins/ directory
  • Support for plugins having their own NPM dependencies
  • Support for storing plugins' configuration in the main config.toml (single source of truth)
  • Schema-based strict config validation (plugins can specify their own schemas)
  • Full type-safety
  • Custom hooks
  • FFI compatibility (with bun:ffi or Node's FFI)
  • Custom API route registration or overriding or middlewaring
  • Automatic OpenAPI schema generation for all installed plugins
  • End-to-end and unit testing supported
  • Automatic user input validation for API routes with schemas (specify a schema for the route and the server will take care of validating everything)
  • Access to internal database abstractions
  • Support for sending raw SQL to database (type-safe!)
  • Plugin autoload on startup with override controls (enable/disable)

The new @versia/kit NPM/JSR package is available for plugin developers.

As a demonstration of the power of this system and an effort to modularize the codebase further, OpenID functionality has been moved to a plugin. This plugin is required for login.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix favouriting/unfavouriting sometimes returning negative counts.
  • Non-images will now properly be uploaded to object storage.
  • Make account searches case-insensitive
  • Fix image decoding error when passing media through proxy.
  • OpenID Connect now correctly remembers and passes state parameter.
  • OpenID Connect will not reject some correct but weird redirect URIs.
  • Markdown posts will not have invisible anchor tags anymore (this messed up accessibility).
  • Reverse proxies incorrectly reporting an HTTPS request as HTTP will now be handled correctly during OpenID Connect flows.
  • API Relationships will now correctly return requested_by.
  • Make process wait for Ctrl+C to exit on error, instead of exiting immediately. This fixes some issues with Docker restarting endlessly.
  • Animated media will now stay animated when uploaded.
  • Some instance metadata will no longer be missing from /api/v2/instabnce endpoint. In fact, it will now be more complete than Mastodon's implementation.
  • The Origin HTTP header will no longer be used to determine the origin of a request. This was a security issue.
  • New notes will no longer incorrectly be federated to all remote users at once.
  • Fix Elk Client not being able to log in.

Removals

  • Remove old logging system, to be replaced by a new one.
  • Removed Meilisearch support, in favor of Sonic. Follow instructions in the installation guide to set up Sonic.
  • Removed explicit Glitch-FE support. Glitch-FE will still work, but must be hosted separately like any other frontend.

Miscellaneous

  • Remove Node.js from Docker build.
  • Update all dependencies.