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0.9
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*Released: 2023/06/24*
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This release is a large overhaul of Takahē that removes all timeline UI elements
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in the web interface in favour of apps, while reworking the remaining pages
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to be a pleasant profile viewing, post viewing, and settings experience.
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We've also started on our path of making individual domains much more
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customisable; you can now theme them individually, the Local timeline is now
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domain-specific, and domains can be set to serve single user profiles.
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This release's major changes:
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* The Home, Notifications, Local and Federated timelines have been removed
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from the web UI. They still function for apps.
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* The ability to like, boost, bookmark and reply to posts has been removed from
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the web UI. They still function for apps.
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* The web Compose tool has been considerably simplified and relegated to a new
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"tools" section; most users should now use an app for composing posts.
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* The Follows page is now in settings and is view-only.
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* Identity profiles and individual post pages are now considerably simplified
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and have no sidebar.
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* A Search feature is now available for posts from a single identity on its
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profile page; users can turn this on or off in their identity's profile
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settings.
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* Domains can now have their own site name, site icon, and custom CSS
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* Domains can be set to a "single user mode" where they redirect to a user
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profile, rather than showing their own homepage.
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* Added an Authorized Apps identity settings screen, that allows seeing what apps you've
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authorized, revocation of app access, and generating your own personal API
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tokens.
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* Added a Delete Profile settings screen that allows self-serve identity deletion.
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* The logged-in homepage now shows a list of identities to select from as well
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as a set of recommended apps to use for timeline interfaces.
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* We have totally dropped our alpha-quality SQLite support; it just doesn't have
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sufficient full-text-search and JSON operator support, unfortunately.
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There are many minor changes to support the new direction; important ones include:
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* The dark/light mode toggle is now a User (login) setting, not an Identity setting
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* Identity selection is no longer part of a session - now, multiple identity
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settings pages can be opened at once.
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* The ability for users to add their own custom CSS has been removed, as it
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was potentially confusing with our upcoming profile customization work (it
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only ever applied to your own session, and with timelines gone, it no longer
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makes much sense!)
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* API pagination has been further improved, specifically for Elk compatibility
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* Server admins can now add a "Report a Problem" footer link with either
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hosted content or an external link.
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This is a large change in direction, and we hope that it will match the way
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that people use Takahē and its multi-domain support far better. For more
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discussion and rationale on the change, see `Andrew's blog post about it <https://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refactor-treat/>`_.
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Our future plans include stability and polish in order to get us to a 1.0 release,
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as well as allowing users to customize their profiles more, account import
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support, and protocol enhancements like automatic fetching of replies for
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non-local posts. If you're curious about what we're up to, or have an idea,
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we're very happy to chat about it in our Discord!
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If you'd like to help with code, design, other areas, see
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:doc:`/contributing` to see how to get in touch.
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You can download images from `Docker Hub <https://hub.docker.com/r/jointakahe/takahe>`_,
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or use the image name ``jointakahe/takahe:0.9``.
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Upgrade Notes
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-------------
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Despite the large refactor to the UI, Takahē's internals are not significantly
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changed, and this upgrade is operationally like any other minor release.
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Migrations
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There are new database migrations; they are backwards-compatible, so please
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apply them before restarting your webservers and stator processes.
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One of the migrations involves adding a large search index for opt-in post
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searching, and may take some time to
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process (on the order of minutes) if you have a large database.
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You may wish to bring your site down into
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a maintenance mode before applying it to reduce the chance of lock conflicts
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slowing things down, or causing request timeouts.
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