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0.10
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*Released: 2023/11/12*
This release is a polish release that mostly focuses on performance, stability
and federation compatibility.
This release's major changes:
* Stator, the background task system, has been significantly reworked to require
smaller indexes, spend less time scheduling, and has had most of its async
nature removed, as this both reduces deadlocks and improves performance in
most situations (the context switching was costing more than the gains from
talking to other servers asynchronously).
Minor changes also include:
* Followers-only mode now works correctly inbound and outbound (though outbound
may need the other server to refresh the profile first).
* Profile pages are no longer shown for remote identities; instead, users are
linked or redirected directly to the remote profile page.
* Inbound migration has been implemented, but is disabled by default as outbound
migration is not yet complete, and we don't want to release a system that
captures users with no outward path. If you *really* want to enable it, set
``TAKAHE_ALLOW_USER_MIGRATION=true`` in your environment.
* Federation compatibility has been improved with several other servers.
* Blocked domains now receive absolutely zero fetches from Takahē; previously,
they were still pinged occasionally to see if they were online.
* SMTP servers that don't require authentication are now supported.
* Python 3.11 is now the minimum version required; this will not affect you at
all if you run Takahē via our docker image, as is recommended.
A remote post pruning system, to shrink the database of old data that was no
longer needed, was in the development version but has been removed in this
release due to the extra database load it caused. An alternative approach to
this will hopefully land in a future release.
If you'd like to help with code, design, or other areas, see
:doc:`/contributing` to see how to get in touch.
You can download images from `Docker Hub <https://hub.docker.com/r/jointakahe/takahe>`_,
or use the image name ``jointakahe/takahe:0.10``.
Upgrade Notes
-------------
Migrations
~~~~~~~~~~
There are new database migrations; they are backwards-compatible, but contain
very significant index changes to all of the main tables that may cause the
PostgreSQL deadlock detector to trigger if you attempt to apply them while your
site is live.
We recommend:
* Temporarily stopping all instances of the webserver and Stator
* Applying the migration (should be less than a few minutes on most installs)
* Restarting the instances of webserver and Stator