We are happy to announce the first beta release of Mastodon 4.3 πŸŽ‰ 11 months in the works, it is chock-full of improvements, the most prominent being notification grouping and new filtering capabilities, as well as extensive usability overhauls.

Please note that this is a beta, and the stable release is still to come. If you are upgrading your server to it, read the changelog carefully, and open GitHub issues if you encounter anything unexpected.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.0-beta.1

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Release v4.3.0-beta.1 Β· mastodon/mastodon

WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will ...

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@MastodonEngineering
CC @phocks I remember you were waiting on 4.3 for something (but I don't remember what! πŸ™‚ )
@SmartmanApps @MastodonEngineering I just wanted to test it out. Yep I will test it out :)
@phocks
Oh, I thought it was something about installing and documentation or something, and Renaud said what you were after would be coming with 4.3.
@SmartmanApps hmm yeah now that you mention it. I was waiting for some kind of feature, but now I've forgotten what it was. lol oh well
Mastodon rolls out built-in bylines for journalists in the fediverse

Mastodon is rolling out a new feature that surfaces an author’s byline beneath an article that they wrote. The byline will link directly to the author’s fediverse profile.

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@phocks
Oh that's right! I knew there was something you were waiting for πŸ™‚