We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!)

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5

Mastodon 4.5

Quote posts, the end of missing replies, new tools for admins and better emojis. All of these and more, in our latest release.

Mastodon Blog

@Mastodon does bumping character limit still needs changing same files as previously or did it changed between 4.5 and previous version?

Is there any plan on making it configurable?

@hrw @Mastodon Here's another dissenting opinion: Please never send me a 500-character reply. As a user, I don't want to read answers that are painfully long. Short answers are a feature of a Microblogging-Network, not a bug. That’s why I use Mastodon. From this perspective, the recipient of a message should be able to determine how many characters may be used, and not the sender πŸ™‚

@markusr @Mastodon having that option configurable would allow to make lower amount of chars servers as well.

I know that for most of people "make char limit configurable" means "longer posts" but "shorter posts" will be also possible.