These Facebook and RIPE IP ranges are spamming all of my services and have been blocked at the firewall.
Almost exclusively hitting /auth/sign_up infinitely.
57.0.0.0/8
173.252.64.0/18
69.63.176.0/20
69.171.224.0/19
We’re happy to announce that Mastodon 4.5 is now ready for prime time! Quote posts, async fetching of replies, server timeline visibility settings, more moderation tools, and lots and lots of other tweaks and improvements.
Announcement on our blog: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/
Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0
We just released Mastodon 4.5.11 and 4.4.18.
These versions contain several severity security fixes as well as other bugfixes.
Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.
We just released the first beta version of Mastodon 4.6 🎉
Highlights for this release are the profile page redesign and the ability to create curated Collections of Mastodon accounts, but it contains many other changes.
You can find all of them in the release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-beta.1
We aim to publish a release candidate next week. If you are an admin and want to be on the bleeding edge, now is a good time to upgrade to the beta version and help us find any last minute bugs!
We just released Mastodon v4.7.4, v4.6.10, v4.5.20 and v4.4.27.
For those using our nightly containers, the `nightly.2026-10-30-security ` tag is available with the fix.
In addition to several bugfixes and dependency updates, they fix a critical security issue that can be used to impersonate remote accounts and activities. We urge admins to update as soon as possible.
Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.
Updated my test instance to Mastodon v4.5.11 - perhaps one of the fastest updates so far! Looks like the beta version of 4.6 is out, too.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-beta.1
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/117524690761755660
Good morning, y'all!
Seems we have some critical security updates that were just released in Mastodon v4.7.4.
Of course, #TheCanadian, #JournaHost, and #NewsieSocial instances have all been patched up.
Have a great day, you are all wonderful and important ❤️
Welcome to MastodonBD!
While our primary focus is Bangladesh - its people, culture, technology, and public discourse - the instance is open to everyone, regardless of location. We encourage respectful dialogue, diverse perspectives, and meaningful connections across borders.
If you believe in open social networks and constructive conversation, you are welcome here.
Let’s build this space thoughtfully, together.
Following last week's beta, the first release candidate for #Mastodon 4.6 is out! 🎉
You can find all of the changes on the release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-rc.1
We aim to publish the release next week. If you are an admin, now is a good time to upgrade to the release candidate and help us find any last minute bugs!
Just a quick note for #MastoAdmin 's using the #Universeodon Relay.
The relay is one of the last things to get moved now onto our new infrastructure, I'm about to start making the configuration changes and DNS updates which will mean our new load balancer infrastructure will start to serve requests for the relay as well as finally supporting IPv6 properly.
Later today I will then need to migrate the relay DB and config onto a new server so there will be a short outage later on to the relay while I do this.
The second release candidate for #Mastodon 4.6 is now out!
It addresses several issues found in 4.6.0-rc.1, and is expected to become 4.6.0 later this week.
You can see all the changes on the release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-rc.2
If you are an admin, updating ahead of the full 4.6.0 release would be a great help to find and squash any last-minute bugs!
We just released Mastodon 4.6.5. It contains one important bug fix and we recommend every instance running 4.6 to update.
We are also releasing Mastodon v4.5.15 and v4.4.22 with minor bugfixes
Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.
For those #Mastoadmin 's that use the Universeodon relay, we've been seeing some issues it seems overnight. I've made some changes to our infrastructure to try to cope with what looks like a huge amount of traffic now. You may need to disable and re-enable the relay if it isn't working on your server.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/117049108962684337
Happy Thursday!
Here at #TheCanadian, we're now running the latest 4.6.5 version of Mastodon. Which means that #JournaHost and #NewsieSocial are as well.
Hope everyone has a great day! 👋
[SOLVED] 👍
Hi #mastoAdmins
I'm trying to help a friend out with his Mastodon instance. An upgrade went badly wrong and mastodon would not restart.
We've rebuilt the server using backups and the server is up and running. It is federating. However no one can login.
If I enable debugging log i get the following for a log attempt in the system logs
Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2) for 127.0.0.1:389):
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075]
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb:11:in 'User::LdapAuthenticable::ClassMethods#authenticate_with_ldap'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:69:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user_from_params'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:62:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/concerns/auth/two_factor_authentication_concern.rb:12:in 'Auth::TwoFactorAuthenticationConcern#two_factor_enabled?'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] lib/mastodon/middleware/socket_cleanup.rb:11:in 'Mastodon::Middleware::SocketCleanup#call'Mastodon 4.6.5 update applied to Listodon. ✅
We released the first beta for Mastodon 4.7 today. It contains very few user-facing changes, but contains significant reworks of the backend code to improve security and support new protocol features.
This update includes substantial database migrations that might take up to a couple of hours on very large servers, but will not cause downtime if the upgrade instructions are followed.
Release notes and upgrade instructions are available here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0-beta.1
Hey guys, you read my troubles with developing an ActivityPub / Mastodon multibot instance yesterday? Well, I got it working in the end and have already migrated four bots and added another two to it.
And here is the code that I open source now:
https://github.com/nekromoff/mastodon-bots
#webdev #mastodon #mastoadmin #bots #bot #instance #php #activitypub #mastoLivre #webdevelopment
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/117089259381900496
Happy Thursday!
Looks like there was another security patch released for Mastodon 🫡
Our #TheCanadian #JournaHost #NewieSocial instances are now running the latest v4.6.6.
Have a great day y'all 👋
You can now add up to 10 links on your DMV.community profile page!
I've sent some replies to those I can still see posting here on #MedMastodon but as a reminder.
Med-Mastodon will be closing down at the end of this month. Those that are active here, please see our e-mail from March 1st or the announcement in the web interface for more information and some suggestions on alternative servers to move to.
From April 1st 2026 the site will not be available and any content not migrated before then will be permanently lost.
Hey friends, it's me again 
We have more news to share today, though I must admit, this news is a little less fun.
Recently, the @Mastodon team received a fair number of questions about our trade mark policy. We realised we could add some guidelines to help make the Policy more clear, so over the last few months, we did just that! I'll post a "plain English" version of the guidelines as a comment.
You can read more background about the changes we made, and see the guidelines themselves, in this blog post:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/sharing-guidelines-about-mastodons-trade-mark-policy/
And the trade mark policy page is updated too:
https://joinmastodon.org/trademark
Good morning and happy release day!
Mastodon v4.7.3 is out and the instances #TheCanadian #JournaHost #NewsieSocial have all been upgraded.
Relatively minor release, and went smoothly. No other #mastoadmin news from me.
Hope y'all have a great day! 👋
We released the Release Candidate for Mastodon 4.7 today.
It contains very few user-facing changes, but significantly reworks the backend code to improve security and support new protocol features.
We plan to release the final 4.7 version next week, so if you like being on the edge please test this RC and send us your feedback!
The database migrations might take a long time, this is expected.
Release notes and upgrade instructions are available here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0-rc.1
We just released Mastodon 4.6.6, 4.5.16 and 4.4.23.
They contain minor bug fixes and we advise server administrators to update when they can.
Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases
