PieFed 1.1 is released

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1111536

It's been 6 weeks since 1.0 and we've merged in 80+ PRs and closed as many issues. A third of the issues originally intended for v1.2 are already completed and so they are included in 1.1 instead. > >

Some signs of maturity >

> There are now 32 PieFed instances, serving 1750+ MAU. Voyager, Summit, Blorp and Interstellar are mobile apps that connect to PieFed. > > From now on https://piefed.social/ will change from following the main development branch of the repo and instead stay on v1.1 until v1.2 is released. This will provide a more stable experience for people using the instance and allow for wilder experiments on the development branch. I recommend all other instances do the same. > > It will also put less pressure on other instances to keep up with piefed.social. A new instance will be created soon that will use the dev branch and serve as a staging instance. > >

To upgrade >

> To upgrade from 1.0.x (or switch to 1.1 from the main branch): > >

git pull  
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git checkout v1.1.x  
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./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh  
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### Highlights of 1.1  
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Most instances have been on the dev branch anyway so they will already have these:  
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You can set a default comment sort, for when viewing a post.  
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LDAP support, so people can use their piefed.social login for chat.piefed.social and translate.piefed.social  
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More Ajax throughout, creating a more fluid UI.  
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Better notifications, with types and which are removed if the post they're notifying about is deleted.  
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Private votes are just non-federated votes.  
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Popup tooltips all over the place.  
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New login methods:  
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- Mastodon  
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Hashtags in community side pane, e.g. [this community](https://piefed.social/c/fediverse)  
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Daily maintenance tasks execute in parallel, which is a lot faster.  
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[Batched ActivityPub federation](https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/fep-4248.md) that will significantly improve federation performance between PieFed instances  
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Filter out posts based on a keyword search of community name.  
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Reduce deadlocks and improve DB performance  
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- use redis for locking.  
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- extensive refactors to stop connection leakage.  
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Load comments using ajax when there are > 100 on a post, making the initial loading of a post quicker.  
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Automatic post archiving of old posts, to slow DB growth and reduce operating costs. Post body and comments are saved in S3 as JSON instead of in the DB.  
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Show/hide text inside password fields, making confusion during login less common.  
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Mods can lock comments and their children.  
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A lot of improvements to scheduled posts.  
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Several improvements in the markdown to html parsing.  
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Upgrade to Flask 3.  
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Swagger for API developers (in progress).  
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API: new json serialization lib that is 10x faster.  
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API: Get topics & feeds endpoints. Replacement for comments/list endpoint.  
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### Things planned for 1.2  
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An instance chooser during registration - no separate instance choosing website needed  
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Optional post approval process for mods  
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Communities populated by a RSS feed.  
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Remind me  
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AI content filter  
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Event post type which federates with Friendica and [Mobilizon](https://mobilizon.org/)  
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