Sometimes you need a big boring update to make more exciting things possible later.
But also, this is important:
"We don’t take venture capital, we don’t use AI, we don’t sell ads, and we don’t sell your data—unlike many other platforms out there."
We just released Mastodon 4.7.0!
This version contains very few user-facing changes, but significantly reworks the backend code to improve security and support new protocol features.
You can read more about it on our blog: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mastodon-4.7/
Note for admins: the database migrations might take a long time, this is expected (see the release notes).
Release notes and upgrade instructions are available here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0
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