Changelog

Added

• Admin: redirect the homepage to any URL.
• Compatibility: added compatibility with Friendica.
• Posts: bot badge on statuses from bot accounts.
• Compatibility: improved browser support for older browsers.
• Events: allow to repost events in event menu.
• Groups: Initial support for groups.
• Profile: Add RSS link to user profiles.
• Reactions: adds support for reacting to chat messages.
• Profile: add RSS link to user profiles.
• Posts: fix posts filtering.
• Chats: reset chat message field height after sending a message.
• Admin: allow to manage announcements.

Changed

• Chats: improved display of media attachments.
• ServiceWorker: switch to a network-first strategy. The "An update is available!" prompt goes away.
• Posts: increased font size of focused status in threads.
• Posts: let "mute conversation" be clicked from any feed, not just noficiations.
• Posts: display all emoji reactions.
• Reactions: improved UI of reactions on statuses.
• Profile: make verified badge more prominent, overlapping with avatar.

Fixed

• Admin: fixed hover card in reports modal shows reporter not reportee
• Chats: media attachments rendering at the wrong size and/or causing the chat to scroll on load.
• Chats: don't display "copy" button for messages without text.
• Posts: don't have to click the play button twice for embedded videos.
• index.html: remove referrer meta tag so it doesn't conflict with backend's Referrer-Policy header.
• Modals: fix media modal automatically switching to video.
• Navigation: profile dropdown erratic behavior.

Removed

• Admin: single user mode. Now the homepage can be redirected to any URL.

Changelog

Added

• Compatibility: rudimentary support for Takahē.
• UI: added backdrop blur behind modals.
• Admin: let admins configure media preview for attachment thumbnails.
• Login: accept ?server param in external login, eg fe.soapbox.pub/login/external?server=gleasonator.com.
• Backups: restored Pleroma backups functionality.
• Export: restored "Export data" to CSV.

Changed

• Posts: letterbox images to 19:6 again.
• Status Info: moved context (repost, pinned) to improve UX.
• Posts: remove file icon from empty link previews.
• Settings: moved "Import data" under settings.

Fixed

• Layout: use accent color for "floating action button" (mobile compose button).
• ServiceWorker: don't serve favicon, robots.txt, and others from ServiceWorker.
• Datepicker: correctly default to the current year.
• Scheduled posts: fix page crashing on deleting a scheduled post.
• Events: don't crash when searching for a location.
• Search: fixes an abort error when using the navbar search component.
• Posts: fix monospace font in Markdown code blocks.
• Modals: fix action buttons overflow
• Editing: don't insert edited posts to the top of the feed.
• Modals: close modal when navigating to a different page.
• Modals: fix "View context" button in media modal.
• Posts: let unauthenticated users to translate posts if allowed by backend.
• Chats: fix jumpy scrollbar.
• Composer: fix alignment of icon in submit button.
• Login: add a border around QR codes.

Soapbox 3.0 is finally here! See the full blog post.

Changelog

Added

• Editing: ability to edit posts and view edit history (on Rebased, Pleroma, and Mastodon).
• Events: ability to create, view, and comment on Events (on Rebased).
• Onboarding: display an introduction wizard to newly registered accounts.
• Posts: translate foreign language posts into your native language (on Rebased, Mastodon; if configured by the admin).
• Posts: ability to view quotes of a post (on Rebased).
• Posts: hover the "replying to" line to see a preview card of the parent post.
• Chats: ability to leave a chat (on Rebased, Truth Social).
• Chats: ability to disable chats for yourself.
• Layout: added right-to-left support for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Central Kurdish languages.
• Composer: support custom emoji categories.
• Search: ability to search posts from a specific account (on Pleroma, Rebased).
• Theme: auto-detect system theme by default.
• Profile: remove a specific user from your followers (on Rebased, Mastodon).
• Suggestions: ability to view all suggested profiles.
• Feeds: display suggested accounts in Home feed (optional by admin).
• Compatibility: added compatibility with Truth Social, Fedibird, Pixelfed, Akkoma, and Glitch.
• Developers: added Test feed, Service Worker debugger, and Network Error preview.
• Reports: display server rules in reports. Let users select rule violations when submitting a report.
• Admin: added Theme Editor, a GUI for customizing the color scheme.
• Admin: custom badges. Admins can add non-federating badges to any user's profile (on Rebased, Pleroma).
• Admin: consolidated user dropdown actions (verify/suggest/etc) into a unified "Moderate User" modal.
• i18n: updated translations for Italian, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, and German.
• Toast: added the ability to dismiss toast notifications.

Changed

• UI: the whole UI has been overhauled both inside and out. 97% of the codebase has been rewritten to TypeScript, and a new component library has been introduced with Tailwind CSS.
• Chats: redesigned chats. Includes an improved desktop UI, unified chat widget, expanding textarea, and autosuggestions.
• Lists: ability to edit and delete a list.
• Settings: unified settings under one path with separate sections.
• Posts: changed the thumbs-up icon to a heart.
• Posts: move instance favicon beside username instead of post timestamp.
• Posts: changed the behavior of content warnings. CWs and sensitive media are unified into one design.
• Posts: redesigned interaction counters to use text instead of icons.
• Posts: letterbox images taller than 1:1.
• Profile: overhauled user profiles to be consistent with the rest of the UI.
• Composer: move emoji button alongside other composer buttons, add numerical counter.
• Birthdays: move today's birthdays out of notifications into right sidebar.
• Performance: improve scrolling/navigation between feeds by using a virtual window library.
• Admin: reorganize UI into 3-column layout.
• Admin: include external link to frontend repo for the running commit.
• Toast: redesigned toast notifications.

Removed

• Theme: Halloween theme.
• Settings: advanced notification settings.
• Settings: dyslexic mode.
• Settings: demetricator.
• Profile: ability to set and view private notes on an account.
• Feeds: per-feed filters for replies, media, etc.
• Backup and export functionality (for now).
• Posts: hide non-emoji images embedded in post content.

Security

• Glitch Social: fixed XSS vulnerability on Glitch Social where custom emojis could be exploited to embed a script tag.

Upgrade instructions

Fetch the v3.0.0 build:

curl -L https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox/-/jobs/artifacts/v3.0.0/download?job=build-production -o soapbox.zip

Unzip:

busybox unzip soapbox.zip -o -d /opt/pleroma/instance

For upgrading Rebased, scroll to the bottom of Installing Soapbox.

Changelog

Added

• Quote Posting: repost with comment on Fedibird and Rebased.
• Profile: ability to feature other users on your profile (on Rebased, Mastodon).
• Profile: ability to add location to the user's profile (on Rebased, Truth Social).
• Birthdays: ability to add a birthday to your profile (on Rebased, Pleroma).
• Birthdays: support for age-gated registration if configured by the admin (on Rebased, Pleroma).
• Birthdays: display today's birthdays in notifications.
• Notifications: added unread badge to favicon when user has notifications.
• Notifications: display full attachments in notifications instead of links.
• Search: added a dedicated search page with prefilled suggestions.
• Compatibility: improved support for Mastodon, added support for Mitra.
• Ethereum: Metamask sign-in with Mitra.
• i18n: added Shavian alphabet (en-Shaw) transliteration.
• i18n: added Icelandic translation.

Changed

• Feeds: added gaps between posts in feeds.
• Feeds: automatically load new posts when scrolled to the top of the feed.
• Layout: improved design of top navigation bar.
• Layout: add left sidebar navigation.
• Icons: replaced Fork Awesome icons with Tabler icons.
• Posts: moved mentions out of the post content into an area above the post for replies (on Pleroma and Rebased - Mastodon falls back to the old behavior).
• Composer: use graphical ring counter for character count.

Fixed

• Multi-Account: fix switching between profiles on different servers with the same local username.

Changelog

Fixed

• General user interface and ease-of-use improvements for both mobile and desktop
• General loading and performance improvements, including shrinking bundle size
• GIF handling: AutoPlayGif Preference support, including avatars and profile banners
• Sidebar menu browser compatibility
• React 17.x compatibility
• Timeline jumping during scroll
• Collapse of compose modal after privacy scope change
• Media attachment rendering
• Thread view reply post rendering
• Thread view scroll to selected post rendering
• Bookmarking of posts
• Edit Profile: checkbox handling
• Edit Profile: multi-line bio with link support
• Muted Users: posts of muted users now appear in profile view
• Forms: security issue resolved with POST method on all forms
• Internationalization: increased elements that are internationalizable
• Composer: Forcing the scope to default after settings save.

Added

• Chats, currently one-to-one, evolving with Pleroma BE capabilities, including:
  • Initiate chat via Message button on profile
  • Up to 4 open foreground chat windows in desktop, with open/minimize/close and notification counter
  • Browser tab notification counter includes total chat and post notifications
  • Chats list with total chats notification counter and audio notification toggle
  • Unique chat audio notification
  • Add attachment
  • Delete chat message
  • Report chat account
  • Chats icon with notification counter in top navbar in mobile view
  • Chats marked read on chat hover or on chat key event
• Audio player for audio uploads, including ogg, oga, and wav support
• Integration with Patron recurring donations platform
• Profile hover panels, with click to Follow/Unfollow
• Posts: Favicon of user's home instance included on post
• Soapbox configuration page, including:
  • Site preview, including light/dark theme toggle rendering
  • Logo
  • Brand color using color picker
  • Copyright footer
  • Promo panel custom links for timeline pages
  • Home footer custom links for static pages
  • Editable JSON based configuration option
• Themes: Light/dark theme toggle in top navbar
• Themes: Halloween mode in Preferences page
• Markdown support in post composer, as default
• Loading indicator general improvements
• Polls: Add media attachments
• Polls: Mouseover hint on poll compose radiobutton to teach single/multi-choice poll type toggling
• Polls: Remove blank poll by either toggling Poll icon or by removing poll options
• Registration: Support for Account approval required setting in Pleroma AdminFE, via dynamic Why do you want to join? textarea on registration page
• Filtering: Muted Words menu item and page
• Filtering: Direct messages filter toggle on Home timeline
• Floating top navbar during scroll
• Import Data: Import follows and import blocks
• Profile: Media panel
• Media: Media gallery thumbnails
• Media: Any media type as attachment
• General documentation improvements
• Delete Account feature for user self-deletion in Security page
• Registration: Captcha reload on image click
• Fediverse timeline explanation accordion toggle
• Tests: React reducers tests
• Profile: Max profile meta fields defined by Pleroma BE capability
• Profile: Verified user checkbox
• Admin: Reports counter and top navbar element for admin accounts, linked to Pleroma AdminFE
• Renovate.json support

Changed

• Revoke OAuth token on logout
• Home sidebar rearrangement
• Compose form icons
• User event notifications: improved rendering and added color coding
• Home timeline: Show reposts filter toggle default to off
• Direct Messages: Changed API usage from conversations to direct
• Project documentation management system, using CI
• Documentation: site customization and installation on sub-domain
• Redux update

Removed

• FontAwesome dependencies, with full switch to ForkAwesome
• Requirement for use of soapbox.json for configuration
• Direct Message links from menus, partial deprecation due to chats

Changelog

Added

• Emoji reactions.
• Ability to set brand color in soapbox.json.
• Security UI.
• Proper i18n support.
• Link to AdminFE.
• Password reset.
• Ability to edit profile fields.
• Many new automated tests.

Changed

• Overhauled theming system to use native CSS variables.
• Reorganized folder structure.
• Redesigned post composer.
• All references to "Gab" removed.
• Disable notification sounds by default.
• Rename 'Favourite' to 'Like'
• Improve design of floating compose button.
• Force media to have a static height, fixing jumpy timelines.

Fixed

• Composer: Move cursor to end of text.
• Composer: Tagging yourself in replies.
• Composer: State issues between compose modal and inline composer.
• AutoPlayGif for images in posts.
• Handle registration when email confirmation is required.
• Ability to add non-follows to Lists.
• Don't hide locked accounts from non-followers.
• Delete + Redraft errors.
• Preferences: Display name limitations removed.
• Hide "Embed" functionality from menus.
• Only show 'Trends' and 'Who To Follow' when supported by the backend.
• Hide reposted media from account media tab.

Initial BETA release! 🎉