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Hello everyone, we've just released a new version of Sharkey! This is the first release in the 2025.2 series, despite the .2- we had to make use of that due to technical limitations in the upstream merge workflow we use.

Here's what we've been working on:
- A fix for an annoying corepack/pnpm error.
- Optimizations to SQL-based note search.
- Support for tsvector full-text search.
- Support for filtering by Module and Flash file types.
- Fixes for quote preview.
- Fixes for hashtags and tag search.
- Allow user-initiated object lookups to redirect. (makes the lookup function 100x more likely to actually work instead of throwing a vague error).
- Add missing translations in various places.
- Bulk fixes and refactoring of Mastodon API. (it may work better with some clients, and several known bugs are fixed.)
- Option to regenerate vapid keys without a CLI command.
- Revision 2 of the new rate limit system- improved performance, simpler API, and the "role template" rate limit factor now applies to unauthenticated / logged-out requests.
- Fixes for docker build & deployment.
- Fixes for BSD build & deployment.
- Add a "follow back" button to "user followed you" notifications.
- Buttons to accept/reject follow requests directly from a user's profile.
- Various rate limit fixes and adjustments.
- Improved support for MFM and HTML ruby.
- Improved browser language detection, especially in cases where we don't have an exact-match language file.
- Robots.txt can be configured through admin settings, instead of using the reverse-proxy.
- Federation fixes and improvements, particularly for software which produces null for Person.discoverable.
- Build and development tooling improvements.
- Fixes for import limits and config settings.
- Fixes for reactions
- Fixes for note visibility in streaming API
- Shift-click to automatically boost w/ visibility
- Fixes to emoji sorting, search, and categorization.
- Emoji import now honours the import.downloadTimeout setting
- Laxer validation for admin-controlled HTML.
- Add some missing MFM to the cheat sheet.
- Record the person who created an invite code.
- Classic and narrow UI layout fixes.
- Fixes for RSS widgets
- Remove unused "email notification type" settings to avoid user confusion.
- Remove duplicate role badges
- Add file extension to locally-stored media (allows the reverse-proxy to directly serve media)
- The IP address that the server listens on is now configurable
- Users can set a default CW
- Moderators can force a CW for a user
- Moderators can remove the "quote" feature for specific users (local or remote) and remote instances
- Optional separate Redis connection for rate-limiting purposes
- Ability to log all AP objects- note that this respects deletes, and is optional, as a debugging aid.
- Better support for PeerTube thumbnails
- Better interoperability with SocialHome

Here's what we've pulled in from upsteam:
- A new experimental custom emoji manager using a spreadsheet UI
- Support for PGroonga full-text search, which gives accuracy closer to Meilisearch with dramatically less system load and deployment headache.
- We can log full SQL queries for development
- A bunch of bug fixes for login, note hiding, MFM, and others.
- Remove unused "view source" button.
- Fixes to data saver mode.
- Fixes to Deck UI.
- Add missing translations in various places.