Notices by Mastodon Engineering (mastodonengineering@mastodon.social)

We also want to extend a special thanks to @kissane who helped us articulate our values and overall direction for Quote Posts, and Trust & Safety more broadly.

We had great input from @mergesort that also helped to shape our thinking around how to implement the feature.

Finally, we want to thank all the people who gave feedback on our FEP, blogs, here on #Mastodon, and gave advice on the Mastodon Patreon Discord. We could not have done it without you!

We wanted to share a special thanks with the community members who were instrumental in the design of quote posts.

First, @mekkaokereke whose feedback and guidance helped us iterate on Quote Posts to make them safer and more inclusive. Thank you Mekka!

In case you missed it, Quote Posts are live on mastodon.social and mastodon.online — let us know what you think!

This feature has been a long time coming because we wanted to take the time to do it right. Part of that process was sharing our work and getting feedback along the way.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

@untilted The ability to quote posts is coming in Mastodon 4.5, our next major version. We are planning to release it next month.

We just released Mastodon 4.4.5, 4.3.13, and 4.2.26.

These versions contain a few bugfixes, notably related to quote posts display in 4.4.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

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We just released Mastodon 4.4.4, 4.3.12, and 4.2.25.

These versions contain a few bugfixes, notably related to quote posts display in 4.4.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

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@dominic thank you for saying that, we appreciate hearing it!

@arunshah240 coming next week 🎉 see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/

We’ve thought carefully about building this feature, and we hope it broadens your use of Mastodon!

However, you're in control: if you don’t want your content to be quoted, you can find the setting to prevent future quotes of your content under Settings -> Preferences -> Other (in Mastodon 4.4).

@arunshah240 we hope you'll quote us nicely when they are live 😉

In August, we made a lot of progress on backend code updates... and, we also had some holidays 🏖️

Here's the more in-depth version of what the team worked on, in our regular engineering update.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/trunk-tidbits-august-2025/

@donelias thank you! 🤦

In July, the team made great progress on several features planned for the next major release, and tackled some refactoring tasks.

Take a look behind the scenes in our latest #TrunkAndTidbits update 👀

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2025/

@arunshah240 we are still working on Quote Posts and expect them to be in 4.5.0, with support in the mobile apps at around the same time as the server release. Thanks for your patience!

We just released Mastodon 4.4.3, 4.3.11, and 4.2.24.

These versions contain bugfixes, and a fix for a security issue if you use SAML. In 4.4.3 there are also changes to how quote posts are handled, as we continue to work towards full support for quote posts in the next main release.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page. #mastoadmin

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

@qlp the bundle install instruction was just added to the release notes - apologies (and thank you)

@marco the bundle install instruction was just added to the release notes - apologies (and thank you)

@fzoc thanks for spotting this - checking

@dentaku thanks for spotting this - checking

We just released Mastodon 4.4.2, 4.3.10, and 4.2.23.

These versions all contain some internal Ruby dependency updates for security. Version 4.4.2 also includes some fixes, primarily for user interface issues.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page. #mastoadmin

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases