App Store Release Notes

This is a first!

Hello and welcome to the first release of Mastodon for iOS in 2024. We've worked hard, searched (and found and fixed) bugs and looked for other improvements. And we increased the speed, otherwise this wouldn't be the first release, right? Still, it comes with a truckload of stuff:

• Say hello to my little friend: Domain blocks! You're really annoyed by a bunch of people from the very same instance? Well, instead of blocking them individually, you can block the entire instance now, right from the app. To do so, head to the profile of that person as if you wanted to block them but block the domain. Now you can rest in peace and by resting in peace I mean enjoying Mastodon more than ever, of course! (IOS-5)
• We made some huge progress in our long-term project: Performance Improvements. Using the app should be significantly faster now, as we reworked the Status-handling throughout the entire app. (GH-1167, GH-1210, IOS-214)
• Speaking of speed: We reduced the amount of Network-requests sent to your Mastodon-instance when you scroll the Home-timeline. And we also don't fetch data anymore we don't need in the Status-menu. Why downloading stuff you don't need, right? Instead the app now fetches the data for the menu, when you need them. (GH-1214, GH-1213)
• You know, that you can edit your statuses afterwards, right? This comes in super handy when you fidn a tpyo in a status, for example. What you couldn't edit were image descriptions, also known as alt text. Well, now you can. This will also be super useful as it means that you can — and should! — add descriptions to images later, if you forgot that in the first place. (GH-1138)
• We fixed a bug that the app didn't respect the post-length defined on your server. (GH-1049)
• When we improved the credentials-handling in 2023.14, we forgot to make the Widgets use the new code. As a consequence the Wdgets couldn't login into your account which means that you couldn't use the Widgets. Sorry! (GH-1201)
• Search also got a little better: We fixed an endless loop when something went wrong. (GH-1188)
• Last but not least, we fixed a nasty bug that one offline account affected other accounts. In other words: If you have multiple accounts in the app with one being a suspended or expired account, this prevented the other accounts from being used, too. We cut the ties here. (GH-1178)

That's it! This is all the 2024.01-release of Mastodon contains. We didn't hide any other things like secret bug fixes or various improvements in there. Maybe we should declare it organic software?

Anyway, thank you for reading these hand-crafted release notes. And, of course: Thank you for using Mastodon!

What's Changed aka Github Release Notes

• Remove CoreData for Tags/Users on Search by @zeitschlag in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1177
• Fix endless fail-loop in search by @zeitschlag in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1188
• Don't throw when one account can't be authenticated (#1178) by @zeitschlag in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1189
• Restore credentials for widgets (#1201) by @zeitschlag in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1202
• Add Domain Block (IOS-5) by @zeitschlag in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1198
• Use accounts on FavoritedBy/RetootedBy-screens (IOS-214) by @zeitschlag in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1196
• Remove Status from CoreData by @kimar in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1167
• #1049 - fix max character limit and other server configs are not respected by @kimar in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1207
• Edit Caption by @zeitschlag in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1212
• Improve status updating mechanism by @kimar in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1210
• New Crowdin updates by @Gargron in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1184
• update strings by @zeitschlag in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1219
• Fix build by @zeitschlag in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1220
• Reload notifications after interacting with them by @kimar in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1221

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/compare/2023.16...2024.1