v1.0.0 Beta 30 – The Big Three-oh!

[paulrobertlloyd]

This release adds a number of new features, fixes a suite of bugs and adds many quality of life improvements.

Key new features include:

• A new page post type
• Support for profile scope in authentication flows and new userinfo endpoint
• Ability to add multiple files at once, or pick from previously uploaded media files
• Select syndication targets when using the share bookmarket

It also begins adding support for Microsub, initially by providing the ability to interact with channels and timelines.

Much of this release wouldn’t be possible without the help of @rmdes, who incorporated many of these improvements and fixes from his fork. Thanks also goes to @aciccarello for several authorisation improvements and feedback on other issues.

💟 Indiekit is supported by its community. This release was sponsored by @abhas and @sentience.

Features

• add fromCaught method to IndiekitError (cbf3654)
• add page post type (8f1fdbe), closes Add a page post type for undated pages such as /about and /now #954
• create-indiekit: log full error if setup cancelled (f337e01)
• create-indiekit: offer the file system content store (577ba98)
• endpoint-auth: support profile scope and add userinfo endpoint (7a27fa6), closes IndieAuth: support profile scope by discovering author metadata from the user's site #885
• endpoint-auth: use url filter for endpoint urls (07f959e)
• endpoint-files: upload several files at once (0c10dc7), closes Files endpoint uploads one file per form submission #952
• endpoint-micropub,endpoint-media: store a UUIDv7 uid on create (e1f3ae7)
• endpoint-micropub: discover post type from its vocabulary (1878252), closes A post type with its own vocabulary needs a discovery property to be recognised #950
• endpoint-micropub: filter the list of posts by text and category (b792c1a)
• endpoint-microsub: add core Microsub server with channels and timeline (b6a74a5), closes Paginate by properties.uid #975
• endpoint-microsub: add localised strings (e8bc4df)
• endpoint-posts: pre-fill the create form from url and name query parameters (2f89cd1)
• endpoint-share: let the share form choose syndication targets (54f193e)
• endpoint-syndicate: log full error when syndicating to targets (fcbb89b)
• endpoint-syndicate: syndicate every post awaiting syndication (f8c7376)
• endpoint-webmention-io: require token (e67466f)
• frontend: choose an existing media file from the editor and file fields (4d71529)
• frontend: replace markdown-it-prism with microlighter (2d21f8c)
• frontend: use url filter for absolute urls in default layout (0f8640e)
• indiekit: add a UUIDv7 backfill for posts without a uid (2581772)
• indiekit: backfill missing UIDs before serving requests (59b0ff2)
• indiekit: declare a collection's indexes with addCollection (df0b8f8)
• indiekit: index post and media data on properties.uid (42fe338)
• indiekit: log full error when getting serviceworker.js (ed98b43)
• indiekit: simplify homepage guidance (526ed5d)
• indiekit: show more configured endpoints in homepage guidance (5637cf4)
• store-bitbucket: require user, repo and token (13275e7)
• store-ftp: require user and password (5d7feaf)
• store-gitea: require token (58136d3)
• store-github: require token (22c8903)
• store-gitlab: require token (65e5444)
• store-s3: require access and secret keys (ffde16e)
• syndicator-bluesky: make link text in post content clickable (7b38485), closes Link text in a post’s HTML isn’t clickable on Bluesky #948
• syndicator-bluesky: require password (8c91c9f)
• syndicator-internet-archive: require access and secret keys (ab5bb9f)
• syndicator-mastodon: require access token (ebf6225)
• util: paginate on properties.uid (b2a1d2f)
• util: provide clearer debug message when connecting to MongoDB (8b8a351)
• util: remove getObjectId helper (5827617)

Bug Fixes

• only use a status code from an Indiekit error (1dfa574)
• report an invalid syndicator URL instead of throwing (f553c34), closes A syndicator with an invalid URL breaks the Micropub endpoint and the post editor #930
• return 401 for GET requests with invalid bearer token (69910bf), closes Micropub query endpoint does not accept Bearer token #825
• create-indiekit: check node compatibility against major and minor version (06cab9e)
• create-indiekit: generate a Dockerfile that runs, on a patched MongoDB (46f17f1)
• create-indiekit: handle command-line arguments (8914c57)
• create-indiekit: resolve error when getting file contents (5fe21db)
• create-indiekit: use correct character for configuration message (57204af)
• endpoint-auth: accept code exchange without grant_type at /auth (d649606)
• endpoint-auth: bind code exchange to the code’s own claims (456cd6d)
• endpoint-auth: limit missing response_type to indieauth.com (fa1d368)
• endpoint-auth: refuse a missing code_verifier instead of failing (b7ad28a)
• endpoint-auth: use publication me when signing authorization code (0e900a7), closes IndieAuth: normalize me URL in token response during authorization flow #911
• endpoint-files: look up files by uid so older files don’t 404 (5394361), closes Posts older than the 40 most recent return 404 in the posts UI #924
• endpoint-files: only show a thumbnail for photos (19a0ced), closes Files list shows a broken thumbnail for audio and video files #956
• endpoint-media: normalise caught error in action controller (ba30ff4)
• endpoint-micropub: count other posts of a type when rendering the n token (2634ac0), closes Post type count not working; unable to publish multiple posts #746
• endpoint-micropub: don’t let a client reassign a post’s uid (b5a7ce1)
• endpoint-micropub: drop unawaited count() check that leaked an operation past the test (a354434)
• endpoint-micropub: keep uid when deleting a post (737cb1b)
• endpoint-micropub: localise the database error and keep post-type errors distinct (676ed0b)
• endpoint-micropub: normalise categories on write (77a6266)
• endpoint-micropub: normalise caught error in action controller (f4430f8)
• endpoint-micropub: reject unconfigured post type on update, delete and undelete (057a0ac), closes Updating, deleting or undeleting a post whose post type is no longer configured throws a TypeError #928
• endpoint-micropub: throw a clear error reading posts without a database (5d30610)
• endpoint-posts: handle non-Error value for syndication target (5d54559)
• endpoint-posts: look up posts by uid so older posts don’t 404 (becdf26), closes Posts older than the 40 most recent return 404 in the posts UI #924
• endpoint-syndicate: call Array.isArray when wrapping a single target (3a2b7cf)
• endpoint-syndicate: ignore syndication values that aren’t URLs (9dcbc57), closes A syndication value that isn’t a URL makes the syndication endpoint fail with 500, and blocks the queue #932
• endpoint-syndicate: retry targets a post has not syndicated to yet (40647cb)
• endpoint-syndicate: syndicate posts awaiting syndication oldest first (9a4d0a4), closes Syndicate posts in publication order #584
• endpoint-webmention-io: cope with authors without a photo or a valid URL (98dbd80), closes Webmentions list renders an empty avatar for authors without a photo, and throws for an author whose URL isn’t a URL #934
• frontend: close the tabindex clause in add-another's focusable selector (47b995d)
• frontend: don’t drop attributes after one without a value (24b659a)
• frontend: don’t throw looking up elements that may be absent (88287f1)
• frontend: ensure photo in card layout retains 1:1 aspect ratio (d143206)
• frontend: handle missing values in components (1637377)
• frontend: handle non-Error values in component error paths (7a2170e)
• frontend: load the app script once the page is parsed (1bdd4df)
• frontend: serve cached page on a slow network, skip cross-origin and auth requests (c4619ae), closes Service worker never serves the cached page on a slow network, caches cross-origin images, and caches authentication pages #936
• indiekit: accept local redirect paths containing -, . and % (f326f60)
• indiekit: advertise the userinfo endpoint as an absolute URL (fcad0d3)
• indiekit: derive application URL from each request (2e20ad0)
• indiekit: make the uid backfill resumable and concurrency-safe (8b9fb87)
• indiekit: only send stack traces and error causes in development (5df480a)
• indiekit: trace the uid backfill even when it’s a no-op (9058317)
• preset-eleventy: write posts where the advertised URL resolves (0047ea8), closes Eleventy and Jekyll presets advertise post URLs their generators don’t serve #902
• syndicator-bluesky: remove useless try/catch (10a6022)
• syndicator-bluesky: thread replies to Bluesky posts (471577c), closes Replies to Bluesky posts are syndicated as standalone posts, not threaded #946
• syndicator-mastodon: remove useless try/catch (9951ad9)
• syndicator-mastodon: thread replies to statuses on other servers (db3ed51), closes Replying to a status on another Mastodon server fails the whole syndication #926
• util: return correct page when paging backwards (38fab19)
• util: throw getting canonical URL from path without base URL (525ebe3)

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This discussion was created from the release v1.0.0 Beta 30 – The Big Three-oh!.

[rmdes]

My god this is huge 😍

[rmdes]

Testing it now on indiekit-quickstart with the reference Eleventy theme: an image built from the v1.0.0-beta.30 tag with the Dockerfile from #960, started against a MongoDB volume left over from beta 29. The uid backfill ran on the existing posts at startup, sign-in and publishing from the editor work, and the new uid: in the post's front matter passes through the theme untouched. userinfo answers as expected.

Next on my side: making the page post type (#954) work end to end in the quickstart and the theme, so a fresh install gets /about and friends out of the box. I'll open an issue on the theme repo to track it.

@paulrobertlloyd, whenever you have time to review #960: with that merged, the quickstart (and our other deployments) could run the official image straight from GHCR instead of each building their own from the tag. It would make "try beta 30" a docker compose pull away.

[eclecticpassions]

Brilliant update! So many new features and bug fixes, thank you to all the contributors. @rmdes, I was using your indiekit-endpoint-posts@^1.1.1 fork temporarily to fix the 'can't open old posts' bug. Does this update mean I can remove the override now from package.json and go back to the default endpoint-posts? (I don't have any use for the additional AI parameters / settings). Looking forward to upgrading tomorrow! 🤞