v1.0.0-beta.13 - Direct Messages, Group Chats, Improved Federation

✨ What's New

• Added Direct Messages
• Added Group Chats
• Added Profile Links to webUI
• Added Deep linking to Playlists
• Added new "Untagged AI" report type
• Added Android and iOS Push Notification support
• Added "Download the app" page to footer
• Allow admins to disable system notifications with "LOOPS_SYSTEM_NOTIFICATIONS_ENABLED=false" in .env
• Added official relay support
• Added Enforce AI/Ad/NSFW Labels to admin profiles dashboard
• Added new activitypub delete fanout queue
• Added several new push notification types (Remote Follow, Comment, Reply, Comment Like, Reply Like)
• Added LOOPS_TRANSCODE_ADVANCED=true advanced quality transcoding and configuration settings in config/loops.php

What's Updated

• Updated Profile Modals, fixed scroll bug
• Updated VideoResource, added video width/height
• Updated InboxResolverService, use blocked instances to prevent delivery to blocked servers
• Updated ForYouFeedService, increase MAX_AGE_DAYS to 730 (2 years)
• Dont send notifications if liked video is federated
• Updated Sidebar to remain consistent even if you don't follow anyone (Following feed)
• Updated FeedService, fixes frontpage showing old videos
• Updated Admin VideoShow page, stop video on unmount
• Updated ObjectController, better handle comment permalinks on remote content, while only rendering video objects for local video
• Updated SearchController to properly handle webfinger searches
• Updated profile bio to support line breaks and increase max bio length from 250 to 500 chars
• Updated ObjectController to prevent returning remote video objects
• Fixed StarterKit remote account search
• Fixed remote search for bare fediverse handles (user@domain)
• Updated Sidebar, add developers link
• Updated Laravel to v13
• Updated admin profile dashboard to make ip searchable
• Fixed hashtag search using normalized only
• Updated StudioController, hide videos already in other playlists
• Updated Inbox handler, reject suspended accounts activities
• Updated system notifications
• Updated StarterKit import logic to handle Mastodon bug (mastodon/mastodon#39544)
• Updated Search, add starter kits and improved ranking
• Updated StarterKitActivityBuilder, stop render descriptions as html to match Mastodon
• Updated AppleAuth to prevent new account registration with "Sign in with Apple" when registration is closed
• Fix relay announces
• Fix relay handling
• Updated federation handlers and validators
• Updated relay service, add limits
• Updated Video model, fix afterSyncHashtagsFromCaption method
• Updated Report Modal, add block option
• Fixed avatar handling, due to upstream breaking changes
• Updated vite versioning logic
• Updated Explore, add Starter Kits card
• Updated profile video grid to show more columns on larger screens
• Updated Share Modal to send via DM/Group Chat and improved UI to match mobile share sheet
• Updated Explore algorithm, allow admins to customize scoring
• Updated PushService, add comment like notifications
• Updated CreateHandler, add push notifications for comments and replies
• Updated DmMessageController, prevent accounts that have disabled DMs from composing new messages
• Improve federation fanout
• Improved federation support

What to expect:

• Some rough edges (it's an beta!)
• Active development and frequent updates
• Your feedback directly influencing development priorities

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