v0.14.0

[thebaer]

v0.14

Major Features

Fediverse verification (#771)

Verify that your WriteFreely blog on fediverse platforms like Mastodon! Simply go to your blog's Customize page under the Verification section, and enter your fediverse handle or URL. It will place an invisible tag on your blog, so the other platform can verify that the blog is yours. You can also insert a rel="me" link in your blog bio.

Contact Page (#772)

Admins on multi-user instances can add a Contact page, so members and visitors know how to get in touch. Add your email address, fediverse handle, or any other method you want people to know to reach you!

User-Facing Changes

• Show post excerpt in stats list when no post title (Show post excerpt in stats list when no post title #540)
• Log user out when authenticated as deleted user (Log user out when authenticated as deleted user #483)
• Make 404 error message friendlier (Update 404 error message #521)
• Remove rel=nofollow on single-user blogs (Links have rel="nofollow" #314, Remove rel=nofollow attribute in certain situations #482)
• Support filtering blog posts by language (Support filtering blog posts by language #508, T805)
• Direct users to Contact page on 500 server error (Improve Server Error message #684, Instruct users to contact admin, not WF developers on 500 page #772)

Minor Changes

• Remove mention of Coil on Customize page (Web monetization: Coil has shut down #720, Remove mention of Coil on Customize page #765)

Admin-Facing Changes

• Support custom instance-level stylesheets with static/local/custom.css file (Support custom instance-level stylesheets with file #533)
• Support running on Unix socket (Add unix socket support #543)
• Catch and output directory walking errors (Segmentation violation on FreeBSD 13.1 #620, Catch and output directory walking errors #621)
• Fix segmentation fault related to DNS (Segmentation fault from release binary #675, Use Go DNS resolution in release binaries #691)
• Fix insertion failure for certain OAuth providers (Error Data too long when authenticating via Gitea OAuth #516, Widen oauth_users.access_token to prevent insertion failure #618)
• Support using MySQL without a password (Using MySQL driver without a password fails. #568, Support using MySQL without a password #770)

Developer-Facing Changes

• Fix cross-compilation (Releasing new versions is blocked due to bug in other project? #565, fix Makefile and Dockerfile to build on latest go versions #597, Arm Support for Version 0.13.2 #703)
• Strip debugging information (Strip debugging information #638)
• Correctly respond to application/ld+json requests (Serving ActivityPub objects #564, Correctly respond to application/ld+json requests #766)
• Fix monthly active user stats (Fix monthly active user stats #769)
• Code cleanup (chore: remove refs to deprecated io/ioutil #728, chore: unnecessary use of fmt.Sprintf #729, chore: slice replace loop #730)
• WriteFreely now requires Go v1.19 or later to compile
• Bump github.com/manifoldco/promptui from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0 (Bump github.com/manifoldco/promptui from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0 #554)
• Bump github.com/gorilla/sessions from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 (Bump github.com/gorilla/sessions from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 #562)
• Bump github.com/fatih/color from 1.10.0 to 1.15.0 (Bump github.com/fatih/color from 1.10.0 to 1.13.0 #563, Bump github.com/fatih/color from 1.13.0 to 1.15.0 #670)
• Bump github.com/gorilla/csrf from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 (Bump github.com/gorilla/csrf from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 #560)
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 3.0.0 to 5.0.0 (Bump docker/build-push-action from 3.0.0 to 3.2.0 #586, Bump docker/build-push-action from 3.2.0 to 4.1.1 #717, Bump docker/build-push-action from 4.1.1 to 5.0.0 #759)
• Bump docker/login-action from 2.0.0 to 3.0.0 (Bump docker/login-action from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 #587, Bump docker/login-action from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 #711, Bump docker/login-action from 2.2.0 to 3.0.0 #760)
• Bump docker/metadata-action from 4.0.1 to 4.6.0 (Bump docker/metadata-action from 4.0.1 to 4.1.1 #589, Bump docker/metadata-action from 4.1.1 to 4.6.0 #716)
• Bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.7.0 to 1.8.4 (Bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.7.0 to 1.8.1 #591, Bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.8.1 to 1.8.4 #709)
• Bump github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 from 1.14.6 to 1.14.17 (Bump github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 from 1.14.6 to 1.14.16 #594, Bump github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 from 1.14.16 to 1.14.17 #708)
• Bump github.com/urfave/cli/v2 from 2.5.1 to 2.25.7 (Bump github.com/urfave/cli/v2 from 2.5.1 to 2.23.5 #596, Bump github.com/urfave/cli/v2 from 2.23.5 to 2.25.7 #723)
• Bump github.com/go-ini/ini from 1.66.4 to 1.67.0 (Bump github.com/go-ini/ini from 1.66.4 to 1.67.0 #605)
• Bump github.com/writeas/web-core from 1.4.1-0.20220118212728-0da0bcaf018e to 1.5.0 (Bump github.com/writeas/web-core from 1.4.1-0.20220118212728-0da0bcaf018e to 1.4.1 #657, Bump github.com/writeas/web-core from 1.4.1 to 1.5.0 #737)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.0.0-20200622213623-75b288015ac9 to 0.13.0 (Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.0.0-20200622213623-75b288015ac9 to 0.8.0 #672, Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0 #749, Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.12.0 to 0.13.0 #754)
• Bump github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday from 1.0.21 to 1.0.25 (Bump github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday from 1.0.21 to 1.0.23 #666, Bump github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday from 1.0.23 to 1.0.24 #705, Bump github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday from 1.0.24 to 1.0.25 #736)
• Bump github.com/dustin/go-humanize from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 (Bump github.com/dustin/go-humanize from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 #644)
• Bump github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql from 1.6.0 to 1.7.1 (Bump github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 #617, Bump github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 #692)
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.9.0 to 0.15.0 (Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.9.0 to 0.11.0 #721, Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.11.0 to 0.13.0 #738, Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.13.0 to 0.15.0 #753)
• Bump github.com/guregu/null from 3.5.0+incompatible to 4.0.0+incompatible (Bump github.com/guregu/null from 3.5.0+incompatible to 4.0.0+incompatible #556)
• Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 #750)

Upgrading from v0.13.x

Download the latest release for your operating system. Stop running your writefreely service, replace all files in your installation with the ones in the archive, and then start your writefreely service again.

Now make sure your database is backed up, and then update it with:

writefreely db migrate

No additional steps are needed to upgrade from v0.13.x. Follow the instructions in each previous release if you're upgrading from an earlier version.

New Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this WriteFreely release!

• @lpar made their first contribution in Replace go-bindata with standard go:embed #610
• @clarfonthey made their first contribution in Add unix socket support #543
• @ilteriseroglu-ty made their first contribution in fix Makefile and Dockerfile to build on latest go versions #597
• @zer-far made their first contribution in Strip debugging information #638
• @eli-oat made their first contribution in Update 404 error message #521
• @Timshel made their first contribution in Widen oauth_users.access_token to prevent insertion failure #618
• @lstellway made their first contribution in Adds image labels to connect package with repository #752
• @testwill made their first contribution in chore: remove refs to deprecated io/ioutil #728

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This discussion was created from the release v0.14.0.