This release doesn't have too many new features (sorry, I've been a bit busy the last few weeks) and mostly changes the internals and fixes bugs.
Onto a third (hopefully more featureful) release! 🎉

Feel free to join our Matrix room to chat. We also hold votes there for larger changes (such as foregoing the SQLite support or the switch of our ORM)

Highlights

Improved SQL search

The SQL search is now actually good, faster, and will scale better!

It uses PostgreSQL's integrated support for full-text search via tsvector/tsquery and stores the generated vectors into GIN indices.
This more advanced usage of database-specific features (as well as a vote in our Matrix room towards foregoing SQLite support) led to the deprecation of the SQLite support, effective immediately.
Kitsune will not work with SQLite from this release onwards and it is unlikely to change (unless someone is willing to put in the work to make diesel-async compatible and figure out migrations and dynamic database connection switching).

Profiles are now updatable!

Standard profiles are a little boring. This update adds support for Mastodon's update for updating your account.
This includes:

• Setting a display name
• Setting a header
• Setting a profile picture
• Setting a description
• Locking your account

These things all federate to other instances like they would on Mastodon.

Support for Ed25519 in HTTP signatures

We introduce support for Ed25519 signed HTTP request in this release. We see this as an important step of the fediverse towards deprecating RSA signatures (which they rightfully deserve) and moving to more modern standards.

Currently we aren't aware of any other implementations that support Ed25519, therefore Kitsune has not fully switched to them yet. This is planned however as soon as a stable Mastodon release gets support for Ed25519 signatures.

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This release has incompatible database changes to the previous release.
Until we publish a full first alpha, we reserve us the right to continue making these kinds of breaking changes.

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Now follows the GitHub auto-generated changelog:

What's Changed

• Bump h2 from 0.3.16 to 0.3.17 by @dependabot in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/173
• Add badges to the README by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/174
• Fix Matrix link in README by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/176
• Update dependencies by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/175
• Support Ed25519 HTTP signatures by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/177
• Add support for Mastodon's update profile API by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/178
• Fix follows on unlocked accounts by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/180
• Add mention class to links of mentions by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/181
• Remove usage of mem::take by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/182
• SQLite fixes by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/183
• Fix home timeline by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/186
• Replace chrono with time by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/187
• Remove tempdir dependency by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/188
• (Hopefully) last breaking database changes by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/189
• Update flake and Cargo dependencies by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/191
• Remove the unique requirement from the username column by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/192
• Update deadpool-redis to v0.12 by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/193
• Ensure the signature key owner is the author of the activity by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/194
• Update dependencies by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/197
• Use UUID in user path by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/198
• Update dependencies by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/202
• Build support via nix by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/199
• Add white text colour attribute on registration form style by @perillamint in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/204
• Better SQL search by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/208
• Update dependencies by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/209
• Enable CPU features by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/211
• Add additional layers by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/212
• Diesel migration by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/210
• Announce activity support by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/213
• Add default header to Mastodon API by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/214
• Fix relationship mapping by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/215
• Make URL column non-nullable by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/216
• Update "State of federation" section by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/218
• Update dependencies by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/220
• Return 401 instead of 404 when user is not found by @perillamint in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/222
• Do not try to update account if user does not have profile image and header image by @perillamint in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/224
• Disable HTTP/2 by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/226
• Remove the Host header by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/227
• Small database-level optimisations by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/228
• Query pipelining by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/229
• Fix warnings when doing release builds by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/230
• Include the Git revision in the versions by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/231
• Update dependencies by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/232
• Bump version by @aumetra in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/233

New Contributors

• @perillamint made their first contribution in https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/pull/204

Full Changelog: https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/compare/v0.0.1-pre.0...v0.0.1-pre.1