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v0.0.1-pre.4

v0.0.1-pre.4 Oct 25 2023 at 19:05 UTC

kitsune 0.0.1-pre.4

Another pre-release. It's somewhat regular by now. Let's talk about what changed!

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This release includes a fix for GHSA-5prv-r7jg-vrf7

Highlights

Post update support

You can now receive updates to posts from other services!

Notification support

Thanks to @Zeerooth Kitsune now has notifications!
Mentions, favourites, reposts, etc. are now aggregated as notifications in your notification timeline.

Support for "webfinger domains"

We now store @user@domain.example instead of @user@social.domain.example if it's set-up in a compatible way.
Thanks for this @tesaguri!

Exif data is now stripped from select image formats

Kitsune now automatically strips the Exif data from the following image formats:

  • JPEG
  • PNG
  • WebP

Thanks @Zeerooth!

Dedicated job runner

We did some internal restructuring and you can now run headless job runners!
This was done to help you increase parallelism of job execution without running all the baggage of a web server.

Basic UI functionality

Kitsune gained some UI functionality with this release!
You can now check your home timeline, the local timeline, and global timeline; as well as checking out the "preview" of the upcoming rich-text post modal!

Build-time optimizations

Kitsune should now compile faster on most hardware by at least ~30sec.

Remove kitsune-search-server

With this release, we say goodbye to our home-grown search service.
It hasn't been particulary well maintained in general and has only been an additional binary that had to be compiled basically.

OpenTelemetry support

With this release, we retire our old Prometheus scraping endpoint in favour of OTLP push-based metrics.
We also added support for pushing traces (in addition to metrics).

This means you can export traces and metrics to whatever service, as long as they support the (rather ubiquitous) OpenTelemetry Wire Protocol.

Smaller changes

post-processor rewrite

Our post-processor crate (which is responsible for parsing your posts, turning mentions into actual mentions, etc.) was fully rewritten.
This rewrite improved performance and the basic transformation benchmark runs in ~212ns.

simple_transform        time:   [211.68 ns 212.69 ns 213.82 ns]
                        change: [-1.1595% -0.3741% +0.3490%] (p = 0.34 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.

Replace jemalloc with mimalloc

We replaced our memory allocators in this release.
This results in quicker builds and potentially improved performance due to faster allocations.

Updated documentation

Our documentation pages should be up-to-date now!

Automated release builds

We now offer release builds (courtesy of cargo-dist).
Meaning you can download pre-installed versions of Kitsune from our releases.

We build binaries for:

  • Windows (MSVC compiler)
  • MacOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)
  • Linux (glibc)

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.

Install kitsune 0.0.1-pre.4

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/releases/download/v0.0.1-pre.4/kitsune-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

irm https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/releases/download/v0.0.1-pre.4/kitsune-installer.ps1 | iex

Download kitsune 0.0.1-pre.4

File Platform Checksum
kitsune-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz macOS Apple Silicon checksum
kitsune-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz macOS Intel checksum
kitsune-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip Windows x64 checksum
kitsune-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz Linux x64 checksum

kitsune-job-runner 0.0.1-pre.4

Install kitsune-job-runner 0.0.1-pre.4

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/releases/download/v0.0.1-pre.4/kitsune-job-runner-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

irm https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/releases/download/v0.0.1-pre.4/kitsune-job-runner-installer.ps1 | iex

Download kitsune-job-runner 0.0.1-pre.4

File Platform Checksum
kitsune-job-runner-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz macOS Apple Silicon checksum
kitsune-job-runner-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz macOS Intel checksum
kitsune-job-runner-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip Windows x64 checksum
kitsune-job-runner-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz Linux x64 checksum

kitsune-cli 0.0.1-pre.4

Install kitsune-cli 0.0.1-pre.4

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/releases/download/v0.0.1-pre.4/kitsune-cli-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

irm https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/releases/download/v0.0.1-pre.4/kitsune-cli-installer.ps1 | iex

Download kitsune-cli 0.0.1-pre.4

File Platform Checksum
kitsune-cli-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz macOS Apple Silicon checksum
kitsune-cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz macOS Intel checksum
kitsune-cli-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip Windows x64 checksum
kitsune-cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz Linux x64 checksum

Now follows the GitHub-generated changelog:

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune/compare/v0.0.1-pre.3...v0.0.1-pre.4