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littleFedi - Official Account@littlefedi_official@littleone.littlefedi.social (2026-10-13 16:30:00)
A new build of littleFedi (2026.10.13)  is out!

We've made several changes based on reports from our friends on this instance, feedback from those who have started self-hosting, and code reviews by the Little Computer People.


Here's a non-exhaustive changelog:



Alt text changed while editing a post from a Mastodon client (Mastodon web,

Phanpy, Elk, Ivory, Tusky and others) was silently dropped. It is now saved

and sent to other servers with the edit.

Alt text of images already attached to a post can now be edited from the web

composer.

When a remote author adds or changes alt text by editing a post, the change

now shows up here too. Before, the post kept its old description, and stayed

hidden for anyone filtering out media without alt text.

PUT /api/v1/media/:id can now clear a description, and refuses media that

is already attached to a post, as Mastodon does. Use the status edit instead.

Alt text is limited to 1500 characters on the server too, not only in the

browser. Longer remote descriptions are cut at the same length. The limit is

reported as description_limit in /api/v2/instance.

Media without alt text now report description as null in the API, so

clients no longer show an empty ALT badge.

New Favourites page in the web interface, in the main menu, listing the

posts you liked, most recent first.

Paging through /api/v1/favourites skipped or repeated posts after the

first page. It now continues from the last post shown, like bookmarks.

When the timeline tabs or the top menu do not fit on one line, they now

show only their icons. Before, some themes cut the last items off or split

them over two rows.

Keep the canonical instance actor URL public in secure and allowlist modes,

fixing a key-fetch deadlock with other authorized-fetch servers.

With split domains, /api/v1/instance now reports the handle domain as uri,

and actors carry a webfinger property with their canonical handle.

Hashtags can now be followed from the search in Setti