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<p>This is our biggest release yet, including more finished tasks than any of our previous ones. Below is a summary of the highlights: </p><p>What’s new</p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523426/labelling-or-hiding-ai-generated-content" rel="nofollow">Posts &amp; communities can be labelled as AI-generated</a> and people can choose to hide all posts tagged that way. Very similar to how NSFW works. </p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523157/what-if-stack-overflow-except-federated" rel="nofollow">Comments can be marked as an Answer</a>, like on StackOverflow. </p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api/p/1596518/emoji-reactions-in-the-piefed-api" rel="nofollow">React to posts and comments with an emoji</a>. </p><p>Hide an individual post from yourself, without blocking the author. </p><p>PieFed is now in the Yunohost app store, making initial setup easier. </p><p>When banned from a remote instance you cannot make local-only posts in their communities. </p><p>Honeypot to automatically IP ban badly-behaved crawlers. </p><p><a href="https://lemmy-federate.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy-federate.com</a> integration, making PieFed communities get more exposure. </p><p>“Share on Mastodon” menu item on posts. </p><p>Vastly improve docs for new developers, see <a href="https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/b</span><span class="invisible">ranch/main/docs/developer_docs</span></a>. </p><p>Language selection is more visible during post creation. </p><p>Tag clouds can also be viewed as a list of tags. </p><p>View post/comment markdown. </p><p>Bot accounts are not included in community statistics. </p><p>Footnote support in markdown. </p><p>Polish translation. </p><p>Better HTTP caching, which <a href="https://join.piefed.social/2025/11/22/reducing-piefeds-dependence-on-cloudflare/" rel="nofollow">reduces dependence on Cloudflare</a>. </p><p>Bugs</p><p>Passkey fixes. </p><p>Polls can now have up to 15 options. </p><p>User profile performance improved. </p><p>Don’t allow bypassing minimum username length and post title with whitespace. </p><p>Polls and Events can no longer be posted into Lemmy communities. </p><p>API</p><p>Additional user settings can be set through the api, including Extra Fields. </p><p>Fetch url metadata. </p><p>Sort comments by controversial. </p><p>Comment search now works. </p><p>Hashtags. </p><p>Events. </p><p>Polls. </p><p>Emoji reactions on posts and comments. </p><p>See <a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/c/piefed_api</a> for more details. </p><p>To upgrade</p><p>To upgrade from 1.3.x: </p><p>git pull git checkout v1.4.x ./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh </p><p>There is a big database migration that will take a few minutes to run. How long will vary depending on how old your instance is - older instances will have more content to process. It took ~25 minutes on piefed.social so expect it to be less than that. </p><p>Donations</p><p>PieFed is free and open-source software while operating without any advertising, monetization, or reliance on venture capital. Your donations are vital in supporting the PieFed development effort, allowing us to expand and enhance PieFed with new features. </p><p>Donations can be made via <a href="https://www.patreon.com/PieFed" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a>, <a href="https://liberapay.com/PieFed/" rel="nofollow">Liberapay</a> or <a href="https://ko-fi.com/piefed" rel="nofollow">Ko-fi</a>.</p>

<p>The two big features in <a href="https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec/compare/480c0c6f...c37790ba" rel="nofollow">release v3.2.7 of Ktistec</a> are back end support for creating polls (the front end is coming in the next release) and advanced theming support—specifically, a rich vocabulary of CSS class values and data attributes on which to build a theme. The full set is <a href="https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec?tab=readme-ov-file#css-classes-and-data-attributes" rel="nofollow">documented in the README</a>. I&#x27;ll post more on how I&#x27;m using these later this week.</p><p>Here is the full set of notable changes:</p><p>Added</p><p>Back-end support for creating polls.<br>Advanced theming support with new classes, data attributes, and view helpers.<br>Task status display on admin page showing running and imminently scheduled task counts.</p><p>Fixed</p><p>Poll vote form now correctly submits Question ID.</p><p>Changed</p><p>Move location of Ktistec version notice. (fixes <a href="/tags/133/" rel="tag">#133</a>)<br>Updated admin page for better accessibility and less clutter.</p><p><a href="/tags/ktistec/" rel="tag">#ktistec</a> <a href="/tags/crystallang/" rel="tag">#crystallang</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a></p>