ActivityPub

Muutosloki

5.5.0 – 2025-03-19

Added

• Added ”Enable Mastodon Apps” and ”Event Bridge for ActivityPub” to the recommended plugins section.
• Added Constants to the Site-Health debug informations.
• Development environment: add Changelogger tool to environment dependencies.
• Development environment: allow contributors to specify a changelog entry directly from their Pull Request description.
• Documentation for migrating from a Mastodon instance to WordPress.
• Support for sending Activities to ActivityPub Relays, to improve discoverability of public content.

Changed

• Documentation: expand Pull Request process docs, and mention the new changelog process as well as the updated release process.
• Don’t redirect @-name URLs to trailing slashed versions
• Improved and simplified Query code.
• Improved readability for actor mode setting.
• Improved title case for NodeInfo settings.
• Introduced utility function to determine actor type based on user ID.
• Outbox items only get sent to followers when there are any.
• Restricted modifications to settings if they are predefined as constants.
• The Welcome page now uses WordPress’s Settings API and the classic design of the WP Admin.
• Uses two-digit version numbers in Outbox and NodeInfo responses.

Removed

• Our version of sanitize_url() was unused—use Core’s sanitize_url() instead.

Fixed

• Ensured that Query::get_object_id() returns an ID instead of an Object.
• Fix a fatal error in the Preview when a post contains no (hash)tags.
• Fixed an issue with the Content Carousel and Blog Posts block: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/101220
• Fixed default value for activitypub_authorized_fetch option.
• Follow-Me blocks now show the correct avatar on attachment pages.
• Images with the correct aspect ratio no longer get sent through the crop step again.
• No more PHP warnings when a header image gets cropped.
• PHP warnings when trying to process empty tags or image blocks without ID attributes.
• Properly re-added support for Update and Delete Announcements.
• Updates to certain user meta fields did not trigger an Update activity.
• When viewing Reply Contexts, we’ll now attribute the post to the blog user when the post author is disabled.

5.4.1 – 2025-03-04

Fixed

• Fixed transition handling of posts to ensure that Create and Update activities are properly processed.
• Show ”full content” preview even if post is in still in draft mode.

5.4.0 – 2025-03-03

Added

• Upgrade script to fix Follower json representations with unescaped backslashes.
• Centralized place for sanitization functions.

Changed

• Bumped minimum required WordPress version to 6.4.
• Use a later hook for Posts to get published to the Outbox, to get sure all post_metas and taxonomys are set stored properly.
• Use webfinger as author email for comments from the Fediverse.
• Remove the special handling of comments from Enable Mastodon Apps.

Fixed

• Do not redirect /@username URLs to the API any more, to improve AUTHORIZED_FETCH handling.

5.3.2 – 2025-02-27

Fixed

• Remove activitypub_reply_block filter after Activity-JSON is rendered, to not affect the HTML representation.
• Remove render_block_core/embed filter after Activity-JSON is rendered, to not affect the HTML representation.

5.3.1 – 2025-02-26

Fixed

• Blog profile settings can be saved again without errors.
• Followers with backslashes in their descriptions no longer break their actor representation.

5.3.0 – 2025-02-25

Added

• A fallback Note for Article objects to improve previews on services that don’t support Articles yet.
• A reply context for Posts and Comments to allow relying parties to discover the whole conversation of a thread.
• Setting to adjust the number of days Outbox items are kept before being purged.
• Failed Follower notifications for Outbox items now get retried for two more times.
• Undo API for Outbox items.
• Metadata to New Follower E-Mail.
• Allow Activities on URLs instead of requiring Activity-Objects. This is useful especially for sending Announces and Likes.
• Outbox Activity IDs can now be resolved when the ActivityPub `Accept header is used.
• Support for incoming Move activities and ensure that followed persons are updated accordingly.
• Labels to add context to visibility settings in the block editor.
• WP CLI command to reschedule Outbox-Activities.

Changed

• Outbox now precesses the first batch of followers right away to avoid delays in processing new Activities.
• Post bulk edits no longer create Outbox items, unless author or post status change.
• Properly process Update activities on profiles and ensure all properties of a followed person are updated accordingly.
• Outbox processing accounts for shared inboxes again.
• Improved check for ?activitypub query-var.
• Rewrite rules: be more specific in author rewrite rules to avoid conflicts on sites that use the ”@author” pattern in their permalinks.
• Deprecate the activitypub_post_locale filter in favor of the activitypub_locale filter.

Fixed

• The Outbox purging routine no longer is limited to deleting 5 items at a time.
• Ellipses now display correctly in notification emails for Likes and Reposts.
• Send Update-Activity when ”Actor-Mode” is changed.
• Added delay to Announce Activity from the Blog-Actor, to not have race conditions.
• Actor validation in several REST API endpoints.
• Bring back the activitypub_post_locale filter to allow overriding the post’s locale.

5.2.0 – 2025-02-13

Added

• Batch Outbox-Processing.
• Outbox processed events get logged in Stream and show any errors returned from inboxes.
• Outbox items older than 6 months will be purged to avoid performance issues.
• REST API endpoints for likes and shares.

Changed

• Increased probability of Outbox items being processed with the correct author.
• Enabled querying of Outbox posts through the REST API to improve troubleshooting and debugging.
• Updated terminology to be client-neutral in the Federated Reply block.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the outbox could not send object types other than Base_Object (introduced in 5.0.0).
• Enforce 200 status header for valid ActivityPub requests.
• object_id_to_comment returns a commment now, even if there are more than one matching comment in the DB.
• Integration of content-visibility setup in the block editor.
• Update CLI commands to the new scheduler refactorings.
• Do not add an audience to the Actor-Profiles.
• Activity::set_object falsely overwrites the Activity-ID with a default.

5.1.0 – 2025-02-06

Added

• Cleanup of option values when the plugin is uninstalled.
• Third-party plugins can filter settings tabs to add their own settings pages for ActivityPub.
• Show ActivityPub preview in row actions when Block Editor is enabled but not used for the post type.

Changed

• Manually granting activitypub cap no longer requires the receiving user to have publish_post.
• Allow omitting replies in ActivityPub representations instead of setting them as empty.
• Allow Base Transformer to handle WP_Term objects for transformation.
• Improved Query extensibility for third party plugins.

Fixed

• Negotiation of ActivityPub requests for custom post types when queried by the ActivityPub ID.
• Avoid PHP warnings when using Debug mode and when the actor is not set.
• No longer creates Outbox items when importing content/users.
• Fix NodeInfo 2.0 URL to be HTTP instead of HTTPS.

5.0.0 – 2025-02-03

Changed

• Improved content negotiation and AUTHORIZED_FETCH support for third-party plugins.
• Moved password check to is_post_disabled function.

Fixed

• Handle deletes from remote servers that leave behind an accessible Tombstone object.
• No longer parses tags for post types that don’t support Activitypub.
• rel attribute will now contain no more than one ”me” value.

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