Pachli 3.8.0 is now available. This release introduces support for notifications about collections, improves compatibility with iceshrimp.net servers, fixes a crash, and ensures follower/following relationships are updated if you block a server.
New features and other improvements #
Show collection-related notifications, and collection details #
Mastodon 4.6 introduced Collections, allowing users to maintain shareable lists of accounts other accounts may wish to follow.
There’s a fair amount of work to do to follow support these in Pachli, and 3.8.0 ships the first part of the work.
If your account is added to a collection, or a collection your account is in is edited, you will receive a notification. Pachli 3.8.0:
- Shows these notifications
- Allows you to view the collection details (curator, description, other accounts in the collection)
- Allows you to remove your account from the collection
Tap the content area of the notification to view the content.
The collection curator may mark the collection as “sensitive”. Collections marked sensitive are blurred by default, unless the option “Account preferences > Always show sensitive content” is on. You can also blur a collection’s notification using the “eye” icon at the top right of the notification.
New accessibility actions have been added to operate on collections and collection notifications.
Future work will allow you to curate your own collections and view them in other contexts.
Add support for filters, search operators, quoting, on iceshrimp.net servers #
Pachli now recognises the iceshrimp.net server software. If your server uses this software Pachli enables additional features.
- You can create and apply filters.
- The search UI supports additional filters for attachments, limiting by author and date.
- You can quote posts.
This work was done by Caitlin in #2387, her first contribution to Pachli.
Updates to translations #
Languages with updated translations are:
- Estonian by Priit Jõerüüt
- French by Terry L
- German by Kachelkaiser
- Irish by Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin
- Latvian by Edgars Andersons
- Norwegian Nynorsk by Kraksen
- Slovak by Russssty
- Spanish by Juan M Sevilla
If you would like to help improve Pachli’s translation in to your language there’s information on how you can contribute.
Significant bug fixes #
Don’t crash if quote policy is missing #
Returning to the post editor after doing something else could crash Pachli if your server didn’t support quoting. Fixed in #2393.
Remove cached following relationships when blocking a domain #
Pachli keeps track of the accounts you follow to enable various anti-abuse features.
If you blocked a server the local information about any accounts you followed on the server wasn’t updated. So Pachli would continue to act as though you still followed the accounts when making anti-abuse decisions. This continued until the next Pachli cold-start (e.g., because your device restarted, or Android stopped Pachli).
This is fixed with #2381, ensuring information about these relationships is always updated.
Thank you #
Thank you to everyone who took the time to report issues and provide additional followup information and screenshots.
Download Pachli 3.8.0 from Google Play, F-Droid, or the GitHub release page.