Version 0.15
Our first release of 2024 is here! This one features many small improvements and fixes, plus a big new feature many people have asked for: newsletters / email subscriptions!
Download v0.15.0 now, or read on to see what’s new in this version.
Major Features
Newsletters / subscribe by email (#478)
Now readers can subscribe to receive blog posts via email! Connect an email service to enable email subscriptions and automated password resets (#777). Admins can enable this with the new [email] section in their configuration file — see the documentation for instructions on setting this up.
Note: today, WriteFreely only supports Mailgun as an email service — but our next release will support plain SMTP, so you can use any provider you want to.
View fediverse followers and email subscribers (#775)
For instances with federation enabled, authors can now privately see who is following them from the fediverse via the new Subscribers page. This page also shows everyone subscribed to updates via email, if enabled.
User-Facing Changes
- Performance: Add index to improve post retrieval speed on large instances by @thebaer in #778
- Fix fonts not getting applied on first load by @thebaer in #774
- Conditionally use twitter large summary card format when an image is available by @heyakyra in #799
- Protect drafts if they are part of a Private or Protected collection by @isaacsu in #528
- Add Contact page links to footers by @thebaer in #823
- fix: RTL support on post textarea by @andi1984 in #826
Small Changes and Fixes
- Fix use of NOW() when getting tagged posts by @blujan in #785
- Prevent 500 errors on too-long collection title or description by @thebaer in #782
Admin-Facing Changes
Developer-Facing Changes
- Spelling by @jsoref in #658
- Add editorconfig by @clarfonthey in #545
- Plumbing: login via emailed link by @thebaer in #776
- Correctly respond to application/ld+json requests, part 2 by @thebaer in #779
- Ensure Update activities work with Mastodon by @thebaer in #781
- Fix Collection property serialization on API by @thebaer in #854
Dependencies
- Bump github.com/writeas/web-core from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 by @dependabot in #768
- Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.13.0 to 0.18.0 by @dependabot in #809, #855
- Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.15.0 to 0.20.0 by @dependabot in #810, #856
- Bump github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday from 1.0.25 to 1.0.26 by @dependabot in #811
- Bump github.com/gorilla/csrf from 1.7.1 to 1.7.2 by @dependabot in #833
- Bump github.com/gorilla/mux from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 by @dependabot in #834
- Bump github.com/gorilla/sessions from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 by @dependabot in #836
- Bump github.com/fatih/color from 1.15.0 to 1.16.0 by @dependabot in #837
- Bump github.com/gorilla/feeds from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 by @dependabot in #838
- Bump github.com/gorilla/schema from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 by @dependabot in #841
- Bump github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 from 1.14.17 to 1.14.21 by @dependabot in #848, #861
- Bump github.com/urfave/cli/v2 from 2.25.7 to 2.27.1 by @dependabot in #849
Upgrading from v0.14.0
Download the latest release for your operating system. Stop running your writefreely service, replace all files in your installation with the ones in the archive, and then start your writefreely service again.
Now make sure your database is backed up, and then update it with:
writefreely db migrate
No additional steps are needed to upgrade from v0.14.0 or v0.13.x. Follow the instructions in each previous release if you're upgrading from an earlier version.
New Contributors
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release of WriteFreely!