| [eb5f978] | 1 | # Changelog — Klonkt
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| [eb5f978] | 3 | All notable changes to Klonkt. Newest at the top.
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| [054b603] | 4 | Versions follow [SemVer](https://semver.org/).
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| [90259da] | 5 |
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| 6 | ## [Unreleased]
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| 7 |
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| [1b1cc89] | 8 | ### Fixed
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| 9 | - **Following someone no longer gets stuck.** A follow whose first delivery fails (the other server
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| 10 | briefly unreachable) is now retried automatically with backoff, instead of staying on "pending" forever.
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| 11 | - **Animated video covers show correctly in feeds.** They no longer appear blank in the grid view.
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| 12 | - **Cover videos are decorative again.** Right-clicking a cover gives the normal link menu instead of the
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| 13 | browser's video controls, and right-click "Save" is suppressed on covers, images and videos (light friction).
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| 14 | - **Boosted posts show their real text** in the Circle, instead of a "RE: <link>" prefix.
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| 15 |
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| [b1edba0] | 16 | ## [1.1.0] — 2026-06-30
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| 17 |
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| 18 | ### Added
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| 19 | - **Animated covers play smoothly everywhere.** Upload an animated WebP as a cover and Klonkt also
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| 20 | makes a muted, looping video of it. iOS Safari — where animated WebP is janky — gets the smooth
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| 21 | video, every other browser keeps the crisp WebP, and on the fediverse the cover federates as a
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| 22 | video that plays in Mastodon and its apps. Shown on the post, the grid, the feed and related posts.
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| 23 | - **Media library (Admin → Media).** See every uploaded image, where each one is used, copy its URL,
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| 24 | and clean up unused files in one click — including the leftover video/poster of an animated cover.
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| 25 | Images, Audio and Playlists now share one tab bar.
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| 26 | - **Share button** at the bottom of every post (native share sheet, or copy link).
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| 27 | - **Replace a track's audio file** without re-creating the track.
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| 28 | - **Music on the fediverse (first step).** Audio posts now carry schema.org *MusicRecording* /
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| 29 | *MusicAlbum* data, and a per-post toggle can share a hosted track as a real fediverse audio
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| 30 | attachment that plays in followers' feeds.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | ### Changed
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| 33 | - **Cleaner embeds on Mastodon.** A post with a YouTube/Spotify/SoundCloud link now lets Mastodon
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| 34 | show its player card; link-only tracks share their streaming links. The cover still shows in other
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| 35 | Klonkt feeds. (On your own site nothing changes — the player and cover render as before.)
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| 36 | - **Circles stay in sync the fediverse way** — edits and missed posts catch up automatically via
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| 37 | standard ActivityPub, so a Circle no longer drifts out of date.
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| 38 | - **Everything Klonkt federates is now valid AS2 / JSON-LD**, guarded by a test, so stricter servers
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| 39 | accept it.
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| 40 | - The track list is sorted **newest-first**.
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| 41 |
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| 42 | ### Fixed
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| 43 | - **Animated WebP covers are no longer frozen to a single frame** (the crop editor and the thumbnailer
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| 44 | left them static).
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| 45 | - **Link-only tracks** (Spotify/YouTube, no uploaded file) can be inserted into a post again.
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| 46 | - **Link previews** (og:image / Twitter card) now use absolute image URLs, so they show on Signal,
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| 47 | WhatsApp and other scrapers.
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| 48 | - Several **fediverse delivery fixes**: covers/links no longer turn into a black tile on Mastodon,
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| 49 | raw audio files don't clutter a post that already has a player, and dead links from a renamed
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| 50 | remote post heal themselves.
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| 51 | - The **mobile feed** loads full-resolution covers; long titles wrap instead of overflowing.
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| 52 | - **Self-hosting updates** are more reliable: re-running the installer keeps your channel, and the
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| 53 | updater no longer restarts or claims an update when you're already up to date.
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| [054b603] | 55 | ## [1.0.0] — 2026-06-30
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| 56 |
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| [eb5f978] | 57 | ### Added
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| [98fe58a] | 58 | - **Klonkt is now on the fediverse (ActivityPub).** Your site is a real fediverse
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| 59 | account: people on Mastodon — or another Klonkt — can follow you, and your posts
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| 60 | reach their feeds. You can follow accounts and read their posts in a **News** feed,
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| 61 | get **notifications**, and **like, boost and reply** to posts. Incoming activity is
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| 62 | verified, so fake replies, likes and followers are rejected.
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| 63 | - **Anyone can reply, like or boost your posts from the fediverse** — visitors interact
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| 64 | from their own account (they just enter their server); no account on your site needed.
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| 65 | - **Circles**: follow other Klonkt sites and show each other's public posts in your
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| 66 | Circle — decentralised, with no central platform.
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| 67 | - **Sensitive (NSFW) posts** with your own content-warning text: blurred with
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| 68 | click-to-reveal across the site, and shown as a content warning on the fediverse.
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| 69 | - **Block** an account or an entire domain you'd rather not hear from.
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| 70 | - Search now also finds **tracks** (by title, artist and album), playable straight from
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| 71 | the results with a link to the post they appear in — and post search matches as you type.
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| 72 | - **Live theme preview** in Admin → site settings: accent, theme and palette update
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| 73 | instantly, before you save.
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| 74 | - Uploaded images are automatically optimised to **WebP** for faster pages.
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| 75 | - A roomier **mobile writing experience**: tap to open a distraction-free fullscreen
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| 76 | editor, with the formatting toolbar staying in view above the keyboard.
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| [127f87e] | 77 | - **Long posts collapse in the News feed** with a *read more* toggle, so a long post no
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| 78 | longer fills the whole screen — tap to expand or collapse it.
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| [054b603] | 79 | - **See everyone in a Circle**: when a Circle has more than five sites, the member count
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| 80 | opens a popup that lists them all, so a big Circle no longer hides its members.
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| [0850535] | 81 |
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| [eb5f978] | 82 | ### Changed
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| [98fe58a] | 83 | - **Palettes revised to 8**: the neutral **Klonkt** (gold accent) is the new default,
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| 84 | plus seven full-colour themes — Forest, Ocean, Teal, Lilac, Sunset, Candy and Amber.
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| [054b603] | 85 | - **Your profile federates more completely**: the links on your profile, the date you
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| 86 | joined and the accounts you follow now travel along to other servers, so your profile
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| 87 | looks complete when someone views it from Mastodon or elsewhere.
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| 88 | - **Cover images and avatars are sharper** — resized on the server instead of being
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| 89 | squeezed by the browser.
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| [0850535] | 90 |
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| [eb5f978] | 91 | ### Removed
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| [98fe58a] | 92 | - **Hub mode** — Klonkt is now **solo or Circles**; you build a collective or label
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| 93 | through **Circles** (federated, standalone sites).
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| 94 | - **Native comments and Google login** — replies, likes and boosts now run entirely
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| 95 | through the fediverse.
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| 96 | - **Local favourites (♥)** — replaced by the ⭐ fediverse like.
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| [1720482] | 97 |
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| [eb5f978] | 98 | ### Fixed
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| [127f87e] | 99 | - **Hashtags and mentions now work in every language and script** (e.g. Japanese, Cyrillic,
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| 100 | Arabic), both on your site and when federating — not just the Latin alphabet.
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| [0a58300] | 101 | - **Switching a site to solo (federation off) works again.** Turning the fediverse off could
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| 102 | make the whole site return “page not found” instead of just disabling federation; it now
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| 103 | cleanly switches federation off while the rest of the site keeps working. (Self-hosters:
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| 104 | update to pick up the fix.)
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| 105 | - The Fediverse and Notifications items now disappear from the menu when federation is off,
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| 106 | instead of lingering.
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| [98fe58a] | 107 | - The mini-player jumps and scrolls to the track that's playing — also from an album or
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| 108 | playlist — and keeps it highlighted.
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| 109 | - Empty album/playlist covers now fall back to the first track's cover.
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| 110 | - A profile photo that broke in the header after the WebP switch now repairs itself.
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| 111 | - Many **mobile post-editor** fixes: reliable scrolling, a formatting toolbar that stays
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| 112 | put, no page jumps when you tap a button, and a Save bar that sits just above the keyboard.
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| [054b603] | 113 | - **Boosts now reach the original poster** — their server registers the boost and notifies
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| 114 | them, just like a boost from Mastodon — and a boost is retried if a server is briefly
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| 115 | unreachable instead of being sent once and forgotten.
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| 116 | - **Unfollowing an account now takes effect on the other server** (it could previously fail
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| 117 | to register, leaving you still following on their side).
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| [90259da] | 118 |
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| 119 | ## [1.0.0-beta.2] — 2026-06-19
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| 120 |
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| [98fe58a] | 121 | First release where we actively track the version (shown in the footer — click it for
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| 122 | this page).
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| [90259da] | 123 |
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| [eb5f978] | 124 | ### Added
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| 125 | - Release tracking: the version number in the footer links to this changelog page.
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| 126 | - Eight premium features (Patreon-gated): newsletter/mailing list, download-for-email,
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| 127 | release scheduling + fan-only previews, EPK/press kit, pro statistics, link-in-bio +
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| 128 | click stats, embeddable player, and show agenda + notify-me.
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| 129 | - Newsletter signup field in the footer (on/off in Admin → Settings).
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| [98fe58a] | 130 | - SMTP settings configurable in Admin → Settings (no more config-file edit needed), with
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| 131 | a test-mail button.
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| [90259da] | 132 |
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| [eb5f978] | 133 | ### Changed
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| [98fe58a] | 134 | - Tidier settings forms (stacked labels, full-width inputs).
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| [eb5f978] | 135 | - EPK/press kit shows the top 10 most-listened tracks.
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| 136 | - Nicer 404 page (mobile-friendly) and clearer login error messages.
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| [90259da] | 137 |
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| [eb5f978] | 138 | ### Fixed
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| [98fe58a] | 139 | - The site-wide audio player wasn't loading any tracks.
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| 140 | - Button text became unreadable on hover.
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| [eb5f978] | 141 | - Date pickers now follow the theme.
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| [98fe58a] | 142 | - Back/forward navigation no longer shows a doubled header.
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