We've successfully MEGA-upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.6+mementomods-2026-04-05, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.6 (nightly).

This update includes today's latest daily build with 163 new commits from upstream since mementomods-2026-03-21.

What's new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:

✨️ New features

- Profile redesign is now live (feature flag removed) — new layout with "Follows you" badge, split fields, rearranged number fields, featured tab, account featured tags nudge, alt text on avatars/headers
- Collections are now fully federated — remote account support, new page design, compact buttons, topic suggestions, tag linked FeaturedCollection objects over ActivityPub
- Email subscriptions on profiles — visitors can subscribe to public posts via email with MX record validation
- Profile editing — new API with character counter, field inline messages, avatar/header description uploads, visual fixes
- Support for FEP-2c59 and multiple keypairs for remote accounts
- Media description length limit increased from 1500 to 10,000 characters for remote attachments
- Improved relative time display when post time is in the future
- Disable extraneous Devise strategies option via `DISABLE_DEVISE_TWO_STRATEGIES`

🔧 Fixes & improvements

- Fix signature verification when key ID is an `acct:` URI
- Fix refreshing keys from stale actors on signature verification error
- Fix regressions in notifications caused by translation wrapper element
- Fix jump when loading more media gallery items
- Fix being unable to disable sound for quote update notification
- Fix Webfinger endpoint not handling new AP ID scheme
- Improve resilience of `tootctl maintenance fix-duplicates` command
- Improve contrast for `text-warning` and `text-success` design tokens

📦 Dependency updates

- Rails 8.1.3, Vite 8.0.3, TypeScript 6, Yarn 4.13.0, Ruby version 4.0.2
- Drop support for Ruby 3.2

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.6 (nightly)

- Fix translate button color not matching link color
- Fix extra border-left showing up in mobile devices
- Fix focusable background color standing out too much for account name
- Fix install script for Mastodon 2026-03-21 `common.scss` removal
- Fully modularize `_base.scss` into 40+ focused module files
- Fix Browsersync CSS hot reload by stripping CSP headers from proxied responses
- Support new profile page structure
- Remove calendar icon for "Joined" field no longer in new profile
- Style new profile page components and fix profile button colors
- Update theme tokens with latest design system tokens (upstream PR #38387)
- Remove select hack fixed in upstream
- Fix install script for new profile subdirectories

🔧 mementomods fork fixes

- Restored role badge colors lost in the profile redesign (reported upstream: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…)
- Fixed search reference page: migrated from removed `injectIntl` to `useIntl` hook, removed non-functional search operators

Source code: github.com/mementomori-social/…

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

If anything feels off, please let us know!

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