takahe/docs/releases/0.10.rst
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0.10

Released: Not Yet Released

This release is a polish release that is prepping us for the road to 1.0.

This release's major changes:

  • Stator, the background task system, has been significantly reworked to require smaller indexes, spend less time scheduling, and has had most of its async nature removed, as this both reduces deadlocks and improves performance in most situations (the context switching was costing more than the gains from talking to other servers asynchronously).
  • TBC

Minor changes also include:

  • Followers-only mode now works correctly inbound and outbound (though outbound may need the other server to refresh the profile first).

If you'd like to help with code, design, or other areas, see /contributing to see how to get in touch.

You can download images from Docker Hub, or use the image name jointakahe/takahe:0.10.

Upgrade Notes

VAPID keys and Push notifications

Takahē now supports push notifications if you supply a valid VAPID keypair as the TAKAHE_VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY and TAKAHE_VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY environment variables. You can generate a keypair via https://web-push-codelab.glitch.me/.

Note that users of apps may need to sign out and in again to their accounts for the app to notice that it can now do push notifications. Some apps, like Elk, may cache the fact your server didn't support it for a while.

Migrations

There are new database migrations; they are backwards-compatible, but contain very significant index changes to all of the main tables that may cause the PostgreSQL deadlock detector to trigger if you attempt to apply them while your site is live.

We recommend:

  • Temporarily stopping all instances of the webserver and Stator
  • Applying the migration (should be less than a few minutes on most installs)
  • Restarting the instances of webserver and Stator