Does anyone know?
“We now have better support for account handle changes for accounts hosted elsewhere on the fediverse. You can’t change your Mastodon handle for now, but this is a necessary step towards being able to do so in the future.”
Is this about changing the server-local user name? Or about supporting server-independent handles?
We just released Mastodon 4.7.0!
This version contains very few user-facing changes, but significantly reworks the backend code to improve security and support new protocol features.
You can read more about it on our blog: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mastodon-4.7/
Note for admins: the database migrations might take a long time, this is expected (see the release notes).
Release notes and upgrade instructions are available here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0
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