v5

Release date: 2025-03-21

New Features

• Add support for BlueSky with hashtags and profile mentions
• Add support for Mastodon profile mentions
• Add support for Devoxx events (including Voxxed Days)
• Configure UI language via environment variable
• Dynamically generate social headline based on enabled plugins
• Hashtags are now handled independent of the social media plugins
• Show the logo of the social media network in the social media post
• Keep existing posts to avoid empty screens on errors
• Add configuration option to adjust event times (not just the dates)

Fixed Bugs

• Fix internationalization / localization issues

Maintenance Work

• Add SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) generation
• Automatic generation of README for DockerHub
• Add latest tag to Docker release builds
• Add a lot of new automated tests
• Add more checks for common errors during the build process
• Fixed dozens of coding issues
• Changed default Mastodon instance from mastodon.social to ijug.social
• UI: Smaller font size for the social media posts

Breaking Changes

• Image configuration is now applied for all social media plugins
• Replaced placeholders in URL templates with variable names
• Prefix all environment variables with APUS
• To enable/disable demo mode, use APUS_DEMO with true or false
• Remove EVENT_DEMO_ROOM_COUNT and SOCIAL_DEMO_POST_COUNT
• The FILTER_* environment variables have been renamed to APUS_SOCIAL_FILTER_*
• The timezone has to be specified in the APUS_TIMEZONE environment variable (instead of just TZ)
• The admin password has to be specified in the APUS_PASSWORD environment variable (instead of ADMIN_PASSWORD)
• The envirenment variable APUS_MASTODON_POST_LIMIT was renamed to APUS_MASTODON_LIMIT

New Contributors

• @ky0n made their first contribution in #258
• @uzoltan made their first contribution in #317
• @tobias-kuendig made their first contribution in #321
• @sparsick made their first contribution in #331

Full Changelog: v4...v5