Changelog

This page lists changes since Working Draft 03.

Since WD 03

• Rewrote the signature system from scratch to be simpler and not depend on dates.
• Moved Likes and Dislikes to an extension.
• Added Delegation.
• Renamed fields on several common entities like Users and Notes.
• Removed the Patch entity.
  • Useless since edits can just be sent to inboxes directly.
• Allowed uris to not contain the entity's id.
• Loosened restrictions on the id field in entities.
  • Can now be any string, not just a UUID.
• Made uri optional in some entities not useful enough to keep track of.
• Added shared inboxes.
• Added remote field to ContentFormat.
• Switched to ThumbHash from BlurHash.
• Added identification characters to Custom Emojis.
• Added manually_approves_followers to Users.
• Removed visibility from Notes.
• Made subject optional in Notes.
• Clarified the way Follows work.
• Removed the use of Undo entities for anything except than deleting entities.
• Renamed Undo to Delete.
• Added Unfollow entity.
• Completely rework ServerMetadata, and rename to InstanceMetadata.
• Remove Server Actors, and move instance public keys to InstanceMetadata.
• Add algorithm to Users and InstanceMetadata's public keys for future use (only ed25519 is allowed for now).
  • Renamed the second public_key to key.
• Renamed Announce to Share.
• Renamed prev to previous in Collections.
• Removed extension_type from entities, and instead use the type field.
• Removed VoteResult from the Polls Extension.