ActivityPub

5.4.1

• Fixed: Transition handling of posts to ensure that Create and Update activities are properly processed.

5.4.0

• Added: Upgrade script to fix Follower json representations with unescaped backslashes.
• Added: Centralized place for sanitization functions.
• Changed: Bumped minimum required WordPress version to 6.4.
• Changed: Use a later hook for Posts to get published to the Outbox, to get sure all post_metas and taxonomys are set stored properly.
• Changed: Use webfinger as author email for comments from the Fediverse.
• Fixed: Do not redirect /@username URLs to the API any more, to improve AUTHORIZED_FETCH handling.

5.3.2

• Fixed: Remove activitypub_reply_block filter after Activity-JSON is rendered, to not affect the HTML representation.
• Fixed: Remove render_block_core/embed filter after Activity-JSON is rendered, to not affect the HTML representation.

5.3.1

• Fixed: Blog profile settings can be saved again without errors.
• Fixed: Followers with backslashes in their descriptions no longer break their actor representation.

5.3.0

• Added: A fallback Note for Article objects to improve previews on services that don’t support Articles yet.
• Added: A reply context for Posts and Comments to allow relying parties to discover the whole conversation of a thread.
• Added: Allow Activities on URLs instead of requiring Activity-Objects. This is useful especially for sending Announces and Likes.
• Added: Undo API for Outbox items.
• Added: Setting to adjust the number of days Outbox items are kept before being purged.
• Added: Failed Follower notifications for Outbox items now get retried for two more times.
• Added: Support incoming Move activities and ensure that followed persons are updated accordingly.
• Added: Show metadata in the New Follower E-Mail.
• Added: Outbox Activity IDs can now be resolved when the ActivityPub `Accept header is used.
• Added: Labels to add context to visibility settings in the block editor.
• Added: WP CLI command to reschedule Outbox-Activities.
• Changed: Properly process Update activities on profiles and ensure all properties of a followed person are updated accordingly.
• Changed: Outbox now precesses the first batch of followers right away to avoid delays in processing new Activities.
• Changed: Post bulk edits no longer create Outbox items, unless author or post status change.
• Changed: Outbox processing accounts for shared inboxes again.
• Changed: Improved check for ?activitypub query-var.
• Changed: Rewrite rules: be more specific in author rewrite rules to avoid conflicts on sites that use the “@author” pattern in their permalinks.
• Changed: Deprecate the activitypub_post_locale filter in favor of the activitypub_locale filter.
• Fixed: The Outbox purging routine no longer is limited to deleting 5 items at a time.
• Fixed: An issue where the outbox could not send object types other than Base_Object (introduced in 5.0.0).
• Fixed: Ellipses now display correctly in notification emails for Likes and Reposts.
• Fixed: Send Update-Activity when “Actor-Mode” is changed.
• Fixed: Added delay to Announce Activity from the Blog-Actor, to not have race conditions.
• Fixed: Actor validation in several REST API endpoints.
• Fixed: Bring back the activitypub_post_locale filter to allow overriding the post’s locale.

5.2.0

• Added: Batch Outbox-Processing.
• Added: Outbox processed events get logged in Stream and show any errors returned from inboxes.
• Added: Outbox items older than 6 months will be purged to avoid performance issues.
• Added: REST API endpoints for likes and shares.
• Changed: Increased probability of Outbox items being processed with the correct author.
• Changed: Enabled querying of Outbox posts through the REST API to improve troubleshooting and debugging.
• Changed: Updated terminology to be client-neutral in the Federated Reply block.
• Changed: Refactored settings to use the WordPress Settings API
• Fixed: Enforce 200 status header for valid ActivityPub requests.
• Fixed: object_id_to_comment returns a commment now, even if there are more than one matching comment in the DB.
• Fixed: Integration of content-visibility setup in the block editor.
• Fixed: Update CLI commands to the new scheduler refactorings.
• Fixed: Do not add an audience to the Actor-Profiles.
• Fixed: Activity::set_object falsely overwrites the Activity-ID with a default.

5.1.0

• Added: Cleanup of option values when the plugin is uninstalled.
• Added: Third-party plugins can filter settings tabs to add their own settings pages for ActivityPub.
• Added: Show ActivityPub preview in row actions when Block Editor is enabled but not used for the post type.
• Changed: Manually granting activitypub cap no longer requires the receiving user to have publish_post.
• Changed: Allow Base Transformer to handle WP_Term objects for transformation.
• Changed: Allow omitting replies in ActivityPub representations instead of setting them as empty.
• Changed: Improved Query extensibility for third party plugins.
• Fixed: Negotiation of ActivityPub requests for custom post types when queried by the ActivityPub ID.
• Fixed: Avoid PHP warnings when using Debug mode and when the actor is not set.
• Fixed: No longer creates Outbox items when importing content/users.
• Fixed: NodeInfo 2.0 URL to be HTTP instead of HTTPS.

5.0.0

• Added: Outbox queue
• Changed: Rewrite the current dispatcher system, to use the Outbox instead of a Scheduler.
• Changed: Improved content negotiation and AUTHORIZED_FETCH support for third-party plugins.
• Changed: Moved password check to is_post_disabled function.
• Fixed: Handle deletes from remote servers that leave behind an accessible Tombstone object.
• Fixed: No longer parses tags for post types that don’t support Activitypub.
• Fixed: rel attribute will now contain no more than one “me” value.

See full Changelog on GitHub.