@freemo hi 👋, I'm one of the new users who is very thankful to you for running this server! I noticed Qoto is reportedly running an old 2020 version of Mastodon. Do you have any plans to upgrade? Is it an issue due to the customisations?

@Odaeus qoto is running a forked version of mastodon with additional features not found in traditional mastodon. New features will be added as time goes on.

@obi I was thinking more about the many bug fixes and smaller improvements that have been made rather than feature parity. Security vulnerabilities in particular come to mind.

@Odaeus I haven't thought about or seen any security updates in the new version. What are they? I think @freemo would patch any vulnerabilities as they come. Same goes for bugs. Is there any specific bugs you have seen on qoto that Mastodon 4.0 has solved?

@obi that would be 2 years worth of changelogs to review... release 3.5.3 alone has 7 security fixes. The number of other fixes runs into hundreds in the last two years. It's completely standard practice to keep software up-to-date without focusing on whether an individual fix brings a visible benefit. Without regular updates it may not even be possible to incorporate any important fixes that come along.

@Odaeus your assuming he isn't updating and patching this. This is a fork, no longer following mastodon stream. He adds features and patches as needed. @freemo correct me if I'm wrong?

@obi I'm not assuming, I'm asking because this info does not appear to be publicly available beyond the version number reported by the server.