action: auto
reason: Feature release with new functionality like private communities, pronoun flairs, and emoji improvements. No breaking changes or manual migration steps required.
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 - Pronouns - when you put pronouns into Extra Fields on your profile that is used as a flair in all communities where you haven't set a flair yet
 - Private communities - no federation, only certain roles (depends on the community) can invite new people
 - Plain http web UI (no SSL required) with SSL used during federation - see http://retro.piefed.com. Helpful for development, extremely bad internet connections or very old computers.
 - Mastodon can now quote-boost PieFed posts
 - Downvotes can be turned off completely in a community, not just instance-wide
 - Admins can sticky a post on the home page, not just mods in their communities
 - Auto-delete of replies on remote instances when reply author has been blocked by parent content author (only works in PieFed communities due to a ActivityPub limitation)
 - On home page when showing number of replies a post has, calculate the sum of the replies on all cross-posts and display that
 - New users can only do 3 posts in their first 24h, to reduce floods of posts by that guy who keeps deleting his accounts and making new ones
 - Improve emoji federation compatibility
 - Change order of emoji in picker to present most-used ones first
 - Optional daily time limit on usage to help people use PieFed less. Client-side tracking for privacy.
 - A way to report posts that need to be tagged as AI generated
 - Better accessibility
 - Improved handling of bold and italics in markdown parsing
 - Don't accept votes on posts from people the author has blocked
 - Admins can resend email address verification email
 - Admins can add notes to instances to keep track of defederation reasons, etc
 - Search form has been simplified
 - Option for admins to disable the em-dash detector
 - Multiple minor bugfixes and security enhancements
 - Translation updates for 5 languages