It’s now 12:30 PM EDT (16:15 UTC). I believe the upgrade to Mastodon 4.3.0 is just about completed. It’s still building the indexes for the search, which I think may need another hour to complete. The pull queue is also still catching up on work that was waiting while things were down. It’s behind by 11 minutes, but should go to zero soon.

We maintain our 12,000 character post limit and now also have a maximum of 10 items, instead of 4, that can be used in polls. I also increased the poll option character limit from 50 characters to 75.

A big shout-out to @stefano@bsd.cafe for publishing instructions on how to increase the post character limits and number of poll choices for 4.3.0. It saved me a ton of time. Admins, you can check it out here: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/09/2024-modifying-limits-in-mastodon-4-3/

A summary of the most important changes in 4.3.0 are here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/

A complete description of all the changes are here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.0