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Friendica 2024.03 Release Candidate available

Today we have branched off the release candidate branch for the next stable release of Friendica which is scheduled for March. If you want to help finding rough edges and bogus behavior and hopefully fix them before the upcoming release, please checkout the new 2024.03-rc branch and report problems that you encounter. The most notable […]


Friendica 2023.12 released

We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2023.12. Finally wrapping up the changes since May – the highlights of this release are Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release. For details, please the CHANGELOG file in […]


Sympossium about the Fediverse in Cologne, Germany

Tobias Diekershoff, member of the core maintainer group of the Friendica project, will provide input at the “The world after Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. A new generation of the Internet?“ symposium organized by the Free Software Foundation Europe, the Centre for Civic Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Adult Education Centre Cologne. […]


Friendica 2023.05 released

We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Giant Rhubarb” 2023.05. This release contains a security fix of a problem Kirk Strauser (honeypot.net) pointed out, we strongly encourage all admins to update their nodes. The highlights of this release are For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the […]


Friendica 2023.04-1 released

Unfortunately, in the last release we introduced a bug that broke the web interface for direct messaging. This hotfix release 2023.04-1 of Friendica “Giant Rhubarb” fixes the problem. Also included in this release are various updates to the mailstream addon and the reworked Tumblr connector. For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository. What […]


Friendica 2023.04 released

We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Giant Rhubarb” 2023.04. The highlights of this release are For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository. What is Friendica Friendica is a decentralized communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with […]


Friendica 2023.01 released

Christian Pöschl from usd AG has found another XSS vulnerability in Friendica which is closed with this hotfix release of Friendica. In addition some other bugfixes for the distribution of forum postings and improvements to the update process of node information are included in this release. For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository. […]


Friendica 2022.12 released

We are very happy to announce the avail-ability of the new stable version of Friendica. Wrapping up the sprint from the 2022.10 release of Friendica we closed 73 filed issues and had almost 300 pull requests by 19 contributors. A special thanks goes out to Christian Pöschl from usd AG and Matthias Moritz who have […]


Friendica 2022.10 released

It took a bit longer then expected, but we are very happy to announce the avail-ability of the new stable version of Friendica the “Giant Rhubarb” 2022.10. Kudos to everyone who made this release possible by their contributions! In addition to fixing bugs and improving the performance of Friendica, the highlights of the changes since […]


Friendica 2022.06 released

We are very happy to announce the avail-ability of the new stable version of Friendica. With this release the “Siberian Iris” cycle is closed and we start a new one, the “Giant Rhubarb“. 20 people have contributed directly to the code of Friendica “Giant Rhubarb” over the last year, committing over 2500 pull requests fixing […]