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Hotfix Release of Friendica 2020.07-1

Thanks to Roger Meyer who reported a flaw in the administration module of Friendica, we could fix a security vulnerability that could leak sensitive information from the server environment. The hotfix release 2020.07-1 includes the patch for the stable release branch of Friendica. The development and RC branches have been updated as well. Affected versions […]


Friendica 2020.09 Release Candidate available

We are wrapping up the summer contributions to Friendica for the upcoming release and are very happy to announce the availability of the release candidate in the git repositories. If you want to help to find some bugs and rough edges in the 2020.09 release, now is the perfect moment to switch from the stable […]


Friendica “Red Hot Poker” 2020.07 released

We are pleased to announce the slightly delayed release of Friendica 2020.07. Thanks to everyone who contributed to make this release! The 2020.07 release is composed from 280 tickets, closing 66 numbered issues and enhanced several aspects of Friendica and the communication with other projects within the Fediverse and the Federation. For a full reference, […]


Happy 10th Birthday Friendica!

Ten years ago the 1st commit to the git repository of Mistpark was made by Mike Macgirvin, a project that since has become Friendica accumulating some 27.000 commits contributing the work of more then 250 people from all around the world. Together we have build a social media platform that had many faces over the […]


Friendica “Red Hot Poker” 2020.03 released

We are happy to announce the avail-ability of Friendica “Red Hot Poker” 2020.03! Thanks to all the helpers during the RC phase to polish some corners of the release. Almost 400 tickets went into this release according to the milestone, closing something around 90 numbered issues and some unnumbered as well. But along all these […]



Friendica now has an official Docker image

After 18 months of work spearheaded by Philipp Holzer, a ready-to-use Docker image of Friendica is now published from the official Docker hub. Available for Power PC 64 bits, ARM (32 or 64 bits) and x86 (32 and 64 bits) architectures, the image can be simply pulled using the following command once Docker is installed […]


Friendica 2019.12 released

Wrapping up for the end-of-the-year? We too; and therefore we are happy to announce the release of Friendica “Dalmatian Bellflower” 2019.12. This release bundles up some bug fixes, but mostly enhancements to existing features and adds some new ones as well. For a full list of changes, please have a look at the CHANGELOG file […]



Friendica Hackathon 2019 in Berlin a Resume

Berlin, painted in November grey, coldish and rainy–perfect time for a Hackathon. Thanks to the lovely team of the youth-club E-LOK we had a venue for this weekend to get together and work on various aspects of Friendica. We thank you very, very much for the opportunity to use the studio over the weekend! So, […]