NEW

  • Timeline: option to open at the newest posts on a cold launch (Settings → Timeline → Load Top of Feed on Cold App Launch). Off by default, synced with iCloud.
  • Mac: Settings → Links & Integrations → Open External Links In... picks Default Browser, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and more, or In Skyscraper, which opens the page in the column you tapped it in. ⌘-click still opens a browser behind the app.
  • Settings: option to hide the "Your Last Week" banner.
  • Composer: @-mention suggestions rank people you follow first, and a banner shows when you're writing a Direct Message.
  • Shortcuts and Siri: App Intents now run in an extension, so they no longer launch the Mac app.
  • Mastodon: the composer uses your server's alt text limit.

IMPROVED

  • Notifications: action text uses your accent color, with the type icon on the avatar's corner.
  • Settings: with Unified on, picking an account shows its settings instead of switching.
  • Unified: older Bluesky posts load 100 at a time.
  • Mac: Reader articles are lighter on big pages, timeline headers line up with the avatar, and Mastodon mentions and DMs open from Notifications.
  • Mac: uploading photos no longer renders them at double size, which could use huge amounts of memory.
  • Reader: Tags with nothing unread are hidden when Unread Only is on.
  • Browser hand-off encodes links correctly for Firefox, Brave and Opera.
  • Mastodon: link quotes resolve with several accounts signed in, and a rate-limited fetch keeps your hashtags and lists.
  • Add links to your Bluesky profile!

FIXED

  • Typing a bare Mastodon username looks it up instead of failing.
  • Hashtags starting a line are no longer Markdown headings, and links drop trailing punctuation.
  • Code blocks, mixed image order, "1000.0K" counts, Chinese script names, searches with "+", and two-digit feed years now display correctly.
  • App-password sign-in ignores a leading @ and spaces, accepts "Https://", and defaults to bsky.social.
  • Push: tapped pushes open as their recipient; replies use the parent's thread root; mutes and blocks apply to the receiving account.
  • Widgets pinned to an account open that account's screens.
  • Chats close when you switch accounts, only one-to-one chats offer Delete and Block, and Mark All as Read on Mac leaves message requests alone.
  • Late results from a previous account (chats, notifications, profiles, search, moderation, trending) no longer appear after switching.
  • Likes, reposts, mutes, reports, threads, followers and list actions on another account's row use that row's account.
  • Signing out or switching mid-refresh can no longer overwrite a new session or sign as the wrong account.
  • Composer: closing a mention-only reply skips the draft prompt, kept photos survive picking more, and a server draft no longer deletes your open local draft.
  • Threadgate and postgate settings save for the right account and retry once.
  • Unsubscribed feeds no longer reappear after iCloud sync, and new feeds aren't dropped.
  • Reader: Mark All as Read marks are kept, and NewsBlur honours the cutoff.
  • Timestamps follow time zone changes, and the Year recap includes December 31.
  • Mastodon: signing out clears its push badge, and erased filter keywords are deleted.
  • A number of additional fixes I couldn't list here due to space constraints!

Don't worry about 1.8.1 and 1.8.2. They were small hotfixes for 1.8!

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