Version 1.6.0

Betula 1.6.0 is the eighth release of Betula. It was released on 2026-01-25, three and a half months after v1.5.0.

• Git ref

See the installation guide.

Changes

• Likes. Betula bookmarks can be liked from other Betula and Fediverse servers. The standard Like activity is used. Only available on federated Betula servers.

  • There is a Like/Unlike button under remote bookmarks in every feed they are in.

  • You can also like your own bookmarks if you want. The button is accessible on the bookmark page, which is found by following the numbered link. It's not shown on feeds because it's rare to like your own bookmarks often.

  • Unlike some Fediverse software, like counters are synchronised across the Betula network. This is done without revealing identities of likers to third parties.

    • Like counters might still be out of sync in non-Betula software.

• Notifications, accessible from the sidebar link. Not annoying. Currently, only like notifications arrive, with more come in future versions.

• The design of bookmark cards was adjusted to accommodate for like buttons.

  

• Documentation regarding the Miniflux integration was written.

• The bug with bookmarks from people you no longer follow appearing in the timeline was fixed.

• Other minor changes.

Organizational changes

• A new CI setup was added that runs builds, unit tests and linters and checks for REUSE compliance.

• Most of source code was marked up per REUSE recommendations.

• Following the suite of v1.5.0 moving Betula source code main repo to Codeberg, Betula landing website source was moved to the Codeberg repo for editing convenience. The old Sourcehut repo remains a mirror from now on. Sourcehut Pages remains the publishing system.

• Compilation without GOPROXY no longer requires Mercurial.

Funding

This release was funded through Open Social Fund, a fund established by NLnet. Learn more at the NLnet project page.

Developers

• bouncepaw worked on likes and notifications. Follow @bouncepaw@links.bouncepaw.com.

• danilax86 worked on docs, CI and fixed the remote bookmarks bug. Follow @danila@links.danilax86.space.

Thank you. Join us for the next release!