Version 1.7.0

Betula 1.7.0 is the ninth release of Betula. It was released on 2026-04-, three months after v1.6.0.

• Git ref + Executable files for all OS
• todo docker link thing

See the installation guide.

Project updates

• The new address of the project is https://joinbetula.org!

  • The contents of this website are now under CC0 v1.0 (closest thing to being in public domain). Note that Betula itself retains the AGPLv3 license, and the libraries have various licenses.

• We now provide pre-built executable files for FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Mac OS and Windows. All are available in amd64 and arm64 variants, except for Plan 9, which is amd64 only.

  • For packagers: we encourage you to keep building the packages the old way, without relying on our pre-built packages.

• Betula is now available on Docker Hub! See bouncepaw/betula.

  To quickly run Betula with Docker, you could use this command:

  docker run -p 1738:1738 -v betula-data:/data --name betula bouncepaw/betula:v1.7.0

  We also provide an example compose.yml file.

Changes

• Internally, we refactored a lot of things, made visual adjustments and enabled many linters.

  • When you save a bookmark without providing a title, a default title should take less time to fetch.

  • REUSE annotations are more complete now.

  • We replaced the CGO build of SQLite to a WASM build.

    • For packagers: you can drop the CGO requirement now.

  • New version of Mycomarkup library with a fix to parsing nested lists.

• Fediverse compatibility improvements:

  • Betula now acknowledges reposts made outside of Betula network.

  • Betula profiles now have proper userpics (the project logo) seen in other networks. They are not customizable for now.

• Ctrl/Cmd+Enter shortcut now works in all forms (such as saving a new bookmark) to quickly submit it.

• Implement explicit actor refetch

• Add ECS structured logging

Removed features

• It's no longer possible to repost IndieWeb-formatted non-ActivityPub bookmarks.

  We believe few people knew about this feature, and none of them used it. Conforming websites are rare, and it's impossible to tell if a website is conforming without looking at the markup.

  Betula continues to produce the IndieWeb microformats.

• Links in the profile that led to the oldest and the newest bookmarks and the corresponding endpoints are removed.

  We might show the day a betulist joined the network in the profile in the future, similar to Mastodon.

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 . Follow @bouncepaw@links.bouncepaw.com.

• danilax86 worked on . Follow @danila@links.danilax86.space.

• Vitstark worked on the container and the Docker Hub release.

• On Mycomarkup side, timds contributed the nested lists fix.

Thank you. Join us for the next release!