Jekyll2026-04-22T08:21:39+00:00https://manyfold.app/feed.xmlManyfoldOrganise and share your 3d print filesRelease v0.138.02026-04-22T08:07:21+00:002026-04-22T08:07:21+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/04/22/release-v0-138-0This release focuses on federation of some social features. We’ve improved how new model posts appear on other services like Mastodon, and you can now quote those messages as well! We also count up likes from other servers for the original model, letting you know just how popular your work is!

What’s Changed

✨ New Features ✨

  • Include incoming federated likes in displayed like count by @Floppy in #5922
  • Allow quoting for federated create/update notes by @Floppy in #5937
  • Respond to Quote Authorizations and automatically allow for new/update messages by @Floppy in #5967

    🔒 Security 🔒

  • Force multiuser mode if federation is enabled by @Floppy in #5939

    🐛 Bug Fixes 🐛

  • Fix missing ActiveRecord translations by @Floppy in #5906
  • Fix accidentally-removed translation keys by @Floppy in #5929
  • Removed unused translation by @Floppy in #5931
  • More translation fixes by @Floppy in #5940
  • Fix structure of canQuote interactionPolicy by @Floppy in #5961
  • Fix compatibility notes by @Floppy in #5962

    🌍 Internationalization 🌏

  • Remove usage assumptions in i18n tasks by @Floppy in #5921
  • Translations updated: de by @Floppy in #5949
  • Translations updated: es by @Floppy in #5948

    🛠️ Other Improvements 🛠️

  • Collections boost their members, rather than posting new comments by @Floppy in #5928
  • Stub Likes collection for models (and associated compatibility notes) by @Floppy in #5930
  • Send local likes out to the fediverse by @Floppy in #5932
  • Remove site-wide default owner by @Floppy in #5936
  • Improved compatibility notes for mastodon x-posting by @Floppy in #5888
  • Split up routes to make them more manageable by @Floppy in #5966
  • Update FEDERATION.md for FEP-044f (quote post) support by @Floppy in #5946

Full Changelog: v0.137.0…v0.138.0

See the original release on GitHub: v0.138.0

]]>Release v0.137.02026-04-13T09:34:45+00:002026-04-13T09:34:45+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/04/13/release-v0-137-0Following on from last release, Manyfold now has support for comment federation! If you reply to a post made by Manyfold on (for instance) Mastodon, it will get pulled back into the model page and displayed as a comment! This should open up a new world of simple feedback for your models, and there’s still more to come!

What’s Changed

✨ New Features ✨

  • Outgoing comment federation by @Floppy in #5812
  • Turn incoming notes into comments on models by @Floppy in #5819

    🐛 Bug Fixes 🐛

  • Fix error when receiving incoming (unhandled) Notes by @Floppy in #5811
  • Fix directory-dependent path require for public_url by @Floppy in #5863
  • Fix error on comment permission check when logged out by @Floppy in #5865

    🌍 Internationalization 🌏

  • Translations updated: de by @Floppy in #5783
  • Translations updated: ja by @Floppy in #5782
  • Translations updated: nl by @Floppy in #5781
  • Translations updated: zh-CN by @Floppy in #5780
  • Translations updated: ru by @Floppy in #5779
  • Translations updated: fr by @Floppy in #5778
  • Translations updated: pl by @Floppy in #5777
  • Translations updated: cs by @Floppy in #5776
  • Translations updated: es by @Floppy in #5758

    🛠️ Other Improvements 🛠️

  • Use dedicated “federation” queue for federails jobs by @Floppy in #5808
  • Make user accounts followable via federation by @Floppy in #5810
  • Link to remote commenters by @Floppy in #5821
  • Remove comments when they’re deleted remotely by @Floppy in #5822
  • Add bulk action buttons above problems table by @tmchow in #5848

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v0.136.0…v0.137.0

See the original release on GitHub: v0.137.0

]]>Release v0.136.02026-03-25T22:20:08+00:002026-03-25T22:20:08+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/03/25/release-v0-136-0It’s time to start a conversation! Each model now has a comment thread where users can share their thoughts and experiences! Comments are local-only for now, but never fear, federation will be coming soon…

What’s Changed

✨ New Features ✨

Full Changelog: v0.135.0…v0.136.0

See the original release on GitHub: v0.136.0

]]>Release v0.135.02026-03-17T15:11:50+00:002026-03-17T15:11:50+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/03/17/release-v0-135-0This release sees some improvements to the path template, which lets you maps your folders on disk to models in Manyfold however you want. We’re hoping these changes make setup easier for people with existing collections!

You can now set the template per library - this makes multiple libraries useful again, if you want to have different organisational schemes!

Also, you now get a live preview of exactly what information will be inferred from the existing folder structure. If you enable “infer metadata from path”, it will take a random sample of folders in your library, and show you what matching them to the path template would come up with, before you’ve even created the library.

There are more template improvements coming soon, so stay tuned!

One more big piece of news; we’ve changed Manyfold’s open source license from MIT to AGPL 3.0. MIT is a great license to start projects with, but now Manyfold is more mature, we need to defend it a little more with a strong copyleft license. In general this won’t affect anything, unless you change the Manyfold code, in which case the source to your changed version also has to be made available under the same license.

What’s Changed

✨ New Features ✨

Full Changelog: v0.134.0…v0.135.0

See the original release on GitHub: v0.135.0

]]>Release v0.134.02026-03-09T13:20:45+00:002026-03-09T13:20:45+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/03/09/release-v0-134-0This release adds a whole new feature - lists! Logged-in users can now create private lists of models, maybe to “print later”, track “already printed”, or otherwise collect in whatever way they like. Lists are distinct from collections, which are shared; these are just yours (though we might add sharing in future).

As well as creating your own lists, there’s a special one more oriented towards social use… “Liked”! This links up to the new “like” button you’ll see on model cards and pages. In a future release we’ll federate the likes between instances too so you can get an accurate count, but it’s just local for now.

We’ve also got a new “open in” ability for Creality Print, and also for a really fun project called FlockXR, a 3D creation tool for young people with a Scratch-like interface, whom we met through our NGI Zero funding and are happy to support!

What’s Changed

✨ New Features ✨

Full Changelog: v0.133.1…v0.134.0

See the original release on GitHub: v0.134.0

]]>Release v0.133.12026-02-26T15:50:34+00:002026-02-26T15:50:34+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/02/26/release-v0-133-1A quick bugfix release for some UI and CORS issues, and a moderate level security fix.

What’s Changed

🔒 Security 🔒

  • Prevent unauthorized conversions by @Floppy in #5602

    🐛 Bug Fixes 🐛

  • Delay mouse capture until renderer starts, and only grab required events by @Floppy in #5581
  • Limit names to a reasonable length by @Floppy in #5582
  • Widen Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers for file content by @Floppy in #5603

Full Changelog: v0.133.0…v0.133.1

See the original release on GitHub: v0.133.1

]]>Release v0.133.02026-02-25T10:40:26+00:002026-02-25T10:40:26+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/02/25/release-v0-133-0This is a big one! At long last, Manyfold can now create static image previews of your 3D models thanks to our new friends at F3D, so you can see exactly what you’ve got without having to load the whole model - but of course, you can still click to load the real thing.

This features is disabled by default, but you can turn it on in the “File Derivatives” settings area. It will start generating images straight away. Beware though, it will use up some disk space, and for large libraries, it will take a while to complete!

There are a couple of high-priority security fixes in this release. The first is a rare problem with session leakage when using an intervening cache, in particular Nginx Proxy Manager. The other was potentially more serious, but was only in unreleased code for a few days, so unless you run edge you couldn’t have been affected.

We’ve also got bugfixes for permission editing, sensitive content display, and a few behind-the-scenes issues.

What’s Changed

✨ New Features ✨

  • Render static 3D preview images using F3D by @Floppy in #5438
  • Add “jobs unlock” CLI command to remove stale background job locks by @Floppy in #5511

    🔒 Security 🔒

  • Don’t set session cookies on indexed asset requests by @Floppy in #5503
  • Fix potential shell expansion exploit in f3d rendering by @Floppy in #5515

    🐛 Bug Fixes 🐛

  • Fix logging in development and in background workers by @Floppy in #5482
  • FIx small bug in collection preview box sensitive content check by @Floppy in #5490
  • Fix performance of mime type fix job by @Floppy in #5509
  • Unlock iteration jobs when they’re interrupted, so they can be requeued by @Floppy in #5524
  • Don’t mark models as updated when generating file derivatives by @Floppy in #4886
  • Fix editing and removal of existing permissions by @Floppy in #5469

    🔋 Sustainability & Performance 🔋

  • Calculate digest in chunks to reduce memory usage by @Floppy in #5522

    🌍 Internationalization 🌏

  • Translations updated: es by @Floppy in #5416
  • Translations updated: pl by @Floppy in #5498

    🛠️ Other Improvements 🛠️

  • DRY up Dockerfile APK installs by @Floppy in #5472
  • Add alternative vendor MIME types as used by f3d by @Floppy in #5478
  • Automatically create derivatives on file promotion by @Floppy in #5479
  • Show pre-rendered derivatives for models if available by @Floppy in #5480
  • Adjust camera parameters to match up better to new renderer by @Floppy in #5481
  • Add F3D and required packages to Docker images by @Floppy in #5493
  • Improve image derivatives by @Floppy in #5494
  • Refactor image backfill for reuse by @Floppy in #5495
  • Test that derivatives forms trigger background jobs correctly by @Floppy in #5501
  • Fix mime types by @Floppy in #5502
  • Set XDG_CACHE_HOME in docker image for F3D cache data by @Floppy in #5512
  • Add progress messages to image and model backfill jobs by @Floppy in #5513
  • Set sensible length for file deduplication suffix by @Floppy in #5523
  • Test for CLI tool availability by @Floppy in #5525
  • Regenerate derivatives if axis is changed by @Floppy in #5527
  • Don’t show FASP lifecycle jobs in the activity list by @Floppy in #5552
  • Refresh derivatives when files are moved by @Floppy in #5555

Full Changelog: v0.132.1…v0.133.0

See the original release on GitHub: v0.133.0

]]>Release v0.132.12026-02-09T22:02:28+00:002026-02-09T22:02:28+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/02/09/release-v0-132-1This is a bugfix release, with a fixes for a few high-profile bugs in signup, dropdowns, and preview settings. There are also some performance improvements, particularly around the download size of client-side Javascript code.

What’s Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes 🐛

  • Fix image derivative creation when using non-filesystem storage by @Floppy in #5441
  • Fix previewable flag not saving in edit form / API by @Floppy in #5445
  • Fix blank option appearance in dropdowns by @Floppy in #5453
  • Fix ALTCHA bot protection on failed signup forms by @Floppy in #5454
  • FIx random test failures by always using longer usernames by @Floppy in #5455
  • Fix email test command name by @Floppy in #5463
  • Fix MIME type check in slicer link generation by @Floppy in #5462
  • Fix blurring of sensitive content in lists by @Floppy in #5464

    🔋 Sustainability & Performance 🔋

  • Database count query performance optimisations by @Floppy in #5450
  • Reduce JS bundle size by removing client-side password check by @Floppy in #5393

    🛠️ Other Improvements 🛠️

  • Make MIME type checks more efficient by @Floppy in #5440
  • Improve a few user checks to avoid errors by @Floppy in #5446
  • Automatically run yarn in setup script by @Floppy in #5452

Full Changelog: v0.132.0…v0.132.1

See the original release on GitHub: v0.132.1

]]>Release v0.132.02026-01-29T13:53:21+00:002026-01-29T13:53:21+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/01/29/release-v0-132-0In the last release, we added “user groups” for creators, letting you more easily manage large groups of users who you want to give permissions on models. This was aimed at supporting creators like the many on Patreon who create models for their subscribers. This release adds the remaining features to support that process.

You can now add people to groups based on their email address, and if they don’t have a local account, they’ll automatically be invited to create one! Existing users are also notified when they’re added to a group.

All this can be acheived through the API as well as manually through a browser, so now OAuth apps and API keys can now be created by any user with “contributor” permission or above; i.e. anyone with upload permission. We’ll be writing a guide soon on exactly how to use the API and a tool like Zapier to connect up a Patreon tier to a Manyfold group, so you can fully automate distributing your content!

There are also a pile of bugfixes and minor improvements, as well as added support for opening 3MF files directly in Bambu Studio (other files formats don’t seem to work directly via their URLs, so you’ll still have to download STLs for now).

What’s Changed

✨ New Features ✨

  • Add existing users to groups by email address by @Floppy in #5327
  • Add users to permission lists and groups by fediverse address by @Floppy in #5335
  • Notify users when they’re added to a group by @Floppy in #5353
  • Send email invitations to new users when they’re added to a creator’s group by @Floppy in #5375
  • Add API key link (previously known as OAuth apps) to the user menu for everyone with upload permissions. by @Floppy in #5387
  • Add ability to create long-lasting bearer tokens for use with non-OAuth API clients by @Floppy in #5396
  • Add ability to open files in Bambu Studio by @XAMLZealot1 in #5391

    🔒 Security 🔒

  • Remove adding users to groups by ID, to avoid enumeration by @Floppy in #5334

    🐛 Bug Fixes 🐛

  • Randomise username lengths in tests by @Floppy in #5316
  • Automatically strip whitespace from library paths by @Floppy in #5328
  • Ignore hidden subdirectories when doing library permission check by @Floppy in #5329
  • Fix tag exclusion search syntax help by @Floppy in #5397
  • Fix 500 error caused on report page when logged out by @Floppy in #5407
  • Fix redirection error after editing OAuth apps by @Floppy in #5408

    🌍 Internationalization 🌏

  • Translations updated: ru by @Floppy in #5366
  • Translations updated: zh-CN by @Floppy in #5365
  • Translations updated: de by @Floppy in #5285
  • Translations updated: es by @Floppy in #5322
  • Translations updated: fr by @Floppy in #5406
  • Translations updated: ja by @Floppy in #5404
  • Translations updated: zh-CN by @Floppy in #5405
  • Translations updated: ru by @Floppy in #5403
  • Translations updated: pl by @Floppy in #5402
  • Translations updated: cs by @Floppy in #5399
  • Translations updated: pt by @Floppy in #5400
  • Translations updated: nl by @Floppy in #5401
  • Translations updated: de by @Floppy in #5380
  • Translations updated: es by @Floppy in #5379

    🛠️ Other Improvements 🛠️

  • Deeper validation of directory read/write permissions during library setup by @Floppy in #5294
  • Improve typescript configuration and fix a few resulting typecheck issues by @Floppy in #5317
  • Update to use ES2022 for javascript output by @Floppy in #5323
  • Support email and fediverse addresses in group management API by @Floppy in #5336
  • OpenAPI definition updated by @Floppy in #5338
  • Specifically symlink AGENTS.md for Claude by @Floppy in #5355
  • Backend support for sending invitations to unknown accounts by @Floppy in #5362
  • Minor translation and API updates for invitation feature by @Floppy in #5376
  • Filter invited users that haven’t joined yet out of lists by @Floppy in #5377
  • Automatically clean up old OAuth tokens and grants by @Floppy in #5392
  • Update Bambu open URL by @Floppy in #5201
  • Add specific Bambu Studio links for macOS by @Floppy in #5414
  • Only show “open in” links for formats that each app supports by @Floppy in #5415

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v0.131.0…v0.132.0

See the original release on GitHub: v0.132.0

]]>Release v0.131.02026-01-09T15:00:15+00:002026-01-09T15:00:15+00:00https://manyfold.app/news/2026/01/09/release-v0-131-0This release adds the first part of a new feature to help out commercial creators; you can now manage “user groups” per creator, which lets you make a list of users and then share permissions on models with them. And as a bonus, we’ve added support and rendering for Rhino 3DM files.

We’ll be building on this more in the next couple of releases, with the target of being able to let creators share content easily and automatically with their subscribers. At the moment the groups are basically functional, though it’s not particularly obvious what to do with them; in the near future we’ll write up a proper guide on how to use it, once it’s all ready.

What’s Changed

✨ New Features ✨

  • Add User Groups, lists of users that creators can use to manage access to their content by @Floppy in #5152
  • API endpoints for user group management by @Floppy in #5276
  • Add support for Rhino 3DM files, with rendering by @Floppy in #5279

    🐛 Bug Fixes 🐛

  • Allow saving tour state without validation by @Floppy in #5268
  • skip deeper user validation if only saving simple user preferences by @Floppy in #5273
  • Fix policy check when logged out by @Floppy in #5274

    🌍 Internationalization 🌏

  • Translations updated: cs by @Floppy in #5264
  • Translations updated: zh-CN by @Floppy in #5261
  • Translations updated: es by @Floppy in #5186
  • Translations updated: nl by @Floppy in #5260
  • Translations updated: pl by @Floppy in #5259
  • Translations updated: ja by @Floppy in #5258
  • Translations updated: de by @Floppy in #5230
  • Translations updated: ru by @Floppy in #5263
  • Translations updated: fr by @Floppy in #5262
  • Translations updated: es by @Floppy in #5270

    🛠️ Other Improvements 🛠️

  • Change default port in development mode to match production by @Floppy in #5267

Full Changelog: v0.130.4…v0.131.0

See the original release on GitHub: v0.131.0

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