Release 0.4 · electricduck/booski

This is an old release, kept here for archival purposes. Unless you absolutely need it, see latest.

Support for Videos
- yt-dlp must be installed to do the processing
File caching
- Images/videos from Bluesky will now be cached locally to improve performance when pushing files to other services
- This cache is automatically cleaned up periodically, but you can manually manage these files by deleting them from <config-dir>/file-cache/
Daemon/service mode
- Using start, stop, and status verbs, the relay service can run in the background as a daemon
- Use start --no-daemon (or run) to run in the foreground, like previous versions
- While running as a daemon, verbs such as usernames can be used alongside
Changed default host (from public.api.bsky.app to bsky.social)
Handle Mastodon-compatible services that don't allow markdown
- If posts including usernames that aren't mapped (via usernames), an attempt is made to fetch them via Bridgy Fed before falling back to posting the profile URL (similar to X)
Fixed update checker picking up on pre-release versions
Fixed failed service connections being unhandled
Framework-dependent version
- .NET Runtime must be installed first, then ran with dotnet Booski.dll

yt-dlp must be installed
Threads support has been abandoned
- Although this feature never saw the light of day, references to it were visible in the UI: these have been removed. It may come again in the future, but don't hold your breath

These changes are important to note if you plan on building and/or contributing to Booski

Moved ./publish.sh to ./tools/bash/publish.sh
Added new lexicons to Booski.Lib
- Com.Atproto.Identity.ResolveHandle() → com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle
Updated .NET packages (Microsoft.*) to .NET 9.0-rc1
Due to dotnet/runtime#72604, only .NET 9.0 (currently in RC) is supported. There are no plans to support .NET 8.0 (or below) as Microsoft seem entirely unwilling to fix this issue for those versions

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