0.4 (Jul 2025)

• updated Skyfall to the latest version (0.6), ActiveRecord to 8.x and SQLite gem to 2.7
• use filtered Jetstream as the data source instead of bsky.network relay
• enable "heartbeat" in Skyfall to reconnect if the websocket gets stuck
• added comment about setting a user agent in the Skyfall instance
• delete all posts of a user when an account is deleted
• in "save all" mode, posts are saved in batches of 100 for efficiency
• save cursor on firehose client shutdown
• improved stream error handling
• config enables YJIT automatically if possible
• added some validations and helpers in the models
• replaced BuildInPublic feed with Kit feed in the example feeds
• support for video feeds
• added option to bin/firehose to restart from a specific cursor by passing e.g. -r100000
• added index on post_id to feed_posts and on (repo, time) to posts
• fixed possible AR exception in development
• longer default timeout in sqlite adapter in production
• faster feed rebuilding and better output
• bluesky:publish Rake task automatically looks up the PDS hostname
• added an easy way to enable AR logs
• added several new sections to the readme

0.3 (Oct 2023)

• updated skyfall to 0.2.3 - fixes encoding of CIDs and binary strings into JSON
• switched firehose to the BGS server at bsky.network
• text and $type fields are stripped from the JSON in data column to save space
• posts with date in the past (e.g. imported from Twitter) are ignored
• FeedPosts are deleted when the post they reference is deleted
• added some helpers (Post.find_by_at_uri and #at_uri, Utils.handle_from_did and .did_from_handle)
• added info in comments about how to do feed authentication
• added another sample feed, "Build in Public"
• added app/server.rb file for extending the server component (with examples)
  • by default, the root URL returns a simple web page with a welcome message and a list of available feeds
• feed rebuilding:
  • much faster rebuilding in larger datasets
  • asks for confirmation before rebuilding a feed
  • rebuild with ONLY_EXISTING prints deleted posts
  • added UNSAFE option to rebuild without using a transaction
  • added DRY_RUN option to rebuild a feed in memory without saving
• other Rake tasks:
  • added delete_feed_item task to remove a post from a feed
  • added cleanup_posts task to delete old posts
  • added test_feed task to test loading a feed via HTTP
  • Rake tasks from Rakefile have been split into .rake files in lib/tasks
• firehose.rb and server.rb scripts have been moved to bin/firehose and bin/server
• switched development server from Webrick to Thin
• various fixes and improvements in Rake tasks, deploy script, sample feeds and logging

0.2 (Aug 2023)

• updated skyfall to 0.2.1 - much faster firehose processing with faye-websocket
• updated blue_factory to 0.1.4
• firehose cursor is saved and used on reconnect to replay missed events
• highlighting of matched keywords in print_feed task output
• options to only reprocess existing feed entries or to only append new items in rebuild_feed task
• option to stop updating some published feeds
• added index on time to posts
• added more keywords to Linux feed
• various fixes and improvements in logging, deploy script and rake tasks

0.1 - initial version (Jun 2023)

First published version of the template:

• hosts the XRPC service for a Bluesky feed generator, using the blue_factory gem (0.1.2)
• subscribes to the AtProto firehose to listen for new posts, using the skyfall gem (0.1.2)
• saves posts to an SQLite database
• Linux and Star Wars sample feeds
• rake tasks to print feed contents for debugging and to rebuild feed contents from scratch
• Capistrano config for deploying to a server
• sample configuration for systemd and nginx