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@@ -5,21 +5,21 @@ README StatusNet 0.8.1 ("Second Guessing") 26 Aug 2009 -This is the README file for StatusNet, the Open Source microblogging -platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of -options you can set, warnings, tips, and general info for -administrators. Information on using StatusNet can be found in the +This is the README file for StatusNet (formerly Laconica), the Open +Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions, +descriptions of options you can set, warnings, tips, and general info +for administrators. Information on using StatusNet can be found in the "doc" subdirectory or in the "help" section on-line. About ===== -StatusNet (pronounced "luh-KAWN-ih-kuh") is a Free and Open Source -microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or -group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users -can choose which people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or -colleagues' status messages. It provides a similar service to sites -like Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk. +StatusNet (formerly Laconica) is a Free and Open Source microblogging +platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange +short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which +people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues' +status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, +Jaiku, Yammer, and Plurk. With a little work, status messages can be sent to mobile phones, instant messenger programs (GTalk/Jabber), and specially-designed @@ -71,62 +71,49 @@ for additional terms. New this version ================ -This is a major feature release since version 0.7.4, released May 31 +This is a minor feature and bugfix release since version 0.8.0, released Jul 15 2009. Notable changes this version: -- Support for a hosted service (status network). Multiple sites can - share the same codebase but use different databases. -- OEmbed. Links to pages that support OEmbed (http://www.oembed.com/) - become popup links, and the media are shown in a special lightbox. -- File attachments. Users can attach files of the size and type approved - by an administrator, and a shortened link will be included in the - notice. -- Related notices are organized into conversations, with each reply a - branch in a tree. Conversations have pages and are linked to from each - notice in the conversation. -- User designs. Users can specify colours and backgrounds - for their profile pages and other "personal" pages. -- Group designs. Group administrators can specify similar designs for - group profiles and related pages. -- Site designs. Site authors can specify a design (background and - colors) for the site. -- New themes. Five new themes are added to the base release; these show - off the flexibility of StatusNet's theming system. -- Statistics. Public sites will periodically send usage statistics, - configuration options, and dependency information to StatusNet dev site. - This will help us understand how the software is used and plan future - versions of the software. -- Additional hooks. The hooks and plugins system introduced in 0.7.x was - expanded with additional points of access. -- Facebook Connect. A new plugin allows logging in with Facebook Connect - (http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php). -- A session handler. A new optional session handler class to manage PHP - sessions reliably and quickly for large sites. -- STOMP queuing. Queue management for offline daemons has been - abstracted with three concrete instances. A new interface that should - work with STOMP servers like ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ is available, which - should make things scale better. -- Group block. Group admins can block users from joining or posting to - a group. -- Group aliases. Groups can be referred to with aliases, additional - names. For example, "!yul" and "!montreal" can be the same group. -- Bidirectional Twitter bridge. Users can read the tweets their Twitter - friends post on Twitter. -- Adaptation of WordPress.com Terms of Service (http://en.wordpress.com/tos/) - as default TOS for StatusNet sites. -- Better command-line handling for scripts, including standard options - and ability to set hostname and path from the command line. -- An experimental plugin to use Meteor (http://www.meteorserver.org/) - for "real-time" updates. -- A new framework for "real-time" updates, making it easier to develop - plugins for different browser-based update modes. -- RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds for groups. -- RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds for tags. -- Attachments can be sent by email. -- Attachments are encoded as enclosures in RSS 2.0 and Atom. -- Notices with attachments display in Facebook as media inline. - -- Many, many bug fixes. +- Laconica has been renamed StatusNet. With a few minor compatibility + exceptions, all references to "Laconica" in code, documentation + and comments were changed to "StatusNet". +- A new plugin to support "infinite scroll". +- A new plugin to support reCaptcha <http://recaptcha.net>. +- Better logging of server errors. +- Add an Openid-only mode for authentication. +- 'lite' parameter for some Twitter API methods. +- A new plugin to auto-complete nicknames for @-replies. +- Configuration options to disable OpenID, SMS, Twitter, post-by-email, and IM. +- Support for lighttpd <http://lighttpd.org/> using 404-based + rewrites. +- Support for using Twitter's OAuth authentication as a client. +- First version of the groups API. +- Can configure a site-wide design, including background image and + colors. +- Improved algorithm for replies and conversations, making + conversation trees more accurate and useful. +- Add a script to create a simulation database for testing/debugging. +- Sanitize HTML for OEmbed. +- Improved queue management for DB-based queuing. +- More complete URL detection. +- Hashtags now support full Unicode character set. +- Notice inboxes are now garbage-collected on a regular basis + at notice-write time. +- PiwikAnalyticsPlugin updated for latest Piwik interface. +- Attachment and notice pages can be embedded with OEmbed + <http://www.oembed.com>. +- Failed authentication is logged. +- PostgreSQL schema and support brought up-to-date with 0.8.x features. +- The installer works with PostgreSQL as well as MySQL. +- RSS 1.0 feeds use HTTP Basic authentication in private mode. +- Many, many bug fixes, particularly with performance. +- Better (=working) garbage collection for old sessions. +- Better (=working) search queries. +- Some cleanup of HTML output. +- Better error handling when updating Facebook. +- Considerably better performance when using replication for API + calls. +- Initial unit tests. 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