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@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ README ------ -StatusNet 0.9.0 ("Stand") Beta 4 -27 Jan 2010 +StatusNet 0.9.0 ("Stand") Beta 5 +1 Feb 2010 This is the README file for StatusNet (formerly Laconica), the Open Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions, @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ New this version ================ This is a major feature release since version 0.8.2, released Nov 1 2009. +It is also a security release since 0.9.0beta4 January 27 2010. Beta +users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to deal with a security alert. + +http://status.net/wiki/Security_alert_0000002 + Notable changes this version: - Records of deleted notices are stored without the notice content. @@ -198,6 +203,77 @@ Notable changes this version: - Major refactoring of queue handlers to manage very large hosting site (like status.net) - SubscriptionThrottle plugin to prevent subscription spamming +- Don't enqueue into plugin or SMS queues when disabled (breaks unqueuehandler if SMS queue isn't attached) +- Improve name validation checks on local File references +- fix local file include vulnerability in doc.php +- Reusing fixed selector name for 'processing' in util.js +- Removed hAtom pattern from registration page. +- restructuring of User::registerNew() lost password munging +- Add a script to clear the cache for a given key +- buggy fetch for site owner +- Added missing concat of </li> in Realtime response +- Updated XHR binded events to work better in jQuery 1.4.1. Using .live() for event delegation instead of jQuery.data() and checking to see if an element was previously binded. +- Updated jQuery Form Plugin from v2.17 to v2.36 +- Updated jQuery JavaScript Library from v1.3.2 to v1.4.1 +- move schema.type.php to typeschema.php like other files +- Add Really Simple Discovery (RSD) support +- Add a robots.txt URL to the site root +- error clearing tags for profiles from memcached +- on exceptions, stomp logs the error and reenqueues +- add lat, lon, location and remove closing tag from geocode.php +- Use passed-in lat long in geocode.php +- better handling of null responses from geonames.org +- Globalized form notice data geo values +- Using jQuery chaining in FormNoticeXHR +- Using form object instead of form_id and find(). Slightly faster and easier to read. +- removed describeTable from base class, and fixed it up in pgsql +- getTableDef() mostly working in postgres +- move the schema DDL sql off into seperate files for each db we support +- plugin to limit number of registered users +- add hooks for user registration +- live fast, die young in bash scripts +- for single-user mode, retrieve either site owner or defined nickname +- method to get the site owner +- define a constant for the 'owner' role of a site +- add simple cache getter/setter static functions to Memcached_DataObject +- Adds notice author's name to @title in Realtime response +- Hides .author from XHR response in showstream +- Hides .author from XHR response in showstream +- Fix more fatal errors in queue edge cases +- Don't attempt to resend XMPP messages that can't be broadcast due to the profile being deleted. +- Wrap each bit of distrib queue handler's saving operation in a try/catch; log exceptions but let everything else continue. +- Log exceptions from queuedaemon.php if they're not already caught +- Move sessions settings to its own panel +- Fixes for status_network db object .ini and tag setter script +- Add a script to set tags for sites +- Adjust API authentication to also check for OAuth protocol params in the HTTP Authorization header, as defined in OAuth HTTP Authorization Scheme. +- Last-chance distribution if enqueueing fails +- Manual failover for stomp queues. +- lost config in index.php made all traffic go to master +- "Revert "move RW setup above user get in index.php so remember_me works"" +- Revert "move RW setup above user get in index.php so remember_me works" +- move RW setup above user get in index.php so remember_me works +- hide most DB_DataObject errors +- always set up database_rw, regardless, so cached sessions work +- update mysqltimestamps on insert and update +- additional debugging data for Sessions +- 'Sign in with Twitter' button img +- Update to biz theme +- Remove redundant session token field from form (was already being added by base class). +- 'Sign in with Twitter' button img +- Can now set $config['queue']['stomp_persistent'] = false; to explicitly disable persistence when we queue items +- Showing processing indicator for form_repeat on submit instead of form +- Removed avatar from repeat of username (matches noticelist) +- Removed unused variable assignment for avatar URL and added missing fn +- Don't preemptively close existing DB connections for web views (needed to keep # of conns from going insane on multi-site queue daemons, so just doing for CLI) May, or may not, help with mystery session problems +- dropping the setcookie() call from common_ensure_session() since we're pretty sure it's unnecessary +- append '/' on cookie path for now (may still need some refactoring) +- set session cookie correctly +- Fix for Mapstraction plugin's zoomed map links +- debug log line for control channel sub +- Move faceboookapp.js to the Facebook plugin +- fix for fix for bad realtime JS load +- default 24-hour expiry on Memcached objects where not specified. 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