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@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ README ------ -StatusNet 0.8.2 ("Life and How to Live It") -1 Nov 2009 +StatusNet 0.9.0 ("Stand") Release Candidate 2 +22 Dec 2009 This is the README file for StatusNet (formerly Laconica), the Open Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions, @@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ About 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. +short (140 characters, by default) 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 @@ -77,81 +77,96 @@ for additional terms. New this version ================ -This is a minor feature and bugfix release since version 0.8.1, -released Aug 26 2009. Notable changes this version: - -- New script for deleting user accounts. Not particularly safe or - community-friendly. Better for deleting abusive accounts than for - users who are 'retiring'. -- Improved detection of URLs in notices, specifically for punctuation - chars like ~, :, $, _, -, +, !, @, and %. -- Removed some extra <dl> semantic HTML code. -- Correct error in status-network database ini file (having multiple - statusnet sites with a single codebase) -- Fixed error output for Twitter posting failures. -- Fixed bug in Twitter queue handler that requeued inapplicable - notices ad infinitum. -- Improve FOAF output for remote users. -- new commands to join and leave groups. -- Fixed bug in which you cannot turn off importing friends timelines - flag. -- Better error handling in Twitter posting. -- Show oEmbed data for XHTML files as well as plain HTML. -- Updated bug database link in README. -- add support for HTTP Basic Auth in PHP CGI or FastCGI (e.g. GoDaddy). -- autofocus input to selected entry elements depending on page. -- updated layout for filter-by-tag form. -- better layout for inbox and outbox pages. -- fix highlighting search terms in attributes of notice list elements. -- Correctly handle errors in linkback plugin. -- Updated biz theme. -- Updated cloudy theme. -- Don't match '::' as an IPv6 address. -- Use the same decision logic for deciding whether to mark an - attachment as an enclosure in RSS or as a paperclip item in Web - output. -- Fixed a bug in the Piwik plugin that hard-coded the site ID. -- Add a param, inreplyto, to notice/new to allow an explicit response - to another notice. -- Show username in subject of emails. -- Check if avatar exists before trying to delete it. -- Correctly add omb_version to response for request token in OMB. -- Add a few more SMS carriers. -- Add a few more notice sources. -- Vary: header. -- Improvements to the AutoCompletePlugin. -- Check for 'dl' before using it. -- Make it impossible to delete self-subscriptions via the API. -- Fix pagination of tagged user pages. -- Make PiwikAnalyticsPlugin work with addPlugin(). -- Removed trailing single space in user nicknames in notice lists. -- Show context link if a notice starts a conversation. -- blacklist all files and directories in install dir. -- handle GoDaddy-style PATH_INFO, including script name. -- add home_timeline synonym for friends_timeline. -- Add a popup window for the realtime plugin. -- Add some more streams for the realtime plugin. -- Fix a bug that overwrote group creation timestamp on every edit. -- Moved HTTP error code strings to a class variable. -- The Twitter API now returns server errors in the correct format. -- Reset the doctype for HTML output. -- Fixed a number of notices. -- Don't show search suggestions for private sites. -- Some corrections to FBConnect nav overrides. -- Slightly less database-intensive session management. -- Updated name of software in installer script. -- Include long-form attachment URLs if url-shortener is disabled. -- Include updated localisations for Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, - Norwegian, and Chinese. -- Include upstream fixes to gettext.php. -- Correct for regression in Facebook API for updates. -- Ignore "Sent from my iPhone" (and similar) in mail updates. -- Use the NICKNAME_FMT constant for detecting nicknames. -- Check for site servername config'd. -- Compatibility fix for empty status updates with Twitter API. -- Option to show files privately (EXPERIMENTAL! Use with caution.) -- a script to register a new user. -- a script to make a user admin of a group. +This is a major feature release since version 0.8.2, released Nov 1 2009. +Notable changes this version: + +- Records of deleted notices are stored without the notice content. +- Much of the optional core featureset has been moved to plugins. +- OpenID support moved from core to a plugin. Helps test the strength of + our plugin architecture and makes it easy to disable this + functionality for e.g. intranet sites. +- Many additional hook events (see EVENTS.txt for details). +- OMB 0.1 support re-implemented using libomb. +- Re-structure database so notices, messages, bios and group + descriptions can be over 140 characters. Limit defined by + site administrator as configuration option; can be unlimited. +- Configuration data now optionally stored in the database, which + overrides any settings in config files. +- Twitter integration re-implemented as a plugin. +- Facebook integration re-implemented as a plugin. +- Role-based authorization framework. Users can have named roles, and + roles can have rights (e.g., to delete notices, change configuration + data, or ban uncooperative users). Default roles 'admin' (for + configuration) and 'moderator' (for community management) added. +- Plugin for PubSubHubBub (PuSH) support. +- Considerable code style cleanup to meet PEAR code standards. +- Made a common library for HTTP-client access which uses available + HTTP libraries where possible. +- Added statuses/home_timeline method to API. +- Hooks for plugins to handle notices offline, either by defining + their own queue handler scripts or to use a default plugin queue + handler script. +- Plugins can now modify the database schema, adding their own tables + or modifying existing ones. +- Groups API. +- Twitter API supports Web caching for some methods. +- Twitter API refactored into one-action-per-method. +- Realtime plugin supports a tear-off window. +- FOAF for groups. +- Moved all JavaScript tags to just before </body> by default, + significantly speeding up apparent page load time. +- Added a Realtime plugin for Orbited server. +- Added a mobile plugin to give a more mobile-phone-friendly layout + when a mobile browser is detected. +- Use CSS sprites for most common icons. +- Fixes for images and buttons on Web output. +- New plugin requires that users validate their email before posting. +- New plugin UserFlag lets users flag other profiles for review. +- Considerably better i18n support. Use TranslateWiki to update + translations. +- Notices and profiles now store location information. +- New plugin, Geonames, for turning location names and lat/long pairs + into structured IDs and vice versa. Architecture reusable for other + systems. +- Better check of license compatibility between site licenses. +- Some improvements in XMPP output. +- Media upload in the API. +- Replies appear in the user's inbox. +- Improved the UI on the bookmarklet. +- StatusNet identities can be used as OpenID identities. +- Script to register a user. +- Script to make someone a group admin. +- Script to make someone a site admin or moderator. +- 'login' command. +- Pluggable authentication. +- LDAP authentication plugin. +- Script for console interaction with the site (!). +- Users don't see group posts from people they've blocked. +- Admin panel interface for changing site configuration. +- Users can be sandboxed (limited contributions) or silenced + (no contributions) by moderators. +- Many changes to make language usage more consistent. +- Sphinx search moved to a plugin. +- GeoURL plugin. +- Profile and group lists support hAtom. +- Massive refactoring of util.js. +- Mapstraction plugin to show maps on inbox and profile pages. +- Play/pause buttons for realtime notices. +- Support for geo microformat. +- Partial support for feed subscriptions, RSSCloud, PubSubHubBub. +- Support for geolocation in browser (Chrome, Firefox). +- Quit trying to negotiate HTML format. Always use text/html. + We lose, and so do Web standards. Boo. +- Better logging of request info. +- Better output for errors in Web interface. +- No longer store .mo files; these need to be generated. +- Minify plugin. +- Events to allow pluginizing logger. +- New framework for plugin localization. +- Gravatar plugin. +- Add support for "repeats" (similar to Twitter's "retweets"). +- Support for repeats in Twitter API. +- Better notification of direct messages. Prerequisites ============= @@ -358,7 +373,7 @@ It's possible to configure the software so it looks like this instead: These "fancy URLs" are more readable and memorable for users. To use fancy URLs, you must either have Apache 2.x with .htaccess enabled and -mod_redirect enabled, -OR- know how to configure "url redirection" in +mod_rewrite enabled, -OR- know how to configure "url redirection" in your server. 1. Copy the htaccess.sample file to .htaccess in your StatusNet @@ -384,6 +399,18 @@ like: If you changed your HTTP server configuration, you may need to restart the server first. +If it doesn't work, double-check that AllowOverride for the StatusNet +directory is 'All' in your Apache configuration file. This is usually +/etc/httpd.conf, /etc/apache/httpd.conf, or (on Debian and Ubuntu) +/etc/apache2/sites-available/default. See the Apache documentation for +.htaccess files for more details: + + http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html + +Also, check that mod_rewrite is installed and enabled: + + http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html + Sphinx ------ @@ -1407,6 +1434,21 @@ contentlimit: max length of the plain-text content of a message. Default is null, meaning to use the site-wide text limit. 0 means no limit. +logincommand +------------ + +Configuration options for the login command. + +disabled: whether to enable this command. If enabled, users who send + the text 'login' to the site through any channel will + receive a link to login to the site automatically in return. + Possibly useful for users who primarily use an XMPP or SMS + interface and can't be bothered to remember their site + password. Note that the security implications of this are + pretty serious and have not been thoroughly tested. You + should enable it only after you've convinced yourself that + it is safe. Default is 'false'. + Plugins ======= @@ -1573,6 +1615,7 @@ if anyone's been overlooked in error. * Federico Marani * Craig Andrews * mEDI +* Brett Taylor Thanks also to the developers of our upstream library code and to the thousands of people who have tried out Identi.ca, installed StatusNet, |