From 203bc458420502289e2142a5649124a8b397d7e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evan Prodromou Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:32:01 -0500 Subject: documentation and version number darcs-hash:20081212043201-84dde-1bf07467f85f743fb5cb4ec92e5b8934bfb49578.gz --- README | 132 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- lib/common.php | 5 ++- 2 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index f40e2e2bd..6c73a327a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ README ------ -Laconica 0.6.3 ("Gardening at Night") -24 November 2008 +Laconica 0.6.4 ("Catapult") +11 December 2008 This is the README file for Laconica, the Open Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of @@ -72,35 +72,51 @@ New this version ================ This is a minor feature and security improvement version from version -0.6.2 (release 13 Nov 2008). Notable features of version 0.6.3 include: - -- 'nudge' functionality to tell a user that they're missed. -- Links to related RSS/Atom feeds on all pages. -- Favor/disfavor icons changed to images. -- Better checks to prevent remote subscribing to a local user, causing - "ghost profiles" (dupes in people search or subscriptions lists). -- Twitter friend sync. Users who set up their Twitter accounts will - be automatically connected to other local users who have Twitter - accounts and who they're subscribed to on Twitter. -- List view of subscriptions/subscribers. -- Subscribe/unsubscribe button on subscriptions/subscribers list. -- Optionally hide certain users from the public stream. -- Give public area a few more tabs. -- Add Featured users tab to public area. -- Add Most favorited notices tab to public area. -- Users can give themselves tags. -- Users can tag their subscribers or subscriptions. -- Users can send @-replies to tagged subsets of their contact list - using @#tag. -- Subscribe/unsubscribe with Ajax form. -- Post notice with Ajax form. -- Script to optionally add notice inboxes for only some users. -- Incremental caching of notice streams using memcached. -- Use cached favorites info to avoid excess DB hits for faves. -- Optionally use Sphinx Search for notice search. -- Optionally use Sphinx Search for people search. -- FOAF URL link on profile page. -- HTML correction for repeated @id attributes in favorites forms. +0.6.3 (release 24 Nov 2008). Notable features of version 0.6.4 include: + +- "private" installs won't show any data to the outside world; redirect + non-logged-in users to login. (See "Private" below) +- Ability to "block" a subscriber, which forces them to unsubscribe, + doesn't allow them to subscribe again, and doesn't allow them to send + @-replies +- Fine-grained control of subscriptions; users can choose not to receive + notices from other users over SMS, or IM, or both +- support for Mozilla microsummaries + (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries) +- more efficient support for blacklisting users from the public page +- instructions on the public page for people who aren't logged in +- better registration instructions +- a check for license compatibility in receiving OMB notices +- HTML output in RSS 1.0, 2.0, and Atom feeds +- tuned and more reliable 'rememberme' cookies for username/password + and OpenID logins +- a utility for setting user passwords +- a "ban" configuration variable to ban certain users from posting + notices +- an configurable posting throttle to keep any one user from flooding + the site with messages. +- fine-tuned url-shortening: only shorten if it's needed, only expand + certain URLs, and handle failure of URL-shortening services reliably +- disable Ajax input for notices, subscribe, nudge, while the + request is processing +- early implementation of support for Last-Modified and ETag-based + caching +- initial microformats support +- redirect on bad nicknames in URLs +- correctly send emails in recipient's, not sender's, language +- correct email content type +- Change "Most Favorited" page to "Popular" +- properly support the "since" parameter in API calls +- Fix for changes in validate_credentials API call for the Twitter + bridge +- Fix for fatal error when sending email confirmation on registration +- Better replies for commands sent through the Ajax channel +- Add a User-Agent string for OMB requests +- Upgrade upstream library XMPPHP +- Upgrade upstream library JQuery Forms +- Code cleanup: checkboxes have proper