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@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ README ------ -StatusNet 0.9.0 ("Stand") Beta 5 -1 Feb 2010 +StatusNet 0.9.0 ("Stand") +4 Mar 2010 This is the README file for StatusNet (formerly Laconica), the Open Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions, @@ -14,21 +14,21 @@ for administrators. Information on using StatusNet can be found in the 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 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. +StatusNet is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps +people in a community, company or group to exchange 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, +Google Buzz, or Yammer. With a little work, status messages can be sent to mobile phones, instant messenger programs (GTalk/Jabber), and specially-designed desktop clients that support the Twitter API. -StatusNet supports an open standard called OpenMicroBlogging -<http://openmicroblogging.org/> that lets users on different Web sites -or in different companies subscribe to each others' notices. It -enables a distributed social network spread all across the Web. +StatusNet supports an open standard called OStatus +<http://ostatus.org/> that lets users in different networks follow +each other. It enables a distributed social network spread all across +the Web. StatusNet was originally developed for the Open Software Service, Identi.ca <http://identi.ca/>. It is shared with you in hope that you @@ -77,203 +77,51 @@ for additional terms. 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 +This is a major feature release since version 0.8.3, released Feb 1 +2010. It is the final release version of 0.9.0. 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. -- New plugin to add "powered by StatusNet" to logo. -- Returnto works for private sites. -- Localisation updates, including new Persian translation. -- CAS authentication plugin -- Get rid of DB_DataObject native cache (big memory leaker) -- setconfig.php script to set configuration variables -- Blacklist plugin, to blacklist URLs and nicknames -- Users can set flag whether they want to share location - both in notice form (for one notice) and profile settings - (any notice) -- notice inboxes moved from normalized notice_inbox table to - denormalized inbox table -- Automatic compression of Memcache -- Memory caching pluginized -- Memcache, XCache, APC and Diskcache plugins -- A script to update user locations -- cache empty query results -- A sample plugin to show best plugin practices -- CacheLog plugin to debug cache accesses -- Require users to login to view attachments on private sites -- Plugin to use Mollom spam detection service -- Plugin for RSSCloud -- Add an array of default plugins -- A version action to give credit to contributors and plugin - developers -- Daemon to read IMAP mailbox instead of using a mailbox script -- Pass session information between SSL and non-SSL server - when SSL set to 'sometimes' -- 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. +- Support for the new distributed status update standard OStatus + <http://ostatus.org>, based on PubSubHubbub, Salmon, Webfinger, + and Activity Streams. +- Support for location. Notices are (optionally) marked with lat-long + information, and can be shown on a map. +- No fixed content size. Notice size is configurable, from 1 to + unlimited number of characters. Default is still 140! +- An authorization framework, allowing different levels of users. +- A Web-based administration panel. +- A moderation system that lets site moderators sandbox, silence, + or delete uncooperative users. +- A flag system that lets users flag profiles for moderator review. +- Support for OAuth <http://oauth.net> authentication in the Twitter + API. +- A pluggable authentication system. +- An authentication plugin for LDAP servers. +- Many features that were core in 0.8.x are now plugins, such + as OpenID, Twitter integration, Facebook integration +- A much-improved offline processing system +- In-browser "realtime" updates using a number of realtime + servers (Meteor, Orbited, Cometd) +- A plugin to provide an interface optimized for mobile browsers +- Support for Facebook Connect +- Support for logging in with a Twitter account +- Vastly improved translation with additional languages and + translation in plugins +- Support for all-SSL instances +- Core support for "repeats" (like Twitter's "retweets") +- Pluggable caching system, with plugins for Memcached, + APC, XCache, and a disk-based cache +- Plugin to support RSSCloud +- A framework for adding advertisements to a public site, + and plugins for Google AdSense and OpenX server + +There are also literally thousands of bugs fixed and minor features +added. A full changelog is available at http://status.net/wiki/StatusNet_0.9.0. + +Under the covers, the software has a vastly improved plugin and +extension mechanism that makes writing powerful and flexible additions +to the core functionality much easier. Prerequisites ============= @@ -806,7 +654,7 @@ management, but host it on a public server. Note that this is an experimental feature; total privacy is not guaranteed or ensured. Also, privacy is all-or-nothing for a site; you can't have some accounts or notices private, and others public. -Finally, the interaction of private sites with OpenMicroBlogging is +Finally, the interaction of private sites with OStatus is undefined. Remote users won't be able to subscribe to users on a private site, but users of the private site may be able to subscribe to users on a remote site. (Or not... it's not well tested.) The |