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README
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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,
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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.
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- 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 $config['queue']['stomp_persistent'] = false; to explicitly disable persistence when we queue items
- Showing processing indicator for form_repeat on submit instead of form
- Removed avatar from repeat of username (matches noticelist)
- Removed unused variable assignment for avatar URL and added missing fn
- Don't preemptively close existing DB connections for web views (needed to keep # of conns from going insane on multi-site queue daemons, so just doing for CLI) May, or may not, help with mystery session problems
- dropping the setcookie() call from common_ensure_session() since we're pretty sure it's unnecessary
- append '/' on cookie path for now (may still need some refactoring)
- set session cookie correctly
- Fix for Mapstraction plugin's zoomed map links
- debug log line for control channel sub
- Move faceboookapp.js to the Facebook plugin
- fix for fix for bad realtime JS load
- default 24-hour expiry on Memcached objects where not specified.
Prerequisites
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//exit with 200 response, if this is checking fancy from the installer
if (isset($_REQUEST['p']) && $_REQUEST['p'] == 'check-fancy') { exit; }
define('STATUSNET_VERSION', '0.9.0beta4');
define('STATUSNET_VERSION', '0.9.0beta5');
define('LACONICA_VERSION', STATUSNET_VERSION); // compatibility
define('STATUSNET_CODENAME', 'Stand');