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StatusNet 0.9.7 "World Leader Pretend" StatusNet 0.9.8 "Letter Never Sent"
17 March 2011 1 August 2011
This is the README file for StatusNet, the Open Source microblogging This is the README file for StatusNet, the Open Source microblogging
platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
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New this version New this version
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This is a security, bug and feature release since version 0.9.6 released on This is a security release since version 0.9.7 released on 11 March
23 October 2010. 2011. It fixes security bug #3260. All sites running version 0.9.7 or
below are recommended to upgrade to 0.9.8 immediately.
For best compatibility with client software and site federation, and a
lot of bug fixes, it is highly recommended that all public sites
upgrade to the new version. Upgrades require new database indexes for
best performance; see Upgrade below.
Notable changes this version: Notable changes this version:
- GroupPrivateMessage plugin lets users send private messages - Fix bug #3260, a cross-site scripting (XSS) bug that allows an
to a group. (Similar to "private groups" on Yammer.) attacker to inject JavaScript into a page with a carefully structured URL.
- Support for Twitter streaming API in Twitter bridge plugin - Updated code for Google Analytics to reflect new API.
- Support for a new Activity Streams-based API using AtomPub, allowing - Various fixes for Bookmark plugin.
richer API data. See http://status.net/wiki/AtomPub for details. - Updates to reCAPTCHA plugin based on changes to API.
- Unified Facebook plugin, replacing previous Facebook application - New plugin to move the site notice to the sidebar.
and Facebook Connect plugin. - Add rss.me to notice source list.
- A plugin to send out a daily summary email to network users. - Updates to data backup/restore.
- In-line thumbnails of some attachments (video, images) and oEmbed objects. - Correct use of "likes" in Facebook plugin.
- Local copies of remote profiles to let moderators manage OStatus users. - Ignore failures in Twitter plugin.
- Upgrade upstream JS, minify everything.
- Allow pushing plugin JS, CSS, and static files to a CDN.
- Configurable nickname rules.
- Better support for bit.ly URL shortener.
- InProcessCache plugin for additional caching on top of memcached.
- Support for Activity Streams JSON feeds on many streams.
- User-initiated backup and restore of account data in Activity Streams
format.
- Bookmark plugin for making del.icio.us-like social bookmarking sites,
including del.icio.us backup file import. Supports OStatus.
- SQLProfile plugin to tune SQL queries.
- Better sorting on timelines to support restored or imported data.
- Hundreds of translations from http://translatewiki.net/
- Hundreds of performance tunings, bug fixes, and UI improvements.
- Remove deprecated data from Activity Streams Atom output, to the
extent possible.
- NewMenu plugin for new layout of menu items.
- Experimental support for moving an account from one server to
another, using new AtomPub API.
A full changelog is available at http://status.net/wiki/StatusNet_0.9.7. A full changelog is available at http://status.net/wiki/StatusNet_0.9.8.
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