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# GNU social - Log of Changes
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## 2.0.0 - THIS. IS. GNU SOCIAL!!! [WIP]
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Release name chosen after 300 by Frank Miller where the main protagonist Leonidas, King of Sparta, declines peace with the
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Persians, after being disrespected, by shouting at the Persian Messenger "This is Sparta!" and kicking him into a large well
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proceeded by the killing of the other Persian messengers.
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### Major changes from previous release:
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Load and Storage:
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- New media handling system
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- GS is now structurely divided in includes and public
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- OEmbed upgraded to Embed plugin (Now we provide Open Graph information too)
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General:
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- Composer was integrated
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Modules:
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- Restored built-in plugins
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- New modules system: core plugins and plugins physically separated
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- Refactor of Plugin API to better illustrate the idea of modules
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- Bug fixes of core modules logic
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#### TODO before alpha:
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Load and Storage:
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- Upgrade STOMP queue
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- Add Redis based caching and queues
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- Review memcached based cache
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- Port PEAR DB to PDO_DataObject
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- Support PostgreSQL
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Network:
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- Port PEAR HTTP to Guzzle
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- Port PEAR Mail to PHPSendMail
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- Add OAuth2 support (deprecate OAuth1)
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- Add shinny new Plugins management interface for sysadmins together with a new doc for devs
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Federation:
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- Add ActivityPub support
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- Fix audience targeting
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- Add Group Actor Type
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- OstatusSub: Remote follow OS and AP profiles via OStatusSub
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- ActorLists: Allow to create collections of Actors and to interact with them - supports both OS and AP
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- The Free Network: Automagically migrate internal remote profiles between Free Network protocols (check Nodeinfo)
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- Enable the search box to import remote notices and profiles
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General:
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- Fix failling unit tests
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- Improve Cronish
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- Run session garbage collection
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- Cleanup Email Registration
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- Refactoring of confirmation codes
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- Refactoring of Exceptions
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Modules:
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- Document conversion of older plugins to the new GS 2
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- Create installer for v2 plugins
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- Introduce new metadata for plugins (category and thumb)
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- Improve plugin management tool (add install form and better UI that makes use of new metadata)
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- Add plugin management tool as a install step
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- Allow to install remote plugins and suggest popular trusted ones
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## v1.20.9release - The Invicta Crusade
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Release name chosen after Porto city. Porto is one of the oldest cities in Europe and thanks to its fierce resistance
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during two battles and sieges in history, it has earned the epithet of ‘Cidade Invicta’ (Invincible City). The dev team
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behind this release studies in Porto, Portugal.
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Dropped Support for PHP5.6.x. Minimum PHP version now is 7.0.0.
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Major changes from previous release:
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- Various patches on PEAR related components
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- Various database related improvements
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- Improved XMPP support
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- Added Nodeinfo support
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- Various i18n and l10n bug fixes
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- Improvements on Internal Session Handler
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- Improvements on OpenID support
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- Improved Media handling and safer upload
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- Redirect to previous page after login
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- Initial work on full conversion to PHP7
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- Initial work on a better documentation
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- Allow login with email
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- Various bug fixes
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## v1.2.0beta4 - The good reign of PHP5
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Dropped support for PHP5.4.
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New this version
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This is the development branch for the 1.2.x version of GNU social. All daring 1.1.x admins should upgrade to this version.
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So far it includes the following changes:
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- Backing up a user's account is more and more complete.
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- Emojis 😸 (utf8mb4 support)
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The last release, 1.1.3, gave us these improvements:
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- XSS security fix (thanks Simon Waters, https://www.surevine.com/)
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- Many improvements to ease adoption of the Qvitter front-end https://github.com/hannesmannerheim/qvitter
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- Protocol adaptions for improved performance and stability
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Upgrades from StatusNet 1.1.1 will also experience these improvements:
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- Fixes for SQL injection errors in profile lists.
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- Improved ActivityStreams JSON representation of activities and objects.
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- Upgrade to the Twitter 1.1 API.
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- More robust handling of errors in distribution.
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- Fix error in OStatus subscription for remote groups.
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- Fix error in XMPP distribution.
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- Tracking of conversation URI metadata (more coherent convos)
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## v1.1.3release - The Spanish Invasion
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New this version
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This is a security fix and bug fix release since 1.1.3-beta2. All 1.1.x sites should upgrade to this version.
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So far it includes the following changes:
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- XSS security fix (thanks Simon Waters, https://www.surevine.com/)
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- Many improvements to ease adoption of the Qvitter front-end https://github.com/hannesmannerheim/qvitter
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- Protocol adaptions for improved performance and stability
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- Backing up a user's account now appears to work as it should
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Upgrades from StatusNet 1.1.1 will also experience these improvements:
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- Fixes for SQL injection errors in profile lists.
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- Improved ActivityStreams JSON representation of activities and objects.
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- Upgrade to the Twitter 1.1 API.
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- More robust handling of errors in distribution.
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- Fix error in OStatus subscription for remote groups.
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- Fix error in XMPP distribution.
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- Tracking of conversation URI metadata (more coherent convos)
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