-This is a minor bug-fix and feature release since version 0.7.3,
-released Apr 4 2009. Notable changes this version:
-
-- Improved handling of UTF-8 characters. The new code is *not* backwards
- compatible by default; see "Upgrading" below for instructions on
- converting existing databases to the correct character set.
-- Unroll joins for large queries. This greatly enhanced database
- performance -- up to 50x for some queries -- at the expense of making
- an extra DB hit for some queries.
-- Added an optional plugin to use WikiHashtags
- (http://hashtags.wikia.com/) for the sidebar on hashtag pages.
-- Optimized Twitter friend synchronization.
-- Better error handling for Ajax posting of notices, including
- HTTP errors and timeouts.
-- Experimental Comet plugin -- supports the cometd and the Bayeux
- protocol. Using this plugin, you can show "real time" updates on the
- public and tag pages. However, server configuration is complex.
-- If queues are enabled, update inboxes and memcached off-line. Speeds
- up posting considerably.
-- Correctly shorten links posted through XMPP.
-- <link> elements for pagination, supported by some browsers like Opera.
-- Corrected date format in search API.
-- Made the public XRDS file work correctly.
+This is a major feature release since version 0.7.4, released May 31
+2009. Notable changes this version:
+
+- Support for a hosted service (status network). Multiple sites can
+ share the same codebase but use different databases.
+- OEmbed. Links to pages that support OEmbed (http://www.oembed.com/)
+ become popup links, and the media are shown in a special lightbox.
+- File attachments. Users can attach files of the size and type approved
+ by an administrator, and a shortened link will be included in the
+ notice.
+- Related notices are organized into conversations, with each reply a
+ branch in a tree. Conversations have pages and are linked to from each
+ notice in the conversation.
+- User designs. Users can specify colours and backgrounds
+ for their profile pages and other "personal" pages.
+- Group designs. Group administrators can specify similar designs for
+ group profiles and related pages.
+- Site designs. Site authors can specify a design (background and
+ colors) for the site.
+- New themes. Five new themes are added to the base release; these show
+ off the flexibility of Laconica's theming system.
+- Statistics. Public sites will periodically send usage statistics,
+ configuration options, and dependency information to Laconica dev site.
+ This will help us understand how the software is used and plan future
+ versions of the software.
+- Additional hooks. The hooks and plugins system introduced in 0.7.x was
+ expanded with additional points of access.
+- Facebook Connect. A new plugin allows logging in with Facebook Connect
+ (http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php).
+- A session handler. A new optional session handler class to manage PHP
+ sessions reliably and quickly for large sites.
+- STOMP queuing. Queue management for offline daemons has been
+ abstracted with three concrete instances. A new interface that should
+ work with STOMP servers like ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ is available, which
+ should make things scale better.
+- Group block. Group admins can block users from joining or posting to
+ a group.
+- Group aliases. Groups can be referred to with aliases, additional
+ names. For example, "!yul" and "!montreal" can be the same group.
+- Bidirectional Twitter bridge. Users can read the tweets their Twitter
+ friends post on Twitter.
+- Adaptation of WordPress.com Terms of Service (http://en.wordpress.com/tos/)
+ as default TOS for Laconica sites.
+- Better command-line handling for scripts, including standard options
+ and ability to set hostname and path from the command line.
+- An experimental plugin to use Meteor (http://www.meteorserver.org/)
+ for "real-time" updates.
+- A new framework for "real-time" updates, making it easier to develop
+ plugins for different browser-based update modes.
+- RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds for groups.
+- RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds for tags.
+- Attachments can be sent by email.
+- Attachments are encoded as enclosures in RSS 2.0 and Atom.
+- Notices with attachments display in Facebook as media inline.
+
+- Many, many bug fixes.