-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 minor feature and bugfix release since version 0.8.1,
+released Aug 26 2009. Notable changes this version:
+
+- New script for deleting user accounts. Not particularly safe or
+ community-friendly. Better for deleting abusive accounts than for
+ users who are 'retiring'.
+- Improved detection of URLs in notices, specifically for punctuation
+ chars like ~, :, $, _, -, +, !, @, and %.
+- Removed some extra <dl> semantic HTML code.
+- Correct error in status-network database ini file (having multiple
+ statusnet sites with a single codebase)
+- Fixed error output for Twitter posting failures.
+- Fixed bug in Twitter queue handler that requeued inapplicable
+ notices ad infinitum.
+- Improve FOAF output for remote users.
+- new commands to join and leave groups.
+- Fixed bug in which you cannot turn off importing friends timelines
+ flag.
+- Better error handling in Twitter posting.
+- Show oEmbed data for XHTML files as well as plain HTML.
+- Updated bug database link in README.
+- require HTML tidy extension.
+- add support for HTTP Basic Auth in PHP CGI or FastCGI (e.g. GoDaddy).
+- autofocus input to selected entry elements depending on page.
+- updated layout for filter-by-tag form.
+- better layout for inbox and outbox pages.
+- fix highlighting search terms in attributes of notice list elements.
+- Correctly handle errors in linkback plugin.
+- Updated biz theme.
+- Updated cloudy theme.
+- Don't match '::' as an IPv6 address.
+- Use the same decision logic for deciding whether to mark an
+ attachment as an enclosure in RSS or as a paperclip item in Web
+ output.
+- Fixed a bug in the Piwik plugin that hard-coded the site ID.
+- Add a param, inreplyto, to notice/new to allow an explicit response
+ to another notice.
+- Show username in subject of emails.
+- Check if avatar exists before trying to delete it.
+- Correctly add omb_version to response for request token in OMB.
+- Add a few more SMS carriers.
+- Add a few more notice sources.
+- Vary: header.
+- Improvements to the AutoCompletePlugin.
+- Check for 'dl' before using it.
+- Make it impossible to delete self-subscriptions via the API.
+- Fix pagination of tagged user pages.
+- Make PiwikAnalyticsPlugin work with addPlugin().
+- Removed trailing single space in user nicknames in notice lists.
+- Show context link if a notice starts a conversation.
+- blacklist all files and directories in install dir.
+- handle GoDaddy-style PATH_INFO, including script name.
+- add home_timeline synonym for friends_timeline.
+- Add a popup window for the realtime plugin.
+- Add some more streams for the realtime plugin.
+- Fix a bug that overwrote group creation timestamp on every edit.
+- Moved HTTP error code strings to a class variable.
+- The Twitter API now returns server errors in the correct format.
+- Reset the doctype for HTML output.
+- Fixed a number of notices.
+- Don't show search suggestions for private sites.
+- Some corrections to FBConnect nav overrides.
+- Slightly less database-intensive session management.
+- Updated name of software in installer script.
+- Include long-form attachment URLs if url-shortener is disabled.
+- Include updated localisations for Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic,
+ Norwegian, and Chinese.
+- Include upstream fixes to gettext.php.
+- Correct for regression in Facebook API for updates.
+- Ignore "Sent from my iPhone" (and similar) in mail updates.
+- Use the NICKNAME_FMT constant for detecting nicknames.
+- Check for site servername config'd.
+- Compatibility fix for empty status updates with Twitter API.