-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.
+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.