-This is a minor feature and bugfix release since version 0.8.0,
-released Jul 15 2009. Notable changes this version:
-
-- Laconica has been renamed StatusNet. With a few minor compatibility
- exceptions, all references to "Laconica" in code, documentation
- and comments were changed to "StatusNet".
-- A new plugin to support "infinite scroll".
-- A new plugin to support reCaptcha <http://recaptcha.net>.
-- Better logging of server errors.
-- Add an Openid-only mode for authentication.
-- 'lite' parameter for some Twitter API methods.
-- A new plugin to auto-complete nicknames for @-replies.
-- Configuration options to disable OpenID, SMS, Twitter, post-by-email, and IM.
-- Support for lighttpd <http://lighttpd.org/> using 404-based
- rewrites.
-- Support for using Twitter's OAuth authentication as a client.
-- First version of the groups API.
-- Can configure a site-wide design, including background image and
- colors.
-- Improved algorithm for replies and conversations, making
- conversation trees more accurate and useful.
-- Add a script to create a simulation database for testing/debugging.
-- Sanitize HTML for OEmbed.
-- Improved queue management for DB-based queuing.
-- More complete URL detection.
-- Hashtags now support full Unicode character set.
-- Notice inboxes are now garbage-collected on a regular basis
- at notice-write time.
-- PiwikAnalyticsPlugin updated for latest Piwik interface.
-- Attachment and notice pages can be embedded with OEmbed
- <http://www.oembed.com>.
-- Failed authentication is logged.
-- PostgreSQL schema and support brought up-to-date with 0.8.x features.
-- The installer works with PostgreSQL as well as MySQL.
-- RSS 1.0 feeds use HTTP Basic authentication in private mode.
-- Many, many bug fixes, particularly with performance.
-- Better (=working) garbage collection for old sessions.
-- Better (=working) search queries.
-- Some cleanup of HTML output.
-- Better error handling when updating Facebook.
-- Considerably better performance when using replication for API
- calls.
-- Initial unit tests.
+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.