-- Support for the new distributed status update standard OStatus
- <http://ostatus.org>, based on PubSubHubbub, Salmon, Webfinger,
- and Activity Streams.
-- Support for location using the Geolocation API. Notices are (optionally)
- marked with lat-long information with geo microformats, and can be shown
- on a map.
-- No fixed content size. Notice size is configurable, from 1 to
- unlimited number of characters. Default is still 140!
-- An authorization framework, allowing different levels of users.
-- A Web-based administration panel.
-- A moderation system that lets site moderators sandbox, silence,
- or delete uncooperative users.
-- A flag system that lets users flag profiles for moderator review.
-- Support for OAuth <http://oauth.net> authentication in the Twitter
- API.
-- User roles system that lets the owner of the site to assign
- administrator and moderator roles to other users.
-- A pluggable authentication system.
-- An authentication plugin for LDAP servers.
-- Many features that were core in 0.8.x are now plugins, such
- as OpenID, Twitter integration, Facebook integration
-- A much-improved offline processing system
-- In-browser "realtime" updates using a number of realtime
- servers (Meteor, Orbited, Cometd)
-- A plugin to provide an interface optimized for mobile browsers
-- Support for Facebook Connect
-- Support for logging in with a Twitter account
-- Vastly improved translation with additional languages and
- translation in plugins
-- Support for all-SSL instances
-- Core support for "repeats" (like Twitter's "retweets")
-- Pluggable caching system, with plugins for Memcached,
- APC, XCache, and a disk-based cache
-- Plugin to support RSSCloud
-- A framework for adding advertisements to a public site,
- and plugins for Google AdSense and OpenX server
-- Plugins to throttle excessive subscriptions and registrations.
-- A plugin to blacklist particular URLs or nicknames.
-
-There are also literally thousands of bugs fixed and minor features
-added. A full changelog is available at http://status.net/wiki/StatusNet_0.9.0.
-
-Under the covers, the software has a vastly improved plugin and
-extension mechanism that makes writing powerful and flexible additions
-to the core functionality much easier.
+- Change of license for default themes and documentation from
+ AGPLv3 to CC-By 3.0 Unported.
+- An experimental TinyMCE plugin to do in-browser rich editing of
+ status updates. Does not support StatusNet syntax like @-replies or
+ #hashtags very well.
+- An experimental plugin to add titles to notices.
+- A plugin to support the Echo <http://aboutecho.com/> commenting
+ system.
+- A plugin to support the Disqus <http://disqus.com/> commenting system.
+- Changes to OStatus support to make StatusNet work for the Social Web
+ Acid Test Level 0 <http://federatedsocialweb.net/wiki/SWAT0>.
+- Themes now support a theme.ini file for theme configuration, including
+ defining a "base" theme.
+- Improved two-way Twitter integration, including support for
+ repeats and retweets, replies, and faves going both ways across the
+ bridge, as well as better parsing of Twitter statuses.
+
+A full changelog is available at http://status.net/wiki/StatusNet_0.9.5.