README
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-Laconica 0.6.3
-23 November 2008
+Laconica 0.6.3 ("Gardening at Night")
+24 November 2008
This is the README file for Laconica, the Open Source microblogging
platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
- Use cached favorites info to avoid excess DB hits for faves.
- Optionally use Sphinx Search for notice search.
- Optionally use Sphinx Search for people search.
-
-Because of the CSRF fixes in particular, this upgrade is recommended
-for all Laconica sites.
+- FOAF URL link on profile page.
+- HTML correction for repeated @id attributes in favorites forms.
Prerequisites
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- MySQL. For accessing the database.
- GD. For scaling down avatar images.
- mbstring. For handling Unicode (UTF-8) encoded strings.
+- gettext. For multiple languages. Default on many PHP installs.
For some functionality, you will also need the following extensions: