README
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-Laconica 0.7.3 ("You Are The Everything")
-7 April 2009
+Laconica 0.7.4 ("Can't Get There From Here")
+29 May 2009
This is the README file for Laconica, the Open Source microblogging
platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
New this version
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-This is a minor bug-fix and feature release since version 0.7.2.1,
-released Mar 11 2009. Notable changes this version:
-
-- A plugin to allow a templating language for customization
-- A plugin for Piwik Analytics engine
-- A bookmarklet for posting a notice about a Web page you're reading
-- A welcome notice ('welcomebot') and default subscription for new users
-- Support for SSL for some or all pages on the site
-- Better handling of empty notice lists on many pages
-- Major improvements to the Twitter friend-sync offline processing
-- subscribers, subscriptions, groups are listed on the Personal page.
-- "Invite" link restored to main menu
-- Better memory handling in FOAF output
-- Fix for SUP support (FriendFeed)
-- Correct and intelligent redirect HTTP status codes
-- Fix DB collations for search and sort
-- Better H1s and Titles using user full names
-- Fixes to make the linkback plugin operational
-- Better indication that a notice is being published by Ajax (spinner)
-- Better and unified Atom output
-- Hiding "register" and "join now" messages when site is closed
-- ping, twitter and facebook queuehandlers working better
-- Updated RPM spec
+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.
Prerequisites
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1. Unpack the tarball you downloaded on your Web server. Usually a
command like this will work:
- tar zxf laconica-0.7.3.tar.gz
+ tar zxf laconica-0.7.4.tar.gz
- ...which will make a laconica-0.7.3 subdirectory in your current
+ ...which will make a laconica-0.7.4 subdirectory in your current
directory. (If you don't have shell access on your Web server, you
may have to unpack the tarball on your local computer and FTP the
files to the server.)
2. Move the tarball to a directory of your choosing in your Web root
directory. Usually something like this will work:
- mv laconica-0.7.3 /var/www/mublog
+ mv laconica-0.7.4 /var/www/mublog
This will make your Laconica instance available in the mublog path of
your server, like "http://example.net/mublog". "microblog" or
If you've been using Laconica 0.6, 0.5 or lower, or if you've been
tracking the "git" version of the software, you will probably want
to upgrade and keep your existing data. There is no automated upgrade
-procedure in Laconica 0.7.3. Try these step-by-step instructions; read
+procedure in Laconica 0.7.4. Try these step-by-step instructions; read
to the end first before trying them.
0. Download Laconica and set up all the prerequisites as if you were
For configuring avatar access.
+dir: Directory to look for avatar files and to put them into.
+ Defaults to avatar subdirectory of install directory; if
+ you change it, make sure to change path, too.
+path: Path to avatars. Defaults to path for avatar subdirectory,
+ but you can change it if you wish. Note that this will
+ be included with the avatar server, too.
server: If set, defines another server where avatars are stored in the
root directory. Note that the 'avatar' subdir still has to be
writeable. You'd typically use this to split HTTP requests on
set 'run' to 'never' than to set this value to something
nonsensical.
-
attachments
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monthly_quota: total size permitted in the current month. This is the total
size in bytes that a user can upload each month.
+group
+-----
+
+Options for group functionality.
+
+maxaliases: maximum number of aliases a group can have. Default 3. Set
+ to 0 or less to prevent aliases in a group.
Troubleshooting
===============
T_STRING") in the browser, check to see that you don't have any
conflicts in your code.
-If you upgraded to Laconica 0.7.3 without reading the "Notice inboxes"
+If you upgraded to Laconica 0.7.4 without reading the "Notice inboxes"
section above, and all your users' 'Personal' tabs are empty, read the
"Notice inboxes" section above.
* Ken Sedgwick
* Brian Hendrickson
* Tobias Diekershoff
+* Dan Moore
+* Fil
Thanks also to the developers of our upstream library code and to the
thousands of people who have tried out Identi.ca, installed Laconi.ca,
projects / quix0rs-gnu-social.git / blobdiff