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StatusNet 0.9.6 "Man on the Moon"
-19 October 2010
+29 October 2010
This is the README file for StatusNet, the Open Source microblogging
platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
- New experimental plugins: AnonFavorites, SlicedFavorites, GroupFavorited,
ForceGroup, ShareNotice
- OAuth upgraded to 1.0a
-- Localization updates now include plugins, thanks to TranslateWiki.net!
+- Localization updates now include plugins, thanks to translatewiki.net!
- SSL link generation should be more consistent; alternate SSL URLs can be
set in the admin UI for more parts of the system.
- Experimental backupuser.php, restoreuser.php command-line scripts to
- Header metadata on notice pages to aid in manual reposting on Facebook
- Lots of little fixes...
+Changes from 0.9.6 release candidate 1:
+- fix for broken group pages when logged out
+- fix for stuck ping queue entries when bad profile
+- fix for bogus single-user nickname config entry error
+- i18n updates
+- nofollow updates
+- SSL-only mode secure cookie fix
+- experimental ApiLogger plugin for usage data gathering
+- experimental follow-everyone plugin
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A full changelog is available at http://status.net/wiki/StatusNet_0.9.6.
Prerequisites
version may render your StatusNet site unable to send or receive XMPP
messages.
- Facebook library. Used for the Facebook application.
-- PEAR Services_oEmbed. Used for some multimedia integration.
-- PEAR HTTP_Request is an oEmbed dependency.
-- PEAR Validate is an oEmbed dependency.
-- PEAR Net_URL2 is an oEmbed dependency.
+- PEAR Validate is used for URL and email validation.
- Console_GetOpt for parsing command-line options.
- libomb. a library for implementing OpenMicroBlogging 0.1, the
predecessor to OStatus.
- HTTP_Request2, a library for making HTTP requests.
+- PEAR Net_URL2 is an HTTP_Request2 dependency.
A design goal of StatusNet is that the basic Web functionality should
work on even the most restrictive commercial hosting services.
compile the ".po" files into ".mo" files, however.
Contributions of translation information to StatusNet are very easy:
-you can use the Web interface at TranslateWiki.net to add one
+you can use the Web interface at translatewiki.net to add one
or a few or lots of new translations -- or even new languages. You can
also download more up-to-date .po files there, if you so desire.
interface. It also makes the user's profile the root URL.
enabled: Whether to run in "single user mode". Default false.
-nickname: nickname of the single user.
+nickname: nickname of the single user. If no nickname is specified,
+ the site owner account will be used (if present).
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* mEDI
* Brett Taylor
* Brigitte Schuster
-* Siebrand Mazeland and the amazing volunteer translators at TranslateWiki.net
+* Siebrand Mazeland and the amazing volunteer translators at translatewiki.net
* Brion Vibber, StatusNet, Inc.
* James Walker, StatusNet, Inc.
* Samantha Doherty, designer, StatusNet, Inc.