README
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-StatusNet 0.8.1 ("Second Guessing")
-26 Aug 2009
+StatusNet 0.8.2 ("Life and How to Live It")
+1 Nov 2009
This is the README file for StatusNet (formerly Laconica), the Open
Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions,
http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd
+StatusNet, Inc. <http://status.net/> also offers this software as a
+Web service, requiring no installation on your part. The software run
+on status.net is identical to the software available for download, so
+you can move back and forth between a hosted version or a version
+installed on your own servers.
+
License
=======
New this version
================
-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.
+- a script to register a new user.
+- a script to make a user admin of a group.
Prerequisites
=============
- GD. For scaling down avatar images.
- mbstring. For handling Unicode (UTF-8) encoded strings.
- gettext. For multiple languages. Default on many PHP installs.
+- tidy. Used to clean up HTML/URLs for the URL shortener to consume.
For some functionality, you will also need the following extensions:
1. Unpack the tarball you downloaded on your Web server. Usually a
command like this will work:
- tar zxf statusnet-0.8.0.tar.gz
+ tar zxf statusnet-0.8.2.tar.gz
- ...which will make a statusnet-0.8.0 subdirectory in your current
+ ...which will make a statusnet-0.8.2 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 statusnet-0.8.0 /var/www/mublog
+ mv statusnet-0.8.2 /var/www/mublog
This will make your StatusNet instance available in the mublog path of
your server, like "http://example.net/mublog". "microblog" or
default. This can be useful for starting, stopping, and monitoring the
daemons.
-With version 0.8.0, it's now possible to use a STOMP server instead of
+Since version 0.8.0, it's now possible to use a STOMP server instead of
our kind of hacky home-grown DB-based queue solution. See the "queues"
config section below for how to configure to use STOMP. As of this
writing, the software has been tested with ActiveMQ (
In Facebook's application editor, specify the following URLs for your app:
-- Callback URL: http://example.net/mublog/facebook/
-- Post-Remove URL: http://example.net/mublog/facebook/remove
+- Canvas Callback URL: http://example.net/mublog/facebook/
+- Post-Remove Callback URL: http://example.net/mublog/facebook/remove
- Post-Add Redirect URL: http://apps.facebook.com/yourapp/
-- Canvas URL: http://apps.facebook.com/yourapp/
+- Canvas Page URL: http://apps.facebook.com/yourapp/
(Replace 'example.net' with your host's URL, 'mublog' with the path
to your StatusNet installation, and 'yourapp' with the name of the
If you've been using StatusNet 0.7, 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 StatusNet 0.8.0. Try these step-by-step
+upgrade procedure in StatusNet 0.8.2. Try these step-by-step
instructions; read to the end first before trying them.
0. Download StatusNet and set up all the prerequisites as if you were
5. Once all writing processes to your site are turned off, make a
final backup of the Web directory and database.
6. Move your StatusNet directory to a backup spot, like "mublog.bak".
-7. Unpack your StatusNet 0.8.0 tarball and move it to "mublog" or
+7. Unpack your StatusNet 0.8.2 tarball and move it to "mublog" or
wherever your code used to be.
8. Copy the config.php file and avatar directory from your old
directory to your new directory.
9. Copy htaccess.sample to .htaccess in the new directory. Change the
RewriteBase to use the correct path.
-10. Rebuild the database. NOTE: this step is destructive and cannot be
+10. Rebuild the database. (You can safely skip this step and go to #12
+ if you're upgrading from another 0.8.x version).
+
+ NOTE: this step is destructive and cannot be
reversed. YOU CAN EASILY DESTROY YOUR SITE WITH THIS STEP. Don't
do it without a known-good backup!
precooked data in the DB. All upgraders should check out the inboxes
options below.
-NOTE: the database definition file, stoica.ini, has been renamed to
+NOTE: the database definition file, laconica.ini, has been renamed to
statusnet.ini (since this is the recommended database name). If you
have a line in your config.php pointing to the old name, you'll need
to update it.
3. When fixup_inboxes is finished, you can set the enabled flag to
'true'.
+NOTE: As of version 0.8.1 notice inboxes are automatically trimmed back
+ to ~1000 notices every once in a while.
+
NOTE: we will drop support for non-inboxed sites in the 0.9.x version
of StatusNet. It's time to switch now!
T_STRING") in the browser, check to see that you don't have any
conflicts in your code.
-If you upgraded to StatusNet 0.7.4 without reading the "Notice inboxes"
-section above, and all your users' 'Personal' tabs are empty, read the
-"Notice inboxes" section above.
+If you upgraded to StatusNet 0.8.2 without reading the "Notice
+inboxes" section above, and all your users' 'Personal' tabs are empty,
+read the "Notice inboxes" section above.
Myths
=====
development version of StatusNet. To get it, use the git version
control tool <http://git-scm.com/> like so:
- git clone http://status.net/software/statusnet.git
+ git clone git@gitorious.org:statusnet/mainline.git
+
+This is the version of the software that runs on Identi.ca and the
+status.net hosted service. Using it is a mixed bag. On the positive
+side, it usually includes the latest security and bug fix patches. On
+the downside, it may also include changes that require admin
+intervention (like running a script or even raw SQL!) that may not be
+documented yet. It may be a good idea to test this version before
+installing it on your production machines.
To keep it up-to-date, use 'git pull'. Watch for conflicts!
* There is a mailing list for StatusNet developers and admins at
http://mail.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev
* The #statusnet IRC channel on freenode.net <http://www.freenode.net/>.
-* The StatusNet wiki, http://status.net/trac/
+* The StatusNet wiki, http://status.net/wiki/
+* The StatusNet blog, http://status.net/blog/
+* The StatusNet status update, <http://status.status.net/status> (!)
Feedback
========
* Microblogging messages to http://identi.ca/evan are very welcome.
* StatusNet's Trac server has a bug tracker for any defects you may find,
or ideas for making things better. http://status.net/trac/
-* e-mail to evan@identi.ca will usually be read and responded to very
+* e-mail to evan@status.net will usually be read and responded to very
quickly, unless the question is really hard.
Credits
* Jeffery To
* Federico Marani
* Craig Andrews
+* mEDI
Thanks also to the developers of our upstream library code and to the
thousands of people who have tried out Identi.ca, installed StatusNet,
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