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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
- 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
+
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.
biolimit: max character length of bio; 0 means no limit; null means to use
the site text limit default.
+backup: whether users can backup their own profiles. Defaults to true.
+restore: whether users can restore their profiles from backup files. Defaults
+ to true.
+delete: whether users can delete their own accounts. Defaults to true.
+move: whether users can move their accounts to another server. Defaults
+ to true.
newuser
-------
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).
robotstxt
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nofollowed on profile, notice, and favorites page. Default is
'sometimes'.
+router
+------
+
+We use a router class for mapping URLs to code. This section controls
+how that router works.
+
+cache: whether to cache the router in memcache (or another caching
+ mechanism). Defaults to true, but may be set to false for
+ developers (who might be actively adding pages, so won't want the
+ router cached) or others who see strange behavior. You're unlikely
+ to need this unless you're a developer.
+
+http
+----
+
+Settings for the HTTP client.
+
+ssl_cafile: location of the CA file for SSL. If not set, won't verify
+ SSL peers. Default unset.
+curl: Use cURL <http://curl.haxx.se/> for doing HTTP calls. You must
+ have the PHP curl extension installed for this to work.
+proxy_host: Host to use for proxying HTTP requests. If unset, doesn't
+ do any HTTP proxy stuff. Default unset.
+proxy_port: Port to use to connect to HTTP proxy host. Default null.
+proxy_user: Username to use for authenticating to the HTTP proxy. Default null.
+proxy_password: Password to use for authenticating to the HTTP proxy. Default null.
+proxy_auth_scheme: Scheme to use for authenticating to the HTTP proxy. Default null.
+
+plugins
+-------
+
+default: associative array mapping plugin name to array of arguments. To disable
+ a default plugin, unset its value in this array.
+locale_path: path for finding plugin locale files. In the plugin's directory
+ by default.
+server: Server to find static files for a plugin when the page is plain old HTTP.
+ Defaults to site/server (same as pages). Use this to move plugin CSS and
+ JS files to a CDN.
+sslserver: Server to find static files for a plugin when the page is HTTPS. Defaults
+ to site/server (same as pages). Use this to move plugin CSS and JS files
+ to a CDN.
+path: Path to the plugin files. defaults to site/path + '/plugins/'. Expects that
+ each plugin will have a subdirectory at plugins/NameOfPlugin. Change this
+ if you're using a CDN.
+
Plugins
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