README
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-Laconica 0.7.1 ("West of the Fields")
-6 February 2009
+Laconica 0.7.2 ("Talk about the Passion")
+11 March 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 release since version 0.7.0, released Jan 29
-2009. Notable changes this version:
+This is a minor bug-fix and feature release since version 0.7.1,
+released Feb 9 2009. Notable changes this version:
+
+- First version of a web-based installer
+- Use Net_URL_Mapper instead of mod_rewrite to map "fancy URLs",
+ for a much simpler installation and use of PATH_INFO on sites
+ that don't have mod_rewrite.
+- A plugin framework for system events, to make it easier to build
+ server-side plugins.
+- A plugin for Google Analytics
+- A plugin to use blogspam.net to check notices for spam
+- A plugin to send linkbacks for notices about blog posts
+- Configurable check for duplicate notices in a specific time
+ period
+- Better Atom feeds
+- First implementation of Twitter Search API
+- Add streamlined mobile device-friendly styles when enabled in config.
+- A queue server for sending notices to Twitter
+- A queue server for sending notices to Facebook
+- A queue server for sending notices to a ping server
+- Fixed a bug in nonces for OAuth in OpenMicroBlogging
+- Fixed bugs in transfer of avatars in OpenMicroBlogging
+- @-links go to permalinks for local users
+- Better handling of DB errors (instead of dreaded DB_DataObject blank
+ screen)
+- Initial version of an RPM spec file
+- More consistent display of notices in notice search
+- A stylesheet for printed output
+- "Social graph" methods for Twitter API
+- Documentation for the JavaScript badge
+- Debugged a ton of problems that happened with E_NOTICE on
+- Better caching in RSS feeds
+- Optionally send email when an @-message is received
+- Automatically add tags for every group message
+- Add framebusting JavaScript to help avoid clickjacking attacks.
+- Optionally ignore some notice sources for public page.
+- Add default SMS carriers and notice sources to distribution file.
+- Change titles to use mixed case instead of all uppercase.
+- Use exceptions for error handling.
+
+Changes in version 0.7.1:
- Vast improvement in auto-linking to URLs.
- Link to group search from user's group page
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. Go to your Laconica directory and run the
- rebuilddb.sh script like this:
-
- ./scripts/rebuilddb.sh rootuser rootpassword database db/laconica.sql
-
- Here, rootuser and rootpassword are the username and password for a
- user who can drop and create databases as well as tables; typically
- that's _not_ the user Laconica runs as.
-11. Use mysql client to log into your database and make sure that the
- notice, user, profile, subscription etc. tables are non-empty.
+10. Rebuild the database. For MySQL, go to your Laconica directory and
+ run the rebuilddb.sh script like this:
+
+ ./scripts/rebuilddb.sh rootuser rootpassword database db/laconica.sql
+
+ Here, rootuser and rootpassword are the username and password for a
+ user who can drop and create databases as well as tables; typically
+ that's _not_ the user Laconica runs as.
+ For PostgreSQL databases there is an equivalent, rebuilddb_psql.sh,
+ which operates slightly differently. Read the documentation in that
+ script before running it.
+11. Use mysql or psql client to log into your database and make sure that
+ the notice, user, profile, subscription etc. tables are non-empty.
12. Turn back on the Web server, and check that things still work.
13. Turn back on XMPP bots and email maildaemon. Note that the XMPP
bots have changed since version 0.5; see above for details.
to put introductory information about your service, or info about
upgrades and outages, or other community info. Any HTML will
be escaped.
+dupelimit: Time in which it's not OK for the same person to post the
+ same notice; default = 60 seconds.
+logo: URL of an image file to use as the logo for the site. Overrides
+ the logo in the theme, if any.
db
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* Ken Sheppardson (Trac server, man-about-town)
* Tiago 'gouki' Faria (i18n managerx)
* Sean Murphy
+* Leslie Michael Orchard
+* Eric Helgeson
+* Ken Sedgwick
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