README
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-StatusNet 0.9.0 ("Stand") Release Candidate 2
-22 Dec 2009
+StatusNet 0.9.0 ("Stand") Beta 3
+20 Jan 2010
This is the README file for StatusNet (formerly Laconica), the Open
Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions,
- Add support for "repeats" (similar to Twitter's "retweets").
- Support for repeats in Twitter API.
- Better notification of direct messages.
+- New plugin to add "powered by StatusNet" to logo.
+- Returnto works for private sites.
+- Localisation updates, including new Persian translation.
+- CAS authentication plugin
+- Get rid of DB_DataObject native cache (big memory leaker)
+- setconfig.php script to set configuration variables
+- Blacklist plugin, to blacklist URLs and nicknames
+- Users can set flag whether they want to share location
+ both in notice form (for one notice) and profile settings
+ (any notice)
+- notice inboxes moved from normalized notice_inbox table to
+ denormalized inbox table
+- Automatic compression of Memcache
+- Memory caching pluginized
+- Memcache, XCache, APC and Diskcache plugins
+- A script to update user locations
+- cache empty query results
+- A sample plugin to show best plugin practices
+- CacheLog plugin to debug cache accesses
+- Require users to login to view attachments on private sites
+- Plugin to use Mollom spam detection service
+- Plugin for RSSCloud
+- Add an array of default plugins
+- A version action to give credit to contributors and plugin
+ developers
+- Daemon to read IMAP mailbox instead of using a mailbox script
+- Pass session information between SSL and non-SSL server
+ when SSL set to 'sometimes'
+- Major refactoring of queue handlers to manage very
+ large hosting site (like status.net)
+- SubscriptionThrottle plugin to prevent subscription spamming
Prerequisites
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to users on a remote site. (Or not... it's not well tested.) The
"proper behaviour" hasn't been defined here, so handle with care.
-If fancy URLs is enabled, access to file attachments can also be
-restricted to logged-in users only. Uncomment the appropriate rewrite
-rule in .htaccess or your server's httpd.conf. (This most likely will
-not work if you are using a virtual server for attachments, so consider
-the performance/security tradeoff.)
+Access to file attachments can also be restricted to logged-in users only.
+1. Add a directory outside the web root where your file uploads will be
+ stored. Usually a command like this will work:
+
+ mkdir /var/www/mublog-files
+
+2. Make the file uploads directory writeable by the web server. An
+ insecure way to do this is:
+
+ chmod a+x /var/www/mublog-files
+
+3. Tell StatusNet to use this directory for file uploads. Add a line
+ like this to your config.php:
+
+ $config['attachments']['dir'] = '/var/www/mublog-files';
Upgrading
=========
choice for any public site. Note that some other servers will not
accept notices if you apply a stricter license than this.
+type: one of 'cc' (for Creative Commons licenses), 'allrightsreserved'
+ (default copyright), or 'private' (for private and confidential
+ information).
+owner: for 'allrightsreserved' or 'private', an assigned copyright
+ holder (for example, an employer for a private site). If
+ not specified, will be attributed to 'contributors'.
url: URL of the license, used for links.
title: Title for the license, like 'Creative Commons Attribution 3.0'.
image: A button shown on each page for the license.
should enable it only after you've convinced yourself that
it is safe. Default is 'false'.
+singleuser
+----------
+
+If an installation has only one user, this can simplify a lot of the
+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.
+
Plugins
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* Craig Andrews
* mEDI
* Brett Taylor
+* Brigitte Schuster
Thanks also to the developers of our upstream library code and to the
thousands of people who have tried out Identi.ca, installed StatusNet,
projects / quix0rs-gnu-social.git / blobdiff