-# GNU social 1.1.3
-February 2015-02-27
+# GNU social 1.2.x
+2015
(c) Free Software Foundation, Inc
(c) StatusNet, Inc
(and you can add more!). Users can choose which
people to "follow" and receive only their friends'
or colleagues' status messages. It provides a
-similar service to sites like Twitter, Google+ or
-Facebook, but is much more awesome.
+similar service to proprietary social network sites,
+but is much more awesome.
With a little work, status messages can be sent to
mobile phones, instant messenger programs (using
## New this version
-This is a security fix and bug fix release since 1.1.3-beta2.
-All 1.1.x sites should upgrade to this version.
+This is the development branch for the 1.2.x version of GNU social.
+All daring 1.1.x admins should upgrade to this version.
So far it includes the following changes:
+- Backing up a user's account is more and more complete.
+- Emojis 😸 (utf8mb4 support)
+
+The last release, 1.1.3, gave us these improvements:
+
- XSS security fix (thanks Simon Waters, <https://www.surevine.com/>)
- Many improvements to ease adoption of the Qvitter front-end <https://github.com/hannesmannerheim/qvitter>
- Protocol adaptions for improved performance and stability
-- Backing up a user's account now appears to work as it should
Upgrades from _StatusNet_ 1.1.1 will also experience these improvements:
To get it, use the git version control tool
<http://git-scm.com/> like so:
- git clone git@gitorious.org:social/mainline.git
+ git clone git@git.gnu.io:gnu/gnu-social.git
In the current phase of development it is probably
recommended to use git as a means to stay up to date
with the source code. You can choose between these
branches:
-- 1.1.x "stable", few updates, well tested code
+- 1.2.x "stable", few updates, well tested code
- master "testing", more updates, usually working well
- nightly "unstable", most updates, not always working
* Following us on GNU social -- <https://quitter.se/gnusocial>
* GNU social has a bug tracker for any defects you may find, or ideas for
- making things better. <https://bugz.foocorp.net/>
-* Patches are welcome, preferrably to our repository on Gitorious. <https://gitorious.org/social/mainline>
+ making things better. <https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues/>
+* Patches are welcome, preferrably to our repository on git.gnu.io. <https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social>
Credits
=======
### License help from
* Bradley M. Kuhn
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