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README
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-StatusNet 0.9.0 ("Stand") Beta 5
-1 Feb 2010
+StatusNet 0.9.1 ("Everybody Hurts")
+28 Mar 2010
-This is the README file for StatusNet (formerly Laconica), the Open
-Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions,
-descriptions of options you can set, warnings, tips, and general info
-for administrators. Information on using StatusNet can be found in the
+This is the README file for StatusNet, the Open Source microblogging
+platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
+options you can set, warnings, tips, and general info for
+administrators. Information on using StatusNet can be found in the
"doc" subdirectory or in the "help" section on-line.
About
=====
-StatusNet (formerly Laconica) is a Free and Open Source microblogging
-platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange
-short (140 characters, by default) messages over the Web. 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, Jaiku, Yammer, and Plurk.
+StatusNet is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps
+people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140
+characters, by default) messages over the Web. 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 Buzz, or Yammer.
With a little work, status messages can be sent to mobile phones,
instant messenger programs (GTalk/Jabber), and specially-designed
desktop clients that support the Twitter API.
-StatusNet supports an open standard called OpenMicroBlogging
- that lets users on different Web sites
-or in different companies subscribe to each others' notices. It
-enables a distributed social network spread all across the Web.
+StatusNet supports an open standard called OStatus
+ that lets users in different networks follow
+each other. It enables a distributed social network spread all across
+the Web.
StatusNet was originally developed for the Open Software Service,
Identi.ca . It is shared with you in hope that you
too make an Open Software Service available to your users. To learn
more, please see the Open Software Service Definition 1.1:
- http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd
+ http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd
StatusNet, Inc. also offers this software as a
Web service, requiring no installation on your part. The software run
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New this version
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-This is a major feature release since version 0.8.2, released Nov 1 2009.
-It is also a security release since 0.9.0beta4 January 27 2010. Beta
-users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to deal with a security alert.
+This is a minor bug and feature release since version 0.9.0 released 4
+March 2010.
-http://status.net/wiki/Security_alert_0000002
+Because of fixes to OStatus bugs, it is highly recommended that all
+public sites upgrade to the new version immediately.
Notable changes this version:
-- Records of deleted notices are stored without the notice content.
-- Much of the optional core featureset has been moved to plugins.
-- OpenID support moved from core to a plugin. Helps test the strength of
- our plugin architecture and makes it easy to disable this
- functionality for e.g. intranet sites.
-- Many additional hook events (see EVENTS.txt for details).
-- OMB 0.1 support re-implemented using libomb.
-- Re-structure database so notices, messages, bios and group
- descriptions can be over 140 characters. Limit defined by
- site administrator as configuration option; can be unlimited.
-- Configuration data now optionally stored in the database, which
- overrides any settings in config files.
-- Twitter integration re-implemented as a plugin.
-- Facebook integration re-implemented as a plugin.
-- Role-based authorization framework. Users can have named roles, and
- roles can have rights (e.g., to delete notices, change configuration
- data, or ban uncooperative users). Default roles 'admin' (for
- configuration) and 'moderator' (for community management) added.
-- Plugin for PubSubHubBub (PuSH) support.
-- Considerable code style cleanup to meet PEAR code standards.
-- Made a common library for HTTP-client access which uses available
- HTTP libraries where possible.
-- Added statuses/home_timeline method to API.
-- Hooks for plugins to handle notices offline, either by defining
- their own queue handler scripts or to use a default plugin queue
- handler script.
-- Plugins can now modify the database schema, adding their own tables
- or modifying existing ones.
-- Groups API.
-- Twitter API supports Web caching for some methods.
-- Twitter API refactored into one-action-per-method.
-- Realtime plugin supports a tear-off window.
-- FOAF for groups.
-- Moved all JavaScript tags to just before