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README
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-StatusNet 0.9.0 ("Stand") Beta 5
-1 Feb 2010
+StatusNet 0.9.6 "Man on the Moon"
+29 October 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
+Web service, requiring no installation on your part. See
+ for details. The software run
on status.net is identical to the software available for download, so
you can move back and forth between a hosted version or a version
installed on your own servers.
+A commercial software subscription is available from StatusNet Inc. It
+includes 24-hour technical support and developer support. More
+information at http://status.net/contact or email sales@status.net.
+
License
=======
@@ -68,6 +73,20 @@ License along with this program, in the file "COPYING". If not, see
of using the software, and if you do not wish to share your
modifications, *YOU MAY NOT INSTALL STATUSNET*.
+Documentation in the /doc-src/ directory is available under the
+Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, with attribution to
+"StatusNet". See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ for details.
+
+CSS and images in the /theme/ directory are available under the
+Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, with attribution to
+"StatusNet". See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ for details.
+
+Our understanding and intention is that if you add your own theme that
+uses only CSS and images, those files are not subject to the copyleft
+requirements of the Affero General Public License 3.0. See
+http://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/ . This is not
+legal advice; consult your lawyer.
+
Additional library software has been made available in the 'extlib'
directory. All of it is Free Software and can be distributed under
liberal terms, but those terms may differ in detail from the AGPL's
@@ -77,203 +96,43 @@ for additional terms.
New this version
================
-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 security, bug and feature release since version 0.9.5 released on
+10 September 2010.
-http://status.net/wiki/Security_alert_0000002
+For best compatibility with client software and site federation, and a lot of
+bug fixes, it is highly recommended that all public sites upgrade to the new
+version.
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