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README
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-Laconica 0.6.4 ("Catapult")
-11 December 2008
+Laconica 0.7.1 ("West of the Fields")
+6 February 2009
This is the README file for Laconica, the Open Source microblogging
platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
@@ -19,23 +19,23 @@ microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or
group to exchange short (140 character) 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, Pownce and Plurk.
+like Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk.
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.
Laconica supports an open standard called OpenMicroBlogging
-(http://openmicroblogging.org/) that lets users on different Web sites
+ 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.
Laconica was originally developed for the Open Software Service,
-Identi.ca (http://identi.ca/). It is shared with you in hope that you
+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 1.0:
+more, please see the Open Software Service Definition 1.1:
- http://www.openknowledge.org/ossd
+ http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd
License
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@@ -71,56 +71,54 @@ for additional terms.
New this version
================
-This is a minor feature and security improvement version from version
-0.6.3 (release 24 Nov 2008). Notable features of version 0.6.4 include:
-
-- "private" installs won't show any data to the outside world; redirect
- non-logged-in users to login. (See "Private" below)
-- Ability to "block" a subscriber, which forces them to unsubscribe,
- doesn't allow them to subscribe again, and doesn't allow them to send
- @-replies
-- Fine-grained control of subscriptions; users can choose not to receive
- notices from other users over SMS, or IM, or both
-- support for Mozilla microsummaries
- (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries)
-- more efficient support for blacklisting users from the public page
-- instructions on the public page for people who aren't logged in
-- better registration instructions
-- a check for license compatibility in receiving OMB notices
-- HTML output in RSS 1.0, 2.0, and Atom feeds
-- tuned and more reliable 'rememberme' cookies for username/password
- and OpenID logins
-- a utility for setting user passwords
-- a "ban" configuration variable to ban certain users from posting
- notices
-- an configurable posting throttle to keep any one user from flooding
- the site with messages.
-- fine-tuned url-shortening: only shorten if it's needed, only expand
- certain URLs, and handle failure of URL-shortening services reliably
-- disable Ajax input for notices, subscribe, nudge, while the
- request is processing
-- early implementation of support for Last-Modified and ETag-based
- caching
-- initial microformats support
-- redirect on bad nicknames in URLs
-- correctly send emails in recipient's, not sender's, language
-- correct email content type
-- Change "Most Favorited" page to "Popular"
-- properly support the "since" parameter in API calls
-- Fix for changes in validate_credentials API call for the Twitter
- bridge
-- Fix for fatal error when sending email confirmation on registration
-- Better replies for commands sent through the Ajax channel
-- Add a User-Agent string for OMB requests
-- Upgrade upstream library XMPPHP
-- Upgrade upstream library JQuery Forms
-- Code cleanup: checkboxes have proper