-- Support for a hosted service (status network). Multiple sites can
- share the same codebase but use different databases.
-- OEmbed. Links to pages that support OEmbed (http://www.oembed.com/)
- become popup links, and the media are shown in a special lightbox.
-- File attachments. Users can attach files of the size and type approved
- by an administrator, and a shortened link will be included in the
- notice.
-- Related notices are organized into conversations, with each reply a
- branch in a tree. Conversations have pages and are linked to from each
- notice in the conversation.
-- User designs. Users can specify colours and backgrounds
- for their profile pages and other "personal" pages.
-- Group designs. Group administrators can specify similar designs for
- group profiles and related pages.
-- Site designs. Site authors can specify a design (background and
- colors) for the site.
-- New themes. Five new themes are added to the base release; these show
- off the flexibility of StatusNet's theming system.
-- Statistics. Public sites will periodically send usage statistics,
- configuration options, and dependency information to StatusNet dev site.
- This will help us understand how the software is used and plan future
- versions of the software.
-- Additional hooks. The hooks and plugins system introduced in 0.7.x was
- expanded with additional points of access.
-- Facebook Connect. A new plugin allows logging in with Facebook Connect
- (http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php).
-- A session handler. A new optional session handler class to manage PHP
- sessions reliably and quickly for large sites.
-- STOMP queuing. Queue management for offline daemons has been
- abstracted with three concrete instances. A new interface that should
- work with STOMP servers like ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ is available, which
- should make things scale better.
-- Group block. Group admins can block users from joining or posting to
- a group.
-- Group aliases. Groups can be referred to with aliases, additional
- names. For example, "!yul" and "!montreal" can be the same group.
-- Bidirectional Twitter bridge. Users can read the tweets their Twitter
- friends post on Twitter.
-- Adaptation of WordPress.com Terms of Service (http://en.wordpress.com/tos/)
- as default TOS for StatusNet sites.
-- Better command-line handling for scripts, including standard options
- and ability to set hostname and path from the command line.
-- An experimental plugin to use Meteor (http://www.meteorserver.org/)
- for "real-time" updates.
-- A new framework for "real-time" updates, making it easier to develop
- plugins for different browser-based update modes.
-- RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds for groups.
-- RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds for tags.
-- Attachments can be sent by email.
-- Attachments are encoded as enclosures in RSS 2.0 and Atom.
-- Notices with attachments display in Facebook as media inline.
-
-- Many, many bug fixes.
+- Laconica has been renamed StatusNet. With a few minor compatibility
+ exceptions, all references to "Laconica" in code, documentation
+ and comments were changed to "StatusNet".
+- A new plugin to support "infinite scroll".
+- A new plugin to support reCaptcha <http://recaptcha.net>.
+- Better logging of server errors.
+- Add an Openid-only mode for authentication.
+- 'lite' parameter for some Twitter API methods.
+- A new plugin to auto-complete nicknames for @-replies.
+- Configuration options to disable OpenID, SMS, Twitter, post-by-email, and IM.
+- Support for lighttpd <http://lighttpd.org/> using 404-based
+ rewrites.
+- Support for using Twitter's OAuth authentication as a client.
+- First version of the groups API.
+- Can configure a site-wide design, including background image and
+ colors.
+- Improved algorithm for replies and conversations, making
+ conversation trees more accurate and useful.
+- Add a script to create a simulation database for testing/debugging.
+- Sanitize HTML for OEmbed.
+- Improved queue management for DB-based queuing.
+- More complete URL detection.
+- Hashtags now support full Unicode character set.
+- Notice inboxes are now garbage-collected on a regular basis
+ at notice-write time.
+- PiwikAnalyticsPlugin updated for latest Piwik interface.
+- Attachment and notice pages can be embedded with OEmbed
+ <http://www.oembed.com>.
+- Failed authentication is logged.
+- PostgreSQL schema and support brought up-to-date with 0.8.x features.
+- The installer works with PostgreSQL as well as MySQL.
+- RSS 1.0 feeds use HTTP Basic authentication in private mode.
+- Many, many bug fixes, particularly with performance.
+- Better (=working) garbage collection for old sessions.
+- Better (=working) search queries.
+- Some cleanup of HTML output.
+- Better error handling when updating Facebook.
+- Considerably better performance when using replication for API
+ calls.
+- Initial unit tests.