README
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-Laconica 0.7.1 ("West of the Fields")
-6 February 2009
+Laconica 0.7.2 ("Talk about the Passion")
+11 March 2009
This is the README file for Laconica, the Open Source microblogging
platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
New this version
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-This is a minor bug-fix release since version 0.7.0, released Jan 29
-2009. Notable changes this version:
+This is a minor bug-fix and feature release since version 0.7.1,
+released Feb 9 2009. Notable changes this version:
+
+- First version of a web-based installer
+- Use Net_URL_Mapper instead of mod_rewrite to map "fancy URLs",
+ for a much simpler installation and use of PATH_INFO on sites
+ that don't have mod_rewrite.
+- A plugin framework for system events, to make it easier to build
+ server-side plugins.
+- A plugin for Google Analytics
+- A plugin to use blogspam.net to check notices for spam
+- A plugin to send linkbacks for notices about blog posts
+- Configurable check for duplicate notices in a specific time
+ period
+- Better Atom feeds
+- First implementation of Twitter Search API
+- Add streamlined mobile device-friendly styles when enabled in config.
+- A queue server for sending notices to Twitter
+- A queue server for sending notices to Facebook
+- A queue server for sending notices to a ping server
+- Fixed a bug in nonces for OAuth in OpenMicroBlogging
+- Fixed bugs in transfer of avatars in OpenMicroBlogging
+- @-links go to permalinks for local users
+- Better handling of DB errors (instead of dreaded DB_DataObject blank
+ screen)
+- Initial version of an RPM spec file
+- More consistent display of notices in notice search
+- A stylesheet for printed output
+- "Social graph" methods for Twitter API
+- Documentation for the JavaScript badge
+- Debugged a ton of problems that happened with E_NOTICE on
+- Better caching in RSS feeds
+- Optionally send email when an @-message is received
+- Automatically add tags for every group message
+- Add framebusting JavaScript to help avoid clickjacking attacks.
+- Optionally ignore some notice sources for public page.
+- Add default SMS carriers and notice sources to distribution file.
+- Change titles to use mixed case instead of all uppercase.
+- Use exceptions for error handling.
+
+Changes in version 0.7.1:
- Vast improvement in auto-linking to URLs.
- Link to group search from user's group page
* Ken Sheppardson (Trac server, man-about-town)
* Tiago 'gouki' Faria (i18n managerx)
* Sean Murphy
+* Leslie Michael Orchard
+* Eric Helgeson
+* Ken Sedgwick
Thanks also to the developers of our upstream library code and to the
thousands of people who have tried out Identi.ca, installed Laconi.ca,