From: Evan Prodromou <git@evanprodromou.name>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:00:26 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: update the README
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update the README
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diff --git a/README b/README
index a0758e5ee0..c307dac32e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 README
 ------
 
-Laconica 0.6.4 ("Catapult")
-11 December 2008
+Laconica 0.7.0 ("Rockville")
+27 January 2009
 
 This is the README file for Laconica, the Open Source microblogging
 platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ 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
@@ -71,56 +71,35 @@ 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 <label> elements
-- Code cleanup: consolidated various notice-listing code in one place
-- Better support for unsubscribing from a remote user
-- Stump of experimental Facebook application (not ready for use! code
-  review only!)
-- Stump of experimental user account deletion (not ready for use! code
-  review only!)
+This is a major feature release, and includes some bug fixes from the
+previous version (0.7.0, released December 14 2008.)
+
+- Support for groups. Users can join groups and send themed notices
+  to those groups. All other members of the group receive the notices.
+- Laconica-specific extensions to the Twitter API.
+- A Facebook application.
+- A massive UI redesign. The HTML generated by Laconica has changed
+  significantly, to make theming easier and to give a more open look
+  by default. Also, sidebar.
+- Massive code hygiene changes to move towards compliance with the PEAR
+  coding standards and to support the new UI redesign.
+- Began the breakup of util.php -- moved about 30% of code to a views
+  hierarchy.
+- UI elements for statistical information (like top posters or most
+  popular groups) added in a sidebar.
+- include Javascript badge by Kent Brewster.
+- Updated online documentation.
+- Cropping of user avatars using Jcrop.
+- fix for Twitter bridge to not send "Expect:" headers.
+- add 'dm' as a synonym for 'd' in commands.
+- Upgrade upstream version of jQuery to 1.3.
+- Upgrade upstream version of PHP-OpenID to 2.1.2.
+- Move OpenMicroBlogging specification to its own repository.
+- Make tag-based RSS streams work.
+- Additional locales: Bulgarian, Catalan, Greek, Hebrew, simplified
+  Chinese, Telugu, Taiwanese Chinese, Vietnamese,
+- PostgreSQL updates.
+- Nasty bug in Twitter bridge that wouldn't verify with Twitter
 
 Prerequisites
 =============
@@ -202,6 +181,7 @@ and the URLs are listed here for your convenience.
   version (patches have been submitted). Upgrading to the upstream
   version may render your Laconica site unable to send or receive XMPP
   messages.
+- Facebook library. Used for the Facebook application.
 
 A design goal of Laconica is that the basic Web functionality should
 work on even the most restrictive commercial hosting services.
@@ -219,9 +199,9 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages.
 1. Unpack the tarball you downloaded on your Web server. Usually a
    command like this will work:
 
-   	   tar zxf laconica-0.6.4.tar.gz
+   	   tar zxf laconica-0.7.0.tar.gz
 
-   ...which will make a laconica-0.6.4 subdirectory in your current
+   ...which will make a laconica-0.7.0 subdirectory in your current
    directory. (If you don't have shell access on your Web server, you
    may have to unpack the tarball on your local computer and FTP the
    files to the server.)
@@ -229,7 +209,7 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages.
 2. Move the tarball to a directory of your choosing in your Web root
    directory. Usually something like this will work:
 
-   	   mv laconica-0.6.4 /var/www/mublog
+   	   mv laconica-0.7.0 /var/www/mublog
 
    This will make your Laconica instance available in the mublog path of
    your server, like "http://example.net/mublog". "microblog" or
@@ -380,7 +360,7 @@ configuration is essentially email configuration.
 Each user sends to a made-up email address, which they keep a secret.
 Incoming email that is "From" the user's SMS email address, and "To"
 the users' secret email address on the site's domain, will be
-converted to a message and stored in the DB.
+converted to a notice and stored in the DB.
 
 For this to work, there *must* be a domain or sub-domain for which all
 (or most) incoming email can pass through the incoming mail filter.
@@ -625,6 +605,10 @@ default-avatar-mini.png: Ditto ditto, but 24x24. For subscriptions
 You may want to start by copying the files from the default theme to
 your own directory.
 
+NOTE: the HTML generated by Laconica changed *radically* between
+version 0.6.x and 0.7.x. Older themes will need signification
+modification to use the new output format.
+
 Translation
 -----------
 
@@ -669,7 +653,7 @@ Upgrading
 If you've been using Laconica 0.6, 0.5 or lower, or if you've been
 tracking the "git" version of the software, you will probably want
 to upgrade and keep your existing data. There is no automated upgrade
-procedure in Laconica 0.6.4. Try these step-by-step instructions; read
+procedure in Laconica 0.7.0. Try these step-by-step instructions; read
 to the end first before trying them.
 
 0. Download Laconica and set up all the prerequisites as if you were
@@ -1077,7 +1061,7 @@ repository (see below), and you get a compilation error ("unexpected
 T_STRING") in the browser, check to see that you don't have any
 conflicts in your code.
 
-If you upgraded to Laconica 0.6.4 without reading the "Notice inboxes"
+If you upgraded to Laconica 0.7.0 without reading the "Notice inboxes"
 section above, and all your users' 'Personal' tabs are empty, read the
 "Notice inboxes" section above.
 
@@ -1156,9 +1140,12 @@ if anyone's been overlooked in error.
 * Erik Stambaugh
 * 'drry'
 * Gina Haeussge
-* Ken Sheppardson (Trac server, man-about-town)
-* Tiago 'gouki' Faria (entrans)
 * Tryggvi Björgvinsson
+* Adrian Lang
+* Ori Avtalion
+* Meitar Moscovitz
+* Ken Sheppardson (Trac server, man-about-town)
+* Tiago 'gouki' Faria (i18n managerx)
 
 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,