StatusNet 0.9.5 released

A new release of our software, StatusNet 0.9.5, was made available today. It is a bugfix and minor feature release, and administrators should be able to upgrade in-place without serious disruption of their sites. (However, check the README for the latest update documentation.)

Along with the usual bug fixes and UI tweaks, important changes in this release include:

• A change of license for default themes and documentation from AGPLv3 to CC-By 3.0 Unported, which we think is better for images, style information, and documentation.
• An experimental TinyMCE plugin to do in-browser rich editing of status updates. Does not support StatusNet syntax like @-replies or #hashtags very well.
• An experimental plugin to add titles to notices.
• A plugin to support the Echo commenting system.
• A plugin to support the Disqus commenting system.
• Changes to OStatus support to make StatusNet work for the Social Web Acid Test Level 0.
• Themes now support a theme.ini file for theme configuration, including defining a "base" theme.
• Improved two-way Twitter integration, including support for repeats and retweets, replies, and faves going both ways across the bridge, as well as better parsing of Twitter statuses.

We recommend that all administrators upgrade to the newest version.