Laconica 0.6.4

Laconica 0.6.4 ("Catapult") is the most current version of Laconica, released December 15, 2008.

Download

• http://laconi.ca/laconica-0.6.4.3.tar.gz

New features

• "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!)

Documentation

The README file has extensive installation and configuration documentation, and is probably the best place to start.