StatusNet 0.8.2

StatusNet 0.8.2 ("Life and How To Live It") is a minor bugfix and minor feature enhancement over its predecessor, 0.8.1.

Download

The software is available at http://status.net/statusnet-0.8.2.tar.gz

Requirements and installation

Prereqs and installation instructions are available in the README file.

Changes

Some small and large changes for version 0.8.2:

• New script for deleting user accounts. Not particularly safe or community-friendly. Better for deleting abusive accounts than for users who are 'retiring'.
• Improved detection of URLs in notices, specifically for punctuation chars like ~, :, $, _, *, +, !, @, and %.
• Removed some extra semantic HTML code.
• Correct error in status*network database ini file (having multiple statusnet sites with a single codebase)
• Fixed error output for Twitter posting failures.
• Fixed bug in Twitter queue handler that requeued inapplicable notices ad infinitum.
• Improve FOAF output for remote users.
• new commands to join and leave groups.
• Fixed bug in which you cannot turn off importing friends timelines flag.
• Better error handling in Twitter posting.
• Show oEmbed data for XHTML files as well as plain HTML.
• Updated bug database link in README.
• require HTML tidy extension.
• add support for HTTP Basic Auth in PHP CGI or FastCGI (e.g. GoDaddy).
• autofocus input to selected entry elements depending on page.
• updated layout for filter*by*tag form.
• better layout for inbox and outbox pages.
• fix highlighting search terms in attributes of notice list elements.
• Correctly handle errors in linkback plugin.
• Updated biz theme.
• Updated cloudy theme.
• Don't match '::' as an IPv6 address.
• Use the same decision logic for deciding whether to mark an attachment as an enclosure in RSS or as a paperclip item in Web output.
• Fixed a bug in the Piwik plugin that hard*coded the site ID.
• Add a param, inreplyto, to notice/new to allow an explicit response to another notice.
• Show username in subject of emails.
• Check if avatar exists before trying to delete it.
• Correctly add omb_version to response for request token in OMB.
• Add a few more SMS carriers.
• Add a few more notice sources.
• Vary: header.
• Improvements to the AutoCompletePlugin.
• Check for 'dl' before using it.
• Make it impossible to delete self*subscriptions via the API.
• Fix pagination of tagged user pages.
• Make PiwikAnalyticsPlugin work with addPlugin().
• Removed trailing single space in user nicknames in notice lists.
• Show context link if a notice starts a conversation.
• blacklist all files and directories in install dir.
• handle GoDaddy*style PATH_INFO, including script name.
• add home_timeline synonym for friends_timeline.
• Add a popup window for the realtime plugin.
• Add some more streams for the realtime plugin.
• Fix a bug that overwrote group creation timestamp on every edit.
• Moved HTTP error code strings to a class variable.
• The Twitter API now returns server errors in the correct format.
• Reset the doctype for HTML output.
• Fixed a number of notices.
• Don't show search suggestions for private sites.
• Some corrections to FBConnect nav overrides.
• Slightly less database*intensive session management.
• Updated name of software in installer script.
• Include long*form attachment URLs if url*shortener is disabled.
• Include updated localisations for Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Chinese.
• Include upstream fixes to gettext.php.
• Correct for regression in Facebook API for updates.
• Ignore "Sent from my iPhone" (and similar) in mail updates.
• Use the NICKNAME_FMT constant for detecting nicknames.
• Check for site servername config'd.
• Compatibility fix for empty status updates with Twitter API.
• a script to register a new user.
• a script to make a user admin of a group.

Older and newer versions of StatusNet

Additional versions of the StatusNet code base can be downloaded from Gitorious at http://gitorious.org/statusnet/. If you get an error about the tarball not being available for download, try again in a few minutes. You may need to empty your browser's cache to clear the message. You can also get the latest stable release from http://status.net/download.