StatusNet 0.9.3

It's that time again -- we've packaged together the latest bug fixes and minor feature enhancements, and are pushing out StatusNet 0.9.3 (codename: "Half a World Away").

For best compatibility with client software and site federation, and a lot of bug fixes, it is highly recommended that all public sites upgrade to the new version.

Download

The software is available at http://status.net/statusnet-0.9.3.tar.gz

Requirements and installation

Prereqs and installation instructions are available in the README file.

Upgrade

Users of version 0.9.0 or later should be able to upgrade in-place. The core database schema hasn't changed. However, it is a good idea to run scripts/checkschema.php after the in-place upgrade.

Changes

User interface

• focus no longer jumps to the notice textarea when you've scrolled down between the page starting to load and completion
• custom css, basic theme upload ability in design admin panel (disabled by default)
• average posts-per-day over account lifetime added to statistics in profile sidebar
• subscription notification emails now include a direct block-user link
• non-SSL login/register forms now auto-redirect to their SSL versions when configured to 'sometimes SSL' mode

Internationalization

• Many localized string updates from translatewiki.net, including new Afrikaans and Galician translations.
• Fixed some translation regressions where context had been updated in the .po files but wasn't updated in the main code in release version.
• fix for geolocation UI messages containing apostrophes etc

Attachments

• file quota check fix
• tweak for attachment linking processing
• improved file type recognition for ambiguous cases, fixes bad detection of OpenOffice and MS Office attachments

API

• Added more StatusNet-specific extensions to XML, JSON, and Atom API output to help clients.
• OpenSearch description file now accessible when not authenticated yet, fixes discovery (actual search still requires auth)
• Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * set for API results, allowing non-authenticated API fetches via cross-domain XMLHttpRequest as well as via JSONP on supporting browsers.
• Fixes to group API methods
• Friend API methods now work when referencing offsite subscribers/subscribees
• Fixed broken FOAF relations, bad geonames reference

OStatus federation

• Reaching SSL sites now works on a default configuration (can optionally configure SSL host verification, but need a certificate authority cert set to point to)
• More efficient 'rolling enqueue' of mass OStatus outgoing messages
• Various minor fixes

Internals

• Initial internal code documentation generation scripts
• Starting to add doc comments for API items
• misspelled DB_DataObject calls now raise an exception to help track down previously hidden bugs
• new event hook for tag display
• copyright info updated for Craig Andrews' copyright assignment to FSF
• updates to PostgreSQL schema
• gettext _m() wrapper use in core caches module lookup correctly
• footers after a blank line now stripped from email, sms-over-email input
• link shortening can now be forced for short links
• Autocomplete plugin now uses class autoloader for action
• Database queueing now retries failed items as intended
• Fixed memory leak during notice delivery to large number of local inboxes
• Fix for infinite-redirect bug when linking to some oddly-configured web sites
• Fixes for locale switching in background daemons

Auth plugins

• OpenID now works on PHP 5.3 (upstream php-openid libs updated to 2.2.2)
• Fix for bad redirect on OpenID servers that POST their confirmation reply
• OpenID plugin now has optional admin panel, options for limiting access to a particular provider site.
• OpenID optionally supports Canonical's team extension to restrict access to a given group on a provider
• RequireValidatedEmail plugin can now add an optional exception for OpenID accounts
• reference use fix in authorization plugin
• LDAP auth plugin restructuring to share common code

Misc

• new plugin: AutoSandbox
• new plugin: ClientSideShorten
• new plugin: Spotify
• new plugin: Sitemap for on-the-fly Google Sitemaps generation
• new plugin: WikiHowProfile
• Recaptcha fixed on iPhone, Android
• Mapstraction plugin fixes for Google Maps mode
• Facebook integration tweaks: cleaner behavior when server rejects updates, dropped now-broken verb preference

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.