StatusNet 0.9.7

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Evan announced 0.9.7 with a [blogpost].

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-0.9.7.tar.gz or the fix: http://status.net/statusnet-0.9.7fix1.tar.gz

Note: StatusNet_0.9.9 has important security updates.

The official download page is at http://status.net/Download

Changes

• GroupPrivateMessage plugin lets users send private messages to a group. (Similar to "private groups" on Yammer.)
• Support for Twitter streaming API in Twitter bridge plugin
• Support for a new Activity Streams-based API using AtomPub, allowing richer API data. See http://status.net/wiki/AtomPub for details.
• Unified Facebook plugin, replacing previous Facebook application and Facebook Connect plugin.
• A plugin to send out a daily summary email to network users.
• In-line thumbnails of some attachments (video, images) and oEmbed objects.
• Local copies of remote profiles to let moderators manage OStatus users.
• Upgrade upstream JS, minify everything.
• Allow pushing plugin JS, CSS, and static files to a CDN.
• Configurable nickname rules.
• Better support for bit.ly URL shortener.
• InProcessCache plugin for additional caching on top of memcached.
• Support for Activity Streams JSON feeds on many streams.
• User-initiated backup and restore of account data in Activity Streams format.
• SQLProfile plugin to tune SQL queries.
• Better sorting on timelines to support restored or imported data.
• Hundreds of translations from http://translatewiki.net/
• Hundreds of performance tunings, bug fixes, and UI improvements.
• Remove deprecated data from Activity Streams Atom output, to the extent possible.
• NewMenu plugin for new layout of menu items.
• Experimental support for moving an account from one server to another, using new AtomPub API.

Source: Announcement

Bugs

• "bug causing some remote users to display the id number instead of nickname. We'll tweak it in the morning..." [[1]]
  filed -> notices coming for sn sites < 0.9.7 appear as from user id instead of nickname [[2]]

• "The StatusNet_Mobile app does not seem to connect to identi.ca since the upgrade." [[3]]

• search is not working ATM [[4]]

• some Translations reset to english

• identi.ca/user/replies missing to all except yourself [[5]]

• did anybody receive the note of [cloud]?, yes!

• http://identi.ca/settings/profile 'share my position' got set to check through the upgrade.

• identica's logo now points to '$USERNAME/all' not to http://identi.ca/ anymore. [[6]]

• facebook app is temporarily disabled [[7]]

• pino app repeats status messages [[8]]

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.