Laconica 0.7.4

Laconica 0.7.4 (code name: &quot;Can't Get There From Here&quot;) is the current version of Laconica; it's the version used by identi.ca. It includes many bug fixes and feature enhancements and all users are recommended to upgrade to this version.

Download
http://status.net/laconica-0.7.4.tar.gz

Changes
This is a minor bug-fix and feature release since version 0.7.3, released April 2009. Notable changes this version:


 * Improved handling of UTF-8 characters. The new code is *not* backwards-compatible by default; see &quot;Upgrading&quot; below for instructions on converting existing databases to the correct character set.
 * Unroll joins for large queries. This greatly enhanced database performance -- up to 50x for some queries -- at the expense of making an extra DB hit for some queries.
 * Added an optional plugin to use WikiHashtags (http://hashtags.wikia.com/) for the sidebar on hashtag pages.
 * Optimized Twitter friend synchronization.
 * Better error handling for Ajax posting of notices, including HTTP errors and timeouts.
 * Experimental Comet plugin -- supports the cometd and the Bayeux protocol. Using this plugin, you can show &quot;real time&quot; updates on the public and tag pages. However, server configuration is complex.
 * Correctly shorten links posted through XMPP.
 * Corrected date format in search API.
 * Made the public XRDS file work correctly.

Upgrade
See the Upgrading section of the README.