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

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.