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Hubzilla 1.8
Administration:
Cleanup and resolve some edge cases with addon repository manager
Provide sort field and direction on all fields of account and channel administration tables
Rename 'user' administration to account administration to reflect its true purpose
'safemode' tool to quickly disable and re-enable addons during a hypothetical upgrade crisis
Security:
Edited comments to private posts could lose their privacy settings under some circumstances
Provide zot-finger signatures to prevent a possible but rare exploit involving DNS spoofing and phishing
ACL selections:
Various improvements to the ACL editor to further simplify the concepts and make it more intuitive
Chat:
Notifications of chatroom activity using standard browser notification interfaces.
Themes:
Allow a theme:schema string to represent a valid theme name. This fixes issues with setting schemas on site themes.
Pubsites:
Show server role (identify UNO or basic sites as opposed to hubzilla pro) and link to statistics
Documentation:
Clarify privacy rights of commenters w/r/t conversation owners, as this policy is network dependent.
Account Cloning:
Regression on clone channel creation created a new channel name each time.
New issue (fixed) with directory creation on cloned file content
Content Rendering:
Add inline code (in addition to the existing code blocks) to BBcode
Add emoji reactions
Add emojis as extended smilies with auto-complete support
Emoji added as feature so it can be enabled/disabled and locked
Ability to configure the standard reactions available on a site basis
Disable 'convenience' ajax autoload on pgdn key, as it could lead to premature memory exhaustion
Photos:
Change album sort ordering, allow widgets and plugins to define other orderings
Apps:
Synchronise app list with changes to system apps
Preserve existing app categories on app updates/edits
Architecture:
Provide autoloaded class files and libraries for plugins.
Further refactoring of session driver to sort out some cookie anomolies
Experimental PDO database driver
Creation of Daemon Master class and port all daemon (background task) interfaces to use it
Create separate class for each of 'Cron', 'Cron daily', and 'Cron weekly'.
Always run a Cron maintenance task if not run in the last four hours
Refactor the template classes
Refactor the ConversationItem mess into ThreadItem and ThreadStream
Refactor Apps, Enotify, and Chat library code
Refactor the various Config libraries (Config, PConfig, XConfig, AConfig, AbConfig, and IConfig)
Created WebServer class for top level
Remove mcrypt dependencies (deprecated in PHP 7.1)
Remove all reserved (including merely 'not recommended') words as DB table column names
Provide mutex lock on DB logging to prevent recursion under rare failure modes.
Bugfixes:
Remove db_close function on page end - not needed and will not work with persistent DB connections.
Undefined ref_session_write
Some session functions needed to be static to work with CalDAV/CardDAV
CLI interface: argc and argv were reversed
HTML entities double encoded in edited titles
Prevent delivering to empty recipients
Sabre library setting some security headers for SAML after we've emitted HTML content
Always initialise miniApp (caused obscure warning message if not set)
Block 'sys' channels from being 'random profile' candidates
DB update failed email could be sent in the wrong language under rare circumstances
Openid remote authentication used incorrect namespace
Plugins:
CalDAV/CardDAV plugin provided
Issue sending Diaspora 'like' activities from sources that did not propagate the DCV
Allow 'superblock' to work across API calls from third party clients
statistics.json: use 'zot' as protocol
Ability to follow Diaspora tags
Parse issue with Diaspora reshare content
Chess: moved to main repo, ported to 1.8
Hubzilla 1.6
Cleanup and standardise the interfaces to the "jot" editor
Router re-written to support calling class object methods as controllers
All existing modules (160+) re-written as object classes
Plugin hook interface adapted to call static class methods
Context help improved dramatically with content for the most accessed pages.
Reverted a compatibility change to support GNU-social events. We copied their feed format and their feed format is wrong (XML namespace collisions).
Provide a querystring attribute to CSS/JS resources to avoid caching issues when our code changes (which is often).
Fix javascript detection and allow either positive or negative detection.
Refactor the plugin hook registration procedure, provide 'unregister all' ability.
Fix RSD (Real Simple Discovery) which has been broken for some time.
Update smarty library to 3.1.29
Update jquery.textcomplete to 1.3.4
Update font-awesome to 4.6.1
Update SabreDAV to 3.0 (PHP version requirements prevent us from pushing it further at this time)
Help text added to cmdline utilities config and pconfig
Reworking of the database logging facility to avoid the rare but troublesome recursion when the log facility needed to query the DB internally to obtain config parameters.
Implement singleton delivery (emulate nomadic identity to singleton networks and services)
Fix empty album name in photo activities when photo is stored in top level folder.
Allow engineering units to be used in service class data size restrictions (400M, 1G, etc.)
Lots of work on bbcode auto-completion
Admin interface provided to manage external resource repositories
Oembed security reworked. Now all sources are filtered by default unless blocked.
Remove the date-string version and use only STD_VERSION
Add categories and categorisation filtering and the ability to edit all apps (including system apps) for a given channel
Ensure the ability to translate names of all system apps (except those provided in addons)
Provide ability to add categories to content from channel sources
Lots of work on the presentation of the ACL widget to enhance usability and intuitiveness
Allow somebody to follow a channel from a pasted redress containing a Unicode lookalike of the @ sign.
Add conditional syntax to Comanche (if/then/else)
Convert Comanche to an object class
Removed IE6 compatibility code
Explicitly close DB on shutdown/exit instead of allowing it to close naturally
Allowed delayed publish of webpages
Show current repository versions of master and dev on admin page and warn if your installation has fallen behind master
Provide some extra security checks to import data and files to prevent mischief
Block CalDAV/CardDAV namespace reserved words from being used as a channel nickname/redress since Sabre is somewhat inflexible in this regard
Plugins:
Diaspora
markdown translator work needed to eradicate the Diaspora Comment Virus.
upgrade all inbound paths with the most recent protocol changes (several of these)
convert 'diaspora_meta' (Diaspora Comment Virus) to iconfig and eradicate from sites with Diaspora disabled
implement social relay and allow following tags
upgrade statistics.json to NodeInfo. Currently hubzilla sites are tagged as 'redmatrix' because the NodeInfo schema lacks extensibility and project names are used to designate protocol compatibility rather than protocol names.
Std-embeds
New addon to allow a handful of corporate providers to run unfiltered embed code (youtube, vimeo, soundcloud)
Various:
upgrade font-awesome icons and adapt a few addons to Objects and the new hook interface and new controller interface
Hubzilla 1.4
[This list may appear brief, but encompasses a huge amount of re-writing and re-factoring
of the internal code structure to gain long-term performance and stability and provide a standard
interface to alternate protocol federation plugins which were made possible by the UNO configuration.
UNO is a configuration of hubzilla introduced in 1.3 with reduced complexity and which provides
improved protocol federation potential to other networks by virtue of removing nomadic identity
(which is not possible to model or work around using other network protocols).]
Implement channel move operation for UNO configuration
Remove bookmark references in UNO (which has no bookmarks by default)
UI cleanup profiles/chat/manage
Refactor webfinger probes and salmon backend for GNU-social federation
SECURITY: DAV authentication exploit
Context help added
More help pages
Provide 'posts only' feed
Refactor App to remove globals
Refactor Session to remove globals
provide a fullscreen mode for selected modules and functions
Regression: some addon routes broken
fix "remember me"
Autocomplete tool extended to bbcode/comanche
Clone sync of file/photo updates
system rename (e.g. http to https or DNS name change) missing some connection photos
calendar module not blocked to public whhen block_public enabled
Use timeago.js in reshare content so that timestamps will be correct on federated reshares
Rework detection of JavaScript to avoid reload penalty under normal operation
Changed primary directory server to a hubzilla server
Plugins:
Diaspora - switch to alternate XML parser to avoid storing compound objects
GNU-Social - Huge amounts of work, federation somewhat working now, several issues remain
Friendica - Initial federation work (not yet published)
Hubzilla 1.3
Admin Security configuration page created which consolidates several previously hidden settings:
Communication white/black lists
Channel white/black lists
OEmbed white/black lists
Admin Profile Fields page created which manages the availability and order of standard profile fields and allows new fields to be created/managed
"Poke" module reworked - page UI updated and "poke basic" setting introduced which limits the available poke "verbs".
"Mood" module UI reworked
"profile_photo" module UI reworked
"cover_photo" module UI reworked
"new_channel" module UI reworked
"register" module UI reworked
"pubsites" module UI reworked
item-meta ("iconfig") created which implements arbitrary storage for item metadata for plugins
abook-meta ("abconfig") created which implements arbitrary storage for connection metadata for plugins
"Strict transport security header" made optional as it conflicts with some existing Apache/nginx configurations
"Hubzilla UNO" (Hubzilla with radically simplified and locked site settings) implemented as an install configuration.
.well-known directory conflict worked out to support LetsEncrypt cert ownership checks without disrupting webfinger and other internal uses of .well-known
Lots of work on 'zcards' which are self-contained HTML representations of a channel including cover photos, profile photos, and some text information
Long standing bug uncovered which failed to properly restrict the lower time limit for public feed requests
A number of fixes to "readmore" to fix page jumping
Bugfix: persons other than the channel owner who have permission to upload photos to a channel could not do so if the js_upload plugin/addon was enabled
Siteinfo incorrectly identifying secondary directory servers
Allow admin to set and lock features when UNO is configured
Atom feeds: alter how events are formatted to be compatible with GNU-social
Allow guest/visitor access to view personal calendar
Moved several more classes to "composer format" and provided an autoloader.
Bugfix: require existing password to change password
Bugfix: allow relative_date() to be translated to Polish which has more than two plural forms.
Plugin API: add "requires" keyword to module header to indicate dependent addons
ActivityStreams improvements and cleanup: photo and file activities
UI cleanup for editing profile when multiple profiles enabled
Removed the "markdown" feature as there are numerous issues and no maintainer.
Provide "footer" bbcode to ease theming of post footer content
Bugfix: install issues caused by composer code refactor and typo in postgres load file
Plugins:
keepout - "block public on steroids"
pubsubhubbub - provides PuSH support to Atom feeds, required for GNU-social federation
GNUsocial protocol - under development
Diaspora protocol - some work to ease migration to the new signing format
Diaspost - disabled; numerous issues and no maintainer
smileybutton - theme work and fixed compatibility with other jot-tools plugins
Hubzilla 1.2
Provide extra HTTP security headers (several of them).
Allow a site to disable delivery reports if disk space is limited
Regression: Wrong theme when viewing single post as non-member
Some Diaspora profile photos use relative URLs - force absolute
Add locked features to siteinfo report to aid remote debugging
Provide version compatibility checking to plugins (minversion, maxversion, and minphpversion)
Account config storage
Provide optional integrated registration and channel create form
cli utility for managing addons
issue with sharing photo "items"
cover photo manager: upload, crop, and store
cover photo widget created
rework the connections list page and provide a few management features there
fixed issue with Comanche layout definitions loaded by plugins
provide ability to separate delivery functions from item_store() and item_store_update() - some forum messages were being redelivered when cloned.
call build_sync_packet() on pdledit changes
Abstract the project name and version so these can be customised or removed
Allow hiding the ratings links on a per-site basis
db_type not present in international setup templates - was unable to choose postgres.
item_photo_menu logically divided into a) actions on the post, b) actions related to the author
bug: default channel not reset to 0 when last channel removed
create widget containing only the contact block
regression: public forums granted send stream permissions to connections
workaround Firefox's refusal to honour disabling autocomplete of passwords
regression: photo's uploaded to a channel by a guest (with file write permissions) not saved correctly.
provide mechanisms for custom .well-known handlers (needed for LetsEncrypt ownership verification)
proc_run modified to use exec() instead of proc_open() - causing issues on some PHP installations
remote delegation failure under a specific set of circumstances which we were finally able to duplicate
Delegation section of Channel Manager was missing names and contained useless notification icons.
Change "expire" channel setting to show system limit if there is one.
Regression: provide a one-click ignore of pending connection
Config to control directory keyword generation on client and server.
"Collections" renamed to "Privacy Groups", documentation improved
widget_item - allow use of page title instead of message id
Add site black/white list checking to all .well-known services
reduce incidents of screen jumping when "showmore" is activated
add oembed provider for photos
Addons:
CSS theming of pageheader plugin
xmpp addon ported from Friendica
Diaspora private mail issues after the third reply
Occasional issue with Diaspora connection requests
Add notification email to Diaspora PMs
Allow anonymising platform and version for statistics
msgfooter addon created
removed embedly plugin
sync clones after superblock addition
"keepout" plugin created
Hubzilla 1.1
Rewrote and simplified the Queue manager and delivery system
Rewrote and simplified the outer layers of the Zot protocol
Use a standard version numbering scheme in addition to the snapshot tags
Provide a channel blacklist for blocking channels with abusive or illegal content at the hub level
Make the black/white lists pluggable
Update template library
Support for letsencrypt certs in various places
Cleanup of login and register pages
Better error responses for permission denied on channel file repositories
Disabled the public stream by default for new installs (can be enabled if desired)
Cleanup of API authentication and rework the old OAuth1 stuff
Add API "status with media" support compatible with Twitter and conflicting method for GNU-social
Rework photo ActivityStreams objects to align better with ActivityStreams producers/consumers
Several minor API fixes to work better with AndStatus client
Invitation only site - experimental support added, needs more work
Fix delivery loop condition due to corrupted data which resulted in recursive upstream delivery
Provide more support for external (git) widget collections.
Extend the Queue API to 3rd-party network addons which have experienced downtime recently.
Regression: Inherited permissions were not explicitly set
Regression: "Xyz posted on your wall" notification sent when creating webpages at another channel
Regression: Custom permissions not pre-populated on channel creation with named role.
Provide "Public" string when a post can be made public, instead of "visible to default audience"
Allow hub admin to specify a default role type for the first channel created, reducing complexity
Ability for a hub admin to set feature defaults and lock them, reducing complexity
Change default expiration of delivery reports to 10 days to accomodate sites with reduced resources
Addons/Plugins:
Pageheader addon ported from Friendica
Hubwall (allow admin to send email to all accounts on this hub) created
GNU-social - queueing added
Diaspora - fixes for various failures to update profile photos, updates to queue API
Cross Domain Authenticated Chess (Andrew Manning's repository)
And... the normal "lots of bugs fixed, translations updated, and documentation improved"
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