GNU social - Log of Changes

2.0.0 - THIS. IS. GNU SOCIAL!!! [WIP]

Release name chosen after 300 by Frank Miller where the main protagonist Leonidas, King of Sparta, declines peace with the Persians, after being disrespected, by shouting at the Persian Messenger "This is Sparta!" and kicking him into a large well proceeded by the killing of the other Persian messengers.

Major changes from previous release:

New media handling system
GS is now structurely divided in includes and public
Composer was integrated
OEmbed upgraded to Embed plugin (Now we provide Open Graph information too)

TODO before alpha:

New image optimization system (intervention based)
Move all PEAR components to Modern Composer Alternatives, namely:
- DB to Doctrine (consequences involves a new caching and queuing system)
- PEAR HTTP to Guzzle
- PEAR Mail to PHPSendMail
Add full Redis support
Add OAuth2 support (deprecate OAuth1)
Add ActivityStreams 2.0 directly to core
Add ActivityPub support
Add shinny new Plugins management interface for sysadmins together with a new doc for devs
Review failure tests

1.20.x - The Invicta Crusade

Release name chosen after Porto city. Porto is one of the oldest cities in Europe and thanks to its fierce resistance during two battles and sieges in history, it has earned the epithet of ‘Cidade Invicta’ (Invincible City). The dev team behind this release studies in Porto, Portugal.

Dropped Support for PHP5.6.x. Minimum PHP version now is 7.0.0.

Major changes from previous release:

Various patches on PEAR related components
Various database related improvements
Improved XMPP support
Added Nodeinfo support
Various i18n and l10n bug fixes
Improvements on Internal Session Handler
Improvements on OpenID support
Improved Media handling and safer upload
Redirect to previous page after login
Initial work on full conversion to PHP7
Initial work on a better documentation
Allow login with email
Various bug fixes

1.2.x - The good reign of PHP5

Dropped support for PHP5.4.

New this version

This is the development branch for the 1.2.x version of GNU social. All daring 1.1.x admins should upgrade to this version.

So far it includes the following changes:

Backing up a user's account is more and more complete.
Emojis 😸 (utf8mb4 support)

The last release, 1.1.3, gave us these improvements:

XSS security fix (thanks Simon Waters, https://www.surevine.com/)
Many improvements to ease adoption of the Qvitter front-end https://github.com/hannesmannerheim/qvitter
Protocol adaptions for improved performance and stability

Upgrades from StatusNet 1.1.1 will also experience these improvements:

Fixes for SQL injection errors in profile lists.
Improved ActivityStreams JSON representation of activities and objects.
Upgrade to the Twitter 1.1 API.
More robust handling of errors in distribution.
Fix error in OStatus subscription for remote groups.
Fix error in XMPP distribution.
Tracking of conversation URI metadata (more coherent convos)

1.1.x - The Spanish Invasion