This release is another giant step towards Hubzilla-3.0. Besides the introduction of the pubcrawl plugin (our implemnentation of the activitypub protocol) we replaced the famous Zot Magic-Auth with the lightning fast
Open-Web-Auth which is part of next generation Zot aka Zot VI. Open-Web-Auth is now also implemented for server to server communications. This will allow us to access API and DAV services easily without using OAuth or passwords or storing cookies server side.
Besides the extended work under the hood we also implemented many usability improvements. The notifications were moved from the panel to the right column, which was not used by default until now. Also we display the active app name (with a link to the top level of the app) next to the profile menu in the navbar now. Last but not least app-tray apps can be pinned to the panel via the
navbar_default
app category now. This feature is still experimental and might be implemented in a different way in the next release.
Here is a list of the most prominent changes:
Core:
- Provide support for HTTP signatures
- New cards feature
- Disovery tab removed in favour of the public dtream app
- Provide support for JSON-LD signatures
- Server to server magic auth
- Implement Open-Web-Auth
- Wiki ACL and names can now be edited after creation
- Various small database performance improvements
- Encrypt delivery reports (not backward compatible)
- Provide ability to mention a forum by using !forumname (not backward compatible)
- Updated the trusted CA cert database
- Implement new css based spinner
- Implement admin setting to use imagick converter for large photos
- New notification types:
- Unseen shared files
- Unseen public stream posts (off by default)
- New account approvals (admin only)
- Keep updating notifications for the opened notifications area
- Introduce custom navbars
Addon:
- Introduce the pubcrawl plugin (activitypub protocol)
- Introduce the gravatar plugin
- Federation improvements for the Diaspora plugin
- Federation improvements for the GNU-Social plugin
Bugfixes:
- Fix w2w posts not removed when a channel was removed from connections
- Fix profile thing image not deleted when thing deleted
- Fix deletions to comments not synced on wall posts
- Fix community tags not preserved on post edit
- Fix profile photo propagation issue in combination with channel cloning
- Fix selected theme not appearing selected after change
- Fix an issue where some posts were not displayed in mod display
- Fix last remaining task in tasklist not removed from view when completed
- Uncountable little fixes to improve usability and app stability in general
For a more detailed change log have a look
here.
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