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Zotlabs|Hubzilla 3.8.8 is out - update now!

Sat, 22 Dec 2018 23:54:18 +0000

Mario Vavti wrote the following post Sat, 22 Dec 2018 20:36:40 +0000

Hubzilla 3.8.8 Released!
Changes:

Fix issue with linkinfo
Fix cURL with HTTP/2
Remove scale_external_images()
Style highlight bbcode via css
Make mod channel deal with b64 encoded mid's
Fix email retrieval in OAuth2Storage
Add reinstall option to util/addons
Remove deprecated caching protection from mod photos
Add missing check for observer in mod like
Articles: default to logged in channel if channel name is not passed
Wiki: fix preview issue with hyperlinks
Cart: backport fixes from osada
Gallery: provide file extensions for better compatibility
Hsse: fix issue when linkinfo data was inserted
Diaspora: remove deprecated scale_external_images()

Please Update ASAP!

We are making good progress on bringing zot6 and some other goodies (e.g. two factor authentication, image caching) to Hubzilla 4.0. There are still some weeks to go though...

The Hubzilla developers wish you a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year 2019!

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And this is a howto article if you want to know how to upgrade.

https://zotlabs.org/articles/zotlabs/update%252bhubzilla%252bosada%252bzap

Hubzilla

Zotlabs|Osada 2.0 is out

zotlabs.org | Osada

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:59:44 +0000

Mike Macgirvin ☸ wrote the following post Mon, 10 Dec 2018 03:43:45 +0000

Osada 2.0 released

Merry Xmas from Zotlabs.

Osada is an easy to use social network server of the blogging or "conversational" persuasion running over the ActivityPub protocol. There's a great deal of mature and proven functionality available as the underlying codebase has been developed since 2001 and part of the fediverse since 2010.

Events
Groups/Forums
Privacy groups
File management
Photo Albums
WebDAV access
and more...

There are several plugins/addons providing LDAP authentication, personal wikis, content filtering, "friend/acquaintance zoom control", Twitter/StatusNet API and much more.

https://zotlabs.com/osada

In case you want some information on how to update:

https://zotlabs.org/articles/zotlabs/update%252bhubzilla%252bosada%252bzap

Osada

The Zotlabs* Trinity short and concise: What's Zotlabs|Hubzilla, Zotlabs|Osada and Zotlabs|Zap all about?

zotlabs.org | Osada

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:09:54 +0000

M. Dent wrote the following post Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:07:02 +0000

Hubzilla - Osada - Zap are one family.

The brains behind them all is the same there are other developers involved in all three.

Each has a fairly defined use-case, but (once the transition to Zot6 in Hubzilla is complete) - all three will be able to intercommunicate with each other.

Hubzilla is the most established product. It should be considered more of an "application platform" or maybe a "publication platform" (kind of like what WordPress has become since it now has plugins that allow you to do almost anything - it's more than a Content Management System). "Social Media" on Hubzilla was one of the first use-cases adopted by a large number of people - and so many think it is primarily a social media platform. It is not. It is a privacy and security aware application platform that can support a huge number of use cases through the plugin/addon architecture which is lean and efficient.

Osada is more intended for end users interested specifically in Social Media applications that want to be able to communicate with ActivityPub but also have SOME of the privacy and security capabilities offered by Hubzilla. ActivityPub has a larger user base but is fundamentally incompatible with certain privacy and security models. So, anything related to ActivityPub is going to be a compromise. Osada is a social media platform that brings as much of the privacy and security features of Hubzilla as is possible while still providing integration with ActivityPub.

Zap is a social media platform for those who are privacy and security minded and are not willing to compromise privacy and security just because "everybody is doing it." It has the full range of privacy, security, and censorship resistant features inherent in the Zot protocol as Hubzilla (without Federation addons).

If you are an "end-user" of social media and want to be able to seamlessly communicate with ActivityPub, you want to use Osada. If privacy, security, and censorship resistance is important to you and you're willing to give up access to other protocols in order to maintain those things, you probably want Zap. If you are primarily interested in providing content and data to others on an extensible and robust manner with privacy, security, and with built in ability to provide redundancy in case of failure or as a censorship resistance feature, you want to consider Hubzilla.

As you can see, the choice between Hubzilla, Osada, and Zap is a USER centric question about what features you want or need.

I am a gplus refugee attempting to find something decentralized and maybe more featurefull than that. ...but maybe having access to the people on activitypub.

Given that, I would suggest Osada - If you have enough influence to pull most of those you want to communicate with over with you, Zap may be an option as well if you are all interested in privacy and security. There should be public Zap installations coming online shortly.

Full disclosure: I run the UseZot Osada instance ( https://osada.usezot.net ) and we intend to have a Zap server online before the New Year as well. I also run Zot.Social ( https://zot.social ) which is Hubzilla. However, Zot.Social will not be enabling the federation modules to talk other protocols. It will have some advanced discussion features and be more of a platform for "content providers" than end user social media.

Once the Zot6 implementation on Hubzilla is complete, all of these projects will be able to intercommunicate with users on each of the others with fine-grained access control.

Zap Osada Hubzilla

Happy birthday Zotlabs|Hubzilla

zotlabs.org | Osada

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:44:09 +0000

On this day Dec 4 Zotlabs|Hubzilla 1.0 was released four years ago in 2015.
Though Hubzilla (then still without the Zotlabs|) was a fork of Red Matrix (deprecated) which was a fork of Friendica and therefore is way older in reality, let's hold on for a moment and celebrate.

Already Friendica (released in 2012) put a heightened development emphasis on privacy, data autonomy, decentralization and federation to other services and protocols such as Diaspora*. Red Matrix / Hubzilla took it to the next level with a truly server independent, nomadic identity. This meant the first incarnation of Zot, which superseded Friendica's DRFN. Friendica continues to be developed by an independent community, while Hubzilla evolved into a Zotlabs project.

Today the Zotlabs Suite consists of Zotlabs|Hubzilla and it's slimlined forks Zotlabs|Osada and Zotlabs|Zap. Zotlabs|Hubzilla is a whole pubishing platform offering a wide array of possibilities, such as file storage, web pages, wiki, articles, cards and in addition social networking with optional federation towards ActivityPub, Diaspora* and Ostatus. All these features are powered by the Zot protocol and it's nomadic identity features, while maintaining fine grained access control for everything.
The new arrivals are dedicated social networking tools, Osada supporting ActivityPub and Zap being native Zot6 only (Zot6 reference implementation).

As of now Zot6 is being ported from Zap to Zotlabs|Hubzilla, which will bring many exciting changes, such as more efficiency within Zot itself, but also a better compatibility when federating towards ActivityPub, Diaspora* and OStatus. Zotlabs|Hubzilla 4.0 is to be expected in Q1 2019.

But for now: Happy birthday @zotlabs.org | Hubzilla and many thanks to @Mike Macgirvin for inventing the whole Zotlabs Suite and Zot.
We really do value and appreciate your dedication and endurance. And while Hubzilla has become a community project, thank you very much for sticking with us and helping out. And bringing us Zot6.

For anyone who would like to thank Mike by directly buying him a #coldOne or supporting Hubzilla as a project:
https://macgirvin.com/donate
https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/hubzilla

Hubzilla

Hubzilla 3.8.6 Released, get it while it's hot!

zotlabs.org | Osada

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:27:24 +0000

Mario Vavti wrote the following post Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:32:15 +0000

Hubzilla 3.8.6 Released!
Changes:

Prevent incompatible export files (osada/zap) from being imported
Catch exception if readImageBlob() receives bogus data
Streamline PDF previews
Allow notification filtering by name or address
Fix too restrictive attached photo permissions
Update ES translation
Use flex for the default template
Do not store serialized pconfig value received via to Module/Pconfig.php
Update jquery-file-upload lib and move to composer
Update imagesloaded lib and move to composer
Fix activitypub tag notifications
Fix call to undefined function in PConfig
Fix typo which prevented propagation of comments to zot6 (dev)
Activitypub: add support for pterotype (wordpress plugin)
Openstreetmap: check validity of lat+lon before rendering a map

Please update ASAP!

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Hubzilla

zotlabs.org | All Things Zot

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 06:44:25 +0000

This should work for all systems, Hubzilla, Zap, Osada. Awesome.

Steffen K9 ? wrote the following post Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:38:52 +0000

I have set up fail2ban for Hubzilla's login. You need to enable debug logging at loglevel 'Normal'. Be careful. The size of the log file can grow to several 100 MBs per day.

/etc/fail2ban/jail.local

[hubzilla]
enabled = true
findtime = 300
bantime = 900
maxretry = 3
filter = hubzilla
port = http,https
logpath = /path/to/hubzilla.log
logencoding = utf-8

/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/hubzilla.conf

[Definition]
failregex= ^.*auth\.php.*failed login attempt.*from IP <HOST>.*$
ignoreregex =

Hubzilla 4.0: Zot6 is coming!

zotlabs.org | All Things Zot

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 05:59:34 +0000 last edited: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 06:09:58 +0000

Hubzilla 4.0 is going to be a major step for Hubzilla, as the underlying comunication protocol Zot6 is going to be ported from Zap, which is Mike's Zot6 reference implementation.
For more information on the technical side of Zot6 please refer to Mike's Wiki Zot/6 aka Zot 2018.

Mike Macgirvin wrote the following post Tue, 06 Nov 2018 23:05:21 +0000

BEGIN { Hubzilla 4.0 }
!Hubzilla Support Forum !Hubzilla Announcements

We're about to launch into a heavy construction phase of the Red project (which will directly impact the Hubzilla project). I'm sending this post to folks connected with the Hubzilla project as a heads up. What you will ultimately come to know as Hubzilla 4.0 is being worked on right now and involves hundreds of thousands of lines of changed code from the current Hubzilla releases.

What this means to you

If you have a site which is running the Hubzilla 'dev' code branch and you are not a developer or you are running a production hub on development code, STOP any automatic updates NOW. Do not update again until the next RC (release candidate). Stability will not return for another month or two. Things are going to break. I cannot stop integrating code to deal with broken stuff on your site. If you can't troubleshoot and fix it, you should not be running 'dev' code. We've had a relatively stable 'dev' code tree for a few years and many people have gotten complacent that any issues could be fixed easily and quickly - and this is about to change in a big way.

What's happening

Hubzilla's underlying protocol 'zot' is about to receive its largest update since 2012. The latest release is Zot6. This affects Hubzilla in literally thousands of ways. There are a number of current features and behaviours which have changed or are no longer available in Zot6.

Diaspora is completely incompatible with Zot6. We will do everything in our power to preserve connectivity to that network, even though at this time I don't have a solution for how exactly to accomplish this. Diaspora is incompatible with ActivityStreams and Zot6 is built on ActivityStreams. Don't fret. It's not going away. I'm somewhat confident that we'll find a compatibility solution in the next month or two, although it's very likely it won't be very efficient. Since Diaspora actually doesn't federate with anything (other projects federate with it), it will be on us to find a workable solution.
Mail. Zot6 does not support 'mail' as a separate messaging system. Private messages are sent as private messages, not as 'mail'. We will do our best to create an interface to display these separately from your normal stream. Some will be surprised at this decision since I have fought it vehemently for years, but the simple truth is that mail as an interface has always gotten the short end of the stick and always falls behind the social stream in innovation and features and upgrades. Zot6 privacy is respectable and very well tested.
Reshares. In Zot6 as in many other networks, reshares are single click activities (much the same as a 'Like'). In older zot implementations a reshare is an embed of another post into your own post and commentary is permitted. It isn't clear yet how to resolve this discrepancy. We will be favouring the popular implementation over the older Hubzilla implementation, but we haven't yet decided how or if to migrate existing content. This is where other developers might have a chance to show their stuff. It's not much different than the email choice to "forward inline" vs. "forward as attachment". It would be nice to offer a choice, but I won't sugar coat it - it would be a fair chunk of work.
Permissions. In Hubzilla we reworked the entire permission system a year or two ago to make it more extensible. That was a major improvement, but it wasn't quite enough. Zot6 has a newer permission system that is much more flexible. As of this moment, we could go either way - keep the old one or move everything to the new one. I'm tempted to move everything forward, but this could delay the completion of the zot6 integration by a few weeks. At this moment, I'm saving that decision until I see how the rest of the migration goes. If we lose a month dealing with Diaspora quirks, I probably won't be able to update the permissions and we'll have to put that off until a later release.
Object encoding. The way post meta-information is encoded on disk in Hubzilla (an older variant of ActivityStreams) isn't compatible with ActivityStreams-JSON-LD which zot6 uses. Several metadata field names are different. Migrating existing content could take months to code and test and will most certainly involve up to several days of downtime on large sites, so this will not happen. We'll continue to store this metadata in the current format and translate it to the new format on the fly when required.

Hubzilla Hubzilla 4.0 Hubzilla

Released: Hubzilla 3.8

zotlabs.org | All Things Zot

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:13:31 +0000 last edited: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:14:01 +0000

Please do read carefully, there have been a few important changes.

Mario Vavti wrote the following post Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:46:08 +0000

Hubzilla 3.8 Released!
As you can see from the changelog, Hubzilla has gone through a very busy development cycle. To simplify the settings and improve the general UX, we have re-organised the entire apps and settings infrastructure.
Some features from the "Additional Features" section have been transformed to stand-alone apps and will need to be installed by the channel owner. Other features have been moved to the per app settings pages which are now easily accessible from the navigation bar or the app store.
Some addons have already been ported to the new apps infrastructure. This work is ongoing and will be completed during the next development cycle.

Other notable changes:

Remove tech-levels
Markdown table support
New addon (channelreputation) which provides a reputation system for community channels
Implement a subscriptions submodule for the cart addon
New addon (hsse) that implements a WYSIWYG editor
Experimental queue worker improvements (off by default)
Many under the hood improvements and bugfixes

As always, a big THANK YOU! to the translators and everybody who is helping to improve Hubzilla.

Howto upgrade:
Due to some profound changes to the addons it is necessary to follow this update procedure:

util/safemode on this will disable all enabled addons
util/udall the actual update which executes git pull for core and addon repos
util/safemode off this enables the previously disabled addons again
Install the upgrade info addon (optional) - this will show some info about the upgrade to your community members

In case you attended the RC testing, remember to git checkout master your core, addon and widget repositories prior to the upgrade.

During the next development cycle we will start implementing the new version of the zot protocol (zot6) which already powers Hubzillas social network oriented sibling Osada.

If you like what we do, please consider to support this project: https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/hubzilla

Get it while it's hot!
https://framagit.org/hubzilla

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Hubzilla 3.8 Hubzilla

Attention: Osada and Zap are merging

zotlabs.org | Osada

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:02:49 +0000

Mike Macgirvin wrote the following post Thu, 04 Oct 2018 01:28:18 +0000

Attention all Zap server admins (!!)
The Zap and Osada repositories are merging. This process will take several days. Once this is complete, you will be able to install or update either project from the same repository. The choice of which server you wish to run on your site will be made during Setup.

If you currently administer an Osada server, no action is necessary at this time. We will be providing updated repository URLs at a later date.

If you currently administer a Zap server, please edit your .htconfig.php file and add the following line:


define('NOMADIC',1);

This will ensure your server remains functional after the merger.

If anybody wants to know the reasoning behind this, it is because maintaining two repositories which are 98% identical but which are completely incompatible creates a lot of unnecessary work.

Zap Osada

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