Hubzilla 9.0 is here and delivers many improvements under the hood and at the UI level. Two of the most asked features have been implemented: repeats a.k.a. boosts and adjustable theme colors at the channel and site level. Hubmins can also customize other components via the bootstrap sass variables.
Under the hood we implemented a short term object cash which will improve performance when fetching objects. The internal use of ActivityStreams1 has been deprecated in favor of ActivityStreams2. Object integrity proofs (EddsaSignatures) according to fep-8b32 have been implemented. Interesting for developers: CI and the test environment have been vastly improved.
Other notable changes are: refactored browser to browser encryption using the modern sodium crypto library and support for custom emojis with configurable emoji sets.
For a complete list of changes in
Hubzilla 9.0 please refer to the
changelog.
A big
THANK YOU! to all contributors and everybody who supports Hubzilla and its development.
Breaking changes
- The .htaccess file has been updated to fix an issue with recent Apache versions
- Require sodium PHP extension
- Require bcmath or gmp PHP extension
- Require intl PHP extension
- Versions < 9.0 will not be able to decrypt encrypted messages composed in version 9.0 in the UI
- Poke and Mood apps removed
- Removed smiley button addon
- Removed smiley_pack addon
- Removed emojione addon (use the emoji addon instead)
- Removed fediwordle addon (use the fediquest addon instead)
- Individual connection filters need manual intervention (e.g. replace
http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/share with Announce when filtering repeats)
Update
- Backup your data
- Make sure that the sodium PHP extension is installed and enabled
- Make sure that either the bcmath or gmp PHP extension is installed and enabled
- Make sure that the intl PHP extension is installed and enabled
- Execute
util/udall
Install
Please refer to the
install instructions.
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