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Major Sidekiq update

This release includes a major upgrade of the background processing system Sidekiq. To upgrade cleanly:

Stop diaspora*
Run RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec sidekiq and wait 5-10 minutes, then stop it again (hit CTRL+C)
Do a normal upgrade of diaspora*
Start diaspora*

Rails 4 - Manual action required

Please edit config/initializers/secret_token.rb, replacing secret_token with
secret_key_base.

# Old
Rails.application.config.secret_token = '***********...'

# New
Diaspora::Application.config.secret_key_base = '*************...'

You also need to take care to set RAILS_ENV and to clear the cache while precompiling assets: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake tmp:cache:clear assets:precompile

Supported Ruby versions

This release drops official support for the Ruby 1.9 series. This means we will no longer test against this Ruby version or take care to choose libraries
that work with it. However that doesn't mean we won't accept patches that improve running diaspora* on it.

At the same time we adopt support for the Ruby 2.1 series and recommend running on the latest Ruby version of that branch. We continue to support the Ruby 2.0
series and run our comprehensive test suite against it.

Change in defaults.yml

The default for including jQuery from a CDN has changed. If you want to continue to include it from a CDN, please explicitly set the jquery_cdn setting to true in diaspora.yml.

Change in database.yml

For MySQL databases, replace charset: utf8 with encoding: utf8mb4 and change collation from utf8_bin to utf8mb4_bin in the file config/database.yml.
This is enables full UTF8 support (4bytes characters), including standard emoji characters.
See database.yml.example for reference.
Please make sure to stop Diaspora prior running this migration!

Experimental chat feature

This release adds experimental integration with XMPP for real-time chat. Please see our wiki for further informations.

Change in statistics.json schema

The way services are shown in the statistics.json route is changing. The keys relating to showing whether services are enabled or not are moving to their own container as "services": {....}, instead of having them all in the root level of the JSON.

The keys will still be available in the root level within the 0.5 release. The old keys will be removed in the 0.6 release.

New maintenance feature to automatically expire inactive accounts

Removing of old inactive users can now be done automatically by background processing. The amount of inactivity is set by after_days. A warning email will be sent to the user and after an additional warn_days, the account will be automatically closed.

This maintenance is not enabled by default. Podmins can enable it by for example copying over the new settings under settings.maintenance to their diaspora.yml file and setting it enabled. The default setting is to expire accounts that have been inactive for 2 years (no login).

Camo integration to proxy external assets

It is now possible to enable an automatic proxying of external assets, for example images embedded via Markdown or OpenGraph thumbnails loaded from insecure third party servers through a Camo proxy.

This is disabled by default since it requires the installation of additional packages and might cause some traffic. Check the wiki page for more information and detailed installation instructions.

Paypal unhosted button and currency

Podmins can now set the currency for donations, and use an unhosted button if they can't use
a hosted one. Note: you need to copy the new settings from diaspora.yml.example to your
diaspora.yml file. The existing settings from 0.4.x and before will not work any more.

Custom splash page changes

diaspora* no longer adds a div.container to wrap custom splash pages. This adds the ability for podmins to write home pages using Bootstrap's fluid design. Podmins who added a custom splash page in app/views/home/_show.{html,mobile}.haml need to wrap the contents into a div.container to keep the old design. You will find updated examples in our wiki.

Refactor

Redesign contacts page #5153
Improve profile page design on mobile #5084
Port test suite to RSpec 3 #5170
Port tag stream to Bootstrap #5138
Consolidate migrations, if you need a migration prior 2013, checkout the latest release in the 0.4.x series first #5173
Add tests for mobile sign up #5185
Display new conversation form on conversations/index #5178
Port profile page to Backbone #5180
Pull punycode.js from rails-assets.org #5263
Redesign profile page and port to Bootstrap #4657
Unify stream selection links in the left sidebar #5271
Refactor schema of statistics.json regarding services #5296
Pull jquery.idle-timer.js from rails-assets.org #5310
Pull jquery.placeholder.js from rails-assets.org #5299
Pull jquery.textchange.js from rails-assets.org #5297
Pull jquery.hotkeys.js from rails-assets.org #5368
Reduce amount of useless background job retries and pull public posts when missing #5209
Updated Weekly User Stats admin page to show data for the most recent week including reversing the order of the weeks in the drop down to show the most recent. #5331
Convert some cukes to RSpec tests #5289
Hidden overflow for long names on tag pages #5279
Always reshare absolute root of a post #5276
Convert remaining SASS stylesheets to SCSS #5342
Update rack-protection #5403
Cleanup diaspora.yml #5426
Replace opengraph_parser with open_graph_reader #5462
Make sure conversations without any visibilities left are deleted #5478
Change tooltip for delete button in conversations view #5477
Replace a modifier-rescue with a specific rescue #5491
Port contacts page to backbone #5473
Replace CSS vendor prefixes automatically #5532
Use sentence case consistently throughout UI #5588
Hide sign up button when registrations are disabled #5612
Standardize capitalization throughout the UI #5588
Display photos on the profile page as thumbnails #5521
Unify not connected pages (sign in, sign up, forgot password) #5391
Port remaining stream pages to Bootstrap #5715
Port notification dropdown to Backbone #5707 #5761
Add rounded corners for avatars #5733
Move registration form to a partial #5764
Add tests for liking and unliking posts #5741
Rewrite slide effect in conversations as css transition for better performance #5776
Various cleanups and improvements in the frontend code #5781 #5769 #5763 #5762 #5758 #5755 #5747 #5734 #5786 #5768
Add specs and validations to the role model #5792
Replace 'Make something' text by diaspora ball logo on registration page #5743

Bug fixes

orca cannot see 'Add Contact' button #5158
Move submit button to the right in conversations view #4960
Handle long URLs and titles in OpenGraph descriptions #5208
Fix deformed getting started popover #5227
Use correct locale for invitation subject #5232
Initial support for IDN emails
Fix services settings reported by statistics.json #5256
Only collapse empty comment box #5328
Fix pagination for people/guid/contacts #5304
Fix poll creation on Bootstrap pages #5334
Show error message on invalid reset password attempt #5325
Fix translations on mobile password reset pages #5318
Handle unset user agent when signing out #5316
More robust URL parsing for oEmbed and OpenGraph #5347
Fix Publisher doesn't expand while uploading images #3098
Drop unneeded and too open crossdomain.xml
Fix hidden aspect dropdown on getting started page #5407
Fix a few issues on Bootstrap pages #5401
Improve handling of the more link on mobile stream pages #5400
Fix prefilling publisher after getting started #5442
Fix overflow in profile sidebar #5450
Fix code overflow in SPV and improve styling for code tags #5422
Correctly validate if local recipients actually want to receive a conversation #5449
Improve consistency of poll answer ordering #5471
Fix broken aspect selectbox on asynchronous search results #5488
Replace %{third_party_tools} by the appropriate hyperlink in tags FAQ #5509
Repair downloading the profile image from Facebook #5493
Fix localization of post and comment timestamps on mobile #5482
Fix mobile JS loading to quieten errors. Fixes also service buttons on mobile bookmarklet.
Don't error out when adding a too long location to the profile #5614
Correctly decrease unread count for conversations #5646
Fix automatic scroll for conversations #5646
Fix missing translation on privacy settings page #5671
Fix code overflow for the mobile website #5675
Strip Unicode format characters prior post processing #5680
Disable email notifications for closed user accounts #5640
Total user statistic no longer includes closed accounts #5041
Don't add a space when rendering a mention #5711
Fix flickering hovercards #5714 #5876
Improved stripping markdown in post titles #5730
Remove border from reply form for conversations #5744
Fix overflow for headings, blockquotes and other elements #5731
Correct photo count on profile page #5751
Fix mobile sign up from an invitation #5754
Set max-width for tag following button on tag page #5752
Display error messages for failed password change #5580
Display correct error message for too long tags #5783
Fix displaying reshares in the stream on mobile #5790
Remove bottom margin from lists that are the last element of a post. #5721
Fix pagination design on conversations page #5791
Prevent inserting posts into the wrong stream #5838
Update help section #5857 #5859
Fix asset precompilation check in script/server #5863
Convert MySQL databases to utf8mb4 #5530 #5624 #5865
Don't upcase labels on mobile sign up/sign in #5872

Features

Don't pull jQuery from a CDN by default #5105
Better character limit message #5151
Remember whether a AccountDeletion was performed #5156
Increased the number of notifications shown in drop down bar to 15 #5129
Increase possible captcha length #5169
Display visibility icon in publisher aspects dropdown #4982
Add a link to the reported comment in the admin panel #5337
Strip search query from leading and trailing whitespace #5317
Add the "network" key to statistics.json and set it to "Diaspora" #5308
Infinite scrolling in the notifications dropdown #5237
Maintenance feature to automatically expire inactive accounts #5288
Add LibreJS markers to JavaScript 5320
Ask for confirmation when leaving a submittable publisher #5309
Allow page-specific styling via individual CSS classes #5282
Change diaspora logo in the header on hover #5355
Display diaspora handle in search results #5419
Show a message on the ignored users page when there are none #5434
Truncate too long OpenGraph descriptions #5387
Make the source code URL configurable #5410
Prefill publisher on the tag pages #5442
Don't include the content of non-public posts into notification mails #5494
Allow to set unhosted button and currency for paypal donation #5452
Add followed tags in the mobile menu #5468
Replace Pagedown with markdown-it #5526
Do not truncate notification emails anymore #4342
Allows users to export their data in gzipped JSON format from their user settings page #5499
Strip EXIF data from newly uploaded images #5510
Hide user setting if the community spotlight is not enabled on the pod #5562
Add HTML view for pod statistics #5464
Added/Moved hide, block user, report and delete button in SPV #5547
Added keyboard shortcuts r(reshare), m(expand Post), o(open first link in post) #5602
Added dropdown to add/remove people from/to aspects in mobile view #5594
Dynamically compute minimum and maximum valid year for birthday field #5639
Show hovercard on mentions #5652
Make help sections linkable #5667
Add invitation link to contacts page #5655
Add year to notifications page #5676
Give admins the ability to lock & unlock accounts #5643
Add reshares to the stream view immediately #5699
Update and improve help section #5665, #5706
Expose participation controls in the stream view #5511
Reimplement photo export #5685
Add participation controls in the single post view #5722
Display polls on reshares #5782
Remove footer from stream pages #5816

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