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Warning: This release contains long migrations

This diaspora* releases comes with a few database cleanup migrations and they could possible take a while. While you should always do that, it is especially important this time to make sure you run the migrations inside a detachable environment like screen or tmux. A interrupted SSH session could possibly harm your database. Also, please make a backup.

The DB environment variable is gone

With Bundler 1.10 supporting optional groups, we removed the DB environment variable. When updating to this release, please update
bundler and select the database support you want:

gem install bundler
bundle install --with mysql # For MySQL and MariaDB
bundle install --with postgresql # For PostgreSQL

For production setups we now additionally recommend adding the --deployment flag.
If you set the DB environment variable anywhere, that's no longer necessary.

Supported Ruby versions

This release recommends using Ruby 2.3, while retaining Ruby 2.1 as an officially supported version.
Ruby 2.0 is no longer officially supported.

Configuration changes

Please note that the default listen parameter for production setups got
changed. diaspora* will no longer listen on 0.0.0.0:3000 as it will now
bind to an UNIX socket at unix:tmp/diaspora.sock. Please change your local
diaspora.yml if necessary.

Redis namespace support dropped

We dropped support for Redis namespaces in this release. If you previously set
a custom namespace, please note that diaspora* will no longer use the
configured value. By default, Redis supports up to 8 databases which can be
selected via the Redis URL in diaspora.yml. Please check the examples
provided in our configuration example file.

Terms of Use design changes

With the port to Bootstrap 3, app/views/terms/default.haml has a new structure. If you have created a customised app/views/terms/terms.haml or app/views/terms/terms.erb file, you will need to edit those files to base your customisations on the new default.haml file.

API authentication

This release makes diaspora* a OpenID Connect provider. This means you can authenticate to third parties with your diaspora* account and let
them act as your diaspora* account on your behalf. This feature is still considered in early development, we still expect edge cases and advanced
features of the specificiation to not be handled correctly or be missing. But we expect a basic OpenID Connect compliant client to work. Please submit issues!
We will also most likely still change the authorization scopes we offer and started with a very minimal set.
Most work still required is on documentation as well as designing and implementing the data API for all of Diaspora's functionality.
Contributions are very welcome, the hard work is done!

Vines got replaced by Prosody

Due to many issues with Vines, we decided to remove Vines and offer a Prosody
example configuration instead. Check the
wiki
for more information on how to migrate to Prosody if you've been using Vines
before.

Sidekiq queue changes

We've decreased the amount of sidekiq queues from 13 to 5 in PR #6950.
The new queues are organized according to priority for the jobs they will process. When upgrading please make sure to
empty the sidekiq queues before shutting down the server for an update.

If you run your sidekiq with a custom queue configuration, please make sure to update that for the new queues.

The new queues are: urgent, high, medium, low, default.

When you upgrade to the new version, some jobs may persist in the old queues. To move them to the default queue,
so they're processed, run:

bin/rake migrations:legacy_queues

Note that this will retry all dead jobs, if you want to prevent that empty the dead queue first.

The command will report queues that still have jobs and launch sidekiq process for that queues.

Refactor

Improve bookmarklet #5904
Update listen configuration to listen on unix sockets by default #5974
Port to Bootstrap 3 #6015
Use a fixed width for the mobile drawer #6057
Replace jquery.autoresize with autosize #6104
Improve mobile conversation design #6087
Replace remaining faceboxes with Bootstrap modals #6106 #6161
Rewrite header using Bootstrap 3 #6109 #6130 #6132
Use upstream CSS mappings for Entypo #6158
Replace some mobile icons with Entypo #6218
Refactor publisher backbone view #6228
Replace MBP.autogrow with autosize on mobile #6261
Improve mobile drawer transition #6233
Remove unused header icons and an unused favicon #6283
Replace mobile icons for post interactions with Entypo icons #6291
Replace jquery.autocomplete with typeahead.js #6293
Redesign sidebars on stream pages #6309
Improve ignored users styling #6349
Use Blueimp image gallery instead of lightbox #6301
Unify mobile and desktop header design #6285
Add white background and box-shadow to stream elements #6324
Override Bootstrap list group design #6345
Clean up publisher code #6336
Port conversations to new design #6431
Hide cancel button in publisher on small screens #6435
Replace mobile background with color #6415
Port flash messages to backbone #6395
Change login/registration/forgot password button color #6504
A note regarding ignoring users was added to the failure messages on commenting/liking #6646
Replace sidetiq with sidekiq-cron #6616
Refactor mobile comment section #6509
Set vertical resize as default for all textareas #6654
Unifiy max-widths and page layouts #6675
Enable autosizing for all textareas #6674
Stream faces are gone #6686
Refactor mobile javascript and add tests #6394
Dropped parent_author_signature from relayables #6586
Attached ShareVisibilities to the User, not the Contact #6723
Refactor mentions input, now based on typeahead.js #6728
Optimized the pod up checks #6727
Prune and do not create aspect visibilities for public posts #6732
Optimized mobile login and registration forms #6764
Redesign stream pages #6535
Improve search and mentions suggestions #6788
Redesign back to top button #6782
Adjusted Facebook integration for a successful review #6778
Redirect to the sign-in page instead of the stream on account deletion #6784
Removed own unicorn killer by a maintained third-party gem #6792
Removed deprecated REDISTOGO_URL environment variable #6863
Use Poltergeist instead of Selenium #6768
Redesigned the landing page and added dedicated notes for podmins #6268
Moved the entire federation implementation into its own gem. 🎉 #6873
Remove StatusMessage#raw_message #6921
Extract photo export into a service class #6922
Use handlebars template for aspect membership dropdown #6864
Extract relayable signatures into their own tables #6932
Remove outdated columns from posts table #6940
Remove some unused routes #6781
Consolidate sidekiq queues #6950
Don't re-render the whole comment stream when adding comments #6406
Drop legacy invitation system #6976
More consistent and updated meta tags throughout #6998

Bug fixes

Destroy Participation when removing interactions with a post #5852
Improve accessibility of a couple pages #6227
Capitalize "Powered by diaspora" #6254
Display username and avatar for NSFW posts in mobile view #6245
Prevent multiple comment boxes on mobile #6363
Correctly display location in post preview #6429
Do not fail when submitting an empty comment in the mobile view #6543
Limit flash message width on small devices #6529
Add navbar on mobile when not logged in #6483
Fix timeago tooltips for reshares #6648
"Getting started" is now turned off after first visit on mobile #6681
Fixed a 500 when liking on mobile without JS enabled #6683
Fixed profile image upload in the mobile UI #6684
Fixed eye not stopping all processes when trying to exit script/server #6693
Do not change contacts count when marking notifications on the contacts page as read #6718
Fix typeahead for non-latin characters #6741
Fix upload size error on mobile #6803
Connection tester handles invalid NodeInfo implementations #6890
Do not allow to change email to an already used one #6905
Correctly filter mentions on the server side #6902
Add aspects to the aspect membership dropdown when creating them on the getting started page #6864
Strip markdown from message preview in conversations list #6923
Improve tag stream performance #6903
Only show mutual contacts in conversations auto suggestions #7001

Features

Support color themes #6033
Add mobile services and privacy settings pages #6086
Optionally make your extended profile details public #6162
Add admin dashboard showing latest diaspora* version #6216
Display poll & location on mobile #6238
Update counts on contacts page dynamically #6240
Add support for relay based public post federation #6207
Bigger mobile publisher #6261
Backend information panel & health checks for known pods #6290
Allow users to view a posts locations on an OpenStreetMap #6256
Redesign and unify error pages #6428
Redesign and refactor report admin interface #6378
Add permalink icon to stream elements #6457
Move reshare count to interactions for stream elements #6487
Posts of ignored users are now visible on that profile page #6617
Add white color theme #6631
Add answer counts to poll #6641
Check for collapsible posts after images in posts have loaded #6671
Add reason for post report to email sent to admins #6679
Add links to the single post view of the related post to photos in the photo stream #6621
Add a note for people with disabled JavaScript #6777
Do not include conversation subject in notification mail #6910
Add 'Be excellent to each other!' to the sidebar #6914
Expose Sidekiq dead queue configuration options
Properly support pluralization in timeago strings #6926
Return all contacts in people search #6951
Make screenreaders read alerts #6973
Display message when there are no posts in a stream #6974
Add bootstrap-markdown editor to the publisher #6551
Don't create notifications for ignored users #6984
Fetch missing persons when receiving a mention for them #6992

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