From 938d286fb63df4d5c88b8ac97e33825c1ec0b45f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diogo Cordeiro Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:55:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [DOCUMENTATION] Add a CHANGELOG that includes a TODO list to reach alpha in v2 --- CHANGELOG.md | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 104 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CHANGELOG.md diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f98768d80a --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +# GNU social - Log of Changes + +## 2.0.0 - THIS. IS. GNU SOCIAL!!! [WIP] + +Release name chosen after 300 by Frank Miller where the main protagonist Leonidas, King of Sparta, declines peace with the +Persians, after being disrespected, by shouting at the Persian Messenger "This is Sparta!" and kicking him into a large well +proceeded by the killing of the other Persian messengers. + +Major changes from previous release: + +- New media handling system +- GS is now structurely divided in includes and public +- Composer was integrated +- OEmbed upgraded to Embed plugin (Now we provide Open Graph information too) + +TODO before alpha: + +- New image optimization system (intervention based) +- Move all PEAR components to Modern Composer Alternatives, namely: + - DB to Doctrine (consequences involves a new caching and queuing system) + - PEAR HTTP to Guzzle + - PEAR Mail to PHPSendMail +- Add full Redis support +- Add OAuth2 support (deprecate OAuth1) +- Add ActivityStreams 2.0 directly to core +- Add ActivityPub support +- Add shinny new Plugins management interface for sysadmins together with a new doc for devs +- Review failure tests + +## 1.20.x - The Invicta Crusade + +Release name chosen after Porto city. Porto is one of the oldest cities in Europe and thanks to its fierce resistance +during two battles and sieges in history, it has earned the epithet of ‘Cidade Invicta’ (Invincible City). The dev team +behind this release studies in Porto, Portugal. + +Dropped Support for PHP5.6.x. Minimum PHP version now is 7.0.0. + +Major changes from previous release: + +- Various patches on PEAR related components +- Various database related improvements +- Improved XMPP support +- Added Nodeinfo support +- Various i18n and l10n bug fixes +- Improvements on Internal Session Handler +- Improvements on OpenID support +- Improved Media handling and safer upload +- Redirect to previous page after login +- Initial work on full conversion to PHP7 +- Initial work on a better documentation +- Allow login with email +- Various bug fixes + +## 1.2.x - The good reign of PHP5 + +Dropped support for PHP5.4. + +New this version + +This is the development branch for the 1.2.x version of GNU social. All daring 1.1.x admins should upgrade to this version. + +So far it includes the following changes: + +- Backing up a user's account is more and more complete. +- Emojis 😸 (utf8mb4 support) + +The last release, 1.1.3, gave us these improvements: + +- XSS security fix (thanks Simon Waters, https://www.surevine.com/) +- Many improvements to ease adoption of the Qvitter front-end https://github.com/hannesmannerheim/qvitter +- Protocol adaptions for improved performance and stability + +Upgrades from StatusNet 1.1.1 will also experience these improvements: + +- Fixes for SQL injection errors in profile lists. +- Improved ActivityStreams JSON representation of activities and objects. +- Upgrade to the Twitter 1.1 API. +- More robust handling of errors in distribution. +- Fix error in OStatus subscription for remote groups. +- Fix error in XMPP distribution. +- Tracking of conversation URI metadata (more coherent convos) + +## 1.1.x - The Spanish Invasion + +New this version + +This is a security fix and bug fix release since 1.1.3-beta2. All 1.1.x sites should upgrade to this version. + +So far it includes the following changes: + +- XSS security fix (thanks Simon Waters, https://www.surevine.com/) +- Many improvements to ease adoption of the Qvitter front-end https://github.com/hannesmannerheim/qvitter +- Protocol adaptions for improved performance and stability +- Backing up a user's account now appears to work as it should + +Upgrades from StatusNet 1.1.1 will also experience these improvements: + +- Fixes for SQL injection errors in profile lists. +- Improved ActivityStreams JSON representation of activities and objects. +- Upgrade to the Twitter 1.1 API. +- More robust handling of errors in distribution. +- Fix error in OStatus subscription for remote groups. +- Fix error in XMPP distribution. +- Tracking of conversation URI metadata (more coherent convos)