Head

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 comphrensive testsuite 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 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.

Refactor

Redesign contacts page #5153
Improve profile page design on mobile #5084
Port testsuite 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
Reduce number of useless background job retries and pull public posts when missing [#5209](diaspora/diaspora#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

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

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

0.4.1.1

Fix XSS issue in poll questions #5274

0.4.1.0

New 'Terms of Service' feature and template

This release brings a new ToS feature that allows pods to easily display to users the terms of service they are operating on. This feature is not enabled by default. If you want to enable it, please add under settings in config/diaspora.yml the following and restart diaspora. If in doubt see config/diaspora.yml.example:

terms:
  enable: true

When enabled, the footer and sidebar will have a link to terms page, and signup will have a disclaimer indicating that creating an account means the user accepts the terms of use.

While the project itself doesn't restrict what kind of terms pods run on, we realize not all podmins want to spend time writing them from scratch. Thus there is a basic ToS template included that will be used unless a custom one available.

To modify (or completely rewrite) the terms template, create a file called app/views/terms/terms.haml or app/views/terms/terms.erb and it will automatically replace the default template, which you can find at app/views/terms/default.haml.

There are also two configuration settings to customize the terms (when using the default template). These are optional.

settings.terms.jurisdiction - indicate here in which country or state any legal disputes are handled.
settings.terms.minimum_age - indicate here if you want to show a minimum required age for creating an account.

Rake task to email users

There is a new Rake task podmin:admin_mail available to allow podmins to easily send news and notices to users. The rake task triggers emails via the normal diaspora mailer mechanism (so they are embedded in the standard template) and takes the following parameters:

Users definition

all - all users in the database (except deleted)
active_yearly - users logged in within the last year
active_monthly - users logged in within the last month
active_halfyear - users logged in within the last 6 months

Path to message file

Give here a path to a HTML or plain text file that contains the message.

Subject

A subject for the email

Example shell command (depending on your environment);

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake podmin:admin_mail['active_monthly','./message.html','Important message from pod']

Read more about specifying arguments to Rake tasks.

Refactor

Port help pages to Bootstrap #5050
Refactor Notification#notify #4945
Port getting started to Bootstrap #5057
Port people search page to Bootstrap #5077
Clarify explanations and defaults in diaspora.yml.example #5088
Consistent header spacing on Bootstrap pages #5108
Port settings pages (account, profile, privacy, services) to Bootstrap #5039
Port contacts and community spotlight pages to Bootstrap #5118
Redesign login page #5112
Change mark read link on notifications page #5141

Bug fixes

Fix hiding of poll publisher on close #5029
Fix padding in user menu #5047
Fix self-XSS when renaming an aspect #5048
Fix live updating when renaming an aspect #5049
Use double quotes when embedding translations into Javascript #5055
Fix regression in mobile sign-in (commit)
Set mention notification as read when viewing post #5006
Set sharing notification as read when viewing profile #5009
Ensure a consistent border on text input elements #5069
Escape person name in contacts json returned by Conversations#new
Make sure all parts of the hovercard are always in front #5188

Features

Port admin pages to bootstrap, polish user search results, allow accounts to be closed from the backend #5046
Reference Salmon endpoint in Webfinger XRD to aid discovery by alternative implementations #5062
Change minimal birth year for the birthday field to 1910 #5083
Add scrolling thumbnail switcher in the lightbox #5102
Add help section about keyboard shortcuts #5100
Automatically add poll answers as needed #5109
Add Terms of Service as an option for podmins, includes base template #5104
Add rake task to send a mail to all users #5111
Expose which services are configured in /statistics.json #5121
In filtered notification views, replace "Mark all as read" with "Mark shown as read" #5122
When ignoring a user remove his posts from the stream instantly #5127
Allow to delete photos from the pictures stream #5131

0.4.0.1

Bug fixes

Fix performance regression on stream loading with MySQL/MariaDB database backends #5014
Fix issue with post reporting #5017

0.4.0.0

Ensure account deletions are run

A regression caused accounts deletions to not properly perform in some cases, see #4792. To ensure these are reexecuted properly, please run RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake accounts:run_deletions after you've upgraded.

Change in guid generation

This version will break federation to pods running on versions prior 0.1.1.0.

Refactor

Drop number of followers from tags page #4717
Remove some unused beta code #4738
Style improvements for SPV, use original author's avatar for reshares #4754
Update image branding to the new decided standard #4702
Consistent naming of conversations and messages #4756
Improve stream generation time #4769
Port help pages to backbone #4768
Add participants to conversations menu #4656
Update forgot_password and reset_password pages #4707
Change jQuery CDN to jquery.com from googleapis.com #4765
Update to jQuery 10
Port publisher and bookmarklet to Bootstrap #4678
Improve search page, add better indications #4794
Port notifications and hovercards to Bootstrap #4814
Replace .rvmrc by .ruby-version and .ruby-gemset #4854
Reorder and reword items on user settings page #4912
SPV: Improve padding and interaction counts #4426
Remove auto 'mark as read' for notifications #4810
Improve set read/unread in notifications dropdown #4869
Refactor publisher: trigger events for certain actions, introduce 'disabled' state #4932

Bug fixes

Fix user account deletion #4953 and #4963
Fix email body language when invite a friend #4832
Improve time agos by updating the plugin #4281
Do not add a space after adding a mention #4767
Fix active user statistics by saving a last seen timestamp for users #4802
Render HTML in atom user feed #4835
Fix plaintext mode of Mentionable #4831
Fixed Atom Feed Error if reshared Post is deleted #4841
Show hovercards in the notification drop-down for users on the same pod #4843
The photo stream no longer repeats after the last photo #4787
Fix avatar alignment for hovercards in the notifications dropdown #4853
Do not parse hashtags inside Markdown links #4856
Restore comment textarea content after revealing more comments #4858
OpenGraph: don't make description into links #4708
Don't cut off long tags in stream posts #4878
Do not replace earlier appearances of the name while mentioning somebody #4882
Catch exceptions when trying to decode an invalid URI #4889
Redirect to the stream when switching the mobile publisher to desktop #4917
Parsing mention witch contain in username special characters #4919
Do not show your own hovercard #4758
Hit Nominatim via https #4968

Features

You can report a single post or comment by clicking the correct icon in the controler section #4517 #4781
Add permalinks for comments #4577
New menu for the mobile version #4673
Added comment count to statistic to enable calculations of posts/comments ratios #4799
Add filters to notifications controller #4814
Activate hovercards in SPV and conversations #4870
Added possibility to conduct polls #4861 #4894 #4897 #4899

0.3.0.3

Bump Rails to 3.2.17, fixes CVE-2014-0081, CVE-2014-0082. For more information see http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/2/18/Rails_3_2_17_4_0_3_and_4_1_0_beta2_have_been_released/

0.3.0.2

Bug fixes

Use youtube HTTPS scheme for oEmbed #4743
Fix infinite scroll on aspect streams #4747
Fix hovercards #4782
Bump kaminari to fix admin panel #4714

0.3.0.1

Bug fixes

Fix regression caused by using after_commit with nested '#save' which lead to an infinite recursion #4715
Save textarea value before rendering comments when clicked 'show more...' #4858

0.3.0.0

Pod statistics

A new feature has been added to allow pods to report extra statistics. Automatically after this code change, the route /statistics.json contains some basic data that was also available before via page headers (pod name, version, status of signups). But also, optionally podmins can enable user and post counts in the diaspora.yml configuration file. The counts are by default switched off, so if you want to report the total user, active user and local post counts, please edit your diaspora.yml configuration with the example values in diaspora.yml.example and uncomment the required lines as indicated.

Ruby 2.0

We now recommend using Ruby 2.0 with Diaspora. If you're using RVM make sure to run:

rvm get stable
rvm install 2.0.0
cd ~/diaspora
git pull
cd - && cd ..

For more details see https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Updating

Refactor

Remove old SPV code #4612
Move non-model federation stuff into lib/ #4363
Build a color palette to uniform color usage #4437 #4469 #4479
Rename bitcoin_wallet_id setting to bitcoin_address #4485
Batch insert posts into stream collection for a small speedup #4341
Ported fileuploader to Backbone and refactored publisher views #4480
Refactor 404.html, fix #4078
Remove the (now useless) last post link from the user profile. #4540
Refactor ConversationsController, move query building to User model. #4547
Refactor the Twitter service model #4387
Refactor ConversationsController#create, move more stuff to User model #4551
Refactor MessagesController#create, move stuff to User model #4556
Reorder the left bar side menu to put the stream first #4569
Improve notifications and conversations views design on mobile #4593
Slight redesign of mobile publisher #4604
Port conversations to Bootstrap #4622
Remove participants popover and improve conversations menu #4644
Refactor right side bar #4793

Bug fixes

Highlight down arrow at the user menu on hover #4441
Make invite code input width consistent across browsers #4448
Fix style of contacts in profile sidebar #4451
Fix profile mobile when logged out #4464
Fix preview with more than one mention #4450
Fix size of images in the SPV #4471
Adjust 404 message description to not leak logged out users if a post exists or not #4477
Make I18n system more robust against missing keys in pluralization data
Prevent overflow of too long strings in the single post view #4487
Disable submit button in sign up form after submission to avoid email already exists error #4506
Do not pull the 404 pages assets from Amazon S3 #4501
Fix counter background does not cover more than 2 digits on profile #4499
Fix commenting upon submission fail [#4005] (diaspora/diaspora#4005)
Fix date color and alignment in the notifications dropdown #4502
Add a white background to images shown in the lightbox #4475
Refactor getting_started page, test if facebook is available, fix #4520
Avoid publishing empty posts #4542
Force comments sort order in mobile spv #4578
Fix getting started page for mobile #4536
Refactor mobile header, fix #4579
Fix avatar display on mobile profile #4591
Add lightbox to unauthenticated header, fix #4432
Fix "more picture" indication (+n) on mobile by adding a link on the indication #4592
Display errors when photo upload fails #4509
Fix posting to Twitter by correctly catching exception #4627
Change "Show n more comments"-link, fix #3119
Specify Firefox version for Travis-CI #4623
Remove location when publisher is cleared by user
On signup form errors, don't empty previous values by user, fix #4663
Remove background from badges in header #4692

Features

Add oEmbed content to the mobile view #4343
One click to select the invite URL #4447
Disable "mark all as read" link if all notifications are read #4463
Collapse aspect list and tag followings list when switching to other views #4462
Highlight current stream in left sidebar #4445
Added ignore user icon on user profile #4417
Improve the management of the contacts visibility settings in an aspect #4567
Add actions on aspects on the contact page #4570
Added a statistics route with general pod information, and if enabled in pod settings, total user, half year/monthly active users and local post counts #4602
Add indication about markdown formatting in the publisher #4589
Add captcha to signup form #4659
Update Underscore.js 1.3.1 to 1.5.2, update Backbone.js 0.9.2 to 1.1.0 #4662
Display more than 8 pictures on a post #4796

Gem updates

Added:

atomic (1.1.14)
bcrypt-ruby (3.1.2)
backbone-on-rails (1.1.0.0)
devise thread_safe (0.1)
eco (1.0.0)
eco-source (1.1.0.rc.1)
ejs (1.1.1)
galetahub-simple_captcha (0.1.5)
thread_safe (0.1.3)
zip-zip (0.2)

Removed:

bcrypt-ruby
rb-kqueue
slim
temple

Updated:

acts_as_api 0.4.1 -> 0.4.2
capybara 2.1.0 -> 2.2.1
celluloid (0.13.0 -> 0.15.2
chunky_png 1.2.8 -> 1.2.9
client_side_validations 3.2.5 -> 3.2.6
coderay 1.0.9 -> 1.1.0
connection_pool 1.0.0 -> 1.2.0
crack 0.4.0 -> 0.4.1
cucumber 1.3.5 -> 1.3.10
cucumber-rails 1.3.1 -> 1.4.0
database_cleaner 1.1.0 -> 1.2.0
devise 3.0.2 -> 3.2.2
diff-lcs 1.2.4 -> 1.2.5
ethon 0.5.12 -> 0.6.2
excon 0.25.3 -> 0.31.0
factory_girl 4.2.0 -> 4.3.0
factory_girl_rails 4.2.0 -> 4.3.0
faraday 0.8.8 -> 0.8.9
ffi 1.9.0 -> 1.9.3
fog 1.14.0 -> 1.19.0
foreigner 1.4.2 -> 1.6.1
fuubar 1.1.1 -> 1.3.2
gherkin 2.12.0 -> 2.12.2
guard 1.8.2 -> 2.2.5
guard-cucumber 1.4.0 -> 1.4.1
guard-rspec 3.0.2 -> 4.2.4
haml 4.0.3 -> 4.0.5
i18n-inflector-rails 1.0.6 -> 1.0.7
json 1.8.0 -> 1.8.1
jwt 0.1.8 -> 0.1.10
kaminari 0.14.1 -> 0.15.0
kgio 2.8.0 -> 2.8.1
listen 1.2.2 -> 2.4.0
mini_magick 3.6.0 -> 3.7.0
mini_profile 0.5.1 -> 0.5.2
mobile-fu 1.2.1 -> 1.2.2
multi_json 1.7.9 -> 1.8.4
multi_test 0.0.2 -> 0.0.3
mysql2 0.3.13 -> 0.3.14
net-ssh 2.6.8 -> 2.7.0
nokogiri 1.6.0 -> 1.6.1
omniauth-facebook 1.4.1 -> 1.6.0
omniauth-twitter 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1
orm_adapter 0.4.0 -> 0.5.0
pry 0.9.12.2 -> 0.9.12.4
rack-google-analytics 0.11.0 -> 0.14.0
rack-rewrite 1.3.3 -> 1.5.0
rails_autolink 1.1.0 -> 1.1.5
raindrops 0.11.0 -> 0.12.0
rake 10.1.0 -> 10.1.1
rb-fsevent 0.9.3 -> 0.9.4
rb-inotify 0.9.0 -> 0.9.3
redis 3.0.4 -> 3.0.6
redis-namespace 1.3.0 -> 1.4.1
rspec 2.13.0 -> 2.14.1
rspec-core 2.13.1 -> 2.14.7
rspec-expectations 2.13.0 -> 2.14.4
rspec-mocks 2.13.1 -> 2.14.4
rspec-rails 2.13.2 -> 2.14.1
ruby-oembed 0.8.8 -> 0.8.9
ruby-progressbar 1.1.1 -> 1.4.0
selenium-webdriver 2.34.0 -> 2.39.0
sidekiq 2.11.1 -> 2.17.2
slop 3.4.6 -> 3.4.7
spork 1.0.0rc3 -> 1.0.0rc4
strong_parameters 0.2.1 -> 0.2.2
test_after_commit 0.2.0 -> 0.2.2
timers 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0
timecop 0.6.1 -> 0.7.1
typhoeus 0.6.3 -> 0.6.7
unicorn 4.6.3 -> 4.8.0
webmock 1.13.0 -> 1.16.1
will_paginate 3.0.4 -> 3.0.5

0.2.0.1

Bump rails to version 3.2.16, fixes several security issues, see http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/
Bump recommended Ruby version to 1.9.3-p484, see https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164/

0.2.0.0

Attention: This release includes a potentially long running migration! However it should be safe to run this while keeping your application servers on.

Refactor

Service and ServiceController, general code reorg to make it cleaner/+ testable/+ extensible #4344
Background actual mailing when sending invitations #4069
Set the current user on the client side through gon #4028
Update sign out route to a DELETE request #4068
Convert all ActivityStreams::Photo to StatusMessages and drop ActivityStreams::Photo #4144
Port the Rails application to strong_parameters in preparation to the upgrade to Rails 4 #4143
Refactor left bar side menu, improve tag autosuggestion design #4271, #4316
Extract and factorize the header css in a new file, fix ugly header in registration #4389
Move contact list on profile to profile information, show user his own contacts on profile #4360
Refactor metas, HTML is now valid #4356
Improve sharing message and mention/message buttons on profile #4374

Bug fixes

Check twitter write access before adding/authorizing it for a user. #4124
Don't focus comment form on 'show n more comments' #4265
Do not render mobile photo view for none-existing photos #4194
Render markdown content for prettier email subjects and titles #4182
Disable invite button after sending invite #4173
Fix pagination for people list on the tag stream page #4245
Fix missing timeago tooltip in conversations #4257
Fix link to background image #4289
Fix Facebox icons 404s when called from Backbone
Fix deleting a post from Facebook #4290
Display notices a little bit longer to help on sign up errors #4274
Fix user contact sharing/receiving #4163
Change image to ajax-loader when closing lightbox #3229
Fix pointer cursor on the file upload button #4349
Resize preview button #4355
Fix compability problem with MySQL 5.6 #4312
Don't collapse the post preview #4346
Improve mobile usability #4354
Descending text is no longer cut off in orange welcome banner #4377
Adjust Facebook character limit to reality #4380
Restore truncated URLs when posting to Twitter #4211
Fix mobile search tags #4392
Remove placeholders for name fields in settings (no more Sofaer) #4385
Problems with layout the registration page for mobile. #4396
Do not display photos in the background in the SPV #4407
Fix mobile view of deleted reshares #4397
Fix the overlapping of embedded youtube videos #2943
Fix opacity of control icons #4414
Add hover state to header icons #4436
Fix check icon regression on contacts page #4440
Do not leak non public photos
Fix check icon alignment in aspect dropdown #4443

Features

Admin: add option to find users under 13 (COPPA) #4252
Show the user if a contact is sharing with them when viewing their profile page #2948
Made Unicorn timeout configurable and increased the default to 90 seconds
Follow DiasporaHQ upon account creation is now configurable to another account #4278
Use first header as title in the single post view, when possible #4256
Close publisher when clicking on the page outside of it #4282
Deleting a post deletes it from Tumblr too #4331
OpenGraph support #4215
Added Wordpress service ability for posts. #4321
Implement tag search autocomplete in header search box #4169
Uncheck 'make contacts visible to each other' by default when adding new aspect. #4343
Add possibility to ask for Bitcoin donations #4375
Remove posts, comments and private conversations from the mobile site. #4408 #4409
Added a link to user photos and thumbnails are shown in the left side bar #4347
Rework the single post view #4410
Add aspect modification on contacts page, close #4397
Add help page #4405

Gem updates

Added entypo-rails, mini_portile, multi_test, omniauth-wordpress, opengraph_parser, strong_parameters, test_after_commit
addressable 2.3.4 -> 2.3.5
asset_sync 0.5.4 -> 1.0.0
bcrypt-ruby 3.0.1 -> 3.1.1
capybara 1.1.3 -> 2.1.0
carrierwave 0.8.0 -> 0.9.0
coffee-script-source 1.6.2 -> 1.6.3
cucumber 1.3.2 -> 1.3.5
database_cleaner 1.0.1 -> 1.1.0
devise 2.1.3 -> 3.0.2
excon 0.23.0 -> 0.25.3
faraday 0.8.7 -> 0.8.8
fixture_builder 0.3.5 -> 0.3.6
fog 1.12.1 -> 1.14.0
font-awesome-rails 3.1.1.3 -> 3.2.1.2
foreigner 1.4.1 -> 1.4.2
guard 1.8.0 -> 1.8.2
guard-rspec 3.0.1 -> 3.0.2
guard-spork 1.5.0 -> 1.5.1
i18n-inflector 2.6.6 -> 2.6.7
listen 1.2.0 -> 1.2.2
lumberjack 1.0.3 -> 1.0.4
method_source 0.8.1 -> 0.8.2
multi_json 1.7.6 -> 1.7.8
mysql2 0.3.11 -> 0.3.13
net-scp 1.1.1 -> 1.1.2
net-ssh 2.6.7 -> 2.6.8
nokogiri 1.5.9 -> 1.6.0
omniauth-twitter 0.0.16 -> 1.0.0
pg 0.15.1 -> 0.16.0
rails-i18n 0.7.3 -> 0.7.4
rake 10.0.4 -> 10.1.0
redcarpet 2.3.0 -> 3.0.0
remotipart 1.0.5 -> 1.2.1
safe_yaml 0.9.3 -> 0.9.5
sass 3.2.9 -> 3.2.10
selenium-webdriver 2.32.1 -> 2.34.0
sinon-rails 1.4.2.1 -> 1.7.3
slop 3.4.5 -> 3.4.6
temple 0.6.5 -> 0.6.6
twitter 4.7.0 -> 4.8.1
uglifier 2.1.1 -> 2.1.2
unicorn 4.6.2 -> 4.6.3
warden 1.2.1 -> 1.2.3
webmock 1.11.0 -> 1.13.0
xpath 0.1.4 -> 2.0.0

0.1.1.0

Refactor

Refactored config/ directory #4144.
Drop misleading fallback donation form. Proposal
Update Typhoeus to 0.6.3 and refactor HydraWrapper. #4162
Bump recomended Ruby version to 1.9.3-p448, see Ruby news.
Remove length restriciton on GUIDs in the database schema #4249

Bug fixes

Fix deletelabel icon size regression after sprites $4180
Don't use Pathname early to circumvent some rare initialization errors #3816
Don't error out in script/server if git is unavailable.
Fix post preview from tag pages #4157
Fix tags ordering in chrome #4133
Fix src URL for oEmbed iFrame #4178
Add back-to-top button on tag and user pages #4185
Fix reopened issue by changing the comment/post submit keyboard sortcut to ctrl+enter from shift+enter #3897
Show medium avatar in hovercard #4203
Fix posting to Twitter #2758
Don't show hovercards for current user in comments #3999
Replace mentions of out-of-aspect people with markdown links #4161
Unify hide and ignore #3828
Remove alpha branding #4196
Fix dynamic loading of asset_sync
Fix login for short passwords #4123
Add loading indicator on tag pages, remove the second one from the profile page #4041
Leaving the to field blank when sending a private message causes a server error #4227
Fix hashtags that start a line when posting to Facebook or Twitter #3768 #4154
Show avatar of recent user in conversation list #4237
Private message fails if contact not entered correctly #4210

Features

Deleting a post that was shared to Twitter now deletes it from Twitter too #4156
Improvement on how participants are displayed on each conversation without opening it #4149

Gem updates

acts-as-taggable-on 2.4.0 -> 2.4.1
configurate 0.0.7 -> 0.0.8
database_cleaner 0.9.1 -> 1.0.1
fog 1.10.1 -> 1.12.1
fuubar 1.10 -> 1.1.1
gon 4.1.0 -> 4.1.1
guard-rspec 2.5.3 -> 3.0.1
haml 4.0.2 -> 4.0.3
json 1.7.7 -> 1.8.0
mini_magick 3.5 -> 3.6.0
mobile-fu 1.1.1 -> 1.2.1
rack-cors 0.2.7 -> 0.2.8
rails_admin 0.4.7 -> 0.4.9
rails_autolink 1.0.9 -> 1.1.0
redcarpet 2.2.2 -> 2.3.0
rspec-rails 2.13.0 -> 2.13.2
slim 1.3.8 -> 1.3.9
twitter 4.6.2 -> 4.7.0
typhoeus 0.3.3 -> 0.6.3
uglifier 2.0.1 -> 2.1.1
webmock 1.8.11 -> 1.11.0

0.1.0.1

Regression fix: 500 for deleted reshares introduced by the locator
Federate locations

0.1.0.0

Refactor

Replaced Resque with Sidekiq - Migration guide - #3993

We replaced our queue system with Sidekiq. You might know that Resque needs Redis. Sidekiq does too, so don't remove it, it's still required. Sidekiq uses a threaded model so you'll need far less processes than with Resque to do the same amount of work.

To update do the following:

Before updating (even before the git pull!) stop your application server (Unicorn by default, started through Foreman).
In case you did already run git pull checkout v0.0.3.4:
```
git fetch origin
git checkout v0.0.3.4
bundle
```
Start Resque web (you'll need temporary access to port 5678, check your Firewall if needed!):
```
bundle exec resque-web
```
In case you need it you can adjust the port with the -p flag.
One last time, start a Resque worker:
```
RAILS_ENV=production QUEUE=* bundle exec rake resque:work
```
Visit Resque web via http://your_host:5678, wait until all queues but the failed one are empty (show 0 jobs).
Kill the Resque worker by hitting Ctrl+C. Kill Resque web with:
```
bundle exec resque-web -k
```
Don't forget to close the port on the Firewall again, if you had to open it.
In case you needed to do step 2., run:
```
git checkout master
bundle
```
Proceed with the update as normal (migrate database, precompile assets).
Before starting Diaspora again ensure that you reviewed the new environment.sidekiq section in config/diaspora.yml.example and, if wanted, transfered it to your config/diaspora.yml and made any needed changes. In particular increase the environment.sidekiq.concurrency setting on any medium sized pod. If you do change that value, edit your config/database.yml and add a matching pool: n to your database configuration. n should be equal or higher than the amount of threads per Sidekiq worker. This sets how many concurrent connections to the database ActiveRecord allows.

If you aren't using script/server but for example passenger, you no longer need to start a Resque worker, but a Sidekiq worker now. The command for that is:

bundle exec sidekiq

Heroku

The only gotcha for Heroku single gear setups is that the setting name to spawn a background worker from the unicorn process changed. Run

heroku config:remove SERVER_EMBED_RESQUE_WORKER
heroku config:set SERVER_EMBED_SIDEKIQ_WORKER=true

We're automatically adjusting the ActiveRecord connection pool size for you.

Larger Heroku setups should have enough expertise to figure out what to do by them self.

Removal of Capistrano

The Capistrano deployment scripts were removed from the main source code repository, since they were no longer working. They will be moved into their own repository with a new maintainer, you'll be able to find them under the Diaspora* Github organization once everything is set up.

Other

Cleaned up requires of our own libraries #3993
Refactor people_controller#show and photos_controller#index #4002
Modularize layout #3944
Add header to the sign up page #3944
Add a configuration entry to set max-age header to Amazon S3 resources. #4048
Load images via sprites #4039
Delete unnecessary javascript views. #4059
Cleanup of script/server
Attempt to stabilize federation of attached photos (fix #3033 #3940 )
Refactor develop install script #4111
Remove special hacks for supporting Ruby 1.8 #4113
Moved custom oEmbed providers to config/oembed_providers.yml #4131
Add specs for Post#find_by_guid_or_id_with_user

Bug fixes

Fix mass aspect selection #4127
Fix posting functionality on tags show view #4112
Fix cancel button on getting_started confirmation box #4073
Reset comment box height after posting a comment. #4030
Fade long tag names. #3899
Avoid posting empty comments. #3836
Delegate parent_author to the target of a RelayableRetraction
Do not fail on receiving a SignedRetraction via the public route
Pass the real values to stderr_path and stdout_path in unicorn.rb since it runs a case statement on them.
Decode tag name before passing it into a TagFollowingAction #4027
Fix reshares in single post-view #4056
Fix mobile view of deleted reshares. #4063
Hide comment button in the mobile view when not signed in. #4065
Send profile alongside notification #3976
Fix off-center close button image on intro popovers #3841
Remove unnecessary dotted CSS borders. #2940
Fix default image url in profiles table. #3795
Fix mobile buttons are only clickable when scrolled to the top. #4102
Fix regression in bookmarklet causing uneditable post contents. #4057
Redirect all mixed case tags to the lower case equivalents #4058
Fix wrong message on infinite scroll on contacts page #3681
My Activity mobile doesn't show second page when clicking "more". #4109
Remove unnecessary navigation bar to access mobile site and re-add flash warning to mobile registrations. #4085
Fix broken reactions link on mobile page #4125
Missing translation "Back to top". #4138
Fix preview with locator feature. #4147
Fix mentions at end of post. #3746
Fix missing indent to correct logged-out-header container relative positioning #4134
Private post dont show error 404 when you are not authorized on mobile page #4129
Show 404 instead of 500 if a not signed in user wants to see a non public or non existing post.

Features

Deleting a post that was shared to Facebook now deletes it from Facebook too #3980
Include reshares in a users public atom feed #1781
Add the ability to upload photos from the mobile site. #4004
Show timestamp when hovering on comment time-ago string. #4042
If sharing a post with photos to Facebook, always include URL to post #3706
Add possibiltiy to upload multiple photos from mobile. #4067
Add hotkeys to navigate in stream #4089
Add a brief explanatory text about external services connections to services index page #3064
Add a preview for posts in the stream #4099
Add shortcut key Shift to submit comments and publish posts. #4096
Show the service username in a tooltip next to the publisher icons #4126
Ability to add location when creating a post #3803
Added oEmbed provider for MixCloud. #4131

Gem updates

Dropped everything related to Capistrano in preparation for maintaining it in a separate repository
Replaced Resque with Sidekiq, see above. Added Sinatra and Slim for the Sidekiq Monitor interface
Added sinon-rails, compass-rails
acts-as-taggable-on 2.3.3 -> 2.4.0
addressable 2.3.2 -> 2.3.4
client_side_validations 3.2.1 -> 3.2.5
configurate 0.0.2 -> 0.0.7
cucumber-rails 1.3.0 -> 1.3.1
faraday 0.8.5 -> 0.8.7
fog 1.9.0 -> 1.10.1
foreigner 1.3.0 -> 1.4.1
foreman 0.61 -> 0.62
gon 4.0.2 -> 4.1.0
guard 1.6.2 -> 1.7.0
guard-cucumber 1.3.2 -> 1.4.0
guard-rspec 2.4.0 -> 2.5.3
guard-spork 1.4.2 -> 1.5.0
haml 4.0.0 -> 4.0.2
handlebars_assets 0.11.0 -> 0.1.2.0
jasmine 1.3.1 -> 1.3.2
nokogiri 1.5.6 -> 1.5.9
oauth2 0.8.0 -> 0.8.1
omniauth 1.1.3 -> 1.1.4
omniauth-twitter 0.0.14 -> 0.0.16
pg 0.14.1 -> 0.15.1
rack-piwik 0.1.3 -> 0.2.2
rails-i18n 0.7.2 -> 0.7.3
rails_admin 0.4.5 -> 0.4.7
roxml git release -> 3.1.6
rspec-rails 2.12.2 -> 2.13.0
safe_yaml 0.8.0 -> 0.9.1
selenium-webdriver 2.29.0 -> 2.32.1
timecop 0.5.9.2 -> 0.6.1
twitter 4.5.0 -> 4.6.2
uglifier 1.3.0 -> 2.0.1
unicorn 4.6.0 -> 4.6.2

0.0.3.4

Bump Rails to 3.2.13, fixes CVE-2013-1854, CVE-2013-1855, CVE-2013-1856 and CVE-2013-1857. Read more

0.0.3.3

Switch Gemfile source to https to be compatible with bundler 1.3

0.0.3.2

Fix XSS vulnerability in conversations#new #4010

0.0.3.1

exec foreman in ./script/server to replace the process so that we can Ctrl+C it again.
Include our custom fileuploader on the mobile site too. #3994
Move custom splash page logic into the controller #3991
Fixed removing images from publisher on the profile and tags pages. #3995
Wrap text if too long in mobile notifications. #3990
Sort tag followings alphabetically, not in reverse #3986

0.0.3.0

Refactor

Removed unused stuff #3714, #3754
Last post link isn't displayed anymore if there are no visible posts #3750
Ported tag followings to backbone #3713, #3775
Extracted configuration system to a gem.
Made number of unicorn workers configurable.
Made loading of the configuration environment independent of Rails.
Do not generate paths like /a/b/c/config/boot.rb/../../Gemfile to require and open things, create a proper path instead.
Remove the hack for loading the entire lib folder with a proper solution. #3809
Update and refactor the default public view public/default.html #3811
Write unicorn stderr and stdout #3785
Ported aspects to backbone #3850
Join tagging's table instead of tags to improve a bit the query #3932
Refactor contacts/index view #3937
Ported aspect membership dropdown to backbone #3864

Features

Updates to oEmbed, added new providers and fixed photo display. #3880
Add 'screenshot tool' for taking before/after images of stylesheet changes. #3797
Add possibility to contact the administrator. #3792
Add simple background for unread messages/conversations mobile. #3724
Add flash warning to conversation mobile, unification of flash warning with login and register mobile, and add support for flash warning to Opera browser. #3686
Add progress percentage to upload images. #3740
Mark all unread post-related notifications as read, if one of this gets opened. #3787
Add flash-notice when sending messages to non-contacts. #3723
Re-add hovercards #3802
Add images to notifications #3821
Show pod version in footer and updated the link to the changelog #3822
Footer links moved to sidebar #3827
Changelog now points to correct revision if possible #3921
User interface enhancements #3832, #3839, #3834, #3840, #3846, #3851, #3828, #3874, #3806, #3906.
Add settings web mobile. #3701
Stream form on profile page #3910.
Add Getting_Started page mobile. #3949.
Autoscroll to the first unread message in conversations. #3216
Friendlier new-conversation mobile. #3984

Bug Fixes

Force Typhoeus/cURL to use the CA bundle we query via the config. Also add a setting for extra verbose output.
Validate input on sending invitations, validate email format, send correct ones. #3748, #3271
moved Aspects JS initializer to the correct place so aspect selection / deselection works again. #3737
Do not strip "markdown" in links when posting to services. #3765
Renamed server.db to server.database to match the example configuration.
Fix insecure image of cat on user edit page - New photo courtesy of khanb1 on flickr under CC BY 2.0.
Allow translation of "suggest member" of Community Spotlight. #3791
Resize deletelabel and ignoreuser images to align them. #3779
Patch in Armenian pluralization rule until CLDR provides it.
Fix reshare a post multiple times. #3831
Fix services index view. #3884
Excessive padding with "user-controls" in single post view. #3861
Resize full scaled image to a specific width. #3818
Fix translation issue in contacts_helper #3937
Show timestamp hovering a timeago string (stream) #3149
Fix reshare and like a post on a single post view #3672
Fix posting multiple times the same content #3272
Excessive padding with select aspect in mobile publisher. #3951
Adapt css for search mobile page. #3953
Twitter/Facebook/Tumblr count down characters is hidden by the picture of the post. #3963
Buttons on mobile are hard to click on. #3973
RTL-language characters in usernames no longer overlay post dates #2339
Overflow info author mobile web. #3983
Overflow name author mobile post. #3981

Gem Updates

Removed debugger since it was causing bundle problems, and is not necessary given 1.9.3 has a built-in debugger.
dropped unnecessary fastercsv
markerb switched from git release to 1.0.1
added rmagick as development dependency for making screenshot comparisons
jasmine 1.2.1 -> 1.3.1 (+ remove useless spec)
activerecord-import 0.2.11 -> 0.3.1
asset_sync 0.5.0 -> 0.5.4
bootstap-sass 2.1.1.0 -> 2.2.2.0
carrierwave 0.7.1 -> 0.8.0
configurate 0.0.1 -> 0.0.2
factory_girl_rails 4.1.0 -> 4.2.0
faraday 0.8.4 -> 0.8.5
ffi 1.1.5 -> 1.4.0
fixture_builder 0.3.4 -> 0.3.5
fog 1.6.0 -> 1.9.0
foreigner 1.2.1 -> 1.3.0
foreman 0.60.2 -> 0.61
gon 4.0.1 -> 4.0.2
guard 1.5.4 -> 1.6.2
- guard-cucumber 1.2.2 -> 1.3.2
- guard-rspec 2.1.1 -> 2.4.0
- guard-spork 1.2.3 -> 1.4.2
- rb-fsevent 0.9.2 -> 0.9.3
- rb-inotify 0.8.8 -> 0.9.0
haml 3.1.7 -> 4.0.0
handlebars_assets 0.6.6 -> 0.11.0
jquery-rails 2.1.3 -> 2.1.4
jquery-ui-rails 2.0.2 -> 3.0.1
mini_magick 3.4 -> 3.5.0
mobile-fu 1.1.0 -> 1.1.1
multi_json 1.5.1 -> 1.6.1
nokogiri 1.5.5 -> 1.5.6
omniauth 1.1.1 -> 1.1.3
- omniauth-twitter 0.0.13 -> 0.0.14
rack-ssl 1.3.2 -> 1.3.3
rack-rewrite 1.3.1 -> 1.3.3
rails-i18n 0.7.0 -> 0.7.2
rails_admin 0.2.0 -> 0.4.5
remotipart 1.0.2 -> 1.0.5
ruby-oembed 0.8.7 -> 0.8.8
rspec 2.11.0 -> 2.12.0
rspec-rails 2.11.4 -> 2.12.2
sass-rails 3.2.5 -> 3.2.6
selenium-webdriver 2.26.0 -> 2.29.0
timecop 0.5.3 -> 0.5.9.2
twitter 4.2.0 -> 4.5.0
unicorn 4.4.0 -> 4.6.0
will_paginate 3.0.3 -> 3.0.4

0.0.2.5

Fix CVE-2013-0269 by updating the gems json to 1.7.7 and multi_json to 1.5.1. Read more
Additionally ensure can't affect us by bumping Rails to 3.2.12. Read more
And exclude CVE-2013-0262 and CVE-2013-0263 by updating rack to 1.4.5.

0.0.2.4

Fix XSS vulnerabilities caused by not escaping a users name fields when loading it from JSON. #3948

0.0.2.3

Upgrade to Devise 2.1.3 Read more

0.0.2.2

Upgrade to Rails 3.2.11 (CVE-2012-0155, CVE-2012-0156). Read more

0.0.2.1

Upgrade to Rails 3.2.10 as per CVE-2012-5664. Read more

0.0.2.0

Refactor

script/server

Uses foreman now
Reduce startup time by reducing calls to script/get_config.rb
config/script_server.yml is removed and replaced by the server section in config/diaspora.yml Have a look at the updated example!
Thin is dropped in favour of unicorn
Already set versions of RAILS_ENV and DB are now prefered over those set in config/diaspora.yml
Heroku setups: ENVIRONMENT_UNICORN_EMBED_RESQUE_WORKER got renamed to SERVER_EMBED_RESQUE_WORKER

Other

MessagesController. #3657
Fixed setting: follow_diasporahq has now to be set to true to enable following the DiasporaHQ account. Was false
Removal of some bash-/linux-isms from most of the scripts, rework of 'script/install.sh' output methods. #3679

Features

Add "My Activity" icon mobile -Author Icon-. #3687
Add password_confirmation field to registration page. #3647
When posting to Twitter, behaviour changed so that URL to post will only be added to the post when length exceeds 140 chars or post contains uploaded photos.
Remove markdown formatting from post message when posting to Facebook or Twitter.

Bug Fixes

Fix missing X-Frame headers #3739
Fix image path for padlocks #3682
Fix posting to Facebook and Tumblr. Have a look at the updated services guide for new Facebook instructions.
Fix overflow button in mobile reset password. #3697
Fix issue with interacted_at in post fetcher. #3607
Fix error with show post Community Spotlight. #3658
Fix javascripts problem with read/unread notifications. #3656
Fix error with open/close registrations. #3649
Fix javascripts error in invitations facebox. #3638
Fix css overflow problem in aspect dropdown on welcome page. #3637
Fix empty page after authenticating with other services. #3693
Fix posting public posts to Facebook. #2882, #3650
Fix error with invite link box shows on search results page even if invites have been turned off. #3708
Fix misconfiguration of Devise to allow the session to be remembered. #3472
Fix problem with show reshares_count in stream. #3700
Fix error with notifications count in mobile. #3721
Fix conversation unread message count bug. #2321

Gem updates

bootstrap-sass 2.1.0.0 -> 2.1.1.0
capybara 1.1.2 -> 1.1.3
carrierwave 0.6.2 -> 0.7.1
client_side_validations 3.1.4 -> 3.2.1
database_cleaner 0.8 -> 0.9.1
faraday_middleware 0.8.8 -> 0.9.0
foreman 0.59 -> 0.60.2
fuubar 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0
debugger 1.2.0 -> 1.2.1
gon 4.0.0 -> 4.0.1
guard
- guard-cucumber 1.0.0 -> 1.2.2
- guard-rspec 0.7.3 -> 2.1.1
- guard-spork 0.8.0 -> 1.2.3
- rb-inotify -> 0.8.8, new dependency
handlebars_assets 0.6.5 -> 0.6.6
omniauth-facebook 1.3.0 -> 1.4.1
omniauth-twitter 0.0.11 -> 0.0.13
rails_admin 0.1.1 -> 0.2.0
rails-i18n -> 0.7.0
rack-rewrite 1.2.1 -> 1.3.1
redcarpet 2.1.1 -> 2.2.2
resque 1.22.0 -> 1.23.0
rspec-rails 2.11.0, 2.11.4
selenium-webdriver 2.25.0 -> 2.26.0
timecop 0.5.1 -> 0.5.3
twitter 2.0.2 -> 4.2.0
unicorn 4.3.1 -> 4.4.0, now default
webmock 1.8.10 -> 1.8.11

And their dependencies.

0.0.1.2

Fix exception when the root of a reshare of a reshare got deleted #3546

0.0.1.1

Fix syntax error in French Javascript pluralization rule.

0.0.1.0

New configuration system!

Copy over config/diaspora.yml.example to config/diaspora.yml and migrate your settings! An updated Heroku guide including basic hints on howto migrate is here.

The new configuration system allows all possible settings to be overriden by environment variables. This makes it possible to deploy heroku without checking any credentials into git. Read the top of config/diaspora.yml.example for an explanation on how to convert the setting names to environment variables.

Environment variable changes:

deprectated

REDISTOGO_URL in favour of REDIS_URL or ENVIRONMENT_REDIS

removed

application_yml - Obsolete, all settings are settable via environment variables now

renamed

SINGLE_PROCESS_MODE -> ENVIRONMENT_SINGLE_PROCESS_MODE
SINGLE_PROCESS -> ENVIRONMENT_SINGLE_PROCESS_MODE
NO_SSL -> ENVIRONMENT_REQUIRE_SSL
ASSET_HOST -> ENVIRONMENT_ASSETS_HOST

Gem changes

Updated gems

omniauth-tumblr 1.0 -> 1.1
rails_admin git -> 0.1.1
activerecord-import 0.2.10 -> 0.2.11
fog 1.4.0 -> 1.6.0
asset_sync 0.4.2 -> 0.5.0
jquery-rails 2.0.2 -> 2.1.3

Removed gems

The following gems and their related files were removed as they aren't widely enough used to justify maintenance for them by the core developers. If you use them please maintain them in your fork.

airbrake
newrelic_rpm
rpm_contrib
heroku_san

The following gems were removed because their are neither used in daily development or are just CLI tools that aren't required to be loaded from the code:

heroku
oink
yard

Publisher

Refactoring of the JavaScript code; it is now completely rewritten to make use of Backbone.js. This paves the way for future improvements such as post preview or edit toolbar/help.

Removal of 'beta' code

The feature-flag on users and all the code in connection with experimental UX changes got removed/reverted. Those are the parts that became Makr.io. The single-post view will also be revamped/reverted, but that didn't make it into this release.

Files

Changelog.md

Latest commit

History

Changelog.md

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Major Sidekiq update

Rails 4 - Manual action required

Supported Ruby versions

Change in defaults.yml

Change in statistics.json schema

Refactor

Bug fixes

Features

0.4.1.1

0.4.1.0

New 'Terms of Service' feature and template

Rake task to email users

Refactor

Bug fixes

Features

0.4.0.1

Bug fixes

0.4.0.0

Ensure account deletions are run

Change in guid generation

Refactor

Bug fixes

Features

0.3.0.3

0.3.0.2

Bug fixes

0.3.0.1

Bug fixes

0.3.0.0

Pod statistics

Ruby 2.0

Refactor

Bug fixes

Features

Gem updates

0.2.0.1

0.2.0.0

Refactor

Bug fixes

Features

Gem updates

0.1.1.0

Refactor

Bug fixes

Features

Gem updates

0.1.0.1

0.1.0.0

Refactor

Replaced Resque with Sidekiq - Migration guide - #3993

Heroku

Removal of Capistrano

Other

Bug fixes

Features

Gem updates

0.0.3.4

0.0.3.3

0.0.3.2

0.0.3.1

0.0.3.0

Refactor

Features

Bug Fixes

Gem Updates

0.0.2.5

0.0.2.4

0.0.2.3

0.0.2.2

0.0.2.1

0.0.2.0

Refactor

script/server