Hubzilla 9.0 Released!

[mario@hub.somaton.com]

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

1. Backup your data
2. Make sure that the sodium PHP extension is installed and enabled
3. Make sure that either the bcmath or gmp PHP extension is installed and enabled
4. Make sure that the intl PHP extension is installed and enabled
5. Execute util/udall

Install

Please refer to the install instructions.

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