1.2.0 - 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)