Friendica NewsWe are pleased to announce the availability of Friendica The Tazmans Flax-lily 2019.01, which bundles up our work since September 2018. This includes over 130 fixed issues and some exciting new features. If you are interested in all of them, please have a look at the https://raw.githubusercontent.com/friendica/friendica/master/CHANGELOG file.
Most noteworthy of these changes are:
- Friendica does now natively support ActivityPub https://friendi.ca/2018/11/18/activitypub-support-in-friendica/ (AP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub) in addition to the DFRN, diaspora* and OStatus protocols. The AP functionality was tested with Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud Social, Osada, PeerTube, Pixelfed and Pleroma.
- The configuration structure has changed again! Your old
.htconfig.phpandconfig/local.ini.phpfile will still work, but you will get a notification in the admin panel with some hopefully explaining text on how to convert your settings to the newconfig/local.config.phpconfig file. - The manual and automatic installation process was enhanced.
Please note, that this will be the last version of Friendica supporting PHP 5.6.
How to Update
If you are updating from an older version then the 2018.09 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version https://friendi.ca/2018/09/23/friendica-2018-09-released/ as there were several important changes in that version.Please further note, that since Friendica 3.6 we use composer for dependency management. If you are updating via git, you have to remember to update the dependencies as well.
Pre-Update Procedures
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently. While testing, we did not encounter problems, but better save than sorry.Using the Archive files
If you had downloaded the source files in an archive file (zip or tar.gz) please download the current version of the archive from GitHub (https://github.com/friendica/friendica/releases/download/2019.01/friendica-full-2019.01.tar.bz2 and friendica-addons-2019.01.tar.gz https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/archive/2019.01.tar.gz and unpack it on your local computer.As many files got deleted or moved around, please upload the unpacked files to a new directory on your server (say friendica_new) and copy over your existing configuration and
.htaccess files. Afterwards rename your current Friendica directory (e.g. friendica) to friendica_old and friendica_new to friendica.The files of the dependencies are included in the archive (make sure you are using the friendica-full-2019.01 archive), so you don’t have to worry about them.
Please be aware of the changes in the configuration format. You should follow the instructions linked from your admin panel as soon as possible to move your configuration to the new location.
Using git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository. Remember to also update the dependencies with composer.cd friendica
git pull
bin/composer.phar install
cd addon
git pull
If you want to switch the branch (e.g. if you helped testing the RC code) please do so after the pull using
git checkout.How to Contribute?
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Junior+Jobs%22” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at https://github.com/friendica/friendica or let us know in the development forum https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/developers.Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation https://github.com/friendica/friendica/tree/develop/doc, the translation https://www.transifex.com/Friendica/friendica/dashboard/ or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with git(hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpers with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks again everyone who helped making this release possible and have fun!
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