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Refactor

• Work on the data downloads: Fixed general layout of buttons, added a timestamp and implemented auto-deletion of old exports #7684
• Increase Twitter character limit to 280 #7694
• Improve password autocomplete with password managers #7642
• Remove the limit of participants in private conversations #7705
• Send blocks to the blocked persons pod for better UX #7705
• Send a dummy participation on all incoming public posts to increase interaction consistency #7708

Bug fixes

• Fix invite link on the contacts page when the user has no contacts #7690
• Fix the mobile bookmarklet when called without parameters #7698
• Properly build the #newhere message for people who got invited #7702
• Fix the admin report view for posts without text #7706
• Upgrade Nokogiri to fix a disclosed vulnerability in libxml2

Features

• Check if redis is running in script/server #7685

Fixes notifications when people remove their birthday date #7691

Bug fixes

• Ignore invalid diaspora:// links #7652
• Fix deformed avatar in hovercards #7656
• Fix default aspects on profile page and bookmarklet publisher #7679

Features

• Add birthday notifications #7624

Fixes an issue with installing and running diaspora* with today released bundler v1.16.0.

Ensure account deletions are run

There were some issues causing accounts deletions to not properly perform in some cases, see #7631 and #7639. To ensure these are reexecuted properly, please run RAILS_ENV=production bin/rake migrations:run_account_deletions after you've upgraded.

Refactor

• Remove title from profile photo upload button #7551
• Remove Internet Explorer workarounds #7557
• Sort notifications by last interaction #7568 #7648
• Remove tiff support from photos #7576
• Remove reference from reshares when original post is deleted #7578
• Merge migrations from before 0.6.0.0 to CreateSchema #7580
• Remove auto detection of languages with highlightjs #7591
• Move enable/disable notification icon #7592
• Use Bootstrap 3 progress-bar for polls #7600
• Enable frozen string literals #7595
• Remove rails_admin_histories table #7597
• Optimize memory usage on profile export #7627
• Limit the number of parallel exports #7629
• Reduce memory usage for account deletion #7639

Bug fixes

• Fix displaying polls with long answers #7579
• Fix S3 support #7566
• Fix mixed username and timestamp with LTR/RTL scripts #7575
• Prevent users from zooming in IE Mobile #7589
• Fix recipient prefill on contacts and profile page #7599
• Display likes and reshares without login #7583
• Fix invalid data in the database for user data export #7614
• Fix local migration run without old private key #7558
• Fix export not downloadable because the filename was resetted on access #7622
• Delete invalid oEmbed caches with binary titles #7620
• Delete invalid diaspora IDs from friendica #7630
• Cleanup relayables where the signature is missing #7637
• Avoid page to jump to top after a post deletion #7638
• Handle duplicate account deletions #7639
• Handle duplicate account migrations #7641
• Handle bugs related to missing users #7632
• Cleanup empty signatures #7644

Features

• Ask for confirmation when leaving a submittable comment field #7530
• Show users vote in polls #7550
• Add explanation of ignore function to in-app help section #7585
• Add camo information to NodeInfo #7617
• Add support for diaspora:// links #7625
• Add support to relay likes for comments #7625
• Implement RFC 7033 WebFinger #7625

Update nokogiri to fix multiple libxml2 vulnerabilities.

Supported Ruby versions

This release recommends using Ruby 2.4, while retaining Ruby 2.3 as an officially supported version. Ruby 2.1 is no longer officially supported.

Delete public/.well-known/

Before upgrading, please check if your public/ folder contains a hidden .well-known/ folder. If so, please delete it since it will prevent the federation from working properly.

Refactor

• Make the mention syntax more flexible #7305
• Display @ before mentions #7324
• Simplify mentions in the publisher #7302
• Remove chartbeat and mixpanel support #7280
• Upgrade to jQuery 3 #7303
• Add i18n for color themes #7369
• Remove deprecated statistics.json #7399
• Always link comment count text on mobile #7483
• Switch to new federation protocol #7436
• Send public profiles publicly #7501
• Change sender for mails #7495
• Move back to top to the right to avoid misclicks #7516
• Include count in mobile post action link #7520
• Update the user data export archive format #6726
• Use id as fallback when sorting posts #7523
• Remove no-posts-info when adding posts to the stream #7523
• Upgrade to rails 5.1 #7514
• Refactoring single post view interactions #7182
• Update help pages #7528
• Disable rendering logging in production #7529
• Add some missing indexes and cleanup the database if needed #7533
• Remove avatar, name, timestamp and interactions from publisher preview #7536

Bug fixes

• Fix height too high on mobile SPV #7480
• Improve stream when ignoring a person who posts a lot of tagged posts #7503
• Fix order of comments across pods #7436
• Prevent publisher from closing in preview mode #7518
• Increase reshare counter after reshare on mobile #7520
• Reset stuck exports and handle errors #7535

Features

• Add support for mentions in comments to the backend #6818
• Add support for new mention syntax #7300 #7394
• Render mentions as links in comments #7327
• Add support for mentions in comments to the front-end #7386
• Support direct links to comments on mobile #7508
• Add inviter first and last name in the invitation e-mail #7484
• Add markdown editor for comments and conversations #7482
• Improve responsive header in desktop version #7509
• Support cmd+enter to submit posts, comments and conversations #7524
• Add markdown editor for posts, comments and conversations on mobile #7235
• Mark as "Mobile Web App Capable" on Android #7534
• Add support for receiving account migrations #6750

Refactor

• Cleanup some translations #7465

Features

• Change email without confirmation when mail is disabled #7455
• Warn users if they leave the profile editing page with unsaved changes #7473
• Add admin pages to the mobile interface #7295
• Add links to discourse to footer and sidebar #7446

Refactor

• Remove rails_admin #7440
• Use guid instead of id at permalink and in SPV #7453

Bug fixes

• Make photo upload button hover text translatable #7429
• Fix first comment in mobile view with french locale #7441
• Use post page title and post author in atom feed #7420
• Handle broken public keys when receiving posts #7448
• Fix welcome message when podmin is set to an invalid username #7452

Features

• Add support for Nodeinfo 2.0 #7447

Refactor

• Remove unused setPreload function #7354
• Remove jQuery deprecations #7356
• Use empty selector where "#" was used as a selector before (prepare jQuery 3 upgrade) #7372
• Increase maximal height of large thumbnail on mobile #7383
• Reduce conversation recipient size #7376
• Cleanup rtl css #7374
• Increase visual spacing between list items #7401
• Remove unused gem and cucumber step #7410
• Disable CSP header when report_only and no report_uri is set #7367

Bug fixes

• Don't hide posts when blocking someone from the profile #7379
• Disable autocomplete for the conversation form recipient input #7375
• Fix sharing indicator on profile page for blocked users #7382
• Remove post only after a successful deletion on the server #7385
• Fix an issue where pod admins could get logged out when using sidekiq-web #7395
• Add avatar fallback for typeahead and conversations #7414

Features

• Add links to liked and commented pages #5502