[ANNOUNCEMENT] Diaspora version 0.1.0.0 released

[Florian Staudacher]

Hi!

You have waited long for this, but it's finally here: Diaspora* 0.1.0.0
If you've been following development on Github, you probably know this release
includes some exciting changes - both on the user and admin ends.

Lets start with a few stats:
A total number of 30 contributors produced the 192 commits that went into this
release, and we've got 66 pull requests merged. As always, you can see the
detailed list of changes in our changelog:
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/blob/master/Changelog.md
Want to be part of these numbers in the future? We'll help you to get started,
just contact us!

Which brings us to our first major new feature - the locator. From now on,
users will be able to attach location information to their posts, of course
this is completly optional and not enabled by default. This has been requested
for a long time, and the pull request implementing it has gone through many
iterations until we were finally able to release this into the wild.
Another feature that has been requested, for possibly even longer, are post
previews. You now got a "Preview" button to see how your post will look in
the stream, before submitting it.
The next jewel in this list of new features is keyboard navigation for the
stream. [J] and [K] will navigate to the next/previous post, [L] will like the
current post, highlighted by a coloured line on the left side, and [C] will
take you to the comment input.
The mobile site has also gotten some love and is now much more feature-
complete, so grab your smarphone and start using D* on the go, if you're not
already doing so.

On the non user-facing side we have replaced Resque with Sidekiq. This should
allow the servers to process background jobs much more efficiently and alleviate
the memory usage.
For server admins: You can find detailed instructions on how to do the
transition in the changelog, go read it! If you have any problems or
questions, feel free to reach out to our competent support on the usual
channels. Migrating to Sidekiq allows us to retry failed jobs without
increasing the load compared to Resque. Doing so we hope to see the federation
stabilize a bit more, that means less missing posts, images and comments.

Now, you may wonder why there were no 0.0.4.0 to 0.0.9.0 releases in the
meantime. Well, according to our version scheme, we increment the numbers
based on what has changed, so you don't just watch us increment some silly
number, but also get an idea about the significance of the changes we made
between versions.

- The Diaspora developer team

[Maxwell Salzberg]

Amazing!

Great job to everyone who worked hard on this release.

- maxwell

On May 19, 2013, at 7:13 AM, Florian Staudacher

[jay...@basshero.org]

Awesome <3

Big thanks to everyone, especially Jonne and Florian :) Great to see so many contributors take part and many first time contributors too.

Br,
Jason

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