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Overview of the most recent posts:

• FOSDEM 2025 by news (2025-01-01 11:50)

  38c3 with many Fediverse related meet-ups has just finished but we are already looking forward to meet at FOSDEM at the first weekend of February. Tobias from the Friendica devel team will give a lightning talk about Friendica at FOSDEM 25 in the Social Web Dev Room.Friendica – under the radar since 2010 is scheduled for Saturday (1.2.2025) from 16:00 to 16:10.friendi.ca/2025/01/01/fosdem-2…
• Friendica 2024.12 released by news (2025-01-01 08:47)

  We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Interrupted Fern” 2024.12. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains the fix for the broken installation wizard.The highlights of Friendica 2024.12 areadded exporter for prometheus,we dropped the support of OStatus (the predecessor of ActivityPub) after evaluating the amount of active servers/contacts that are still only using this protocol, and deprecated the fancybox addonFriendica is now REUSE compliant and supports FEP-67ffFor details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository. What is FriendicaFriendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumblr and BlueSky. How to UpdateUpdating from old Friendica versionsIf you are updating from an older version than the 2023.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version as it contained some breaking changes. Pre-Update ProceduresEnsure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently. Using GitUpdating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.12 release would be cd friendicagit pullbin/composer.phar install --no-devcd addongit pullIf you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release. Using the Archive FilesDue to unforseen changes in the CI not possible at the moment. Post Update TasksThe database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script bin/console dbstructure updatefrom the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days. Known IssuesAt the time of writing this, none with 2024.12But the development branch is currently rather unstable and should be used with caution as the development diverged far (for Friendica terms) from the now stable branch. We will let our very valued ALPHA testers when the dev team things that the development branch is stable enough again. How to ContributeIf 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” 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 github or let us know in the development forum.Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation 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 with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!friendi.ca/2025/01/01/friendic…
• Next Friendica Release Candidate available by news (2024-10-15 04:19)

  The development cycle for the 2024.09 release enters the last stage before the stable release – today we have branched off the 2024.09 release candid branch. 2024.09-rc contains all the features of the stable release and is meant to test the new features, find some last rough edges and smooth out the path to the final stable release at the end of October. 2024.09 will be mostly a maintenance release fixing issues in various parts of Friendica. If you want to help out in testing, please checkout the new 2024.09-rc branch and report problems that you encounter.The most notable changes in this release are:we now support HLS and further improved the compatibility with Bluesky,we dropped the support of OStatus (the predecessor of ActivityPub) after evaluating the amount of active servers/contacts that are still only using this protocol,Friendica is now REUSE compliant and supports FEP-67ff What is FriendicaFriendica is a decentralized communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky. How to use the 2024.09 RC Version of FriendicaIf you want to help in the release process, you can checkout the 2024.09-rc branch from the git repositories. git fetchgit checkout 2024.09-rcgit pullbin/composer.phar install --no-devNote that you only need to pull the composer dependencies in the core repository. Should the upgrade process of the database get stuckIf you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script ./bin/console dbstructure updatefrom the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned above.What to do with QuirksThe 2024.09-rc phase is meant to identify and preferable resolve quirks and bugs that should not be in the 2024.09 release, but have slipped through so far. So if you switch your node to the 2024.09-rc version of Friendica, please let us know about rough edges you find, either at the issue tracker (github account required), in the support group or in the developers group.Thanks a lot for helping with the release friendi.ca/2024/10/15/next-fri…
• Berlin Fediverse Day 2024 by news (2024-09-11 05:28)

  The Berlin Fediverse Day is a conference about the free social network “Fediverse” organized by members of the Berlin Fediverse get-together at c-base. It is aimed at people interested in alternatives to X, Instagram, Facebook and so on; but also at institutions, universities, media, NGOs, political actors and companies who want to exchange information in an open and free environment.On Saturday 14. September Tobias from the Friendica project will give a presentation about The Fediverse in Europe, providing an overview of who is already there in the Fediverse from European civil society.The Berlin Fediverse Day will take place at the c-base in Berlin (Rungestr. 20, next to U+S station Jannowitz Brücke) from 13h to 19h. Admission is free, but please register yourself informally.friendi.ca/2024/09/11/berlin-f…
• Friendica 2024.08 released by news (2024-08-17 17:19)

  We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.08. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by apexrabbit, Devilx86 and ponlayookm – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their installations to this stable release.The highlights of Friendica 2024.08 arethe usage of system resources and performance has been improved in various parts of Friendica,added monitoring endpoints for e.g. Zabbix and Grafana,added shortened display of links (default 30 characters, admins can define the length in the config file via the display_link_length)Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release.For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository. What is FriendicaFriendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky. How to UpdateUpdating from old Friendica versionsIf you are updating from an older version than the 2022.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version as it contained some breaking changes. Pre-Update ProceduresEnsure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently. Using GitUpdating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.08 release would be cd friendicagit pullbin/composer.phar install --no-devcd addongit pullIf you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release. Using the Archive FilesDue to problems with the build pipeline we cannot provide archive files at the moment that contain all dependencies as usual. We will update this documents as soon as possible.Do not use the archive files provided by github as they do not contain the dependencies. Post Update TasksThe database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script bin/console dbstructure updatefrom the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days. Known IssuesAt the time of writing this, none How to ContributeIf 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” 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 github or let us know in the development forum.Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation 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 with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!friendi.ca/2024/08/17/friendic…
• Friendica 2024.06 Release Candidate available by news (2024-06-04 18:38)

  The development cycle for the 2024.06 release enters the last stage before the stable release – today we have branched off the 2024.06 release candid branch. 2024.06-rc contains all the features of the stable release and is meant to test the new features, find some last rough edges and smooth out the path to the final stable release at the end of June. If you want to help out in testing, please checkout the new 2024.06-rc branch and report problems that you encounter.The most notable changes in this release are:We improved federation to other projects in the Fediverse (OWA, optional note/article, FEP-e232),contacts can now be defined as circle/channel only, so they wont show up in your main network stream,public groups can now have moderation for new members. What is FriendicaFriendica is a decentralized communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky. How to use the 2024.06 RC Version of FriendicaIf you want to help in the release process, you can checkout the 2024.06-rc branch from the git repositories. git fetchgit checkout 2024.06-rcgit pullbin/composer.phar install --no-devNote that you only need to pull the composer dependencies in the core repository. Should the upgrade process of the database get stuckIf you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script ./bin/console dbstructure updatefrom the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned above.What to do with QuirksThe 2024.06-rc phase is meant to identify and preferable resolve quirks and bugs that should not be in the 2024.06 release, but have slipped through so far. So if you switch your node to the 2024.06-rc version of Friendica, please let us know about rough edges you find, either at the issue tracker (github account required), in the support group or in the developers group.Thanks a lot for helping with the release friendi.ca/2024/06/04/friendic…

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