Changes by Version

Starting with version 0.6.4, this is a list of changes in the self-hosted, open source version of Known.

0.9.9

May 15, 2017

A simpler user registration experience
Fixed image preview rotation
Removed Convoy
Improved indieweb support
Improved migration support
Advanced access control internal API
Design and layout fixes
Better error pages
Support for PHP 7
Deprecated support for MongoDB
Countless fixes and speed improvements in the background

0.9.2

April 23, 2016

Any theme can be single or multi-user
Improved UI when replying to tweets
Improved support for non-Latin URLs
Better audio UI
Support "delete" webmentions
Improved support for receiving indieweb RSVPs
Database speed and efficiency enhancements
Better support for embedding YouTube videos
Numerous back-end fixes and improvements

0.9.1

February 20, 2016

Notifications
Improved webmention support
Improved RSS feed import
Pubsubhubbub now pings the homepage
Improved MongoDB compatibility
Fixed a bug with some hashtag links
Fixed an issue with APC caching detection
Logging interface is now PSR-3 compatible

0.9.0.4

February 6, 2016

Improved user registration page and onboarding flow
Cleaned up some text pages
Fixed an issue where you couldn't change back to the default theme
Fixed a compatibility issue with Photos on PHP 5.4
Removed an EXIF error message
Retroactive POSSE
MongoDB fix for newer MongoDB versions
Updated diagnostics
Ability to shush notifications from certain domains
Minor default theme style changes

0.9

February 2, 2016

Significantly faster performance
Twitter card support
Support for non-Latin characters in post URLs and hashtags
Character count in status updates is now safe for Twitter URLs
Choose between a number of permalink URL styles
Export RSS for import into WordPress
Import WordPress comments
Improved search
Improved autosave
Improved bookmarks and bookmarklet
Improved indiepub and webmention functionality
Improved notifications
Navigation style fixes
Reliability improvements when posting long pieces
Fixed an issue where pressing "cancel" could close the window
Syndicated photos no longer list "untitled" in syndicated version when title is not set

0.8.5

October 13, 2015

Experimental AMP support! See http://ampproject.org for more details
Better support for embedded content
A slew of indieweb improvements, including upgraded micropub support for actions like likes and reshares
A command line tool (with extensible plugin interface) to automatically create a config.ini file, among other things
Themes now take template precedence over plugins - so a theme can create a new style for a plugin-provided feature
Known now works better under FastCGI on some shared hosts
Lots of API fixes and consistency changes under the hood

0.8.4

September 28, 2015

See who you've invited to Known, and resend or rescind invitations
Hashtag linking improvements
Added support for SIP, Bitcoin and Spotify profile fields
SVG upload support
Numerous interface improvements
Fixed aggressive caching of Known posts
Assorted API fixes and improvements
Introduced HTML purifier component
Webmentions no longer strip HTML

0.8.3.1

August 19, 2015

Fixing a bug with account settings

0.8.3

August 18, 2015

Block users by email address
Fixes a bug with per-item access permissions in location check-ins
Improved Convoy display for syndicated content
Most content types now have a rich text editor
Improved brid.gy interactions
Improved audio player display
Improved RSS feed display
Fixed an issue with saving configuration
Experimental Postgres support
Such dogeon support so removed wow

0.8.2

July 22, 2015

Fixes a bug with pagination in subdirectory installations
Experimental support for SQLite as a database engine

0.8.1

July 21, 2015

Corrected an issue with subdirectory installations

0.8

July 21, 2015

It's been a while! Additions and fixes include:

Per-site access permissions. Want to keep just this one post private? Now you can.
Much better accessibility for screen readers and mobility-impaired users.
The bookmark tool handles page titles more intelligently.
Support for non-Latin characters in hashtags.
You can reply to multiple Twitter accounts more easily.
The public comment form is more robot-proof.
An upgraded, all-new interface framework using Bootstrap 3 and the latest Font Awesome fonts.
You can now install Known in a subdirectory.
The installer now does more checking to make sure you have the right server configuration.
A handy diagnostics tool to give you more information if something's gone wrong with your installation.
Developers have access to more tests.

0.7.8.5.1

May 16, 2015

Correcting an issue with accented characters in page slugs

0.7.8.5

May 16, 2015

Better tag support, including for short tags
Fixed an issue with hashtags containing numbers
Native MongoDB notifications
Improved brid.gy integration
Fixed issue with login forwarding on walled garden sites

0.7.8

May 4, 2015

Hashtags now handle unicode character sets
Improved PubSubHubbub handling
Installation now detects rewrite rule support more reliably
Sessions do not persist between http and https
Site URL in public comments is now optional
Better mobile Twitter URL support
Internal web client is more configurable
Object annotations are included in JSON
Bookmarks syndicate to Twitter
Included tweets auto-embed in status updates
Includes Vagrant and Ansible configuration files

0.7.7.1

April 10, 2015

Corrected brid.gy connection flow

0.7.7

April 9, 2015

More consistent publishing flow
Introducing Convoy for easier social media connections
Faster database access for some tasks
Introducing getStaticURL for static resources (eg for use with CDNs)

0.7.6

March 31, 2015

Better bookmark page title handling (again!)
Improved session handling
Thumbnails are higher quality
Further improvement to Open Graph tag handling
Improvement to PubSubHubbub HTTP headers
A number of fixes across plugins
Experimental release of WordPress importer

0.7.5

March 2, 2015

Better bookmark page title handling
Improved username matching
Improved email handling
Exports better SQL
Import from external blogging platforms like Blogger
Source code highlighting
Simpler link to brid.gy
More efficient user session handling
Better syndication workflow
Improved open graph tag handling

0.7.1

February 8, 2015

Improved support for root-level domains
Fixed bug with HTML pasted from other sources

0.7

January 31, 2015

Infinite accounts per syndication service
Static pages
Webhooks
Improved interface when AdBlock Plus is used
Changed rich text editor to TinyMCE
Introducing the Uploads folder, for easier installation / configuration
Introducing prerequisite plugins, which are always loaded first
Webmention client now uses internal web services API
Improved export format
Improved session user storage
Numerous internal API and interface improvements

0.6.5

November 24, 2014

API improvements
Cleaner hashtag and username parsing
PubSubHubbub implemented by default
KML output template
Delete users from the user admin panel
Better button behavior when saving content
Authentication can be overridden and extended by plugins
Framework for syndicating to multiple accounts on the same service
Installer is more compatible with shared hosts like Arvixe (and easier overall)
More compatible with sites that switch to using HTTPS
Better compatibility with brid.gy
Better compatibility with Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
.htaccess is more compatible with a wider range of hosts

0.6.4

October 27, 2014

Export your data
Improved session handling, particularly for MongoDB installations
.htaccess is now more compatible with shared hosts like Dreamhost and GoDaddy
Fewer system requirements for installation
No need for 'http://' in profile URLs
Improved Micropub support
More efficient file interface
Some style improvements, particularly with input fields
Bookmarklet now opens in a new page
Removed humans.txt
More traditional array and other internal syntax
Additional stability and speed improvements

0.6.3

September 23, 2014