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