Plume 0.7.2

We are pleased to announce this new alpha version of Plume. This release has no migration. You don't need run it before updating.

The most major change is internal one: ActivityPub library’s upgrading.

We also added changes to home page and timeline. See a blog post for details.

In addition, a problem that activities don’t reach other instances is solved. We should have fixed it, but other cause have remained. It should be away.

CHANGELOG

Added

• Basque language (#1013)
• Unit tests for ActivityPub (#1021)
• Move to action area after liking/boosting/commenting (#1074)

Changed

• Bump Rust to nightly 2022-01-26 (#1015)
• Remove "Latest articles" timeline (#1069)
• Change order of timeline tabs (#1069, #1070, #1072)
• Migrate ActivityPub-related crates from activitypub 0.1 to activitystreams 0.7 (#1022)

Fixed

• Add explanation of sign-up step at sign-up page when email sign-up mode (#1012)
• Add NOT NULL constraint to email_blocklist table fields (#1016)
• Don't fill empty content when switching rich editor (#1017)
• Fix accept header (#1058)
• Render 404 page instead of 500 when data is not found (#1062)
• Reuse reqwest client on broadcasting (#1059)
• Reduce broadcasting HTTP request at once to prevent them being timed out (#1068, #1071)
• Some ActivityPub data (#1021)

Plume 0.7.1

We are pleased to announce this new alpha version of Plume. It includes database schema change. You need run migration before start new version. See documentation for the steps.

This update added MAIL_PORT environment variable support. See documentation for details.

Also it added sign-up feature. You can see how to set up at SIGNUP variable in Useful environment variables page. A blog post might help you.

Changelog

Added

• Introduce environment variable MAIL_PORT (#980)
• Introduce email sign-up feature (#636, #1002)

Changed

• Some styling improvements (#976, #977, #978)
• Respond with error status code when error (#1002)

Fiexed

• Fix comment link (#974)
• Fix a bug that prevents posting articles (#975)
• Fix a bug that notification page doesn't show (#981)

Plume 0.7.0

We're pleased to annouce new Plume version v0.7.0. It includes a security fix. All administrators are encouraged to update it.

Changelog

Added

• Allow dir attributes for LtoR text in RtoL document (#860)
• More translation languages (#862)
• Proxy support (#829)
• Riker a actor system library (#870)
• (request-target) and Host header in HTTP Signature (#872)
• Default log levels for RUST_LOG (#885, #886, #919)

Changed

• Upgrade some dependent crates (#858)
• Use tracing crate (#868)
• Update Rust version to nightly-2021-01-15 (#878)
• Upgrade Tantivy to 0.13.3 and lindera-tantivy to 0.7.1 (#878)
• Run searcher on actor system (#870)
• Use article title as its slug instead of capitalizing and inserting hyphens (#920)
• Extract a function to calculate posts' ap_url and share it with some places (#918)
• Keep title in URI (#920)

Fixed

• Percent-encode URI for remote_interact (#866, #857)
• Menu animation not opening on iOS (#876, #897)
• Make actors subscribe to channel once (#913)
• Upsert posts and media instead of trying to insert and fail (#912)
• Update post's ActivityPub id when published by update (#915)
• Calculate media URI properly even when MEDIA_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY configured (#916)
• Prevent duplicated posts in 'all' timeline (#917)
• Draw side line for blockquote on start (#933)
• Fix URIs of posts on Mastodon (#947)
• Place edit link proper position (#956, #963, #964)

Security

• Update dependencies including XSS vulnerability.

Plume 0.6.0

We are pleased to announce this new alpha version of Plume. It includes a security fix. All administrators are encouraged to update it. Also, now the development gets more slower. It might be better for you to consider other software such as WriteFreely and WordPress's ActivityPub plugin, although it is still alive.

Changelog

Added

• Vazir font for better support of languages written in Arabic script (#787)
• Login via LDAP (#826)
• cargo-release (#835)
• Care about weak ETag header for better caching (#840)
• Support for right to left languages in post content (#853)

Changed

• Bump Docker base images to Buster flavor (#797)
• Upgrade Rocket to 0.4.5 (#800)
• Keep tags as-is (#832)
• Update Docker image for testing (#838)
• Update Dockerfile.dev (#841)

Fixed

• Recreate search index if its format is outdated (#802)
• Make it possible to switch to rich text editor (#808)
• Fix margins for the mobile devices (#817)
• GPU acceleration for the mobile menu (#818)
• Natural title position for RtoL languages (#825)
• Remove link to unimplemented page (#827)
• Fix displaying not found page when submitting a duplicated blocklist email (#831)

Security

• Validate spoofing of activity

Updating your instance

Please refer to our documentation for the update procedure.

Plume 0.5.0

We are pleased to announce this new alpha version of Plume. It is a bit smaller than previous release, the development slowed down a bit, but the project is still alive!

Changelog

New features

• Email blocklisting (#718)
• Syntax highlighting (#691)
• Persian localization (#782)
• Switchable tokenizer - enables Japanese full-text search (#776)
• Make database connections configurable by environment variables (#768)

Changes

• Display likes and boost on post cards (#744)

Fixes

• Fix parsing of mentions inside a Markdown code block (be430c6)
• Fix RSS issues (#720)
• Fix Atom feed (#764)
• Fix default theme (#746)
• Fix shown password on remote interact pages (#741)
• Allow unicode hashtags (#757)
• Fix French grammar for for 0 (#760)
• Don't show boosts and likes for "all" and "local" in timelines (#781)
• Fix liking and boosting posts on remote instances (#762)

Internal

• Rust 2018 (#726)
• Bump to LLVM to 9.0.0 to fix ARM builds (#737)
• Remove dependency on runtime-fmt (#773)
• Drop the -alpha suffix in release names, it is implied that Plume is not stable yet because of the 0 major version (Plume 1.0.0 will be the first stable release).

Updating your instance

Please refer to our documentation for the update procedure.

0.4.0 (alpha 4)

The release article is available on our blog.

Changelog

New features

• Add support for generic timeline (#525)
• Federate user deletion (#551)
• import migrations and don't require diesel_cli for admins (#555)
• Cache local instance (#572)
• Initial RTL support #575 (#577)
• Confirm deletion of blog (#602)
• Make a distinction between moderators and admins (#619)
• Theming (#624)
• Add clap to plume in order to print help and version (#631)
• Add Snapcraft metadata and install/maintenance hooks (#666)
• Add environmental variable to control path of media (#683)
• Add autosaving to the editor (#688)

Changes

• Update follow_remote.rs.html grammar (#548)
• Add some feedback when performing some actions (#552)
• Theme update (#553)
• Remove the new index lock tantivy uses (#556)
• Reduce reqwest timeout to 5s (#557)
• Improve notification management (#561)
• Fix occurrences of 'have been' to 'has been' (#578) + Direct follow-up to #578 (#603)
• Store password reset requests in database (#610)
• Use futures and tokio to send activities (#620)
• Don't ignore dotenv errors (#630)
• Update default license (#659)
• Paginate the outbox responses. Fixes #669 (#681)
• Use the "classic" editor by default (#697)
• Fix issue #705 (#708)

Fixes

• Remove r (#535)
• Fix certain improper rendering of forms (#560)
• make hashtags work in profile summary (#562)
• Fix some federation issue (#573)
• Prevent comment form submit button distortion on iOS (#592)
• Update textarea overflow to scroll (#609)
• Fix arm builds (#612)
• Fix theme caching (#647)
• Fix issue #642, frontend not in English if the user language does not exist (#648)
• Don't index drafts (#656)
• Fill entirely user on creation (#657)
• Delete notification on user deletion (#658)
• Order media so that latest added are top (#660)
• Fix logo URL (#664)
• Snap: Ensure cargo-web doesn't erroneously adopt our workspace. (#667)
• Snap: Another fix for building (#668)
• Snap: Fix build for non-Tier-1 Rust platforms (#672)
• Don't split sentences for translations (#677)
• Escape href quotation marks (#678)
• Re-add empty strings in translation (#682)
• Make the search index creation during migration respect SEARCH_INDEX (#689)
• Fix the navigation menu not opening on touch (#690)
• Make search items optional (#693)
• Various snap fixes (#698)
• Fix #637 : Markdown footnotes (#700)

Internal (refactoring, CI, etc.)

• Upload artifacts to pull request deploy environment (#539)
• Remove Canapi (#540)
• Make comments in styleshhets a bit clearer (#545)
• Rewrite circleci config (#558)
• Use openssl instead of sha256sum for build.rs (#568)
• Upload artifact of wasm binary (#571)
• Update dependancies (#574)
• Fix Crowdin upload (#576)
• Refactor code to use Shrinkwraprs and diesel-derive-newtype (#598)
• Add enum containing all successful route returns (#614)
• Update dependencies which depended on nix -- fixes arm32 builds (#615)
• Update some documents (#616)
• Replace the input! macro with an Input builder (#646)
• Update dependencies (#643)
• Remove use of rust in migration (#704)
• Fix lettre (#706)
• Make the comment syntax consistent across all CSS (#487

Updating from Plume 0.3.0

Please follow theses instructions.

Installing Plume 0.4.0

Please follow theses instructions.

0.3.0 (Alpha 2)

Notable changes

• Cover for articles (#299, #387)
• Password reset (#448)
• New editor (#293, #458, #482, #483, #486, #530)
• Search (#324, #375, #445)
• Edit blogs (#460, #494, #497)
• Hashtags in articles (#283, #295)
• Federation improvements (#216, #217, #357, #364, #399, #443, #446, #455, #502, #519)
• UI usability fixes (#370, #386, #401, #417, #418, #444, #452, #480, #516, #518, #522, #532)
• API endpoints (#245, #285, #307)
• A bunch of new translations! (#479, #501, #506, #510, #512, #514)
• Improved build process (#281, #374, #392, #402, #489, #498, #503, #511, #513, #515, #528)

For a more detailed changelog, please see the New Plume Alpha article.

How to install a new instance

Check out our installation documentation.

How to update your instance

We consider you were running the first alpha, and you installed Plume from source. If it is not the case, some commands may be unnecessary (feel free to ask on Matrix if you are not sure what to do).

Run these commands, replacing DATABASE with either postgres or sqlite depending on what you use.

cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features DATABASE --version '=1.3.0' --force

cargo install cargo-web
cargo web deploy -p plume-front

cargo install --no-default-features --features DATABASE --force

cargo install --no-default-features --features DATABASE --path plume-cli --force

diesel migration run

plm search init

Then update your config to add mail server settings:

MAIL_SERVER=smtp.example.org
MAIL_USER=example
MAIL_PASSWORD=123456
MAIL_HELO_NAME=example.org

Finally, restart plume with one of these commands, depending on your init system:

sudo systemctl restart plume
# Or
/etc/init.d/plume stop && /etc/init.d/plume start
# Or
service plume.service restart

0.2.0 (Alpha 1)

Originally released on September 12, 2018

• Article publishing, or save as a draft
• Like, or boost an article
• Basic Markdown editor
• Federated commenting system
• User account creation
• Limited federation on other platforms and subscribing to users
• Ability to create multiple blogs

The changelog bellow is no longer available:

https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/PlumeDevelopment/this-month-in-plume-may-2018/
https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/PlumeDevelopment/this-month-in-plume-june-2018/
https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/PlumeDevelopment/this-month-in-plume-july-and-august-2018/
https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/PlumeDevelopment/plume's-first-release/