friends

What's Changed

• Allow sharing a private friends post with special URL by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/217
• Don't create a user when only following someone by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/215
• Change mariadb to LTS by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/221
• Friends Page: Status View improvements by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/220
• ActivityPub: Add incoming video support by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/222
• Fix the hardcoded friends url path on the refresh widget by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/223

Full Changelog: https://github.com/akirk/friends/compare/2.5.3...2.6.0

What's Changed

• Add a new Reply To field to the Status post form (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/210), also see the related update to the Firefox extension at https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/wpfriends/
• Fix a Fatal regarding ActivityPub metadata
• Fix a too eager e-mail sender override

Full Changelog: https://github.com/akirk/friends/compare/2.5.2...2.5.3

• Create better display name from follows from the Enable Mastodon Apps plugin
• Relay the external mentions user to the Enable Mastodon Apps plugin

Full Changelog: https://github.com/akirk/friends/compare/2.5.1...2.5.2

• Prevent creation of a new feed for a virtual external mentions feed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/akirk/friends/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1

What's Changed

• ActivityPub: Add unannounce support by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/205
• Send ActivityPub activity for created comments by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/206
• Support for external ActivityPub mentions by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/206

Full Changelog: https://github.com/akirk/friends/compare/2.4.0...2.5.0

What's Changed

• Upgrade Github Actions by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/198
• ActivityPub: Auto-approve comments by people you follow by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/199
• Store activitypub metadata to make the Mastodon API plugin useful by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/200
• Add Reblogging and Announce support for ActivityPub by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/168
• Reactions: Make it possible to issue reactions from outside by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/201
• Add the Enable Mastodon Apps plugin by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/202
• Add plugin recommendations by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/203

Full Changelog: https://github.com/akirk/friends/compare/2.3.1...2.4.0

What's Changed

• Added missing space to generated SQL query by @wiwie in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/191
• Fix friends menu on other site by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/189
• Don't override the ActivityPub plugin info by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/195
• Allow filtering notifications by the incoming feed by @akirk in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/196

New Contributors

• @wiwie made their first contribution in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/191

Full Changelog: https://github.com/akirk/friends/compare/2.3.0...2.3.1

• The Wiki now contains a Hooks Documentation (#167)
• Frontend: Add CSS rule to fix odd resizing (#166)
• Frontend: Add a "Show hidden items" in the main feed header (#172)
• Frontend: Upgrade Blocks Everywhere, hide Quick Post Panel by default (#180, #183)
• Frontend: Don't let the Post Kinds plugin interfere with the friends query (#176)
• Admin: Fix inconsistencies with links to the new friends list link (#184) props @pfefferle
• Admin: Tweak text for "Show Hidden Items" setting, per-feed. (#173) props @alecmuffett

• Fix remote friends plugin detection on public Friends page when headers are stripped (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/160).
• Permissions: Allow using the friends plugin as an Editor (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/121). An administrator account no longer required, you only need one to set the main user and adjust blog-level settings.
• Automatic status: Add option to disable creation of automatic status post drafts (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/141).
• ActivityPub: Support for outgoing mentions (prepared in https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/pull/213 by removing the parser from there for quicker iteration). Implemented in https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/137.
• ActivityPub: Use the avatar from ActivityPub (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/142) and allow setting it after the fact (it won't change automatically).
• ActivityPub: Add outbox support (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/163) which means that when you now subscribe to someone new, it will fetch old posts.

• Feeds: fixed a bug where when adding a new user and subscribing to an ActivityPub feed at the same time, the ActivityPub account won't be followed (would need a deactivate/actiate of the feed).
• Taxonomies: Hide the user-feed and reactions taxonomies from the public and delete their entries when uninstalling the plugin (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/132).
• Improved PHP8 compatibility and start testing with PHP8.2 in the CI.

• Frontend: add option to show/hide hidden entries on a user page (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/124).
• Admin: Fix that the main settings page would not save.
• Plugins (ActivityPub): Add a function to get all friends for a specific parser. This is for https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/pull/213.
• Plugins: Allow plugins to suggest a better display name and username for friends via two new hooks friends_suggest_user_login and friends_suggest_display_name.

• Friends messages and status posting UI: Bring back the Gutenberg Editor using the updated blocks-everywhere (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/122).
• Admin: Fix a redirect problem on the autostatus admin page.
• Status posts: fix collapsing them and only output the status post box on the main status feed to avoid confusion when your posts don't show up on an author status page.

• Plugins: Add filters for allowing ActivityPub integrations (see https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/pull/172): friends_rewrite_incoming_url, friends_user_feed_activated, friends_user_feed_deactivated.
• Plugins: Add ActivityPub to the Friends Plugins installer.
• Frontend: Add ability to read a post's comments inside the Friends plugin using the comments button (if it supplies a comments feed in its RSS which all WordPresses do) (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/113).
• Frontend: Add different styling for images and status feed. Add a "post status" box to the status feed.
• Frontend: Allow starring friends + new widget to display those starred friends for convenient access.
• Frontend: Add a recent friends widget that displays your newest friends and subscriptions for convenient access.
• Admin: Introduce tabs on various friends settings for a better overview (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/116).
• Admin: Remove the Welcome admin notice in favor a Welcome screen inside the friends plugin.
• Admin: Improve the friend space usage calculation for friends with many posts.
• Admin: Improve Automattic Status (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/111).
• Core: Improved the WP_Query for the frontend to allow to show your reactions to the posts (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/114).
• Core: allow frontend detection earlier in the WordPress boot process allowing our add_theme_support()s to kick in based on whether we are on the frontend.
• Core: Fetch feeds based on their due date. This will allow adjusting feed fetch intervals individually for feeds (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/109).
• Multisite: Improve activation code so that the friend roles should now be created more reliably on new multisite blogs (https://github.com/akirk/friends/pull/107).
• Plugins: Add filters for the Friends roles plugin: friends_plugin_roles.

• Fix namespace on activation, deactivation and uninstall hooks

• Fix a problem with retrieving and up to date plugins.json file from Github

• Improved handling of updated feed items and how they are stored as revisions
• PHP: Introduced a namespace, changed the plugin hooks to friends_loaded and friends_load_parsers
• Add checks for diagnosing the correct functioning to Site Health

• New feature: Keyword Matcher (get a notification if an incoming post contains keywords you can specify)
• New feature: Automatic status posts (automatically create draft status posts for certain events, they need to be published manually)
• Disable Gutenberg in messages until Gutenberg-Everywhere has been fixed

• Multisite: fix adding user to site instead of requiring a new username

• Fixes for a PHP fatal and some notices

• Improve default feed selection when adding a friend
• Fix improper plugin directory when a friends plugin installed from Github