Releases for Facebook-style Statuses (Microblog)

Facebook-style Statuses is now officially stable. Please review the extensive documentation to learn more about what this module offers.

Why use 2.x?

The 2.x branch of Facebook-style Statuses is a complete rewrite which offers a very wide array of new features. Read the documentation to get the complete picture, but here are a few of the most important features new to 2.x:

• AHAH-based status submission
• Extensive integration with other modules
• Users can post on each others' profiles like on Facebook
• Users can make @userreferences and use #hashtags like on Twitter
• Complete, easy API (including theme functions)
• Cleaner, more useful, easier-to-use User Interface
• Highly customizable through the settings
• Optional Open API, allowing other sites to see your users' status updates
• ...and much, much more.

Upgrade Notes

• Everyone should run update.php after upgrading to this release.

This release should be quite stable and feature-complete. Run update.php after upgrading to this version.

Improved speed of some queries in facebook_status_tags
Improved default views for facebook_status_tags
Made "trends" work in Views
Added "trends" as an openapi type option
Added facebook_status_tags_popular_terms()
#437522 form wasn't cached with caching turned off on site (thanks katbailey)
Changed help text for some settings
Moved maximum status length setting from Advanced to General settings page
Added an open API for users with the 'view all statuses' permission in XML, JSON, and REST
Documented open API
Added submodule that allows referencing users with @username and taxonomy terms (including creation of new ones) with #termname.
Documented submodule
Added Views integration for submodule
Use twitter_get_user_accounts() instead of twitter_twitter_accounts().
hook_facebook_status_update() changed to hook_facebook_status_save().
Added hook_facebook_status_delete($sid).
Added hook_facebook_status_render($status_owner_object, $status, $linked = TRUE)
Fixed #448360 by removing flags from the status update form. If you want to use Flags, do it with Views.
Settings page title changed from "Facebook-style Status settings" to "Facebook-style Statuses" (thanks Michelle).

This is the first officially stable release of Facebook-style Statuses 2. Anyone upgrading from any earlier version should run update.php after upgrading.

Please see the extensive documentation to learn about what this module delivers.

New in 2.x:

• AHAH-based status submission
• Views Integration and therefore integration with FriendList, User Relationships, Flag Friend, and more
• "Sharer" page to post links from other sites
• Trigger Integration (see documentation to get it working)
• Improved Activity/Token integration
• Complete, easy-to-use API
• More useful permissions
• Profile Integration
• Much better theming functions
• Cleaner, more useful status update form
• Cleaner, more sensible administrative UI
• Better performance
• Improved time display
• Changed behavior that selects which user's status or status update form will be displayed to reduce the WTF factor
• Handling of English possessive apostrophe-S structure
• Much cleaner, easier-to-understand code
• Reduced block chaos
• Fixed CSS and JS behavior if status update form appears twice on one page
• More thorough Author Pane integration

From last alpha, mainly adds new Views capability, cleans up some code, and possibly fixes a Legacy Mode behavior bug. AHAH submission bug remains, unfortunately. It's probably not necessary to run update.php but I would do it anyway.

See previous alphas for other upgrade info.

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PRODUCTION SITES. Definitely recommended for developer/non-production sites. Developers upgrading from previous dev releases (and certainly from 1.x) probably need to run update.php after upgrading to this version.

Known bugs:

* After the first AHAH submission, the form no longer collapses or clears itself when clicked.
* On some pages, AHAH submission redirects the user to the JSON-return page (looks like a WSOD) after the first time. Does not apply to user pages.

Major new features from 1.x:
* AHAH status update submission
* Views integration (and therefore User Relationships, FriendList, and Flag Friend integration)
* Trigger/Action integration
* Complete, simple API
* Simplified settings/UI
* ...and more

This release should be very stable.

Fixed/new from the last RC:
JS won't allow empty status to save
Status on profile
Unclosed <a> for non-editable statuses

#369052 Reset form on click (with inspiration from dave_trigeia)
#381702 Token conflict
#380648 Cleared statuses show in Activity
#314950 Activity 6.1/5.4 integration
#371074 Author pane integration problem?
#341360 Better cleared status text

Upgrade Notes
- Some strings have been changed. This will affect translations.
- The tokens used for Activity messages have changed.

Fixes a number of issues from Beta 1:
#365849
#374057
#334063
#363814
#362699
...among others.

All non-postponed issues in the queue relevant to the 6.x branch have been fixed, so this release should be stable. However, the fixes have not been heavily tested, which is why this is only a beta release. In a few weeks if there are no major issues with this release I will create an official 1.0 release.

Fixed from the November 23rd dev release:

#346650 SQL error on status deletion
#341360 Clear Status Button
#350186 saving unaltered status
#338114 Status becomes node user instead of logged in user
#340880 Block for all or multiple UR
#301767 Settings don't save
#348768 Update History works on other's profile, but not own
$350153 Add a theming function for the list items (thanks PGiro)