facebook_status 6.x-2.0-rc1

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.
• Some views have changed. To adopt the changes, go to /admin/build/views and click "revert" next to the default Facebook-style Statuses views.
• Some new features and behaviors have been added. Check out the bolded changes below to see if they affect you. If you are upgrading from a release before Beta 4, you should review your settings and previous release notes to make sure you're aware of all the new features and settings.

Changes since 6.x-2.0-Beta4

Emphasized changes are important changes or features. Bolded changes could affect the way your site uses Facebook-style Statuses.

#479306 Update a View with AJAX on status update submission (see docs)
Added integration with the SMS Framework module: statuses are now saved from messages through the SMS Framework that begin with "s: "
#481182 Users with no statuses see "Anonymous does not have a status"
Fixed "@fbsstatus" appearing instead of the name/status with Facebook Mode off
Fixed edit/delete links not appearing where they should
Added a default "follow" flag, but you should make the follow/following/followed views yourself if you need them.
Fixed delete confirmation redirecting
Added a "view conversation" link to Views
Fixed incorrect redirection on status delete confirmation
Improved conversation pages to have the conversation and a box to post to the other person's profile (if applicable)
Fixed Activity 1.x support
Added Activity 2.x support
Fixed a bug where some users on some Drupal installations needed the "edit all statuses" permission to post any status
#482364 User Picture of submitter in View
Fixed missing class on "View conversation" link for the view field
Added edit field in Views
Added delete field in Views
Added a "Most Popular Tags" block
Added theme_facebook_status_popular_tags($count = NULL, $time = NULL)
Fixed trigger integration
Fixed Activity 2 integration (thanks Scott Reynolds)
Fixed Token integration
#487340 Error in views integration including Latest Status Update field
#494410 Move %Chars Above Submit Form (thanks pribeh) - also fixes character count and twitter checkbox don't AHAH-refresh on form submission
Removed facebook_status_flag_create() from hook_theme()
Improved character counter efficiency and accuracy
Clear status update form after an AHAH-update
Allow users to delete posts on their own profiles (uses the "edit own status" permission)
Updated default facebook_status and facebook_status_recent views to include edit/delete links
Default facebook_status view now takes either UIDs or Usernames as arguments, but falls back to UID when Usernames are numbers