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We are upgrading this server to Friendica's latest RC. There will be a short downtime as the database schema changes.




We are back again!


Our server is up an running again after a major hardware change. Everything seems to be working well now. Thanks for your patience.

Please let us know if you're experiencing any issues.

Cheers!

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We are taking this server offline for a short while for a hardware upgrade.




We just updated to the latest RC! Let us know how it goes.

Friendica 2019.12-rc Release Candidate available for testing

We are wrapping up the work on Friendica over the last three month since the 2019.09 release, just in time for delivery over the Holidays at the end of the year. But that requires to test them and therefore we branched off the 2019.12-rc branch today and invite you to try it if you like to help us to test it.

To give you a short glimpse into the new features, here are three of them:
  • Federation via the Diaspora* and ActivityPub protocol was improved, which includes making re-shares as native as possible.
  • The ACL dialog has got an overhaul, hopefully making it more easy to use.
  • You can now pin posts on your accounts wall.

Important


Please remember that Friendica now needs at least PHP version 7.0 and MySQL 5.6 (or equivalent) installed on the server to function properly.

How to help testing the release candidate?


Assuming that you are running the 2019.09 version of Friendica and that you have installed via git: Please pull the current sources for the core of Friendica and the addons from github. You should see a notification about a new branch called 2019.12-rc during the pull. in both repositories. You just need to checkout this branch with a

git checkout 2019.12-rc

and remember to follow the usual steps after updating using git. Please report any issues you encounter using either the issue tracker at github or the Friendica support or admin forums.

Should the DB update process get stuck


If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script

./bin/console dbstructure update

from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned above.
https://friendi.ca/2019/12/10/friendica-2019-12-rc-release-candidate-available-for-testing/






Back online after prolonged outage


Wednesday 20 March 09:07 UTC our server went offline, due to a failure of its power supply unit. As yours truly was away on an off-site assignment, we were able to restore the service only today.

We're up and running again with no apparent loss of data!



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