Recently the release of the new corrective version of the platform for the construction of decentralized social networks "Hubzilla 5.4.1" and is that version 5.4 had been released a few hours before, but the corrective version got to fix some problems related to the profile not found if not logged in, as well as an unexpected activation of buttons when pressing enter in the input field and other minor fixes.
About Hubzilla
This platform has a unified authentication system to operate as a social network, forums, discussion groups, Wiki, publishing systems for articles and websites. The federated interaction is based on the patented Zot protocol, which implements the concept of WebMTA for transferring content over the WWW in decentralized networks and provides a number of unique functions, in particular, transparent 'Nomad Identity' pass-through authentication within the Zot network, as well as a cloning function for ensure completely identical user data sets and login points across multiple nodes on the network. Supports sharing with other Fediverse networks using the ActivityPub, Diaspora, DFRN, and OStatus protocols. Hubzilla's file storage is also available via the WebDAV protocol, and the system supports CalDAV calendars and events.
Main new features of Hubzilla 5.4 and Hubzilla 5.4.1
In the 2 months that have passed since version 5.2 was released previous main, numerous fixes and code changes have been made, among which, in addition to the traditional bug fixes and improvements identified with the release of Hubzilla fix version 5.4.1:
- Fix in profile not found if not logged in
- Collection in summary that was not reset on cancel
- Correction in summary was not saved with autosave draft
- Fix in unexpected button activation when pressing enter in input field
- Correction in the plural expression in Spanish
- Fix in javascript error if end of page element does not exist
Regarding changes and corrections who were introduced in version 5.4 it is mentioned that changed to use file system as the default storage for images, since previously, a DBMS was used for this. Support for choosing a storage type now also applies to profile avatars imported from external servers.
He too support for import / export of experimental data between Hubzilla and Zap. Within the framework of the latter, a reference version of the Zot protocol is currently being developed.
As to system performance, this has been increased when displaying main pages Due to the internal caching mechanism and the killing of a number of processes, which can slow down the display on large hubs or hubs hosted on low-power servers, to background processes.
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about it about this platform for the creation of decentralized networks or about this new version, you can check the details in the following link.
Download Hubzilla
For those of you interested in getting the new version of Hubzilla, they can do it from the following link.
Or from the terminal with the following command:
As for the Hubzilla installation is really easy, since if you have installed WordPress, Drupal, Jumla, etc. Hubzilla installation will be very easy. It is important to mention that Hubzilla is designed to be installed on servers, even if for home teams, you can get support from LAMP to facilitate the installation process.