The new release of the platform for building decentralized social networks Hubzilla 5.2 has been released. The project provides a communication server that integrates with web publishing systems, equipped with a transparent identity system and access controls in Fediverse decentralized networks. The project code is written in PHP and JavaScript and distributed under the MIT license.
Hubzilla has a single authentication system to operate as a social network, forums, discussion groups, wikis, article publishing systems and websites. Federated interaction is based on Zot's own protocol, which implements the WebMTA concept for transferring content over the WWW in decentralized networks and provides a number of unique features, in particular, transparent end-to-end "Nomadic Identity" authentication within the Zot network, as well as a clone function to provide completely identical points login and user data sets on various network nodes. Exchange with other Fediverse networks is supported using the ActivityPub, Diaspora, DFRN and OStatus protocols. The Hubzilla file storage is also available via the WebDAV protocol. In addition, the system supports CalDAV events and calendars, as well as CardDAV notebooks.
In the 2 months that have passed since the release of the previous major release 5.2, numerous fixes and changes have been made to the code, among which, in addition to the traditional fixes of identified problems and improvements, the following should be highlighted:
- Switch to using the file system as the default image storage. Previously, a DBMS was used for this. Support for choosing the type of storage now also applies to profile avatars imported from external servers.
- Support for importing any external publications from networks based on the Zot, Diaspora and Activitypub protocols through the search bar.
- Experimental data import/export support between Hubzilla and Zap. Within the framework of the latter, a reference version of the Zot protocol is currently being developed.
- Improved system performance when displaying main pages due to an internal caching mechanism and moving a number of processing that can slow down display on large or low-powered hub servers to background processes.
- Declared support for the latest version of PHP 8.
Source: opennet.ru