A new release of the platform for building decentralized social networks Hubzilla 5.6 has been published. 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 is distributed under the MIT license; the MySQL DBMS and its forks, as well as PostgreSQL, are supported as a data store.
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 new release, in addition to the mass of traditional improvements and fixes, a number of important innovations have been added:
- The user registration module has been completely redesigned. Now, when registering, fine-tuning of its parameters has become available, including time intervals, the maximum number of registrations per period, confirmation and verification of users. The latter was made possible without the use of an email address.
- Improved the user invitation system module in Hubzilla, where it became possible to override invitation templates and implemented language support.
- Added full-featured support for storing sessions in a resident Redis database. This can be useful for increasing the responsiveness of large Hubzilla servers.
- Work has been done to improve the efficiency of processing a number of processes, which also had a positive impact on the overall performance of the system.
Source: opennet.ru