After two months of work, a new release of the platform for building decentralized social networks Hubzilla 6.0 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 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.
The key change was the deprecation of support for the previous version of the Zot protocol in favor of support for the current version of Zot VI. Among other significant changes, in addition to the traditional fixes and improvements, it should be noted:
- Removal of support for private messages through the corresponding application and the transition to the use of the now standard direct messages mechanism similar to that used in the Activitypub protocol. Messaging with Diaspora also works now.
- The HQ UI has been redesigned and is now the main default. Unlike traditional activity stream views, it allows you to display data broken down by topic, making it easier to see updates.
- Added the ability to receive notifications of new activity through the appropriate browser mechanism.
Most of the work was done by the main developer Mario Vavti with the support of the NGI Zero open source funding.
Source: opennet.ru