I'm overjoyed to see that #Diaspora has made a major new release - 0.7.0.0. It always brightens my day to see a new release, and I'm glad to see that the project is making some big changes.



Important reminder to podmins: This new federation protocol is incompatible with versions of diaspora* older than 0.6.3.0. If you are still running an earlier version, your server will no longer be able to fully communicate with servers running the latest software.


There are numerous improvements that made it into this release, some of which have been in development or quite some time.

Two immediate things jump out at me:


Support for Account Migrations - this has been under investigation for quite some time,  I will have to test it out when I can. New federation protocol - it's crazy to think that we'd get to this one day. I think the situation with Diaspora's federation architecture may actually be greatly improving. The whole system's been cleaned up, federation's in a gem, and now the protocol functionality is being versioned and extended.


A big shout-out to Benjamin Neff and Comrade Senya, who have dedicated themselves to a lot of grueling work in improving the federation system and adding in functionality for account migration.

I'm also really happy about the functionality improvements (mentions in comments!) and the inclusion of a formatting UI will likely make the interface a little more accessible for some people.