diff --git a/_posts/2020-02-04-choqok-1-7-released.md b/_posts/2020-02-04-choqok-1-7-released.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..681f3d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2020-02-04-choqok-1-7-released.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +title: Choqok 1.7.0 +date: 2020-02-04T22:00:00+00:00 +author: ilpianista +layout: post +categories: + - news +--- +Long time no see, Choqok users! + +First of all Choqok has a new and shiny website. Kudos to Carl Schwan for taking care of the theme! + +To me, version 1.7.0 was meant to be released more than one year ago, while I just released it today. + +The main reason of the delay (a part from lack of time) is because I wanted 1.7.0 to be bullet proof (spoiler: it's not). + +I wanted Choqok 1.7.0 to have full Mastodon support, proper media attachments and a lot more. + +Let's try to start somewhere. With this version I want to close a Choqok era and prepare us for the next one. Stay tuned! + +### Changes for this release: + + * Port to QtNetworkAuth and drop qoauth dependency + * Allow to disable accounts + * Honour the default font [#372291](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372291) + * Make the sign footer consisent between all microplugins + * Unread post count in the application title sums all unread posts' accounts + * Twitter: update char limit to 280 + * Twitter: support extended tweets [#370260](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370260) + * Twitter: fix list browsing [#382392](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382392) + * Twitter: fix followers list + * Twitter: show client source even for private messages + * Twitter: show user' real name when no description is set + * GNU Social: do not rely over qvitter to get the post url + * GNU Social: hide linkback statuses + * GNU Social: show user' real name when no description is set + * Pump.io: escape the description + * Pump.io: show user' real name when no description is set + * Drop yFrog support from ImagePreview plugin + * Plugin compability break: MicroBlog::profileUrl returns a QUrl instead + * Plugin compability break: MicroBlog::postUrl returns a QUrl instead + +Thank to (random order): _Andrea Scarpino_, _Nicolas Fella_, _Luca Beltrame_, _Luigi Toscano_, _Pino Toscano_, _Heiko Becker_, _Andreas Sturmlechner_, _Yuri Chornoivan_ for their contributions to keep Choqok up. + +And [here](https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&f1=cf_versionfixedin&list_id=1194583&o1=equals&product=choqok&query_format=advanced&v1=1.7) you can find a longer list of bugs fixed in this release. + +### Download Choqok 1.7 + +You can download Choqok 1.7 source code package from [here](http://download.kde.org/stable/choqok/1.7/src/choqok-1.7.0.tar.xz). For Kubuntu users I think Adilson will update [his PPA](https://launchpad.net/~adilson/+archive/ubuntu/experimental). + +### Support Choqok + +You can always support Choqok development via reporting bugs, translating it, promoting it, helping in code and donating money.