The intent of this changelog is to give an overview of the major changes
and fixes made to Blërg. For a detailed changelog, see the git log.
+<a name="v1.6"><h2>Version 1.6 - released Monday, July 18th 2011</h2>
+
+<h3>Features Added</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Passwords are now stored as MD5 hashes. See
+tools/convert_to_md5_passwords.pl to convert old passwords.</li>
+<li>Added notification of new messages from subscribed feeds.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Bugs Squashed</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Users can now log in from multiple locations without clobbering
+their previous login.</li>
+<li>Fixed some relative URL problems so that Blërg can be more easily
+used on a subpath.</li>
+</ul>
+
<a name="v1.5"><h2>Version 1.5 - released Friday, March 4th 2011</h2>
<h3>Features Added</h3>
<li><a href="#api_subscribe">/subscribe/(user) - Subscribe to a user's updates</a></li>
<li><a href="#api_unsubscribe">/unsubscribe/(user) - Unsubscribe from a user's updates</a></li>
<li><a href="#api_feed">/feed - Get updates for subscribed users</a></li>
- <li><a href="#api_feedinfo">/feedinfo/(user) - Get subscription status for a user</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#api_feedinfo">/feedinfo, /feedinfo/(user) - Get subscription status</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#design">Design</a>
<p>POST to /feed, with a <code>username</code> parameter and an auth
cookie. The server will respond with a JSON list of the last 50 updates
-from all subscribed users, in reverse chronological order.
+from all subscribed users, in reverse chronological order. Fetching
+/feed resets the new message count returned from /feedinfo.
<p>NOTE: subscription notifications are only stored while subscriptions
are active. Any records inserted before or after a subscription is
active will not show up in /feed.
-<h3><a name="api_feedinfo">/feedinfo/(user)</a> - Get subscription
+<h3><a name="api_feedinfo">/feedinfo, /feedinfo/(user)</a> - Get subscription
status for a user</a></h3>
+<p>POST to /feedinfo with a <code>username</code> parameter and an auth
+cookie to get general information about your subscribed feeds.
+Currently, this only tells you how many new records there are since the
+last time /feed was fetched. The server will respond with a JSON
+object:
+
+<pre>
+{"new":3}
+</pre>
+
<p>POST to /feedinfo/(user) with a <code>username</code> parameter and
an auth cookie, where (user) is a user whose subscription status you are
interested in. The server will respond with a simple JSON object: