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This includes a wealth of improvements and bug fixes since the last release, totaling almost 100 issues fixed and almost 300 new patches written in the past six months, and is a recommended update for all sites. As always, test the update on a copy of the site to confirm there are no unexpected changes.
Notable changes include:
Downloading tweets that contain emoji will no longer break the module.
There now exists a notion of a Twitter account being considered "global". When writing tweets via the Twitter Post submodule, a user may select from either global accounts or authenticated ones that they themselves have added to the site. Users may also no longer publish from an account that is not publish which they do not own. There are new options permissions involved in this, it is highly recommended to verify the site's configuration after updating to ensure everything is still working as intended.
Images embedded in tweets will now be displayed.
A custom pane was added for Panels integration, for posting to Twitter when building a custom node_edit display.
A new text filter was added that allows embedding tweets by simply pasting the full URL of a single tweet.
This includes a wealth of improvements and bug fixes since the last release, totaling almost 100 issues fixed and almost 300 new patches written in the past six months, and is a recommended update for all sites currently using the v7.x-6.x branch. As always, test the update on a copy of the site to confirm there are no unexpected changes.
Note: No update process is included for sites currently using 7.x-5.x releases, that will hopefully be included in the forthcoming 7.x-6.1 release.
Notable changes include:
Downloading tweets that contain emoji will no longer break the module.
There now exists a notion of a Twitter account being considered "global". When writing tweets via the Twitter Post submodule, a user may select from either global accounts or authenticated ones that they themselves have added to the site. Users may also no longer publish from an account that is not publish which they do not own. There are new options permissions involved in this, it is highly recommended to verify the site's configuration after updating to ensure everything is still working as intended.
The tweet.tpl.php template has been renamed to twitter_status.tpl.php; this will require sites to manually update any customizations they had done.
Images embedded in tweets will now be displayed.
A new text filter was added that allows embedding tweets by simply pasting the full URL of a single tweet.
This includes a wealth of improvements and bug fixes since the last release, totaling almost 100 issues fixed and almost 300 new patches written in the past six months, and is a recommended update for all sites. As always, test the update on a copy of the site to confirm there are no unexpected changes.
Notable changes include:
Downloading tweets that contain emoji will no longer break the module.
There now exists a notion of a Twitter account being considered "global". When writing tweets via the Twitter Post submodule, a user may select from either global accounts or authenticated ones that they themselves have added to the site. Users may also no longer publish from an account that is not publish which they do not own. There are new options permissions involved in this, it is highly recommended to verify the site's configuration after updating to ensure everything is still working as intended.
The tweet.tpl.php template has been renamed to twitter_status.tpl.php; this will require sites to manually update any customizations they had done.
Images embedded in tweets will now be displayed.
A custom pane was added for Panels integration, for posting to Twitter when building a custom node_edit display.
A new text filter was added that allows embedding tweets by simply pasting the full URL of a single tweet.
Twitter accounts can be added from a user profile as they were before. They are also listed at the user profile summary page. See a few screenshots at http://drupal.org/node/1883866#comment-6965496. These are from Drupal 7, but the logic is the same.
The field twitter_account.added_by_uid has been renamed to the old name it had, twitter_account.uid.
Added Web Intents to Follow, Retweet, Favorite or Reply tweets; plus a fancy listing as per the Developer Display Guidelines.
Fixed the upgrade path for people who already had 7.x-5.x installed or is coming from earlier versions. They will keep their already authenticated accounts listed at /admin/config/services/twitter.
This release uses the new Twitter REST API version 1.1. The main difference between 1.0 (used by Twitter 6.x-3.0) is that all requests must be authenticated with OAuth.
Since March 2013 Twitter API 1.0 will be turned off so sites using Twitter 6.x-3.0 or earlier must upgrade in order to keep on interacting with Twitter. More details can be found at https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api.
This release uses the new Twitter REST API version 1.1. The main difference between 1.0 (used by Twitter 7.x-3.0) is that all requests must be authenticated with OAuth.
Since March 2013 Twitter API 1.0 will be turned off so sites using Twitter 7.x-3.0 or earlier must upgrade in order to keep on interacting with Twitter. More details can be found at https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api.
This release includes better error handling and reporting when requesting or posting data to Twitter. Also a bug when authentication is cancelled at Twitter.com using Oauth was Fixed.
Here is the list of issues Fixed in the Issue Queue:
On Twitter Signin, if the automatic creation of accounts was activated, created users could not change their password. A message has been added to indicate the temporary password with a link to edit the user account.
The Tweets block was raising PHP warnings because on an inherited Views filter.
Many bug fixes, mainly for twitter module. twitter_signin, twitter_post and twitter_actions are not completely stable yet.
Twitter accounts can be added to a user account, and tweets are successfully loaded on cron run. This has been tested with and without Open Auth module. Functional tests verify the non OAuth process.
A README.txt file has been added with basic information and links.
There are a handful of issues addressed in this release, but by far the most important is the changing of dependency on OAuth 2 to OAuth 3, which should greatly simplify the install process. Please be aware that your dependencies _will_ change with this update!
This release fixes a number of bugs that had accumulated since the past beta release. It also provides support to create read-only Twitter accounts, thus it no longer requires the OAuth module unless you're planning to post to Twitter from your Drupal install.