0.1.71 Released

With the 0.1.71 release, we are starting to address some of our user interface bugs, as well as adding some features that should simplify interacting with social websites.

UI Updates

• New linking for the favicon. Yay logos!
• Undesired scaling tended to occur when viewing the app on mobile. While we can’t exactly control user settings in mobile browsers, we can at least encourage those browsers to let us do our own layout.
• Our contact-us form was sending messages to the person submitting the contact form, rather than our support team. oops.
• The column in the download data modal now stretches the entire width of the modal.
• The dataset menu in the left navigation bar now highlights when you have a dataset selected.
• Open Graph tagging!

Infrastructure Updates

• Our API Cassandra configuration will now be notified of more than one Cassandra node to connect to, reducing points of failure.
• We are no longer using protobuf as our message encoding, opting for JSON instead. This reduces the complexity of our internal serialization logic rather dramatically, as Jackson will attach its own type discovery parameters (and we don’t have to manually deserialize the data).
• Deprecated old password-based authentication module, and cleaned up the database.
• Deprecated and removed old VFS2 filesystem handling, as data is now stored in cassandra.
• All of the passwords used for development accounts have been (mostly) removed from our source, with the exception of passwords for the vagrant VM. Devs now have to use their own SMTP accounts to send email.

Curious? Go check it out!