These are the changes made to diaspora*'s codebase during February. They will take effect with the release of diaspora* v0.5.0.0.

Say a big thank you to everyone who has helped improve diaspora* this month!

This list has been created by volunteers from the diaspora* community. We'd love help in creating a development review each month; if you would like to help us, get in touch via the related thread on Loomio.

Akash Agrawall @aka001

Added a dynamic change of the user's minimum age from the pod's config for the settings page #5639

Added the ability for podmins to lock / unlock accounts #5643

Improved the help section #5706

arlo gn @arlogn

Improved the styling of the photo stream on the profile page #5521

Removed the header from the sign-in page for the mobile view #5623

Added the ability to link to a specific help page #5667

Added a help section for chat #5665

Dennis Schubert @denschub

Removed the file extensions for SCSS imports commit

Dumitru Ursu @dimaursu

Added checks for the database collation and added a line to the example config for podmins #5624

Fixed the position of moderation buttons (remove/block/report) on reshares #5601

Added keyboard shortcuts for reshare ( r ), expand post ( m ), follow first link in a post ( o ) #5602

), expand post ( ), follow first link in a post ( ) #5602 Improved the avatar error handling which displays a default avatar if the original one isn't found on the server #5638

Add the ability to add contacts in mobile version #5594

Removed the sign-up button from the header when registrations are disabled #5612

Unified the design of sign-up, sign-in and forgot password pages #5391

Unified the post control icon tooltip by using the tooltip plugin for the post report icon #5713

James Kiesel @gdpelican

Added the creation dates of posts to the JSON export #5597

Aurélie Giniouxe @giniouxe

Fixed the text of the change button on the privacy settings page #5671

Standardized capitalization throughout the UI #5588

Jonne Haß @jhass

Updated the locale files commit

Updated Spring commit

Added a missing translation commit

Added editorconfig to the codebase so all developers are able to agree on the same config for their editors (trailing whitespaces, etc.) #5666

Added a feature which removes Unicode format characters from posts, fixing unwanted behavior of the markdown renderer #5680

Updated Rails to version 4.2 #5501

Updated a lot of rubygems #5709

Removed the .css extension from SCSS files #5710

Marc Burt @MarcBurt

Added a spec to make sure that closed accounts don't change the total user figure in pod statistics #5351

Sam Radhakrishnan @sam09

Added length validation to profile location, fixing an error thrown by the server when a user tried to enter a location longer than 255 chars #5614

Made the website show the correct error message when the profile data validation fails #5619

Fixed overflow of formatted code in comments for the mobile website #5675

Steffen van Bergerem @svbergerem

Fixed the aspect dropdown on the people search page, which wasn't working when users were added after fetching them from another server #5632

Removed 'photo export' link from the settings page, which wasn't working #5634

Removed some unused files and fixed the syntax in some jasmine tests #5635

Added the JSHint javascript linter which looks for errors in our javascript codebase #5637

Fixed the timeagos for the notifications page and the notification dropdown. Added a 'no notifications yet' message when the user has no notifications #5417

Fixed a typo in a helper function #5647

Updated the jasmine testing framework #5649

Added hovercards for mentions #5652

Fixed the badge count and automatic scrolling for unread conversations #5646

Updated the sanitizer for markdown-it, which removes unknown html tags from posts before displaying them #5661

Fixed a pending spec for the tag stream #5663

Removed the unused function last_post from PeopleController #5664

Improved the integration test for hovercards #5650

Added a invitation link to the contacts page #5655

Added the ajax spinner and improved the comment box for Bootstrap streams #5672

Add the year as a separator to notifications page and fixed a bug with notifications which were displayed in the wrong order #5676 and #5677

Updated jasmine-ajax #5679

Added transistions for opacity changes of post control icons #5682

Fixed notifications for new conversation which where broken on the develop branch 5686

Fixed a bug on the notifications page: the conversation button was only displayed when you had less than 20 contacts. Now it depends on the number of contacts in the specific aspect #5691

Fixed the style of the 'show more posts' button for the mobile website #5683

Updated markdown-it-diaspora-mention and markdown-it-sanitizer which fixed a bug: mentions no longer add a trailing whitespace #5711

Piotr Klosinski @WebDevFromScratch

Update the stream when resharing a post #5699

Zach Rabinovich @zachrab

Disabled sending emails for deleted accounts. Previously, the server tried to send an email to an arbitrary address 5640