Previously, I wrote about an experimental plugin for the IPFS.
Now, I’ve extended this tool with experimental support for serving image proxied content (user icons, unfurled images, etc) via an IPFS CDN, rather than from your local server.
For this to work, your IPFS server needs to be publicly available.
It goes without saying that you need to be running the latest versions of Known for this to work!
Give it a try!
Just a quick one.
Because it’s CurrentYear, I’ve updated the Known vagrant build to support PHP 7.3.
The default branch is now PHP 7.2, and there’s now a separate branch for PHP 7.3 support.
Have fun!
Some important changes to Known were merged in over the weekend.
Most notably, (most) external dependencies are now managed and installed via Composer, and not included natively in the repository itself.
This makes updates easier to manage, but it does mean that if you are installing from (or more importantly, upgrading from) the git repository directly, you will need to perform an extra step.
cd /path/to/known; composer install
This is particularly important if you’re upgrading, and your site is a checkout of the git repo.
Composer was the big one, but there have been a number of other important changes you should probably be aware of, especially if you write code for Known:
You can now put your custom plugins in a separate IdnoPlugins.local directory. This works exactly like IdnoPlugins, but gives us a way of nicely separating custom code from package code.
File systems now support storeContent()
This must be implemented by any class that implements this interface, therefore if you maintain a FileSystem plugin, you’ll need to update your code.
SQLite is not widely used, and supporting it introduces a fair amount of technical debt.
Support is now deprecated, and will be removed in a future release.
