Hubzilla 8.8 comes with some nice new additions to the addons and many small improvements for the UI and under the hood.

Addons:
- The Faces addon (requires python 3 and the python deepface library) will provide the Faces App which will detect faces in your photos and let you tag them. More info about this addon is available from its readme file.
- The Logger Stats addon provides a tool for admins and developers to display various hub activities in a graphical way. It requires logging to be enabled to collect the data.

UI:
- The content of the right aside area is now moved to the left aside on small screens.
- Seen public stream items are now removed from the new public stream notifications area.

Under the hood:
- We now use a new language detect library which supports 110 languages and should improve detection of rtl languages. Posts in rtl languages should now be displayed rtl. This library requires the PHP mbstring extension.
- The gallery addon has been updated to use photoswipe version 5.
- Performance improvements and bug fixes.

For a complete list of changes in Hubzilla 8.8 please refer to the changelog.

A big THANK YOU! to all contributors and everybody who supports Hubzilla and its development.

Update

- Backup your data
- Execute util/udall

Install

Please refer to the install instructions.

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