🎉 [<img alt="Mario Vavti" src="https://quasar.casa/xp/15bafd4405313111f1f6696d84a020662a8860d0778d5e44de084d4bb7d256a6-6" height="32" width="32" />](https://hub.somaton.com/channel/mario?f=&zid=ovni%40quasar.casa) [Mario Vavti](https://hub.somaton.com/channel/mario?f=&zid=ovni%40quasar.casa) wrote the following [post](https://hub.somaton.com/item/4214a375-3a18-4acb-b546-75c6c4818e2f?f=&zid=ovni%40quasar.casa) Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:59:59 -0700 **Hubzilla 9.0 Released!**  **Hubzilla 9.0** is here and delivers many improvements under the hood and at the UI level. Two of the most asked features have been implemented: repeats a.k.a. boosts and adjustable theme colors at the channel and site level. Hubmins can also customize other components via the bootstrap sass variables. Under the hood we implemented a short term object cash which will improve performance when fetching objects. The internal use of ActivityStreams1 has been deprecated in favor of ActivityStreams2. Object integrity proofs (EddsaSignatures) according to fep-8b32 have been implemented. Interesting for developers: CI and the test environment have been vastly improved. Other notable changes are: refactored browser to browser encryption using the modern sodium crypto library and support for custom emojis with configurable emoji sets. For a complete list of changes in **Hubzilla 9.0** please refer to the [changelog](https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG). A big **THANK YOU!** to all contributors and everybody who supports Hubzilla and its development. #### **Breaking changes** #### * The .htaccess file has been updated to fix an issue with recent Apache versions * Require sodium PHP extension * Require bcmath or gmp PHP extension * Require intl PHP extension * Versions \< 9.0 will not be able to decrypt encrypted messages composed in version 9.0 in the UI * Poke and Mood apps removed * Removed smiley button addon * Removed smiley\_pack addon * Removed emojione addon (use the emoji addon instead) * Removed fediwordle addon (use the fediquest addon instead) * Individual connection filters need manual intervention (e.g. replace `http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/share` with `Announce` when filtering repeats) #### **Update** #### * Backup your data * Make sure that the **sodium PHP extension** is installed and enabled * Make sure that either the **bcmath or gmp PHP extension** is installed and enabled * Make sure that the **intl PHP extension** is installed and enabled * Execute `util/udall` #### **Install** #### Please refer to the [install instructions](https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core/-/blob/master/install/INSTALL.txt). \#[Hubzilla](https://hub.somaton.com/search?tag=Hubzilla) is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. [https://hubzilla.org](https://hubzilla.org) CC: @[fediversenews@venera.social](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)