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#AndStatus v.36.01 "Activities instead of messages, and enhancements of Notifications" is published at an Open Beta testing channel, see https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/456
As there are lots of changes, your help in updating translations is needed https://crowdin.com/project/andstatus
What's new:
1. This is a major change of AndStatus, which is available for Android 7.0+ devices only and which may require quite a long database upgrade on the first run after the upgrade.
2. The whole internal data model of the application has changed from working with "messages" to working with "activities", allowing to present social networks in a richer way and to solve many old problems. E.g. after reblogging of a message the message doesn't "jump" to the top of a timeline, as before: now you see a new "Reblog action" for this message at the top the timeline.
The same for Like/Favorite and Follow/"Stop following" actions.
Usage of this feature to its full potential requires its support in a Social network. As of now only Pump.io fully supports activities; Mastodon sends activities in its "Notifications" timeline only.
For legacy server timelines that contain messages only, AndStatus also presents Reblogs as activities, because a "Reblog" _is_ an action even in "Twitter-like" implementations. "Messages" from legacy timelines are interpreted as Update actions of these messages.
3. Direct messages and timelines renamed to Private with corresponding changes in their content.
4. "Notifications" timeline added, which shows activities that are configured to be notified about in AndStatus Settings -> Notifications. You can be notified about: Followers, Favorites, Mentions, Reblogs, unset messages in the Outbox and about Private messages.
5. Notifications, shown in Android Notification area and in the AndStatus Widget, are not forgotten anymore. These notifications are persisted even after device reboot. Notifications are reset when a User opens correspondent timeline e.g. by clicking on the Notification or a Widget. #367 and #398
In addition to a number of new events (activities/messages), notifications now show an Account (in a case a notification is for one account only) and time, when the last event occurred. #158
6.For Twitter messages character limit increased up to 280 characters. #158
7. Dropped support for older Android devices. Minimal supported Android version is 7.0 now. This change allows application developers to start using modern Java 8 language enhancements, including functional programming. https://loadaverage.org/attachment/3966689

#AndStatus v.36.04 beta "Activities instead of messages, and enhancements of Notifications" is published at an Open Beta testing channel, see https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/456
In this beta release:
1. Translations for 6 new languages added and several existing updated. Many thanks to all volunteer translators making this work at https://crowdin.com/project/andstatus BTW it's not too late to complete what's not done yet, please check that site.
2. Fixed a crash in Android 8, when syncing occurred in a background. This was the only problem reported during previous two weeks of beta testing, which confirms my observations that AndStatus is close to be released.
Please report any new major problems to be fixed before a release to the wider audience to https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues https://loadaverage.org/attachment/3995550

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