* Upgrade discount to 1.6.8
* Start reading Votes, Saves, and Hides from Cassandra (while still dual-writing all three)
* Some XSS fixes
* Significant Gold buying and gifting improvements
- Move /api/ipn to /ipn
* Allow non-US countries to buy sponsored links
* Increase embed.ly scope
* redd.it support
* Allow postgres port number to be specified in ini file (this changes the format of the .ini file)
* Upgrade Cassandra to 0.7
- Change g.urlcache to LinksByURL
- Translate storage-conf.xml to cassandra.yaml
- TTL support (and enable on Hides)
- Move permacache keyspace to inside reddit keyspace
* The stalecache: a local memcached that contains slightly old information to speed up some lookups
* Switch to patched Paste that is hopefully download.gz-proof
* Don't store votes on things > 30 days old
* Many many bugfixes/small features
* Two new 404 aliens
* enable a comment page cache if the user isn't author of any of the comments and the page is a non-permalink. votes and friends are updated by javascript
Additions
* descriptive example.ini
* create "trusted_sponsor" who get auto-accepted
* split off url cache from the permacache, with major clean-up to app_globals
* Move is_banned_domain() call into POST_submit() so it can take the sanitized url
* Redirect /r/asdfasdfasdf to the search page, not the create page.
* updates to draw_load.py
* orangered envelope goes to unread, not all.
* Remove "enable whitelisting" checkbox, and switch to new failiens
* Put verification link on email prefs page
Bugfixes:
* split off a minimal api controller for onload calls (which don't care about c.site or c.user, making them cheaper)
* Assume admins want to keep their cookies forever just like everyone else
* /randomrising bugfix
* JSON error page was rendering in html. it now returns "{ error: ${code} }"
