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1 Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
2
3 = MediaWiki release notes =
4
5 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
6 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
7
8 == Changes since 1.6 ==
9
10 * (bug 5458) Fix double-URL encoding in block log link in contribs and contribs
11 link in block log
12 * (bug 5462) Bogus missing patch warning in updater
13 * (bug 5461) Use of deprecated "showhideminor" in Special:Recentchangeslinked
14 * PHP warning when allow_call_time_pass_reference is off
15 * Update to Finnish localization
16 * (bug 5467) Link to page histories in watchlist edit mode
17 * Further additions to Hebrew localisation
18 * (bug 5476) Invalid xhtml in German localization
19 * (bug 5479) Id translation for preferences tabs caption
20 * (bug 5493) Id translation for special pages
21 * Added skinname and style path parameters to CBT version of MonoBook
22 * Include subversion revision number in Special:Version if available
23 * (bug 5344) Fix regression that broke slashes in extension tag parameters
24 * Improve Special:Log performance on big log sets
25 * (bug 5507) Changed mediawiki:logouttext from plain to wikitext
26 * (bug 4760) Prevent creation of entries in protection log when protection
27 levels haven't changed
28 * (bug 861) Show page protection/unprotection events in histories
29 * (bug 5499) Don't clear the tag strip state when asked not to clear state.
30 Fixes regression with use of <ref> in a template breaking <nowiki> etc.
31 * Minor improvements to English language files
32 * Display the anon talk page info message on anon talk pages again
33 (moved outside the parser cache)
34 * Optional {{DISPLAYTITLE|title with markup}} magic word
35 Deactivated by default, set "$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true" in LocalSettings.php
36 to activate
37 * Cleaned SpecialContributions a bit
38 * Added a table to track interlanguage links
39 * (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left
40 languages
41 * Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the
42 appropriate arrow
43 * (bug 5537) Add stub language file for Samogitian (bat-smg); inherits
44 Lithuanian (lt)
45 * Don't force edit summaries when a user is editing their own user/talk page
46 * (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces
47 * (bug 385) Installer support for PostgreSQL, fixes for PG compatibility
48 * PersistentObject removed; it doesn't do anything and was broken besides.
49 All extensions using it have been corrected.
50 * Propagate ISBN number for Booksources in LanguageNo.php
51 * (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin]
52 * Add TALKSPACE, SUBJECTSPACE, TALKPAGENAME, SUBJECTPAGENAME (and encoded forms
53 for all) magic words
54 * (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds
55 * Reject malformed addresses in X-Forwarded-For entries
56 * (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload
57 * (bug 5559) Improve detection of ImageMagick [patch: Greg Turnquist]
58 * (bug 5475) New pages feeds ignore "limit" argument
59 * (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to
60 conflicting anchor identifiers
61 * (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default.
62 * Maintenance script to import the contents of a text file into a wiki page
63 * Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use
64 * (bug 5576) Remove debugging hack in session check
65 * (bug 5426) Lowercase treatment of titles in rights log leads to broken links
66 on Special:Log
67 * Minor improvements to French localisation files
68 * (bug 5181) Update "nogomatch" for Slovak
69 * (bug 5594) Id translation up to # Login and logout pages section
70 * (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link
71 * Improvements to German localisation files
72 * (bug 5570) Problems using <special page>/parameter link form for long titles
73 * (bug 3884) Add $user parameter to AddNewUser hook, call it for by-email
74 registrations as well as self-registrations.
75 * (bug 4327) Report age of cached data sets in query pages
76 * (bug 4662) Fix Safari check in wikibits.js
77 * (bug 4663) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Safari
78 * (bug 5572) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Konqueror (3.5+)
79 * (bug 5235) Edit toolbar tooltips no longer show JavaScript junk in Opera
80 * Edit toolbar now works in pure XHTML mode (application/xhtml+xml)
81 * Add watchlist clear function to allow quick purging of all items
82 * (bug 5625) Additional namespace translations for Welsh
83 * Add meta tag and JavaScript variables to cached special pages which provides
84 the timestamp of the last update, in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.
85 * (bug 5628) More translations for MessagesHr.php
86 * (bug 5595) Localisation for Bosnian language (bs)
87 * (bug 2910) Default view preferences for watchlists
88 * Add "hide bot edits from the watchlist" user preference
89 * (bug 5250) Introduce Special:Unusedtemplates
90 * Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent
91 edits up to a certain edit, and not just the latest edit..
92 * Made MessageRo.php more general
93 * (bug 5640) Indonesian localisation improvements
94 * (bug 5592) Actions are logged with the default language for the
95 wiki, not the language of the user performing the operation.
96 * (bug 5644) Error in LanguageBs.php file
97 * (bug 5646) Compare for identical types in wfElement()
98 * (bug 5472) Language::userAdjust()->minDiff not initialized on else condition
99 * (bug 5386) LanguageMk.php: updated namespaces translations
100 * (bug 5422) Stub for Romani (rmy) language which extends ro
101 * Fix linktrail for LanguageSr
102 * (bug 5664) Fix Bosnian linktrail
103 * (bug 3825) Namespace filtering on Special:Newpages
104 * (bug 1922) When Special:Wantedpages is cached, mark links to pages
105 which have since been created
106 * (bug 5659) Change grammar hacks for Bosnian Wikimedia namespaces.
107 This sort of special casing should be removed and fixed properly.
108 * Remove useless whitespace from Special:Brokenredirects header
109 * Treat "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" as wikitext when echoing; change default
110 text
111 * (bug 5497) Regression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>)
112 * (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories
113 * (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect
114 * (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in
115 read-only pages
116 * Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface")
117 * (bug 4259) Indicate when a protected page being edited is an interface message
118 ("editinginterface")
119 * (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel
120 * Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter
121 * (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache
122 miss
123 * Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages
124 * Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser
125 credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if
126 the connection fails
127 * (bug 5005) Fix XHTML <gallery> output.
128 * (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date).
129 * (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation
130 * Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories
131 * (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals
132 * (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files
133 * (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word
134 * (bug 93) <nowiki> tags and tildes in templates
135 * The returnto parameter is now actually used by SpecialUserlogin.php
136 * Parser can now know that it is parsing an interface message
137 * (bug 4737) MediaWiki:Viewcount supports {{PLURAL}} now
138 * Fix bug in wfMsgExt under PHP 5.1.2
139 * (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv
140 * Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to
141 recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes
142 * Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles
143 * (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously
144 deleted
145 * (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages
146 * "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language
147 * (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated
148 * (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers
149 * (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page
150 * (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user
151 * (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters
152 * Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup
153 * (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title
154 * (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags
155 * Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}}
156 will produce a count minus formatting
157 * Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an
158 appropriate output format given the scope of the clean
159 * (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log"
160 * Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for
161 user rights
162 * (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL
163 * (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted"
164 * (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time
165 formatted according to the current user's settings
166 * (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian
167 * Updated initStats maintenance script
168 * (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale
169 * (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are.
170 * (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to
171 show up on specific pages on demand
172 * Bidi-aid on list pages
173 * (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names
174 * (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext
175 * Sanitizer: now handles nested <li> in <ul> or <ol>
176 * (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14
177 * Add 'EmailConfirmed' hook
178 * New findhooks.php script to find undocumented hooks.
179 * Silently ignore errors on profiling table update.
180 * (bug 5801) Correct handling of underscores in Special:Listusers
181 * Clean up Special:Listusers; add an "(all)" label to the group selection box
182 * (bug 5812) Use appropriate link colour in Special:Mostlinked
183 * (bug 5802) {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} variable broken in Vietnamese locale
184 * (bug 5817) Appropriate handling for Special:Recentchangeslinked where the target
185 page doesn't exist
186 * Special:Randompage now additionally accepts English namespace name as parameter
187 * (bug 2981) Really fixed linktrail for Tamil (ta)
188 * Disallow substituting Special pages when included into a page
189 * (bug 5587) Clean up the languages from references to the Groups special page
190 * Added new group-X and group-X-member messages
191 * Rewritten removeUnusedAccounts to be more efficient, print names of inactive
192 accounts
193 * Redirect Special:Userlist to Special:Listusers
194 * Introduce $wgAllowTitlesInSVG, which allows the <title> attribute in uploaded files
195 bearing the image/svg MIME type. Disabled by default due to the vast majority of
196 web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details.
197 * Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it
198 * (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories,
199 Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories.
200 * (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages
201 * Clean up Special:Undelete a bit
202 * (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}}
203 * Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit
204 * (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL
205 * (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files
206 * (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show
207 * (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users
208 * (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
209 * (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name
210 * (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message
211 * (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers
212 * (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de)
213 * (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru)
214 * (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id)
215 * (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs)
216 * Added many missing formatNum calls
217 * Added grammar function to Belarusian (be)
218 * (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook
219 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be)
220 * (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
221 * (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links
222 * (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id)
223 * (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms)
224 * (bug 5890) Update for German language (de)
225 * (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي
226 * --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension
227 * (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl)
228 * (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl)
229 * User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in
230 v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8
231 * dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the
232 previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump.
233 * dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched
234 * dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch
235 * (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
236 * (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de)
237 * (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs)
238 * Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with
239 $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups
240 * (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages
241 * (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl)
242 * Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages
243 * Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word
244 * (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word
245 * (bug 5370) Allow throttling of password reminder requests with the rate limiter
246 * (bug 5683) Respect parser output marked as uncacheable when saving
247 * (bug 5918) Links autonumbering now work for all defined protocols
248 * (bug 5935) Improvement to German localisation (de)
249 * (bug 5937) Register links from gallery captions with the parent parser output
250 object so that link tables receive those updates too
251 * (bug 5845) Introduce BASEPAGENAME and BASEPAGENAMEE magic words
252 * (bug 5941) Use content language when getting the administrator page title for
253 Special:Statistics
254 * (bug 5949) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
255 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian translation (be)
256 * (bug 5950) Improvements to French localisation
257 * (bug 5805) {{plural:}} support for counters in some special pages
258 * (bug 5952) Improvement to German localisation (de)
259 * Rename conflicting metadata help message to "metadata_help" (was "metadata")
260 and treat it as wiki text
261 * Improve preferences input filtering
262 * Maintenance script to import multiple files into the wiki
263 * (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he)
264 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
265 * (bug 5961) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
266 * (bug 5849) Remove some hard-coded references to "Wikipedia" in messages
267 * (bug 5967) Improvement to German localisation (de)
268 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
269 * Suppress images in galleries which appear on the bad image list (when rendering
270 for a wiki page; galleries in special pages and categories are unaffected)
271 * Maintenance script to remove orphaned revisions from the database
272 * (bug 5991) Update for Russian language (ru)
273 * (bug 6001) PAGENAMEE and FULLPAGENAMEE don't work in FULLURL and LOCALURL magic
274 words
275 * (bug 5958) Switch Uzbek language name to use latin script
276 * (bug 839) Add URLENCODE magic word
277 * (bug 6004) Update for Polish language (pl)
278 * (bug 5971) Improvement to German localisation (de)
279 * (bug 4873) Don't overwrite the subtitle navigation when viewing a redirect page
280 that isn't current
281 * (bug 2203) Namespace updates for Thai
282 * Fix breakage in parser test suite which caused incorrect reporting of the failure of
283 {{NUMBEROFFILES}}. Now initialises the site_stats table with some dumb data. Updated
284 the expected output for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to reflect this.
285 * (bug 6009) Use {{ns:project}} in messages where appropriate
286 * (bug 6012) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
287 * (bug 6017) Update list of bookstores in German localisation files
288 * (bug 5187) Allow programmatically bypassing username validation, for scripts
289 * (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected
290 * (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this"
291 * (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified')
292 * (bug 2015) Add "\sim" to ~ conversion for HTML rendering
293 * (bug 6029) Improvement to German localisation (de)
294 * (bug 5015) Update be: magic words
295 * (bug 3974) Add parameter for site URL to "passwordremindertext"
296 * (bug 6039) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
297 * (bug 764) Add CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES to default database permissions
298 * Big update to Swedish localisation (sv)
299 * Use appropriate HTML functions to create the tool links on image pages, so they don't
300 look garbled when tidy isn't on
301 * (bug 5511) Fix URL-encoding of usernames in links on Special:Ipblocklist
302 * (bug 6046) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #15
303 * (bug 5523) $wgNoFollowNsExceptions to allow disabling rel="nofollow" in
304 specially-selected namespaces.
305 * (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick Jenkins)
306 * Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better
307 handle some overlapping tag cases.
308 * Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC
309 * (bug 4610) Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark
310 changes as patrolled using the diff links there
311 * Add 'DiffViewHeader' hook called before diff page output
312 * (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de)
313 * (bug 6054) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #16
314 * Add {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} magic word
315 * (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms
316 * (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics.
317 * (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs
318 * To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays
319 can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is
320 no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a
321 custom log type.
322 * (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages)
323 * Added $wgGrammarForms global
324 * Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries.
325 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
326 * (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate()
327 * wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages
328 * Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group
329 * wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code
330 * Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed.
331 Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways.
332 * (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language
333 * Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when
334 adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs.
335 * Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory.
336 * (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an)
337 * (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru)
338 * Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering
339 problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages
340 making it into cached display.
341 * (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink")
342 * (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded
343 character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg
344 &#61; when making URLs for template parameters.
345 * Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness
346 under HTML-compatible browsers.
347 * (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage
348 * Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext'
349 * (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history
350 * Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed
351 * Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs
352 * (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization
353 * (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs.
354 * Add APC as object caching option
355 * Update to Albanian localization (sq)
356 * (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias)
357 * Use optimized php5-only microtime()
358 * Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script
359 * Fix profiling table definition
360 * (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a
361 "show changes" operation in the editor
362 * (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins
363 * Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php
364 * Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer
365 * (bug 6133) Update strip state as we work. This mostly fixes extensions
366 used in Cite.php <ref> tags when Tidy is on.
367 * (bug 6139) Workaround for transclusion oddities in Vietnamese upload text
368 * (bug 6136) Update to Catalan language (ca)
369 * Update to Japanese localization (ja)
370 * Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer
371 * (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17
372 * (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views
373 * (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page
374 * (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word
375 * Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles
376 * (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language
377 message contains '-'; fixes licenses selector on Commons configuration after
378 recent addition of the message to Messages.php
379 * (bug 5527) Batch up job queue insertions for, hopefully, better survivability
380 of lock contention etc. Duplicates are now removed at pop time instead of
381 at insert time.
382 * When showing the "blah has been undeleted" page, make sure it's a blue link
383 * parserTests.php accepts a --file parameter to run an alternate test sutie
384 * parser tests can now test extensions using !!hooks sections
385 * Fix oddity with open tag parameters getting stuck on </li>
386 * (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension
387 * Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more
388 consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the
389 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to
390 further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise
391 expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences
392 in behavior based on the order tags are loaded.
393 * (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags
394 * Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags
395 * (bug 6164) Fix regression with <gallery> resetting <ref> state
396 * Hackaround for IE 7 wrapping bug in MonoBook footer
397 * New message sp-newimages-showfrom replaces rclistfrom on special:newimages
398 * Improve handling of ;: definition list construct with overlapping or
399 nested HTML tags
400 * (bug 6171) Fix sanitizing of HTML-elements with an optional closing
401 tag. The sanitizer still needs to learn how to make well-formed XML
402 in this case.
403 * Fix fatal error when specifying illegal name for manual thumbnail
404 * (bug 6184) Use shinier Linker::userLink() to make user links in
405 Special:Undelete
406 * (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb)
407 * (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18
408 * (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa)
409 * Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a
410 per-namespace basis.
411 * Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being
412 interspersed into your ordered lists.
413 * (bug 5021) Transcluding the same special page twice now works
414 * Add 'SiteNoticeBefore' and 'SiteNoticeAfter' hooks
415 * (bug 6182) Date passed in "sp-newimages-showfrom" not adjusted to user time
416 preferences
417 * (bug 2587) Fix for section editing with comment prefix
418 * (bug 2607) Fix for section editing with mix of wiki and HTML headings
419 * (bug 3342) Fix for section editing with headings wrapped in <noinclude>
420 * (bug 3476) Fix for section editing with faux headings in extensions
421 * (bug 5272) Fix for section editing with HTML-heading subsections
422 * Fix for bogus wiki headings improperly detected with following text
423 * Fix for HTML headings improperly not detected with preceding/following text
424 * Section extraction and replacement functions merged into one implementation
425 on the Parser object, so they can't get out of sync with each other.
426 * Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc
427 * (bug 6197) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #19
428 * (bug 6175) Improvement to German translation (de)
429 * Redirect Special:Logs to Special:Log
430 * (bug 6206) Linktrail for Swedish localization (se)
431 * (bug 3202) Attributes now allowed on <pre> tags
432 * Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes now available to discard illegal/unsafe
433 attribute values from an array.
434 * (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement
435 to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype
436 (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and
437 could even result in invalid output from valid input.
438 * (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default
439 meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of
440 robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt
441 doesn't forbid access.
442 * Regression fix: suppress warning about session failure when clicking to
443 edit with 'preview on first edit' enabled.
444 * (bug 6230) Regression fix: <nowiki> in [URL link text]
445 * Added AutoLoader.php, which loads classes without need of require_once()
446 * (bug 5981) Add plural function Slovenian (sl)
447 * (bug 5945) Introduce {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word
448 * {{PLURAL}} can now take up to five forms
449 * (bug 6243) Fix email for usernames containing dots when using PEAR::Mail
450 * Remove a number of needless {{ns:project}}-type transforms from messages files. These
451 usages already have separate label text. Such transforms are wasteful on each page view.
452 * Update to Yiddish localization (yi)
453 * (bug 6254) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #20
454 * (bug 6255) Fix transclusions starting with "#" or "*" in HTML attributes
455 * Whitespace now normalized more or less properly in HTML attributes
456 * Fix regression(?) in behavior of initial-whitespace-pre in <center>
457 * (bug 6260) Update to Interlingua localization (ia)
458 * Update to Vlax Romany localization (rmy)
459 * Update to Latin translation (la)
460 * Update to Dutch translation (nl)
461 * Avoid some notices in page history with bad input
462 * Use double quoted consistently on attributes in linker output; preparing
463 for new normalization code when tidy not in use
464 * Replace "nogomatch" with "noexactmatch" and place the magic colon in the messages
465 themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content.
466 * Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other
467 than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics.
468 * (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word
469 * Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default.
470 * (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags.
471 * Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this
472 could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong.
473 * Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile;
474 it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html".
475 * (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl)
476 * (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
477 * (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21
478 * Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information
479 * (bug 4054) Add "boteditletter" to recent changes flags
480 * Update to Catalan localization (ca)
481 * (bug 2099) Deleted image files can now be archived and undeleted.
482 Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in
483 $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory']
484 * (bug 6324) Fix regression in enhanced RC alignment
485 * Introduce {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} magic word
486 * Update to Slovak translation (sk)
487 * Update to Alemannic localization (gsw)
488 * (bug 6300) Bug fixes for sr: variants
489 * namespaceDupes.php can now accept an arbitrary prefix, for checking rogue
490 interwikis and such. Not yet fully automated.
491 * (bug 6344) Add Special:Uncategorizedimages page
492 * (bug 6357) Update to Russian translation (ru)
493 * Workaround possible bug in Firefox nightlies by properly removing the
494 Content-Encoding header instead of sending explicit 'identity' value
495 in StreamFile
496 * (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages
497 * Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display
498 * (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message
499 * (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account
500 * (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links
501 * Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
502 * (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22
503 * (bug 6279) Add genitive month names to Slovenian localisation
504 * (bug 6351) Update to German translation (de)
505 * Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects
506 * Remove unused "validation" table definitions from the schema files
507 * (bug 6398) Work around apparent PCRE bug breaking section editing when
508 massively-indented preformatted text immediately followed a header
509 * (bug 6392) Fix misbehaving <br /> in preferences form
510 * Add translated magic words to Hebrew localization
511 * (bug 6396) Change name for Chuvash language
512 * Introduce optional (off by default) language selector bar for user login
513 and registration. Customisable via the "loginlanguagelinks" message, the
514 links will preserve "returnto" values. If the user creates an account while
515 using such a link, then the language in use will be saved as their language
516 preference.
517 * Make sure '~~~' '~~~~' '~~~~~' are removed in Nickname preference.
518 * Rename "ipusuccess" to "unblocked", change the format (now wiki text)
519 * (bug 2316) Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag
520 * Allow setting the skin object that ImageGallery will use; needed during parse
521 operations (the skin must come from the ParserOptions, not $wgUser)
522 * Fix notice in MacBinary detection debug data for files of certain lengths
523 * (bug 6131) Add type detection for DjVu files, allowing them to be uploaded
524 with validity checking and size detection. No inline thumbnailing yet,
525 but could be added in the future.
526 * (bug 6423) Don't update newtalk flag if page content didn't change (null edits
527 were causing the newtalk flag to trigger inappropriately)
528 * Parser functions are now set using magic words.
529 * (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set
530 * (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version
531 if blocked during an edit
532 * (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page,
533 return blank content (as opposed to the message key)
534 * Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css
535 * (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export
536 * (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories
537 * Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off
538 * (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23
539 * Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow
540 localizble extensions magic words.
541 * Update to Romanian translation (ro)
542 * Update to Esperanto translation (eo)
543 * Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE
544 if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error
545 * (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook
546 * Update to Piedmontese localization (pms)
547 * dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2
548 * (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import
549 * (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import
550 * (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events
551 * Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import
552 * Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request
553 * Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming
554 large numbers of history items.
555 * Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export;
556 pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from
557 export when history is requested.
558 * Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name
559 * Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import
560 * Update to Korean translation (ko)
561 * Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist
562 * (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex
563 * Added Latvian localization (lv)
564 * (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages
565 * Update to Macedonian translation (mk)
566 * Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created
567 as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if
568 we can move over them.
569 * Show some error results in moveBatch.php
570 * (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps
571 * (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages
572 * (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing
573 * (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}}
574 * (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin
575 * (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages
576 * Added formatnum magic word
577 * Added Javanese localization (jv)
578 * (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries
579 * (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage
580 * Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true
581 * Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in
582 the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields.
583 Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a
584 "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe
585 in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes
586 distinct.
587 * (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set
588 * (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete
589 * (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24
590 * Extension messages translation is now possible.
591 * Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports.
592 $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for
593 Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc.
594 * (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de)
595 * (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page
596 * (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar
597 * (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation'
598 * Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms
599 * (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex
600 more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input
601 with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does.
602 * (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation
603 * New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'.
604 * Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it
605 * Introduce updateArticleCount maintenance script which uses a better check that
606 reflects what Article::isCountable() tests for
607 * Introduce 'BadImage' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
608 * Add "searchsubtitleinvalid" message for searches that are not valid titles.
609 * (bug 5962) Update to Italian localisation
610 * (bug 6530) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #25
611 * (bug 6523) Fix SVG issue in rebuildImages.php
612 * (bug 6512) Link to page-specific logs on page histories
613 * (bug 6504) Allow configuring session name with $wgSessionName
614 * (bug 6185) Add standard user tool links to log page views
615 * Update to Venetian translation (vec)
616 * Update to Slovenian translation (sl)
617 * Add standard user tool links to deleted revision list
618 * Separate out EditPage's getContent bits from regular Article getContent.
619 Cleans up read-only-mode warning on empty pages and neats up some code.
620 * (bug 6565) Strict JavaScript writing
621 * (bug 6570) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #26
622 * Added Telugu translation (te)
623 * Update to Catalan translation (ca)
624 * (bug 6560) Avoid PHP notice when trimming ISBN whitespace
625 * Added namespace translation to Kannada (ka)
626 * (bug 6566) Improve input validation on timestamp conversion
627 * Implicit group "emailconfirmed" for all users whose email addresses are confirmed
628 * (bug 6577) Avoid multiline parser breakage on <pre> with newline in attribute
629 * (bug 6771) Make old revisions of MediaWiki pages available with action=raw
630
631 == Changes since 1.5 ==
632
633 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
634
635 Code quality:
636 * Use strval() to make sure we don't accidentally get null on bad revision
637 text loads or other fields mucking up XML export output
638 * Clean up duplicate code for selection of changeslist style
639 * Correct blob caching to reduce redundant blob loads on backups
640 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
641 * Fixed possible infinite loop in formatComment
642 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
643 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
644 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
645 * Avoid numerous redundant latest-revision lookups in history
646 * Require PHP 4.3.2 or higher strictly now.
647 * Tweak infinite-template-handling loop for PHP 5.1.1 string handling change
648 * Remove unused OutputPage::addCookie()
649 * Fix for short_open_tag off again; please don't break this, guys
650 * (bug 4507) Adjust FULLPAGENAMEE escaping to standard form
651 * (bug 5302) Merge the two #p-search .pBody statements in monobook css.
652
653 Database:
654 * Finally dropped MySQL 3.23.x support
655 * Oracle support
656 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
657 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
658 * (bug 3227) Fix SQL injection introduced in experimental code
659 * Fix table prefix usage in Block::enumBlocks
660 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
661 * (bug 3506) Avoid MySQL error when Listusers returns no results
662 * Skip update of disused 'rc_cur_time' field (todo: discard the field)
663 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
664 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
665 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
666 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
667 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
668 * Ability to set the table name for external storage servers
669 * Update ipblocks table in MySQL 5 table defs
670 * Removed FulltextStoplist.php, no longer used (was for MySQL 3.x workaround)
671 * Added templatelinks table, to track template inclusions. User-visible effects
672 will be:
673 * (inclusion) tag for inclusions in Special:Whatlinkshere
674 * More accurate list of used templates on the edit page
675 * More reliable cache invalidation when templates outside the template
676 namespace are changed
677 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
678 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
679 * Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs
680 * Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is
681 to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed.
682 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
683
684 Documentation:
685 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
686
687 Hooks:
688 (list not complete)
689 * Move ArticleSave hook execution into Article insert/update functions,
690 so they get called on non-EditPage actions that use these functions
691 to create or update pages.
692 * Added EditFilter hook, and output callback on EditPage::showEditForm()
693 for a place to add in captcha-type extensions in the edit flow
694 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
695 * Fix for hook callbacks on objects containing no fields
696 * Add a hook for additional user creation throttle / limiter extensions
697 * Use $wgOut->parse() in wfGetSiteNotice() instead of creating a new parser
698 instance. This allows use of extension hooks if required.
699 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
700 * Added 'PageRenderingHash' hook for changing the parser cache hash key
701 from an extension that changes rendering based on nonstandard options.
702 * Add 'GetInternalURL' hook to match the GetFullURL and GetLocalURL ones
703 * (bug 4456) Add hook for marking article patrolled
704 * Add UserRights hook, fires after a user's group memberships are changed
705
706 Images:
707 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
708 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
709 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
710 * Fix scaling of non-integer SVG unit sizes
711 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small images on |thumb| without explicit size
712 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
713 large SVG images on image description page
714 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
715 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
716 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
717 * Added a limit to the size of image files which can be thumbnailed
718 * (bug 3806) Gracefully fall back to client-side scaling on |thumb| image
719 that passes $wgMaxImageArea
720 * (bug 153) Adjust thumbnail size calculations to match consistently;
721 patch by David Benbennick
722 * (bug 4162) Add $wgThumbnailEpoch timestamp to force old thumbs to
723 be rerendered on demand, sitewide
724 * (bug 1850) Additional fixes so existing local and remote images
725 get a blue link even if there's no local description page
726 * Avoid FATAL ERROR when creating thumbnail of non-existing image
727 * (bug 4207) Wrong image size when using 100x200px syntax to scale image up
728 patch by David Benbennick
729 * Don't delete thumbnails when refreshing exif metadata. This caused thumbs
730 to vanish mysteriously from time to time for files that didn't have metadata.
731 * (bug 4426) Add link to user_talk page on image pages
732 * Support a custom convert command for thumbnailing. See DefaultSettings.php
733 and the comments for $wgCustomConvertCommand, for more information.
734 * UserCan hook now allows advisory return values, rather than mandatory ones.
735
736 Installer:
737 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
738 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
739 * Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
740 * (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
741 patch by Rob Church
742 * Improve installer
743 * Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
744 * Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
745 permissions, if said user exists
746 * Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields
747 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
748 * Add basic check for session support in PHP and die if not present
749
750 Maintenance:
751 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert
752 duplicate rows with the same id field)
753 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
754 different LocalSettings.php.
755 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
756 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
757 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
758 * Maintenance script to reassign edits from one user to another
759 * Maintenance script to find and remove links to a given domain (cleanupSpam.php)
760 * Fix --report interval option for dumpTextPass
761
762 i18n / Languages:
763 * Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
764 * (bug 3141) Partial support for Breton language (thanks Fulup).
765 * Support for venitian language
766 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
767 * Finnish date format was hardcoded, now implemented properly
768 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
769 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
770 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
771 * (bug 3177) Estonian date formats not implemented in LanguageEt.php
772 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
773 * (bug 3271) Updated LanguageNn.php for HEAD
774 * Experimental feature to allow translation of block expiry times
775 Implementation only for Finnish currently
776 * (bug 3304) Language file for Croatian (LanguageHr.php)
777 * (bug 2143) Update Vietnamese interface
778 * (bug 3063) Remove some hardcodings from Hebrew localisation
779 * (bug 3408) Bulgarian formatNum corrected
780 * (bug 1512) Disable x-code interp on Esperanto URLs for now, it does more
781 harm than good under current system by breaking incoming URLs with "ux".
782 (Editing is not affected, just URLs.)
783 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
784 * Fix language name for dv
785 * (bug 3503) Update LanguageSq.php from sq.wikipedia.org messages
786 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
787 * (bug 3334) Namespace changes for Polish
788 * (bug 3580) Change default Dutch language file to more neutral
789 * (bug 3656) LanguageHr.php - added convertPlural
790 * (bug 3414) LanguageBe.php - added convertPlural
791 * (bug 3163) Full translation of LanguageBr
792 * (bug 3617) Update for portuguese language (pt)
793 * Namespaces hacks on LanguagePl
794 * (bug 3682) LanguageSr.php - added convertPlural
795 * (bug 3694) LanguageTr.php update
796 * (bug 3711) Removed invisible unicode characters from LanguageHu
797 * (bug 2981) Linktrail for Tamil (ta)
798 * (bug 3722) Update of Arabic language (ar) Namespace changes
799 * Removed hardcoded Norwegian (no) project namespaces
800 * (bug 2324) image for redirects should be without text and oriented according to content language
801 * (bug 3666) Don't spew PHP warnings in prefs on unrecognized site language
802 * (bug 3817) Use localized date formats in preferences; 'no preference' option
803 localizable as 'datedefault' message. Tweaked lots of languages files...
804 * (bug 2721) Regression: Use European number separators for vi: wikis
805 * (bug 3961) minor languageDe changes
806 * (bug 1984) LanguageKo.php (Korean) update
807 * (bug 3804) update of LanguageWa.php file
808 * (bug 3886) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
809 * (bug 4020) Update namespaces for ms
810 * (bug 3922) bidi embedding overrides on category links
811 * (bug 4061) Update of Slovene namespace names (LanguageSl.php)
812 * (bug 4064) LanguageDe comma changes
813 * (bug 3922) Further tweaks to bidi overrides in category list for old
814 versions of Safari and Konqueror
815 * Fix custom namespaces on wikis set for Portuguese
816 * (bug 4153) Fix block length localizations in Greek
817 * (bug 3844) ab: av: ba: ce: & kv: now inherit from LanguageRu.php
818 ii: & za: now inherit from LanguageZn_cn.php
819 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
820 * (bug 4192) Remove silly 'The Free Encyclopedia' default sitesubtitle
821 * Use content-lang for sitenotice
822 * (bug 4233) Update LanguageJa.php
823 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
824 * (bug 4108, 4336) Remove trailing whitespace from various messages, which
825 mucks up message updating to create dupe entries
826 * (bug 4389) Fix math options on zh-hk and zh-tw (but not localized)
827 * (bug 4392) Update of LanguageSr.php
828 * (bug 4382) Frisian numeric format
829 * (bug 4424) Update for Spanish language (es) 100% messages translated
830 * (bug 4425) Typos in Polish translation
831 * (bug 4436) Update for Turkish language (tr)
832 * (bug 4413) Update of Farsi language file (LanguageFa.php)
833 * Update for LanguageSr (Serbian): magic words
834 * (bug 137) MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning hardcoding
835 * (bug 4457) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
836 * convertPlural breakage fixed a little
837 * (bug 4144) Support for Sudanese language (Basa Sunda)
838 * Big cleanup:
839 - Removed obsolote, badly or untranslated messages
840 - Removed references to wikipedia/wikimedia etc in messages
841 - Other cleanup, like removing html and javascript and extension calls
842 - Removed hardcoded namespaces: Tt, Ms, Ia, Ga, Fo, Bn, Csb, He, Nv, Oc, Tlh
843 - Removed some useless backwards compatibility hacks
844 - Fixed formatnum on many languages
845 * wgAmericanDates check produced incorrect results in languages that don't have
846 a such distinction
847 * (bug 4548) Update for Portuguese language (pt): time format
848 * (bug 4530) Use consistent name for Kurdish
849 * Tweak default "upload disabled" text
850 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
851 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
852 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
853 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
854 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
855 * (bug 4615) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
856 * Separated MessagesSl.php as the other languages.
857 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yiddish for compatibility
858 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from MessagesUk.php
859 * (bug 5015) Update magic words translation in LanguageBe.php
860 * (bug 4859) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
861 * (bug 4788) One string for MessagesPl
862 * Restriction types now use restriction-* messages instead of ui messages
863 * (bug 4685) Slovenian LanguageSl.php hardcodes project namespace
864 * (bug 5097) Fix Hungarian language (hu): thousands separator
865 * (bug 5098) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
866 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
867 * (bug 5105) Magic words for LanguageAr.php
868 * (bug 3993) Variants for Serbian language
869 * Typo in English messages file
870 * (bug 4114) Spacing in watchlist rows (in editing mode)
871 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
872 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yi projects: Yiddish Wikinews fix
873 * (bug 5357) Add the icon near the user name also in RTL interfaces
874 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he)
875 * (bug 4497,4704,5010) Added some new language codes.
876 * (bug 5362) Piedmontese added
877 * (bug 5349) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
878 * (bug 3573) Finished full Greek translation: namespaces
879 * (bug 5288) Initial localisation for Az
880 * (bug 4361) Fix "allmessagesnotsupportedui" so it doesn't refer to nonexisting
881 page
882 * Tweak wording of "allmessagesnotsupporteddb"
883
884 Parser:
885 * (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits
886 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
887 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
888 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
889 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
890 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 5.1.0RC4
891 * (bug 3797) Don't expand variables and sigs in comments
892 * Allow parser cache on redirect targets
893 * Run wikitext-escaping on plaintext sigs (no wiki markup, just name)
894 * Check for unbalanced HTML tags on raw sigs (markup allowed, but show
895 a warning in prefs and use default sig if not balanced)
896 * Respect <noinclude> and <includeonly> during {{subst:}} expansion as well as
897 ordinary templates.
898 * Support <includeonly> in templates loaded through preload= parameter
899 * (bug 3979) Save correct {{REVISIONID}} into parser cache on edit
900 * Substitute {{REVISIONID}} correctly in diff display
901 * (bug 1850) Allow red-links on image pages linked with [[:image:foo]]
902 * Fix XML validity checks in parser tests on PHP 5.1
903 * (bug 4377) "[" is not valid in URLs
904 * (bug 4453) fix for __TOC__ dollar-number breakage
905 * Convert unnecessary URL escape codes in external links to their equivalent
906 character before doing anything with them. This prevents certain kinds of
907 spam filter evasion.
908 * (bug 4783) : Fix for "{{ns:0}} does not render"
909 * Improved support for interwiki transclusion
910 * (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed.
911 * (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables
912 * (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish
913 * Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}}
914 etc. Registered via an interface similar to tag hooks.
915
916 Upload:
917 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
918 * (bug 3076) Support MacBinary-encoded uploads from IE/Mac
919 * (bug 2554) Tell users they are uploading too large file
920 * Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses
921 * Add 'reupload' and 'reupload-shared' permission keys to restrict new uploads
922 overwriting existing files; default is the old behavior (allowed).
923
924 Security:
925 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
926 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
927 * (bug 2613) Clear saved passwords from the form
928 * IP privacy fix for blocklist search on autoblocks
929 * Security fix for <math>
930 * Security fix for tables
931 * Security fix for Special:Upload license selection list
932 * Add UploadVerification hook for custom file upload validation/security checks
933 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
934 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
935 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
936 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
937 * Forbid usernames that can be interpreted as titles with namespaces, as that
938 leads to hard-to-manage names.
939 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
940 * Add createpage and createtalk permission keys, allowing a quick
941 switch to disable page creation for anonymous users.
942 * (bug 675) Add page protection level for unregistered/new accounts
943 * User::isNewbie now uses the registration date and $wgAutoconfirmAge
944 * Add 'deletedhistory' permission key for ability to view deleted history
945 list via Special:Undelete. Default is off, replicating the 1.5 behavior,
946 but it can be turned back on for random users to replicate the previous
947 1.6 dev behavior.
948 * Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure
949 * (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures
950 * Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit
951 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
952 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
953 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
954 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
955 * Blocked users can no longer roll back, change the protection of, or delete/undelete pages
956 * Protect against spoofing of X-Forwarded-For header
957 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input (fixed in 1.5rc3)
958 * Remove deprecated $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol references; use User::isAllowed( 'patrol' )
959 per bug 5282. Patch by Alan Harder.
960 * Prevent registration/login with the username "MediaWiki default"
961
962 Special Pages:
963 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
964 title and reason input boxes
965 * (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
966 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
967 * (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
968 * Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting
969 $wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
970 * Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
971 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
972 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
973 * (bug 2369) Add separate message for input box on Special:Prefixindex
974 * (bug 3798) DoubleRedirects no longer has hard coded arrows
975 * (bug 3803) Fix links on Special:Wantedcategories with miser mode off
976 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
977 * (bug 3807) Fix 'all' in namespaces drop-down on contribs, rc
978 * Fail gracefully on invalid namespace in Special:Newpages
979 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
980 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
981 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
982 * (bug 4059) fix 'hide minor edits' on Recentchangeslinked
983 * (bug 146) List number of category members in Special:Categories
984 (patch by Joel Nothman)
985 * (bug 4090) Fix diff links in Special:Recentchangeslinked
986 * (bug 4093) '&bot=1' in Special:Contributions now propagate to other links
987 * Fix display of old recentchanges records for page moves
988 * (bug 360) Let Whatlinkshere track [[:image:foo]] links
989 * (bug 3073) Keep search parameter on paging in Special:Newimages
990 * Removed Special:Validate, it's been superseded by the Review extension
991 * (bug 4359) red [[user:#id]] links generated in [[special:Log]]
992 * (bug 1996) Special page to list redirects
993 * (bug 4334) Add "watch" links to Special:Unwatchedpages
994 * Generate target user page links in Special:Ipblocklist where appropriate
995 (i.e. not an autoblock)
996 * Generate link to talk page of the blocker in Special:Ipblocklist, move
997 contribs. link of the target next to their name
998 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
999 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
1000 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
1001 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
1002 * Add block, block log and general log links to Special:Contributions
1003 * Add contributions link to block log items
1004 * Added optional "hide own edits" feature to Special:Recentchanges
1005 * (bug 5018) Anchors for each message in Special:Allmessages
1006 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
1007 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
1008 * (bug 4319) Don't show a "create account" link on the login form when
1009 account creation is disabled.
1010 * JavaScript filter for Special:Allmessages
1011 * (bug 3047) Don't mention talk pages on Special:Movepage when there isn't one
1012 * Show links to user page, talk page and contributions page on Special:Newpages
1013 * Special:Export can now export a list of all contributors to an article (off by default)
1014 * (bug 5372) Add number of files to Special:Statistics
1015 * (bug 2871) Links to talk pages in watchlist editing view
1016 * (bug 5385) Allow hiding anonymous edits on Special:Recentchanges
1017 * (bug 2544) Illogical error reporting order in Special:Userlogin
1018 * (bug 5409) Hide "show/hide patrolled edits" in Special:Recentchanges if patrolling
1019 is disabled
1020 * (bug 5447) Convert first letter of username to uppercase before searching in Special:Listusers
1021 * (bug 759) Wrap redirects on the watchlist editing page in a span, class "watchlistredir"
1022 * (bug 1862) Namespace filtering in watchlists
1023
1024 Misc.:
1025 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
1026 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
1027 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
1028 * (bug 2323) Remove "last" tabindex from history page
1029 * (bug 3116) Division by zero on [[Image:Foo.png|123x123px|]]
1030 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
1031 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
1032 as a proxy debugging aid
1033 * (bug 3170) Page Title failed to obey MediaWiki:Pagetitle.
1034 wikititlesuffix was removed
1035 * Add ability to break off certain debug topics into additional log files;
1036 use $wgDebugLogGroups to configure and wfDebugLog() to log.
1037 * Edit conflict on recreation of deleted page
1038 * (bug 3216) Don't show empty warning page when no warnings.
1039 * (bug 3218) Use proper quoting on history Compare Revisions button
1040 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage [for rc future]
1041 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
1042 * Remove "info" editing toolbar that was shown in browsers which do not
1043 fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
1044 * Don't override edit conflict suppression on section edits; section merging
1045 should provide the expected transparency here and fits usage patterns better.
1046 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
1047 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
1048 * Fix regressions in ChangesList traditional layout
1049 * Fix edit on double-click for move-protected pages in Classic skin
1050 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
1051 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
1052 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
1053 * Add options to dumpBackup.php for making split/partial dumps by page id
1054 * Added filter options, compression piping, and multiple output streams for
1055 dumpBackup.php
1056 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
1057 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
1058 * Added separate noarticletext and newarticletext messages for logged in and anon users.
1059 * (bug 3332) Installation now uses Monobook, validates, plus usability improvements.
1060 * (bug 3660) Update diff3 detection to work with Windows/Cygwin
1061 * (bug 2330) Don't do funny thinks with "links" in MediaWiki:Undeletedtext
1062 * Two-pass data dump for friendliness to the DB (--stub, then dumpTextPass.php)
1063 * Data dump 'prefetch' mode to read normalized text from a prior dump
1064 (requires PHP 5, XMLReader extension)
1065 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
1066 * (bug 2938) Update MediaWiki:Exporttext to be more general
1067 * Various fixes
1068 * Fix wfMsg*() replacements; args containing literal $[2-9] were wiped
1069 * Added @import for [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to all skins
1070 * Edit box now remembers scrollbar position on preview
1071 * (bug 3816) Throw edit conflict instead of fatal error when a page is
1072 moved or deleted during section edit
1073 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
1074 * (bug 3291) 'last' diff link for last history line when not at end
1075 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
1076 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
1077 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
1078 * (bug 3852) "Redirected from" link no longer obscured on double-redirects
1079 * changed directory hierarchy in images/math/. System upgrades from old to
1080 new hierarchy on the fly.
1081 * (bug 3487) Fix category edit preview with preview-on-bottom
1082 * (bug 918) Search index incorrectly joined words at == headings ==
1083 * (bug 3877) Render math images into temp directory, then move to hashed
1084 subdir so you can render new math images and have them work
1085 * (bug 2392) Fix Atom items content type, upgrade to Atom 1.0
1086 * Allow $wgFeedCacheTimeout of 0 to disable feed caching
1087 * Fix WebRequest::getRequestURL() to strip off the host bits squid prepends
1088 * Require POST for action=purge, to stop bots from purging the cache
1089 * Added local message cache feature ($wgLocalMessageCache), to reduce bandwidth
1090 requirements to the memcached server.
1091 * (bug 3562) for go search, try Caps-Variants-Broken-At-Non-Whitespace
1092 * (bug 2569) Use PATH_SEPARATOR instead of trying to guess based on
1093 DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (was wrong on NetWare)
1094 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
1095 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
1096 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
1097 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
1098 * (bug 3999) Change atom 1.0 feed id; had been unnecessarily complex due to
1099 unclear language in the spec. Now using the URL, same as the permalink,
1100 which someone else will probably whine about because it's not 'perma'
1101 enough or something.
1102 * (bug 4014) Fix include mode for Allpages on small page sets
1103 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
1104 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
1105 * Changed mail form to have a bigger message entry box (like for editing
1106 a page
1107 * Fix ulimit parameters for wfShellExec when memory_limit is specified in 'm'
1108 * (bug 2111) Collapsable exif metadata table, clean up display
1109 * Reduce fractions in display of exif exposure time
1110 * (bug 4048) Optional footer link to site privacy policy
1111 * Don't die() when update.php reaches the end of the warning count
1112 * (bug 1915) Fix edit links when 'direction' used with 'oldid';
1113 using revision ID reported via OutputPage; Skin::editUrlOptions()
1114 * Remove obsolete 'redirect=no' on some edit links
1115 * Include oldid for the second revision on edit link on diff view
1116 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
1117 * (bug 4100, 3049) Add 'edittools' message to hold edit tools, put it
1118 on Special:Upload as well as edit, rearrange edit page pieces a bit.
1119 Copyright warning now above the buttons to ensure it's visible,
1120 template list at the bottom so it can grow.
1121 * Optional summary parameter to action=rollback, for user javascript
1122 * (bug 4167) Fix regression caused by patch for bug 153
1123 * (bug 4169) Use $wgLegalTitleChars in pipe trick conversions
1124 * (bug 4170) Decode HTML character escapes in sort key
1125 * (bug 4201) Fix user-talk mode for Enotif, and general code cleanup
1126 * (bug 4214) Skip redundant action text inserts into the HTML <title>
1127 * (bug 4212) Skip redundant meta-robots tag for default settings
1128 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links in Nostalgia skin
1129 * (bug 1600) Trigger edit conflict on duplicate section=new submissions
1130 * (bug 4001) Use local variables properly in wikibits.js akeytt()
1131 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links on CSS/JS pages
1132 * (bug 3211) Include Date, To mail headers when using PEAR::Mail
1133 * (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification
1134 mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of
1135 a raw string to abstract things a level.
1136 * Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php
1137 * Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output
1138 sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension
1139 * (bug 349) Fix for some numeric differences not being highlighted
1140 patch by Andrius Ramanauskas
1141 * (bug 4298) Include rc_id on enhanced RC singleton diff links for patrolling
1142 * Did some refactoring on ChangesList.php merging dupe code
1143 * (bug 1586) Fix interwiki generator for wikimedia obscure domains
1144 * (bug 3493) Mark edits patrolled when they are reverted
1145 patch by Leon Planken
1146 * Removed experimental Amethyst skin from default set
1147 * Upgrade old skin preferences properly at Special:Preferences
1148 (used to spontaneously switch to Classic skin for old numeric pref records)
1149 * (bug 3424) Update page_touched for category members on category page creation
1150 * Log views show message when no matches
1151 * Fix raw sitenotice display on database error
1152 * Fix autoconfirm check for old accounts
1153 * (bug 4368) Don't show useless empty preview on new section creation
1154 * Don't show useless empty preview on new page creation
1155 * (bug 4411) Fix messages diff link for classic skin
1156 * (bug 4385) Separate parser cache entries for non-editing users, so section
1157 edit links don't vanish / appear unwanted on protected pages
1158 * (bug 2726, 3397) Fix [[Special:]] and [[:Image]] links in action=render
1159 * (bug 4419) Remove obsolete magnify.png.old
1160 * Removed $wgUseCategoryMagic option, categories are now enabled unconditionally
1161 * (bug 3318) UI workarounds for disabled items in license selector
1162 MSIE/Win: items now grayed out, JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked
1163 Safari: JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked (but not gray)
1164 MSIE/Mac: indented items now visible (JS hack)
1165 * (bug 714) "plainlinks" class issues in IE, Opera
1166 * (bug 4317) Inconsistent "broken redirects" messages
1167 * Default interface text for "selflinks" tweaked
1168 * (bug 3194) default implementation of translateBlockExpiry
1169 which uses ipboptions
1170 * (bug 4446) $wgExportAllowHistory option to explicitly disable history in
1171 Special:Export form, 'exportnohistory' message to translate live hack.
1172 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
1173 * (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links)
1174 * $wgParserCacheExpireTime added
1175 * Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed
1176 * Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source
1177 size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage.
1178 * Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects
1179 * Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage
1180 * Improve "upload disabled" notice
1181 * Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php
1182 and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object
1183 * (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output
1184 HTML on final output (cached or not)
1185 * Avoid PHP notice on command-line scripts if empty argument is passed ('')
1186 * (bug 4571) Partial fix hack for {{fulllurl:}} in action=render
1187 * (bug 3502) Bowtie symbol for TeX
1188 * (bug 4000) Support for \textstyle et al. in <math>
1189 * (bug 1663) support color in TeX formulas
1190 * (bug 2026) missing glue around \not= (TeX)
1191 * (bug 4576) Missing '>' broke license selector's first option in IE, Opera
1192 * Override $wgLocaltimezone in parser tests for us outside Iceland and UK
1193 * Fix extra whitespace at end of Wiki.php, DESTROYS XML OUTPUT
1194 * Remove redundant 'echo' statements from MonoBook.php
1195 * (bug 1103) Fix up redirect handling for images, categories
1196 Redirects are now followed from the top-level, outside of the Article
1197 content loading and viewing, for clarity and consistency.
1198 * (bug 4104) 'OutputPageBeforeHTML' hook to postprocess article HTML on
1199 page view (comes after parser cache, if used). Patch by ThomasV.
1200 * Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5
1201 if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy.
1202 * Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers.
1203 * Remove obsolete killthread.php
1204 * Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code
1205 to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error.
1206 * Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin
1207 for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell
1208 * Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs
1209 * Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks.
1210 Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5
1211 * (bug 4482) Include move comment on the null edit as well as the redirect
1212 * (bug 3990) Use existing session name if session.auto_start is on
1213 Fixes checks for open sessions, such as the cookie warning on login.
1214 Patch by Zbigniew Braniecki.
1215 * Add cache-safe alternate sitenotice for anonymous users. (MediaWiki:Anonnotice)
1216 This is displayed instead of the regular sitenotice, if it exists. If not, the
1217 regular sitenotice shows. If that doesn't exist, the value of $wgSiteNotice is used,
1218 and if that's null, then nothing is shown.
1219 * Spit the generated LocalSettings code out during the installer as an aid
1220 to debugging issues. (Keep this?)
1221 * Use __FILE__ to form path in new LocalSettings.php, so it stays accurate
1222 when the directory is relocated for typical usage.
1223 * Auto-update $wgCacheEpoch when LocalSettings.php changes on new installs.
1224 For typical usage this will be a light burden and should reduce confusion
1225 when the configuration is edited.
1226 * Fix $wgCacheEpoch's effect on client-side caching.
1227 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
1228 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
1229 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
1230 name attribute)
1231 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
1232 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
1233 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
1234 * Add ".deps.php" include-file preloaders for some dynamically-loaded
1235 language and skin classes. Should help with the broken base-class
1236 problem under PHP 5 with APC as opcode cache. See details:
1237 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033660.html
1238 * Small changes to tabs in Monobook skin c/o Chris Ware
1239 * (bug 4679) Work around buggy basename() function in PHP5, which breaks
1240 uploads of files starting with multibyte characters on Linux.
1241 wfBaseName() doesn't suffer this bug, and understands backslash on
1242 both Unix and Windows.
1243 * (bug 3603) headscripts variable not hooked up to MonoBook skin
1244 * Allow local cdb-based interwiki cache
1245 * Use the "block", not the "protect" permission, when determining whether to
1246 show a "block user" link in the toolbox
1247 * Fix backup dump text prefetch for XMLReader constant changes in PHP 5.1
1248 * Suppress useless percentage indicator on output from 7za during dumps
1249 * (bug 4633) Add (previous 200) (next 200) also above catlinks
1250 * (bug 4686) Fix regression where ?diff=0&oldid=0 caused fatal error on
1251 pages with only one revision. Fixes message diff link on first edit.
1252 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
1253 * Do not check lag on external storage servers
1254 * Do not tidy interface messages (unless full tidy is set)
1255 * Do not trust equality propagation and give more hints to MySQL
1256 optimizer for revision fetches (avoids index scans)
1257 * Use revision rate for ETA in dump generation; it tends to be more stable
1258 than the per-page count for full-history dumps.
1259 * Include timestamp in wfDebugLog breakouts
1260 * (bug 4469) Namespace-specific notice to be displayed below site-notice
1261 Edit messages like "MediaWiki:Namespacenotice-" plus namespace name
1262 which is blank for main namespace, or like e.g. "User_talk"
1263 * Adjust user login/creation form hooks to work with a captcha plugin
1264 * (bug 1284) Inline styles for diffs in Recent Changes RSS/Atom feeds
1265 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
1266 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
1267 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
1268 * Fix extra namespace for Bulgarian
1269 * (bug 4303) Add $wgFavicon to change the shorticon icon link from
1270 the default /favicon.ico or disable it (if set to false)
1271 * (bug 3347) strip linebreaks in math error source
1272 * (bug 4841) Warning for non-logged-in edits
1273 * (bug 4867) Leave invalid EXIF date fields unformatted instead of
1274 showing a bogus current timestamp
1275 * Reset $wgActionPaths during parser test; corrects some false failures
1276 in the automated test report.
1277 * (bug 4875) Define a div containing the shared image description
1278 * (bug 4860) Expose Title->userCan() as Hooks
1279 * (bug 4828) Fix genitive month-name variable for cs, pl, uk
1280 * (bug 4842) Fix 'show number of watching users' with enhanced RC
1281 * (bug 4889) Fix image talk namespace for Tamil
1282 * (bug 4147) Added cleanupWatchlist.php to clear out bogus watchlist entries
1283 * (partial bug 3456) Disable auto redirect to Main Page after account creation
1284 * (bug 4824) Separate out IE7 CSS compat hacks, fix for RTL pages
1285 * Added support for wikidiff2 and similar external diff engines.
1286 * Allow cookies to be shared between multiple wikis with a shared user database
1287 * Blocking some Unicode whitespace characters in usernames. Should check
1288 if some or all should be blocked from all page titles.
1289 * Unknown log types no longer throw notices everywhere in RecentChanges
1290 * (bug 4502, 5017) Don't render potentially hostile deleted page contents
1291 on Special:Undelete by default; show source, with an optional preview.
1292 The revisions list no longer shows the latest text by default, so it can
1293 still be operated if the text is hostile.
1294 * (bug 5013) Check for existence on "return to" links
1295 * Removed trailing whitespace on a bunch more messages.
1296 * Fix missing bad title check in Special:Booksources
1297 * Remove empty booksources string in fy
1298 * Avoid corrupting <gallery> inside <!-- comment -->
1299 * Remove legacy PHPTal code, hasn't been maintained in ages.
1300 * Tweak Userlogin include order for APC issue
1301 * Don't try to link to current page on protection tab
1302 * More exact checking in Title::equals() to fox moves of numerically similar
1303 page titles. (Odd hex title bug on 64-bit.)
1304 * Fix explicit s-maxage=0 on raw pages; should help with proxy issues in
1305 generated stylesheets... hopefully...
1306 * (bug 4685) More fixes for Slovenian project namespace
1307 * Fixed and enhanced a little the Live Preview, which had been broken for some time
1308 * Added article size limit, $wgMaxArticleSize
1309 * (bug 4974) Don't follow redirected talk page on "new messages" link
1310 * (bug 4970) Make category paging limits configurable
1311 * (bug 4535) Warn user when editing CSS or JS subpage of a skin that doesn't exist
1312 * Make Live Preview an user preference, still controllable by the global variable
1313 * Rename the stub LanguageAls / LanguageGem_alsation to LanguageGsw to follow
1314 updated language code assignments
1315 * (bug 5081) Remove bogus fix for invalid characters in links which simply
1316 broke use of legitimate multiple whitespace characters in bracketed link.
1317 * (bug 4838) Add relative oldids (prev, next, cur) for raw pages
1318 Patch by Lupin
1319 * (bug 5086) Force image resize dimensions on ImageMagick, as for instance
1320 "-resize 100x35!"; some thumbs were off due to differences in rounding and
1321 would be generated smaller than expected.
1322 * (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights
1323 * Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page
1324 * (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment
1325 with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field)
1326 * (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off
1327 * (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector
1328 * (bug 5152) Proper HTML escaping on subpage breadcrumbs
1329 * (bug 4855) Section edit links now have the section name in the title attribute.
1330 * (bug 2115) Support shift-selecting multiple checkboxes with JavaScript.
1331 * (bug 5161) Don't try to load template list for nonexistent pages
1332 * (bug 5228) Workaround for broken LanguageConverter title overrides; avoid
1333 unnecessary hidden UI work when watch/unwatch is performed on edit
1334 * Fixed bogus master fallback in external storage
1335 * (bug 5246) Add speak:none to "hiddenStructure" class in main.css
1336 * Further work on rev_deleted; changed to a bitfield with several data-hiding
1337 options. Not yet ready for production use; Special:Revisiondelete is
1338 incomplete, and the flags are not preserved across page deletion/undeletion.
1339 To try it; add the 'deleterevision' permission to a privileged group.
1340 * (bug 5270) Fix broken linktrail for br, cv, fr, hr, nn, oc, ta, wa
1341 * Add a clickable contribs link in user tool links (rc, watchlist, diff view)
1342 to see how people like it. (There was one in the old hacked-up diff view.)
1343 * (bug 5236) Load wikibits.js before site-customized javascript
1344 * (bug 4119) Workaround for <nowiki> following link in Walloon; remove capitals
1345 from linktrail, as they're not used anywhere else.
1346 * (bug 4781) Output links with the percent-encoding they're supplied with;
1347 save the normalization for internal link storage. The normalization is a bit
1348 buggy and can make incorrect foldings in the query string and such, so isn't
1349 reliable beyond the hostname where it's used for the spam bulk checker.
1350 * Don't URL-decode in the title attribute for URL links; it can produce false
1351 results that don't code back to their original values.
1352 * (bug 4611) Add user preference (default on) to add new pages to creators's watchlist
1353 * (bug 5286) Fix regression in display of missing/bad revision IDs
1354 * (bug 4729) Add user preference that marks a user's edits as patrolled if user is able to
1355 * (bug 4630) Add user preference to prompt users when entering blank edit summaries
1356 * Added optional suggest feature for the search box. Set wgUseAjax to true to
1357 enable it.
1358 * (bug 5277) Use audio/midi rather that audio/mid
1359 * (bug 5410) Use namespace name when a custom namespace's nstab-NS message is nonexistent
1360 * (bug 5432) Fix inconsistencies in cookie names when using table prefixes
1361 * Additional protections against HTML breakage in table parsing
1362 * (bug 5355) Include skin name and style JS settings in page source;
1363 fixes regression where Opera 6/7 and KHTML CSS fixes weren't applied
1364 when wikibits.js was moved up before user JS inclusion.
1365 * Added $wgColorErrors: if set, database error messages will be highlighted
1366 when running command-line scripts in a Unix terminal.
1367 * (bug 5195) rebuildrecentchanges.php works again; Database::insertSelect now
1368 has a parameter for select options.
1369 * Fix updateSearchIndex.php for new schema
1370 * Fix bogus "filename too short" error when uploading files with a period in the base
1371 name, e.g. "Mr. Zee.png"
1372 * (bug 2139) Show page title in subtitle when viewing "read only" page
1373 * (bug 5452) Update language name for Cree
1374
1375
1376
1377 ----
1378
1379 == MediaWiki 1.5.8 ==
1380
1381 March 26, 2006
1382
1383 MediaWiki 1.5.8 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
1384
1385 A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw
1386 HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks.
1387
1388 Some minor UI fixes were also made, see the change log at the bottom of
1389 this file.
1390
1391
1392 == MediaWiki 1.5.7 ==
1393
1394 March 2, 2006
1395
1396 MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release.
1397
1398 Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug
1399 affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root
1400 password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the
1401 installer would not only create the new account but also change the root
1402 password to be equal to the password of the new account.
1403
1404 Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back
1405 manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see:
1406 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html
1407
1408 This version includes fixes for compatibility with Internet Explorer 7
1409 beta 2, and various other bugs; see the full changelog at the end of
1410 the release notes.
1411
1412
1413 == MediaWiki 1.5.6 ==
1414
1415 January 19, 2006
1416
1417 MediaWiki 1.5.6 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
1418
1419 A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop
1420 if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this
1421 would cause the script to fail after PHP's 30-second failsafe timeout.
1422
1423 Some improvements have been made to the installer which should make
1424 installation possible on a system with a broken MySQL "root" account.
1425
1426 For several other minor fixes, see the complete changelog at the end
1427 of this file.
1428
1429
1430 == MediaWiki 1.5.5 ==
1431
1432 January 5, 2006
1433
1434 MediaWiki 1.5.5 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
1435
1436 Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added
1437 to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft
1438 Windows operating systems.
1439
1440 Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types
1441 (such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure
1442 that malicious .wmf files can't be uploaded with a fake extension;
1443 such files could put visitors to the site at risk.
1444
1445 For more details on this, see:
1446 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
1447
1448 Additionally, a maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts.php has been added;
1449 this replaces an older Perl script which had not been updated for the new
1450 schema in 1.5.
1451
1452
1453 == MediaWiki 1.5.4 ==
1454
1455 December 21, 2005
1456
1457 MediaWiki 1.5.4 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
1458
1459 A hardcoded internal placeholder string has been replaced with a random
1460 one. This closes a hole where security checks in inline style attributes
1461 could be bypassed, injecting JavaScript code that could execute in
1462 Microsoft Internet Explorer.
1463
1464 Other browsers would not be vulnerable.
1465
1466 Several minor fixes are included in this release, most notably a fix
1467 to clear the "you have new messages" flag properly for usernames
1468 containing spaces when e-mail notification is enabled.
1469
1470 See the changelog at the end of the release notes for a full list of
1471 fixes.
1472
1473
1474 == MediaWiki 1.5.3 ==
1475
1476 December 4, 2005
1477
1478 MediaWiki 1.5.3 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
1479
1480 Validation of the user language option was broken by a code change in
1481 May 2005, opening the possibility of remote code execution as this
1482 parameter is used in forming a class name dynamically created with
1483 eval().
1484
1485 The validation has been corrected in this version. All prior 1.5 release
1486 and prelease versions are affected; 1.4 and earlier and not affected.
1487
1488 Additionally several bugs have been fixed; see the changelog later in
1489 this file for a complete list.
1490
1491
1492 == MediaWiki 1.5.2 ==
1493
1494 November 2, 2005
1495
1496 MediaWiki 1.5.2 is a bugfix maintenance release.
1497
1498 A change in PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC broke handling of extension and
1499 <pre> sections, causing garbage data to be inserted in output and saved
1500 edits. This version works around the change.
1501
1502 Several other glitches with MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0.5 were also fixed;
1503 see the change log below for a complete list.
1504
1505
1506 == MediaWiki 1.5.1 ==
1507
1508 October 26, 2005
1509
1510 MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a
1511 recommended upgrade for all installations.
1512
1513 This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style sanitation
1514 which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
1515 Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may be vulnerable to
1516 XSS injections on prior versions; users of standards-compliant browsers
1517 are not vulnerable.
1518
1519 Major fixes include:
1520 * Image pages work again with resizing disabled
1521 * Works in MySQL 5.0 strict mode
1522
1523 There is experimental support in this release for explicitly declaring
1524 the UTF-8 charset in the database; this has been tested with MySQL 5.0.15
1525 but should work on 4.1 as well.
1526
1527 IMPORTANT: Changing this setting on an existing wiki may produce interesting
1528 data corruption, depending on server configuration. Page contents should,
1529 usually, be unaffected, but page titles and other items may be. Limitations
1530 in MySQL's Unicode support mean that characters outside the BMP cannot be used
1531 in page titles or various other fields when using this mode.
1532
1533 Table definitions are in maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql, and the runtime
1534 option to send 'SET NAMES utf8' is set by $wgDBmysql5 = true.
1535
1536 (MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on these
1537 versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is blissfully
1538 unaware of it.)
1539
1540
1541
1542 == MediaWiki 1.5.0 final ==
1543
1544 October 5, 2005
1545
1546 MediaWiki 1.5.0 is the new stable release branch of MediaWiki, and is
1547 recommended for all new installations.
1548
1549 Any wikis running a 1.5 beta or release candidate are strongly recommended
1550 to upgrade to the final release, which includes a number of bug fixes and
1551 a security fix for CSS bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
1552
1553 IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet?
1554 Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions
1555 prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is
1556 triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.
1557
1558
1559 === What's new in 1.5? ===
1560
1561 Schema:
1562 The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better
1563 use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up
1564 rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories.
1565
1566 Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require
1567 some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend
1568 changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily.
1569
1570 Permalinks:
1571 The current revision of a page now has a permanent 'oldid' number assigned
1572 immediately, and the id numbers are now preserved across deletion/undeletion.
1573 A permanent reference to the current revision of a page is now just a matter
1574 of going to the 'history' tab and copying the first link in the list.
1575
1576 Page move log:
1577 Renames of pages are now recorded in Special:Log and the page history.
1578 A handy revert link is available from the log for sysops.
1579
1580 Editing diff:
1581 Ever lost track of what you'd done so far during an edit? A 'Show diff'
1582 button on the edit page now makes it easy to remember.
1583
1584 Uploads:
1585 It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct
1586 from the original filename on your disk.
1587
1588 An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page.
1589
1590 More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure
1591 on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on
1592 the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module.
1593
1594 If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render
1595 them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several
1596 external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options.
1597
1598 User accounts:
1599 There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable
1600 groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only
1601 accessible to certain groups.
1602
1603 For details see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights
1604
1605 E-mail:
1606 User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation
1607 first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses.
1608
1609 Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail
1610 notifications.
1611
1612 External hooks:
1613 A somewhat experimental interface for hooking in an external editor
1614 application is included.
1615
1616 And...
1617 A bunch of stuff we forgot to mention.
1618
1619
1620 === What's gone? ===
1621
1622 Latin-1:
1623 Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for
1624 some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode.
1625 This is no longer supported.
1626
1627 You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's
1628 "view source"; look for a line like this:
1629
1630 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
1631
1632 If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1,
1633 you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding
1634 any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.)
1635
1636 MySQL 3.x:
1637 Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema
1638 clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields).
1639
1640 MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should
1641 very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support
1642 will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release.
1643
1644 Special:Maintenance
1645 These tools were, ironically enough, not really maintained. This special
1646 page has been removed; insofar as some of its pieces were useful and haven't
1647 already been supplanted by other special pages they should be rewritten in
1648 an efficient and safe manner in the future.
1649
1650
1651 === Caveats ===
1652
1653 Upgrade:
1654 Wikis in Latin-1 encoding are no longer supported; only Unicode UTF-8.
1655 A new option $wgLegacyEncoding is provided to allow on-the-fly recoding of
1656 old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need
1657 to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate
1658 this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php.
1659
1660 The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so
1661 it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations.
1662
1663 Backups:
1664 The text entries of deleted pages are no longer removed from the main
1665 text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases,
1666 you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available
1667 as maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
1668
1669 For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia,
1670 see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
1671
1672 PostgreSQL:
1673 The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date. PostgreSQL
1674 support may return in later releases, pending appropriate patches.
1675
1676 MySQL 4.1+:
1677 Some users may encounter installation problems with MySQL 4.1 or higher
1678 due to strange charset encoding / collation configurations. Try setting
1679 to 'latin1' or 'utf8' if you encounter problems.
1680
1681
1682
1683 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 4 ==
1684
1685 August 29, 2005
1686
1687 MediaWiki 1.5rc4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
1688 It fixes compatibility with PHP 5.1, and corrects two cross-site scripting
1689 security bugs:
1690
1691 * <math> tags were handled incorrectly when TeX rendering support is off,
1692 as in the default configuration.
1693 * Extension or <nowiki> sections in Wiki table syntax could bypass HTML
1694 style attribute restrictions for cross-site scripting attacks against
1695 Microsoft Internet Explorer
1696
1697 Wikis where the optional math support has been *enabled* are not vulnerable
1698 to the first, but are vulnerable to the second.
1699
1700
1701
1702 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 3 ==
1703
1704 August 24, 2005
1705
1706 MediaWiki 1.5rc3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
1707 It fixes several major problems in 1.5rc2:
1708
1709 * Fixed a cross-site scripting injection in the search form
1710 (broken since 1.5beta1)
1711
1712 * Fixed upgrades from 1.4 database schema
1713 (broken since 1.5rc2)
1714
1715 1.3 and 1.4 releases are not vulnerable to the XSS bug, but anyone
1716 running an earlier 1.5 beta or release candidate should upgrade
1717 immediately.
1718
1719
1720 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 2 ==
1721
1722 August 23, 2005
1723
1724 MediaWiki 1.5rc2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
1725 Numerous bug fixes since last beta, plus a security fix; see change
1726 log below for full details.
1727
1728 A flaw in the interaction between extensions and HTML attribute
1729 sanitization was discovered which could allow unauthorized use
1730 of offsite resources in style sheets, and possible exploitation
1731 of a JavaScript injection feature on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
1732
1733 This version expands the returned text and properly checks it
1734 before output.
1735
1736 A 1.5rc1 release was mistakenly made from the incorrect source code
1737 branch; 1.5rc2 is identical to the actual 1.5rc1 in revision control
1738 except for version number.
1739
1740
1741 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 ==
1742
1743 July 30, 2005
1744
1745 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
1746 A number of bugs have been fixed since beta 3; see the full changelist below.
1747
1748
1749 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 ==
1750
1751 July 7, 2005
1752
1753 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release
1754 series, with a security update over beta 2.
1755
1756 Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could
1757 be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a
1758 maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are
1759 recommended to upgrade to this release.
1760
1761 Vulnerable versions:
1762 * 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3
1763 * 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6
1764 * 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable
1765
1766 This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates.
1767 See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list.
1768
1769
1770
1771 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 ==
1772
1773 July 5, 2005
1774
1775 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
1776 While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point,
1777 third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release
1778 on a public site without closely following additional development.
1779
1780 Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to
1781 upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including
1782 a couple of HTML and SQL injections.
1783
1784 This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and
1785 a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks.
1786
1787 Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades
1788 from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and
1789 configuration file changes.
1790
1791 Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool,
1792 maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
1793 These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able
1794 to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database
1795 and compression format.
1796
1797
1798 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 ==
1799
1800 June 26, 2005
1801
1802 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 is a preview release, pretty much feature complete,
1803 of the new 1.5 release series. There are several known and likely a number
1804 of unknown bugs; it is not recommended to use this release in a production
1805 environment but would be recommended for testing in mind of an upcoming
1806 deployment.
1807
1808 A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases,
1809 including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings.
1810 See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior
1811 configuration settings for the new system.
1812
1813
1814
1815 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 ==
1816
1817 June 3, 2005
1818
1819 MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 includes a lot of bug fixes, feature merges,
1820 and a security update.
1821
1822 Incorrect handling of page template inclusions made it possible to
1823 inject JavaScript code into HTML attributes, which could lead to
1824 cross-site scripting attacks on a publicly editable wiki.
1825
1826 Vulnerable releases and fix:
1827 * 1.5 prerelease: fixed in 1.5alpha2
1828 * 1.4 stable series: fixed in 1.4.5
1829 * 1.3 legacy series: fixed in 1.3.13
1830 * 1.2 series no longer supported; upgrade to 1.4.5 strongly recommended
1831
1832
1833 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 1 ==
1834
1835 May 3, 2005
1836
1837 This is a testing preview release, being put out mainly to aid testers in
1838 finding installation bugs and other major problems. It is strongly recommended
1839 NOT to run a live production web site on this alpha release.
1840
1841 ** WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH **
1842 ** TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH, GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE **
1843 ** INNUENDO INTO YOUR C.V. RIGHT BEFORE A JOB INTERVIEW! **
1844 ** DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE. **
1845
1846
1847 === Smaller changes since 1.4 ===
1848
1849 Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things:
1850
1851 * 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
1852 * support for external editors for files and wiki pages:
1853 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors
1854 * Schema reworking: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
1855 * (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit
1856 * (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
1857 * (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
1858 * (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
1859 * (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
1860 * (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
1861 * (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month
1862 * (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see:
1863 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
1864 * (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database
1865 revision id, useful for proper citation.
1866 * (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
1867 * (bug 2064) Configurable JavaScript mimetype with $wgJsMimeType
1868 * (bug 2084) Fixed a regular expression in includes/Title.php that was accepting invalid syntax like #REDIRECT [[foo] in redirects
1869 * It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
1870 * No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
1871 * What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
1872 * Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
1873 * Language conversion support for category pages
1874 * $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
1875 * Special:Movepage can now take paramaters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move
1876 (used to just be able to take paramaters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
1877 * (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one has edited the article.
1878 * (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail.
1879 * (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation
1880 * ...and more!
1881
1882
1883 === Changes since 1.5alpha1 ===
1884
1885 * (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category to
1886 file description from upload page (previously it would be set to
1887 "Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging)
1888 * (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable through
1889 the MediaWiki namespace on the MediaWiki:navbar page.
1890 * (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable
1891 * (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded files
1892 including virus checks using external programs.
1893 * (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab
1894 * (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization, update namespaces
1895 * (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs" to "Limburgs
1896 * (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in <div dir='ltr'> in order
1897 to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis.
1898 * (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute
1899 * (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization
1900 * (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message
1901 * (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases
1902 * (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed
1903 * (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for "sharedupload" media
1904 * (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form
1905 * (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for <td> and <th>
1906 * (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now
1907 * (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests
1908 * (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation
1909 * (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install
1910 * Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates, {{msg: is
1911 now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent()
1912 * Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries
1913 * HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up
1914 multiple-revision pulls
1915 * Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of
1916 copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub reference
1917 records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields. Requires
1918 that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields are migrated
1919 into the main text store.
1920 * Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by
1921 default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason)
1922 * dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with current
1923 revisions only or complete histories.
1924 * The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved word in
1925 SQL which caused some inconveniances.
1926 * New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid, mov, o,
1927 ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on the KDE
1928 crystalsvg theme.
1929 * Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0'
1930 * Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Íslenzka"
1931 * The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation
1932 * Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of
1933 admnistrators out of normal users.
1934 * links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce pain
1935 dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages.
1936 * Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater.
1937 * Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits
1938 (somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached)
1939 * (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled
1940 * (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image.
1941 * Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema
1942 * Remove linkscc table code, no longer used.
1943 * (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text
1944 instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation.
1945 * Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once.
1946 * Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single function
1947 that does both numeric and named chars: Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences
1948 * Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions
1949 * Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements
1950 * (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move
1951 * (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save;
1952 leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview.
1953 * (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list
1954 * (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title from the watchlist
1955 * Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces.
1956 * (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments
1957 * (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags
1958 * (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's external
1959 LDAP authentication plugin
1960 * (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging
1961
1962 === Changes since 1.5alpha2 ===
1963
1964 * (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching
1965 * (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages
1966 * (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts
1967 * (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set
1968 * (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning
1969 * (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute zone,
1970 with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304)
1971 * Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for <hr> and <br>
1972 * Changed user_groups format quite a bit.
1973 * (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line
1974 * (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move
1975 * (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links
1976 * (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking
1977 * (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a possible
1978 version conflict is detected
1979 * (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes
1980 * (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1
1981 when the default charset is set to utf8
1982 * (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if
1983 $wgEmailAuthentication is false.
1984 * (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings
1985 when a template with a gallery was used.
1986 * Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery
1987 * (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!)
1988 * Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact
1989 * Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all groups
1990 when searching for a specific group and can't be split across pages
1991 * (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank link
1992 for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files.
1993 * (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount
1994 * (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser
1995 * (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file
1996 * (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special page
1997 rather than to "".
1998 * (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation
1999 * A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath
2000 * A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName
2001 * A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in the image table
2002 * Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_"
2003 * Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary
2004 * badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages
2005 * Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format
2006 * 'developer' group deprecated by default
2007 * Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check
2008 * Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import
2009 * (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links
2010 * (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke too many
2011 things for the current parser to handle cleanly
2012 * (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file
2013 * Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to
2014 be forgotten between submits
2015 * Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
2016 * (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to seperate it from
2017 "Show preview" and "Show changes"
2018 * Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to
2019 harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
2020 * The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off by default
2021 and can be turned back on by setting $wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value.
2022 * Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail, replacing
2023 the factually inaccurate text that was there.
2024 * (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again
2025 * (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext
2026 * (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php
2027 * (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who don't
2028 realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted printable page.
2029 * Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems
2030 * Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA)
2031 * (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation
2032 * (bug 2506, 2512) Updated the Nynorsk translation
2033 * (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup UPGRADE
2034 documentation about edit and read whitelists.
2035 * (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update
2036 * Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's
2037 * (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page
2038 * Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension
2039 writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension
2040 can be used with.
2041 * Serialized user objects now checked for versioning
2042 * Fix for interwiki link regression
2043 * Printable link shorter in monobook
2044 * Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script
2045 * (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled
2046
2047 == Changes since 1.5beta1 ==
2048
2049 * (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to
2050 Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski))
2051 * Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace()
2052 * Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php
2053 * Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave
2054 * (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks
2055 * Fix paging on Special:Contributions
2056 * (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab
2057 * (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page
2058 * Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
2059 * Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
2060 * (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image
2061 * (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage
2062 * Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave
2063 * Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
2064 * (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit
2065 * Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user
2066 agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was
2067 not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of
2068 PHP ucfirst() )
2069 * Moved the user name / password validity checking from
2070 LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions,
2071 User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do
2072 these checks without rewriting code.
2073 * Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-'
2074 * Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a
2075 factor of two.
2076 * upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization
2077 * Fix namespaces in category list.
2078 * Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields
2079 * Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now
2080 * (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused
2081 the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off.
2082 * (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size
2083 * Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled
2084 * Don't show old debug messages in watchlist
2085 * (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links
2086 * (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times
2087 * Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert'
2088 status between next/previous buttons.
2089 * Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar
2090 * (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list
2091 * (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages
2092 * (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries
2093 for uploaded files that don't have them
2094 * (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling
2095 * (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last
2096 page in the article history pager.
2097 * Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page
2098 * (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere
2099 * (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list
2100 * (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page
2101 * (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision
2102 * Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets
2103 * Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4
2104 * (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit
2105 * Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage
2106 * HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first
2107 * (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set
2108 Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view.
2109 * (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as
2110 subpage parent links) on current-diff view.
2111 * (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for
2112 categories only if the page does not exist.
2113 * (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers
2114 * (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection
2115 * Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4
2116 * (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems.
2117 * (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces.
2118 * (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list
2119 * (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and
2120 recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly.
2121 * (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin.
2122 * (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles.
2123 * (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images
2124 * (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of
2125 rejecting lowercase with a useless error message
2126 * (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs
2127 * Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into
2128 edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead
2129 of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
2130 * (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and
2131 Spanish numeric formatting
2132 * Fixed Swedish numeric formatting
2133 * (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again
2134 * Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their
2135 image description pages when viewed on local wikis.
2136 * Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia
2137 * Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link
2138 * (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support
2139 dynamic date conversion.
2140 * FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links
2141 * (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse
2142 * Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it
2143 * (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru:
2144 * (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips
2145 * (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page
2146 * (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used <a></a> instead of [ ]
2147 * (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch)
2148 * Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits
2149 * Removed language conversion support from Icelandic
2150 * (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height
2151 * (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images
2152 * Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs
2153 * (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses
2154 * (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data:
2155 namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version.
2156 * Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export <text> elements
2157 * Make language variant selection work again for zh
2158
2159 == Changes since 1.5beta2 ==
2160
2161 * Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions
2162 * (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work
2163 * (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt
2164 * (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization
2165 * Fixed number formatting for Dutch
2166 * (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css
2167 * (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia
2168 * Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia
2169 * (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia
2170 * (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database
2171 * (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles
2172 * Fix escaping in page move template.
2173 * (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and <img> height attribute
2174
2175 == Changes since 1.5beta3 ==
2176
2177 * Fix talk page move handling
2178 * (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation
2179 * (bug 2749) &nbsp; would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv
2180 * (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash
2181 * Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some
2182 interesting errors with signitures.
2183 * (bug 2764) Number format for Nds
2184 * (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language.
2185 * (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories
2186 * (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian
2187 * Fix nohistory message on empty page history
2188 * Fix fatal error in history when validation on
2189 * Cleaned up email notification message formatting
2190 * Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK
2191 * (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish
2192 * (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion
2193 * Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records
2194 * (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema
2195 * (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format
2196 * (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing
2197 * Nynorsk numeric format fix
2198 * (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off
2199 * (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix
2200 * With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match
2201 * Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]]
2202 * (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]]
2203 * (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements
2204 * Some shared upload fixes
2205 * (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
2206 * support preload= parameter for section=new
2207 * show comment subject in preview when using section=new
2208 * use comment form when creating a new talk page
2209 * (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block.
2210 * Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
2211 * (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
2212 * PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing
2213 * (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan
2214 * Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed
2215 inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
2216 * Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
2217 * Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php
2218 * Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost
2219 due to bogus optimization
2220 * (bug 275) Section duplication fix
2221 * Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
2222 * Fix notice on search index update due to non-array
2223 * (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3
2224 * (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0
2225 * (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add
2226 their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an
2227 example of this.
2228 * (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages
2229 * (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections
2230 * (bug 796) Trackback support
2231 * Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC
2232 are now suppressed as before.
2233 * New skin: Simple
2234 * "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
2235 viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively.
2236 * Skins can now be previewed in preferences
2237 * (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
2238 patch from robla
2239 * Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
2240 edit conflict.
2241 * (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
2242 * (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
2243 content language
2244 * Removed useless protectreason message
2245 * Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
2246 * Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
2247 * Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
2248 * (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization
2249 * (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces
2250 * (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output
2251 for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash.
2252 * (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
2253 * compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.
2254
2255
2256 === Changes since 1.5beta4 ===
2257
2258 * Fix Special:Allmessages under PHP 5
2259 * (bug 2911) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time
2260 * (bug 693) Special:Allmessages is excessively wide and redundant
2261 * (bug 3001) Updated and applied live hack for recentchanges-based watchlist
2262 * (bug 145) Finish 'exclude redirect' implementation in search form
2263 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
2264 title and reason input boxes
2265 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
2266 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
2267 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
2268 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
2269 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
2270 * (bug 1487) invalid html on empty list in banlist
2271 * (bug 3017) Hotkey conflict for delete and show changes
2272 * made pixel unit translateable and blocklistline now eats infiniteblock
2273 and expiringblock
2274 * (bug 3092) Wrong numerical separator for big numbers in Serbian.
2275 * (bug 2855) Credit for a uniq author showed its realname even with
2276 $wgAllowRealName=false.
2277 * New special page: SpecialMostlinked
2278 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
2279 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
2280 * Added a new hook, 'AddNewAccount', which is run after account creation
2281 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
2282 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
2283 as a proxy debugging aid
2284 * (bug 3162) Fix 'undefined property page_is_new' error on watchlist
2285 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
2286 * (bug 3170) wikititlesuffix was removed, use pagetitle instead
2287 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
2288 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
2289 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
2290 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
2291 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
2292 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
2293 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
2294 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
2295 * (bug 3238): Updated LanguageNn.php for 1_5 branch
2296 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
2297 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
2298 * Fix URL sanitization in HTML attributes, which broke in this branch
2299 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
2300
2301
2302 === Changes since 1.5rc2 ===
2303
2304 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage
2305 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
2306 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
2307 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input
2308
2309
2310 === Changes since 1.5rc3 ===
2311
2312 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
2313 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
2314 * Security fix for <math>
2315 * Security fix for tables
2316
2317
2318 === Changes since 1.5rc4 ===
2319
2320 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
2321 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
2322 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
2323 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
2324 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
2325 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
2326 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
2327 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small iamges on |thumb| without explicit size
2328 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
2329 large SVG images on image description page
2330 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
2331 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
2332 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
2333 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
2334 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
2335 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
2336 * (bug 2792) Update rebuildrecentchanges.inc for new schema
2337 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
2338 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
2339 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
2340 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
2341 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
2342 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
2343 * (bug 3573) Full Greek Translation
2344 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
2345 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
2346 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
2347
2348
2349 === Changes since 1.5.0 ===
2350
2351 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
2352 * (bug 3641) Fix handling of unrecognized file uploads with known extensions
2353 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
2354 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
2355 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
2356 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
2357 * Backport fix for reference usage notice in Special:Search on PHP 4.4.0
2358 * Backport database connect error display fix from HEAD
2359 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
2360 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
2361 name attribute)
2362 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
2363 * Fix Special:MovePage invalid HTML attribute for reason textarea
2364 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
2365 * (bug 3734) Swapped out obsolete recount.sql with initStats.php
2366 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
2367 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
2368 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
2369 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
2370 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
2371
2372
2373 === Changes since 1.5.1 ===
2374
2375 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
2376 * (bug 3809) Backport fix for detecting diff3 failure
2377 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
2378 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
2379 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
2380 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
2381 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
2382 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
2383 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
2384 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
2385 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
2386 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
2387 * (bug 3845) Update attribute.php for 1.5 schema
2388 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC4
2389
2390
2391 === Changes since 1.5.2 ===
2392
2393 * (bug 3612) Remove old broken version of maintenance/compressOld.php
2394 The working version is in maintenance/storage/compressOld.php
2395 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
2396 * (bug 3933) specify XML namespace for Atom 0.3 feeds
2397 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
2398 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
2399 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
2400 * (bug 4013) typo in fr
2401 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
2402 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
2403 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
2404 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
2405 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
2406 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
2407 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
2408 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
2409
2410
2411 === Changes since 1.5.3 ===
2412
2413 * (bug 3805) Clear 'new messages' flag properly in enotif mode
2414 for usernames containing spaces
2415 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
2416 * (bug 4249) Typo in entities2literals.pl
2417 * (bug 4233) Update for japanese language
2418 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
2419 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
2420 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
2421 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
2422 * Parser internal placeholder string now fully randomized for safety
2423
2424 === Changes since 1.5.4 ===
2425
2426 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
2427 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
2428 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
2429 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
2430 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
2431
2432 === Changes since 1.5.5 ===
2433
2434 * (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1"
2435 should be set
2436 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
2437 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
2438 * Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of
2439 establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor
2440 changes to installer.
2441 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work
2442 (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field)
2443 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
2444 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
2445 * Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script
2446 * Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1
2447 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
2448 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
2449 different LocalSettings.php.
2450
2451 === Changes since 1.5.6 ===
2452
2453 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
2454 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
2455 * Fixed Special:Unlockdb
2456 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
2457 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
2458 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
2459 * (bug 4768) Wrong Russian translation (typo)
2460 * Performance bugfix: propagate equality manually for Revision fetches
2461 * (bug 4773) PHP fatal error when invalid title passed to Special:Export
2462 * Added missing table defs. for transcache to installer schemas
2463 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
2464 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
2465 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
2466 * (bug 2532) Image directory structure migration bug
2467 * (bug 4881) Correction to the fix for 1487; Ipblocklist showed 'no blocks'
2468 message at the end of the list even if there were blocks.
2469 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from LanguageUk.php
2470 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
2471 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
2472 * Allow customisation of paging limits for items in categories using the
2473 $wgCategoryPagingLimit global, per bug 4970.
2474 * Improve "nogomatch" text to make it more obvious that a page can be created.
2475 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
2476 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
2477
2478 === Changes since 1.5.7 ===
2479
2480 * (bug 5180) User login page shows inappropriate email blurb
2481 * Add the "AbortNewAccount" hook on account creation; see hooks.txt for more info.
2482 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
2483 * Add links to useful material to the default main page content
2484 * Fix fragment HTML injection
2485
2486 === Changes since 1.5.8 ===
2487
2488 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Finnish (fi) translation
2489 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Kurdish (ku) translation
2490 * Merge two #p-search .pBody statements i monobook/main.css
2491 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he) translation
2492 * Add the "UserRights" hook on user group changes; see hooks.txt for more info.
2493 * Translated "listingcontinuesabbrev" for German
2494
2495 === Caveats ===
2496
2497 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
2498 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
2499 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
2500 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
2501 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
2502
2503 ----
2504
2505 == MediaWiki 1.4.3 ==
2506
2507 (released 2005-04-28)
2508
2509 MediaWiki 1.4.3 is a bugfix release for the 1.4 stable release series.
2510
2511 Chiefly, this fixes a compatibility problem with PHP 5 and a minor link
2512 table corruption bug on initial page save.
2513
2514
2515 == MediaWiki 1.4.2 ==
2516
2517 (released 2005-04-20)
2518
2519 MediaWiki 1.4.2 is a security and bug fix release for the 1.4 stable release
2520 series.
2521
2522 A cross-site scripting injection vulnerability was discovered, which
2523 affects only MSIE clients and is only open if MediaWiki has been
2524 manually configured to run output through HTML Tidy ($wgUseTidy).
2525
2526 Several other bugs are fixed in this release, see the changelog below.
2527
2528 All new installations are highly recommended to use 1.4.2 instead of
2529 1.3.x; 1.3.x users should consider upgrading for bug fixes and new
2530 features. Ealier 1.4.x release and beta users should upgrade to this
2531 release for relevant bug fixes; see the changelog later in this file.
2532
2533
2534 If you have trouble, remember to read this whole file and the online FAQ page
2535 before asking for help:
2536
2537 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ
2538
2539
2540 === READ THIS FIRST: Upgrading ===
2541
2542 If upgrading from an older release, see the notes in the file UPGRADE.
2543 There are a couple of minor database changes from the beta releases,
2544 and somewhat larger changes from 1.3.x.
2545
2546 Upgrading from a previous 1.4.x stable release installation should
2547 generally only require copying the new files over the old ones.
2548
2549
2550 ==== READ THIS FIRST, TOO: MySQL 4.1 AND 5.0 ====
2551
2552 MySQL 5.0 is a beta release, not yet ready for production use. If you
2553 are using it, the notes below about 4.1 apply to you too.
2554
2555 If you have the choice of MySQL 4.0 or MySQL 4.1 and don't need 4.1 for
2556 some other application, you should consider sticking with 4.0 for the
2557 moment. 4.1 may require you to do extra fiddling to get things to work
2558 due to changes that aren't fully backwards-compatible.
2559
2560 MySQL 4.1 has changed the authentication protocol in an incompatible
2561 way; many PHP installations still use the older client libraries and
2562 CANNOT CONNECT TO THE SERVER WITH A PASSWORD without some changes.
2563
2564 See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html
2565
2566 If MySQL is set with utf-8 as the default character set, installation
2567 may fail with "key too long" errors. Set the default charset to 'latin1'
2568 for installation and it should work.
2569
2570 The mysqldump backup generator now applies an automatic conversion to
2571 UTF-8, which may irretrivably corrupt your data. Pass the -charset option
2572 with the original default charset (eg 'latin1') to skip the conversion.
2573
2574
2575 ==== READ THIS FIRST IF RUNNING ON A WINDOWS SERVER ====
2576
2577 MediaWiki is tested and deployed primarily under the Apache web server
2578 on Linux Unix systems. There are known to be problems running on
2579 Microsoft's IIS which are not fully resolved. If you have a choice,
2580 try running under Apache on Windows, or on a Unix/Linux box instead.
2581
2582 If you're having trouble with blank pages on IIS and can't switch,
2583 try the workaround suggested in this bug report:
2584 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1763
2585
2586
2587 === New features ===
2588
2589 * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
2590 * New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs
2591 * Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and <gallery> tag)
2592 * SVG rasterization support (requires external support tools)
2593 * Users can select from the available localizations to override the
2594 default user interface language.
2595 * Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support
2596 * rel="nofollow" support to combat linkspam
2597
2598 The current implementation adds this attribute to _all_ external URL
2599 links in wiki text (but not internal [[wiki links]] or interwiki links).
2600 To disable the attribute for _all_ external links, add this line to your
2601 LocalSettings.php:
2602
2603 $wgNoFollowLinks = false
2604
2605 For background information on nofollow see:
2606
2607 http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
2608
2609
2610 === Installation and compatibility ===
2611
2612 * The default MonoBook theme now works with PHP 5.0
2613 * Installation on systems with PHP's safe mode or other oddities
2614 should work more reliably, as MonoBook no longer needs to
2615 create a compiled template file for the wiki to run.
2616 * A table prefix may be specified, to avoid conflicts with other
2617 web applications forced to share a database.
2618 * More thorough UTF-8 input validation; fixes non-ASCII uploaded
2619 filenames from Safari.
2620 * Command-line database upgrade script.
2621
2622
2623 === Customizability ===
2624
2625 * Default user options can now be overridden in LocalSettings.
2626 * Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/
2627 New skins can be dropped into this directory and used immediately.
2628 * More extension hooks have been added.
2629 * Authentication plugin hook.
2630 * More internal code documentation, generated with phpdoc:
2631 http://www.mediawiki.org/docs/html/
2632
2633
2634 === Optimization ===
2635
2636 * For many operations, MediaWiki 1.4 should run faster and use
2637 less memory than MediaWiki 1.3. Page rendering is up to twice
2638 as fast. (Use a PHP accelerator such as Turck MMCache for best
2639 results with any PHP application, though!)
2640 * The parser cache no longer requires memcached, and is enabled
2641 by default. This avoids a lot of re-rendering of pages that
2642 have been shown recently, greatly speeding longer page views.
2643 * Support for compiled PHP modules to speed up page diff and
2644 Unicode validation/normalization. (Requires ability to compile
2645 and load PHP extensions).
2646
2647
2648 === What isn't ready yet ===
2649
2650 * A new user/groups permissions scheme has been held back to 1.5.
2651 * An experimental SOAP interface will be made available as an extension
2652 * PostgreSQL support is largely working, minus search and the installer.
2653 You can perform a manual installation.
2654 * E-mail notification of watched page changes and verification of
2655 user-submitted e-mail addresses is not yet included.
2656 * Log pages are not automatically imported into the new log table
2657 at upgrade time. A script to import old text log entries is
2658 incomplete, but may be available in later point releases.
2659 * Some localizations are still incomplete.
2660
2661
2662
2663 == Changelog ==
2664
2665 === Important security updates ===
2666
2667 A security audit found and fixed a number of problems. Users of MediaWiki
2668 1.3.10 and earlier should upgrade to 1.3.11; users of 1.4 beta releases
2669 prior to 1.4rc1 should upgrade immediately.
2670
2671 ==== Cross-site scripting vulnerability ====
2672
2673 XSS injection points can be used to hijack session and authentication
2674 cookies as well as more serious attacks.
2675
2676 * Media: links output raw text into an attribute value, potentially
2677 abusable for JavaScript injection. This has been corrected.
2678 * Additional checks added to file upload to protect against MSIE and
2679 Safari MIME-type autodetection bugs.
2680
2681 As of 1.3.10/1.4beta6, per-user customized CSS and JavaScript is disabled
2682 by default as a general precaution. Sites which want this ability may set
2683 $wgAllowUserCss and $wgAllowUserJs in LocalSettings.php.
2684
2685
2686 ==== Cross-site request forgery ====
2687
2688 An attacker could use JavaScript-submitted forms to perform various
2689 restricted actions by tricking an authenticated user into visiting
2690 a malicious web page. A fix for page editing in 1.3.10/1.4beta6 has
2691 been expanded in this release to other forms and functions.
2692
2693 Authors of bot tools may need to update their code to include the
2694 additional fields.
2695
2696
2697 ==== Directory traversal ====
2698
2699 An unchecked parameter in image deletion could allow an authenticated
2700 administrator to delete arbitary files in directories writable by the
2701 web server, and confirm existence of files not deletable.
2702
2703
2704 ==== Older issues ====
2705
2706 Note that 1.4 beta releases prior to beta 5 include an input validation
2707 error which could lead to execution of arbitrary PHP code on the server.
2708 Users of older betas should upgrade immediately to the current version.
2709
2710
2711 Beta 6 also introduces the use of rel="nofollow" attributes on external
2712 links in wiki pages to reduce the effectiveness of wiki spam. This will
2713 cause participating search engines to ignore external URL links from wiki
2714 pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
2715
2716
2717 === Misc bugs fixed in beta 1 ===
2718
2719 * (bug 95) Templates no longer limited to 5 inclusions per page
2720 * New user preference for limiting the image size for images on image description
2721 pages
2722 * (bug 530) Allow user to preview article on first edit
2723 * (bug 479) [[RFC 1234]] will now make an internal link
2724 * (bug 511) PhpTal skins shown bogus 'What links here' etc on special pages
2725 * (bug 770) Adding filter and username exact search match for Special:Listusers
2726 * (bug 733) Installer die if it can not write LocalSettings.php
2727 * (bug 705) Various special pages no more show the rss/atom feed links
2728 * (bug 114) use category backlinks in Special:Recentchangeslinked
2729
2730 === Beta 2 fixes ===
2731
2732 * (bug 987) Reverted bogus fix for bug 502
2733 * (bug 992) Fix enhanced recent changes in PHP5
2734 * (bug 1009) Fix Special:Makesysop when using table prefixes
2735 * (bug 1010) fix broken Commons image link on Classic & Cologne Blue
2736 * (bug 985) Fix auto-summary for section edits
2737 * (bug 995) Close <a> tag
2738 * (bug 1004) renamed norsk language links (twice)
2739 * Login works again when using an old-style default skin
2740 * Fix for load balancing mode, notify if using old settings format
2741 * (bug 1014) Missing image size option on old accounts handled gracefully
2742 * (bug 1027) Fix page moves with table prefix
2743 * (bug 1018) Some pages fail with stub threshold enabled
2744 * (bug 1024) Fix link to high-res image version on Image: pages
2745 * (bug 1016) Fix handling of lines omitting Image: in a <gallery> tag
2746 * security fix for image galleries
2747 * (bug 1039) Avoid error message in certain message cache failure modes
2748 * Fix string escaping with PostgreSQL
2749 * (bug 1015) [partial] -- use comment formatter on image gallery text
2750 * Allow customization of all UI languages
2751 * use $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg to make regular UI messages act as content
2752 * new user option for zh users to disable language conversion
2753 * Defer message cache initialization, shaving a few ms off file cache hits
2754 * Fixed Special:Allmessages when using table prefixes
2755 * (bug 996) Fix $wgWhitelistRead to work again
2756 * (bug 1028) fix page move over redirect to not fail on the unique index
2757
2758 === Beta 3 fixes ===
2759
2760 * Hide RC patrol markers when patrol is disabled or not allowed to patrol.
2761 * Fix language selection for upgraded accounts
2762 * (bug 1076) navigation links in QueryPage should be translated by wgContLang.
2763 * (bug 922) bogus DOS line endings in LanguageEl.php
2764 * Fix index usage in contribs
2765 * Caching and load limiting options for Recentchanges RSS/Atom feed
2766 * (bug 1074) Add stock icons for non-image files in gallery/Newimages
2767 * Add width and height attributes on thumbs in gallery/Newimages
2768 * Enhance upload extension blacklist to protect against vulnerable
2769 Apache configurations
2770
2771 === Beta 4 fixes ===
2772
2773 * (bug 1090) Fix sitesupport links in CB/classic skins
2774 * Gracefully ignore non-legal titles in a <gallery>
2775 * Fix message page caching behavior when $wgCapitalLinks is turned off
2776 after installation and the wiki is subsequently upgraded
2777 * Database error messages include the database server name/address
2778 * Paging support for large categories
2779 * Fix image page scaling when thumbnail generation is disabled
2780 * Select the content language in prefs when bogus interface language is set
2781 * Fix interwiki links in edit comments
2782 * Fix crash on banned user visit
2783 * Avoid PHP warning messages when thumbnail not generated
2784 * (bug 1157) List unblocks correctly in Special:Log
2785 * Fix fatal errors in LanguageLi.php
2786 * Undo overly bright, difficult to read colors in Cologne Blue
2787 * (bug 1162) fix five-tilde date inserter
2788 * Add raw signatures option for those who simply must have cute sigs
2789 * (bug 1164) Let wikitext be used in Loginprompt and Loginend messages
2790 * Add the dreaded <span> to the HTML whitelist
2791 * (bug 1170) Fix Russian linktrail
2792 * (bug 1168) Missing text on the bureaucrat log
2793 * (bug 1180) Fix Makesysop on shared-user-table sites
2794 * (bug 1178) Fix previous diff link when using 'oldid=0'
2795 * (bug 1173) Stop blocked accounts from reverting/deleting images
2796 * Keep generated stylesheets cache-separated for each user
2797 * (bug 1175) Fix "preview on first edit" mode
2798 * Fix revert bug caused by bug 1175 fix
2799 * Fix CSS classes on minor, new, unpatrolled markers in enhanced RC
2800 * Set MySQL 4 boolean search back to 'and' mode by default
2801 * (bug 1193) Fix move-only page protection mode
2802 * Fix zhtable Makefile to include the traditional manual table
2803 * Add memcache timeout for the zh conversion tables
2804 * Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through
2805 Mediawiki:zhconversiontable
2806 * Add zh-min-man (back) to language names list
2807 * Ported $wgCopyrightIcon setting from REL1_3A
2808 * (bug 1218) Show the original image on image pages if the thumbnail would be
2809 bigger than the original image
2810 * (bug 1213) i18n of Special:Log labels
2811 * (bug 1013) Fix jbo, minnan in language names list
2812 * Added magic word MAG_NOTITLECONVERT to indicate that the title of the page
2813 do not need to be converted. Useful in zh:
2814 * (bug 1224) Use proper date messages for date reformatter
2815 * (bug 1241) Don't show 'cont.' for first entry of the category list
2816 * (bug 1240) Special:Preferences was broken in Slovenian locale when
2817 $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled
2818 * Added magic word MAG_NOCONTENTCONVERT to supress the conversion of the
2819 content of an article. Useful in zh:
2820 * write-lock for updating the zh conversion tables in memcache
2821 * recursively parse subpages of MediaWiki:Zhconversiontable
2822 * (bug 1144) Fix export for fy language
2823 * make removal of an entry from zhconversiontable work
2824 * (bug 752) Don't insert newline in link title for url with %0a
2825 * Fix missing search box contents in MonoBook skin
2826 * Add option to forward search directly to an external URL (eg google)
2827 * Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected
2828 variant is disabled. Used in zh: only for now.
2829
2830 === Beta 5 fixes ===
2831
2832 * (bug 1124) Fix ImageGallery XHTML compliance
2833 * (bug 1186) news: in the middle of a word
2834 * (bug 1283) Use underlining and borders to highlight additions/deletions
2835 in diff-view
2836 * Use user's local timezone in Special:Log display
2837 * Show filename for images in gallery by default (restore beta 3 behaviour)
2838 * (bug 1201) Double-escaping in brokenlinks, imagelinks, categorylinks, searchindex
2839 * When using squid reverse proxy, cache the redirect to the Main_Page
2840 * (bug 1302) Fix Norwegian language file
2841 * (bug 1205) Fix broken article saving in PHP 5.1
2842 * (bug 1206) Implement CURRENTWEEK and CURRENTDOW magic keyword (will give
2843 number of the week and number of the day).
2844 * (bug 1204) Blocks do not expire automatically
2845 * (bug 1184) expiry time of indefinite blocks shown as the current time
2846 * (bug 1317) Fix external links in image captions
2847 * (bug 1084) Fix logo not rendering centrally in IE
2848 * (bug 288) Fix tabs wrapping in IE6
2849 * (bug 119) Fix full-width tabs with RTL text in IE
2850 * (bug 1323) Fix logo rendering off-screen in IE with RTL language
2851 * Show "block" link in Special:Recentchanges for logged in users, too, if
2852 wgUserSysopBans is true.
2853 * (bug 1326) Use content language for '1movedto2' in edit history
2854 * zh: Fix warning when HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is not set
2855 * zh: Fix double conversion for zh-sg and zh-hk
2856 * (bug 1132) Fix concatenation of link lists in refreshLinks
2857 * (bug 1101) Fix memory leak in refreshLinks
2858 * (bug 1339) Fix order of @imports in Cologne Blue CSS
2859 * Don't try to create links without namespaces ([[Category:]] link bug)
2860 * Memcached data compression fixes
2861 * Several valid XHTML fixes
2862 * (bug 624) Fix IE freezing rendering whilst waiting for CSS with MonoBook
2863 * (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type
2864 * Fix for script execution vulnerability.
2865
2866 === Beta 6 fixes ===
2867
2868 * (bug 1335) implement 'tooltip-watch' in Language.php
2869 * Fix linktrail for nn: language
2870 * (bug 1214) Fix prev/next links in Special:Log
2871 * (bug 1354) Fix linktrail for fo: language
2872 * (bug 512) Reload generated CSS on preference change
2873 * (bug 63) Fix displaying as if logged in after logout
2874 * Set default MediaWiki:Sitenotice to '-', avoiding extra database hits
2875 * Skip message cache initialization on raw page view (quick hack)
2876 * Fix notice errors in wfDebugDieBacktrace() in XML callbacks
2877 * Suppress notice error on bogus timestamp input (returns epoch as before)
2878 * Remove unnecessary initialization and double-caching of parser variables
2879 * Call-tree output mode for profiling
2880 * (bug 730) configurable $wgRCMaxAge; don't try to update purged RC entries
2881 * Add $wgNoFollowLinks option to add rel="nofollow" on external links
2882 (on by default)
2883 * (bug 1130) Show actual title when moving page instead of encoded one.
2884 * (bug 925) Fix headings containing <math>
2885 * (bug 1131) Fix headings containing interwiki links
2886 * (bug 1380) Update Nynorsk language file
2887 * (bug 1232) Fix sorting of cached Special:Wantedpages in miser mode
2888 * (bug 1217) Image within an image caption broke rendering
2889 * (bug 1384) Make patrol signs have the same width for page moves as for edits
2890 * (bug 1364) fix "clean up whitespace" in Title:SecureAndSplit
2891 * (bug 1389) i18n for proxyblocker message
2892 * Add fur/Furlan/Friulian to language names list
2893 * Add TitleMoveComplete hook on page renames
2894 * Allow simple comments for each translation rules in MW:Zhconversiontable
2895 * (bug 1402) Make link color of tab subject page link on talk page indicate whether article exists
2896 * (bug 1368) Fix SQL error on stopword/short word search w/ MySQL 3.x
2897 * Translated Hebrew namespace names
2898 * (bug 1429) Stop double-escaping of block comments; fix formatting
2899 * (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success
2900 * (bug 1228) Fix double-escaping on &amp; sequences in [enclosed] URLs
2901 * (bug 1435) Fixed many CSS errors
2902 * (bug 1457) Fix XHTML validation on category column list
2903 * (bug 1458) Don't save if edit form submission is incomplete
2904 * Logged-in edits and preview of user CSS/JS are now locked to a session token.
2905 * Per-user CSS and JavaScript subpage customizations now disabled by default.
2906 They can be re-enabled via $wgAllowUserJs and $wgAllowUserCss.
2907 * Removed .ogg from the default uploads whitelist as an extra precaution.
2908 If your web server is configured to serve Ogg files with the correct
2909 Content-Type header, you can re-add it in LocalSettings.php:
2910 $wgFileExtensions[] = 'ogg';
2911
2912 === RC1 fixes ===
2913
2914 * Fix notice error on nonexistent template in wikitext system message
2915 * (bug 1469) add missing <ul> tags on Special:Log
2916 * (bug 1470) remove extra <ul> tags from Danish log messages
2917 * Fix notice on purge w/ squid mode off
2918 * (bug 1477) hide details of SQL error messages by default
2919 Set $wgShowSQLErrors = true for debugging.
2920 * (bug 1430) Don't check for template data when editing page that doesn't exist
2921 * Recentchanges table purging fixed when using table prefix
2922 * (bug 1431) Avoid redundant objectcache garbage collection
2923 * (bug 1474) Switch to better-cached index for statistics page count
2924 * Run Unicode normalization on all input fields
2925 * Fix translation for allpagesformtext2 in LanguageZh_cn and LanguageZh_tw
2926 * Block image revert without valid login
2927 * (bug 1446) stub Bambara (bm) language file using French messages
2928 * (bug 1432) Update Estonian localization
2929 * (bug 1471) unclosed <p> tag in Danish messages
2930 * convertLinks script fixes
2931 * Corrections to template loop detection
2932 * XHTML encoding fix for usernames containing & in Special:Emailuser
2933 * (for zh) Search for variant links even when conversion is turned off,
2934 to help prevent duplicate articles.
2935 * Disallow ISO 8859-1 C1 characters and "no-break space" in user names
2936 on Latin-1 wikis.
2937 * Correct the name of the main page it LanguageIt
2938 * Allow Special:Makesysop to work for usernames containing SQL special
2939 characters.
2940 * Fix annoying blue line in Safari on scaled-down images on description page
2941 * Increase upload sanity checks
2942 * Fix XSS bug in Media: links
2943 * Add cross-site form submission protection to various actions
2944 * Fix fatal error on some dubious page titles
2945 * Stub threshold displays correctly again
2946
2947
2948 === 1.4.0 final fixes ===
2949
2950 * (bug 65) Fix broken interwiki link encoding on Latin-1 wikis; force to UTF-8
2951 * (bug 563) Fix UTF-8 interwiki URL redirects via Latin-1 wikis
2952 * (bug 1536) Fix page info
2953 * Support os (Ossetic) as language code, using Russian localization base
2954 * (bug 1610) Support non (Old Norse) as language code, using Icelandic localization base
2955 * (bug 1618) Properly list custom namespaces in Special:Allpages
2956 * (bug 1622) Remove trailing' >' when using category browser
2957 * (bug 1570) Fix php 4.2.x error on conflict merging
2958 * (bug 1585) Fix page title on post-login redirection page
2959 * Run UTF-8 validation on old text in Recentchanges RSS diffs
2960 * (bug 1642) fix a mime type typo in img_auth.php
2961 * Automated interwiki redirects only for local interwikis
2962 * Respect read-only mode on block removals
2963 * Trim old illegal characters from syndication feeds
2964 * Reduce message cache outage recovery delay from 1 day to 5 minutes
2965 * (bug 1403) Update Finnish localization
2966 * (bug 1478) Punjabi localization
2967 * (bug 1667) Update script 5 second countdown.
2968 * (bug 1057) Fix logging table encoding (error on MySQL 4.1)
2969 * (bug 1680) Fix linktrail for fo
2970 * (bug 1653) Removing hardcoded messages in Special:Allmessages
2971 * (bug 1594) Render a hyphen in a formula as &minus; in HTML
2972 * (bug 1495) Fall back to default language MediaWiki: for custom messages
2973 * (bug 1617) Show different error messages for "user does not
2974 exist" and "wrong password" when using AuthPlugin
2975 * (bug 1532), (bug 1544) Changed language names for
2976 'bn', 'bo', 'dv', 'dz', 'ht', 'ii', 'li', 'lo', 'ng', 'or', 'pa', 'si',
2977 'ti', 've'
2978 * Fix editing on non-Esperanto wiki with user language pref set to Esperanto
2979 * Make conversion table for zh-sg default to zh-cn, and zh-hk default to zh-tw
2980 * Fix PHP notice in MonoBook when counters disabled
2981 * (bug 1696) Update namespaces, dates in uk localization
2982 * (bug 551) Installer warns about magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase
2983 instead of trying to install with corrupt table files
2984 * Installer no longer tries to move non-default MediaWiki: pages into Template:
2985 * User-to-user email disabled by default ($wgEnableUserEmail)
2986
2987
2988 === 1.4.1 fixes ===
2989
2990 * (bug 1720) fix genitive month names for uk
2991 * (bug 1704) fixed untranslateable string in Special:Log
2992 * (bug 1638) Added Belrusian language file
2993 * (bug 1736) typo in SpecialValidate.php
2994 * (bug 73) Upload doesn't run edit updates on description page (links,
2995 search index and categories)
2996 * (bug 646) <math> fails to recognize \ll and \gg
2997 * (bug 926) \div element from TeX not supported in <math> element
2998 * (bug 1147) add \checkmark to whitelist in texutil.ml
2999 * (bug 937) \limits function from LaTeX not supported in <math> element
3000 * Support for manually converting article title to different Chinese
3001 variants (for zh)
3002 * (bug 1488, bug 1744) Fix encoding for preferences, dates in Latin-1 mode
3003 * (bug 1042) Fix UTF-8 case conversion for PHP <4.3 with mbstring extension
3004 * Fix code typo that broke article credits display
3005 * Installation fixes for running under IIS
3006 * (bug 1556) login page tab order. "remember" checkbox now come after password.
3007 * SQL debug log fixlets
3008 * (bug 1815) Fix namespace in old revision display with mismatched title
3009 * (bug 1788) Fix link duplication when edit/upload comment includes newlines
3010 * Change default on $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans to true
3011 * Fix link conversion for URL request
3012 * (bug 1851) Updated download URL for the SCIM packages used by zhtable
3013 * (bug 1853) Try stripping quotes from term for 'go' title match
3014 * Fix missing function in Latin1 mode
3015 * (bug 1860) Anchors of interwiki links did not get normalized
3016 * (bug 1847) accept lowercase x in ISBN, do not accept invalid A-W,Y,Z
3017 * Fix link conversion for URL request, hopefully without breaking the wiki
3018 * (bug 1849) New option allows to consider categorized images as used on
3019 Special:Unusedimages
3020 * Localized category namespace for ka (Georgian)
3021 * (bug 1107) Work around includes problem in installer when parent dir is not
3022 readable by the web server
3023 * (bug 1927) Incorrect escaping on wikitext message in Blockip
3024
3025
3026 === 1.4.2 fixes ===
3027
3028 * Fix math options in Finnish localization
3029 * Use in-process Tidy extension if available when $wgUseTidy is on
3030 * (bug 1933) Fix PATH_INFO usage under IIS with PHP ISAPI module
3031 * (bug 1188) <nowiki> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
3032 * (bug 1936) <!-- comments --> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
3033 * Fix a potential MSIE JavaScript injection vector in Tidy mode
3034
3035
3036 === 1.4.3 fixes ===
3037
3038 * (bug 1636) Refs like &#0355; were misinterpreted as octal in some places
3039 * (bug 1163) Special:Undelete showed oldest revision instead of newest
3040 * (bug 1938) Fix escaping of illegal character references in link text
3041 * (bug 1997) Fix for error on display of renamed items in Recentchanges on PHP5
3042 * (bug 1949) Profiling typo in rare error case
3043 * (bug 1963) Fix deletion log link when $wgCapitalLinks is off
3044 * (bug 1970) Don't show move tab for immobile pages
3045 * (bug 1770) Page creation recorded links from the 'newarticletext' message
3046 * Optional change to the site_stats table. When applied, this removes the need
3047 for expensive queries in Special:Statistics.
3048
3049
3050 === 1.4.4 fixes ===
3051
3052 * (bug 725) Let dir="ltr" attribute work again in MonoBook on RTL languages
3053 * (bug 2024) Skip JavaScript error for custom skins where .js message not set
3054 * (bug 2025) Updated Indonesian localization
3055 * (bug 2039) Updated Lithuanian localization
3056
3057
3058 === Caveats ===
3059
3060 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
3061 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
3062 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
3063 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
3064 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
3065
3066
3067 For notes on 1.3.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
3068
3069
3070 === Online documentation ===
3071
3072 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
3073 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
3074 License:
3075
3076 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
3077
3078
3079 === Mailing list ===
3080
3081 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
3082 wikitech-l list:
3083
3084 http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
3085
3086 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
3087 http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
3088
3089 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
3090 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
3091
3092
3093 === IRC help ===
3094
3095 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net