HISTORY

   1 Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
   2
   3 == Version 1.2.6, 2004-05-24 ==
   4 * Spam blocker ($wgSpamRegex - refuses to save edits that match)
   5 * Updated documentation about $wgWhitelistRead
   6 * Ensure that searchindex table is created as MyISAM
   7 * Interwiki cache timeout (memcached)
   8 * Fix uploads on Windows with magic_quotes_gpc
   9 * Some config fixes for Windows (slashes etc)
  10 * Local interwiki URL redirects
  11 * Fixed obscure deletion problem in squid mode on corrupt entries
  12 * Language files updated to remove more hard-coded "Wikipedia" strings
  13
  14 == Version 1.2.5, 2004-05-01 ==
  15 * Fixed install problem with blank root password
  16 * Fixed Special:Emailuser/Username links
  17 * Fixed main-page edit links on fuzzy search results
  18 * Fixed wikipedia-interwiki.sql
  19 * Fixed install with apache2filter (ugly URLs)
  20 * IP in 'go' search brings up contributions
  21 * Switch from broken & to ? on top-level wiki URL hack
  22
  23 == Version 1.2.4, 2004-04-13 ==
  24
  25 * Fixed edit toolbar in Mozilla
  26 * Diff links in Contributions for 'top' edits
  27 * Fixed Nostalgia skin drop-down for register_globals off
  28 * Backported optional open proxy blocker
  29 * Backported $wgWhitelistRead
  30 * $wgCapitalLinks option to force full case sensitivity in titles
  31 * Cleaned up error handling when can't talk to database
  32 * Disabled unsafe command-line installer (remove the "die()" call to use)
  33
  34 == Version 1.2.3, 2004-04-02 ==
  35
  36 * Fixed an in-place install bug with non-root MySQL user
  37 * Fixed history diff checkboxes bug on titles with ampersands
  38 * Fixed printable link bug on special pages with parameters
  39 * Fixed bug that broke IP blocking w/o memcached
  40 * Turns off E_NOTICE warnings if PHP settings have them on
  41   (you can grope in and turn this off if you like to debug)
  42
  43 == Version 1.2.2, 2004-03-28 ==
  44
  45 * Fixed an upgrade bug introduced in 1.2.1.
  46 * Disabled $wgUseCategoryMagic, which feature is incomplete broken
  47
  48 == Version 1.2.1, 2004-03-27 ==
  49
  50 Installation, compatibility, security fixlets:
  51 * Detect use of PHP as CGI and disable index.php/Title URLs
  52 * Try to auto-create math tmp & output directories if not present
  53 * Disable Asksql in default install ($wgAllowSysopQueries)
  54 * Better handling of get_magic_quotes_gpc (apostrophe problems)
  55 * French localisation no longer hard-codes "Wikipedia" name
  56
  57 == Version 1.2.0 ==
  58
  59 New features in 1.2:
  60 * Image resizing/thumbnail generation
  61 * Stricter upload file extension blacklist and whitelist options
  62 * More flexible blocking system; time period may be set
  63 * Handier sysop account management. An account marked "bureaucrat"
  64   may assign sysop access to other accounts via Special:Makesysop.
  65   (The exact details of this may change in the future)
  66 * Support for a squid cache with explicit purging of cached anon pages
  67 * Optional compression of old revision text (requires zlib support)
  68 * Fuzzy title search (experimental, requires memcached)
  69 * Page rendering cache (experimental)
  70 * Editing toolbar to demonstrate wiki syntax to newbies
  71   (off by default in user preferences)
  72 * Support for authenticated SMTP outgoing e-mail (experimental)
  73 * It's now possible to assign sysop accounts from within the wiki.
  74   An account with this ability must be labeled with the "bureaucrat"
  75   privilege, such as the 'Developer' account created by the install.
  76
  77 Fixes and tweaks:
  78 * Now works with register_globals off!
  79 * Works with short tags disabled.
  80 * Should work out of the box on MySQL 3.2.x again. On 4.x set
  81   $wgEnablePersistentLC = true; to turn on the link cache table
  82   for a slight rendering speed boost.
  83 * rebuildMessages.php can now selectively update new messages, or
  84   overwrite everything.
  85 * Various bug fixes.
  86 * Other stuff we forgot.
  87 * Documentation more out of date than ever before!
  88
  89 === Behavior changes ===
  90
  91 * wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml are now renamed to index.php and redirect.php
  92   The old names are provided too for compatibility, but make sure they don't
  93   conflict if you've been putting other files in your wiki.
  94 * Uploaded filenames are more strictly checked than before. See bits in
  95   DefaultSettings.php to tweak this behavior to your needs.
  96 * Database messages are now enabled by default, so the interface messages can
  97   be tweaked through the wiki with a sysop account. Disable this if you
  98   don't want the performance hit.
  99
 100 === Database changes ===
 101
 102 An index was added to recentchanges table to speed up Newpages
 103 (patch-rc-newindex.sql for manual updaters).
 104
 105 Expiration date field has been added to ipblocks table
 106 (patch-ipb_expiry.sql for manual updaters).
 107
 108
 109 == Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 ==
 110
 111 This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected
 112 to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0
 113 release.
 114
 115 New features in 1.1:
 116 * New wiki table syntax:
 117   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables
 118 * User-editable interface messages:
 119   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
 120 * XML-wrapped page source export with optional history:
 121   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export
 122   (There is not yet an import function!)
 123 * "Magic words"
 124
 125 Fixes and tweaks:
 126 * linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php
 127 * Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed
 128 * Login gives warning about missing cookies
 129 * Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
 130 * Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
 131 * Problems with <nowiki> segments in section titles etc mitigated
 132 * Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
 133 * Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
 134 * Various exciting new profiling options.
 135 * Debug log is off by default.
 136 * Various small bugs fixed.
 137
 138 Internal changes:
 139 * wfQuery has had a second parameter inserted, DB_READ or DB_WRITE. This value
 140   is not actually used so far.
 141 * Partial code for categories and Smarty template-based skins is in the tree
 142   but disabled.
 143 * Parts of Article.php have been moved to EditPage.php and ImagePage.php.
 144
 145 New translations:
 146 * fi - Finnish
 147 * ia - Interlingua
 148 * no - Norwegian
 149 * sk - Slovak
 150 * ta - Tamil
 151
 152 === Database changes ===
 153
 154 "linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php),
 155 run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table.
 156
 157 Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
 158
 159 == mediawiki-20031118 ==
 160
 161 * Image deletion fixed.
 162 * Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops
 163   (this is an irreversible action and not well logged)
 164 * Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
 165 * Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed.
 166
 167 == mediawiki-20031117 ==
 168
 169 * SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
 170 * Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
 171 * Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis
 172   to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved
 173   password cookies.
 174 * Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
 175 * Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
 176 * Check existence of source page before performing a move.
 177 * Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
 178 * Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
 179 * Updates to some translations.
 180 * Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
 181 * Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
 182 * Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
 183 * install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions,
 184   added compatibility functions that might or might not help
 185
 186 No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean.
 187
 188
 189 == mediawiki-20031107 ==
 190
 191 * Fixed various bugs!
 192 * Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
 193 * Limited support for memcached (see below)
 194 * New translations (see below)
 195 * Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
 196 * Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when
 197   the db is locked or the page is protected.
 198 * Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
 199 * Optional support for blocking usernames
 200 * Uploads disabled by default (see below)
 201
 202
 203 === Security note ===
 204
 205 Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration
 206 you can reenable uploads by putting:
 207
 208   $wgDisableUploads = false;
 209
 210 into LocalSettings.php.
 211
 212 Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged-
 213 in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server
 214 user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed.
 215
 216 As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory!
 217 You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie-
 218 stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:
 219
 220   <Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
 221      # Ignore .htaccess files
 222      AllowOverride None
 223
 224      # Serve HTML as plaintext
 225      AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
 226
 227      # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
 228      php_admin_flag engine off
 229
 230      # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
 231   </Directory>
 232
 233
 234 === Database updates ===
 235
 236 If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should
 237 be made automatically.
 238
 239 To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the
 240 following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory:
 241
 242   archives/patch-ipblocks.sql
 243   archives/patch-interwiki.sql
 244   archives/patch-indexes.sql
 245   interwiki.sql
 246
 247 To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add:
 248
 249   wikipedia-interwiki.sql
 250
 251
 252 === Translations ===
 253
 254 New interface localization files are included for:
 255   fy Frisian
 256   ro Romanian
 257   sl Slovene
 258   sq Albanian
 259   sr Serbian
 260
 261
 262 === Memcached ===
 263
 264 Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/
 265 MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls
 266 to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and
 267 talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the
 268 UTF-8 conversion tables.
 269
 270 MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by
 271 Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with
 272 minimal overhead.
 273
 274 To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not
 275 in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details.
 276
 277 Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the
 278 local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login
 279 sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary
 280 other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.)
 281
 282 To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain
 283 appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be
 284 volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable
 285 when this option is turned on.
 286
 287
 288 === Online documentation ===
 289
 290 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 291 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 292 License:
 293
 294   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
 295
 296
 297 === Mailing list ===
 298
 299 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 300 wikitech-l list:
 301
 302   http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 303
 304
 305 === UseModWiki import script ===
 306
 307 A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance
 308 subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but
 309 does function for the brave and pure of heart.
 310
 311
 312 === Test suite removed ===
 313
 314 The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball
 315 release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.
 316
 317
 318 == mediawiki-20030829 ==
 319
 320 First release under MediaWiki name.