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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
9 == Changes since 1.8 ==
10
11 * (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres.
12 * (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist
13 adding problem.
14 * (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function,
15 because it seems to be unused.
16 * (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger
17 screen sizes, for the default monobook skin.
18 * Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends
19 * Improved register_globals paranoia checks
20 * (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install
21 * Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails
22 is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call
23 parameters.
24 * (bug 6164) Avoid smashing Cite state if message transformation triggers
25 during bad image list check, by skipping message transformation.
26 This isn't a good permanent fix.
27 * (bug 6918) Stopped borders and backgrounds from showing through floated
28 tables in Monobook
29 * (bug 6868) Un-hardcode section edit link style
30 * (bug 3205) Stop right floats from stacking horizontally in non-Monobook skins
31 * Added global $wgStyleVersion to centralize bumping CSS and JS file versions
32 for cache-friendly style and script updating
33 * (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers
34 * Friendlier check for PHP 5 in command-line scripts; it's common for parallel
35 PHP 4 and 5 installations to interfere on the command-line.
36 * Fix regression in autoconfirm permission check
37 * (bug 3015) Add CSS ids to subcategory and page sections on category pages
38 * (bug 7587) Fix erroneous id for specialpage tab, enabling informative popup
39 * (bug 7599) Fix thumbnail purging, PHP notices on HTCP image page purge
40 * (bug 7581) Update language name for cbk-zam
41 * (bug 7444) Update namespace translations for Telugu (te), kept old values as
42 alias for compatibility
43 * (bug 4525) Move section links down visually to same level as headings
44 (editsection links are now inside the heading elements)
45 * Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 , PATH_INFO and hence
46 URLs of the style /index.php/Main_Page were broken on some CGI installations.
47 * (bug 7623) Validate custom HTML id's correctly in Monobook interface
48 * (bug 2241) Fix collision of 'w' and 'd' accesskeys
49 * (bug 5795) CSS class added to body based on page name for page-specific
50 styling
51 * (bug 6276) Stopped search field from getting too large in Cologne Blue
52 * (bug 7644) User creations that are aborted by hooks shouldn't be counted
53 against account creations per day limit
54 * (bug 7636) Show Firefox 2 users correct accesskey prefix
55 * (bug 6427) Block blocked IPs from using the mail password function
56 to allow blocking of flooders
57 * Include common.css from classic-style skins in main HTML with the bump URL
58 * (bug 7607) Add Karakalpak (kaa) to Names.php and stub message file for linktrail
59 * (bug 7582) Add 'tog-nolangconversion' to MessagesEn.php.
60 This key is need for languages with variants (zh, sr, kk)
61 * (bug 7606) MediaWiki messages for "rss" and "atom" missing
62 * (bug 7609) Add some more '*-summary' messages to MessagesEn.php with empty
63 strings to allow better localisation via Special:Allmessages. Mark this new
64 messages as optional for localisation.
65 * Fix user_newpass upgrade for prefixed tables (reported by Fyren)
66 * (bug 7663) Include language variant switcher links on Nostalgia skin
67 * (bug 6531) Fix PHP fatal error on installation page with bad username input.
68 * (bug 6977) Remove 404 link for autogenerated database documentation.
69 * (bug 7369) Allow "Show Changes" without requiring edit token.
70 * (bug 7687) Fix movetalk box checks itself when confirming a delete and move.
71 * (bug 7684) Obey watchcreated preference for Special:Upload watch checkbox
72 * (bug 7686) Include id attribute on delete form confirmation button
73 * Allow compound interwiki prefixes in $wgImportSources
74 * (bug 7304) Added redirect table to store redirect targets.
75 * Added querycachetwo table (similar to querycache but has two titles)
76 * PageArchive can now return a Revision object for more convenient processing
77 of deleted revision data
78 * Added 'UndeleteShowRevision' hook in Special:Undelete
79 * Error message on attempt to view invalid or missing deleted revisions
80 * Remove unsightly "_" from namespace in Special:Allpages, Special:Prefixindex
81 * (bug 3224) Allow minor edits by bots to skip new message notification on
82 user talk pages. This can be disabled by adjusting the 'nominornewtalk'
83 permission. Patch by Werdna.
84 * (bug 7741) MATH: fixed broken syntax of underbrace etc. Fixed arrays
85 * Fix purging for updated SVG files
86 * (bug 7745) Add id attribute to search button in Monobook
87 * (bug 7749) MATH: added some more LaTeX symbols, e.g. parallel, diamond, ast, ...
88 * (bug 7304) Added code in Article.php to keep redirect table up to date.
89 * Made special page names case-insensitive and localisable. Care has been taken
90 to maintain backwards compatibility.
91 * Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters.
92 * (bug 7758) Added wrapper span to "templates used" explanation to allow CSS
93 styling (class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation").
94 * Added {{#special:}} parser function, to give the local default title for
95 special pages
96 * (bug 7766) Remove redundant / from AJAX requests, can break some servers
97 * Add tab links from extensions to classic-based skins (SkinTemplateTab hook)
98 Provides better cross-skin compatibility for extensions using the modern
99 skin hooks, such as Oversight
100 * Moved variant language links on Cologne Blue and Nostalgia to before the
101 login/logout link
102 * Fix for parser tests with MySQL 5 in strict mode
103 * Added block option "enable autoblocks"
104 * Amend Special:Ipblocklist to note when a block has autoblock DISABLED.
105 * (bug 7780) Fix regression in editing redirects
106 * Add whitespace above "templates included on this page" using CSS, not
107 hardcoded line break.
108 * Remove entries from redirect table on article deletion
109 * (bug 7788) Force section headers in new section links for users who have
110 'prompt for blank edit summaries' on.
111 * (bug 1133) Special:Emailuser: add an option to send yourself a copy of your mail.
112 * (bug 461) Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via
113 pagecategorieslink message.
114 * Sort the list of skins in "My Preferences" -> Skins by alphabetical order.
115 * (bug 7785) Postgres compatibility for timestamps in RC feeds
116 * (bug 7550) Normalize user parameter normally on Special:Log
117 * (bug 7294) Fix PATH search for diff3 on install
118 * Various fixes related to the blocking change re: autoblocks. On inserting
119 an IP block, the ipb_enable_autoblock field is now automagically blanked,
120 because it doesn't make any sense for an IP. Additionally, IP blocks
121 without the ipb_enable_autoblock option no longer show up as "autoblock
122 disabled" on Special:Ipblocklist.
123 * (bug 7774) MATH: aded more amstex functions
124 * (bug 1182) MATH: fixed inconsistent rendering of upper case Greek letters in TeX
125 * Fix regression in streaming page dump generation
126 * (bug 7801) Add support for parser function hooks in parser tests
127 * checkUsernames.php now uses wfDebugLog instead of hardcoded path to log
128 * (bug 7810) Update talk namespaces for Occitan
129 * Allow case-sensitive URLs to be used for uploading from URLs.
130 * (bug 1109) Correct fix for compressed 304 responses when additional output
131 buffers have been installed within the compression handler
132 * (bug 7819) Move automatic redirect edit summary after pre-save transform
133 to work properly with subst: fun
134 * (bug 7826) Fix typos in two English messages.
135 * (bug 5365) Stop users being prompted to enter an edit summary for null edits,
136 if they have selected that option in preferences.
137 * (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits.
138 * (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL.
139 * (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most
140 recently used IP of a user when they are blocked.
141 * Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will
142 make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster.
143 * Fix regression in Special:Undelete for revisions deleted under MediaWiki 1.4
144 with compression or legacy encoding
145 * (bug 6737) Fixes for MySQL 5 schema in strict mode
146 * Approximate height for client-side scaling fallback instead of passing -1
147 into the HTML output.
148 * Make the DNSBL to check for proxy blocking configurable via $wgSorbsUrl
149 * Add experimental recording/reporting mode to parser tests runner, to
150 compare changes against the previous run.
151 Additional tables 'testrun' and 'testitem' are in maintenance/testRunner.sql,
152 source this and pass --record option to parserTests.php
153 * Make the set of default parser test input files extensible via
154 $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local
155 configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically
156 run along with the main batch.
157 * Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see
158 new version requirements
159 * Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive
160 as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a
161 warning and a request to upgrade.
162 * (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images)
163 * Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks
164 * (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display,
165 with count.
166 * (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in
167 Monobook.
168 * Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled.
169 * Add auto-summaries to blankings and large removals without summaries.
170 * (bug 7811) Allow preview of edit summaries.
171 * (bug 6839) Wikibits.js minor changes to make JS-lint happier.
172 * (bug 7932) Make sure that edit toolbar clears floats so it appears correctly.
173 * (bug 6873) When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version.
174 * (bug 3315) Provide rollback link directly on history page.
175 * Replace 'old-revision-navigation' message with 'revision-info' and
176 'revision-nav' messages, wrapped in divs with appropriate id's.
177 * (bug 4178) MediaWiki:Common.js will now be included for all users if
178 $wgUseSiteJs is enabled, in addition to (if applicable) MediaWiki:Monobook.js
179 and user JS subpages.
180 * (bug 7918) "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect
181 any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits.
182 * (bug 7919) "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages.
183 * (bug 7688) When viewing diff, section anchors in autosummary jump to section
184 on current page instead of loading the latest version.
185 * (bug 7970) Use current connection explicitly on Database::getServerVersion
186 * (bug 2001) Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via
187 JavaScript.
188 * Added autosummary for new pages with 500 or less characters, and refactor
189 the autosummary code so it's all done in one function. doEdit is getting too
190 big!
191 * (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the
192 image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg).
193 * (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges
194 can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format,
195 in the autoblock_whitelist system message.
196 * Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php
197 * (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages
198 * Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema
199 * Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like
200 behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...)
201 * Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two
202 member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks.
203 * (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone
204 (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3).
205 This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL
206 that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages.
207 The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the
208 edit.
209 * Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages
210 * (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned
211 images, not horizontally.
212 * Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php
213 * Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration
214 * Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login
215 * (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs
216 * (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference
217 * Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved.
218 * (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation
219 * Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain
220 broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions
221 * (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php
222 * (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform
223 * (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set;
224 now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB
225 * {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone
226 to ensure consistent behavior
227 * {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends
228 * (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment
229 * Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output
230 * (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht
231 * (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit
232 instead of hardcoding to 1000
233 * Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting
234 * (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view
235 * (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization
236 * Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely.
237 * Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature
238 to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default.
239 * Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute
240 * DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store
241 the text lengths before and after the edit
242 * (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions
243 * Removed a redundant <strong> tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users
244 * (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it
245 when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview".
246 * (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning
247 buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export.
248 Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers()
249 * Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next
250 chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk.
251 * (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage')
252 * (bug 8121) wfRandom() was not between 0 and 1
253 * Add static method Parser::createAssocArgs($args), so parser functions can
254 use the same code to parse arguments as the templates do.
255 * Change behavior of logins using the temporary e-mailed password (as stored
256 in user_newpassword hash field). Instead of just logging in silently and
257 leaving the previous user_password field in place indefinitely, the user
258 is now prompted to set a new password.
259
260 The password-changing form is at Special:Resetpass; currently it's only
261 usable for changing from the temporary password during login, but it
262 could perhaps be generalized, replacing the subform in preferences.
263
264 Once the new password is set successfully, the temporary password is wiped
265 so it cannot be used to login a second time, and the login process
266 is completed.
267 * Suppress 'mail new password' button on login form if $wgAuth forbids
268 changing user passwords; it wouldn't work very well...
269 * Consolidate password length checks and $wgAuth manipulation into
270 User::setPassword() to avoid duplicate code in different places
271 that set passwords.
272 * User::setPassword() now throws PasswordError exceptions if the password
273 is illegal or cannot be set via $wgAuth. These can be caught and a human-
274 readable error message displayed by UI code.
275 * Added Title::isSubpage()
276 * (bug 8241) Don't consider user pages of User:Foo.css to be CSS subpages
277 * Set an explicit class on framed thumbnail inner divs and images, changed some
278 CSS to use these instead of using descendent selectors.
279 * Accept null parameter to User::setPassword() as indicating the password
280 field should be cleared to an unusable state. Login will only be possible
281 after the password is reset, for instance by e-mail.
282 * (bug 6394) Invalidate the password set for "by e-mail" account creations
283 to avoid accidental empty password creations.
284 * Made the show change size function work on page moves, page creations, and
285 log entries. Also fixed it in the javascript recentchanges.
286 * (bug 8239) correctly get 50 new contributions when clicking '(50 next)'
287 * (bug 2259) Fix old regression where e-mail addresses were no longer
288 confirmed on login with mailed password.
289 * Add a notification about the confirmation mail sent during account
290 creation, so people don't immediately go off to request a second one.
291 * Add a warning on Special:Confirmemail if a code was already sent and has
292 not yet expired.
293 * Add user_editcount field to provide data for heuristics on account use.
294 Incremented on edit, with lazy initialization from past revision data.
295 Can batch-initialize with maintenance/initEditCount.php (not yet friendly
296 to replication environments, this will do all accounts in one query).
297 * Allow raw SQL subsections in Database::update() SET portion as well as
298 for WHERE portion. Handy for increments and such.
299 * User::getOption now accept a default value to override default user values
300 this makes it consistent with WebRequest::get* methods. Corrected code in
301 various places accordingly.
302 * (bug 8264) Fix JavaScript global vars for XHTML mode
303 * Make $wgSiteNotice value wikitext again, for consistency with editable
304 MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice.
305 * (bug 8044) When redirecting from the canonical name of the special page
306 to the localised one, parameters/subpages are omitted
307 * (bug 8164) Special:Booksources should use GET for form submission
308 * Rewrite Special:Booksources to clean up interface and remove redundant code
309 * (bug 7925) Change Special:Allmessages message name filter javascript to be
310 a bit more responsive and easier on the CPU
311 * (bug 4488) Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference
312 * Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch
313 pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options
314 * (bug 8153) <nowiki> doesn't work in site notice
315 * (bug 6690) wfMsgNoTrans() transforms messages
316 * (bug 8274) Wrap edit tools in a <div> with a specified class
317 * Detect PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug and abort in WebStart.php; too many things break
318 mysteriously otherwise (detection code copied from install-utils.inc)
319 * (bug 8295) Change handling of <center> tags in doBlockLevels() to match that
320 of <div>
321 * (bug 8110) Make magic ISBN linking stricter: only match ten-digit sequences
322 (plus optional ISBN-13 prefix) with no immediately following alphanumeric
323 character, disallow multiple consecutive internal redirects
324 * (bug 2785) Accept optional colon prefix in links when formatting comments
325 * Don't show "you can view and copy the source of this page" message for
326 pages which don't exist
327 * (bug 8310) Blank line added to top of 'post' when page is blank
328 * (bug 8109) Template parameters ignored in "recentchangestext"
329 * Gracefully skip redirect-to-fragment on WebKit versions less than 420;
330 it messes up on current versions of Safari but is ok in the latest
331 nightlies. Checking the version number will allow it to automatically
332 work when new releases of Safari appear.
333 * Fix regression in thumb styles; size and padding didn't match with
334 new arrangement.
335 * (bug 8333) Fix quick user data update on login password change on
336 replication database setups. User data is now pulled from master
337 instead of slave in User::loadFromDatabase, ensuring that it is
338 fresh and accurate when read and then saved back into cache.
339 This was breaking with the Special:Rename operation which
340 automatically logs the user in with the new password after changing
341 it; pulling from slave meant the record was often not the updated
342 one.
343 * (bug 8335) Set image width to the first valid parameter found.
344 * (bug 8350) Fix watchlist viewing bug when using Postgres.
345 * (bug 6603) When warning about invalid file extensions, output the bit
346 of the extension we actually checked
347 * (bug 7669) Drop defaults on BLOB/TEXT columns for better compatibility
348 with MySQL's strict mode, often enabled by the Windows installer.
349 The defaults are ignored anyway when strict mode is off...
350 * (bug 7685) Use explicit values for ar_text and ar_flags when deleting,
351 for better compatibility with MySQL's strict mode
352 * Update default interwiki values to reflect changed location of ursine:
353 * (bug 5411) Remove autopatrol preference
354 * Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as
355 patrolled automatically
356 * Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able
357 to mark their own edits as patrolled
358 * Introduce 'PingLimiter' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
359 * (bug 532) Tweaked alt text for some interface messages
360 * (bug 8231) Gave useful alt text to the main <img> on image pages
361 * (bug 371) Remove alt text for "Enlarge" icon on thumbnails
362 * Initialize user_editcount to 0 instead of NULL for newly created accounts
363 * (bug 3696) Strip LRM and RLM characters from titles to work around the
364 problem some people have where titles cut-and-pasted from lists include
365 the bidi override characters appended to the lists.
366 A more thorough blacklist for forbidden and translatable characters would
367 be wise, though, as might a cleaner method for the lists in the first place.
368 * Fix regression in email password resets on read-restricted sites
369 * Set tabindex on fields in deletion form so you don't have to tab through
370 the links in the sitenotice
371 * (bug 8271) Show full time and date on viewer for individual deleted
372 revisions
373 * (bug 8214) Output file size limit and actual file size in appropriate units
374 on Special:Upload
375 * (bug 8016) Purge objectcache table during upgrade processes - use the --nopurge
376 option to prevent this when running maintenance/update.php
377 * (bug 7612) Remove superfluous link to Special:Categories from result items
378 on Special:Mostcategories
379 * {{PLURAL:}} now handles formatted numbers correctly
380 * (bug 8331) Added the change size value to watchlists; therefore made
381 watchlists use RecentChange::newFromRow() instead of newFromCurRow()
382 * (bug 8351) Fix undo for simple reverts
383 * (bug 6856) User::clearNotification() does not respect read-only mode
384 * (bug 6853) Use a checkbox on the installer form to indicate that a superuser
385 account should be used; this is clearer than the old check which relied on
386 the password never being an obscure value
387 * Remove old unused watchlist cache, which was a leftover from the old schema
388 where watchlists were more expensive to generate
389 * Minor cosmetic changes to Special:Userrights
390 * Added wgCanonicalSpecialPageName to JavaScript variables
391 * Fix image deleting when using Postgres.
392 * Output both source and destination titles in maintenance/moveBatch.php
393 * Added basic parser tests for language variants
394 * Enable selflinks and categories to be written in some of the language variants
395 * Prevent conversion of JavaScript code in language variants
396 * Output software version number in maintenance/parserTests.php
397 * (bug 7169) Use Ajax to watch/unwatch articles if enabled
398 * Make variant table caching a little more robust, using main language code
399 in cache key. Probably this is still a bit wonky, though. Was breaking
400 parser tests when Chinese tables were getting loaded into Serbian code.
401 * (bug 8380) Be nicer about blank lines in deleteBatch.php
402 * (bug 8401) Fix regression in SORBS lookup for some DNS setups
403 * Use raw file descriptor in posix_isatty() check to avoid warning on
404 Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP
405 * (bug 5908) Allow overriding the default category sort key for all items on
406 a page using {{DEFAULTSORT}}
407 * (bug 6449) Throw a more definitive error message when installation fails
408 due to an invalid database name
409 * (bug 5827) Use full text for option link labels on Special:Watchlist
410 * (bug 8018) Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist
411 * (bug 8427) MonoBook RTL IE 7.0 tweaks failed when sidebar's navigation
412 section is renamed; no longer relies on first section name
413 * Stabilize client-side table sorting even if the underlying Javascript sort()
414 implementation is unstable
415 * Add hook for extensions to add user information to the panel in preferences,
416 next to the user name and ID.
417 * (bug 8392) Display protection status of transcluded pages in the edit page
418 template list. Patch by Fyren, with i18n naming tweak.
419 * Fix for interwiki transclusion where target wiki uses query string for title
420 * Resolve namespaces on interwiki Title objects using canonical namespace names
421 if possible (should not happen, though, outside interwiki transclusion... and
422 maybe not even then, but it does)
423 * (bug 8447) Fix SQL typo breaking non-default $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq
424 * Do not allow previews of deleted images to be cached
425 * Add global variable $wgDefaultLanguageVariant used to set the default language
426 variant of a wiki to something different than the main language code
427 * Add 'variant' option to parserTests - runs test with the given variant as
428 preferred, utilize it for more parser tests of language variants code
429 * (bug 6503) Fix bug that stopped certain irrelevant links from being hidden
430 for printing
431 * Avoid PHP warning in Creative Commons metadata when a creative commons
432 license is not actually set up
433 * (bug 8463) Don't print external link icons for Monobook
434 * (bug 8461) Support watching pages on move
435 * (bug 8041) Work around bug with debug_backtrace when Zend Optimizer is
436 loaded by skipping the function. Use wfDebugBacktrace() wrapper function.
437 * Reduce config file clutter by setting various script and upload paths
438 based on $IP or $wgScriptPath in Setup.php. They can still be explicitly
439 overridden in LocalSettings.php if desired...
440 * Attempt to detect redirect loops for the canonical title redirect, and
441 give some hints to the poor confused administrator.
442 * Introduce new flag 'R' - raw output for language variant escape tags
443 * Advise users when updates for a query page have been disabled using
444 $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate
445 * (bug 8413) Improve comments for $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies
446 * (bug 8330) Show "bytes" suffix on recent changes diff counter
447 optionally... if set in rc-changes-size message (default empty for now)
448 * (bug 8489) Support basic links in <gallery> caption attribute
449 * (bug 8485) Correct Lingala number formatting
450 * The MediaWiki namespace is no longer pre-filled with default messages on
451 install. All default messages will be removed from the MediaWiki namespace
452 on upgrade.
453 * Recentchanges RSS/Atom feeds now use a separate message for the description
454 to avoid cluttering it with useless wiki formatting
455 * (bug 8417) Handle EXIF unknown dates
456 * (bug 8372) Return nothing on empty <math> tags.
457 * New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php.
458 * Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php
459 * (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission
460 key has been added to enable this behaviour, by default assigned to sysops.
461 * (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild.
462 * (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization
463 * (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond)
464 * Fix regression with default lock file and cache directories; threw visible
465 warning with open_basedir
466
467
468 == 1.8 Compatibility changes ==
469
470 === Zend Optimizer ===
471
472 A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under
473 MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging
474 features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common
475 "blank page" problems.
476
477 === PHP 5.0 64-bit ===
478
479 MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data
480 on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This
481 bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8
482 and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions.
483
484 The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you
485 probably should do anyway for security reasons!
486
487 === MySQL 5 ===
488
489 MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when
490 MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows
491 installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.)
492
493 This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields".
494
495 === ImageMagick ===
496
497 Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing
498 due to use of the -thumbnail option.
499
500
501 == 1.8 Behavior changes ==
502
503 === Localized special pages ===
504
505 The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them
506 are more legible in languages that aren't English.
507
508 Not all languages have included localized names yet.
509
510 === E-mail password ===
511
512 Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first
513 log in with a newly generated e-mailed password.
514
515 Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing.
516
517 === Undo revision ===
518
519 An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits.
520 When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much
521 easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding
522 changes elsewhere in the page.
523
524 The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional
525 full-revision reverts.
526
527 === Blocking ===
528
529 User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the
530 account logs in with.
531
532
533 == 1.8 Database changes ==
534
535 * new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects
536 * new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages
537 * 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock'
538 * 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking
539 * 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields
540 * some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges'
541
542 == 1.8 Configuration changes ==
543
544 Several configuration options have changed since 1.8:
545
546 === $wgEnableAPI ===
547
548 The experimental machine API interface is now enabled by default, read-only.
549 You can disable it by setting $wgEnableAPI = false; in LocalSettings.php.
550
551 === $wgPathInfo ===
552
553 The use of PATH_INFO (the text after the script name in 'index.php/Blah')
554 is controlled by the $wgUsePathInfo setting. This is now explicitly disabled
555 for CGI, apache2filter, and ISAPI configurations of PHP, for more consistency
556 with the autodetection from the installer.
557
558 In some rarer configurations you may have to switch $wgUsePathInfo from false
559 to true or, perhaps, from true to false to make things work properly if bad
560 PATH_INFO data comes through the server.
561
562 The wiki now tries to detect this condition and should show you an error
563 message describing what to change instead of sending the browser into an
564 infinite redirect loop.
565
566 === $wgScript and other path settings ===
567
568 The following configuration variables are now automatically set in Setup.php
569 if they are not overridden in LocalSettings.php:
570
571 from $wgScriptPath:
572 + $wgScript
573 | \- $wgArticlePath
574 + $wgRedirectScript
575 + $wgStylePath
576 + $wgUploadPath
577 \- $wgLogo
578 + $wgMathPath
579
580 from $IP:
581 - $wgStyleDirectory
582 + $wgUploadDirectory
583 \- $wgMathDirectory
584 + $wgTmpDirectory
585
586 Newly generated configuration files will by default include only $wgScriptPath
587 (hardcoded from the installer) and $IP (detected at runtime).
588
589 Old configuration files which specify all these values explicitly should
590 continue to work just fine, but if you use the defaults you can remove them
591 to reduce clutter.
592
593 === $wgGroupPermissions ===
594
595 The sysop group now holds the "autopatrol" and "ipblock-exempt" rights by
596 default.
597
598 "autopatrol" replaces the preference for marking ones own edits patrolled
599 by default; users holding this permission will automatically have their
600 edits patrolled, while others cannot mark their own edits as patrolled
601 even if they have patrolling rights.
602
603 "ipblock-exempt" excludes the user from IP blocks; accounts which are blocked
604 explicitly by name will still be blocked, however. This is given to sysops
605 to minimize annoyance from accidental "collateral damage"; remember that a
606 sysop will be able to lift the block if they desire.
607
608 The bot group now holds the "nominornewtalk" right. A user with this right
609 will not trigger new message notifications when making minor edits to user
610 talk pages. This is meant to minimize annoyance from maintenance bot
611 processes.
612
613 === $wgUseWatchlistCache ===
614
615 Watchlist caching has been removed. The feature was not maintained, and has
616 been unnecessary since switching to the 'recentchanges' database table
617 reduced server pressure for Wikipedia's watchlists.
618
619 === $wgBreakFrames ===
620
621 MediaWiki in the past attempted to detect when it was embedded in a frameset
622 and "break out" of it, assuming it to be hostile.
623
624 This behavior is now disabled by default, but can be reenabled by setting
625 $wgBreakFrames to true in LocalSettings.php.
626
627
628 == 1.8 New settings ==
629
630 === $wgVariantArticlePath ===
631
632 For languages with script variant support (Chinese, Serbian, and others),
633 it's possible to use alternate URL paths to select the variant for article
634 display, setting $wgVariantArticlePath.
635
636 Documentation for this setting would be useful.
637
638 === $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize ===
639
640 The message cache can now skip items larger than a given size; this allows
641 it to better handle the primary caching case when large CSS and JS blobs are
642 present.
643
644 === $wgStyleVersion ===
645
646 When making significant changes to skin stylesheets and JavaScript files,
647 you can append a string to this variable to tweak the generated URLs,
648 forcing newly rendered pages to bring in a fresh version despite server-
649 or browser-side caching.
650
651 Normally this will be set in the course of MediaWiki development, but
652 if doing development on a custom skin you may wish to poke it as well.
653
654 === $wgRCShowChangedSize ===
655
656 Special:Recentchanges and Special:Watchlist now show the number of bytes
657 added or removed to an article to give an idea of the size of the edit.
658 This information was previously available only in the IRC update feeds.
659
660 To disable this site-wide, set $wgRCShowChangedSize to false.
661 (Individual users can suppress the data in custom CSS.)
662
663 Adjust $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold to trigger highlighting of particularly
664 large changes.
665
666 The formatting of the size figure can be adjusted through the
667 [[MediaWiki:Rc-change-size]] message.
668
669 === $wgQueryCacheLimit ===
670
671 The number of rows stored for "expensive" special pages in miser mode
672 can now be adjusted up or down from the default 1000.
673
674 === $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate ===
675
676 Individual "expensive" special pages can be skipped in processing by
677 updateSpecialPages if added to this list.
678
679 === $wgSorbsUrl ===
680
681 The base hostname for the DNS-based proxy blacklist can now be overridden
682 when $wgEnableSorbs is set, to use a different blacklist instead of SORBS.
683 The blacklist would need to respond the same was as SORBS; any positive
684 response will be taken as a proxy.
685
686 === $wgAjaxWatch ===
687
688 Experimental AJAX mode for the watch/unwatch tabs to execute inline.
689 Does not include the UI messages describing how to reach the watchlist,
690 so you may not want it on a general-audience site just yet.
691
692 === $wgParserTestFiles ===
693
694 MediaWiki's parser test suite can now be expanded with additional test
695 files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and
696 they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php
697
698
699 == Changes since 1.7 ==
700
701 * Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy
702 * Changes to sajax_do_call: optionally accept an element to fill instead of a
703 callback function; take the target function or element as a third parameter;
704 pass the full XMLHttpRequest object to the handler function, instead of just
705 the resultText value; use HTTP response codes to report errors.
706 * (bug 6562) Removed unmaintained ParserXml.php for now
707 * History paging overlap bug fixed
708 * (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle
709 * Don't put empty-page message into view-source when page text is blank
710 * (bug 6587) Remove redundant "allnonarticles" message
711 * Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow
712 or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses. Prevent duplicate
713 blocks. Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting
714 multiple blocks. Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user
715 attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in
716 the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an
717 indexed pager.
718 * (bug 6448) Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username
719 * (bug 6618) Improve permissions/error detection in Special:Lockdb
720 * Quick hack for extension testing: parser test doesn't create new message
721 cache object.
722 * (bug 6299) Maintain parser's revision ID across recursive calls to fix
723 {{REVISIONID}} when Cite extension is used
724 * (bug 6622) Removed deprecated function Image::newFromTitle
725 * (bug 6627) Fix regression in Special:Ipblocklist with table prefix
726 * Removed forced dereferencements (new() returns a reference in PHP5)
727 * Note about $wgUploadSizeWarning using byte
728 * (bug 6592) Add most viewed pages summary to Special:Statistics
729 * Pre-strip characters ignored in IDNs from URLs so they can't be used
730 to break the blacklists for regular URLs
731 * Fix regression in blocking of user accounts
732 * (bug 6635) Fix regression searching for range blocks on Ipblocklist
733 * Fix regression searching Ipblocklist with ugly URLs
734 * (bug 6639) Use a consistent default for upload directories
735 * Preserve entered reason when reporting unconfirmed lock on Special:Lockdb
736 * (bug 6642) Don't offer to unlock the database when it isn't locked
737 * cleanupTitles.php changed from --dry-run option to --fix, so default
738 behavior is now a non-invasive check as with namespaceDupes.php
739 * (bug 6660) Fix behaviour of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does
740 not exist; now doesn't show the source box if the user hasn't provided it
741 (blocked mid-edit) and the page doesn't exist
742 * Improve default value of "blockedtext"
743 * (bug 6680) Added localisation for Dutch bookstore list (nl)
744 * Renamed maintainace script redundanttrans.php to unusedMessages.php - clearer usage
745 * Fix regression which allowed some blocked users to create additional accounts
746 * (bug 6657) Fix Hungarian linktrail
747 * (bug 6751) Fix preview of blanked section with edit on first preview option
748 * (bug 5456) Separate MediaWiki:Search into messages for both noun and verb,
749 introduced 'MediaWiki:Searchbutton'
750 * Made lines from initialiseMessages() appear as list items during installation
751 * Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the
752 Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files.
753 * Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core
754 modules.
755 * Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will
756 now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php
757 or another entry point.
758 * Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches.
759 * Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in
760 the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer
761 identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should
762 be transparent in most cases.
763 * Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects.
764 * Removed the broken altencoding feature.
765 * Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects
766 are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles,
767 via a slightly different interface.
768 * Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless
769 $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled.
770 * Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php.
771 * Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is
772 now consistently done from Language::factory().
773 * Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the
774 profiler during maintenance scripts.
775 * Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form.
776 * Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace
777 * Fix regression in ordering of namespaces
778 * (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name,
779 page title, etc.
780 * hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body
781 by all skins.
782 * Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the
783 framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box.
784 * Added experimental installer for extensions.
785 See maintenance/installExtension.php
786 * Added Tajic (tg) language file.
787 * (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue)
788 * Fix regression in Korean and Japanese date formatting (day of week)
789 * (bug 6919) Add English alias magic words for Tatar (tt) language file.
790 * (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk)
791 * (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php
792 * (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch
793 * Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and
794 OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead.
795 * Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper -
796 use User::isAllowed instead.
797 * (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission
798 * (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view
799 * Revamped Special:Imagelist
800 * (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php
801 * (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export
802 * (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting
803 point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit.
804 * Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip
805 * (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms
806 * (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly
807 * (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order
808 * (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success
809 * (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user
810 has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page
811 * Added {{CURRENTHOUR}}
812 * Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table
813 * Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import
814 * (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message
815 * (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages
816 * (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions
817 * Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update
818 default message text
819 * Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php
820 Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate
821 * (bug 832) Return to user page after emailing a user
822 * (bug 366) Add local-system-timezone equivalents for date/time variables
823 * (bug 7109) Fix Atom feed version number in header links
824 * (bug 7075) List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version
825 * (bug 7059) Introduce "anchorencode" colon function
826 * Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable
827 * Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list
828 * (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows
829 * (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip
830 * [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number
831 of disambiguation templates.
832 * [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed
833 any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]].
834 * Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete
835 * (bug 7026) Fix action=raw&templates=expand
836 * (bug 6976) Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins
837 * (bug 7144) Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't
838 read the main page in the first place
839 * (bug 7188) Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm
840 * (bug 6675) Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload in Special:Upload
841 * Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the
842 format for WSR-1 SisterSites support
843 * (bug 7223) Monobook.js is used for site content, should not be localized
844 * Set default disabled values for DjVu render options
845 * Added Xml::option() for generating <option>s easily
846 * Localized page numbers in drop-down for DjVu page selection
847 * Fixed linktrail for vi
848 * (bug 6893) "Call to a member function exists() on a non-object" on trackback.php with bad input
849 * (bug 6886) PHP undefined offset on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
850 * (bug 6887) PHP error for call to getId() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
851 * (bug 6888) PHP error for call to getTimestamp() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
852 * (bug 7252) Use dvipng support in texvc math rastrization. dvipng is required if texvc is rebuilt.
853 * (bug 7279) Use wfBaseName in place of basename() in more places
854 * Clear newtalk marker on diff links with explicit current revision number
855 * (bug 7064) Replace hard-coded empty message checks with wfEmptyMsg calls
856 * (bug 6777) Remove some PHP 4 compat cruft
857 * Add --user, --comment, and --license options to importImages.php
858 * (bug 6216) The immobile namespace message does not mention the source page
859 * (bug 7299) Normalize username filter on Special:Newpages
860 * (bug 7306) RTL text in an LTR wiki breaks appearance of Special:Recentchanges
861 * (bug 7312) Don't emit SET NAMES utf8 if connection failed
862 * (bug 7305) Proper compare for bot check on RC notify, should fix overrides
863 that force edits by non-bot users to bot mode
864 * Set Vary: Cookie on action=raw generated CSS and JS, to ensure that user
865 preferences don't get stuck in proxy caches for other people
866 * (bug 7324) Fix error message for failure of Database::sourceFile()
867 * (bug 7309) Plurals: use singular form for zero in French and Brazilian Portuguese
868 * Add page_no_title_convert field to support language variant conversion
869 for page titles which shouldn't be converted on display/linking
870 * Lazy extraction of text chunks in Revision objects, may reduce hits to
871 external storage when actual text content is not used
872 * Added experimental $wgRevisionCacheExpiry to cache extracted revision text
873 in $wgMemc, to further reduce hits to external storage.
874 Set to 0 (disabled) by default.
875 * Minor changes to the installer.
876 * Remove ":" for 'youremail' and 'yourrealname' in includes/templates/Userlogin.php
877 so that ":" could be used in i18n for Special:Preferences (like 'username' and 'uid').
878 * Fix layout for Special:Preferences->Date and Time (position for 'timezonetext').
879 * Updates to language variant code for Serbian et al
880 * (bug 6756) Enabling RTL direction for kk-cn
881 * (bug 6701) Kazakh language variants in MessagesEn.php
882 * (bug 7335) SVN revision check in Special:Version fails on SVN 1.4 working copy
883 * (bug 6518) Replaced 'lastmodified' with 'lastmodifiedat' and 'lastmodifiedby' with 'lastmodifiedatby'
884 with seperated parameters for date and time to allow better localisation. Updated all message files
885 to display the old format for compatibility.
886 * (bug 7357) Make supposedly static methods of Skin actually static
887 * Added info text to Special:Deadendpages and Special:Lonelypages
888 * Fix regression in cachability of generated CSS and JS for MonoBook skin,
889 while avoiding clobbering of different users' cached data
890 * (bug 6849) Block @ from usernames; interferes with multi-database tools and
891 was meant to be banned years ago... For now existing accounts will not be
892 prevented fromm login.
893 * (bug 6092) Introduce magic words {{REVISIONDAY}}, {{REVISIONDAY2}, {{REVISIONMONTH}},
894 {{REVISIONYEAR}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
895 * (bug 7425) Preceeding whitespace in [[...]] breaks subpages
896 * Try to reconnect after transitory database errors in dumpTextPass.php
897 * (bug 6023) Fixed mismatch of 0/NULL for wl_notificationtimestamp; now notification
898 mails are working after 'Mark all pages visited' button on Special:Watchlist is clicked
899 * Made {{INT:}} a core parser function instead of a special case. The syntax
900 and behaviour is largely unchanged.
901 * (bug 7448) Fixing the native name for Ewe (ee)
902 * (bug 6864) Replace message 'editing' with new message 'editinguser' in Special:Userrights
903 to allow better localisation
904 * Add '*-summary' for special pages to MessagesEn.php to allow customizing/translation
905 directly through Special:Allmessages
906 * (bug 6130, bug 5818) Replaced message 'go' with the new message 'searcharticle' in skins
907 to allow better localisation
908 * Add + to $wgLegalTitleChars by default. Some sites may have occasional
909 problems with hard-to-reach pages, but it should be less trouble than
910 "I can't import dumps from Wikipedia" complaints
911 * (bug 7460) Revert broken patch for bug 7226 which slows down
912 Special:Allmessages by a factor of 16
913 * Committed a bunch of live hacks from Wikimedia servers
914 * (bug 6889) PHP notices in thumb.php with missing params
915 * Cleaner error behavior on thumb.php with invalid page selection
916 * (bug 6617) Validate timestamps on Special:Undelete
917 * Do fewer unnecessary full writes of user rows; only update user_touched
918 for watch/unwatch, group membership change, and login operations
919 * Restructured the languages directory, to avoid problems when people
920 untar MW 1.8 over the top of a 1.7 installation.
921 * (bug 6890) SQL query error on bad input to Pager lists
922 due to negative LIMIT clause, caused by integer wraparound.
923 * Fixed various bugs related to table prefixes, especially the interaction
924 between table prefixes and memcached, which was formerly completely broken.
925 * (bug 7004) PHP iconv() notice on bad password input to Special:Userlogin.
926 * (bug 6826) Extend pre-save transform context link ("pipe trick")
927 syntax to pages with commas in title
928 * Use ImageMagick -thumbnail option instead of -resize to avoid including
929 excessive metadata in thumbs (requires ImageMagick 6.0.0 or newer).
930 * (bug 7499) Corrections to Swedish talk namespace names
931 * (bug 7508) Added option to compress HTML pages by dumpHTML.php
932 * (bug 7519) Add plural in SpecialWatchlist
933 * (bug 7459) Magic word variables are always case sensitive
934 * Replaced {{SERVER}}{{localurl:xxx}} with {{fullurl:xxx}} in localisation files
935 * Fix regression in Special:Watchlist text header
936 * (bug 7510) Update article counts etc on undelete
937 * (bug 7520) Update article counts on XML import
938 * (bug 7526) Make $wgDefaultUserOptions work again
939 * (bug 7472) Localize Help namespace for Basque
940 * (bug 7529) Including a non-existent category in an article places that article in the category
941 * (bug 4528) Lack of important LaTeX functions stackrel, rightleftharpoon
942 * (bug 6721) missing symbols ulcorner, urcorner, llcorner, lrcorner, twoheadrightarrow, twoheadleftarrow
943 * (bug 7367) Hyphens sometimes erroneously appended to equations when not converted to PNG
944 * Add "title" to the opensearch link to allow automatic adding of the search engine in Firefox 2
945 * (bug 7537) Add php5 to $wgFileBlacklist
946 * (bug 6929) Restore AutoAuthenticate hook
947
948
949 == Changes since 1.6 ==
950
951 * (bug 5458) Fix double-URL encoding in block log link in contribs and contribs
952 link in block log
953 * (bug 5462) Bogus missing patch warning in updater
954 * (bug 5461) Use of deprecated "showhideminor" in Special:Recentchangeslinked
955 * PHP warning when allow_call_time_pass_reference is off
956 * Update to Finnish localization
957 * (bug 5467) Link to page histories in watchlist edit mode
958 * Further additions to Hebrew localisation
959 * (bug 5476) Invalid xhtml in German localization
960 * (bug 5479) Id translation for preferences tabs caption
961 * (bug 5493) Id translation for special pages
962 * Added skinname and style path parameters to CBT version of MonoBook
963 * Include subversion revision number in Special:Version if available
964 * (bug 5344) Fix regression that broke slashes in extension tag parameters
965 * Improve Special:Log performance on big log sets
966 * (bug 5507) Changed mediawiki:logouttext from plain to wikitext
967 * (bug 4760) Prevent creation of entries in protection log when protection
968 levels haven't changed
969 * (bug 861) Show page protection/unprotection events in histories
970 * (bug 5499) Don't clear the tag strip state when asked not to clear state.
971 Fixes regression with use of <ref> in a template breaking <nowiki> etc.
972 * Minor improvements to English language files
973 * Display the anon talk page info message on anon talk pages again
974 (moved outside the parser cache)
975 * Optional {{DISPLAYTITLE|title with markup}} magic word
976 Deactivated by default, set "$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true" in LocalSettings.php
977 to activate
978 * Cleaned SpecialContributions a bit
979 * Added a table to track interlanguage links
980 * (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left
981 languages
982 * Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the
983 appropriate arrow
984 * (bug 5537) Add stub language file for Samogitian (bat-smg); inherits
985 Lithuanian (lt)
986 * Don't force edit summaries when a user is editing their own user/talk page
987 * (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces
988 * (bug 385) Installer support for PostgreSQL, fixes for PG compatibility
989 * PersistentObject removed; it doesn't do anything and was broken besides.
990 All extensions using it have been corrected.
991 * Propagate ISBN number for Booksources in LanguageNo.php
992 * (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin]
993 * Add TALKSPACE, SUBJECTSPACE, TALKPAGENAME, SUBJECTPAGENAME (and encoded forms
994 for all) magic words
995 * (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds
996 * Reject malformed addresses in X-Forwarded-For entries
997 * (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload
998 * (bug 5559) Improve detection of ImageMagick [patch: Greg Turnquist]
999 * (bug 5475) New pages feeds ignore "limit" argument
1000 * (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to
1001 conflicting anchor identifiers
1002 * (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default.
1003 * Maintenance script to import the contents of a text file into a wiki page
1004 * Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use
1005 * (bug 5576) Remove debugging hack in session check
1006 * (bug 5426) Lowercase treatment of titles in rights log leads to broken links
1007 on Special:Log
1008 * Minor improvements to French localisation files
1009 * (bug 5181) Update "nogomatch" for Slovak
1010 * (bug 5594) Id translation up to # Login and logout pages section
1011 * (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link
1012 * Improvements to German localisation files
1013 * (bug 5570) Problems using <special page>/parameter link form for long titles
1014 * (bug 3884) Add $user parameter to AddNewUser hook, call it for by-email
1015 registrations as well as self-registrations.
1016 * (bug 4327) Report age of cached data sets in query pages
1017 * (bug 4662) Fix Safari check in wikibits.js
1018 * (bug 4663) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Safari
1019 * (bug 5572) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Konqueror (3.5+)
1020 * (bug 5235) Edit toolbar tooltips no longer show JavaScript junk in Opera
1021 * Edit toolbar now works in pure XHTML mode (application/xhtml+xml)
1022 * Add watchlist clear function to allow quick purging of all items
1023 * (bug 5625) Additional namespace translations for Welsh
1024 * Add meta tag and JavaScript variables to cached special pages which provides
1025 the timestamp of the last update, in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.
1026 * (bug 5628) More translations for MessagesHr.php
1027 * (bug 5595) Localisation for Bosnian language (bs)
1028 * (bug 2910) Default view preferences for watchlists
1029 * Add "hide bot edits from the watchlist" user preference
1030 * (bug 5250) Introduce Special:Unusedtemplates
1031 * Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent
1032 edits up to a certain edit, and not just the latest edit..
1033 * Made MessageRo.php more general
1034 * (bug 5640) Indonesian localisation improvements
1035 * (bug 5592) Actions are logged with the default language for the
1036 wiki, not the language of the user performing the operation.
1037 * (bug 5644) Error in LanguageBs.php file
1038 * (bug 5646) Compare for identical types in wfElement()
1039 * (bug 5472) Language::userAdjust()->minDiff not initialized on else condition
1040 * (bug 5386) LanguageMk.php: updated namespaces translations
1041 * (bug 5422) Stub for Romani (rmy) language which extends ro
1042 * Fix linktrail for LanguageSr
1043 * (bug 5664) Fix Bosnian linktrail
1044 * (bug 3825) Namespace filtering on Special:Newpages
1045 * (bug 1922) When Special:Wantedpages is cached, mark links to pages
1046 which have since been created
1047 * (bug 5659) Change grammar hacks for Bosnian Wikimedia namespaces.
1048 This sort of special casing should be removed and fixed properly.
1049 * Remove useless whitespace from Special:Brokenredirects header
1050 * Treat "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" as wikitext when echoing; change default
1051 text
1052 * (bug 5497) Regression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>)
1053 * (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories
1054 * (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect
1055 * (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in
1056 read-only pages
1057 * Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface")
1058 * (bug 4259) Indicate when a protected page being edited is an interface message
1059 ("editinginterface")
1060 * (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel
1061 * Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter
1062 * (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache
1063 miss
1064 * Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages
1065 * Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser
1066 credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if
1067 the connection fails
1068 * (bug 5005) Fix XHTML <gallery> output.
1069 * (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date).
1070 * (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation
1071 * Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories
1072 * (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals
1073 * (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files
1074 * (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word
1075 * (bug 93) <nowiki> tags and tildes in templates
1076 * The returnto parameter is now actually used by SpecialUserlogin.php
1077 * Parser can now know that it is parsing an interface message
1078 * (bug 4737) MediaWiki:Viewcount supports {{PLURAL}} now
1079 * Fix bug in wfMsgExt under PHP 5.1.2
1080 * (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv
1081 * Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to
1082 recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes
1083 * Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles
1084 * (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously
1085 deleted
1086 * (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages
1087 * "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language
1088 * (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated
1089 * (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers
1090 * (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page
1091 * (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user
1092 * (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters
1093 * Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup
1094 * (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title
1095 * (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags
1096 * Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}}
1097 will produce a count minus formatting
1098 * Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an
1099 appropriate output format given the scope of the clean
1100 * (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log"
1101 * Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for
1102 user rights
1103 * (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL
1104 * (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted"
1105 * (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time
1106 formatted according to the current user's settings
1107 * (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian
1108 * Updated initStats maintenance script
1109 * (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale
1110 * (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are.
1111 * (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to
1112 show up on specific pages on demand
1113 * Bidi-aid on list pages
1114 * (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names
1115 * (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext
1116 * Sanitizer: now handles nested <li> in <ul> or <ol>
1117 * (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14
1118 * Add 'EmailConfirmed' hook
1119 * New findhooks.php script to find undocumented hooks.
1120 * Silently ignore errors on profiling table update.
1121 * (bug 5801) Correct handling of underscores in Special:Listusers
1122 * Clean up Special:Listusers; add an "(all)" label to the group selection box
1123 * (bug 5812) Use appropriate link colour in Special:Mostlinked
1124 * (bug 5802) {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} variable broken in Vietnamese locale
1125 * (bug 5817) Appropriate handling for Special:Recentchangeslinked where the target
1126 page doesn't exist
1127 * Special:Randompage now additionally accepts English namespace name as parameter
1128 * (bug 2981) Really fixed linktrail for Tamil (ta)
1129 * Disallow substituting Special pages when included into a page
1130 * (bug 5587) Clean up the languages from references to the Groups special page
1131 * Added new group-X and group-X-member messages
1132 * Rewritten removeUnusedAccounts to be more efficient, print names of inactive
1133 accounts
1134 * Redirect Special:Userlist to Special:Listusers
1135 * Introduce $wgAllowTitlesInSVG, which allows the <title> attribute in uploaded files
1136 bearing the image/svg MIME type. Disabled by default due to the vast majority of
1137 web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details.
1138 * Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it
1139 * (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories,
1140 Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories.
1141 * (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages
1142 * Clean up Special:Undelete a bit
1143 * (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}}
1144 * Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit
1145 * (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL
1146 * (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files
1147 * (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show
1148 * (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users
1149 * (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
1150 * (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name
1151 * (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message
1152 * (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers
1153 * (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de)
1154 * (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru)
1155 * (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id)
1156 * (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs)
1157 * Added many missing formatNum calls
1158 * Added grammar function to Belarusian (be)
1159 * (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook
1160 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be)
1161 * (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
1162 * (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links
1163 * (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id)
1164 * (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms)
1165 * (bug 5890) Update for German language (de)
1166 * (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي
1167 * --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension
1168 * (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl)
1169 * (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl)
1170 * User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in
1171 v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8
1172 * dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the
1173 previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump.
1174 * dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched
1175 * dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch
1176 * (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
1177 * (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de)
1178 * (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs)
1179 * Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with
1180 $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups
1181 * (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages
1182 * (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl)
1183 * Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages
1184 * Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word
1185 * (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word
1186 * (bug 5370) Allow throttling of password reminder requests with the rate limiter
1187 * (bug 5683) Respect parser output marked as uncacheable when saving
1188 * (bug 5918) Links autonumbering now work for all defined protocols
1189 * (bug 5935) Improvement to German localisation (de)
1190 * (bug 5937) Register links from gallery captions with the parent parser output
1191 object so that link tables receive those updates too
1192 * (bug 5845) Introduce BASEPAGENAME and BASEPAGENAMEE magic words
1193 * (bug 5941) Use content language when getting the administrator page title for
1194 Special:Statistics
1195 * (bug 5949) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
1196 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian translation (be)
1197 * (bug 5950) Improvements to French localisation
1198 * (bug 5805) {{plural:}} support for counters in some special pages
1199 * (bug 5952) Improvement to German localisation (de)
1200 * Rename conflicting metadata help message to "metadata_help" (was "metadata")
1201 and treat it as wiki text
1202 * Improve preferences input filtering
1203 * Maintenance script to import multiple files into the wiki
1204 * (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he)
1205 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
1206 * (bug 5961) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
1207 * (bug 5849) Remove some hard-coded references to "Wikipedia" in messages
1208 * (bug 5967) Improvement to German localisation (de)
1209 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
1210 * Suppress images in galleries which appear on the bad image list (when rendering
1211 for a wiki page; galleries in special pages and categories are unaffected)
1212 * Maintenance script to remove orphaned revisions from the database
1213 * (bug 5991) Update for Russian language (ru)
1214 * (bug 6001) PAGENAMEE and FULLPAGENAMEE don't work in FULLURL and LOCALURL magic
1215 words
1216 * (bug 5958) Switch Uzbek language name to use latin script
1217 * (bug 839) Add URLENCODE magic word
1218 * (bug 6004) Update for Polish language (pl)
1219 * (bug 5971) Improvement to German localisation (de)
1220 * (bug 4873) Don't overwrite the subtitle navigation when viewing a redirect page
1221 that isn't current
1222 * (bug 2203) Namespace updates for Thai
1223 * Fix breakage in parser test suite which caused incorrect reporting of the failure of
1224 {{NUMBEROFFILES}}. Now initialises the site_stats table with some dumb data. Updated
1225 the expected output for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to reflect this.
1226 * (bug 6009) Use {{ns:project}} in messages where appropriate
1227 * (bug 6012) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
1228 * (bug 6017) Update list of bookstores in German localisation files
1229 * (bug 5187) Allow programmatically bypassing username validation, for scripts
1230 * (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected
1231 * (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this"
1232 * (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified')
1233 * (bug 2015) Add "\sim" to ~ conversion for HTML rendering
1234 * (bug 6029) Improvement to German localisation (de)
1235 * (bug 5015) Update be: magic words
1236 * (bug 3974) Add parameter for site URL to "passwordremindertext"
1237 * (bug 6039) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
1238 * (bug 764) Add CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES to default database permissions
1239 * Big update to Swedish localisation (sv)
1240 * Use appropriate HTML functions to create the tool links on image pages, so they don't
1241 look garbled when tidy isn't on
1242 * (bug 5511) Fix URL-encoding of usernames in links on Special:Ipblocklist
1243 * (bug 6046) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #15
1244 * (bug 5523) $wgNoFollowNsExceptions to allow disabling rel="nofollow" in
1245 specially-selected namespaces.
1246 * (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick Jenkins)
1247 * Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better
1248 handle some overlapping tag cases.
1249 * Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC
1250 * (bug 4610) Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark
1251 changes as patrolled using the diff links there
1252 * Add 'DiffViewHeader' hook called before diff page output
1253 * (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de)
1254 * (bug 6054) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #16
1255 * Add {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} magic word
1256 * (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms
1257 * (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics.
1258 * (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs
1259 * To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays
1260 can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is
1261 no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a
1262 custom log type.
1263 * (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages)
1264 * Added $wgGrammarForms global
1265 * Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries.
1266 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
1267 * (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate()
1268 * wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages
1269 * Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group
1270 * wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code
1271 * Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed.
1272 Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways.
1273 * (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language
1274 * Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when
1275 adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs.
1276 * Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory.
1277 * (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an)
1278 * (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru)
1279 * Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering
1280 problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages
1281 making it into cached display.
1282 * (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink")
1283 * (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded
1284 character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg
1285 &#61; when making URLs for template parameters.
1286 * Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness
1287 under HTML-compatible browsers.
1288 * (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage
1289 * Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext'
1290 * (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history
1291 * Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed
1292 * Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs
1293 * (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization
1294 * (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs.
1295 * Add APC as object caching option
1296 * Update to Albanian localization (sq)
1297 * (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias)
1298 * Use optimized php5-only microtime()
1299 * Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script
1300 * Fix profiling table definition
1301 * (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a
1302 "show changes" operation in the editor
1303 * (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins
1304 * Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php
1305 * Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer
1306 * (bug 6133) Update strip state as we work. This mostly fixes extensions
1307 used in Cite.php <ref> tags when Tidy is on.
1308 * (bug 6139) Workaround for transclusion oddities in Vietnamese upload text
1309 * (bug 6136) Update to Catalan language (ca)
1310 * Update to Japanese localization (ja)
1311 * Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer
1312 * (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17
1313 * (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views
1314 * (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page
1315 * (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word
1316 * Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles
1317 * (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language
1318 message contains '-'; fixes licenses selector on Commons configuration after
1319 recent addition of the message to Messages.php
1320 * (bug 5527) Batch up job queue insertions for, hopefully, better survivability
1321 of lock contention etc. Duplicates are now removed at pop time instead of
1322 at insert time.
1323 * When showing the "blah has been undeleted" page, make sure it's a blue link
1324 * parserTests.php accepts a --file parameter to run an alternate test sutie
1325 * parser tests can now test extensions using !!hooks sections
1326 * Fix oddity with open tag parameters getting stuck on </li>
1327 * (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension
1328 * Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more
1329 consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the
1330 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to
1331 further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise
1332 expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences
1333 in behavior based on the order tags are loaded.
1334 * (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags
1335 * Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags
1336 * (bug 6164) Fix regression with <gallery> resetting <ref> state
1337 * Hackaround for IE 7 wrapping bug in MonoBook footer
1338 * New message sp-newimages-showfrom replaces rclistfrom on special:newimages
1339 * Improve handling of ;: definition list construct with overlapping or
1340 nested HTML tags
1341 * (bug 6171) Fix sanitizing of HTML-elements with an optional closing
1342 tag. The sanitizer still needs to learn how to make well-formed XML
1343 in this case.
1344 * Fix fatal error when specifying illegal name for manual thumbnail
1345 * (bug 6184) Use shinier Linker::userLink() to make user links in
1346 Special:Undelete
1347 * (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb)
1348 * (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18
1349 * (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa)
1350 * Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a
1351 per-namespace basis.
1352 * Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being
1353 interspersed into your ordered lists.
1354 * (bug 5021) Transcluding the same special page twice now works
1355 * Add 'SiteNoticeBefore' and 'SiteNoticeAfter' hooks
1356 * (bug 6182) Date passed in "sp-newimages-showfrom" not adjusted to user time
1357 preferences
1358 * (bug 2587) Fix for section editing with comment prefix
1359 * (bug 2607) Fix for section editing with mix of wiki and HTML headings
1360 * (bug 3342) Fix for section editing with headings wrapped in <noinclude>
1361 * (bug 3476) Fix for section editing with faux headings in extensions
1362 * (bug 5272) Fix for section editing with HTML-heading subsections
1363 * Fix for bogus wiki headings improperly detected with following text
1364 * Fix for HTML headings improperly not detected with preceding/following text
1365 * Section extraction and replacement functions merged into one implementation
1366 on the Parser object, so they can't get out of sync with each other.
1367 * Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc
1368 * (bug 6197) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #19
1369 * (bug 6175) Improvement to German translation (de)
1370 * Redirect Special:Logs to Special:Log
1371 * (bug 6206) Linktrail for Swedish localization (se)
1372 * (bug 3202) Attributes now allowed on <pre> tags
1373 * Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes now available to discard illegal/unsafe
1374 attribute values from an array.
1375 * (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement
1376 to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype
1377 (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and
1378 could even result in invalid output from valid input.
1379 * (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default
1380 meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of
1381 robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt
1382 doesn't forbid access.
1383 * Regression fix: suppress warning about session failure when clicking to
1384 edit with 'preview on first edit' enabled.
1385 * (bug 6230) Regression fix: <nowiki> in [URL link text]
1386 * Added AutoLoader.php, which loads classes without need of require_once()
1387 * (bug 5981) Add plural function Slovenian (sl)
1388 * (bug 5945) Introduce {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word
1389 * {{PLURAL}} can now take up to five forms
1390 * (bug 6243) Fix email for usernames containing dots when using PEAR::Mail
1391 * Remove a number of needless {{ns:project}}-type transforms from messages files. These
1392 usages already have separate label text. Such transforms are wasteful on each page view.
1393 * Update to Yiddish localization (yi)
1394 * (bug 6254) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #20
1395 * (bug 6255) Fix transclusions starting with "#" or "*" in HTML attributes
1396 * Whitespace now normalized more or less properly in HTML attributes
1397 * Fix regression(?) in behavior of initial-whitespace-pre in <center>
1398 * (bug 6260) Update to Interlingua localization (ia)
1399 * Update to Vlax Romany localization (rmy)
1400 * Update to Latin translation (la)
1401 * Update to Dutch translation (nl)
1402 * Avoid some notices in page history with bad input
1403 * Use double quoted consistently on attributes in linker output; preparing
1404 for new normalization code when tidy not in use
1405 * Replace "nogomatch" with "noexactmatch" and place the magic colon in the messages
1406 themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content.
1407 * Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other
1408 than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics.
1409 * (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word
1410 * Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default.
1411 * (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags.
1412 * Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this
1413 could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong.
1414 * Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile;
1415 it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html".
1416 * (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl)
1417 * (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
1418 * (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21
1419 * Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information
1420 * (bug 4054) Add "boteditletter" to recent changes flags
1421 * Update to Catalan localization (ca)
1422 * (bug 2099) Deleted image files can now be archived and undeleted.
1423 Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in
1424 $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory']
1425 * (bug 6324) Fix regression in enhanced RC alignment
1426 * Introduce {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} magic word
1427 * Update to Slovak translation (sk)
1428 * Update to Alemannic localization (gsw)
1429 * (bug 6300) Bug fixes for sr: variants
1430 * namespaceDupes.php can now accept an arbitrary prefix, for checking rogue
1431 interwikis and such. Not yet fully automated.
1432 * (bug 6344) Add Special:Uncategorizedimages page
1433 * (bug 6357) Update to Russian translation (ru)
1434 * Workaround possible bug in Firefox nightlies by properly removing the
1435 Content-Encoding header instead of sending explicit 'identity' value
1436 in StreamFile
1437 * (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages
1438 * Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display
1439 * (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message
1440 * (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account
1441 * (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links
1442 * Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
1443 * (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22
1444 * (bug 6279) Add genitive month names to Slovenian localisation
1445 * (bug 6351) Update to German translation (de)
1446 * Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects
1447 * Remove unused "validation" table definitions from the schema files
1448 * (bug 6398) Work around apparent PCRE bug breaking section editing when
1449 massively-indented preformatted text immediately followed a header
1450 * (bug 6392) Fix misbehaving <br /> in preferences form
1451 * Add translated magic words to Hebrew localization
1452 * (bug 6396) Change name for Chuvash language
1453 * Introduce optional (off by default) language selector bar for user login
1454 and registration. Customisable via the "loginlanguagelinks" message, the
1455 links will preserve "returnto" values. If the user creates an account while
1456 using such a link, then the language in use will be saved as their language
1457 preference.
1458 * Make sure '~~~' '~~~~' '~~~~~' are removed in Nickname preference.
1459 * Rename "ipusuccess" to "unblocked", change the format (now wiki text)
1460 * (bug 2316) Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag
1461 * Allow setting the skin object that ImageGallery will use; needed during parse
1462 operations (the skin must come from the ParserOptions, not $wgUser)
1463 * Fix notice in MacBinary detection debug data for files of certain lengths
1464 * (bug 6131) Add type detection for DjVu files, allowing them to be uploaded
1465 with validity checking and size detection. No inline thumbnailing yet,
1466 but could be added in the future.
1467 * (bug 6423) Don't update newtalk flag if page content didn't change (null edits
1468 were causing the newtalk flag to trigger inappropriately)
1469 * Parser functions are now set using magic words.
1470 * (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set
1471 * (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version
1472 if blocked during an edit
1473 * (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page,
1474 return blank content (as opposed to the message key)
1475 * Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css
1476 * (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export
1477 * (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories
1478 * Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off
1479 * (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23
1480 * Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow
1481 localizble extensions magic words.
1482 * Update to Romanian translation (ro)
1483 * Update to Esperanto translation (eo)
1484 * Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE
1485 if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error
1486 * (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook
1487 * Update to Piedmontese localization (pms)
1488 * dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2
1489 * (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import
1490 * (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import
1491 * (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events
1492 * Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import
1493 * Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request
1494 * Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming
1495 large numbers of history items.
1496 * Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export;
1497 pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from
1498 export when history is requested.
1499 * Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name
1500 * Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import
1501 * Update to Korean translation (ko)
1502 * Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist
1503 * (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex
1504 * Added Latvian localization (lv)
1505 * (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages
1506 * Update to Macedonian translation (mk)
1507 * Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created
1508 as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if
1509 we can move over them.
1510 * Show some error results in moveBatch.php
1511 * (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps
1512 * (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages
1513 * (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing
1514 * (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}}
1515 * (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin
1516 * (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages
1517 * Added formatnum magic word
1518 * Added Javanese localization (jv)
1519 * (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries
1520 * (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage
1521 * Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true
1522 * Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in
1523 the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields.
1524 Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a
1525 "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe
1526 in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes
1527 distinct.
1528 * (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set
1529 * (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete
1530 * (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24
1531 * Extension messages translation is now possible.
1532 * Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports.
1533 $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for
1534 Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc.
1535 * (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de)
1536 * (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page
1537 * (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar
1538 * (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation'
1539 * Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms
1540 * (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex
1541 more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input
1542 with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does.
1543 * (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation
1544 * New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'.
1545 * Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it
1546 * Introduce updateArticleCount maintenance script which uses a better check that
1547 reflects what Article::isCountable() tests for
1548 * Introduce 'BadImage' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
1549 * Add "searchsubtitleinvalid" message for searches that are not valid titles.
1550 * (bug 5962) Update to Italian localisation
1551 * (bug 6530) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #25
1552 * (bug 6523) Fix SVG issue in rebuildImages.php
1553 * (bug 6512) Link to page-specific logs on page histories
1554 * (bug 6504) Allow configuring session name with $wgSessionName
1555 * (bug 6185) Add standard user tool links to log page views
1556 * Update to Venetian translation (vec)
1557 * Update to Slovenian translation (sl)
1558 * Add standard user tool links to deleted revision list
1559 * Separate out EditPage's getContent bits from regular Article getContent.
1560 Cleans up read-only-mode warning on empty pages and neats up some code.
1561 * (bug 6565) Strict JavaScript writing
1562 * (bug 6570) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #26
1563 * Added Telugu translation (te)
1564 * Update to Catalan translation (ca)
1565 * (bug 6560) Avoid PHP notice when trimming ISBN whitespace
1566 * Added namespace translation to Kannada (ka)
1567 * (bug 6566) Improve input validation on timestamp conversion
1568 * Implicit group "emailconfirmed" for all users whose email addresses are confirmed
1569 * (bug 6577) Avoid multiline parser breakage on <pre> with newline in attribute
1570 * (bug 6771) Make old revisions of MediaWiki pages available with action=raw
1571
1572 == Changes since 1.5 ==
1573
1574 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
1575
1576 Code quality:
1577 * Use strval() to make sure we don't accidentally get null on bad revision
1578 text loads or other fields mucking up XML export output
1579 * Clean up duplicate code for selection of changeslist style
1580 * Correct blob caching to reduce redundant blob loads on backups
1581 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
1582 * Fixed possible infinite loop in formatComment
1583 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
1584 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
1585 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
1586 * Avoid numerous redundant latest-revision lookups in history
1587 * Require PHP 4.3.2 or higher strictly now.
1588 * Tweak infinite-template-handling loop for PHP 5.1.1 string handling change
1589 * Remove unused OutputPage::addCookie()
1590 * Fix for short_open_tag off again; please don't break this, guys
1591 * (bug 4507) Adjust FULLPAGENAMEE escaping to standard form
1592 * (bug 5302) Merge the two #p-search .pBody statements in monobook css.
1593
1594 Database:
1595 * Finally dropped MySQL 3.23.x support
1596 * Oracle support
1597 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
1598 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
1599 * (bug 3227) Fix SQL injection introduced in experimental code
1600 * Fix table prefix usage in Block::enumBlocks
1601 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
1602 * (bug 3506) Avoid MySQL error when Listusers returns no results
1603 * Skip update of disused 'rc_cur_time' field (todo: discard the field)
1604 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
1605 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
1606 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
1607 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
1608 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
1609 * Ability to set the table name for external storage servers
1610 * Update ipblocks table in MySQL 5 table defs
1611 * Removed FulltextStoplist.php, no longer used (was for MySQL 3.x workaround)
1612 * Added templatelinks table, to track template inclusions. User-visible effects
1613 will be:
1614 * (inclusion) tag for inclusions in Special:Whatlinkshere
1615 * More accurate list of used templates on the edit page
1616 * More reliable cache invalidation when templates outside the template
1617 namespace are changed
1618 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
1619 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
1620 * Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs
1621 * Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is
1622 to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed.
1623 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
1624
1625 Documentation:
1626 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
1627
1628 Hooks:
1629 (list not complete)
1630 * Move ArticleSave hook execution into Article insert/update functions,
1631 so they get called on non-EditPage actions that use these functions
1632 to create or update pages.
1633 * Added EditFilter hook, and output callback on EditPage::showEditForm()
1634 for a place to add in captcha-type extensions in the edit flow
1635 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
1636 * Fix for hook callbacks on objects containing no fields
1637 * Add a hook for additional user creation throttle / limiter extensions
1638 * Use $wgOut->parse() in wfGetSiteNotice() instead of creating a new parser
1639 instance. This allows use of extension hooks if required.
1640 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
1641 * Added 'PageRenderingHash' hook for changing the parser cache hash key
1642 from an extension that changes rendering based on nonstandard options.
1643 * Add 'GetInternalURL' hook to match the GetFullURL and GetLocalURL ones
1644 * (bug 4456) Add hook for marking article patrolled
1645 * Add UserRights hook, fires after a user's group memberships are changed
1646
1647 Images:
1648 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
1649 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
1650 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
1651 * Fix scaling of non-integer SVG unit sizes
1652 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small images on |thumb| without explicit size
1653 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
1654 large SVG images on image description page
1655 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
1656 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
1657 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
1658 * Added a limit to the size of image files which can be thumbnailed
1659 * (bug 3806) Gracefully fall back to client-side scaling on |thumb| image
1660 that passes $wgMaxImageArea
1661 * (bug 153) Adjust thumbnail size calculations to match consistently;
1662 patch by David Benbennick
1663 * (bug 4162) Add $wgThumbnailEpoch timestamp to force old thumbs to
1664 be rerendered on demand, sitewide
1665 * (bug 1850) Additional fixes so existing local and remote images
1666 get a blue link even if there's no local description page
1667 * Avoid FATAL ERROR when creating thumbnail of non-existing image
1668 * (bug 4207) Wrong image size when using 100x200px syntax to scale image up
1669 patch by David Benbennick
1670 * Don't delete thumbnails when refreshing exif metadata. This caused thumbs
1671 to vanish mysteriously from time to time for files that didn't have metadata.
1672 * (bug 4426) Add link to user_talk page on image pages
1673 * Support a custom convert command for thumbnailing. See DefaultSettings.php
1674 and the comments for $wgCustomConvertCommand, for more information.
1675 * UserCan hook now allows advisory return values, rather than mandatory ones.
1676
1677 Installer:
1678 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
1679 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
1680 * Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
1681 * (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
1682 patch by Rob Church
1683 * Improve installer
1684 * Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
1685 * Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
1686 permissions, if said user exists
1687 * Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields
1688 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
1689 * Add basic check for session support in PHP and die if not present
1690
1691 Maintenance:
1692 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert
1693 duplicate rows with the same id field)
1694 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
1695 different LocalSettings.php.
1696 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
1697 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
1698 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
1699 * Maintenance script to reassign edits from one user to another
1700 * Maintenance script to find and remove links to a given domain (cleanupSpam.php)
1701 * Fix --report interval option for dumpTextPass
1702
1703 i18n / Languages:
1704 * Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
1705 * (bug 3141) Partial support for Breton language (thanks Fulup).
1706 * Support for venitian language
1707 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
1708 * Finnish date format was hardcoded, now implemented properly
1709 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
1710 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
1711 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
1712 * (bug 3177) Estonian date formats not implemented in LanguageEt.php
1713 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
1714 * (bug 3271) Updated LanguageNn.php for HEAD
1715 * Experimental feature to allow translation of block expiry times
1716 Implementation only for Finnish currently
1717 * (bug 3304) Language file for Croatian (LanguageHr.php)
1718 * (bug 2143) Update Vietnamese interface
1719 * (bug 3063) Remove some hardcodings from Hebrew localisation
1720 * (bug 3408) Bulgarian formatNum corrected
1721 * (bug 1512) Disable x-code interp on Esperanto URLs for now, it does more
1722 harm than good under current system by breaking incoming URLs with "ux".
1723 (Editing is not affected, just URLs.)
1724 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
1725 * Fix language name for dv
1726 * (bug 3503) Update LanguageSq.php from sq.wikipedia.org messages
1727 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
1728 * (bug 3334) Namespace changes for Polish
1729 * (bug 3580) Change default Dutch language file to more neutral
1730 * (bug 3656) LanguageHr.php - added convertPlural
1731 * (bug 3414) LanguageBe.php - added convertPlural
1732 * (bug 3163) Full translation of LanguageBr
1733 * (bug 3617) Update for portuguese language (pt)
1734 * Namespaces hacks on LanguagePl
1735 * (bug 3682) LanguageSr.php - added convertPlural
1736 * (bug 3694) LanguageTr.php update
1737 * (bug 3711) Removed invisible unicode characters from LanguageHu
1738 * (bug 2981) Linktrail for Tamil (ta)
1739 * (bug 3722) Update of Arabic language (ar) Namespace changes
1740 * Removed hardcoded Norwegian (no) project namespaces
1741 * (bug 2324) image for redirects should be without text and oriented according to content language
1742 * (bug 3666) Don't spew PHP warnings in prefs on unrecognized site language
1743 * (bug 3817) Use localized date formats in preferences; 'no preference' option
1744 localizable as 'datedefault' message. Tweaked lots of languages files...
1745 * (bug 2721) Regression: Use European number separators for vi: wikis
1746 * (bug 3961) minor languageDe changes
1747 * (bug 1984) LanguageKo.php (Korean) update
1748 * (bug 3804) update of LanguageWa.php file
1749 * (bug 3886) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
1750 * (bug 4020) Update namespaces for ms
1751 * (bug 3922) bidi embedding overrides on category links
1752 * (bug 4061) Update of Slovene namespace names (LanguageSl.php)
1753 * (bug 4064) LanguageDe comma changes
1754 * (bug 3922) Further tweaks to bidi overrides in category list for old
1755 versions of Safari and Konqueror
1756 * Fix custom namespaces on wikis set for Portuguese
1757 * (bug 4153) Fix block length localizations in Greek
1758 * (bug 3844) ab: av: ba: ce: & kv: now inherit from LanguageRu.php
1759 ii: & za: now inherit from LanguageZn_cn.php
1760 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
1761 * (bug 4192) Remove silly 'The Free Encyclopedia' default sitesubtitle
1762 * Use content-lang for sitenotice
1763 * (bug 4233) Update LanguageJa.php
1764 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
1765 * (bug 4108, 4336) Remove trailing whitespace from various messages, which
1766 mucks up message updating to create dupe entries
1767 * (bug 4389) Fix math options on zh-hk and zh-tw (but not localized)
1768 * (bug 4392) Update of LanguageSr.php
1769 * (bug 4382) Frisian numeric format
1770 * (bug 4424) Update for Spanish language (es) 100% messages translated
1771 * (bug 4425) Typos in Polish translation
1772 * (bug 4436) Update for Turkish language (tr)
1773 * (bug 4413) Update of Farsi language file (LanguageFa.php)
1774 * Update for LanguageSr (Serbian): magic words
1775 * (bug 137) MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning hardcoding
1776 * (bug 4457) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
1777 * convertPlural breakage fixed a little
1778 * (bug 4144) Support for Sudanese language (Basa Sunda)
1779 * Big cleanup:
1780 - Removed obsolote, badly or untranslated messages
1781 - Removed references to wikipedia/wikimedia etc in messages
1782 - Other cleanup, like removing html and javascript and extension calls
1783 - Removed hardcoded namespaces: Tt, Ms, Ia, Ga, Fo, Bn, Csb, He, Nv, Oc, Tlh
1784 - Removed some useless backwards compatibility hacks
1785 - Fixed formatnum on many languages
1786 * wgAmericanDates check produced incorrect results in languages that don't have
1787 a such distinction
1788 * (bug 4548) Update for Portuguese language (pt): time format
1789 * (bug 4530) Use consistent name for Kurdish
1790 * Tweak default "upload disabled" text
1791 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
1792 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
1793 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
1794 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
1795 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
1796 * (bug 4615) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
1797 * Separated MessagesSl.php as the other languages.
1798 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yiddish for compatibility
1799 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from MessagesUk.php
1800 * (bug 5015) Update magic words translation in LanguageBe.php
1801 * (bug 4859) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
1802 * (bug 4788) One string for MessagesPl
1803 * Restriction types now use restriction-* messages instead of ui messages
1804 * (bug 4685) Slovenian LanguageSl.php hardcodes project namespace
1805 * (bug 5097) Fix Hungarian language (hu): thousands separator
1806 * (bug 5098) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
1807 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
1808 * (bug 5105) Magic words for LanguageAr.php
1809 * (bug 3993) Variants for Serbian language
1810 * Typo in English messages file
1811 * (bug 4114) Spacing in watchlist rows (in editing mode)
1812 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
1813 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yi projects: Yiddish Wikinews fix
1814 * (bug 5357) Add the icon near the user name also in RTL interfaces
1815 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he)
1816 * (bug 4497,4704,5010) Added some new language codes.
1817 * (bug 5362) Piedmontese added
1818 * (bug 5349) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
1819 * (bug 3573) Finished full Greek translation: namespaces
1820 * (bug 5288) Initial localisation for Az
1821 * (bug 4361) Fix "allmessagesnotsupportedui" so it doesn't refer to nonexisting
1822 page
1823 * Tweak wording of "allmessagesnotsupporteddb"
1824
1825 Parser:
1826 * (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits
1827 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
1828 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
1829 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
1830 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
1831 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 5.1.0RC4
1832 * (bug 3797) Don't expand variables and sigs in comments
1833 * Allow parser cache on redirect targets
1834 * Run wikitext-escaping on plaintext sigs (no wiki markup, just name)
1835 * Check for unbalanced HTML tags on raw sigs (markup allowed, but show
1836 a warning in prefs and use default sig if not balanced)
1837 * Respect <noinclude> and <includeonly> during {{subst:}} expansion as well as
1838 ordinary templates.
1839 * Support <includeonly> in templates loaded through preload= parameter
1840 * (bug 3979) Save correct {{REVISIONID}} into parser cache on edit
1841 * Substitute {{REVISIONID}} correctly in diff display
1842 * (bug 1850) Allow red-links on image pages linked with [[:image:foo]]
1843 * Fix XML validity checks in parser tests on PHP 5.1
1844 * (bug 4377) "[" is not valid in URLs
1845 * (bug 4453) fix for __TOC__ dollar-number breakage
1846 * Convert unnecessary URL escape codes in external links to their equivalent
1847 character before doing anything with them. This prevents certain kinds of
1848 spam filter evasion.
1849 * (bug 4783) : Fix for "{{ns:0}} does not render"
1850 * Improved support for interwiki transclusion
1851 * (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed.
1852 * (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables
1853 * (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish
1854 * Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}}
1855 etc. Registered via an interface similar to tag hooks.
1856
1857 Upload:
1858 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
1859 * (bug 3076) Support MacBinary-encoded uploads from IE/Mac
1860 * (bug 2554) Tell users they are uploading too large file
1861 * Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses
1862 * Add 'reupload' and 'reupload-shared' permission keys to restrict new uploads
1863 overwriting existing files; default is the old behavior (allowed).
1864
1865 Security:
1866 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
1867 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
1868 * (bug 2613) Clear saved passwords from the form
1869 * IP privacy fix for blocklist search on autoblocks
1870 * Security fix for <math>
1871 * Security fix for tables
1872 * Security fix for Special:Upload license selection list
1873 * Add UploadVerification hook for custom file upload validation/security checks
1874 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
1875 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
1876 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
1877 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
1878 * Forbid usernames that can be interpreted as titles with namespaces, as that
1879 leads to hard-to-manage names.
1880 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
1881 * Add createpage and createtalk permission keys, allowing a quick
1882 switch to disable page creation for anonymous users.
1883 * (bug 675) Add page protection level for unregistered/new accounts
1884 * User::isNewbie now uses the registration date and $wgAutoconfirmAge
1885 * Add 'deletedhistory' permission key for ability to view deleted history
1886 list via Special:Undelete. Default is off, replicating the 1.5 behavior,
1887 but it can be turned back on for random users to replicate the previous
1888 1.6 dev behavior.
1889 * Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure
1890 * (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures
1891 * Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit
1892 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
1893 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
1894 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
1895 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
1896 * Blocked users can no longer roll back, change the protection of, or delete/undelete pages
1897 * Protect against spoofing of X-Forwarded-For header
1898 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input (fixed in 1.5rc3)
1899 * Remove deprecated $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol references; use User::isAllowed( 'patrol' )
1900 per bug 5282. Patch by Alan Harder.
1901 * Prevent registration/login with the username "MediaWiki default"
1902
1903 Special Pages:
1904 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
1905 title and reason input boxes
1906 * (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
1907 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
1908 * (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
1909 * Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting
1910 $wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
1911 * Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
1912 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
1913 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
1914 * (bug 2369) Add separate message for input box on Special:Prefixindex
1915 * (bug 3798) DoubleRedirects no longer has hard coded arrows
1916 * (bug 3803) Fix links on Special:Wantedcategories with miser mode off
1917 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
1918 * (bug 3807) Fix 'all' in namespaces drop-down on contribs, rc
1919 * Fail gracefully on invalid namespace in Special:Newpages
1920 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
1921 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
1922 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
1923 * (bug 4059) fix 'hide minor edits' on Recentchangeslinked
1924 * (bug 146) List number of category members in Special:Categories
1925 (patch by Joel Nothman)
1926 * (bug 4090) Fix diff links in Special:Recentchangeslinked
1927 * (bug 4093) '&bot=1' in Special:Contributions now propagate to other links
1928 * Fix display of old recentchanges records for page moves
1929 * (bug 360) Let Whatlinkshere track [[:image:foo]] links
1930 * (bug 3073) Keep search parameter on paging in Special:Newimages
1931 * Removed Special:Validate, it's been superseded by the Review extension
1932 * (bug 4359) red [[user:#id]] links generated in [[special:Log]]
1933 * (bug 1996) Special page to list redirects
1934 * (bug 4334) Add "watch" links to Special:Unwatchedpages
1935 * Generate target user page links in Special:Ipblocklist where appropriate
1936 (i.e. not an autoblock)
1937 * Generate link to talk page of the blocker in Special:Ipblocklist, move
1938 contribs. link of the target next to their name
1939 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
1940 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
1941 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
1942 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
1943 * Add block, block log and general log links to Special:Contributions
1944 * Add contributions link to block log items
1945 * Added optional "hide own edits" feature to Special:Recentchanges
1946 * (bug 5018) Anchors for each message in Special:Allmessages
1947 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
1948 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
1949 * (bug 4319) Don't show a "create account" link on the login form when
1950 account creation is disabled.
1951 * JavaScript filter for Special:Allmessages
1952 * (bug 3047) Don't mention talk pages on Special:Movepage when there isn't one
1953 * Show links to user page, talk page and contributions page on Special:Newpages
1954 * Special:Export can now export a list of all contributors to an article (off by default)
1955 * (bug 5372) Add number of files to Special:Statistics
1956 * (bug 2871) Links to talk pages in watchlist editing view
1957 * (bug 5385) Allow hiding anonymous edits on Special:Recentchanges
1958 * (bug 2544) Illogical error reporting order in Special:Userlogin
1959 * (bug 5409) Hide "show/hide patrolled edits" in Special:Recentchanges if patrolling
1960 is disabled
1961 * (bug 5447) Convert first letter of username to uppercase before searching in Special:Listusers
1962 * (bug 759) Wrap redirects on the watchlist editing page in a span, class "watchlistredir"
1963 * (bug 1862) Namespace filtering in watchlists
1964
1965 Misc.:
1966 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
1967 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
1968 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
1969 * (bug 2323) Remove "last" tabindex from history page
1970 * (bug 3116) Division by zero on [[Image:Foo.png|123x123px|]]
1971 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
1972 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
1973 as a proxy debugging aid
1974 * (bug 3170) Page Title failed to obey MediaWiki:Pagetitle.
1975 wikititlesuffix was removed
1976 * Add ability to break off certain debug topics into additional log files;
1977 use $wgDebugLogGroups to configure and wfDebugLog() to log.
1978 * Edit conflict on recreation of deleted page
1979 * (bug 3216) Don't show empty warning page when no warnings.
1980 * (bug 3218) Use proper quoting on history Compare Revisions button
1981 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage [for rc future]
1982 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
1983 * Remove "info" editing toolbar that was shown in browsers which do not
1984 fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
1985 * Don't override edit conflict suppression on section edits; section merging
1986 should provide the expected transparency here and fits usage patterns better.
1987 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
1988 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
1989 * Fix regressions in ChangesList traditional layout
1990 * Fix edit on double-click for move-protected pages in Classic skin
1991 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
1992 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
1993 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
1994 * Add options to dumpBackup.php for making split/partial dumps by page id
1995 * Added filter options, compression piping, and multiple output streams for
1996 dumpBackup.php
1997 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
1998 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
1999 * Added separate noarticletext and newarticletext messages for logged in and anon users.
2000 * (bug 3332) Installation now uses Monobook, validates, plus usability improvements.
2001 * (bug 3660) Update diff3 detection to work with Windows/Cygwin
2002 * (bug 2330) Don't do funny thinks with "links" in MediaWiki:Undeletedtext
2003 * Two-pass data dump for friendliness to the DB (--stub, then dumpTextPass.php)
2004 * Data dump 'prefetch' mode to read normalized text from a prior dump
2005 (requires PHP 5, XMLReader extension)
2006 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
2007 * (bug 2938) Update MediaWiki:Exporttext to be more general
2008 * Various fixes
2009 * Fix wfMsg*() replacements; args containing literal $[2-9] were wiped
2010 * Added @import for [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to all skins
2011 * Edit box now remembers scrollbar position on preview
2012 * (bug 3816) Throw edit conflict instead of fatal error when a page is
2013 moved or deleted during section edit
2014 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
2015 * (bug 3291) 'last' diff link for last history line when not at end
2016 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
2017 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
2018 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
2019 * (bug 3852) "Redirected from" link no longer obscured on double-redirects
2020 * changed directory hierarchy in images/math/. System upgrades from old to
2021 new hierarchy on the fly.
2022 * (bug 3487) Fix category edit preview with preview-on-bottom
2023 * (bug 918) Search index incorrectly joined words at == headings ==
2024 * (bug 3877) Render math images into temp directory, then move to hashed
2025 subdir so you can render new math images and have them work
2026 * (bug 2392) Fix Atom items content type, upgrade to Atom 1.0
2027 * Allow $wgFeedCacheTimeout of 0 to disable feed caching
2028 * Fix WebRequest::getRequestURL() to strip off the host bits squid prepends
2029 * Require POST for action=purge, to stop bots from purging the cache
2030 * Added local message cache feature ($wgLocalMessageCache), to reduce bandwidth
2031 requirements to the memcached server.
2032 * (bug 3562) for go search, try Caps-Variants-Broken-At-Non-Whitespace
2033 * (bug 2569) Use PATH_SEPARATOR instead of trying to guess based on
2034 DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (was wrong on NetWare)
2035 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
2036 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
2037 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
2038 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
2039 * (bug 3999) Change atom 1.0 feed id; had been unnecessarily complex due to
2040 unclear language in the spec. Now using the URL, same as the permalink,
2041 which someone else will probably whine about because it's not 'perma'
2042 enough or something.
2043 * (bug 4014) Fix include mode for Allpages on small page sets
2044 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
2045 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
2046 * Changed mail form to have a bigger message entry box (like for editing
2047 a page
2048 * Fix ulimit parameters for wfShellExec when memory_limit is specified in 'm'
2049 * (bug 2111) Collapsable exif metadata table, clean up display
2050 * Reduce fractions in display of exif exposure time
2051 * (bug 4048) Optional footer link to site privacy policy
2052 * Don't die() when update.php reaches the end of the warning count
2053 * (bug 1915) Fix edit links when 'direction' used with 'oldid';
2054 using revision ID reported via OutputPage; Skin::editUrlOptions()
2055 * Remove obsolete 'redirect=no' on some edit links
2056 * Include oldid for the second revision on edit link on diff view
2057 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
2058 * (bug 4100, 3049) Add 'edittools' message to hold edit tools, put it
2059 on Special:Upload as well as edit, rearrange edit page pieces a bit.
2060 Copyright warning now above the buttons to ensure it's visible,
2061 template list at the bottom so it can grow.
2062 * Optional summary parameter to action=rollback, for user javascript
2063 * (bug 4167) Fix regression caused by patch for bug 153
2064 * (bug 4169) Use $wgLegalTitleChars in pipe trick conversions
2065 * (bug 4170) Decode HTML character escapes in sort key
2066 * (bug 4201) Fix user-talk mode for Enotif, and general code cleanup
2067 * (bug 4214) Skip redundant action text inserts into the HTML <title>
2068 * (bug 4212) Skip redundant meta-robots tag for default settings
2069 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links in Nostalgia skin
2070 * (bug 1600) Trigger edit conflict on duplicate section=new submissions
2071 * (bug 4001) Use local variables properly in wikibits.js akeytt()
2072 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links on CSS/JS pages
2073 * (bug 3211) Include Date, To mail headers when using PEAR::Mail
2074 * (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification
2075 mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of
2076 a raw string to abstract things a level.
2077 * Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php
2078 * Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output
2079 sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension
2080 * (bug 349) Fix for some numeric differences not being highlighted
2081 patch by Andrius Ramanauskas
2082 * (bug 4298) Include rc_id on enhanced RC singleton diff links for patrolling
2083 * Did some refactoring on ChangesList.php merging dupe code
2084 * (bug 1586) Fix interwiki generator for wikimedia obscure domains
2085 * (bug 3493) Mark edits patrolled when they are reverted
2086 patch by Leon Planken
2087 * Removed experimental Amethyst skin from default set
2088 * Upgrade old skin preferences properly at Special:Preferences
2089 (used to spontaneously switch to Classic skin for old numeric pref records)
2090 * (bug 3424) Update page_touched for category members on category page creation
2091 * Log views show message when no matches
2092 * Fix raw sitenotice display on database error
2093 * Fix autoconfirm check for old accounts
2094 * (bug 4368) Don't show useless empty preview on new section creation
2095 * Don't show useless empty preview on new page creation
2096 * (bug 4411) Fix messages diff link for classic skin
2097 * (bug 4385) Separate parser cache entries for non-editing users, so section
2098 edit links don't vanish / appear unwanted on protected pages
2099 * (bug 2726, 3397) Fix [[Special:]] and [[:Image]] links in action=render
2100 * (bug 4419) Remove obsolete magnify.png.old
2101 * Removed $wgUseCategoryMagic option, categories are now enabled unconditionally
2102 * (bug 3318) UI workarounds for disabled items in license selector
2103 MSIE/Win: items now grayed out, JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked
2104 Safari: JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked (but not gray)
2105 MSIE/Mac: indented items now visible (JS hack)
2106 * (bug 714) "plainlinks" class issues in IE, Opera
2107 * (bug 4317) Inconsistent "broken redirects" messages
2108 * Default interface text for "selflinks" tweaked
2109 * (bug 3194) default implementation of translateBlockExpiry
2110 which uses ipboptions
2111 * (bug 4446) $wgExportAllowHistory option to explicitly disable history in
2112 Special:Export form, 'exportnohistory' message to translate live hack.
2113 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
2114 * (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links)
2115 * $wgParserCacheExpireTime added
2116 * Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed
2117 * Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source
2118 size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage.
2119 * Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects
2120 * Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage
2121 * Improve "upload disabled" notice
2122 * Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php
2123 and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object
2124 * (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output
2125 HTML on final output (cached or not)
2126 * Avoid PHP notice on command-line scripts if empty argument is passed ('')
2127 * (bug 4571) Partial fix hack for {{fulllurl:}} in action=render
2128 * (bug 3502) Bowtie symbol for TeX
2129 * (bug 4000) Support for \textstyle et al. in <math>
2130 * (bug 1663) support color in TeX formulas
2131 * (bug 2026) missing glue around \not= (TeX)
2132 * (bug 4576) Missing '>' broke license selector's first option in IE, Opera
2133 * Override $wgLocaltimezone in parser tests for us outside Iceland and UK
2134 * Fix extra whitespace at end of Wiki.php, DESTROYS XML OUTPUT
2135 * Remove redundant 'echo' statements from MonoBook.php
2136 * (bug 1103) Fix up redirect handling for images, categories
2137 Redirects are now followed from the top-level, outside of the Article
2138 content loading and viewing, for clarity and consistency.
2139 * (bug 4104) 'OutputPageBeforeHTML' hook to postprocess article HTML on
2140 page view (comes after parser cache, if used). Patch by ThomasV.
2141 * Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5
2142 if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy.
2143 * Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers.
2144 * Remove obsolete killthread.php
2145 * Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code
2146 to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error.
2147 * Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin
2148 for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell
2149 * Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs
2150 * Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks.
2151 Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5
2152 * (bug 4482) Include move comment on the null edit as well as the redirect
2153 * (bug 3990) Use existing session name if session.auto_start is on
2154 Fixes checks for open sessions, such as the cookie warning on login.
2155 Patch by Zbigniew Braniecki.
2156 * Add cache-safe alternate sitenotice for anonymous users. (MediaWiki:Anonnotice)
2157 This is displayed instead of the regular sitenotice, if it exists. If not, the
2158 regular sitenotice shows. If that doesn't exist, the value of $wgSiteNotice is used,
2159 and if that's null, then nothing is shown.
2160 * Spit the generated LocalSettings code out during the installer as an aid
2161 to debugging issues. (Keep this?)
2162 * Use __FILE__ to form path in new LocalSettings.php, so it stays accurate
2163 when the directory is relocated for typical usage.
2164 * Auto-update $wgCacheEpoch when LocalSettings.php changes on new installs.
2165 For typical usage this will be a light burden and should reduce confusion
2166 when the configuration is edited.
2167 * Fix $wgCacheEpoch's effect on client-side caching.
2168 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
2169 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
2170 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
2171 name attribute)
2172 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
2173 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
2174 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
2175 * Add ".deps.php" include-file preloaders for some dynamically-loaded
2176 language and skin classes. Should help with the broken base-class
2177 problem under PHP 5 with APC as opcode cache. See details:
2178 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033660.html
2179 * Small changes to tabs in Monobook skin c/o Chris Ware
2180 * (bug 4679) Work around buggy basename() function in PHP5, which breaks
2181 uploads of files starting with multibyte characters on Linux.
2182 wfBaseName() doesn't suffer this bug, and understands backslash on
2183 both Unix and Windows.
2184 * (bug 3603) headscripts variable not hooked up to MonoBook skin
2185 * Allow local cdb-based interwiki cache
2186 * Use the "block", not the "protect" permission, when determining whether to
2187 show a "block user" link in the toolbox
2188 * Fix backup dump text prefetch for XMLReader constant changes in PHP 5.1
2189 * Suppress useless percentage indicator on output from 7za during dumps
2190 * (bug 4633) Add (previous 200) (next 200) also above catlinks
2191 * (bug 4686) Fix regression where ?diff=0&oldid=0 caused fatal error on
2192 pages with only one revision. Fixes message diff link on first edit.
2193 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
2194 * Do not check lag on external storage servers
2195 * Do not tidy interface messages (unless full tidy is set)
2196 * Do not trust equality propagation and give more hints to MySQL
2197 optimizer for revision fetches (avoids index scans)
2198 * Use revision rate for ETA in dump generation; it tends to be more stable
2199 than the per-page count for full-history dumps.
2200 * Include timestamp in wfDebugLog breakouts
2201 * (bug 4469) Namespace-specific notice to be displayed below site-notice
2202 Edit messages like "MediaWiki:Namespacenotice-" plus namespace name
2203 which is blank for main namespace, or like e.g. "User_talk"
2204 * Adjust user login/creation form hooks to work with a captcha plugin
2205 * (bug 1284) Inline styles for diffs in Recent Changes RSS/Atom feeds
2206 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
2207 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
2208 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
2209 * Fix extra namespace for Bulgarian
2210 * (bug 4303) Add $wgFavicon to change the shorticon icon link from
2211 the default /favicon.ico or disable it (if set to false)
2212 * (bug 3347) strip linebreaks in math error source
2213 * (bug 4841) Warning for non-logged-in edits
2214 * (bug 4867) Leave invalid EXIF date fields unformatted instead of
2215 showing a bogus current timestamp
2216 * Reset $wgActionPaths during parser test; corrects some false failures
2217 in the automated test report.
2218 * (bug 4875) Define a div containing the shared image description
2219 * (bug 4860) Expose Title->userCan() as Hooks
2220 * (bug 4828) Fix genitive month-name variable for cs, pl, uk
2221 * (bug 4842) Fix 'show number of watching users' with enhanced RC
2222 * (bug 4889) Fix image talk namespace for Tamil
2223 * (bug 4147) Added cleanupWatchlist.php to clear out bogus watchlist entries
2224 * (partial bug 3456) Disable auto redirect to Main Page after account creation
2225 * (bug 4824) Separate out IE7 CSS compat hacks, fix for RTL pages
2226 * Added support for wikidiff2 and similar external diff engines.
2227 * Allow cookies to be shared between multiple wikis with a shared user database
2228 * Blocking some Unicode whitespace characters in usernames. Should check
2229 if some or all should be blocked from all page titles.
2230 * Unknown log types no longer throw notices everywhere in RecentChanges
2231 * (bug 4502, 5017) Don't render potentially hostile deleted page contents
2232 on Special:Undelete by default; show source, with an optional preview.
2233 The revisions list no longer shows the latest text by default, so it can
2234 still be operated if the text is hostile.
2235 * (bug 5013) Check for existence on "return to" links
2236 * Removed trailing whitespace on a bunch more messages.
2237 * Fix missing bad title check in Special:Booksources
2238 * Remove empty booksources string in fy
2239 * Avoid corrupting <gallery> inside <!-- comment -->
2240 * Remove legacy PHPTal code, hasn't been maintained in ages.
2241 * Tweak Userlogin include order for APC issue
2242 * Don't try to link to current page on protection tab
2243 * More exact checking in Title::equals() to fox moves of numerically similar
2244 page titles. (Odd hex title bug on 64-bit.)
2245 * Fix explicit s-maxage=0 on raw pages; should help with proxy issues in
2246 generated stylesheets... hopefully...
2247 * (bug 4685) More fixes for Slovenian project namespace
2248 * Fixed and enhanced a little the Live Preview, which had been broken for some time
2249 * Added article size limit, $wgMaxArticleSize
2250 * (bug 4974) Don't follow redirected talk page on "new messages" link
2251 * (bug 4970) Make category paging limits configurable
2252 * (bug 4535) Warn user when editing CSS or JS subpage of a skin that doesn't exist
2253 * Make Live Preview an user preference, still controllable by the global variable
2254 * Rename the stub LanguageAls / LanguageGem_alsation to LanguageGsw to follow
2255 updated language code assignments
2256 * (bug 5081) Remove bogus fix for invalid characters in links which simply
2257 broke use of legitimate multiple whitespace characters in bracketed link.
2258 * (bug 4838) Add relative oldids (prev, next, cur) for raw pages
2259 Patch by Lupin
2260 * (bug 5086) Force image resize dimensions on ImageMagick, as for instance
2261 "-resize 100x35!"; some thumbs were off due to differences in rounding and
2262 would be generated smaller than expected.
2263 * (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights
2264 * Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page
2265 * (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment
2266 with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field)
2267 * (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off
2268 * (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector
2269 * (bug 5152) Proper HTML escaping on subpage breadcrumbs
2270 * (bug 4855) Section edit links now have the section name in the title attribute.
2271 * (bug 2115) Support shift-selecting multiple checkboxes with JavaScript.
2272 * (bug 5161) Don't try to load template list for nonexistent pages
2273 * (bug 5228) Workaround for broken LanguageConverter title overrides; avoid
2274 unnecessary hidden UI work when watch/unwatch is performed on edit
2275 * Fixed bogus master fallback in external storage
2276 * (bug 5246) Add speak:none to "hiddenStructure" class in main.css
2277 * Further work on rev_deleted; changed to a bitfield with several data-hiding
2278 options. Not yet ready for production use; Special:Revisiondelete is
2279 incomplete, and the flags are not preserved across page deletion/undeletion.
2280 To try it; add the 'deleterevision' permission to a privileged group.
2281 * (bug 5270) Fix broken linktrail for br, cv, fr, hr, nn, oc, ta, wa
2282 * Add a clickable contribs link in user tool links (rc, watchlist, diff view)
2283 to see how people like it. (There was one in the old hacked-up diff view.)
2284 * (bug 5236) Load wikibits.js before site-customized javascript
2285 * (bug 4119) Workaround for <nowiki> following link in Walloon; remove capitals
2286 from linktrail, as they're not used anywhere else.
2287 * (bug 4781) Output links with the percent-encoding they're supplied with;
2288 save the normalization for internal link storage. The normalization is a bit
2289 buggy and can make incorrect foldings in the query string and such, so isn't
2290 reliable beyond the hostname where it's used for the spam bulk checker.
2291 * Don't URL-decode in the title attribute for URL links; it can produce false
2292 results that don't code back to their original values.
2293 * (bug 4611) Add user preference (default on) to add new pages to creators's watchlist
2294 * (bug 5286) Fix regression in display of missing/bad revision IDs
2295 * (bug 4729) Add user preference that marks a user's edits as patrolled if user is able to
2296 * (bug 4630) Add user preference to prompt users when entering blank edit summaries
2297 * Added optional suggest feature for the search box. Set wgUseAjax to true to
2298 enable it.
2299 * (bug 5277) Use audio/midi rather that audio/mid
2300 * (bug 5410) Use namespace name when a custom namespace's nstab-NS message is nonexistent
2301 * (bug 5432) Fix inconsistencies in cookie names when using table prefixes
2302 * Additional protections against HTML breakage in table parsing
2303 * (bug 5355) Include skin name and style JS settings in page source;
2304 fixes regression where Opera 6/7 and KHTML CSS fixes weren't applied
2305 when wikibits.js was moved up before user JS inclusion.
2306 * Added $wgColorErrors: if set, database error messages will be highlighted
2307 when running command-line scripts in a Unix terminal.
2308 * (bug 5195) rebuildrecentchanges.php works again; Database::insertSelect now
2309 has a parameter for select options.
2310 * Fix updateSearchIndex.php for new schema
2311 * Fix bogus "filename too short" error when uploading files with a period in the base
2312 name, e.g. "Mr. Zee.png"
2313 * (bug 2139) Show page title in subtitle when viewing "read only" page
2314 * (bug 5452) Update language name for Cree
2315
2316
2317
2318 ----
2319
2320 == MediaWiki 1.5.8 ==
2321
2322 March 26, 2006
2323
2324 MediaWiki 1.5.8 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
2325
2326 A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw
2327 HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks.
2328
2329 Some minor UI fixes were also made, see the change log at the bottom of
2330 this file.
2331
2332
2333 == MediaWiki 1.5.7 ==
2334
2335 March 2, 2006
2336
2337 MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release.
2338
2339 Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug
2340 affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root
2341 password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the
2342 installer would not only create the new account but also change the root
2343 password to be equal to the password of the new account.
2344
2345 Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back
2346 manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see:
2347 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html
2348
2349 This version includes fixes for compatibility with Internet Explorer 7
2350 beta 2, and various other bugs; see the full changelog at the end of
2351 the release notes.
2352
2353
2354 == MediaWiki 1.5.6 ==
2355
2356 January 19, 2006
2357
2358 MediaWiki 1.5.6 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
2359
2360 A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop
2361 if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this
2362 would cause the script to fail after PHP's 30-second failsafe timeout.
2363
2364 Some improvements have been made to the installer which should make
2365 installation possible on a system with a broken MySQL "root" account.
2366
2367 For several other minor fixes, see the complete changelog at the end
2368 of this file.
2369
2370
2371 == MediaWiki 1.5.5 ==
2372
2373 January 5, 2006
2374
2375 MediaWiki 1.5.5 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
2376
2377 Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added
2378 to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft
2379 Windows operating systems.
2380
2381 Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types
2382 (such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure
2383 that malicious .wmf files can't be uploaded with a fake extension;
2384 such files could put visitors to the site at risk.
2385
2386 For more details on this, see:
2387 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
2388
2389 Additionally, a maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts.php has been added;
2390 this replaces an older Perl script which had not been updated for the new
2391 schema in 1.5.
2392
2393
2394 == MediaWiki 1.5.4 ==
2395
2396 December 21, 2005
2397
2398 MediaWiki 1.5.4 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
2399
2400 A hardcoded internal placeholder string has been replaced with a random
2401 one. This closes a hole where security checks in inline style attributes
2402 could be bypassed, injecting JavaScript code that could execute in
2403 Microsoft Internet Explorer.
2404
2405 Other browsers would not be vulnerable.
2406
2407 Several minor fixes are included in this release, most notably a fix
2408 to clear the "you have new messages" flag properly for usernames
2409 containing spaces when e-mail notification is enabled.
2410
2411 See the changelog at the end of the release notes for a full list of
2412 fixes.
2413
2414
2415 == MediaWiki 1.5.3 ==
2416
2417 December 4, 2005
2418
2419 MediaWiki 1.5.3 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
2420
2421 Validation of the user language option was broken by a code change in
2422 May 2005, opening the possibility of remote code execution as this
2423 parameter is used in forming a class name dynamically created with
2424 eval().
2425
2426 The validation has been corrected in this version. All prior 1.5 release
2427 and prelease versions are affected; 1.4 and earlier and not affected.
2428
2429 Additionally several bugs have been fixed; see the changelog later in
2430 this file for a complete list.
2431
2432
2433 == MediaWiki 1.5.2 ==
2434
2435 November 2, 2005
2436
2437 MediaWiki 1.5.2 is a bugfix maintenance release.
2438
2439 A change in PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC broke handling of extension and
2440 <pre> sections, causing garbage data to be inserted in output and saved
2441 edits. This version works around the change.
2442
2443 Several other glitches with MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0.5 were also fixed;
2444 see the change log below for a complete list.
2445
2446
2447 == MediaWiki 1.5.1 ==
2448
2449 October 26, 2005
2450
2451 MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a
2452 recommended upgrade for all installations.
2453
2454 This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style sanitation
2455 which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
2456 Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may be vulnerable to
2457 XSS injections on prior versions; users of standards-compliant browsers
2458 are not vulnerable.
2459
2460 Major fixes include:
2461 * Image pages work again with resizing disabled
2462 * Works in MySQL 5.0 strict mode
2463
2464 There is experimental support in this release for explicitly declaring
2465 the UTF-8 charset in the database; this has been tested with MySQL 5.0.15
2466 but should work on 4.1 as well.
2467
2468 IMPORTANT: Changing this setting on an existing wiki may produce interesting
2469 data corruption, depending on server configuration. Page contents should,
2470 usually, be unaffected, but page titles and other items may be. Limitations
2471 in MySQL's Unicode support mean that characters outside the BMP cannot be used
2472 in page titles or various other fields when using this mode.
2473
2474 Table definitions are in maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql, and the runtime
2475 option to send 'SET NAMES utf8' is set by $wgDBmysql5 = true.
2476
2477 (MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on these
2478 versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is blissfully
2479 unaware of it.)
2480
2481
2482
2483 == MediaWiki 1.5.0 final ==
2484
2485 October 5, 2005
2486
2487 MediaWiki 1.5.0 is the new stable release branch of MediaWiki, and is
2488 recommended for all new installations.
2489
2490 Any wikis running a 1.5 beta or release candidate are strongly recommended
2491 to upgrade to the final release, which includes a number of bug fixes and
2492 a security fix for CSS bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
2493
2494 IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet?
2495 Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions
2496 prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is
2497 triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.
2498
2499
2500 === What's new in 1.5? ===
2501
2502 Schema:
2503 The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better
2504 use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up
2505 rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories.
2506
2507 Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require
2508 some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend
2509 changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily.
2510
2511 Permalinks:
2512 The current revision of a page now has a permanent 'oldid' number assigned
2513 immediately, and the id numbers are now preserved across deletion/undeletion.
2514 A permanent reference to the current revision of a page is now just a matter
2515 of going to the 'history' tab and copying the first link in the list.
2516
2517 Page move log:
2518 Renames of pages are now recorded in Special:Log and the page history.
2519 A handy revert link is available from the log for sysops.
2520
2521 Editing diff:
2522 Ever lost track of what you'd done so far during an edit? A 'Show diff'
2523 button on the edit page now makes it easy to remember.
2524
2525 Uploads:
2526 It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct
2527 from the original filename on your disk.
2528
2529 An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page.
2530
2531 More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure
2532 on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on
2533 the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module.
2534
2535 If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render
2536 them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several
2537 external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options.
2538
2539 User accounts:
2540 There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable
2541 groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only
2542 accessible to certain groups.
2543
2544 For details see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights
2545
2546 E-mail:
2547 User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation
2548 first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses.
2549
2550 Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail
2551 notifications.
2552
2553 External hooks:
2554 A somewhat experimental interface for hooking in an external editor
2555 application is included.
2556
2557 And...
2558 A bunch of stuff we forgot to mention.
2559
2560
2561 === What's gone? ===
2562
2563 Latin-1:
2564 Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for
2565 some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode.
2566 This is no longer supported.
2567
2568 You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's
2569 "view source"; look for a line like this:
2570
2571 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
2572
2573 If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1,
2574 you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding
2575 any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.)
2576
2577 MySQL 3.x:
2578 Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema
2579 clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields).
2580
2581 MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should
2582 very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support
2583 will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release.
2584
2585 Special:Maintenance
2586 These tools were, ironically enough, not really maintained. This special
2587 page has been removed; insofar as some of its pieces were useful and haven't
2588 already been supplanted by other special pages they should be rewritten in
2589 an efficient and safe manner in the future.
2590
2591
2592 === Caveats ===
2593
2594 Upgrade:
2595 Wikis in Latin-1 encoding are no longer supported; only Unicode UTF-8.
2596 A new option $wgLegacyEncoding is provided to allow on-the-fly recoding of
2597 old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need
2598 to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate
2599 this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php.
2600
2601 The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so
2602 it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations.
2603
2604 Backups:
2605 The text entries of deleted pages are no longer removed from the main
2606 text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases,
2607 you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available
2608 as maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
2609
2610 For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia,
2611 see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
2612
2613 PostgreSQL:
2614 The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date. PostgreSQL
2615 support may return in later releases, pending appropriate patches.
2616
2617 MySQL 4.1+:
2618 Some users may encounter installation problems with MySQL 4.1 or higher
2619 due to strange charset encoding / collation configurations. Try setting
2620 to 'latin1' or 'utf8' if you encounter problems.
2621
2622
2623
2624 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 4 ==
2625
2626 August 29, 2005
2627
2628 MediaWiki 1.5rc4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
2629 It fixes compatibility with PHP 5.1, and corrects two cross-site scripting
2630 security bugs:
2631
2632 * <math> tags were handled incorrectly when TeX rendering support is off,
2633 as in the default configuration.
2634 * Extension or <nowiki> sections in Wiki table syntax could bypass HTML
2635 style attribute restrictions for cross-site scripting attacks against
2636 Microsoft Internet Explorer
2637
2638 Wikis where the optional math support has been *enabled* are not vulnerable
2639 to the first, but are vulnerable to the second.
2640
2641
2642
2643 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 3 ==
2644
2645 August 24, 2005
2646
2647 MediaWiki 1.5rc3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
2648 It fixes several major problems in 1.5rc2:
2649
2650 * Fixed a cross-site scripting injection in the search form
2651 (broken since 1.5beta1)
2652
2653 * Fixed upgrades from 1.4 database schema
2654 (broken since 1.5rc2)
2655
2656 1.3 and 1.4 releases are not vulnerable to the XSS bug, but anyone
2657 running an earlier 1.5 beta or release candidate should upgrade
2658 immediately.
2659
2660
2661 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 2 ==
2662
2663 August 23, 2005
2664
2665 MediaWiki 1.5rc2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
2666 Numerous bug fixes since last beta, plus a security fix; see change
2667 log below for full details.
2668
2669 A flaw in the interaction between extensions and HTML attribute
2670 sanitization was discovered which could allow unauthorized use
2671 of offsite resources in style sheets, and possible exploitation
2672 of a JavaScript injection feature on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
2673
2674 This version expands the returned text and properly checks it
2675 before output.
2676
2677 A 1.5rc1 release was mistakenly made from the incorrect source code
2678 branch; 1.5rc2 is identical to the actual 1.5rc1 in revision control
2679 except for version number.
2680
2681
2682 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 ==
2683
2684 July 30, 2005
2685
2686 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
2687 A number of bugs have been fixed since beta 3; see the full changelist below.
2688
2689
2690 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 ==
2691
2692 July 7, 2005
2693
2694 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release
2695 series, with a security update over beta 2.
2696
2697 Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could
2698 be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a
2699 maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are
2700 recommended to upgrade to this release.
2701
2702 Vulnerable versions:
2703 * 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3
2704 * 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6
2705 * 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable
2706
2707 This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates.
2708 See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list.
2709
2710
2711
2712 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 ==
2713
2714 July 5, 2005
2715
2716 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
2717 While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point,
2718 third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release
2719 on a public site without closely following additional development.
2720
2721 Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to
2722 upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including
2723 a couple of HTML and SQL injections.
2724
2725 This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and
2726 a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks.
2727
2728 Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades
2729 from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and
2730 configuration file changes.
2731
2732 Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool,
2733 maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
2734 These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able
2735 to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database
2736 and compression format.
2737
2738
2739 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 ==
2740
2741 June 26, 2005
2742
2743 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 is a preview release, pretty much feature complete,
2744 of the new 1.5 release series. There are several known and likely a number
2745 of unknown bugs; it is not recommended to use this release in a production
2746 environment but would be recommended for testing in mind of an upcoming
2747 deployment.
2748
2749 A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases,
2750 including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings.
2751 See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior
2752 configuration settings for the new system.
2753
2754
2755
2756 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 ==
2757
2758 June 3, 2005
2759
2760 MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 includes a lot of bug fixes, feature merges,
2761 and a security update.
2762
2763 Incorrect handling of page template inclusions made it possible to
2764 inject JavaScript code into HTML attributes, which could lead to
2765 cross-site scripting attacks on a publicly editable wiki.
2766
2767 Vulnerable releases and fix:
2768 * 1.5 prerelease: fixed in 1.5alpha2
2769 * 1.4 stable series: fixed in 1.4.5
2770 * 1.3 legacy series: fixed in 1.3.13
2771 * 1.2 series no longer supported; upgrade to 1.4.5 strongly recommended
2772
2773
2774 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 1 ==
2775
2776 May 3, 2005
2777
2778 This is a testing preview release, being put out mainly to aid testers in
2779 finding installation bugs and other major problems. It is strongly recommended
2780 NOT to run a live production web site on this alpha release.
2781
2782 ** WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH **
2783 ** TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH, GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE **
2784 ** INNUENDO INTO YOUR C.V. RIGHT BEFORE A JOB INTERVIEW! **
2785 ** DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE. **
2786
2787
2788 === Smaller changes since 1.4 ===
2789
2790 Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things:
2791
2792 * 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
2793 * support for external editors for files and wiki pages:
2794 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors
2795 * Schema reworking: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
2796 * (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit
2797 * (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
2798 * (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
2799 * (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
2800 * (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
2801 * (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
2802 * (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month
2803 * (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see:
2804 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
2805 * (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database
2806 revision id, useful for proper citation.
2807 * (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
2808 * (bug 2064) Configurable JavaScript mimetype with $wgJsMimeType
2809 * (bug 2084) Fixed a regular expression in includes/Title.php that was accepting invalid syntax like #REDIRECT [[foo] in redirects
2810 * It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
2811 * No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
2812 * What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
2813 * Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
2814 * Language conversion support for category pages
2815 * $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
2816 * Special:Movepage can now take paramaters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move
2817 (used to just be able to take paramaters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
2818 * (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one has edited the article.
2819 * (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail.
2820 * (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation
2821 * ...and more!
2822
2823
2824 === Changes since 1.5alpha1 ===
2825
2826 * (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category to
2827 file description from upload page (previously it would be set to
2828 "Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging)
2829 * (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable through
2830 the MediaWiki namespace on the MediaWiki:navbar page.
2831 * (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable
2832 * (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded files
2833 including virus checks using external programs.
2834 * (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab
2835 * (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization, update namespaces
2836 * (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs" to "Limburgs
2837 * (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in <div dir='ltr'> in order
2838 to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis.
2839 * (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute
2840 * (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization
2841 * (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message
2842 * (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases
2843 * (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed
2844 * (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for "sharedupload" media
2845 * (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form
2846 * (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for <td> and <th>
2847 * (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now
2848 * (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests
2849 * (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation
2850 * (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install
2851 * Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates, {{msg: is
2852 now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent()
2853 * Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries
2854 * HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up
2855 multiple-revision pulls
2856 * Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of
2857 copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub reference
2858 records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields. Requires
2859 that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields are migrated
2860 into the main text store.
2861 * Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by
2862 default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason)
2863 * dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with current
2864 revisions only or complete histories.
2865 * The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved word in
2866 SQL which caused some inconveniances.
2867 * New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid, mov, o,
2868 ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on the KDE
2869 crystalsvg theme.
2870 * Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0'
2871 * Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Íslenzka"
2872 * The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation
2873 * Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of
2874 admnistrators out of normal users.
2875 * links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce pain
2876 dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages.
2877 * Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater.
2878 * Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits
2879 (somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached)
2880 * (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled
2881 * (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image.
2882 * Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema
2883 * Remove linkscc table code, no longer used.
2884 * (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text
2885 instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation.
2886 * Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once.
2887 * Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single function
2888 that does both numeric and named chars: Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences
2889 * Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions
2890 * Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements
2891 * (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move
2892 * (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save;
2893 leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview.
2894 * (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list
2895 * (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title from the watchlist
2896 * Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces.
2897 * (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments
2898 * (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags
2899 * (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's external
2900 LDAP authentication plugin
2901 * (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging
2902
2903 === Changes since 1.5alpha2 ===
2904
2905 * (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching
2906 * (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages
2907 * (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts
2908 * (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set
2909 * (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning
2910 * (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute zone,
2911 with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304)
2912 * Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for <hr> and <br>
2913 * Changed user_groups format quite a bit.
2914 * (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line
2915 * (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move
2916 * (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links
2917 * (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking
2918 * (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a possible
2919 version conflict is detected
2920 * (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes
2921 * (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1
2922 when the default charset is set to utf8
2923 * (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if
2924 $wgEmailAuthentication is false.
2925 * (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings
2926 when a template with a gallery was used.
2927 * Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery
2928 * (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!)
2929 * Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact
2930 * Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all groups
2931 when searching for a specific group and can't be split across pages
2932 * (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank link
2933 for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files.
2934 * (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount
2935 * (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser
2936 * (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file
2937 * (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special page
2938 rather than to "".
2939 * (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation
2940 * A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath
2941 * A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName
2942 * A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in the image table
2943 * Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_"
2944 * Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary
2945 * badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages
2946 * Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format
2947 * 'developer' group deprecated by default
2948 * Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check
2949 * Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import
2950 * (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links
2951 * (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke too many
2952 things for the current parser to handle cleanly
2953 * (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file
2954 * Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to
2955 be forgotten between submits
2956 * Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
2957 * (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to seperate it from
2958 "Show preview" and "Show changes"
2959 * Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to
2960 harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
2961 * The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off by default
2962 and can be turned back on by setting $wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value.
2963 * Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail, replacing
2964 the factually inaccurate text that was there.
2965 * (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again
2966 * (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext
2967 * (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php
2968 * (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who don't
2969 realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted printable page.
2970 * Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems
2971 * Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA)
2972 * (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation
2973 * (bug 2506, 2512) Updated the Nynorsk translation
2974 * (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup UPGRADE
2975 documentation about edit and read whitelists.
2976 * (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update
2977 * Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's
2978 * (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page
2979 * Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension
2980 writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension
2981 can be used with.
2982 * Serialized user objects now checked for versioning
2983 * Fix for interwiki link regression
2984 * Printable link shorter in monobook
2985 * Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script
2986 * (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled
2987
2988 == Changes since 1.5beta1 ==
2989
2990 * (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to
2991 Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski))
2992 * Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace()
2993 * Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php
2994 * Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave
2995 * (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks
2996 * Fix paging on Special:Contributions
2997 * (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab
2998 * (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page
2999 * Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
3000 * Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
3001 * (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image
3002 * (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage
3003 * Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave
3004 * Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
3005 * (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit
3006 * Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user
3007 agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was
3008 not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of
3009 PHP ucfirst() )
3010 * Moved the user name / password validity checking from
3011 LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions,
3012 User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do
3013 these checks without rewriting code.
3014 * Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-'
3015 * Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a
3016 factor of two.
3017 * upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization
3018 * Fix namespaces in category list.
3019 * Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields
3020 * Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now
3021 * (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused
3022 the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off.
3023 * (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size
3024 * Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled
3025 * Don't show old debug messages in watchlist
3026 * (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links
3027 * (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times
3028 * Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert'
3029 status between next/previous buttons.
3030 * Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar
3031 * (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list
3032 * (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages
3033 * (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries
3034 for uploaded files that don't have them
3035 * (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling
3036 * (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last
3037 page in the article history pager.
3038 * Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page
3039 * (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere
3040 * (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list
3041 * (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page
3042 * (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision
3043 * Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets
3044 * Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4
3045 * (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit
3046 * Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage
3047 * HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first
3048 * (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set
3049 Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view.
3050 * (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as
3051 subpage parent links) on current-diff view.
3052 * (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for
3053 categories only if the page does not exist.
3054 * (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers
3055 * (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection
3056 * Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4
3057 * (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems.
3058 * (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces.
3059 * (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list
3060 * (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and
3061 recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly.
3062 * (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin.
3063 * (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles.
3064 * (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images
3065 * (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of
3066 rejecting lowercase with a useless error message
3067 * (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs
3068 * Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into
3069 edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead
3070 of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
3071 * (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and
3072 Spanish numeric formatting
3073 * Fixed Swedish numeric formatting
3074 * (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again
3075 * Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their
3076 image description pages when viewed on local wikis.
3077 * Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia
3078 * Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link
3079 * (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support
3080 dynamic date conversion.
3081 * FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links
3082 * (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse
3083 * Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it
3084 * (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru:
3085 * (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips
3086 * (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page
3087 * (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used <a></a> instead of [ ]
3088 * (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch)
3089 * Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits
3090 * Removed language conversion support from Icelandic
3091 * (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height
3092 * (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images
3093 * Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs
3094 * (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses
3095 * (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data:
3096 namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version.
3097 * Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export <text> elements
3098 * Make language variant selection work again for zh
3099
3100 == Changes since 1.5beta2 ==
3101
3102 * Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions
3103 * (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work
3104 * (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt
3105 * (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization
3106 * Fixed number formatting for Dutch
3107 * (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css
3108 * (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia
3109 * Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia
3110 * (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia
3111 * (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database
3112 * (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles
3113 * Fix escaping in page move template.
3114 * (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and <img> height attribute
3115
3116 == Changes since 1.5beta3 ==
3117
3118 * Fix talk page move handling
3119 * (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation
3120 * (bug 2749) &nbsp; would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv
3121 * (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash
3122 * Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some
3123 interesting errors with signitures.
3124 * (bug 2764) Number format for Nds
3125 * (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language.
3126 * (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories
3127 * (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian
3128 * Fix nohistory message on empty page history
3129 * Fix fatal error in history when validation on
3130 * Cleaned up email notification message formatting
3131 * Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK
3132 * (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish
3133 * (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion
3134 * Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records
3135 * (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema
3136 * (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format
3137 * (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing
3138 * Nynorsk numeric format fix
3139 * (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off
3140 * (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix
3141 * With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match
3142 * Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]]
3143 * (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]]
3144 * (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements
3145 * Some shared upload fixes
3146 * (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
3147 * support preload= parameter for section=new
3148 * show comment subject in preview when using section=new
3149 * use comment form when creating a new talk page
3150 * (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block.
3151 * Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
3152 * (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
3153 * PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing
3154 * (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan
3155 * Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed
3156 inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
3157 * Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
3158 * Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php
3159 * Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost
3160 due to bogus optimization
3161 * (bug 275) Section duplication fix
3162 * Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
3163 * Fix notice on search index update due to non-array
3164 * (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3
3165 * (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0
3166 * (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add
3167 their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an
3168 example of this.
3169 * (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages
3170 * (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections
3171 * (bug 796) Trackback support
3172 * Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC
3173 are now suppressed as before.
3174 * New skin: Simple
3175 * "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
3176 viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively.
3177 * Skins can now be previewed in preferences
3178 * (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
3179 patch from robla
3180 * Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
3181 edit conflict.
3182 * (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
3183 * (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
3184 content language
3185 * Removed useless protectreason message
3186 * Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
3187 * Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
3188 * Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
3189 * (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization
3190 * (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces
3191 * (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output
3192 for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash.
3193 * (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
3194 * compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.
3195
3196
3197 === Changes since 1.5beta4 ===
3198
3199 * Fix Special:Allmessages under PHP 5
3200 * (bug 2911) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time
3201 * (bug 693) Special:Allmessages is excessively wide and redundant
3202 * (bug 3001) Updated and applied live hack for recentchanges-based watchlist
3203 * (bug 145) Finish 'exclude redirect' implementation in search form
3204 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
3205 title and reason input boxes
3206 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
3207 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
3208 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
3209 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
3210 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
3211 * (bug 1487) invalid html on empty list in banlist
3212 * (bug 3017) Hotkey conflict for delete and show changes
3213 * made pixel unit translateable and blocklistline now eats infiniteblock
3214 and expiringblock
3215 * (bug 3092) Wrong numerical separator for big numbers in Serbian.
3216 * (bug 2855) Credit for a uniq author showed its realname even with
3217 $wgAllowRealName=false.
3218 * New special page: SpecialMostlinked
3219 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
3220 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
3221 * Added a new hook, 'AddNewAccount', which is run after account creation
3222 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
3223 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
3224 as a proxy debugging aid
3225 * (bug 3162) Fix 'undefined property page_is_new' error on watchlist
3226 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
3227 * (bug 3170) wikititlesuffix was removed, use pagetitle instead
3228 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
3229 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
3230 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
3231 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
3232 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
3233 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
3234 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
3235 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
3236 * (bug 3238): Updated LanguageNn.php for 1_5 branch
3237 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
3238 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
3239 * Fix URL sanitization in HTML attributes, which broke in this branch
3240 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
3241
3242
3243 === Changes since 1.5rc2 ===
3244
3245 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage
3246 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
3247 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
3248 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input
3249
3250
3251 === Changes since 1.5rc3 ===
3252
3253 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
3254 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
3255 * Security fix for <math>
3256 * Security fix for tables
3257
3258
3259 === Changes since 1.5rc4 ===
3260
3261 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
3262 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
3263 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
3264 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
3265 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
3266 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
3267 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
3268 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small iamges on |thumb| without explicit size
3269 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
3270 large SVG images on image description page
3271 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
3272 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
3273 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
3274 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
3275 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
3276 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
3277 * (bug 2792) Update rebuildrecentchanges.inc for new schema
3278 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
3279 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
3280 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
3281 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
3282 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
3283 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
3284 * (bug 3573) Full Greek Translation
3285 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
3286 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
3287 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
3288
3289
3290 === Changes since 1.5.0 ===
3291
3292 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
3293 * (bug 3641) Fix handling of unrecognized file uploads with known extensions
3294 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
3295 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
3296 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
3297 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
3298 * Backport fix for reference usage notice in Special:Search on PHP 4.4.0
3299 * Backport database connect error display fix from HEAD
3300 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
3301 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
3302 name attribute)
3303 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
3304 * Fix Special:MovePage invalid HTML attribute for reason textarea
3305 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
3306 * (bug 3734) Swapped out obsolete recount.sql with initStats.php
3307 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
3308 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
3309 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
3310 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
3311 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
3312
3313
3314 === Changes since 1.5.1 ===
3315
3316 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
3317 * (bug 3809) Backport fix for detecting diff3 failure
3318 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
3319 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
3320 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
3321 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
3322 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
3323 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
3324 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
3325 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
3326 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
3327 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
3328 * (bug 3845) Update attribute.php for 1.5 schema
3329 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC4
3330
3331
3332 === Changes since 1.5.2 ===
3333
3334 * (bug 3612) Remove old broken version of maintenance/compressOld.php
3335 The working version is in maintenance/storage/compressOld.php
3336 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
3337 * (bug 3933) specify XML namespace for Atom 0.3 feeds
3338 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
3339 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
3340 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
3341 * (bug 4013) typo in fr
3342 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
3343 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
3344 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
3345 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
3346 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
3347 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
3348 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
3349 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
3350
3351
3352 === Changes since 1.5.3 ===
3353
3354 * (bug 3805) Clear 'new messages' flag properly in enotif mode
3355 for usernames containing spaces
3356 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
3357 * (bug 4249) Typo in entities2literals.pl
3358 * (bug 4233) Update for japanese language
3359 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
3360 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
3361 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
3362 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
3363 * Parser internal placeholder string now fully randomized for safety
3364
3365 === Changes since 1.5.4 ===
3366
3367 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
3368 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
3369 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
3370 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
3371 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
3372
3373 === Changes since 1.5.5 ===
3374
3375 * (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1"
3376 should be set
3377 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
3378 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
3379 * Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of
3380 establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor
3381 changes to installer.
3382 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work
3383 (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field)
3384 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
3385 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
3386 * Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script
3387 * Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1
3388 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
3389 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
3390 different LocalSettings.php.
3391
3392 === Changes since 1.5.6 ===
3393
3394 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
3395 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
3396 * Fixed Special:Unlockdb
3397 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
3398 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
3399 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
3400 * (bug 4768) Wrong Russian translation (typo)
3401 * Performance bugfix: propagate equality manually for Revision fetches
3402 * (bug 4773) PHP fatal error when invalid title passed to Special:Export
3403 * Added missing table defs. for transcache to installer schemas
3404 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
3405 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
3406 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
3407 * (bug 2532) Image directory structure migration bug
3408 * (bug 4881) Correction to the fix for 1487; Ipblocklist showed 'no blocks'
3409 message at the end of the list even if there were blocks.
3410 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from LanguageUk.php
3411 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
3412 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
3413 * Allow customisation of paging limits for items in categories using the
3414 $wgCategoryPagingLimit global, per bug 4970.
3415 * Improve "nogomatch" text to make it more obvious that a page can be created.
3416 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
3417 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
3418
3419 === Changes since 1.5.7 ===
3420
3421 * (bug 5180) User login page shows inappropriate email blurb
3422 * Add the "AbortNewAccount" hook on account creation; see hooks.txt for more info.
3423 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
3424 * Add links to useful material to the default main page content
3425 * Fix fragment HTML injection
3426
3427 === Changes since 1.5.8 ===
3428
3429 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Finnish (fi) translation
3430 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Kurdish (ku) translation
3431 * Merge two #p-search .pBody statements i monobook/main.css
3432 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he) translation
3433 * Add the "UserRights" hook on user group changes; see hooks.txt for more info.
3434 * Translated "listingcontinuesabbrev" for German
3435
3436 === Caveats ===
3437
3438 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
3439 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
3440 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
3441 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
3442 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
3443
3444 ----
3445
3446 == MediaWiki 1.4.3 ==
3447
3448 (released 2005-04-28)
3449
3450 MediaWiki 1.4.3 is a bugfix release for the 1.4 stable release series.
3451
3452 Chiefly, this fixes a compatibility problem with PHP 5 and a minor link
3453 table corruption bug on initial page save.
3454
3455
3456 == MediaWiki 1.4.2 ==
3457
3458 (released 2005-04-20)
3459
3460 MediaWiki 1.4.2 is a security and bug fix release for the 1.4 stable release
3461 series.
3462
3463 A cross-site scripting injection vulnerability was discovered, which
3464 affects only MSIE clients and is only open if MediaWiki has been
3465 manually configured to run output through HTML Tidy ($wgUseTidy).
3466
3467 Several other bugs are fixed in this release, see the changelog below.
3468
3469 All new installations are highly recommended to use 1.4.2 instead of
3470 1.3.x; 1.3.x users should consider upgrading for bug fixes and new
3471 features. Ealier 1.4.x release and beta users should upgrade to this
3472 release for relevant bug fixes; see the changelog later in this file.
3473
3474
3475 If you have trouble, remember to read this whole file and the online FAQ page
3476 before asking for help:
3477
3478 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ
3479
3480
3481 === READ THIS FIRST: Upgrading ===
3482
3483 If upgrading from an older release, see the notes in the file UPGRADE.
3484 There are a couple of minor database changes from the beta releases,
3485 and somewhat larger changes from 1.3.x.
3486
3487 Upgrading from a previous 1.4.x stable release installation should
3488 generally only require copying the new files over the old ones.
3489
3490
3491 ==== READ THIS FIRST, TOO: MySQL 4.1 AND 5.0 ====
3492
3493 MySQL 5.0 is a beta release, not yet ready for production use. If you
3494 are using it, the notes below about 4.1 apply to you too.
3495
3496 If you have the choice of MySQL 4.0 or MySQL 4.1 and don't need 4.1 for
3497 some other application, you should consider sticking with 4.0 for the
3498 moment. 4.1 may require you to do extra fiddling to get things to work
3499 due to changes that aren't fully backwards-compatible.
3500
3501 MySQL 4.1 has changed the authentication protocol in an incompatible
3502 way; many PHP installations still use the older client libraries and
3503 CANNOT CONNECT TO THE SERVER WITH A PASSWORD without some changes.
3504
3505 See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html
3506
3507 If MySQL is set with utf-8 as the default character set, installation
3508 may fail with "key too long" errors. Set the default charset to 'latin1'
3509 for installation and it should work.
3510
3511 The mysqldump backup generator now applies an automatic conversion to
3512 UTF-8, which may irretrivably corrupt your data. Pass the -charset option
3513 with the original default charset (eg 'latin1') to skip the conversion.
3514
3515
3516 ==== READ THIS FIRST IF RUNNING ON A WINDOWS SERVER ====
3517
3518 MediaWiki is tested and deployed primarily under the Apache web server
3519 on Linux Unix systems. There are known to be problems running on
3520 Microsoft's IIS which are not fully resolved. If you have a choice,
3521 try running under Apache on Windows, or on a Unix/Linux box instead.
3522
3523 If you're having trouble with blank pages on IIS and can't switch,
3524 try the workaround suggested in this bug report:
3525 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1763
3526
3527
3528 === New features ===
3529
3530 * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
3531 * New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs
3532 * Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and <gallery> tag)
3533 * SVG rasterization support (requires external support tools)
3534 * Users can select from the available localizations to override the
3535 default user interface language.
3536 * Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support
3537 * rel="nofollow" support to combat linkspam
3538
3539 The current implementation adds this attribute to _all_ external URL
3540 links in wiki text (but not internal [[wiki links]] or interwiki links).
3541 To disable the attribute for _all_ external links, add this line to your
3542 LocalSettings.php:
3543
3544 $wgNoFollowLinks = false
3545
3546 For background information on nofollow see:
3547
3548 http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
3549
3550
3551 === Installation and compatibility ===
3552
3553 * The default MonoBook theme now works with PHP 5.0
3554 * Installation on systems with PHP's safe mode or other oddities
3555 should work more reliably, as MonoBook no longer needs to
3556 create a compiled template file for the wiki to run.
3557 * A table prefix may be specified, to avoid conflicts with other
3558 web applications forced to share a database.
3559 * More thorough UTF-8 input validation; fixes non-ASCII uploaded
3560 filenames from Safari.
3561 * Command-line database upgrade script.
3562
3563
3564 === Customizability ===
3565
3566 * Default user options can now be overridden in LocalSettings.
3567 * Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/
3568 New skins can be dropped into this directory and used immediately.
3569 * More extension hooks have been added.
3570 * Authentication plugin hook.
3571 * More internal code documentation, generated with phpdoc:
3572 http://www.mediawiki.org/docs/html/
3573
3574
3575 === Optimization ===
3576
3577 * For many operations, MediaWiki 1.4 should run faster and use
3578 less memory than MediaWiki 1.3. Page rendering is up to twice
3579 as fast. (Use a PHP accelerator such as Turck MMCache for best
3580 results with any PHP application, though!)
3581 * The parser cache no longer requires memcached, and is enabled
3582 by default. This avoids a lot of re-rendering of pages that
3583 have been shown recently, greatly speeding longer page views.
3584 * Support for compiled PHP modules to speed up page diff and
3585 Unicode validation/normalization. (Requires ability to compile
3586 and load PHP extensions).
3587
3588
3589 === What isn't ready yet ===
3590
3591 * A new user/groups permissions scheme has been held back to 1.5.
3592 * An experimental SOAP interface will be made available as an extension
3593 * PostgreSQL support is largely working, minus search and the installer.
3594 You can perform a manual installation.
3595 * E-mail notification of watched page changes and verification of
3596 user-submitted e-mail addresses is not yet included.
3597 * Log pages are not automatically imported into the new log table
3598 at upgrade time. A script to import old text log entries is
3599 incomplete, but may be available in later point releases.
3600 * Some localizations are still incomplete.
3601
3602
3603
3604 == Changelog ==
3605
3606 === Important security updates ===
3607
3608 A security audit found and fixed a number of problems. Users of MediaWiki
3609 1.3.10 and earlier should upgrade to 1.3.11; users of 1.4 beta releases
3610 prior to 1.4rc1 should upgrade immediately.
3611
3612 ==== Cross-site scripting vulnerability ====
3613
3614 XSS injection points can be used to hijack session and authentication
3615 cookies as well as more serious attacks.
3616
3617 * Media: links output raw text into an attribute value, potentially
3618 abusable for JavaScript injection. This has been corrected.
3619 * Additional checks added to file upload to protect against MSIE and
3620 Safari MIME-type autodetection bugs.
3621
3622 As of 1.3.10/1.4beta6, per-user customized CSS and JavaScript is disabled
3623 by default as a general precaution. Sites which want this ability may set
3624 $wgAllowUserCss and $wgAllowUserJs in LocalSettings.php.
3625
3626
3627 ==== Cross-site request forgery ====
3628
3629 An attacker could use JavaScript-submitted forms to perform various
3630 restricted actions by tricking an authenticated user into visiting
3631 a malicious web page. A fix for page editing in 1.3.10/1.4beta6 has
3632 been expanded in this release to other forms and functions.
3633
3634 Authors of bot tools may need to update their code to include the
3635 additional fields.
3636
3637
3638 ==== Directory traversal ====
3639
3640 An unchecked parameter in image deletion could allow an authenticated
3641 administrator to delete arbitary files in directories writable by the
3642 web server, and confirm existence of files not deletable.
3643
3644
3645 ==== Older issues ====
3646
3647 Note that 1.4 beta releases prior to beta 5 include an input validation
3648 error which could lead to execution of arbitrary PHP code on the server.
3649 Users of older betas should upgrade immediately to the current version.
3650
3651
3652 Beta 6 also introduces the use of rel="nofollow" attributes on external
3653 links in wiki pages to reduce the effectiveness of wiki spam. This will
3654 cause participating search engines to ignore external URL links from wiki
3655 pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
3656
3657
3658 === Misc bugs fixed in beta 1 ===
3659
3660 * (bug 95) Templates no longer limited to 5 inclusions per page
3661 * New user preference for limiting the image size for images on image description
3662 pages
3663 * (bug 530) Allow user to preview article on first edit
3664 * (bug 479) [[RFC 1234]] will now make an internal link
3665 * (bug 511) PhpTal skins shown bogus 'What links here' etc on special pages
3666 * (bug 770) Adding filter and username exact search match for Special:Listusers
3667 * (bug 733) Installer die if it can not write LocalSettings.php
3668 * (bug 705) Various special pages no more show the rss/atom feed links
3669 * (bug 114) use category backlinks in Special:Recentchangeslinked
3670
3671 === Beta 2 fixes ===
3672
3673 * (bug 987) Reverted bogus fix for bug 502
3674 * (bug 992) Fix enhanced recent changes in PHP5
3675 * (bug 1009) Fix Special:Makesysop when using table prefixes
3676 * (bug 1010) fix broken Commons image link on Classic & Cologne Blue
3677 * (bug 985) Fix auto-summary for section edits
3678 * (bug 995) Close <a> tag
3679 * (bug 1004) renamed norsk language links (twice)
3680 * Login works again when using an old-style default skin
3681 * Fix for load balancing mode, notify if using old settings format
3682 * (bug 1014) Missing image size option on old accounts handled gracefully
3683 * (bug 1027) Fix page moves with table prefix
3684 * (bug 1018) Some pages fail with stub threshold enabled
3685 * (bug 1024) Fix link to high-res image version on Image: pages
3686 * (bug 1016) Fix handling of lines omitting Image: in a <gallery> tag
3687 * security fix for image galleries
3688 * (bug 1039) Avoid error message in certain message cache failure modes
3689 * Fix string escaping with PostgreSQL
3690 * (bug 1015) [partial] -- use comment formatter on image gallery text
3691 * Allow customization of all UI languages
3692 * use $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg to make regular UI messages act as content
3693 * new user option for zh users to disable language conversion
3694 * Defer message cache initialization, shaving a few ms off file cache hits
3695 * Fixed Special:Allmessages when using table prefixes
3696 * (bug 996) Fix $wgWhitelistRead to work again
3697 * (bug 1028) fix page move over redirect to not fail on the unique index
3698
3699 === Beta 3 fixes ===
3700
3701 * Hide RC patrol markers when patrol is disabled or not allowed to patrol.
3702 * Fix language selection for upgraded accounts
3703 * (bug 1076) navigation links in QueryPage should be translated by wgContLang.
3704 * (bug 922) bogus DOS line endings in LanguageEl.php
3705 * Fix index usage in contribs
3706 * Caching and load limiting options for Recentchanges RSS/Atom feed
3707 * (bug 1074) Add stock icons for non-image files in gallery/Newimages
3708 * Add width and height attributes on thumbs in gallery/Newimages
3709 * Enhance upload extension blacklist to protect against vulnerable
3710 Apache configurations
3711
3712 === Beta 4 fixes ===
3713
3714 * (bug 1090) Fix sitesupport links in CB/classic skins
3715 * Gracefully ignore non-legal titles in a <gallery>
3716 * Fix message page caching behavior when $wgCapitalLinks is turned off
3717 after installation and the wiki is subsequently upgraded
3718 * Database error messages include the database server name/address
3719 * Paging support for large categories
3720 * Fix image page scaling when thumbnail generation is disabled
3721 * Select the content language in prefs when bogus interface language is set
3722 * Fix interwiki links in edit comments
3723 * Fix crash on banned user visit
3724 * Avoid PHP warning messages when thumbnail not generated
3725 * (bug 1157) List unblocks correctly in Special:Log
3726 * Fix fatal errors in LanguageLi.php
3727 * Undo overly bright, difficult to read colors in Cologne Blue
3728 * (bug 1162) fix five-tilde date inserter
3729 * Add raw signatures option for those who simply must have cute sigs
3730 * (bug 1164) Let wikitext be used in Loginprompt and Loginend messages
3731 * Add the dreaded <span> to the HTML whitelist
3732 * (bug 1170) Fix Russian linktrail
3733 * (bug 1168) Missing text on the bureaucrat log
3734 * (bug 1180) Fix Makesysop on shared-user-table sites
3735 * (bug 1178) Fix previous diff link when using 'oldid=0'
3736 * (bug 1173) Stop blocked accounts from reverting/deleting images
3737 * Keep generated stylesheets cache-separated for each user
3738 * (bug 1175) Fix "preview on first edit" mode
3739 * Fix revert bug caused by bug 1175 fix
3740 * Fix CSS classes on minor, new, unpatrolled markers in enhanced RC
3741 * Set MySQL 4 boolean search back to 'and' mode by default
3742 * (bug 1193) Fix move-only page protection mode
3743 * Fix zhtable Makefile to include the traditional manual table
3744 * Add memcache timeout for the zh conversion tables
3745 * Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through
3746 Mediawiki:zhconversiontable
3747 * Add zh-min-man (back) to language names list
3748 * Ported $wgCopyrightIcon setting from REL1_3A
3749 * (bug 1218) Show the original image on image pages if the thumbnail would be
3750 bigger than the original image
3751 * (bug 1213) i18n of Special:Log labels
3752 * (bug 1013) Fix jbo, minnan in language names list
3753 * Added magic word MAG_NOTITLECONVERT to indicate that the title of the page
3754 do not need to be converted. Useful in zh:
3755 * (bug 1224) Use proper date messages for date reformatter
3756 * (bug 1241) Don't show 'cont.' for first entry of the category list
3757 * (bug 1240) Special:Preferences was broken in Slovenian locale when
3758 $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled
3759 * Added magic word MAG_NOCONTENTCONVERT to supress the conversion of the
3760 content of an article. Useful in zh:
3761 * write-lock for updating the zh conversion tables in memcache
3762 * recursively parse subpages of MediaWiki:Zhconversiontable
3763 * (bug 1144) Fix export for fy language
3764 * make removal of an entry from zhconversiontable work
3765 * (bug 752) Don't insert newline in link title for url with %0a
3766 * Fix missing search box contents in MonoBook skin
3767 * Add option to forward search directly to an external URL (eg google)
3768 * Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected
3769 variant is disabled. Used in zh: only for now.
3770
3771 === Beta 5 fixes ===
3772
3773 * (bug 1124) Fix ImageGallery XHTML compliance
3774 * (bug 1186) news: in the middle of a word
3775 * (bug 1283) Use underlining and borders to highlight additions/deletions
3776 in diff-view
3777 * Use user's local timezone in Special:Log display
3778 * Show filename for images in gallery by default (restore beta 3 behaviour)
3779 * (bug 1201) Double-escaping in brokenlinks, imagelinks, categorylinks, searchindex
3780 * When using squid reverse proxy, cache the redirect to the Main_Page
3781 * (bug 1302) Fix Norwegian language file
3782 * (bug 1205) Fix broken article saving in PHP 5.1
3783 * (bug 1206) Implement CURRENTWEEK and CURRENTDOW magic keyword (will give
3784 number of the week and number of the day).
3785 * (bug 1204) Blocks do not expire automatically
3786 * (bug 1184) expiry time of indefinite blocks shown as the current time
3787 * (bug 1317) Fix external links in image captions
3788 * (bug 1084) Fix logo not rendering centrally in IE
3789 * (bug 288) Fix tabs wrapping in IE6
3790 * (bug 119) Fix full-width tabs with RTL text in IE
3791 * (bug 1323) Fix logo rendering off-screen in IE with RTL language
3792 * Show "block" link in Special:Recentchanges for logged in users, too, if
3793 wgUserSysopBans is true.
3794 * (bug 1326) Use content language for '1movedto2' in edit history
3795 * zh: Fix warning when HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is not set
3796 * zh: Fix double conversion for zh-sg and zh-hk
3797 * (bug 1132) Fix concatenation of link lists in refreshLinks
3798 * (bug 1101) Fix memory leak in refreshLinks
3799 * (bug 1339) Fix order of @imports in Cologne Blue CSS
3800 * Don't try to create links without namespaces ([[Category:]] link bug)
3801 * Memcached data compression fixes
3802 * Several valid XHTML fixes
3803 * (bug 624) Fix IE freezing rendering whilst waiting for CSS with MonoBook
3804 * (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type
3805 * Fix for script execution vulnerability.
3806
3807 === Beta 6 fixes ===
3808
3809 * (bug 1335) implement 'tooltip-watch' in Language.php
3810 * Fix linktrail for nn: language
3811 * (bug 1214) Fix prev/next links in Special:Log
3812 * (bug 1354) Fix linktrail for fo: language
3813 * (bug 512) Reload generated CSS on preference change
3814 * (bug 63) Fix displaying as if logged in after logout
3815 * Set default MediaWiki:Sitenotice to '-', avoiding extra database hits
3816 * Skip message cache initialization on raw page view (quick hack)
3817 * Fix notice errors in wfDebugDieBacktrace() in XML callbacks
3818 * Suppress notice error on bogus timestamp input (returns epoch as before)
3819 * Remove unnecessary initialization and double-caching of parser variables
3820 * Call-tree output mode for profiling
3821 * (bug 730) configurable $wgRCMaxAge; don't try to update purged RC entries
3822 * Add $wgNoFollowLinks option to add rel="nofollow" on external links
3823 (on by default)
3824 * (bug 1130) Show actual title when moving page instead of encoded one.
3825 * (bug 925) Fix headings containing <math>
3826 * (bug 1131) Fix headings containing interwiki links
3827 * (bug 1380) Update Nynorsk language file
3828 * (bug 1232) Fix sorting of cached Special:Wantedpages in miser mode
3829 * (bug 1217) Image within an image caption broke rendering
3830 * (bug 1384) Make patrol signs have the same width for page moves as for edits
3831 * (bug 1364) fix "clean up whitespace" in Title:SecureAndSplit
3832 * (bug 1389) i18n for proxyblocker message
3833 * Add fur/Furlan/Friulian to language names list
3834 * Add TitleMoveComplete hook on page renames
3835 * Allow simple comments for each translation rules in MW:Zhconversiontable
3836 * (bug 1402) Make link color of tab subject page link on talk page indicate whether article exists
3837 * (bug 1368) Fix SQL error on stopword/short word search w/ MySQL 3.x
3838 * Translated Hebrew namespace names
3839 * (bug 1429) Stop double-escaping of block comments; fix formatting
3840 * (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success
3841 * (bug 1228) Fix double-escaping on &amp; sequences in [enclosed] URLs
3842 * (bug 1435) Fixed many CSS errors
3843 * (bug 1457) Fix XHTML validation on category column list
3844 * (bug 1458) Don't save if edit form submission is incomplete
3845 * Logged-in edits and preview of user CSS/JS are now locked to a session token.
3846 * Per-user CSS and JavaScript subpage customizations now disabled by default.
3847 They can be re-enabled via $wgAllowUserJs and $wgAllowUserCss.
3848 * Removed .ogg from the default uploads whitelist as an extra precaution.
3849 If your web server is configured to serve Ogg files with the correct
3850 Content-Type header, you can re-add it in LocalSettings.php:
3851 $wgFileExtensions[] = 'ogg';
3852
3853 === RC1 fixes ===
3854
3855 * Fix notice error on nonexistent template in wikitext system message
3856 * (bug 1469) add missing <ul> tags on Special:Log
3857 * (bug 1470) remove extra <ul> tags from Danish log messages
3858 * Fix notice on purge w/ squid mode off
3859 * (bug 1477) hide details of SQL error messages by default
3860 Set $wgShowSQLErrors = true for debugging.
3861 * (bug 1430) Don't check for template data when editing page that doesn't exist
3862 * Recentchanges table purging fixed when using table prefix
3863 * (bug 1431) Avoid redundant objectcache garbage collection
3864 * (bug 1474) Switch to better-cached index for statistics page count
3865 * Run Unicode normalization on all input fields
3866 * Fix translation for allpagesformtext2 in LanguageZh_cn and LanguageZh_tw
3867 * Block image revert without valid login
3868 * (bug 1446) stub Bambara (bm) language file using French messages
3869 * (bug 1432) Update Estonian localization
3870 * (bug 1471) unclosed <p> tag in Danish messages
3871 * convertLinks script fixes
3872 * Corrections to template loop detection
3873 * XHTML encoding fix for usernames containing & in Special:Emailuser
3874 * (for zh) Search for variant links even when conversion is turned off,
3875 to help prevent duplicate articles.
3876 * Disallow ISO 8859-1 C1 characters and "no-break space" in user names
3877 on Latin-1 wikis.
3878 * Correct the name of the main page it LanguageIt
3879 * Allow Special:Makesysop to work for usernames containing SQL special
3880 characters.
3881 * Fix annoying blue line in Safari on scaled-down images on description page
3882 * Increase upload sanity checks
3883 * Fix XSS bug in Media: links
3884 * Add cross-site form submission protection to various actions
3885 * Fix fatal error on some dubious page titles
3886 * Stub threshold displays correctly again
3887
3888
3889 === 1.4.0 final fixes ===
3890
3891 * (bug 65) Fix broken interwiki link encoding on Latin-1 wikis; force to UTF-8
3892 * (bug 563) Fix UTF-8 interwiki URL redirects via Latin-1 wikis
3893 * (bug 1536) Fix page info
3894 * Support os (Ossetic) as language code, using Russian localization base
3895 * (bug 1610) Support non (Old Norse) as language code, using Icelandic localization base
3896 * (bug 1618) Properly list custom namespaces in Special:Allpages
3897 * (bug 1622) Remove trailing' >' when using category browser
3898 * (bug 1570) Fix php 4.2.x error on conflict merging
3899 * (bug 1585) Fix page title on post-login redirection page
3900 * Run UTF-8 validation on old text in Recentchanges RSS diffs
3901 * (bug 1642) fix a mime type typo in img_auth.php
3902 * Automated interwiki redirects only for local interwikis
3903 * Respect read-only mode on block removals
3904 * Trim old illegal characters from syndication feeds
3905 * Reduce message cache outage recovery delay from 1 day to 5 minutes
3906 * (bug 1403) Update Finnish localization
3907 * (bug 1478) Punjabi localization
3908 * (bug 1667) Update script 5 second countdown.
3909 * (bug 1057) Fix logging table encoding (error on MySQL 4.1)
3910 * (bug 1680) Fix linktrail for fo
3911 * (bug 1653) Removing hardcoded messages in Special:Allmessages
3912 * (bug 1594) Render a hyphen in a formula as &minus; in HTML
3913 * (bug 1495) Fall back to default language MediaWiki: for custom messages
3914 * (bug 1617) Show different error messages for "user does not
3915 exist" and "wrong password" when using AuthPlugin
3916 * (bug 1532), (bug 1544) Changed language names for
3917 'bn', 'bo', 'dv', 'dz', 'ht', 'ii', 'li', 'lo', 'ng', 'or', 'pa', 'si',
3918 'ti', 've'
3919 * Fix editing on non-Esperanto wiki with user language pref set to Esperanto
3920 * Make conversion table for zh-sg default to zh-cn, and zh-hk default to zh-tw
3921 * Fix PHP notice in MonoBook when counters disabled
3922 * (bug 1696) Update namespaces, dates in uk localization
3923 * (bug 551) Installer warns about magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase
3924 instead of trying to install with corrupt table files
3925 * Installer no longer tries to move non-default MediaWiki: pages into Template:
3926 * User-to-user email disabled by default ($wgEnableUserEmail)
3927
3928
3929 === 1.4.1 fixes ===
3930
3931 * (bug 1720) fix genitive month names for uk
3932 * (bug 1704) fixed untranslateable string in Special:Log
3933 * (bug 1638) Added Belrusian language file
3934 * (bug 1736) typo in SpecialValidate.php
3935 * (bug 73) Upload doesn't run edit updates on description page (links,
3936 search index and categories)
3937 * (bug 646) <math> fails to recognize \ll and \gg
3938 * (bug 926) \div element from TeX not supported in <math> element
3939 * (bug 1147) add \checkmark to whitelist in texutil.ml
3940 * (bug 937) \limits function from LaTeX not supported in <math> element
3941 * Support for manually converting article title to different Chinese
3942 variants (for zh)
3943 * (bug 1488, bug 1744) Fix encoding for preferences, dates in Latin-1 mode
3944 * (bug 1042) Fix UTF-8 case conversion for PHP <4.3 with mbstring extension
3945 * Fix code typo that broke article credits display
3946 * Installation fixes for running under IIS
3947 * (bug 1556) login page tab order. "remember" checkbox now come after password.
3948 * SQL debug log fixlets
3949 * (bug 1815) Fix namespace in old revision display with mismatched title
3950 * (bug 1788) Fix link duplication when edit/upload comment includes newlines
3951 * Change default on $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans to true
3952 * Fix link conversion for URL request
3953 * (bug 1851) Updated download URL for the SCIM packages used by zhtable
3954 * (bug 1853) Try stripping quotes from term for 'go' title match
3955 * Fix missing function in Latin1 mode
3956 * (bug 1860) Anchors of interwiki links did not get normalized
3957 * (bug 1847) accept lowercase x in ISBN, do not accept invalid A-W,Y,Z
3958 * Fix link conversion for URL request, hopefully without breaking the wiki
3959 * (bug 1849) New option allows to consider categorized images as used on
3960 Special:Unusedimages
3961 * Localized category namespace for ka (Georgian)
3962 * (bug 1107) Work around includes problem in installer when parent dir is not
3963 readable by the web server
3964 * (bug 1927) Incorrect escaping on wikitext message in Blockip
3965
3966
3967 === 1.4.2 fixes ===
3968
3969 * Fix math options in Finnish localization
3970 * Use in-process Tidy extension if available when $wgUseTidy is on
3971 * (bug 1933) Fix PATH_INFO usage under IIS with PHP ISAPI module
3972 * (bug 1188) <nowiki> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
3973 * (bug 1936) <!-- comments --> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
3974 * Fix a potential MSIE JavaScript injection vector in Tidy mode
3975
3976
3977 === 1.4.3 fixes ===
3978
3979 * (bug 1636) Refs like &#0355; were misinterpreted as octal in some places
3980 * (bug 1163) Special:Undelete showed oldest revision instead of newest
3981 * (bug 1938) Fix escaping of illegal character references in link text
3982 * (bug 1997) Fix for error on display of renamed items in Recentchanges on PHP5
3983 * (bug 1949) Profiling typo in rare error case
3984 * (bug 1963) Fix deletion log link when $wgCapitalLinks is off
3985 * (bug 1970) Don't show move tab for immobile pages
3986 * (bug 1770) Page creation recorded links from the 'newarticletext' message
3987 * Optional change to the site_stats table. When applied, this removes the need
3988 for expensive queries in Special:Statistics.
3989
3990
3991 === 1.4.4 fixes ===
3992
3993 * (bug 725) Let dir="ltr" attribute work again in MonoBook on RTL languages
3994 * (bug 2024) Skip JavaScript error for custom skins where .js message not set
3995 * (bug 2025) Updated Indonesian localization
3996 * (bug 2039) Updated Lithuanian localization
3997
3998
3999 === Caveats ===
4000
4001 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
4002 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
4003 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
4004 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
4005 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
4006
4007
4008 For notes on 1.3.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
4009
4010
4011 === Online documentation ===
4012
4013 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
4014 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
4015 License:
4016
4017 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
4018
4019
4020 === Mailing list ===
4021
4022 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
4023 wikitech-l list:
4024
4025 http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
4026
4027 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
4028 http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
4029
4030 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
4031 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
4032
4033
4034 === IRC help ===
4035
4036 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net