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1 Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.23.
2
3 == MediaWiki 1.21 ==
4
5 MediaWiki 1.21 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
6 production.
7
8 === Configuration changes in 1.21 ===
9 * (bug 29374) $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch is now enabled by default.
10 * Deprecated $wgAllowRealName is removed. Use $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname'
11 instead.
12 * (bug 39957) Added $wgUnwatchedPageThreshold, specifying minimum count
13 of page watchers required for the number to be accessible to users
14 without the unwatchedpages permission.
15 * $wgBug34832TransitionalRollback has been removed.
16 * (bug 29472) $wgUseDynamicDates has been removed and its functionality
17 disabled.
18
19 === New features in 1.21 ===
20 * (bug 38110) Schema changes (adding or dropping tables, indices and
21 fields) can be now be done separately from from other changes that
22 update.php makes. This is useful in environments that use database
23 permissions to restrict schema changes but allow the DB user that
24 MediaWiki normally runs as to perform other changes that update.php
25 makes. Schema changes can be run separately. See the file UPGRADE
26 for more information.
27 * (bug 34876) jquery.makeCollapsible has been improved in performance.
28 * Added ContentHandler facility to allow extensions to support other content
29 than wikitext. See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
30 * New feature was developed for showing high-DPI thumbnails for high-DPI mobile
31 and desktop displays (configurable with $wgResponsiveImages).
32 * Added new backend to represent and store information about sites and site
33 specific configuration.
34 * jQuery upgraded from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3.
35 * jQuery UI upgraded from 1.8.23 to 1.8.24.
36 * Added separate fa_sha1 field to filearchive table. This allows sha1
37 searches with the api in miser mode for deleted files.
38 * Add initial and programmatic sorting for tablesorter.
39 * Add the event "sortEnd.tablesorter", triggered after sorting has completed.
40 * The Job system was refactored to allow for different backing stores for
41 queues as well as cross-wiki access to queues, among other things. The schema
42 for the DB queue was changed to support better concurrency and reduce
43 deadlock errors.
44 * Added ApiQueryORM class to facilitate creation of query API modules based on
45 tables that have a corresponding ORMTable class.
46 * (bug 40876) Icon for PSD (Adobe Photoshop) file types.
47 * (bug 40641) Implemented Special:Version/Credits with a list of contributors.
48 * (bug 7851) Implemented one-click AJAX patrolling.
49 * The <data>, <time>, <meta>, and <link> elements are allowed within WikiText
50 for use with Microdata.
51 * The HTML5 <mark> tag has been whitelisted.
52 * Added ParserCloned hook for when the Parser object is cloned.
53 * Added AlternateEditPreview hook to allow extensions to replace the page
54 preview from the edit page.
55 * Added EditPage::showStandardInputs:options hook to allow extensions to add
56 new fields to the "editOptions" area of the edit form.
57 * Upload stash DB schema altered to improve upload performance.
58 * The following global functions are now reporting deprecated warnings in
59 debug mode: wfMsg, wfMsgNoTrans, wfMsgForContent, wfMsgForContentNoTrans,
60 wfMsgReal, wfMsgGetKey, wfMsgHtml, wfMsgWikiHtml, wfMsgExt, wfEmptyMsg. Use
61 the Message class, or the global method wfMessage.
62 * Added $wgEnableCanonicalServerLink, off by default. If enabled, a
63 <link rel=canonical> tag is added to every page indicating the correct server
64 to use.
65 * Debug message emitted by wfDebugLog() will now be prefixed with the group
66 name when its logged to the default log file. That is the case whenever the
67 group has no key in wgDebugLogGroups, that will help triage the default log.
68 * (bug 24620) Add types to LogFormatter.
69 * jQuery JSON upgraded from 2.3 to 2.4.0.
70 * Added GetDoubleUnderscoreIDs hook, for modifying the list of magic words.
71 * DatabaseUpdater class has two new methods to ease extensions schema changes:
72 dropExtensionIndex and renameExtensionIndex.
73 * New preference type - 'api'. Preferences of this type are not shown on
74 Special:Preferences, but are still available via the action=options API.
75 * (bug 39397) Hide rollback link if a user is the only contributor of the page.
76 * $wgPageInfoTransclusionLimit limits the list size of transcluded articles
77 on the info action. Default is 50.
78 * Added action=createaccount to allow user account creation.
79 * (bug 40124) action=options API also allows for setting of arbitrary
80 preferences, provided that their names are prefixed with 'userjs-'. This
81 officially reenables the feature that was undocumented and defective
82 in MW 1.20 (saving preferences using Special:Preferences cleared any
83 additional fields) and which has been disabled in 1.20.1 as a part of
84 a security fix (bug 42202).
85 * Added option to specify "others" as author in extension credits using
86 "..." as author name.
87 * Added the ability to limit the wall clock time used by shell processes,
88 as well as the CPU time. Configurable with $wgMaxShellWallClockTime.
89 * Allow memory of shell subprocesses to be limited using Linux cgroups
90 instead of ulimit -v, which tends to cause deadlocks in recent versions
91 of ImageMagick. Configurable with $wgShellCgroup.
92 * Added $wgWhitelistReadRegexp for regex whitelisting.
93 * (bug 5346) Categories that are redirects will be displayed italic in
94 the category links section at the bottom of a page.
95 * (bug 43915) New maintenance script deleteEqualMessages.php.
96 * You can now create checkbox option matrices through the HTMLCheckMatrix
97 subclass in HTMLForm.
98 * WikiText now permits the use of WAI-ARIA's role="presentation" inside of
99 html elements and tables. This allows presentational markup, especially
100 tables. To be marked up as such.
101 * maintenance/sql.php learned the --cluster option. Let you run the script
102 on some external cluster instead of the primary cluster for a given wiki.
103 * (bug 20281) test the parsing of inline URLs.
104 * Added Special:PagesWithProp, which lists pages using a particular page property.
105 * Implemented language-specific collations for category sorting for 67 languages
106 based in latin, greek and cyrillic alphabets. This allows one to *finally* get
107 articles to be correctly sorted on category pages. They are named
108 'uca-<langcode>', where <langcode> is one of: af, ast, az, be, bg, br, bs, ca,
109 co, cs, cy, da, de, dsb, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fi, fo, fr, fur, fy, ga, gd,
110 gl, hr, hsb, hu, is, it, kk, kl, ku, ky, la, lb, lt, lv, mk, mo, mt, nl, no,
111 oc, pl, pt, rm, ro, ru, rup, sco, sk, sl, smn, sq, sr, sv, tk, tl, tr, tt, uk,
112 uz, vi.
113 * Added 'CategoryAfterPageAdded' and 'CategoryAfterPageRemoved' hooks.
114 * Added 'HistoryRevisionTools' and 'DiffRevisionTools' hooks.
115 * Added 'SpecialSearchResultsPrepend' and 'SpecialSearchResultsAppend' hooks.
116 * (bug 33186) Add image rotation api "imagerotate"
117 * (bug 34040) Add "User rights management" link on user page toolbox.
118 * (bug 45526) Add QUnit assertion helper "QUnit.assert.htmlEqual" for asserting
119 structual equality of HTML (ignoring insignificant differences like
120 quotmarks, order and whitespace in the attribute list).
121 * (bug 23393) HTML <hN> headings containing line breaks are now handled
122 correctly.
123 * (bug 45803) Whitespace within == Headline == syntax and within <hN> headings
124 is now non-significant and not preserved in the HTML output.
125 * Added Article::MissingArticleConditions hook to give extensions a chance to
126 hide their (unrelated) log entries.
127
128 === Bug fixes in 1.21 ===
129 * (bug 40353) SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects.
130 * (bug 40352) fixDoubleRedirects.php should support interwiki redirects.
131 * (bug 9237) SpecialBrokenRedirect should not list interwiki redirects.
132 * (bug 34960) Drop unused fields rc_moved_to_ns and rc_moved_to_title from
133 recentchanges table.
134 * (bug 32951) Do not register internal externals with absolute protocol,
135 when server has relative protocol.
136 * (bug 39005) When purging proxies listed in $wgSquidServers using HTTP PURGE
137 method requests, we now send a Host header by default, for Varnish
138 compatibility. This also works with Squid in reverse-proxy mode. If you wish
139 to support Squid configured in forward-proxy mode, set
140 $wgSquidPurgeUseHostHeader to false.
141 * (bug 37020) sql.php with readline eats semicolon.
142 * (bug 11748) Properly handle optionally-closed HTML tags when Tidy is
143 disabled, and don't wrap HTML-syntax definition lists in paragraphs.
144 * (bug 41409) Diffs while editing an old revision should again diff against the
145 current revision.
146 * (bug 41494) Honor $wgLogExceptionBacktrace when logging non-API exceptions
147 caught during API execution.
148 * (bug 37963) Fixed loading process for user options.
149 * (bug 26995) Update filename field on Upload page after having sanitized it.
150 * (bug 41793) Contribution links to users with 0 edits on Special:ListUsers
151 didn't show up red.
152 * (bug 41899) A PHP notice no longer occurs when using the "rvcontinue" API
153 parameter.
154 * (bug 42036) Account creation emails now contain canonical (not
155 protocol-relative) URLs.
156 * (bug 41990) Fix regression: API edit with redirect=true and lacking
157 starttimestamp and basetimestamp should not cause an edit conflict.
158 * (bug 41706) EditPage: Preloaded page should be converted if possible and
159 needed.
160 * (bug 41886) Rowspans are no longer exploded by tablesorter until the table is
161 actually sorted.
162 * (bug 2865) User interface HTML elements don't use lang attribute.
163 (completed the fix by adding the lang attribute to firstHeading).
164 * (bug 42173) Removed namespace prefixes on Special:UncategorizedCategories.
165 * (bug 36053) Log in "returnto" feature forgets query parameters if no
166 title parameter was specified.
167 * (bug 42410) API action=edit now returns correct timestamp for the new edit.
168 * (bug 14901) Email notification mistakes log action for new page creation.
169 Enotif no longer sends "page has been created" notifications for some log
170 actions. The following events now have a correct message: page creation,
171 deletion, move, restore (undeletion), change (edit). Parameter
172 $CHANGEDORCREATED is deprecated in 'enotif_body' and scheduled for removal in
173 MediaWiki 1.23.
174 * (bug 457) In the sidebar of Vector, CologneBlue, Monobook, and Monobook-based
175 skins, the heading levels have been changed from (variously per skin)
176 <h4>, <h5> or <h6> to only <h3>s, with a <h2> hidden heading above them.
177 If you are styling or scripting the headings in a custom way, this change
178 will require updates to your site's CSS or JS.
179 * (bug 41342) jquery.suggestions should cancel any active (async) fetches
180 before it triggers another fetch.
181 * (bug 42184) $wgUploadSizeWarning missing second variable.
182 * (bug 34581) removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script now ignores newuser
183 log when determining whether an account is used.
184 * (bug 43379) Gracefully fail if rev_len is unavailable for a revision on the
185 History page.
186 * (bug 42949) API no longer assumes all exceptions are MWException.
187 * (bug 41733) Hide "New user message" (.usermessage) element from printable view.
188 * (bug 39062) Special:Contributions will display changes that don't have
189 a parent id instead of just an empty bullet item.
190 * (bug 37209) "LinkCache doesn't currently know about this title" error fixed.
191 * wfMerge() now works if $wgDiff3 contains spaces
192 * (bug 43052) mediawiki.action.view.dblClickEdit.dblClickEdit should trigger
193 ca-edit click instead opening URL directly.
194 * (bug 43964) Invalid value of "link" parameter in <gallery> no longer produces
195 a fatal error.
196 * (bug 44775) The username field is not pre-filled when creating an account.
197 * (bug 45069) wfParseUrl() no longer produces a PHP notice if passed a "mailto:"
198 URL without address
199 * (bug 45012) Creating an account by e-mail can no longer show a
200 "password mismatch" error.
201 * (bug 44599) On Special:Version, HEADs for submodule checkouts (e.g. for
202 extensions) performed using Git 1.7.8+ should now appear.
203 * (bug 42184) $wgUploadSizeWarning missing second variable
204 * (bug 40326) Check if files exist with a different extension during uploading
205 * (bug 34798) Updated CSS for Atom/RSS recent changes feeds to match on-wiki diffs.
206 * (bug 42430) Calling numRows on MySQL no longer propagates unrelated errors.
207 * (bug 44719) Removed mention of non-existing maintenance/migrateCurStubs.php
208 script in includes/DefaultSettings.php
209 * (bug 45143) jquery.badge: Treat non-Latin variants of zero as zero as well.
210 * (bug 46151) mwdocgen.php should not ignore exit code of doxygen command.
211 * (bug 41889) Fix $.tablesorter rowspan exploding for complex cases.
212
213 === API changes in 1.21 ===
214 * prop=revisions can now report the contentmodel and contentformat.
215 See docs/contenthandler.txt.
216 * action=edit and action=parse now support contentmodel and contentformat
217 parameters to control the interpretation of page content.
218 See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
219 * (bug 35693) ApiQueryImageInfo now suppresses errors when unserializing metadata.
220 * (bug 40111) Disable minor edit for page/section creation by API.
221 * (bug 41042) Revert change to action=parse&page=... behavior when the page
222 does not exist.
223 * (bug 27202) Add timestamp sort to list=allimages.
224 * (bug 43137) Don't return the sha1 of revisions through the API if the content is
225 revision-deleted.
226 * ApiQueryImageInfo now also returns imageinfo for redirects.
227 * list=alltransclusions added to enumerate every instance of page embedding
228 * list=alllinks & alltransclusions now allow both 'from' and 'continue' in
229 the same query. When both are present, 'from' is simply ignored.
230 * list=alllinks & alltransclusions now allow 'unique' in generators, to yield
231 a list of all link/template target pages instead of source pages.
232 * BREAKING CHANGE: list=logevents output format changed for details of some log
233 types. Specifically, details that were formerly reported under a key like
234 "4::foo" will now be reported under a key of simply "foo".
235 * BREAKING CHANGE: '??_badcontinue' error code was changed to '??badcontinue'
236 for all query modules.
237 * ApiQueryBase adds 'badcontinue' error code if module has 'continue' parameter.
238 * (bug 35885) Removed version parameter and all getVersion() methods.
239 * action=options now takes a "resetkinds" option, which allows only resetting
240 certain types of preferences when the "reset" option is set.
241 * (bug 36751) ApiQueryImageInfo now returns imageinfo for the redirect target
242 when queried with &redirects=.
243 * (bug 31849) ApiQueryImageInfo no longer gets confused when asked for info on
244 a redirect and its target.
245 * (bug 43849) ApiQueryImageInfo no longer throws exceptions with ForeignDBRepo
246 redirects.
247 * On error, any warnings generated before that error will be shown in the result.
248 * action=help supports generalized submodules (modules=query+value), querymodules obsolete
249 * ApiQueryImageInfo continuation is more reliable. The only major change is
250 that the imagerepository property will no longer be set on page objects not
251 processed in the current query (i.e. non-images or those skipped due to
252 iicontinue).
253 * Add supports for all pageset capabilities - generators, redirects, converttitles to
254 action=purge and action=setnotificationtimestamp.
255 * (bug 43251) prop=pageprops&ppprop= now accepts multiple props to query.
256 * ApiQueryImageInfo will now limit the number of calls to File::transform made
257 in any one query. If there are too many, iicontinue will be returned.
258 * action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general will now return the regexes used for
259 link trails and link prefixes. Added for Parsoid support.
260 * Added an API query module list=pageswithprop, which lists pages using a
261 particular page property.
262 * Added an API query module list=pagepropnames, which lists all page prop names
263 currently in use on the wiki.
264 * (bug 44921) ApiMain::execute() will now return after the CORS check for an
265 HTTP OPTIONS request.
266 * (bug 44923) action=upload works correctly if the entire file is uploaded in
267 the first chunk.
268 * Added 'continue=' parameter to streamline client iteration over complex query results
269 * (bug 44909) API parameters may now be marked as type "upload", which is now
270 used for action=upload's 'file' and 'chunk' parameters. This type will raise
271 an error during parameter validation if the parameter is given but not
272 recognized as an uploaded file.
273 * (bug 44244) prop=info may now return the number of people watching each page.
274 * (bug 33304) list=allpages will no longer return duplicate entries when
275 querying protection.
276 * (bug 33304) list=allpages will now find really old indefinite protections.
277 * (bug 45937) meta=allmessages will report a syntactically invalid lang as a
278 proper error instead of as an uncaught exception.
279 * (bug 25325) added support for wlshow filtering (bots/anon/minor/patrolled)
280 to action=feedwatchlist
281 * WDDX formatted output will actually be formatted (and normal output will no
282 longer be), and will no longer choke on booleans.
283
284 === API internal changes in 1.21 ===
285 * For debugging only, a new global $wgDebugAPI removes many API restrictions when true.
286 Never use on the production servers, as this flag introduces security holes.
287 Whenever enabled, a warning will also be added to all output.
288 * ApiModuleManager now handles all submodules (actions,props,lists) and instantiation
289 * Query stores prop/list/meta as submodules
290 * ApiPageSet can now be used in any action to process titles/pageids/revids or any generator.
291 * BREAKING CHANGE: ApiPageSet constructor now has two params instead of three, with only the
292 first one keeping its meaning. ApiPageSet is now derived from ApiBase.
293 * BREAKING CHANGE: ApiQuery::newGenerator() and executeGeneratorModule() were deleted.
294 * ApiQueryGeneratorBase::setGeneratorMode() now requires a pageset param.
295 * $wgAPIGeneratorModules is now obsolete and will be ignored.
296 * Added flags ApiResult::OVERRIDE and ADD_ON_TOP to setElement() and addValue()
297 * Internal API calls will now include <warnings> in case of unused parameters
298
299 === Languages updated in 1.21 ===
300
301 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
302 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
303 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
304
305 * South Azerbaijani (azb) added.
306 * (bug 30040) Autonym for nds-nl is now 'Nedersaksies' (was 'Nedersaksisch').
307 * (bug 45436) Autonym for pi (Pali) is now 'पालि' (was ''पाळि').
308 * (bug 34977) Now formatted numbers in Spanish use space as separator
309 for thousands, as mandated by the Real Academia Española.
310 * (bug 35031) Kurdish formatted numbers now use period and comma
311 as separators for thousands and decimals respectively.
312
313 === Other changes in 1.21 ===
314 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 44385) Removed the jquery.collapsibleTabs module and
315 moved it to the Vector extension. It was entirely Vector-extension-specific,
316 deeply interconnected with the extension, and this functionality really
317 belongs to the extension instead of the skin anyway. In the unlikely case you
318 were using it, you have to either copy it to your extension, or install the
319 Vector extension (and possibly disable its features using config settings if
320 you don't want them).
321 * Experimental IBM DB2 support was removed due to lack of interest and maintainership
322 * BREAKING CHANGE: Filenames of maintenance scripts were standardized into
323 lowerCamelCase format, and made more explicit:
324 - clear_stats.php -> clearCacheStats.php
325 - clear_interwiki_cache.php -> clearInterwikiCache.php
326 - initStats.php -> initSiteStats.php
327 - proxy_check.php -> proxyCheck.php
328 - stats.php -> showCacheStats.php
329 - showStats.php -> showSiteStats.php.
330 Class names were renamed accordingly:
331 - clear_stats -> ClearCacheStats
332 - InitStats -> InitSiteStats
333 - CacheStats -> ShowCacheStats
334 - ShowStats -> ShowSiteStats.
335 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 38244) Removed the mediawiki.api.titleblacklist module
336 and moved it to the TitleBlacklist extension.
337
338 == MediaWiki 1.20 ==
339
340 === PHP 5.3 now required ===
341 Since 1.20, the lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.3.2. Please
342 upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
343
344 === Configuration changes in 1.20 ===
345 * $wgGitRepositoryViewers defines a mapping from Git remote repository to the
346 Gitweb instance URL used in Special:Version.
347 * `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers
348 using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts
349 path info from REQUEST_URI if it's available.
350 * The user right 'upload_by_url' is no longer given to sysops by default.
351 This only affects installations which have $wgAllowCopyUploads set to true.
352 * Removed f-prot support from $wgAntivirusSetup.
353 * New variable $wgDBerrorLogTZ to provide dates in the error log in a
354 different timezone than the wiki timezone set by $wgLocaltimezone.
355 * New variables $wgDBssl and $wgDBcompress to enable SSL and compression for database
356 connections, if either are available for the selected DB type.
357 * $wgUseCombinedLoginLink now defaults to false, making MediaWiki output separate
358 login and create account links by default.
359
360 === New features in 1.20 ===
361 * Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists.
362 * Added NamespaceIsMovable hook which gets called when determining if pages in a
363 certain namespace can be moved.
364 * Added SpecialPageBeforeExecute hook which gets called before SpecialPage::execute.
365 * Added SpecialPageAfterExecute hook which gets called after SpecialPage::execute.
366 * Added ORMTable, ORMRow and ORMResult classes for additional abstraction of
367 database interaction.
368 * Added CacheHelper and associated SpecialCachedPage and CachedAction helper classes.
369 * (bug 32341) Add upload by URL domain limitation.
370 * &useskin=default will now always display the default skin. Useful for users with a
371 preference for the non-default skin to look at something using the default skin.
372 * (bug 27619) Remove preference option to display broken links as link?
373 * (bug 34896) jQuery JSON plugin upgraded to v2.3 (2011-09-17).
374 * (bug 34302) Add CSS classes to email fields in user preferences.
375 * Introduced $wgDebugDBTransactions to trace transaction status (currently PostgreSQL only).
376 * (bug 23795) Add parser itself to ParserMakeImageParams hook.
377 * Introduce a cryptographic random number generator source api for use when
378 generating various tokens.
379 * (bug 30963) Option on Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages to not show redirects.
380 * (bug 18062) New message when edit or create the local page of a shared file.
381 * (bug 22870) Separate interface message when creating a page.
382 * (bug 17615) nosummary option should be reassigned on preview/captcha.
383 * (bug 34355) Add a variable and parser function for the namespace number.
384 * (bug 35649) Special:Version now shows hashes of extensions checked out from git.
385 * (bug 35728) Git revisions are now linked on Special:Version.
386 * "Show Changes" on default messages shows now diff against default message text
387 * (bug 23006) create #speciale parser function.
388 * generateSitemap can now optionally skip redirect pages.
389 * (bug 27757) New API command just for retrieving tokens (not page-based).
390 * Added GitViewers hook for extensions using external git repositories to have a web-based
391 repository viewer linked to from Special:Version.
392 * Memcached debug logs can now be sent to their own file logs by setting
393 $wgDebugLogFile['memcached'] to some filepath.
394 * (bug 35685) api.php URL and other entry point URLs are now listed on
395 Special:Version
396 * Edit notices can now be translated.
397 * jQuery upgraded to 1.8.2.
398 * jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.23.
399 * QUnit upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.10.0.
400 * (bug 37604) jquery.cookie upgraded to 2011 version.
401 * (bug 22887) Add warning and tracking category for preprocessor errors
402 * (bug 31704) Allow selection of associated namespace on the watchlist
403 * (bug 5445) Now remove autoblocks when a user is unblocked.
404 * Added $wgLogExceptionBacktrace, on by default, to allow logging of exception
405 backtraces.
406 * Added device detection for determining device capabilities.
407 * QUnit.newMwEnvironment now supports passing a custom setup and/or teardown function.
408 Arguments signature has changed. First arguments is now an options object of which
409 'config' can be a property. Previously 'config' itself was the first and only argument.
410 * New getCreator and getOldestRevision methods added to WikiPage class
411 * (bug 4220) the XML dump format schema now have unique identity constraints
412 for page and revision identifiers. Patch by Elvis Stansvik.
413 * cleanupSpam.php now can delete spam pages if --delete was specified instead of blanking
414 them.
415 * Added new hook ChangePasswordForm to allow adding of additional fields in Special:ChangePassword
416 * Added new function getDomain to AuthPlugin for getting a user's domain
417 * (bug 23427) New magic word {{PAGEID}} which gives the current page ID.
418 Will be null on previewing a page being created.
419 * (bug 37627) UserNotLoggedIn() exception to show a generic error page whenever
420 a user is not logged in.
421 * Watched status in changes lists are no longer indicated by <strong></strong>
422 tags with class "mw-watched". Instead, each line now has a class
423 "mw-changeslist-line-watched" or "mw-changeslist-line-not-watched", and the
424 title itself is surrounded by <span></span> tags with class "mw-title".
425 * Added ContribsPager::reallyDoQuery hook allowing extensions to data to MyContribs
426 * Added new hook ParserAfterParse to allow extensions to affect parsed output
427 after the parse is complete but before block level processing, link holder
428 replacement, and so on.
429 * (bug 34678) Added InternalParseBeforeSanitize hook which gets called during Parser's
430 internalParse method just before the parser removes unwanted/dangerous HTML tags.
431 * Added new hook AfterFinalPageOutput to allow modifications to buffered page output before sent
432 to the client.
433 * (bug 36783) Implement jQuery Promise interface in mediawiki.api module.
434 * Make dates in sortable tables sort according to the page content language
435 instead of the site content language
436 * (bug 37926) Deleterevision will no longer allow users to delete log entries,
437 the new deletelogentry permission is required for this.
438 * (bug 14237) Allow PAGESINCATEGORY to distinguish between 'all', 'pages', 'files'
439 and 'subcats'
440 * (bug 38362) Make Special:Listuser includeable on wiki pages.
441 * Added support in jquery.localize for placeholder attributes.
442 * (bug 38151) Implemented mw.user.getRights for getting and caching the current
443 user's user rights.
444 * Session storage can now configured independently of general object cache
445 storage, by using $wgSessionCacheType. $wgSessionsInMemcached has been
446 renamed to $wgSessionsInObjectCache, with the old name retained for backwards
447 compatibility. When this feature is enabled, the expiry time can now be
448 configured with $wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry.
449 * Added a Redis client for object caching.
450 * Implemented mw.user.getGroups for getting and caching user groups.
451 * (bug 37830) Added $wgRequirePasswordforEmailChange to control whether password
452 confirmation is required for changing an email address or not.
453 * HTMLForm mutators can now be chained (they return $this)
454 * A new message, "api-error-filetype-banned-type", is available for formatting
455 API upload errors due to the file extension blacklist.
456 * New hook 'ParserTestGlobals' allows to set globals before running parser tests.
457 * Allow importing pages as subpage.
458 * Add lang and hreflang attributes to language links on Login page.
459 * (bug 22749) Create Special:MostInterwikis.
460 * Show change tags when transclude Special:Recentchanges(linked) or Special:Newpages.
461 * (bug 23226) Add |class= parameter to image links in order to add class(es) to HTML img tag.
462 * (bug 39431) SVG animated status is now shown in long description.
463 * (bug 39376) jquery.form upgraded to 3.14.
464 * SVG files will now show the actual width in the SVG's specified units
465 in the metadata box.
466 * Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.jStorage" (v0.3.0, http://jStorage.info/).
467 * (bug 39273) Added AJAX support for "Show changes" (diff) in LivePreview.
468 * Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.badge".
469 * mw.util.$content now points to the overall content area in the skin rather than just
470 page text content area. If you need the old behavior please use $( '#mw-content-text').
471 * jsMessage has been replaced with a floating bubble notification system complete
472 with auto-hide, multi-message support, and message replacement tags.
473 * jquery.messageBox which appears to be unused by both core and extensions has
474 been removed.
475 * (bug 34939) Made link parsing insensitive ([HttP://]).
476 * (bug 40072) Add CSS classes to items in output of ChangesList pages.
477 * Added $wgCopyUploadProxy global to define which proxy to use for copy
478 uploads.
479 * (bug 40448) mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest has been replaced with a new module,
480 mediawiki.searchSuggest, based on SimpleSeach from Extension:Vector.
481
482 === Known issues in 1.20.0 ===
483 These are issues that we're targeting to be fixed in a later release
484 in the 1.20 series. Issues may be added or removed from this list as
485 we see fit. For now, it is comprised of those bugs on the 1.20.0
486 milestone in Bugzilla.
487
488 * (bug 35894): Reports of secret key generation "hanging" on windows
489 This is probably a bug that has been fixed in PHP. If you run
490 into this, try upgrading your PHP.
491 * (bug 38334): PHP Notice: Undefined index: href in /www/w/skins/Vector.php on line 416
492 We think this is a problem in some extension. If you see this,
493 try disabling your extensions and check out the logging patch on
494 this bug. Or try this patch:
495 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27937/1/skins/Vector.php>
496 * (bug 39268): [Regression] Toolbar inserts in main textarea only (instead of the focussed textarea)
497 This should only be an issue if you are using the ProofreadPage
498 extension.
499 * (bug 40641): Clicking "others" in Special:Version asks to download a file
500 If you encounter this, you can tell your webserver to serve the
501 CREDITS file with text/plain MIME type to fix it.
502
503 === Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
504 * (bug 40939): [Regression] InfoAction: Call to a member function getUserText() on a non-object
505 * (bug 40780): searchsuggest-containing line ("containing...") doesn't include the entered text
506 * (bug 37714): [Regression] Incomplete log entries
507 * (bug 27202): API: Add timestamp sort to list=allimages
508 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
509 * (bug 34237) Regenerate an empty user_token and save to the database
510 when we try to set the user's cookies for login.
511 * (bug 32210) New edit emails for watched pages always provide a link to the
512 edit which triggered the mail.
513 * (bug 12021) Added user talk link on Special:Listusers.
514 * (bug 34445) section edit and TOC hide/show links are excluded from selection and
515 copy/paste on supporting browsers.
516 * (bug 34428) Fixed incorrect hash mismatch errors in the DiffHistoryBlob
517 history compression method.
518 * (bug 34702) Localised parentheses are now used in more special pages.
519 * (bug 34723) When editing a script page on a RTL wiki the textbox should be LTR.
520 * (bug 34762) Calling close() on a DatabaseBase object now clears the connection.
521 * (bug 34863) Show deletion log extract on non-existent file pages if applicable.
522 * (bug 28019) Let ?preloadtitle=foo be passed on to target of
523 Special:MyPage and Special:MyTalk.
524 * (bug 34929) Show the correct diff when a section edit is rejected by the spam
525 filter.
526 * (bug 15816) Add a switch for SETting the search_path (Postgres).
527 * (bug 34521) Returning to the previous page after logging in loses any array-
528 valued parameters in the query string.
529 * (bug 34735) Updated compressOld.php documentation to mention the different
530 usages of -s and -n parameters depending on compression type.
531 * (bug 13896) Rendering of devanagari numbers in automatic '#' number lists.
532 * (bug 33689) Upgrade to 1.19 on Postgres fails due to incomplete query when.
533 trying to defer foreign key for externallinks.
534 * (bug 32748) Printer friendly version of article decode Unicode chars as a
535 pretty IRI in footer.
536 * Removed white border around thumbnails in galleries.
537 * (bug 31236) "Next" and "Previous" buttons are shown incorrectly in
538 an RTL environment.
539 * (bug 35749) Updated maintenance/checkSyntax.php to use Git instead of
540 Subversion when invoked with the --modified option.
541 * (bug 35069) On history pages, the " . . " separator after the number of
542 characters changed in a revision is now suppressed if no text would follow.
543 * (bug 18704) Add a unique CSS class or ID to the tagfilter table row at RecentChanges
544 * (bug 33564) transwiki import sometimes result in invalid title.
545 * (bug 35572) Blocks appear to succeed even if query fails due to wrong DB structure
546 * (bug 31757) Add a word-separator between help-messages in HTMLForm
547 * (bug 30410) Removed deprecated $wgFilterCallback and the 'filtered' API error.
548 * (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username.
549 * (bug 36537) Rename wfArrayToCGI to wfArrayToCgi for consistency with wfCgiToArray.
550 * (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed.
551 in user language instead of content language.
552 * (bug 35264) Wrong type used for <ns> in export.xsd
553 * (bug 24985) Use $wgTmpDirectory as the default temp directory so that people
554 who don't have access to /tmp can specify an alternative.
555 * (bug 27283) SqlBagOStuff breaks PostgreSQL transactions.
556 * (bug 35727) mw.Api ajax() should put token parameter last.
557 * (bug 37708) mw.Uri.clone() should make a deep copy.
558 * (bug 38024) ResourceLoader should not create empty stylesheets for modules
559 that don't have stylesheets.
560 * (bug 36812) Special:ActiveUsers "Hide bots" should hide users from any group
561 having the "bot" user right, instead of just the default "bot" user group.
562 * (bug 35082) mw.util.addPortletLink incorrectly adds link to mutiple <ul> tags.
563 * (bug 36991) jquery.tablesorter should extract date sort format from date
564 string instead of global config. Dates like "April 1 2012" and "1 April 2012"
565 now sort correctly regardless of the content language's DefaultDateFormat.
566 * (bug 31895) mw.loader mode now correct when triggered from a $.fn.ready
567 handler that is bound before mediawiki.js's handler (e.g. browser-userscripts
568 like greasemonkey).
569 * (bug 38152) jquery.tablesorter: Use .data() instead of .attr(), so that live
570 values are used instead of just the fixed values from when the tablesorter
571 was initialized.
572 * (bug 38093) Gender of changed user groups missing in Special:Log/rights
573 * (bug 35893) Special:Block needs to load mediawiki.special.block.js.
574 * (bug 37331) ResourceLoader modules sometimes execute twice in Firefox
575 * (bug 31644) GlobalUsage, CentralAuth and AbuseLog extensions should not use
576 insecure links to foreign wikis in the WikiMap.
577 * (bug 36073) Avoid duplicate element IDs on File pages.
578 * (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
579 when "from" is filled.
580 * (bug 35526) jquery.tablesorter now uses a stable sort.
581 * (bug 38953) --memory-limit switch not working for runJobs.php.
582 * (bug 33037) Make subpage of Special:newfiles control how many files
583 are returned, like in previous versions.
584 * (bug 36524) "Show" options on Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked
585 are now remembered between successive clicks.
586 * (bug 26069) Page title is no longer "Error" for all error pages.
587 * (bug 39297) Show warning if thumbnail of animated image will not be animated.
588 * (bug 38249) Parser will throw an exception instead of outputting gibberish if
589 PCRE is compiled without support for unicode properties.
590 * (bug 30390) Suggested file name on Special:Upload should not contain
591 illegal characters.
592 * EXIF below sea level GPS altitude data is now shown correctly.
593 * (bug 39284) jquery.tablesorter should not consider "."" or "?"" to be a currency.
594 * (bug 39273) "Show changes" should not be incorrectly displayed in the Live Preview state.
595 * Made body-content lang attribute honor the variant language when it is set.
596 * (bug 36761) "Mark pages as visited" now submits previously established filter options.
597 * (bug 39635) PostgreSQL LOCK IN SHARE MODE option is a syntax error.
598 * (bug 36329) Accesskey tooltips for Firefox 14 on Mac should use "ctrl-option-" prefix.
599 * (bug 32552) Drop unused database field cat_hidden from table category.
600 * (bug 24502) Do not allow multiple language links to the same language.
601 * (bug 40214) Category pages no longer use deprecated "width" HTML attribute.
602 * (bug 39941) Add missing stylesheets to the installer pages
603 * In HTML5 mode, allow new input element types values (such as color, range..)
604 * (bug 36151) mw.Title: Don't limit extension in title parsing.
605 * (bug 38158) jquery.byteLimit sometimes causes an unexpected 0 maxLength being enforced.
606 * (bug 38163) jquery.byteLimit incorrectly limits input when using methods other than
607 basic per-char typing.
608 * (bug 34495) patrol log now credit the user patrolling (instead of patrolled
609 user).
610 * (bug 31676) ResourceLoader should work around IE stylesheet limit.
611 * (bug 40498) ResourceLoader should not output an empty "@media print { }" block.
612 * (bug 40500) ResourceLoader should not ignore media-type for urls in debug mode.
613 * (bug 40660) ResourceLoaderWikiModule should not convert "&nbsp;" to a space
614 for pages from the MediaWiki-namespace.
615 * (bug 40329) (bug 40632) Removed CleanupPresentationalAttributes feature.
616
617 === API changes in 1.20 ===
618 * (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
619 * (bug 34313) MediaWiki API intro message about "HTML format" should mention
620 the format parameter.
621 * (bug 32384) Allow descending order for list=watchlistraw.
622 * (bug 31883) Limit of bkusers of list=blocks and titles of action=query is
623 not documented in API help.
624 * (bug 32492) API now allows editing using pageid.
625 * (bug 32497) API now allows changing of protection level using pageid.
626 * (bug 32498) API now allows comparing pages using pageids.
627 * (bug 30975) API import of pages with invalid characters in this wiki leads to Fatal Error.
628 * (bug 30488) API now allows listing of backlinks/embeddedin/imageusage per pageid.
629 * (bug 34927) Output media_type for list=filearchive.
630 * (bug 28814) add properties to output of action=parse.
631 * (bug 33224) add variants of content language to meta=siteinfo.
632 * (bug 32643) action=purge with forcelinkupdate no longer crashes when ratelimit is reached.
633 * The paraminfo module now also contains result properties for most modules.
634 * (bug 32348) Allow descending order for list=alllinks.
635 * (bug 31777) Upload unknown error ``fileexists-forbidden''.
636 * (bug 32382) Allow descending order for list=iwbacklinks.
637 * (bug 32381) Allow descending order for list=backlinks, list=embeddedin and list=imageusage.
638 * (bug 32383) Allow descending order for list=langbacklinks.
639 * API meta=siteinfo can now return the list of known variable IDs.
640 * (bug 35980) list=deletedrevs now honors drdir correctly in "all" mode (mode #3).
641 * (bug 29290) API avoids mangling fields in continuation parameters
642 * (bug 36987) API avoids mangling fields in continuation parameters
643 * (bug 30836) siteinfo prop=specialpagealiases will no longer return nonexistent special pages
644 * (bug 38190) Add "required" flag to some token params for hint in api docs.
645 * (bug 27567) Add file repo support to prop=duplicatefiles.
646 * (bug 27610) Add archivename for non-latest image version to list=filearchive
647 * (bug 38231) Add xml parse tree to action=parse.
648 * Watchlist notification timestamp may be queried by page and may be updated via the API.
649 * (bug 38904) prop=revisions&rvstart=... no longer blows up when continuing.
650 * (bug 39032) ApiQuery generates help in constructor.
651 * (bug 11142) Improve file extension blacklist error reporting in API upload.
652 * (bug 39665) List of query generators is now not built using reflection, instead it is
653 defined in code.
654 * (bug 35993) Deprecated gettoken parameter - support will be removed in 1.22.
655
656 === Languages updated in 1.20 ===
657
658 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
659 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
660 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
661
662 * Emilian (egl) added.
663 * Tornedalen Finnish (fit) added.
664 * Mizo (lus) added.
665 * Santali (sat) added.
666 * (bug 34192) Namespace gender aliases for Albanian languages (sq & aln).
667 * (bug 35541) Namespace gender aliases for Croatian (hr).
668 * (bug 36012) Space in $separatorTransformTable should be non-breaking in
669 Portuguese, Esperanto and Udmurt.
670 * Turoyo (tru) added.
671 * Cyrillic-Latin language converter added for Uzbek (uz).
672
673 === Other changes in 1.20 ===
674 * The user_token field is now left empty until a user attempts to login and
675 cookies need to be set. It is also now possible to reset every user's
676 user_token simply by clearing the values in the user_token column.
677 * Removed ./tests/qunit/index.html from core. It wasn't actively maintained and
678 has been made obsolete when [[Special:JavaScriptTest/qunit]] was introduced,
679 which actually uses ResourceLoader, LocalSettings and the Skin.
680 * Removed $wgDBtransactions global. This was only checked in one class
681 and only applies to MyISAM or similar DBs. Those should only be used
682 for archived sites anyway. We can't get edit conflicts on such sites,
683 so the WikiPage code wasn't useful there either.
684 * Deprecated mw.user.name in favour of mw.user.getName.
685 * Deprecated mw.user.anonymous in favour of mw.user.isAnon.
686 * Deprecated DatabaseBase functions newFromParams(), newFromType(), set(),
687 quote_ident(), and escapeLike() were removed.
688 * Use of __DIR__ instead of dirname( __FILE__ ).
689 * OutputPage::wrapWikiMsg() no longer supports the 'options' parameter. It was
690 not used and complicated migration to Message class.
691 * Live preview functionality has been improved and moved into the
692 'mediawiki.action.edit.preview' module. The old 'mediawiki.legacy.preview' module
693 has been removed.
694 * (bug 40448) Removed mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest module, and removed the
695 following that has become obsolete:
696 - globals $wgEnableMWSuggest and $wgMWSuggestTemplate.
697 - mw.config.values wgMWSuggestTemplate and wgSearchNamespaces.
698 - method SearchEngine::getMWSuggestTemplate().
699
700 == MediaWiki 1.19 ==
701
702 == MediaWiki 1.19.2 ==
703
704 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch
705
706 === Changes since 1.19.1 ===
707 * (bug 39700) File: link to non-existing file can inject html
708 * (bug 39823) Hidden block text leaking to admins
709 * (bug 39184) LDAP password leakage
710 * (bug 39180) Disallow framing of api results
711 * (bug 37587) Enforce language codes to be html safe
712 * (bug 39824) Check global blocks on account creation
713
714 == MediaWiki 1.19 ==
715
716 MediaWiki 1.19 is a large release that contains many new features and bug
717 fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users.
718 You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 file for the full list of changes in
719 this version.
720
721 Our thanks go to everyone who helped to improve MediaWiki by testing the beta
722 release and submitting bug reports.
723
724 === Changes since 1.19.1 ===
725 * (bug 38406) Properly quote table names in DatabaseBase::tableName()
726 * (bug 38249) Parser will throw an exception instead of outputting gibberish if
727 PCRE is compiled without support for unicode properties.
728
729 === Changes since 1.19.0 ===
730 * (bug 36568) Fixed "Illegal string offset 'LIMIT'" warnings in updater
731 * (bug 36938) Correctly escape uselang attribute to prevent xss
732 * Expanded Blacklist for SVG Files
733
734 === Changes since 1.19 beta 2 ===
735 * Special:Watchlist no longer sets links to feed when the user is anonymous.
736 * (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict.
737 * Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes.
738 * (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php
739 on line 598.
740 * (bug 36042) 'show' causes a fatal in blocks API.
741
742 === Changes since 1.19 beta 1 ===
743 * (bug 35014) Including a special page no longer sets the page's title to the
744 included page
745 * (bug 35019) Edit summaries are no longer transformed in notification e-mails
746 * (bug 35152) Help message for e-mail is shown again in user preferences
747 * (bug 34887) $3 and $4 parameters are now substituted correctly in message
748 "movepage-moved"
749 * (bug 34841) Edit links are no longer displayed when display old page versions
750 * (bug 34889) User name should be normalized on Special:Contributions
751 * (bug 35051) If heading has a trailing space after == then its name is not
752 preloaded into edit summary on section edit
753 * (bug 31417) New ID mw-content-text around the actual page text, without categories,
754 contentSub, ... The same div often also contains the class mw-content-ltr/rtl.
755 * (bug 35303) Proxy and DNS blacklist blocking works again
756 * (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like &lt;nowiki&gt; in
757 core parser functions which operate on strings, such as padleft.
758 * (bug 18295) Don't expose strip markers when a tag appears inside a link
759 inside a heading.
760 * (bug 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token
761 parameter present.
762 * (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated
763 CSRF attacks.
764 * (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload.
765
766 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
767 * Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
768 * (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
769 * Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
770 * (bug 31204) Removed old user.user_options.
771 * $wgMaxImageArea now applies to jpeg files if they are not scaled with
772 ImageMagick.
773 * Introduced $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit (defaults to 50) for the number of
774 items to show by default on query pages (special pages such as Whatlinkshere).
775 * (bug 32470) Increase the length of ug_group.
776 * (bug 32239) Removed $wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
777 * Removed $wgVectorShowVariantName.
778 * Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use $wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
779 * Removed $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules , now always enabled.
780
781 === New features in 1.19 ===
782 * (bug 19838) Add ability to get all interwiki prefixes also if the interwiki
783 cache is used.
784 * $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
785 elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
786 Project Honeypot.
787 * (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader.
788 * (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external
789 links and images links.
790 * (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry.
791 * (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed
792 as with templates.
793 * Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present.
794 * (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit
795 plugin.
796 * Added two new GetLocalURL hooks to better serve extensions working on a
797 limited type of titles.
798 * Added a --no-updates flag to importDump.php that skips updating the links
799 tables.
800 * Most presentational html attributes like valign are now converted to inline
801 css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean
802 them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using
803 $wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes.
804 * Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not
805 NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site
806 language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages,
807 although they are not used there.
808 * (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent.
809 * (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion.
810 * Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle.
811 * (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when
812 generating sitemaps.
813 * (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like
814 'class') in the Html helper class.
815 * (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages.
816 * (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
817 attribute values and element contents.
818 * Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language.
819 * (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
820 to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error.
821 * (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better
822 localisation.
823 * (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
824 instead of the wiki content language.
825 * Jump links will now be usable in CSS-capable browsers instead of only
826 in outdated text browsers.
827 * New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
828 of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
829 * Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically
830 converted to css.
831 * (bug 31297) Add support for namespaces in Special:RecentChanges subpage filter
832 syntax.
833 * The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
834 * (bug 25306) Add link of old page title to MediaWiki:Delete_and_move_reason.
835 * Added hook BitmapHandlerCheckImageArea.
836 * (bug 30062) Add $wgDBprefix option to cli installer.
837 * getUserPermissionsErrors and getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive hooks are now
838 also called when checking for 'read' permission.
839 * Introduce $wgEnableSearchContributorsByIP which controls whether searching
840 for an IP address redirects to the contributions list for that IP.
841 * (bug 8859) Database::update should take array of tables too.
842 * (bug 19698) Add "Inverse namespaces" option to Special:Contributions.
843 * (bug 24037) Add byte length of revision to Special:Contributions.
844 * (bug 1672) Added $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks to allow uploading of files
845 containing HTML or JS. DISABLING THESE CHECKS IS VERY DANGEROUS.
846 * New path mappings can be added using the WebRequestPathInfoRouter hook
847 and adding paths to the PathRouter.
848 * (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as value for the
849 "target" query parameter (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username).
850 * New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage.
851 * Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar.
852 * Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people
853 perceiving colors differently.
854 * (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1.
855 * jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17.
856 * Extensions can use the 'Language::getMessagesFileName' hook to define new
857 languages using messages files outside of core.
858 * (bug 32512) Add 'Associated namespace' checkbox to Special:Contributions.
859 * Added $wgSend404Code, true by default, which can be set to false to send a
860 200 status code instead of 404 for nonexistent articles.
861 * (bug 33447) Link to the broken image tracking category from Special:Wantedfiles.
862 * (bug 27724) Add timestamp to job queue.
863 * (bug 30339) Implement SpecialPage for running javascript tests. Disabled by default, due to
864 tests potentially being harmful, not to be run on a production wiki.
865 Enable by setting $wgEnableJavaScriptTest to true.
866 * Extensions can use the RequestContextCreateSkin hook to override what skin is
867 loaded in some contexts.
868 * (bug 33456) Show $wgQueryCacheLimit on cached query pages.
869 * (bug 10574) Add an option to allow all pages to be exported by Special:Export.
870 * mediawiki.js Message object constructor is now publicly available as mw.Message.
871 * (bug 29309) Allow CSS class per tooltip (tipsy).
872 * (bug 33565) Add accesskey/tooltip to submit buttons on Special:EditWatchlist.
873 * (bug 17959) Inline rendering/thumbnailing for Gimp XCF images.
874 * (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file.
875 * (bug 30513) Redirect tag is now resolved in XML dump file.
876 * sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file.
877 * (bug 33646) Badtitle error page now emits a 400 HTTP status.
878 * Special:MovePage now has a dropdown menu for namespaces.
879 * (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available.
880 * (bug 33952) Refactor mw.toolbar to allow dynamic additions at any time.
881
882 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
883 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if.
884 $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
885 until the second was introduced in 1.17.
886 * BREAKING CHANGE: Style rules for wikitable are now more specific and prevent
887 inheritance to nested tables which caused various issues (bug 30485 and bug
888 33434). If your wiki has overriden rules for ".wikitable", please revise them and
889 adjust where neccecary. For comparison, use the "table.wikitable" section in
890 skins/common/shared.css as base.
891 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl is now used for file redlinks if
892 $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The former was used for this until the
893 second was introduced in 1.17.
894 * (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
895 div#bodyContent.
896 * (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
897 when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced
898 Maintenance::posix_isatty().
899 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use
900 require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
901 * Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
902 * (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages.
903 * (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
904 warnings/notices to be thrown.
905 * (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET that were breaking when non-friendly
906 URLs are used.
907 * (bug 28649) Preventing half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
908 truncating log comments.
909 * Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it.
910 * (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
911 unescaped.
912 * (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
913 importing a new revision into it.
914 * Allow moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
915 has no subpage.
916 * Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
917 * (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ is no longer unconditionally enqueueing jobs.
918 * (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of
919 restrictions on some of the database fields.
920 * Timezones are now recognised in user preferences when offset is different
921 due to DST.
922 * (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also works when undoing revisions.
923 * (bug 18823) "move succeeded" text displayed bluelinks even when redirect was
924 suppressed.
925 * (bug 19186) Special:UserLogin's title on Special:SpecialPages now says
926 "create account" when the user cannot create an account.
927 * (bug 31818) 'usercreated' message now supports GENDER.
928 * (bug 32022) Our phpunit.php script can now be executed from another directory.
929 * (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs.
930 from recent changes feeds.
931 * (bug 30232) add current time to message wlnote on Special:Watchlist.
932 * (bug 29110) $wgFeedDiffCutoff did not affect new pages.
933 * (bug 32168) Add wfRemoveDotSegments for use in wfExpandUrl.
934 * (bug 32358) Do not display "No higher resolution available" for dimensionless
935 files (like audio files).
936 * (bug 32168) Add wfAssembleUrl for use in wfExpandUrl.
937 * (bug 32168) fixed - wfExpandUrl expands dot segments now.
938 * (bug 31535) Upload comments now truncated properly, and don't have brackets.
939 * (bug 32086) Special:PermanentLink now show an error message when no subpage
940 was specified.
941 * (bug 30368) Special:Newpages now shows the new page name for moved pages.
942 * (bug 1697) The way to search blocked usernames in block log should be clearer.
943 * (bug 29747) eAccelerator shared memory caching has been removed since it is
944 now disabled by default and is buggy. APC, XCache and WinCache are not affected.
945 * Installer now refuses to install if php was not compiled with Ctype support.
946 * (bug 29475) Remove "trackback" feature entirely from core.
947 * (bug 32665) Special:BlockList prefills the username in the input field if
948 using the Special:BlockList/username URL.
949 * (bug 27721) Make JavaScript variables wgSeparatorTransformTable and
950 wgDigitTransformTable depend on page content language so the sort script
951 sorts correctly more often.
952 * (bug 32230) Expose wgRedirectedFrom in JavaScript.
953 * (bug 31212) History tab not collapsed when the screen is narrow.
954 * (bug 15521) Use new section summary when the action of adding a new section
955 also happens to create the page.
956 * (bug 32960) Remove EmailAuthenticationTimestamp from database when a
957 email address is removed.
958 * (bug 32414) Empty page get a empty bytes attribute in Export/Dump.
959 * (bug 33101) Viewing a User or User talk of username resembling IP ending
960 with .xxx causes Internal error.
961 * Warning about undefined index in certain situations when $wgLogRestrictions
962 causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others.
963 * Use separate message ('prefixindex-namespace') for title of
964 Special:PrefixIndex rather then re-using Special:AllPages's allinnamespace.
965 * (bug 33156) Special:Block now allows you to confirm you want to block yourself
966 when using non-normalized username.
967 * (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs.
968 * (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting
969 cssText after DOM insertion.
970 * (bug 30711) When adding a new section to a page with section=new, the text is
971 now always added to the current version of the page.
972 * (bug 31719) Fix uploads of SVGs exported by Adobe Illustrator by expanding
973 XML entities correctly.
974 * (bug 30914) Embeddable ResourceLoader modules (user.options, user.tokens)
975 should be loaded in <head> for proper dependency resolution.
976 * (bug 32702) Removed method Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript() has been readded
977 for backward compatibility.
978 * (bug 31469) Make sure tracking category messages expand variables like
979 {{NAMESPACE}} relative to correct title.
980 * (bug 33454) ISO-8601 week-based year number (format character 'o') is now
981 calculated correctly with respect to timezone.
982 * (bug 32219) InstantCommons now fetches content from Wikimedia Commons using
983 HTTPS when the local wiki is served over HTTPS.
984 * (bug 33525) clearTagHooks doesn't clear function hooks.
985 * (bug 33523) Function tag hooks don't appear on Special:Version.
986 * Files with IPTC blocks we can't read no longer prevent extraction of exif
987 or other metadata.
988 * (bug 33587) Remove action "historysubmit" from history pages.
989 * (bug 25800) mw.config wgAction should contain the actually performed action instead
990 of whatever the query value contains.
991 * (bug 4438) Add CSS hook for current WikiPage action.
992 * (bug 33703) Common border-bottom color for <abbr> should inherit default (text) color.
993 * (bug 33819) Display file sizes in appropriate units.
994 * (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after doing
995 a null edit.
996 * (bug 33880) $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges should not send e-mail to user who made
997 the edit.
998 * (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +.
999 * (bug 33762) QueryPage-based special pages no longer misses *-summary message.
1000 * Other sizes links are no longer generated for wikis without a 404 thumbnail handler.
1001 * (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage.
1002 * (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter.
1003 * Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the contributions for the user "newbies".
1004 New user contributions are obtained using the form or using ?contribs=newbie in URL.
1005 * It is now possible to delete images that have no corresponding description pages.
1006 * (bug 33165) GlobalFunctions.php line 1312: Call to a member function
1007 getText() on a non-object.
1008 * (bug 31676) Group dynamically inserted CSS into a single <style> tag, to work
1009 around a bug where not all styles were applied in Internet Explorer.
1010 * (bug 28936, bug 5280) Broken or invalid titles can't be removed from watchlist.
1011 * (bug 34600) Older skins using useHeadElement=false were broken in 1.18.
1012 * (bug 34604) [mw.config] wgActionPaths should be an object instead of a numeral
1013 array.* (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
1014 * (bug 29753) mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyPrefix should be alt-shift for Chrome
1015 on Windows
1016 * (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
1017 when "from" is filled.
1018 * (bug 34972) An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings for
1019 [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Example]]
1020
1021 === API changes in 1.19 ===
1022 * Made action=edit less likely to return "unknownerror", by returning the actual error
1023 message (which may have come from a hook call or similar).
1024 * (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
1025 * (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
1026 * (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
1027 * (bug 29685) do not output NULL parentid with list=deletedrevs&drprop=parentid.
1028 * siprop=interwikimap and siprop=languages can use silanguagecode to have
1029 a best effort language name translation. Use CLDR extension for best result.
1030 * (bug 30230) action=expandtemplates should not silently override invalid title
1031 inputs.
1032 * (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure.
1033 * (bug 26885) Allow show/hide of account blocks, temporary blocks and single IP
1034 address blocks for list=blocks.
1035 * (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
1036 * The API now respects $wgShowHostnames and won't share the hostname in
1037 severedby if it's set to false.
1038 * wlexcludeuser parameter added to ApiFeedWatchlist.
1039 * (bug 7304) Links on redirect pages no longer cause the redirect page to show
1040 up as a redirect to the linked page on Special:Whatlinkshere.
1041 * (bug 32609) API: Move captchaid/captchaword of action=edit from core
1042 to Captcha extension(s).
1043 * Added 'APIGetDescription' hook.
1044 * (bug 32688) Paraminfo for parameter "generator" of the query module shows too
1045 many types.
1046 * (bug 32415) Empty page get no size attribute in API output.
1047 * (bug 31759) Undefined property notice in querypages API.
1048 * (bug 32495) API should allow purge by pageids.
1049 * (bug 33147) API examples should explain what they do.
1050 * (bug 33482) Api incorrectly calls ApiBase::parseMultiValue if allowed
1051 values is given as an array.
1052 * (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after
1053 calling action=purge&forcelinkupdate.
1054 * (bug 34377) action=watch now parses messages using the correct title instead
1055 of "API".
1056 * (bug 35036) WikiLove messages were not automatically updated in JavaScript
1057 after having been changed on-wiki due to a bug in core
1058
1059 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
1060
1061 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
1062 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
1063 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
1064
1065 * Canadian English (en-ca) (new).
1066 * Norwegian (bokmål) (nb) (renamed from no).
1067 * Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
1068 * (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt.
1069 * (bug 31193) Set fallback language of Assamese from Bengali to English.
1070 * Update date format for dsb and hsb: month names need the genitive.
1071 * (bug 28643) Serbian variant conversion improvements (Nikola Smolenski).
1072 * (bug 29405, bug 30809) Lower diacritics are invisible in titles in Indic
1073 languages Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Malyalam and Odiya.
1074 * (bug 32826) Titles in indic languages are partially cut.
1075 * (bug 33367) Gendered namespaces for Czech.
1076 * (bug 33014) Language::formatSize()/formatBitrate() should be able to deal
1077 with larger numbers (tera-yotta).
1078
1079 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
1080 * BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy global array 'ta' and global function 'akeytt' have
1081 been removed from wikibits.js.
1082 * jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
1083 * The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
1084 populateImageSha1.php.
1085 * The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
1086 real IP address.
1087 * (bug 22096) Although IE5.x and below was already unsupported officially, stylesheets
1088 existing exclusively for IE5.0 and IE5.5 have now been removed (which were in skins
1089 'chick' and 'monobook').
1090 * The constructor for CategoryView has changed, the second parameter is now a
1091 Context source and is required.
1092 * The Title::escape{Local,Full,Canonical}URL methods are deprecated, please use
1093 proper html building methods to escape the normal get{...}URL methods instead.
1094 * The $variant arguments in the Title::get{Local,Full,Link,Canonical}URL methods
1095 have been replaced with a secondary query argument.
1096 * The $variant argument in the hooks for the Title::get{Local,Full,Link,Canonical}URL
1097 methods have been removed, the variant is now part of the $query argument.
1098 * Removed Title::isValidCssJsSubpage(), deprecated since 1.17 in favor of
1099 using Title::isCssJsSubpage() or checking Title::isWrongCaseCssJsPage().
1100 * Support for the deprecated hook MagicWordMagicWords was removed.
1101 * The Xml::namespaceSelector method has been deprecated, please use
1102 Html::namespaceSelector instead (note that the parameters have changed also).
1103 * (bug 33746) Preload popular ResourceLoader modules (mediawiki.util) as stop-gap
1104 for scripts missing dependencies.
1105 New configuration variable $wgPreloadJavaScriptMwUtil has been introduced for this
1106 (set to false by default for new installations). Set to true if your wiki has a large
1107 amount of user/site scripts that are lacking dependency information. In the short to
1108 medium term these user/site scripts should be fixed by adding the used modules to the
1109 dependencies in the module registry and/or wrapping them in a callback to mw.loader.using.
1110
1111 == MediaWiki 1.18 ==
1112
1113 == MediaWiki 1.18.5 ==
1114 2012-08-30
1115
1116 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch
1117
1118 === Changes since 1.18.4 ===
1119 * (bug 39700) File: link to non-existing file can inject html
1120 * (bug 39823) Hidden block text leaking to admins
1121 * (bug 39184) LDAP password leakage
1122 * (bug 39180) Disallow framing of api results
1123 * (bug 37587) Enforce language codes to be html safe
1124 * (bug 39824) Check global blocks on account creation
1125
1126 == MediaWiki 1.18.4 ==
1127 2012-06-12
1128
1129 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
1130
1131 === Changes since 1.18.3 ===
1132 * (bug 36938) Correctly escape uselang attribute to prevent xss
1133 * Expanded Blacklist for SVG Files
1134
1135 == MediaWiki 1.18.3 ==
1136 2012-04-25
1137
1138 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
1139
1140 === Changes since 1.18.2 ===
1141 * (bug 35446) Using "{{nse:}}" with an invalid namespace name no longer throws
1142 a PHP warning.
1143 * (bug 35567) The whole password reminder e-mail is now sent in the same language.
1144 * (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict.
1145 * (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php
1146 on line 598.
1147 * Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes.
1148
1149 == MediaWiki 1.18.2 ==
1150 2012-03-21
1151
1152 This is a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
1153
1154 === Changes since 1.18.1 ===
1155 * (bug 33686) could not get a list of contributor for an article when using
1156 a SQLite database.
1157 * (Bug 33865) Exception thrown in action=parse when attempting to use the title
1158 parameter without setting the text parameter.
1159 * UserMailer could potentially throw a fatal error when a MailAddress object had
1160 an empty email address.
1161 * (Bug 33087) Exchange server rejected mail sent by MediaWiki
1162 * (bug 34528) Edit section tooltips show correction section name again
1163 * (bug 34246) MediaWiki:Whatlinkshere-summary message is displayed again in
1164 Special:Whatlinkshere
1165 * (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like &lt;nowiki&gt; in
1166 core parser functions which operate on strings, such as formatnum.
1167 * (bug 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token
1168 parameter present.
1169 * (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated
1170 CSRF attacks.
1171 * (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload.
1172
1173 == MediaWiki 1.18.1 ==
1174 2012-01-11
1175
1176 This a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
1177
1178 === Changes since 1.18.0 ===
1179 * (bug 32712) Fix for search indexing of pages with certain unicode chars following URL.
1180 * (bug 3901) Lang, hreflang attribs added to sidebar interlanguage links for screen readers.
1181 * (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
1182 attribute values and element contents.
1183 * (bug 32473) [[Special:PasswordReset]] can not be used on private wiki.
1184 * (bug 32853) Fixed CACHE_DBA object cache type.
1185 * (bug 32786) Backward compatibility for extension using 1.17's Database::newFromType().
1186 * Fixed exception when using Special:WhatLinksHere on a Media: file.
1187 * (bug 32709) Private Wiki users were always taken to Special:Badtitle on login.
1188 * (bug 33240) Sort images are missing but referenced in css.
1189 * (bug 31921) Magic words REVISIONDAY, REVISIONMONTH and REVISIONYEAR were
1190 not showing their values on preview.
1191 * (bug 32702) Removed method Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript() has been readded
1192 for backward compatibility.
1193 * (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
1194 when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced Maintenance::posix_isatty().
1195 * (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting
1196 cssText after DOM insertion.
1197 * (bug 29102) Upgrades no longer fail with the error "Unknown character set: 'mysql4'.
1198 * (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
1199 * (bug 33321) Adding a line to MediaWiki:Sidebar that contains a pipe, but doesn't
1200 have any pipes after being transformed by MessageCache, causes exception on
1201 all pages.
1202 * Fixed recentchanges FK violation on page delete and cache purge error in updater
1203 for Oracle DB.
1204 * (bug 33117) prop=revisions allows deleted text to be exposed through cache pollution.
1205
1206 == MediaWiki 1.18.0 ==
1207 2011-11-24
1208
1209 This is the first stable release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
1210
1211 === Summary of selected changes in 1.18 ===
1212
1213 Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.17 that may be of interest:
1214
1215 * Some of the more commonly used MediaWiki extensions are now included in the
1216 release tarball. These extensions are ConfirmEdit, Gadgets, Nuke, ParserFunctions,
1217 Renameuser, Vector and WikiEditor.
1218
1219 * Gender support has been improved, meaning user pages can display the correct gender
1220 variant of "User" can now be used.
1221
1222 * MediaWiki can now detect the camera orientation of an image from the Exif metadata, and
1223 can rotate the image thumbnail appropriately. Metadata support has been generally
1224 improved, and can now extract IPTC and XMP metadata.
1225
1226 * Improved directionality support in 1.18 means that MediaWiki is better to use for
1227 RTL users.
1228
1229 * MediaWiki now supports protocol - relative URLs in links, interwiki targets and $wgServer
1230
1231 * Math support has been removed from core
1232
1233 === Changes since 1.18.0rc1 ===
1234 * (bug 32228) regression in Special:Search which did not conserve profile on new search
1235 * (bug 32460) Categories were improperly aligned in Simple and CologneBlue
1236 * (bug 32412) TOC links on [[Special:EditWatchlist]] points to the fieldsets
1237 * (bug 32582) Fix TOC show/hide link regression on IE 8
1238
1239 === Changes since 1.18 beta 1 ===
1240 * (bug 31886) Wrong titles redirecting to Special:Badtitle in the 1.18 deployment.
1241 * (bug 32051) Fix description for wlprop=sizes.
1242 * (bug 31913) Special:MostLinkedTemplates had an incorrect GROUP BY clause
1243 under Microsoft SQL.
1244 * (bug 32100) installer complains about suhosin GET limit.
1245 * (bug 31933) fix 1.18 regression in Monobook sidebar: huge spacing between portlets
1246 on IE 7 and IE 8/9 in compatibility view.
1247 * (bug 32126) Fix 1.18 regression in watchlist editor when items already removed
1248 from watchlist.
1249 * (bug 32183) remove the client-* classes added from user-agent-sniffing onto
1250 the <html> element.
1251 * (bug 29912) Unit tests break if parsertest tables are still present.
1252 * (bug 31694) During installation, tabbing order (cursor focus) goes to logo
1253 instead of 'continue'.
1254 * (bug 29102) Upgrade fails "Unknown character set: 'mysql4".
1255 * (bug 31990) justify paragraphs pref adds extra space to category listing.
1256 * (bug 20148) Better title for [[Special:Disambiguations]] page.
1257 * (bug 31502) TOC is missing on Special:EditWatchlist.
1258 * (bug 32256) API list=search stops at first invalid result.
1259 * (bug 32047) jquery.tablesorter.js: thead is before caption.
1260 * (bug 29854) Store protocol-relative links twice in the externallinks table,
1261 one with http: in el_index and once with https.
1262 * (bug 31822) Error during upgrade due to output buffer reset in stdout.
1263
1264 === Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
1265 * The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
1266 WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions.
1267 * The SkinTemplateBuildContentActionUrlsAfterSpecialPage,
1268 SkinTemplateContentActions and SkinTemplateTabs hooks have been removed in
1269 favor of SkinTemplateNavigation and SkinTemplateNavigation::SpecialPage.
1270 * $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined
1271 login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login
1272 and create account links.
1273 * Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in
1274 $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for
1275 $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try
1276 loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook.
1277 * $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit
1278 per upload type.
1279 * $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set
1280 $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0;
1281 * OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed
1282 by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false.
1283 * Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins
1284 should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate.
1285 * The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old
1286 Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with
1287 $wgLegacyEncoding set.
1288 * (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we
1289 look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
1290 * $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed.
1291 Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the
1292 same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to
1293 replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality.
1294 * The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box
1295 makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation"
1296 and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk
1297 edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block
1298 anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings
1299 remain the same.
1300 * Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which
1301 will probably break screen-scraping bots.
1302 * (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default.
1303 $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default.
1304 * (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least
1305 *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the
1306 ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the
1307 output.
1308 * (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable
1309 math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from
1310 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php:
1311 require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php";
1312 * $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for
1313 details.
1314 * $wgProfiling has been removed.
1315 * The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3.
1316 * (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed
1317 * $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead.
1318 * $wgProto has been removed. You now only need to set $wgServer to change the
1319 URL protocol.
1320 * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed.
1321 * $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed.
1322 * $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed.
1323 * $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed.
1324 * LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed.
1325 * (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say
1326 whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated.
1327 * $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core,
1328 and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See
1329 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and
1330 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCommonsRdf as appropriate.
1331 * (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS
1332 * Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature
1333 was removed in about 1.5.
1334 * LogPageValidTypes, LogPageLogName, LogPageLogHeader and LogPageActionText
1335 hooks have been removed.
1336 * New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom
1337 category collations.
1338 * $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions.
1339 * $wgEnableAutoRotation enables or disables auto-rotation. Leaving it set to
1340 null will cause MediaWiki to determine if auto-rotation is available.
1341
1342 === New features in 1.18 ===
1343 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
1344 * BREAKING CHANGE: Article class hierarchy split into WikiPage (backend).
1345 and Article (frontend) hierarchies. Several hooks now pass a WikiPage object instead
1346 of an Article object. These hooks all use an $article paramater as documented in hooks.txt.
1347 Extensions should be updated to account for this, though most won't require any changes.
1348 * (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab
1349 Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you
1350 create a page or new section.
1351 * (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main
1352 namespace.
1353 * Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions.
1354 * (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
1355 This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
1356 * (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0.
1357 * New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be
1358 saved.
1359 * New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation
1360 to be selectively disabled.
1361 * Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class.
1362 * Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a
1363 thumbnail.
1364 * (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}.
1365 * Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file.
1366 * Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the
1367 upload form instead of edittools if available.
1368 * (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user
1369 specified a filename without extension.
1370 * (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field
1371 * New maintenance script to fix double redirects
1372 (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php).
1373 * (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages.
1374 * (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable.
1375 * (bug 29047) CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js,
1376 MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css, etc.
1377 * (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be
1378 safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for
1379 potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
1380 specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked.
1381 * (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes.
1382 * (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers.
1383 * CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript
1384 disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag).
1385 * Added UserGetLanguageObject hook to change the language used in $wgLang.
1386 * (bug 14645) When $wgMiserMode is on, expensive special pages are styled
1387 differently (italicized by default) on Special:SpecialPages.
1388 * Added $wgAggregateStatsID, which allows UDP stats to be aggregated over
1389 several wikis.
1390 * When $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes is true, all itemtypes are allowed, not just
1391 the three that were defined in the original specification.
1392 * (bug 14706) Added support for the Imagick PHP extension.
1393 * (bug 18691) Added support for SVG rasterization using the Imagick PHP
1394 extension.
1395 * (bug 2581, bug 6834) Added links to thumbnail in several resolutions to the
1396 file description page. The sizes are set by $wgImageLimits.
1397 * (bug 28031) Add pageCount support to ArchivedFile.
1398 * (bug 27924) PhpHttpRequest doesn't return response body if HTTP != 200.
1399 * Added hook BitmapHandlerTransform to allow extension to transform a file
1400 without overriding the entire handler.
1401 * The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the
1402 rendering of them post-cache to reduce parser cache fragmentation and ensure
1403 skin customizability of edit section links.
1404 * (bug 24755) AuthPlugin auto-creation of local accounts can now be aborted by
1405 other extensions by handling the 'AbortAutoAccount' hook, similar to the
1406 'AbortNewAccount' triggered by explicit account creations. (They are separate
1407 to avoid loops and confusion; auth plugins like CentralAuth need to handle
1408 AbortNewAccount separately.
1409 * Special:ListFiles is now transcludable.
1410 * (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without.
1411 * (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images.
1412 * (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images.
1413 * (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users.
1414 * (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from
1415 LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals.
1416 * (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols.
1417 * (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content
1418 namespaces as articles.
1419 * Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php
1420 --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads;
1421 furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path.
1422 * Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory',
1423 'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions
1424 may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own
1425 class that extends PageArchive.
1426 * (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript.
1427 Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance.
1428 * (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is
1429 added to the textarea on the edit form.
1430 * mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
1431 * (bug 29067) Expose user.tokens (like we do user.options) in ResourceLoader.
1432 * New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog().
1433 * (bug 27655) Require token for watching/unwatching pages)
1434 * (bug 28904) (bug 29773) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.2 (the latest version)
1435 * (bug 29441) Expose CapitalLinks config in JS to allow modules to properly
1436 handle titles on case-sensitive wikis.
1437 * (bug 29397) Implement mw.Title module in core.
1438 * In MySQL 4.1.9+ with replication enabled, fetch the slave lag from SHOW SLAVE
1439 STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST. This ensures that lag is reported
1440 correctly in the case where there are no write events occurring. Note that
1441 the DB user now needs to have the REPLICATION CLIENT privilege if you are
1442 using replication.
1443 * Language codes in $wgDummyLanguageCodes are now excluded on localization
1444 statistics (maintenance/language/transstat.php).
1445 * (bug 29586) Make the (next 200) links on categories link directly to
1446 the relevant section of the category.
1447 * (bug 29109) Allow the automatic edit summary for redirect creation
1448 show the first bit of the new redirect page.
1449 * (bug 29723) mw.util.wikiGetlink() now defaults to wgPageName.
1450 * (bug 29680) Add GetDefaultSortkey hook to override the default sortkey.
1451 * (bug 16699) {{#language:}} accepts second parameter to specify the language in
1452 which the language name is wanted. Coverage depends on the cldr extension.
1453 * (bug 15802) An easy way to look up messages: language qqx which returns
1454 the message keys.
1455 * (bug 29868) Add support for passing parameters to mw.msg in jquery.localize.
1456 * (bug 29558) $wgMiserMode now disables update.php by default.
1457 * AjaxCategories: Easily add, edit or delete categories on article pages.
1458 Suggests possible categories when typing, all saves are done via AJAX.
1459 Supports editing of multiple categories and then saving them in one batch.
1460 * $wgAutopromoteOnce was added, allowing for users to be automatically promoted
1461 to explicit usergroups. If a group is removed from a user via Special:UserRights,
1462 it will not automatically be re-added. Configuration is similar to
1463 $wgAutopromote (see DefaultSettings.php).
1464 * The PerformRetroactiveAutoblock hook was added to allow overriding or complementing
1465 retroactive autoblock handling. This runs when blocking a user with the 'autoblock' option.
1466 * MediaWiki now supports using protocol-relative URLs in links, interwiki
1467 targets and $wgServer.
1468 * Introduced $wgVaryOnXFPForAPI which will cause the API to send
1469 Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto headers.
1470 * New maintenance script to refresh image metadata (maintenance/refreshImageMetadata.php).
1471 * (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version.
1472 * (bug 30722) Add an identity collation that sorts things based on what the
1473 unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behavior).
1474 * (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions.
1475 To give extensions a better and more flexible way of providing default
1476 values for preferences a hook has been introdiced in User:getDefaultOptions().
1477 Setting preferences in $wgDefaultUserOptions still work fine, but when reading
1478 them (i.e. with array_keys) to get a list of all preferences, then
1479 $wgDefaultUserOptions should no longer be used as it will contain those set via
1480 User:getDefaultOptions().
1481 * (bug 30497) Add client-nojs and client-js classes on document element
1482 to let styles easily hide or show things based on general JS availability.
1483 * (bug 31293) If Special:Userlogin is loaded over HTTPS, display
1484 MediaWiki:loginend-https instead of MediaWiki:loginend, if it's not empty.
1485 Same for signupend on the account creation page.
1486 * (bug 31233) New OutputPage::addJsConfigVars() method to make the output page specific
1487 mw.config map extendable.
1488 * mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php).
1489
1490 === Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
1491 * (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab.
1492 * (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated.
1493 * (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
1494 treated as wikitext on preview.
1495 * (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
1496 indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "...".
1497 * Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
1498 cannot read the page in question.
1499 * (bug 19006) {{REVISIONUSER}} no longer acts like {{CURRENTUSER}} in some
1500 cases.
1501 * (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
1502 * (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown
1503 as "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
1504 * (bug 26379) importImages.php gives more descriptive error message on failure.
1505 * (bug 26410) + signs are no longer treated as spaces in internal links if
1506 link has a % sign in it.
1507 * (bug 26412) Search results headers no longer show a bogus edit link.
1508 * (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
1509 * (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
1510 pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
1511 disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
1512 * If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse.
1513 * (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages.
1514 * (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary.
1515 * (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
1516 * (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
1517 selected when the action is "purge".
1518 * (bug 14267) Support a MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab override for the subject
1519 namespace tab on the mainpage of a wiki.
1520 * (bug 10158) Do not mention allowing others to contact you when the feature
1521 is disabled ($wgEnableUserEmail=false).
1522 * (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
1523 * (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
1524 members.
1525 * (bug 2585) Image pages should send 404 if no image, no shared image and no
1526 description page.
1527 * Custom editintro's using the editintro url parameter will no longer show
1528 <noinclude> sections on pages they are included on.
1529 * (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
1530 adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
1531 * (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
1532 * (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
1533 to table.wikitable instead.
1534 * (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output
1535 better.
1536 * (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related
1537 preferences and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is
1538 going on.
1539 * Trying to upload a file with no extension or with a disallowed MIME type now
1540 gives the right message instead of complaining about a MIME/extension
1541 mismatch.
1542 * (bug 26809) Uploading files with multiple extensions where one of the
1543 extensions is blacklisted now gives the proper extension in the error message.
1544 * (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
1545 * (bug 19751) Filesystem is now checked during image undeletion.
1546 * Send last modified headers for Special:Recentchanges when RC patrol is
1547 enabled, but user cannot see rc patrol links.
1548 * (bug 26548) ForeignAPIRepo (InstantCommons) now works with PDF files
1549 and other multi-paged file formats.
1550 * Files with a mime type that does not match the extension are now properly
1551 thumbnailed.
1552 * (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
1553 * (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk:
1554 link at the top of the page.
1555 * (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in Walloon language.
1556 * (bug 27679) Broken embedded files with special characters are no longer
1557 double HTML escaped.
1558 * (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
1559 exist.
1560 * (bug 27763) Article::getParserOutput() no longer throws a fatal given when an
1561 incorrect revision ID is passed.
1562 * Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could
1563 cause confusing error messages.
1564 * (bug 27854) Http::isValidURI is way too lax.
1565 * Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits.
1566 * AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled. Also allows message identifier
1567 for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user.
1568 * (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
1569 (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
1570 * Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
1571 * (bug 14005) editing section 0 of an existing but empty page gives no such
1572 section error.
1573 * (bug 26939) Installer does not set $wgMetaNamespace.
1574 * (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
1575 page restrictions.
1576 * Make truncate function automatically consider length of '...' string,
1577 since length can vary by localization.
1578 * (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
1579 prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
1580 * (bug 15641) blocked administrators are now prevented from deleting or
1581 protecting their own talk page; and all blocked users are more
1582 comprehensively prevented from performing other actions.
1583 * (bug 27893) Edit-on-doubleclick now applies only on view and purge actions;
1584 no longer triggers unexpectedly on delete, history etc.
1585 * (bug 28417) Fix PHP notice when importing revision without a listed id.
1586 * (bug 28430) Make html and TeX output of <math> always be left-to-right.
1587 * (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
1588 * (bug 28372) Fix bogus link to suppressed file versions in ForeignDBRepo.
1589 * (bug 27473) Fix regression: bold, italic no longer interfere with linktrail
1590 for ca, kaa.
1591 * (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
1592 * &apos; character entity is now allowed in wikitext.
1593 * UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
1594 intl installed.
1595 * (bug 28561) The css class small will no longer make nested elements even
1596 smaller.
1597 * (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from
1598 images.
1599 * (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse().
1600 * (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output
1601 parsed messages.
1602 * (bug 27249) "Installed software" table in Special:Version should always be
1603 left-to-right.
1604 * (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly.
1605 * (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL.
1606 * (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode.
1607 * (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles.
1608 * (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries.
1609 * (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough.
1610 * (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS.
1611 * (bug 29263) Add LTR class to the shared CSS to be used for left-to-right text
1612 such as SQL queries shown in dberrortext and similar messages in RTL
1613 environments.
1614 * (bug 14977) Fixed $wgServer detection in cases where an IPv6 address is used
1615 as the server name.
1616 * The View X deleted revisions is now shown again on Special:Upload.
1617 * (bug 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API.
1618 * (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the
1619 file description page for multi-paged documents.
1620 * (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly
1621 used in Tiff files.
1622 * When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
1623 * (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request.
1624 * (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells
1625 the user a page named [[:]] already exists.
1626 * (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove.
1627 * (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all
1628 pages.
1629 * (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images should not be uploadable as .jpg files.
1630 * (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based
1631 on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string.
1632 * (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only.
1633 * (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height
1634 make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG.
1635 * (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on
1636 Windows.
1637 * (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading.
1638 * (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any
1639 LTR/RTL screen layout.
1640 * (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user
1641 language.
1642 * (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles marker should be dynamically appended to
1643 the document head if it doesn't exist.
1644 * (bug 27023) After the document is ready, mw.loader is broken (calls callback
1645 before module is parsed).
1646 * (bug 4330) External URLs without a custom title should be treated as LTR,
1647 even in RTL text.
1648 * (bug 29055) Make "don't send email on minor edits" preference apply to
1649 changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits.
1650 * (bug 28272) Special:AllMessages should have only one "Go" button.
1651 * (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch no longer shows silly message.
1652 * (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same
1653 as lastTabIndex().
1654 * (bug 29332) Warn if user requests mediawiki-announce subscription but does not
1655 enter an e-mail address.
1656 * (bug 25375) Add canonical namespaces to "wgNamespaceIds" in mw.config.
1657 * The class JpegOrTiffHandler was renamed ExifBitmapHandler.
1658 * (bug 29443) Special:Undelete should use JavaScript to invert all checkboxes
1659 instead of reloading the page.
1660 * (bug 29325) Setting $wgStrictFileExtensions to false no longer gives incorrect warning.
1661 * (bug 29437) Multiple apostrophes in deleted article title cause odd rendering.
1662 * (bug 29485) RSS feed of Special:RecentChange grouped together multiple
1663 consecutive edits by same user in included diff, but then linked to
1664 a single ungrouped diff.
1665 * Do not try to group together a page creation and edit in the RSS feed of RC.
1666 * (bug 29342) Patrol preferences shouldn't be visible to users who don't have
1667 patrol permissions.
1668 * (bug 29471) Exception no longer thrown for files with invalid date in metadata.
1669 * (bug 29492) Long-running steps in the installer (such as Upgrade and Install)
1670 no longer cause timeouts.
1671 * (bug 29507) Change 'image link' to 'file link' in Special:Whatlinkshere.
1672 * If the db is really screwed up, and doesn't have a recentchanges table,
1673 make the updater throw an exception instead of a fatal.
1674 * wfArrayToCGI() and wfCgiToArray() now handle nested and associative arrays
1675 correctly.
1676 * (bug 29567) mw.util.addPortletLink should only wrap link in <span> for
1677 "vectorTabs" portlets.
1678 * (bug 8556) Incorrect session failure warning on preview-on-open
1679 namespaces (categories) when combined with $wgRawHtml.
1680 * Use content language in formatting of dates in revertpage message
1681 (rollback revert edit summary) and do not adjust for user timezone.
1682 * (bug 29277) MediaWiki:Filepage.css is also shown on the local wiki
1683 * Make sure Backlink cache does not retrieve interwiki redirects when looking for
1684 redirects to a local page.
1685 * (bug 6100) Allow different directionality (LTR/RTL) for user interface
1686 and wiki content, along with many other RTL and directionality improvements
1687 (such as bugs 28030, 12406, 28349).
1688 * (bug 29712) Removed broken defaultUserOptionOverrides in MessagesXx files and
1689 unneeded CSS flipping of quickbar. Instead, introduce option 5 which sets
1690 left/right according to the directionality of your interface language.
1691 * (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit).
1692 * (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a <label> element.
1693 * (bug 29779) DairikiDiff/WikiDiff <ins> and <del> should undo browser default
1694 styling (strike/underline).
1695 * (bug 28630) Add iwlinks, langlinks, redirect to
1696 RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent.
1697 * (bug 29797) Error: "Tried to load block with invalid type" when subpages
1698 are disabled for user pages.
1699 * (bug 12205) Bidirectional names in action=credits are split and displayed.
1700 incorrectly when wrapped to the next line.
1701 * (bug 20781) Move 'mainpagetext' messages to installer's .i18n file.
1702 * (bug 29737) "MediaWiki:Qbsettings-directionality" should refer to script,
1703 not language.
1704 * (bug 26360) $wgSessionHandler was overriding system settings unconditionally.
1705 * Removed AjaxFunctions.php. The last remaining function js_unescape() was moved
1706 to the FCKEditor extension.
1707 * (bug 28762) Resizing to specified height broken for very thin images.
1708 * (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
1709 tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce.
1710 * (bug 27427) mw.util.getParamValue shouldn't return value from hash even if
1711 param is only present in hash.
1712 * Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
1713 * (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
1714 caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
1715 * $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very wide
1716 pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
1717 * (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on
1718 Windows servers.
1719 * (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because
1720 #REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS.
1721 * (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs
1722 are used.
1723 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
1724 instead require() for included extensions.
1725 * Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages.
1726 * (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>).
1727 * $wgOverrideSiteFeed no longer double escapes urls.
1728 * The preprocessor no longer fails with a PHP warning about XML_PARSE_HUGE when
1729 processing complex pages using newer versions of libxml2.
1730 * (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
1731 * (bug 28545) When using the uca-default collation, sortkey's starting with a
1732 space (U+20) will sort under an invisible header like in 1.16 rather than a U+6DE.
1733 * (bug 30192) Thumbnails of archived files are now deleted.
1734 * (bug 30843) mediawiki.Title should not convert extensions (anything after the
1735 last full stop) to lower case).
1736 * (bug 31213) Exception thrown when trying to move file cross-namespace.
1737 * (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are
1738 really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other.
1739 * (bug 30466) Entries in iwlinks table are now cleared when moving a page over
1740 redirect.
1741 * (bug 31674) Can't edit watchlist if it contains special pages.
1742 * (bug 32100) Installer complains about Suhosin GET limit even if it is
1743 already set above 1024 bytes.
1744
1745 === API changes in 1.18 ===
1746 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
1747 * (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result.
1748 * (bug 14869) Add API module for accessing QueryPage-based special pages.
1749 * (bug 14020) API for Special:Unwatchedpages.
1750 * (bug 24287) Wrap API Help output at 100 characters.
1751 * Add a realname uiprop option to query=userinfo so a user's realname can be
1752 extracted.
1753 * Add a &watchuser option to ApiBlock.
1754 * (bug 26541) Generator-ise ApiQueryRecentChanges.
1755 * action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
1756 * (bug 25767) Add userrights properties to allusers and users query lists.
1757 * (bug 26558) list=allusers auprop=groups does not list groups a user is
1758 automatically a member of.
1759 * (bug 26559) list=allusers auprop=rights does not match
1760 list=users usprop=rights.
1761 * (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
1762 duplicate.
1763 * (bug 25135) add "normalized" to action=parse.
1764 * (bug 26460) Add support for listing category members by category pageid.
1765 * (bug 26482) add a imimages param to prop=images.
1766 * (bug 26498) allow LinksUpdate with API.
1767 * (bug 26485) add a elextlinks param to prop=extlinks.
1768 * (bug 26483) add a iwtitles param to prop=iwlinks.
1769 * (bug 26484) add a lltitles param to prop=langlinks.
1770 * (bug 26480) add a pppageprops param to prop=pageprops.
1771 * (bug 26650) Remove $wgAPICacheHelp in favour of $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout.
1772 * (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
1773 * Expose list of skins in meta=siteinfo.
1774 * (bug 26548) Add iiurlparam param to query=imageinfo and query=stashimageinfo.
1775 * (bug 27205) aiprop=metadata and aiprop=parsedcomment need help text.
1776 * Add a amtitle param to meta=allmessages.
1777 * (bug 25832) query=allimages now outputs ns/title as well.
1778 * (bug 27199) Thumbnail urls can be fetched for old files as well.
1779 * (bug 27376) when using ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'integer' without a min or
1780 max value, API doesn't validate the input is actually an integer.
1781 * (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
1782 prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
1783 * (bug 27554) Update API information text to reflect change in bug 26125.
1784 * (bug 27611) list=blocks: Use ipb_by_text instead of join with user table.
1785 * (bug 27616) Add userid of blocked user and blocker to list=blocks.
1786 * (bug 27688) Simplify queries to list user block information.
1787 * (bug 27708) list=users does not have a property to return user id.
1788 * (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
1789 * (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
1790 * (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
1791 * (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
1792 * (bug 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version.
1793 * (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
1794 * (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode.
1795 * (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute.
1796 * (bug 28010) Passing a non existant user to list=users gives internal error.
1797 * (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
1798 groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
1799 * (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
1800 in auto generated document, as it is on mediawiki.org.
1801 * (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages.
1802 * (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages.
1803 * (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories.
1804 * (bug 27342) Add audir param to list=allusers.
1805 * (bug 27203) add fato param to list=filearchive.
1806 * (bug 27341) Add drto param to list=deletedrevs.
1807 * (bug 26630) Add API for Special:ActiveUsers.
1808 * (bug 27020) API: Allow title prefix search of logevents (only when not in
1809 miser mode).
1810 * (bug 26629) add Special:MIMESearch to API.
1811 * (bug 27585) add pagecount to list=filearchive.
1812 * (bug 28104) Namespace for local pages in interwiki backlinks (iwbacklinks)
1813 is missing.
1814 * (bug 27343) Add parseddescription to list=filearchive.
1815 * (bug 27469) label implicit groups in list=allusers&auprop=groups/
1816 list=users&usprop=groups.
1817 * Addition of APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo hook to add extra information to
1818 the general site info results.
1819 * (bug 16288) API: consider making closure status of wikis more clear
1820 with meta=siteinfo.
1821 * (bug 27589) list=allimages&aiprop=archivename is useless.
1822 * (bug 27586) Remove duplication of props in ApiQueryStashImageInfo
1823 by using ApiQueryImageInfo.
1824 * (bug 28226) prop=extlinks&eloffset should be an integer.
1825 * (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
1826 real timestamp field.
1827 * API upload errors may now return the parameter that needs to be changed and
1828 a sessionkey to fix the error.
1829 * (bug 28249) allow dupes in meta=allmessages&amargs.
1830 * (bug 28263) cannot import xml with the API, when have not "import" user
1831 right, but "importupload".
1832 * (bug 28365) Added description for uiprop=preferencestoken in meta=userinfo.
1833 * (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock.
1834 * (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse.
1835 * (bug 28368) add hint for multipart/form-data to API information of
1836 action=import&xml=.
1837 * (bug 28391) action=feedwatchlist&allrev should be a bool.
1838 * (bug 28364) add registration date to meta=userinfo.
1839 * (bug 28254) action=paraminfo: Extract type from PARAM_DFLT if
1840 PARAM_TYPE is not set.
1841 * (bug 27712) add parent_id to list=deletedrevs.
1842 * (bug 28455) Add 'toponly' to recentchanges API module.
1843 * (bug 26873) API: Add 'toponly' filter in usercontribs module.
1844 * (bug 28586) YAML: strings that are the same as boolean literals.
1845 * (bug 28591) Update/replace/supplement spyc (YAML parsing library).
1846 * YAML API output is now 1.2 compliant, using JSON as the formatter.
1847 * (bug 28672) give information about misermode on API.
1848 * (bug 28558) Add iw_api and iw_wikiid to meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap
1849 * (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the API.
1850 * (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs.
1851 * (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid.
1852 * (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param.
1853 * (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo.
1854 * Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo.
1855 * Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers.
1856 * (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers.
1857 * (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages.
1858 * (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates.
1859 * (bug 27790) Add query type for querymodules to output of ApiParamInfo.
1860 * (bug 28963) Add langbacklinks query module to the api.
1861 * (bug 27593) API should return error message when sha1/sha1base36 is invalid.
1862 * (bug 28578) API's parse module should not silently override invalid
1863 title inputs.
1864 * (bug 20699) Watchlist API should list log-events.
1865 * (bug 29070) Require a token in API action=watch.
1866 * (bug 29221) Expose oldrevid in ApiQueryWatchlist output.
1867 * (bug 29267) Always give the servername for meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag.
1868 * (bug 28897) rvparse now respects rvsection for action=query&prop=revisions.
1869 * (bug 25734) API: Possible issue with revids validation.
1870 * (bug 28002) Internal error in ApiFormatRaw::getMimeType.
1871 * (bug 29237) ApiQuery now has an option to output the "iwurl" attribute.
1872 * (bug 28392) Mark action=undelete&timestamps as type "timestamp".
1873 * (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash (disabled in Miser Mode).
1874 * (bug 27595) sha1 search of list=filearchive does not work.
1875 * (bug 26763) Make RSS/Atom of user contributions more visible.
1876 * (bug 25133) Allow redirects also for action=parse&pageid.
1877 * (bug 29745) Fatal error in API search.
1878 * (bug 29476) API returns page title instead of sectiontitle for
1879 srprop=sectiontitle.
1880 * Correct the documentation of srprop properties.
1881 * (bug 28817) Add reference help page link to API Modules.
1882 * (bug 29935) Improve formatting of examples in ApiParamInfo.
1883 * (bug 29938) list=users&usprop=rights shows rights the user doesn't have.
1884 * (bug 24781) The API will include an XML namespace if the includexmlnamespace
1885 parameter is set.
1886 * (bug 29392) Setting the start or end parameter now works with lists blocks,
1887 categorymembers, deletedrevs, logevents, protectedtitles, usercontributions
1888 and watchlist in Postgres.
1889
1890 === Languages updated in 1.18 ===
1891
1892 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
1893 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
1894 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
1895
1896 * Angika (anp) (new).
1897 * Brahui (brh) (new).
1898 * Central Dusun (dtp) (new).
1899 * Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
1900 * Khowar (khw) (new).
1901 * Liv (liv) (new).
1902 * Kichwa (qug) (new).
1903 * Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still valid.
1904 * (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace.
1905 * Link trail added for sl and sh.
1906 * (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
1907 * (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar).
1908 * (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases.
1909 * (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
1910 * (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now.
1911 * (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers.
1912 * (bug 28040) Turkish: properly lower case 'I' to 'i' (dotless i) and
1913 uppercase 'i' to 'I' (dotted i).
1914 * Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language.
1915 * Date formats for Indonesian (id) updated.
1916 * Bhojpuri (bho) (renamed from "bh").
1917 * (bug 29031) When translating block log entries, indefinite, infinite, and
1918 infinity are now considered the same.
1919 * Aromanian (rup) (renamed from "rua-rup").
1920 * Kashmiri (ks) split into Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic) (ks-arab) and Kashmiri
1921 (Devanagari) (ks-deva). Defaults to ks-arab.
1922 * (bug 30864) Use bengali numerals for <ol> for Assamese.
1923 * (bug 30817) Restored linktrail for kk (Kazakh).
1924 * (bug 27398) Add $wgExtraGenderNamespaces for configured gendered namespaces.
1925 * (bug 30846) New LanguageOs class.
1926
1927 === Other changes in 1.18 ===
1928 * Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
1929 * (bug 28556) Upload support for MacBinary files has been removed (Used by
1930 Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9).
1931 * On wiki farm setups using $wgConf, 'wgCanonicalServer' is now expected to be
1932 set for all wikis. This was already the case for 'wgServer'.
1933
1934 == MediaWiki 1.17 ==
1935
1936 == MediaWiki 1.17.5 ==
1937 2012-06-12
1938
1939 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.17 branch.
1940
1941 === Summary of selected changes in 1.17 ===
1942
1943 Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.16 that may be of interest:
1944
1945 * A new installer has been introduced. It has a wizard-style interface which is
1946 translated into many languages. Many shortcomings in the old installer were
1947 addressed with this rewrite. Note that it is no longer required for the config
1948 directory to be made writable by the webserver. Instead the generated
1949 LocalSettings.php file is offered as a download, which you must then upload
1950 to the wiki's base directory.
1951
1952 * ResourceLoader, a new framework for delivering client-side resources such as
1953 JavaScript and CSS, has been introduced. These resources are now delivered
1954 through the new entry point script "load.php", instead of as static files
1955 served directly by the web server. This allows minification, compression and
1956 client-side caching to be used more effectively, which should provide a net
1957 performance improvement for most users.
1958
1959 * Category sorting has been improved.
1960 ** Sorting is now case insensitive.
1961 ** Sub-categories, pages and files can now be paged separately.
1962 ** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their
1963 names instead of randomly.
1964
1965 * The lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.2.3. If necessary, please
1966 upgrade PHP prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
1967
1968 === Changes since 1.17.4 ===
1969
1970 * (bug 36938) Correctly escape uselang attribute to prevent xss
1971 * Expanded Blacklist for SVG Files
1972
1973 === Changes since 1.17.3 ===
1974
1975 * (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict.
1976 * Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes.
1977 * (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php
1978 on line 598.
1979
1980 === Changes since 1.17.2 ===
1981
1982 * (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like &lt;nowiki&gt; in
1983 core parser functions which operate on strings, such as padleft.
1984 * (bug 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token
1985 parameter present.
1986 * (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated
1987 CSRF attacks.
1988 * (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload.
1989
1990 === Changes since 1.17.1 ===
1991 * (bug 33117) prop=revisions allows deleted text to be exposed through cache pollution.
1992 * (bug 32709) Private Wiki users were always taken to Special:Badtitle on login.
1993
1994 === Changes since 1.17.0 ===
1995
1996 * (bug 29535) Added missing Creative Commons CC0 icon.
1997 * (bug 29726) Fixed failure to load internationalization messages in
1998 client-side scripts on WebKit-based browsers.
1999 * Fixed a bug in message transformation where the previous language could leak
2000 into later transformations in the UI language.
2001 * (bug 29091) Fixed form of native name for Ossetic language (Иронау -> Ирон)
2002 * Fixed maintenance scripts upgrade1_5.php and rebuildImages.php, they did not
2003 work at all since 1.17 beta 1.
2004 * (bug 29531) Fixed img_auth.php for thumbnails and other filenames with
2005 multiple dots, was broken by the fix for bug 28840.
2006 * In the maintenance script purgeList.php, fixed a fatal error when a page
2007 title is given, instead of a URL.
2008 * (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit).
2009 * Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
2010 * $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very
2011 wide pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
2012 * (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
2013 tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce.
2014 * Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals
2015 * (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
2016 caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
2017 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
2018 instead require() for included extensions.
2019 * (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
2020 warnings/notices to be thrown
2021 * (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
2022 * (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on
2023 Windows servers.
2024 * Hardcoded NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS for Oracle DB to prevent type conversion errors.
2025 * Fixed recentchanges FK violation on page delete and cache purge error in updater
2026 for Oracle DB.
2027 * (bug 32276) Skins were generating output using the internal page title which
2028 would allow anonymous users to determine wheter a page exists, potentially
2029 leaking private data. In fact, the curid and oldid request parameters would
2030 allow page titles to be enumerated even when they are not guessable.
2031 * (bug 32616) action=ajax requests were dispatched to the relevant internal
2032 functions without any read permission checks being done. This could lead to
2033 data leakage on private wikis.
2034
2035 === Changes since 1.17.0rc1 ===
2036
2037 * Fixed syntax error in generated LocalSettings.php when a non-default user
2038 rights profile is chosen.
2039 * (bug 29399) Fixed PostgreSQL installation when the DB user for installation
2040 is the same as the one for web access.
2041 * (bug 29233) Fixed failover for DB slave servers. When a DB slave went down,
2042 an error was immediately shown to the user, instead of trying another slave.
2043 Was broken since 1.17 beta 1.
2044 * (bug 29278) Fixed PHP fatal error when attempting to add text to a page via a
2045 redirect.
2046 * (bug 29408) Fixed uploads of files with MIME types that aren't detected by
2047 MediaWiki.
2048 * Removed DEFAULT '' NOT NULL field definitions from Oracle DB schema because
2049 using the DEFAULT value ('') in DML broke Oracle backend as it treats an
2050 empty VARCHAR2 value as NULL. Indexes on Oracle do not require NOT NULL
2051 fields.
2052
2053 === Changes since 1.17 beta 1 ===
2054
2055 * Fixed warning about missing file "password.js".
2056 * When installing on MySQL, don't attempt to create a new database user if the
2057 same user is used for installation and web access.
2058 * Fixed SQL query errors in queries with table aliases.
2059 * (bug 27891) Fixed the "chronology protector", broken since 1.17beta1, which
2060 ensures that when database replication is used, the new version is seen by
2061 the user immediately after they create or edit an article.
2062 * (bug 28845) Allow PostgreSQL installation using a non-root user account which
2063 has role creation abilities.
2064 * When installing on PostgreSQL and the install account is the same as the web
2065 account, check to make sure that the account has suitable privileges in the
2066 mediawiki schema.
2067 * (bug 28172) Fixed error in PostgreSQL installation when creating the wiki
2068 sysop account.
2069 * Fixed an issue with the Oracle installer in cases where the user is different
2070 to the database name.
2071 * Added "unblockself" to the list of available rights.
2072 * In the installer, fixed the "user rights profile" option, it never worked.
2073 * (bug 29117) Fixed Hebrew localisation of the installer.
2074 * (bug 28840) Reduce the collateral damage caused by the fix for bug 28235 (XSS
2075 on Internet Explorer 6 due to a file extension in the query string) by
2076 reducing the number of URLs that are blocked, and by redirecting the request
2077 to a safer URL where possible instead of blocking it.
2078 * (bug 28812) Fixed documentation of API action=parse.
2079 * (bug 28979) Fixed styling of <abbr> and <acronym>.
2080 * Fixed the error message displayed when you try to create an account by email,
2081 but an email address is not given.
2082 * Fixed JS error due to missing dependency for jquery.suggestions.
2083 * Exposed $wgExtensionAssetsPath in JavaScript.
2084 * (bug 28738) Made ResourceLoader support environments with small URL length
2085 limits. The length limit can be configured via $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength,
2086 and this is set automatically in the generated LocalSettings.php when the
2087 php.ini variable "suhosin.get.max_value_length" is set. When a URL exceeds
2088 this limit, the request is split up. Also, reduced the average length of
2089 load.php URLs by using a more compact parameter format.
2090 * (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS.
2091 * (bug 25124) Respect $wgStyleDirectory in ResourceLoader.
2092 * Allow installation when no HTTP client is available, don't throw an exception.
2093 * (bug 27465) Fix metadata extraction for SVG files using unusual namespace
2094 names.
2095 * (bug 29174) Fix regression in upload-by-URL: uploading files larger than the
2096 PHP memory limit should work again.
2097 * Fixed the display of comments in the new user log.
2098 * (bug 28237) When installing extensions using the web-based installer, create
2099 any necessary database tables.
2100 * (bug 28983) Fixed automated installation of extensions that overwrite $path.
2101 * Fixed error caused by missing magic words.
2102 * Fixed breakage of article editing in PostgreSQL due to text search
2103 configuration errors.
2104 * Fixed the HTTPS client used when Curl is not available. This avoids an error
2105 during install about failure of the mediawiki-announce subscription.
2106 * (bug 28162) When installing to PostgreSQL, respect the "database port" input,
2107 it was ignored.
2108
2109 === Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
2110
2111 * $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged
2112 to new users log.
2113 * (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as
2114 $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is
2115 on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly.
2116 * $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has
2117 been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory.
2118 * $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted
2119 uploads in.
2120 * IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the
2121 normal $wgDBport.
2122 * $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
2123 provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
2124 * Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized,
2125 $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors, $wgUseZhdaemon,
2126 $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
2127 * (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
2128 * $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use.
2129 * Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extensions should use
2130 DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate() via the LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates hook.
2131 * Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
2132 available as input for other configuration items, either.
2133 * It's no longer necessary for LocalSettings.php to include DefaultSettings.php.
2134 * It's no longer necessary to set $wgCacheEpoch to the file modification time
2135 of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done
2136 automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is
2137 the default).
2138 * $wgCopyrightIcon is deprecated and $wgFooterIcons['copyright']['copyright']
2139 should be used instead.
2140 * $wgSysopUserBans is deprecated, and will be made permanently true in 1.18.
2141 If you need this functionality, you should use the BlockIp hook to filter and
2142 reject such blocks.
2143 * $wgSysopRangeBans is deprecated, you should set $wgBlockCIDRLimit to maximum
2144 (32 for IPv4, 128 for IPv6), equivalent to allowing rangeblocks of only 1
2145 address at a time.
2146
2147 === New features in 1.17 ===
2148
2149 * (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
2150 User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled).
2151 * (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights.
2152 * (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
2153 apply the names of the individual files within the gallery.
2154 * Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer
2155 if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>.
2156 * Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links.
2157 * (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the
2158 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default).
2159 * (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced
2160 changes list.
2161 * (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when
2162 viewing contributions of a blocked IP address.
2163 * (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second parameter for type of
2164 escaping.
2165 * Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter.
2166 * Special:Random carries over query string parameters.
2167 * (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go".
2168 * When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt
2169 is provided on the Upload form.
2170 * (bug 22647) Add category details in search results.
2171 * (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query.
2172 * Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences.
2173 * Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode.
2174 * (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits.
2175 * ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
2176 watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on.
2177 * (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there
2178 is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages.
2179 * (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine.
2180 * (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching (for IIS).
2181 * (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be notified
2182 about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions.
2183 * (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup.
2184 * (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages.
2185 * Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
2186 Special:Preferences.
2187 * Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip.
2188 * (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
2189 * (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
2190 contributions
2191 * (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids
2192 * (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math>
2193 * (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math>
2194 * (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math>
2195 * texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time.
2196 * SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB.
2197 * (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages.
2198 * Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being
2199 well-formed XML.
2200 * texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto
2201 * Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos.
2202 * ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set.
2203 * (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign
2204 client wikis.
2205 * (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
2206 page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
2207 {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
2208 * (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class
2209 "mw-ipb-needreblock"
2210 * Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa.
2211 * (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user
2212 input.
2213 * (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users.
2214 * (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token.
2215 * A variety of category sort-related fixes, including:
2216 ** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same.
2217 ** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately.
2218 ** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names
2219 instead of randomly.
2220 * (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word.
2221 * (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements.
2222 * (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages.
2223 * The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
2224 used in the page.
2225 * Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
2226 * (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
2227 intermediate revisions.
2228 * Added new hook GetIP.
2229 * Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text
2230 search.
2231 * TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader
2232 for versioning.
2233 * Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which
2234 is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit).
2235 * (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled
2236 by default.
2237 * (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails.
2238 * Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly
2239 when a wiki has multiple variant languages.
2240 * (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts.
2241 * Now rebuildtextindex.php warns if SQLite doesn't support full-text search.
2242 * (bug 10541) Front/backend separation of installation/upgrade code.
2243 * (bug 10596) Allow installer to enable extensions already in extensions folder.
2244 * (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English.
2245 * Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description).
2246 * Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages.
2247 * Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent
2248 changes/watchlist entries.
2249 * (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text
2250 customizable.
2251 * Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets.
2252 * (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign
2253 file repositories.
2254 * When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both
2255 wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection
2256 arrow can be customized with CSS.
2257 * (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message
2258 [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead.
2259 Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw
2260 number of the textsize in Byte.
2261 * (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width.
2262 * Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions.
2263 * Added Special:Myuploads special page that redirects to Special:Listfiles.
2264 * The footerlinks used in Monobook/Vector/Modern are now part of common skin
2265 code, SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec can be used to customize the list.
2266 * Special wrapping setups can now define MW_CONFIG_FILE to load a config file
2267 other than LocalSettings.php. This is like MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK but works in
2268 some cases where MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK will not work.
2269 * (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
2270 pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
2271 disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
2272 * The name attribute of HTMLForm fields can now be overridden by passing a
2273 'name' key in the descriptor array. Hidden field names are now treated
2274 consistently with other fields and, by default, prefixed with 'wp'.
2275 * (bug 27402) Add support for disabling MWSuggest.
2276 * (bug 26563) Add bytes changed per revision for stub and full article dumps.
2277 * (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an svg we
2278 look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
2279 * (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades
2280 without having to move LocalSettings.php
2281 * Added $wgAllowImageTag, which can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag
2282 in wikitext.
2283 * (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display
2284 options.
2285 * Added the $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option which allows disabling CSS-based
2286 preferences; which can improve page loading speed.
2287 * Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
2288 or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks).
2289 * (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable
2290 which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
2291 showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
2292 research into its user experience implications.
2293 * The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
2294 navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
2295 * $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls.
2296 * Added $wgSecureLogin to optionally login using HTTPS.
2297 * (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to make the name associated
2298 with $wgPasswordSender configurable.
2299 * (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in
2300 the footers of skins.
2301 * $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy.
2302 used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior.
2303
2304 === Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
2305
2306 * (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
2307 without updating database.
2308 * (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer
2309 throws an error.
2310 * (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block
2311 settings changed.
2312 * (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different
2313 when the address changed.
2314 * (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name.
2315 * (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and
2316 redirects.
2317 * (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when
2318 the URL contains a colon.
2319 * (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again.
2320 * (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is
2321 now only displayed when relevant.
2322 * (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages.
2323 * (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects.
2324 * (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion.
2325 * (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language.
2326 * (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN.
2327 * (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work.
2328 * (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users.
2329 * (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not
2330 correctly set.
2331 * (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so
2332 that links with non-NFC character references work correctly.
2333 * (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for
2334 anonymous users instead of null.
2335 * (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited.
2336 * (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being
2337 logged in (anonpreviewwarning).
2338 * (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files.
2339 * (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly.
2340 * (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text.
2341 * (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content
2342 language.
2343 * (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page
2344 when using rebuildFileCache.php
2345 * (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid".
2346 parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target.
2347 * (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend.
2348 * (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed.
2349 * (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases.
2350 * (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces
2351 rather than only main namespace.
2352 * (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all.
2353 frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than
2354 the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images
2355 exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size.
2356 * (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first
2357 item.
2358 * (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase.
2359 * Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
2360 style is not valid for the user's interface language.
2361 * (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
2362 preference is set.
2363 * Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
2364 in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
2365 * (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
2366 * (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer
2367 displays incorrect tabs.
2368 * (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers.
2369 * (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display.
2370 * (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources.
2371 * (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files
2372 work.
2373 * (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery.
2374 * (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer
2375 displayed on Special:Listusers.
2376 * (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences
2377 to enhance preference grouping.
2378 * (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the
2379 correct link.
2380 * (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
2381 * (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
2382 * (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create).
2383 are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
2384 is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
2385 * (bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as &tilde; not &sim;
2386 * (bug 23241) License selector should be disabled during upload of a new
2387 version.
2388 * (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist.
2389 * The pipe | character in urls is now escaped.
2390 * (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved.
2391 * (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of
2392 MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary.
2393 * (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
2394 new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed.
2395 * Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if
2396 user did not capitalize first letter of username.
2397 * (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables.
2398 * (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
2399 as Opera 8.
2400 * (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
2401 account upload rights.
2402 * (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
2403 and correct render results.
2404 * (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
2405 consistent and correct render results.
2406 * (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo.
2407 * (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for multibyte
2408 characters.
2409 * (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser.
2410 * (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if
2411 the $noRedir parameter is set to true.
2412 * (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents.
2413 * (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php.
2414 * (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter.
2415 * (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not
2416 accidentally activated when hitting enter.
2417 * (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores.
2418 * Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0.
2419 * (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
2420 * (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
2421 a fatal error.
2422 * (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
2423 Special:Upload after following a red link.
2424 * (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
2425 * (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments.
2426 * (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings.
2427 * (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
2428 * (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers.
2429 * (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect.
2430 Image: --> File: namespace rename.
2431 * Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
2432 * (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
2433 disabled.
2434 * (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when Special:RecentChanges(linked) or
2435 Special:Newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the page.
2436 * (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer
2437 throw fatal errors.
2438 * (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a
2439 useful error message.
2440 * Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
2441 instead of showing an error page.
2442 * (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in
2443 SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
2444 * (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
2445 * (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules.
2446 * (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages.
2447 * (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
2448 longer pollutes the parser cache.
2449 * (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a
2450 letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons,
2451 underscores, hyphens, and/or periods).
2452 * Save 200 useless queries on each category page view.
2453 * Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec.
2454 * (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian.
2455 * "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between
2456 revisions" on diffs when appropriate.
2457 * (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as
2458 a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages.
2459 * (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also
2460 make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case.
2461 * (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
2462 memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
2463 * Disable multithreaded behavior in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
2464 when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
2465 * (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again.
2466 * (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file.
2467 * (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available.
2468 * (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel.
2469 * (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff.
2470 instead of alternating focus between the two buttons.
2471 * (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account.
2472 * (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output.
2473 * SQLite system table names are now never prefixed.
2474 * (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second
2475 parameter.
2476 * (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16).
2477 * (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled
2478 passthru().
2479 * (bug 25462) Fix double-escaping for section edit link tooltips.
2480 * action=raw was removed for Special:Statistics. This information is still
2481 available via the API.
2482 * (bug 23934) Groups defined in $wgRevokePermissions but not in
2483 $wgGroupPermissions now appear on Special:ListGroupRights.
2484 * (bug 23923) Special:Prefixindex no longer shows results if nothing was
2485 requested.
2486 * (bug 22308) Search now finds text in default main page immediately after setup.
2487 * (bug 25697) Make sure empty lines render in diff view.
2488 * Use an actual minus sign in diff views, instead of a hyphen.
2489 * (bug 23732) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedFiles.
2490 * (bug 23731) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedTemplates.
2491 * (bug 25642) A exception is now thrown instead of a fatal error when using
2492 $wgSMTP without PEAR mail package.
2493 * (bug 19633) When possible, Upscale small SVGs when creating thumbnails.
2494 * (bug 11013) Database driver detection needs rewriting for robustness.
2495 * (bug 13409) Installer prompts could use clarification--now has help boxes.
2496 * (bug 16902) Installer spews warnings when exec() and dl() are not available.
2497 * (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported.
2498 * (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled.
2499 * Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails.
2500 * (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error
2501 on discussion pages with vector as default skin.
2502 * (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing.
2503 * (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores.
2504 * (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir
2505 parameters.
2506 * (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if
2507 $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set.
2508 * (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3.
2509 * (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now.
2510 normalised like normal links to special pages.
2511 * (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect
2512 $wgExternalLinkTarget.
2513 * (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that
2514 is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages.
2515 * (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page.
2516 * (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in
2517 some cases.
2518 * (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only
2519 "File" and "Media" are allowed now.
2520 * (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict
2521 with php extension that defines same class.
2522 * (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when
2523 $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false.
2524 * Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database.
2525 * (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation.
2526 * (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2.
2527 * Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong
2528 case.
2529 * (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available.
2530 * (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated.
2531 * (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow
2532 absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google).
2533 * Partial workaround for bug 6220: at least make files on shared repositories
2534 show up as (struck-out) bluelinks instead of redlinks on Special:WantedFiles.
2535 * rebuildFileCache.php no longer creates inappropriate cache files for redirects.
2536 * (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members.
2537 * (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
2538 treated as wikitext on preview.
2539 * Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
2540 cannot read the page in question.
2541 * (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
2542 indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "..."
2543 * (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
2544 * (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown as
2545 "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
2546 * (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
2547 * (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
2548 selected when the action is "purge".
2549 * (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
2550 * (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
2551 * (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences.
2552 * (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
2553 * (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel.
2554 * (bug 27781) Installer does not warn about 5.1.x. Added a compatibility function
2555 for array_key_exists().
2556 * Fix XML well-formedness on a few pages when $wgHtml5 is true (the default).
2557 * (bug 28069) MediaWiki fails streaming files when mod_deflate and ob_gzhandler
2558 are also set.
2559 * (bug 26223) Concurrently moving an article to different titles leaks a
2560 redirect revision with no page.
2561 * (bug 15641) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users
2562 without the 'import' permission to import pages from configured import sources.
2563 * (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
2564 adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
2565 * (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
2566 * (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output better.
2567 * (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences
2568 and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is going on.
2569 * (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
2570 to table.wikitable instead.
2571 * (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language.
2572 * (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
2573 exist.
2574 * (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
2575 (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
2576 * Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
2577 * (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
2578 page restrictions.
2579 * (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
2580 prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
2581 * (bug 28568) Entries in the iwlinks table are now removed on page deletion.
2582 * (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
2583 * (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
2584 * UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
2585 intl installed.
2586 * (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
2587 members.
2588 * (bug 28214) When page not found, sends malformed HTTP/1.x instead of HTTP/1.1
2589 in header of response.
2590 * (bug 27634) TOC title appears in wrong language.
2591 * (bug 27761) Fix regression: pages with Esperanto titles containing convertible
2592 character sequences became unreachable.
2593 * (bug 27508) SVGMetadataExtractor takes too much resources on huge svgs.
2594 * (bug 27465) SVG thumbnail generation.
2595 * (bug 27467) preload can leave UNIQ.
2596 * (bug 27539) Allow attributes beginning with a digit in wiktext tag parameters.
2597 * (bug 27328) using relative paths in CSS imports in MediaWiki:Common.css broken
2598 in 1.17.
2599 * (bug 27333) Fix repetitive last-seen time queries on page history.
2600 * (bug 26250, bug 23817) Fix wfObjectToArray() to descend into arrays; fixes
2601 processing of JSON return values for ForeignAPIRepo when native json module
2602 not present.
2603 * (bug 25675) Fix search suggestions for Special: pages with spaces.
2604 * (bug 25571) Xml::encodeJsVar now passes floats natively instead of converting
2605 to strings.
2606 * (bug 27338) Gallery in 1.17 breaks for audio/video + ogghandler.
2607 * (bug 27302) Don't append the current timestamp for user/site modules when no
2608 user/site JS/CSS is present.
2609 * (bug 27016) dumpTextPass.php now consider the "output" parameter.
2610 * (bug 22606) don't send the "someone registred an account" message when setting
2611 email address (i.e. old one empty) in user preferences.
2612 * (bug 26458) Section edit links appear on pages that user does not have right
2613 to edit.
2614 * (bug 28611) Don't die in SqlBagOStuff::incr() if there's a race condition.
2615 * (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
2616 in IE 7.
2617 * (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame"
2618 parameter.
2619
2620 === API changes in 1.17 ===
2621
2622 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=patrol now requires POST.
2623 * BREAKING CHANGE: patrol token is no longer the same as edit token.
2624 * BREAKING CHANGE: Session keys returned by ApiUpload are now strings instead
2625 of integers.
2626 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually
2627 enforce validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning.
2628 Also add flag to enforce (die) if integer out of range.
2629 * (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
2630 * action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
2631 * (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
2632 * (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
2633 duplicated.
2634 * (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
2635 * (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
2636 prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
2637 * (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
2638 * (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
2639 * (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
2640 * (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
2641 * (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
2642 * (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse.
2643 * (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent.
2644 * (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
2645 * (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment.
2646 is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
2647 * (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
2648 module.
2649 * (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests.
2650 * (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option.
2651 * (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash.
2652 * (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions.
2653 * (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
2654 using token and username.
2655 * (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
2656 track inline interwiki link usage).
2657 * Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
2658 similar to prop=categories's clcategorie.
2659 * (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when
2660 thumbnailing larger than original image.
2661 * (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query.
2662 * (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages.
2663 * (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups.
2664 * (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
2665 ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help.
2666 * (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied.
2667 * (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules.
2668 * (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but
2669 forceditsummary.
2670 * (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result.
2671 * (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the
2672 hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added
2673 unconditionally on error.
2674 * (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
2675 title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved
2676 to the local alias.
2677 * (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
2678 canonical language variant.
2679 * (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API.
2680 * (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and
2681 iwtitle.
2682 * (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
2683 one of the backlinks generators with limit=max.
2684 * (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report.
2685 * PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user
2686 does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
2687 * (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to
2688 NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit.
2689 * (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks,
2690 allmessages, allpages, and allusers.
2691 * (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to
2692 meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups.
2693 * (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module.
2694 * (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit.
2695 * (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and
2696 blockreason if the user is actually blocked.
2697 * Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format.
2698 * For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as
2699 missing.
2700 * (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1).
2701 * (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags.
2702 * Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
2703 $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
2704 * sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
2705 implicit groups rather than showing 0.
2706 * (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules.
2707 * (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a
2708 POST request was needed due to cache pollution.
2709 * Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions.
2710 * Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is
2711 used, rvlimit is enforced to 1.
2712 * (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the
2713 current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary.
2714 * (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to
2715 reduce confusion.
2716 * (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page.
2717 <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
2718 ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
2719 list.
2720 * The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs,
2721 empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters.
2722 * (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop.
2723 * (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when
2724 $wgDisableCounters enabled.
2725 * (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages.
2726 * (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL.
2727 * (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook.
2728 * (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo.
2729 * (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the
2730 file is a multi-page file.
2731 * (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist.
2732 * (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description.
2733 * (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
2734 real timestamp field.
2735 * (bug 27722) list=filearchive now supports revdel.
2736
2737 === Language support changes in 1.17 ===
2738
2739 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localizations are updated regularly.
2740
2741 The following languages were added:
2742
2743 * Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary)
2744 * Banjar (bjn)
2745 * Kabardian (kdb)
2746 * Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl)
2747 * Latgalian (ltg)
2748 * Minangkabau (min)
2749 * Dutch (informal) (nl-informal)
2750 * Rusyn (rue)
2751
2752 Other significant changes to MediaWiki's language support:
2753
2754 * Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) was removed.
2755 * Removed deprecated language code "dk" (Danish), use "da" instead.
2756 * Link trail added for sl and sh.
2757 * (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
2758 * (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
2759 (Taraškievica).
2760 * (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc.
2761 * (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca.
2762 * (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script.
2763 * (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto.
2764 * (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia.
2765 * (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated.
2766 * Esperanto date format corrected.
2767 * (bug 28159) Change interwiki name of language kbd to Къэбэрдеибзэ /
2768 Qabardjajəbza.
2769 * (bug 28184) Namespaces for the Latgalian Wikipedia.
2770 * (bug 25010) Bashkir-language interwikis: linktext change from Башҡорт
2771 to Башҡортса.
2772 * (bug 26395) Change name of Cornish language to Kernowek.
2773
2774 === Other changes in 1.17 ===
2775
2776 * DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
2777 extensions has been removed.
2778 * XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
2779 * The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed
2780 * Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
2781 * Removed $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by
2782 $wgUploadNavigationUrl.
2783 * (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed
2784 * The PHPUnit test suite has been removed from this release due to serious issues
2785 which should be resolved by the 1.18 release.
2786 * Oracle DB now uses the __destruct fuction to commit/close connection as it
2787 doesn't commit on close if transation is triggered in OCI.
2788
2789 == MediaWiki 1.16 ==
2790
2791 === Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
2792
2793 * (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
2794 * $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
2795 * $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
2796 be used when uploading/moving files
2797 * (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
2798 to be shown to users
2799 * $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
2800 $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
2801 for backwards-compatibility
2802 * (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
2803 * $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
2804 functions and other potential errors when developing.
2805 * Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
2806 mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
2807 which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
2808 * Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
2809 appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
2810 oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
2811 * Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
2812 * Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
2813 $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
2814 files.
2815 * $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
2816 needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
2817 * $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
2818 to true
2819 * Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
2820 functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
2821 * $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
2822 interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
2823 * $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
2824 to same server
2825 * (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
2826 to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
2827 * $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
2828 * $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
2829 * $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
2830 should be used instead
2831 * (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
2832 characters in file names.
2833 * (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
2834 was denied to users(img_auth only)
2835 * (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
2836 correctly (img_auth only)
2837 * $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
2838 maintenance
2839 * $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
2840 * (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
2841 to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
2842 * $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
2843 * (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
2844 CIDR ranges for blocking
2845 * $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
2846 file repository
2847 * $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
2848 * $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
2849 similarly to the category namespace.
2850 * $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
2851 backward compatibility)
2852 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
2853 exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
2854 it as appropriate.
2855 * If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
2856 signatures. This was always the behavior documented in DefaultSettings.php
2857 but has not been the actual behavior for some time: instead, UTC was used
2858 by default.
2859 * Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
2860 If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
2861 * Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
2862 with some search engines.
2863 * Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
2864 neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
2865 longer advertised by default (but it still works).
2866 * Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
2867 memcached servers.
2868 * New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
2869 for controlling debug output.
2870 * New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
2871 logging in.
2872 * (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
2873 extension "MetadataEdit".
2874
2875 === New features in 1.16 ===
2876
2877 * Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
2878 * (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
2879 viewing talk pages
2880 * Superfluous border="0" removed from images
2881 * Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
2882 to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
2883 a cached MonoBook sidebar
2884 * Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
2885 * (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
2886 to Special:Version
2887 * Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
2888 type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
2889 * (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
2890 * (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
2891 Special:Version
2892 * (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
2893 * (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
2894 * (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
2895 * (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
2896 * (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
2897 * Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
2898 each page
2899 * Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
2900 * Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
2901 it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
2902 * (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
2903 * (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
2904 month number without the leading zero
2905 * (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
2906 * (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
2907 * (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
2908 * (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
2909 * (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
2910 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
2911 customisation of the user interface
2912 * DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
2913 items)
2914 * Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
2915 wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
2916 * Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
2917 various user groups.
2918 * Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
2919 syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
2920 have these rights stripped from them.
2921 * Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
2922 the DBA extension is not available.
2923 * Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
2924 fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
2925 time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
2926 set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
2927 * Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
2928 files.
2929 * Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
2930 task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
2931 invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
2932 * (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
2933 headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
2934 removing the redundant anchor elements.
2935 * Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
2936 preprocesor level.
2937 * Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
2938 display for old versions of images.
2939 * In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
2940 appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
2941 * Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
2942 thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
2943 * If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
2944 now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
2945 * Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
2946 * (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
2947 will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
2948 * (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
2949 class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
2950 * (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
2951 * (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
2952 message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
2953 * (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
2954 AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
2955 * (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
2956 difficulties
2957 * (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
2958 browsers
2959 * Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
2960 * (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
2961 extension version in Special:Version
2962 * (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
2963 right name in Special:ListGroupRights
2964 * (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
2965 to {{ns:...}}
2966 * (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
2967 params
2968 * (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
2969 * (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
2970 * RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
2971 flags have tooltips.
2972 * (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
2973 but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
2974 * wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
2975 page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
2976 * (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
2977 use
2978 * The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
2979 This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
2980 if HTML 5 is used:
2981 ** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers.
2982 ** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
2983 obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
2984 ** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
2985 ** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
2986 output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
2987 ** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
2988 * The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
2989 * New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
2990 criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
2991 deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
2992 * (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
2993 * (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
2994 detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
2995 * MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
2996 * IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
2997 display-in-limit-form.
2998 * (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
2999 and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
3000 * Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
3001 database connection and query errors.
3002 * Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
3003 * Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
3004 excerpt from the block log.
3005 * (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
3006 file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
3007 * Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
3008 * New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
3009 non-existent pages.
3010 * Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
3011 on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
3012 * (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
3013 of anonymous users that edited the page
3014 * New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
3015 for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
3016 * (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
3017 * Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
3018 called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
3019 * (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
3020 a smaller subversion checkout.
3021 * (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
3022 * (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
3023 of existing users
3024 * (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
3025 function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
3026 setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
3027 etc) to "-".
3028 * Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
3029 * Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
3030 * Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
3031 reuploading.
3032 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
3033 rate limits.
3034 * (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
3035 the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
3036 * (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
3037 an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
3038 * New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
3039 or ExtUser-driven requests.
3040 * (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
3041 contains the number of revisions in the history
3042 * $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
3043 * (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
3044 * New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
3045 to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
3046 * Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
3047 * rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
3048 MySQL
3049 * upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
3050 * (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
3051 respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
3052 * Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
3053 and common coding mistakes
3054 * Updated Unicode normalization tables
3055 * (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
3056 * New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
3057 * (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
3058 membership in SpecialActiveusers
3059 * Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
3060 * $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
3061 * (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
3062 * EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
3063 * (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
3064 * (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
3065 * (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
3066 * (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
3067 * Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
3068 Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
3069 convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
3070 equivalents.
3071 * (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
3072 stops normal output
3073 * Send new password e-mail in users preference language
3074 * LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
3075 "-{-{}-}-"
3076 * Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
3077 * (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
3078 * (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
3079 restrict/expand it.
3080 * (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
3081 article
3082 * (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
3083 the return value
3084 * Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
3085 maintenance/tests/.
3086 * importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
3087 comment from another wiki.
3088 * Support for Turck MMCache was removed
3089 * (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
3090 account will not be renamed
3091 * Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
3092
3093 === Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
3094
3095 * (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
3096 selection
3097 * The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
3098 * (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
3099 * (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
3100 * (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
3101 * (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
3102 * Improved error handling for image moving
3103 * (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
3104 with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
3105 * (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
3106 MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
3107 * Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
3108 * (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
3109 * (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
3110 * (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
3111 * (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
3112 * "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
3113 skins
3114 * (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
3115 * (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
3116 * The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
3117 an IP address
3118 * (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
3119 * (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
3120 * (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
3121 * (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
3122 * (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
3123 * (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
3124 * (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
3125 * (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
3126 * (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
3127 * (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
3128 * Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
3129 after some parsed math syntax.
3130 * (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
3131 * (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
3132 <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
3133 * (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
3134 divisible by 3
3135 * (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
3136 revisions when --delete is not passed
3137 * (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
3138 * Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
3139 ** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
3140 ** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
3141 ** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
3142 ** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
3143 to $wgSharedTables.
3144 ** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
3145 for it.
3146 * (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
3147 languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
3148 * (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
3149 * (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
3150 * Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
3151 problems in FF2
3152 * (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
3153 * (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
3154 * (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
3155 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
3156 * (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
3157 * (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
3158 * (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
3159 tweaked spacing.
3160 * (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
3161 * (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
3162 $wgSysopEmailBans
3163 * (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
3164 * (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
3165 * (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
3166 * (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
3167 * (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
3168 * Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
3169 tags that were redundantly defined.
3170 * (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
3171 * (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
3172 .inc
3173 * Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
3174 Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
3175 * Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
3176 and user can upload
3177 * Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
3178 uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
3179 * (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
3180 * (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
3181 * (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
3182 variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
3183 * (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
3184 show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
3185 * (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
3186 * (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
3187 * (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
3188 * Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
3189 link from the edit comment
3190 * (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
3191 * (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
3192 * (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
3193 * (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
3194 * Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
3195 * Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only
3196 * (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they
3197 can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
3198 * (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
3199 * Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
3200 via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
3201 work.
3202 * (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
3203 Chinese
3204 * (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
3205 * (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
3206 whether the engines are actually available
3207 * (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version
3208 * (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan
3209 * (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input
3210 and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an
3211 extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid)
3212 * (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on
3213 * (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once
3214 * (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url
3215 * (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self
3216 * Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6
3217 * Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore
3218 and was causing problems.
3219 * Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links.
3220 * (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on
3221 Special:BlockIP
3222 * (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite.
3223 * Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from
3224 history view, edit page, or something similar
3225 * (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
3226 * (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
3227 * (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
3228 * (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
3229 database type
3230 * (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
3231 standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
3232 * (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]])
3233 are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table
3234 * (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id
3235 * (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data.
3236 Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway.
3237 * (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file
3238 * (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist
3239 * (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5
3240 * (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
3241 * (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
3242 * (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
3243 * (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
3244 table.
3245 * (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
3246 * (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
3247 * (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
3248 users who can't edit them
3249 * (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
3250 * (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
3251 "enhanced recent changes"
3252 * (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
3253 the recentchanges table
3254 * (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
3255 when using long urls
3256 * The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
3257 BCP 47 standards.
3258 * (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
3259 * (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
3260 $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on
3261 Special:ListGroupRights
3262 * (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
3263 to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as
3264 content's language
3265 * (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL
3266 database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup
3267 * (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
3268 if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
3269 * (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
3270 * (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
3271 option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
3272 * (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
3273 * (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
3274 "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
3275 * (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
3276 "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
3277 * (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
3278 (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
3279 * (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
3280 language ($wgContLang)
3281 * (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php
3282 * (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count
3283 * (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have
3284 not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their
3285 preferences
3286 * (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
3287 using the full path
3288 * (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
3289 * (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
3290 * (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
3291 * (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
3292 * (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip
3293 * (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on
3294 Special:RecentChangesLinked
3295 * Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
3296 foo,bar@example,com
3297 * (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
3298 * (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
3299 * (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
3300 namespaces
3301 * (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
3302 * Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
3303 versions of MediaWiki were affected).
3304 * (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
3305 * (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
3306 * (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
3307 are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
3308 titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
3309 * (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
3310 cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
3311 * (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
3312 * (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
3313 * (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
3314 * (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
3315 enabled
3316 * (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
3317 target page
3318 * (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
3319 Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
3320 * (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
3321 * (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
3322 use wikitext
3323 * (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
3324 DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
3325 * (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
3326 the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
3327 * (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
3328 Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
3329 * (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
3330 if they contain non-ASCII characters
3331 * (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
3332 Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
3333 * The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
3334 * (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
3335 execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
3336 at script execution, it now throws an exception
3337 * Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
3338 (analogous to EditFilter hook)
3339 * (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
3340 by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
3341 * (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
3342 $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
3343 * (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
3344 * (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
3345 the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
3346 * (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
3347 argument
3348 * (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
3349 any change, in addition to onkeyup.
3350 * Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
3351 allowed to create page. Done via new message
3352 MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
3353 * Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
3354 wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
3355 portlet unhides it
3356 * (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
3357 be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
3358 * (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
3359 * (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
3360 correct type="text" parameter
3361 * (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
3362 * Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
3363 * (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
3364 * (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
3365 the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
3366 * (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
3367 * User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
3368 assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
3369 * (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
3370 editing an old version
3371 * (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
3372 by disable_functions
3373 * (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
3374 returns false if the page doesn't exist
3375 * (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
3376 * (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
3377 * (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
3378 command line scripts to fail
3379 * (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
3380 MediaWiki:Missing-article
3381 * (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
3382 * (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
3383 be rendered.
3384 * (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
3385 * (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
3386 now links to the file rather than the file description page
3387 * Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
3388 attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
3389 * (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
3390 * (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
3391 * (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
3392 searching for special pages
3393 * (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
3394 hideuser right
3395 * (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
3396 * (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
3397 field names per driver.
3398 * (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
3399 false on non-special pages
3400 * (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
3401 displayed when there isn't any entry in it
3402 * (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
3403 revisions
3404 * (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
3405 MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
3406 * (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
3407 Special:Log
3408 * (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
3409 Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
3410 * (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
3411 * (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
3412 * (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
3413 databases
3414 * (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
3415 * (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
3416 dummy
3417 * (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
3418 * (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
3419 * (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
3420 * (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
3421 * (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
3422 * (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
3423 * (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
3424 * (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
3425 shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
3426 complete the move.
3427 * (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
3428 * User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results,
3429 User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string
3430 * The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
3431 * (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
3432 * Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
3433 * Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
3434 * (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
3435 * (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
3436 * (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
3437 * (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
3438 * (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
3439 * (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
3440 id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
3441 * (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
3442 * (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
3443 * (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
3444 even to non-logged in users
3445 * (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and
3446 general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as
3447 Varnish.
3448 * Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
3449 instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
3450 * (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
3451 of the displayed page
3452 * (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with
3453 PHP's memcached extension
3454 * (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible
3455 * (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
3456 * (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
3457 only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
3458 * (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
3459 "unknown error"
3460 * (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
3461 redirects-only switch is not present
3462 * (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
3463 * Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
3464 due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
3465 * (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
3466 the page selector when they have only one page
3467 * (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
3468 "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
3469 * (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
3470 * (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
3471 a redirect instead of a baderror.
3472 * (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
3473 * Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g.
3474 for namespace)
3475 * (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
3476 groups if there are duplicate entries
3477 * (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username
3478 now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links
3479 * (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID
3480 * (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
3481 previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
3482 * (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
3483 * refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
3484 * (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
3485 consistency with RC/WL
3486 * (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language
3487 * If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
3488 type selector on Special:Log
3489 * (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
3490 user can't create an account
3491 * (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
3492 * (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
3493 user's page if possible
3494 * (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
3495 * (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
3496 reimplementing it.
3497 * (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
3498 * (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
3499 skin-specific JS pages
3500 * (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
3501 for image divs.
3502 * (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook
3503 and Chick skins
3504 * Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
3505 * (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
3506 * (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
3507 * (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
3508 * (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
3509 not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
3510 * (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
3511 that can only change their rights
3512 * (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
3513 * (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload
3514 link from file pages
3515 * Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in
3516 $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used
3517 as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it
3518 was unintentionally sorted along with other fields.
3519 * (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8
3520 * Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken
3521 multibyte characters
3522 * (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist
3523 * (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to
3524 the page set in the &returnto parameter.
3525 * (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome
3526 * (bug 17790) Users instantly logged off on HughesNet
3527 * (bug 21549) Make foreign key constraints DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED
3528 when using Postgres as the database backend.
3529
3530 == API changes in 1.16 ==
3531
3532 * Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
3533 * Added usprop=gender to list=users
3534 * (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
3535 * Add parentid to prop=revisions output
3536 * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
3537 when the user is blocked
3538 * (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
3539 * (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
3540 users
3541 * (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
3542 * (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
3543 * Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output
3544 * (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output
3545 * (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories
3546 * (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo
3547 * (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo
3548 output
3549 * (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version
3550 * (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output
3551 * (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs
3552 * (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output
3553 * Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans
3554 * Made deleting file description pages without files possible
3555 * (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output
3556 * (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo
3557 * (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and
3558 list=recentchanges
3559 * Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections
3560 output
3561 * (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups
3562 * (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite
3563 warnings
3564 * (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output
3565 * (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang
3566 rather than UI lang
3567 * (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
3568 * (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
3569 * (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
3570 * (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
3571 parameter in action=edit
3572 * (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
3573 parameter in action=edit
3574 * Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
3575 * Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
3576 optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
3577 * (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
3578 external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
3579 Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
3580 * (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
3581 srprop and srinfo.
3582 * (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
3583 customized messages
3584 * Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
3585 * (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
3586 * (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
3587 drcontinue param is passed
3588 * (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
3589 * (bug 19004) Added support for tags
3590 * (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
3591 without registration date
3592 * (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
3593 * (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
3594 * (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
3595 * (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
3596 * (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
3597 for logged-in users under certain circumstances
3598 * (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
3599 * Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
3600 descriptionurl
3601 * (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
3602 * (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
3603 * (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
3604 * (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
3605 * (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
3606 * (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
3607 * Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
3608 * (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
3609 * (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
3610 * (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
3611 * (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
3612 * (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
3613 * (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output
3614 * (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo
3615
3616 === Languages updated in 1.16 ===
3617
3618 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
3619 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
3620 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
3621
3622 * Capiznon (cps) (new)
3623 * North Frisian (frr) (new)
3624 * Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
3625 * Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
3626 * Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
3627 * Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
3628 * Prussian (prg) (new)
3629 * Romagnol (rgn) (new)
3630 * Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
3631 * Picard (pcd) (new)
3632 * Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
3633 * Upper Franconian (vmf) (new)
3634 * Votic (vot) (new)
3635 * Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
3636 * Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
3637 * Ladin (lld) (removed)
3638 * Laz (lzz) (removed)
3639 * Palembang (plm) (removed)
3640 * Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
3641 * Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
3642 * Laz (lzz) (new)
3643
3644 * (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
3645 * Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
3646 * Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et)
3647 * (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my)
3648 * (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash
3649 (Чӑвашла)
3650 * (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language
3651 * (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc)
3652 * (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail
3653 * (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl)
3654 * (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian
3655 * (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail
3656 * (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
3657 * (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
3658 * (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
3659 * (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
3660 * (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku)
3661 * (bug 23767) PHP warning/error when REQUEST_URI returns blank (IIS issue).
3662
3663 == MediaWiki 1.15 ==
3664
3665 === Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
3666
3667 * Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
3668 temporary passwords
3669 * Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
3670 * Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
3671 from rel="nofollow" on external links
3672 * (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
3673 * Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
3674 to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
3675 * Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
3676 namespace" option (disabled by default)
3677
3678 === New features in 1.15 ===
3679
3680 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
3681 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
3682 for the current page for a given action
3683 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
3684 to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
3685 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
3686 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
3687 Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
3688 hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
3689 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
3690 from the database.
3691 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
3692 existing block when modifying an existing block.
3693 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
3694 rather than hardcoded HTML tags
3695 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
3696 extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
3697 pages
3698 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
3699 specialpages
3700 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
3701 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
3702 recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
3703 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
3704 special pages.
3705 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
3706 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
3707 link instead of Go button & Search button
3708 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
3709 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
3710 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
3711 * (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
3712 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
3713 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
3714 content language.
3715 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
3716 set to false.
3717 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
3718 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
3719 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
3720 can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
3721 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
3722 "mw-confirmemail-pending"
3723 * (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
3724 parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
3725 part for a given title.
3726 * (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
3727 rest of the font
3728 * (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
3729 * (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
3730 * (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
3731 * Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
3732 class "mw-searchresult"
3733 * (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
3734 * Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
3735 * New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
3736 LanguageConverter class)
3737 * (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
3738 * Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
3739 * (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
3740 "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
3741 * (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
3742 this information will be public
3743 * Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
3744 * Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
3745 the active users data from site_stats.
3746 * Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
3747 * Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
3748 'ellipsis' message
3749 * Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
3750 'mw-editinginterface'
3751 * (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
3752 * Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
3753 of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
3754 next section anyway.
3755 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
3756 rate limits.
3757 * (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
3758 Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
3759 $wgForeignFileRepos
3760 * Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
3761 * (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
3762 * (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
3763 * Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
3764 * (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
3765 username
3766 * Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
3767 with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
3768 * $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
3769 of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
3770 * New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
3771 LanguageConverter class)
3772 * (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
3773 $wgRedirectOnLogin
3774 * Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
3775 * (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
3776 of the displayed revision's author user name
3777 * LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
3778 a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
3779 * (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with
3780 dynamic dates.
3781 * (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the dateformat
3782 parser function.
3783 * (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited to 5000 pages)
3784 * (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
3785 enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,
3786 optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting
3787 $wgTiffThumbnailType
3788 * Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and
3789 'mw-log-user', respectively
3790 * Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
3791 usernames during registration (such as "@")
3792 * Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
3793 used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
3794 on a different database
3795 * Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
3796 line
3797 * Title attributes are now always blank on framed and thumbnailed images, and default to blank
3798 on inline images instead of defaulting to the image's filename. Additionally, the alt
3799 attribute now defaults to the filename on framed and thumbnailed images if no caption or alt
3800 attribute is specified.
3801
3802 === Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
3803 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
3804 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
3805 before trying to delete the edit.
3806 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
3807 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
3808 the destination page exists
3809 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
3810 been disabled
3811 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
3812 LanguageConverter class)
3813 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
3814 LanguageConverter class)
3815 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
3816 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
3817 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
3818 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
3819 allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
3820 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
3821 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
3822 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
3823 to 'administrator'
3824 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
3825 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
3826 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
3827 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
3828 "user contributions"
3829 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
3830 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
3831 comment label uses better message
3832 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
3833 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
3834 LocalSettings
3835 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
3836 error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
3837 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
3838 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
3839 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
3840 for identical files at different titles are still given.
3841 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
3842 certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
3843 and the entries can be styled with CSS.
3844 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
3845 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
3846 results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
3847 * (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
3848 * (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
3849 configs
3850 * (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
3851 * (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
3852 * (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
3853 * (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
3854 history
3855 * (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
3856 and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
3857 * (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
3858 * (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
3859 longer affects the page title
3860 * (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
3861 * (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
3862 * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
3863 * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
3864 * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
3865 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
3866 cache is enabled.
3867 * (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
3868 * (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
3869 maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
3870 * (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
3871 * (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
3872 * Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
3873 use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
3874 in next page link
3875 * (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
3876 * Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
3877 * File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
3878 * (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
3879 used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
3880 * (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
3881 * (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
3882 now point to the actual contributors' feed.
3883 * ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
3884 * Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
3885 $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
3886 * (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
3887 redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
3888 * (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
3889 * (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
3890 changed to rc_timestamp_bot
3891 * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
3892 * (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
3893 * (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
3894 on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
3895 * (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
3896 it unreadable in RTL
3897 * Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
3898 * (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
3899 PostgreSQL
3900 * (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
3901 * (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
3902 * (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
3903 * (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
3904 toolbar present
3905 * (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
3906 * (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
3907 * (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
3908 queue
3909 * (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
3910 displayed revision if it's not the current one
3911 * (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
3912 * (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
3913 namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
3914 * (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
3915 * (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
3916 no longer corrupts the message cache
3917 * (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
3918 * (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
3919 * (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
3920 * (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
3921 * Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
3922 * (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
3923 two "page" parameters
3924 * (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
3925 don't use PathInfo or short urls
3926 * (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
3927 $wgScriptExtension
3928 * (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
3929 * (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
3930 IS NULL
3931 * (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
3932 * (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
3933 * (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when you cut-and-paste article text
3934 * (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
3935 * (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
3936 * (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and "Previous edit" diff links
3937 * (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as target'
3938 * (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
3939 * Fixed a CSS validation issue which allowed external images to be included
3940 into wikis where that is disallowed by configuration.
3941 * Fixed a data leakage vulnerability for private wikis using img_auth.php or
3942 similar image access authentication schemes. Check user permissions before
3943 streaming out scaled images from thumb.php.
3944
3945 == API changes in 1.15 ==
3946 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
3947 and listing all deleted pages possible
3948 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
3949 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
3950 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
3951 created the page, even if it's not the top revision
3952 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
3953 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
3954 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
3955 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
3956 Building query properly now using makeList()
3957 * (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
3958 autolinked correctly
3959 * (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
3960 * (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
3961 * (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
3962 * (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
3963 * (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
3964 * (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
3965 * (bug 17007) Added action=import
3966 * BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
3967 of performance concerns
3968 * Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
3969 and list=logevents
3970 * (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
3971 limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
3972 * (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
3973 * (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
3974 * (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
3975 * Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
3976 * (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
3977 aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
3978 * (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
3979 * (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
3980 * (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
3981 * Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
3982 conversion rules
3983 * (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
3984 is set
3985 * (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
3986 without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
3987 * Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
3988 when someone tries to use them
3989 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
3990 a POST request
3991 * (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
3992 message to be included in the page text
3993 * Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop
3994 involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is
3995 possible.
3996 * (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter
3997 * (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter
3998 * (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output
3999 * (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data
4000 directory is wrong.
4001
4002 === Languages updated in 1.15 ===
4003
4004 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
4005 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
4006 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
4007
4008 * Austrian German (de-at) (new)
4009 * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
4010 * Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
4011 * Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
4012 * Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
4013 * Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
4014 * Veps (vep) (new)
4015 * Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
4016 * (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
4017 * (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
4018 * (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
4019 * (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
4020 * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when
4021 the user is blocked
4022 * Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
4023
4024 == MediaWiki 1.14 ==
4025
4026 === Configuration changes in 1.14 ===
4027
4028 * $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
4029 the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words. (Default: null, ex-
4030 empt all content namespaces.)
4031 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
4032 has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
4033 * (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
4034 $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent
4035 Changes feed that appears on all pages.
4036 * $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
4037 SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from
4038 $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki.
4039 * $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
4040 $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
4041 group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
4042 Backwards compatibility is maintained.
4043 * $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
4044 word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
4045 is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
4046 * $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
4047 * $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
4048 * Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
4049 with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
4050 is not required.
4051 * $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
4052 * Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
4053 whitelist on or off.
4054 * Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
4055 sitenotice cache keys.
4056 * $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
4057 * (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
4058 write actions using the API.
4059 * Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
4060 ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
4061 * Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
4062 on the wiki. If it's set to false, then the skin used will *always* be
4063 $wgDefaultSkin.
4064 * Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
4065 on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
4066 * Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
4067 ForeignAPIRepo)
4068 * (bug 44) Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File.
4069 For backward compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may
4070 need to be updated.
4071 * The constants NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK can now be used instead of NS_IMAGE and
4072 NS_IMAGE_TALK. The old constants are retained as aliases for compatibility,
4073 and should still be used in code meant to be compatible with v1.13 or older.
4074 * MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by
4075 using $wgUsePrivateIPs.
4076 * The 'BeforeWatchlist' hook has been removed due to internal changes in
4077 Special:Watchlist. 'SpecialWatchlistQuery' should now be used by extensions
4078 to customize the watchlist database query.
4079
4080 === Migrated extensions ===
4081 The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
4082
4083 * Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was
4084 extension DeletedContributions)
4085 * Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
4086 * Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
4087 * RenderHash
4088 * NoMoveUserPages
4089 * UniversalEditButton
4090
4091 === New features in 1.14 ===
4092
4093 * New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
4094 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
4095 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
4096 * Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
4097 respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
4098 MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
4099 PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
4100 * (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
4101 search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
4102 * Handheld stylesheet options
4103 * Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
4104 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks. Note that the
4105 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
4106 run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
4107 if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
4108 * Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
4109 $wgCleanSignatures=false
4110 * Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
4111 sidebar and add custom portlets to it
4112 * Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
4113 ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
4114 * (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
4115 Special:ListGroupRights
4116 * (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
4117 * (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
4118 the main page to be customized
4119 * Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
4120 the wiki
4121 * Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
4122 added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
4123 being converted or not
4124 * (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
4125 Patch by Emufarmers
4126 * Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
4127 * Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
4128 after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
4129 templates to work with that hook.
4130 * (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
4131 'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
4132 * (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
4133 * By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
4134 so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
4135 * (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
4136 option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
4137 * (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
4138 Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
4139 * Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
4140 groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
4141 * HTML entities like &nbsp; now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
4142 * (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
4143 instead of a hardcoded colon.
4144 * Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
4145 * Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
4146 * BMP images are now displayed as PNG
4147 * (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
4148 * (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
4149 * Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
4150 * Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
4151 * Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
4152 treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
4153 displaying an external image inline.
4154 * (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
4155 * (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
4156 * (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
4157 * Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
4158 small categories
4159 * After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
4160 * (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
4161 * (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
4162 Special:Statistics
4163 * (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
4164 plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
4165 * (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
4166 deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
4167 * Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
4168 image.
4169 * (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for
4170 different restriction types on the protection form.
4171 * (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
4172 * Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
4173 * Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
4174 $wgExternalLinkTarget
4175 * api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the
4176 maxlag check fails, just like index.php does
4177 * Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
4178 arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
4179 solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
4180 * (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
4181 using new "alt=" parameter for images
4182 * (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized
4183 namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of
4184 underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
4185 * Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
4186 default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
4187 marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
4188 * Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
4189 several uses of the same image.
4190 * (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
4191 wiki is set to read-only mode.
4192 * Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.
4193 This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page
4194 from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only
4195 called from within Article.php
4196 * Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
4197 $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
4198 * (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
4199 is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
4200 * Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
4201 linked from articles
4202 * Make search matches bold only, not red as well
4203 * (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
4204 * (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is
4205 already directly blocked
4206 * (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter
4207 "watchthis"
4208 * (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by
4209 Nathan Larson.
4210 * Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
4211 * (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
4212 * (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
4213 * (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
4214 * Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
4215 image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
4216 $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
4217 * New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
4218 * (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
4219 * (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the
4220 namespace.
4221 * Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that
4222 admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS
4223 * Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
4224 * Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
4225 * Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
4226 * Added complimentary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
4227 * Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered
4228 algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm.
4229 * Cascading protection no longer requires that both edit and move are restricted
4230 to sysop, just edit=sysop is enough
4231 * (bug 2391) A warning is now shown for invalid ISBN numbers on Special:Booksources.
4232 * Installer has been updated to reflect the release of the GFDL 1.3. The URL for 1.2
4233 has been updated, and the 1.3 URL has been given. 1.2 is still Wikipedia-compatible.
4234 RightsCode was changed from 'gfdl' to 'gfdl1_2', so we can now support 1.2 as well
4235 as 1.3 (gfdl1_3).
4236 * (bug 16293) PD URL was changed to the CreativeCommons site on PD (which auto-detects
4237 your language) instead of Wikipedia.
4238 * (bug 16635) The "view and edit watchlist" page (Special:Watchlist/edit) now
4239 includes a table of contents
4240 * File objects returned by wfFindFile() are now cached by default
4241 * (bug 7492) Rights can now be assigned to specific IP addresses and ranges by
4242 using $wgAutopromote (new defines: APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE)
4243 * Add a 'change block' link to Special:IPBlockList and Special:Log
4244 * (bug 16459) Use native getElementsByClassName where possible, for better
4245 performance in modern browsers
4246 * Enable \cancel and \cancelto in texvc (recompile required)
4247 * Added 'UserCryptPassword' and 'UserComparePasswords' hooks to allow extensions to implement
4248 their own password hashing methods.
4249 * (bug 16760) Add CSS-class to action links of Special:Log
4250 * (bug 505) Time zones can now be specified by location in user preferences,
4251 avoiding the need to manually update for DST. Patch by Brad Jorsch.
4252 * (bug 2585) HTTP 404 return code is now given for a page view if the page
4253 does not exist, allowing spiders and link checkers to detect broken links.
4254 * Special:Log: Add 'change protection' link for unprotected pages too
4255 * Special:Log: Add log type specific CSS classes 'mw-logline-$logtype' to
4256 'li' elements
4257 * (bug 16754) Making arbitrary rows of sortable tables sticky:
4258 |- class="unsortable"
4259 * Show subversion too even if a "normal" version number is available
4260 * (bug 16121) Add a note that a page move was without creating a redirect in the
4261 move log
4262 * Image moving is now enabled for sysops by default
4263 * Make "Did you mean" search feature more noticeable
4264 * (bug 16720) Transcluded Special:NewPages processes "/username="
4265
4266 === Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
4267
4268 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
4269 * (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
4270 falls back to the user option
4271 * (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
4272 * Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
4273 * Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
4274 * Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
4275 * (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
4276 * (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
4277 * (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
4278 * Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
4279 * (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
4280 no longer redirect to the second link
4281 * (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
4282 a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
4283 Patch by Max Semenik.
4284 * (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
4285 user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
4286 * (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in
4287 5 minutes.
4288 * (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
4289 wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
4290 * (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the
4291 diff entirely, not just the display of it.
4292 * (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
4293 allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
4294 * (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
4295 ns-special to special pages.
4296 * (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
4297 * (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
4298 for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
4299 WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
4300 * (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
4301 again
4302 * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
4303 * (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
4304 gives results
4305 * Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
4306 contain '/*' in the title
4307 * Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
4308 * $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
4309 addition to body text.
4310 * Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
4311 from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
4312 * Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
4313 description pages).
4314 * (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
4315 * (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
4316 literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
4317 * (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
4318 namespace in Special:Watchlist
4319 * (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
4320 last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
4321 * (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
4322 * Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
4323 Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
4324 long-lasting locks on that table.
4325 * Respect file restrictions in the file history list
4326 * (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
4327 tables, and have been disabled by default.
4328 * (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
4329 * (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
4330 * (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
4331 * (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
4332 * (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
4333 * (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
4334 Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned.
4335 * Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
4336 LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
4337 * Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent
4338 pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the
4339 database
4340 * (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for
4341 recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50.
4342 * (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
4343 instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
4344 * (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
4345 has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
4346 * (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
4347 * Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST.
4348 * (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users
4349 * Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL
4350 * (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview
4351 * (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner
4352 * (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex
4353 * Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page
4354 * (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button
4355 * (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous
4356 * (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode
4357 * (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the
4358 user can only change his rights
4359 * (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
4360 * (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
4361 * (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
4362 * (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now
4363 bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
4364 * Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the
4365 Konqueror browser correctly use the latter
4366 * (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
4367 * (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
4368 preferences.
4369 * (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
4370 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
4371 search box
4372 * (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding
4373 new namespace
4374 * Purge form uses valid XHTML
4375 * (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
4376 * (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback
4377 if JavaScript is disabled
4378 * (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
4379 * Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
4380 * (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
4381 * (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
4382 * (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
4383 of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
4384 * Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now
4385 produces a warning
4386 * (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case
4387 letters
4388 * (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
4389 * (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
4390 have corrupt URLs
4391 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
4392 search box
4393 * (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
4394 revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
4395 * (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
4396 filename as the remote site.
4397 * (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
4398 * Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb
4399 path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
4400 * (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
4401 {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
4402 * Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for
4403 formatting and path exposure.
4404 * Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured
4405 * Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use.
4406 * Improved input validation on Special:Import form
4407 * Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection
4408 against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default
4409 installations.
4410 * Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection.
4411 * Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads.
4412 * (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes
4413 * (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script
4414 * (bug 7726) Searches for words less than 4 characters now work without
4415 requiring customization of MySQL server settings
4416 * Honour unchecked "Leave a redirect behind" for moved subpages
4417 * (bug 16440) Broken 0-byte math renderings are now deleted and re-rendered
4418 when page is re-parsed.
4419 * (bug 6100) Unicode BiDi embedding/override characters (U+202A - U+202E) are
4420 now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end
4421 up in copy-and-pasted titles, and, by overriding normal bidirectional text
4422 handling, can lead to annoying behavior such as text rendering backwards
4423 * Fixed minor bug where the memcached value for how many accounts an IP had
4424 created that day would be increased even if $wgAccountCreationThrottle was
4425 hit. This meant if an IP hit the throttle and then the throttle was raised
4426 later that day, the IP still couldn't create another account, because it
4427 had marked them as having created another account, when their last account
4428 creation had actually failed.
4429 * (bug 12647) Allow autogenerated edit summary messages to be blanked with '-'
4430 * (bug 16026) 'Revision-info' and 'revision-info-current' both accept wiki
4431 markup now.
4432 * (bug 16529) Fix for search suggestions with some third-party JS libraries
4433 * (bug 13342) importScript() generates more consistent URI encoding
4434 * (bug 16577) When a blocked user tries to rollback a page, the block message
4435 is now only displayed once
4436 * (bug 14268) SVG image sizes now extracted with proper XML parser
4437 * (bug 14365) RepoGroup::findFiles() no longer crashes if passed an invalid
4438 title via the API
4439 * (bug 4253, bug 16586) Revision ID is now given instead of title in URLs for
4440 new pages in the recent changes IRC feed
4441 * Ugly tooltips in Special:Statistics were phased out in favor of more direct
4442 information. Went ahead and rewrote SpecialStatistics to subclass SpecialPage
4443 * (bug 5506) Links to files on foreign repositories are now shown consistently
4444 as bluelinks e.g. in logs and edit summaries
4445 * (bug 16623) Add missing </p> tag in Special:LockDB
4446 * (bug 15849) Special:Movepage now throws a more specific error when trying to
4447 move a title to an interwiki target
4448 * (bug 16638) 8-bit URL fallback encoding now set on additional languages using
4449 Arabic script (Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi)
4450 * (bug 16656) cleanupTitles and friends should now work in load-balanced
4451 DB environments when $wgDBserver isn't set.
4452 * (bug 3691) Aspect ratio from viewBox attribute is now preserved for SVG
4453 images which do not specify width and height attributes.
4454 * (bug 15027) Internet domain names and IP addresses can now be indexed and
4455 searched sensibly with the default MySQL search backend.
4456 * (bug 11733) Fixed parameter validation in importTextFile.php
4457 * (bug 16712) Special:NewFiles updated to use "newer"/"older" paging messages
4458 for clarity over "previous/next"
4459 * (bug 16612) Fixed "noprint" class for Modern skin print style
4460 * Section anchors now have an "id" attribute as well as a "name" attribute,
4461 even when Tidy is not used
4462 * (bug 16026) revision-info, revision-info-current, cannotdelete,
4463 redirectedfrom, historywarning and difference messages now use Wiki text
4464 rather than raw HTML markup
4465 * (bug 13835) Fix rendering of {{filepath:Wiki.png|nowiki}}
4466 * (bug 16772) Special:Upload now correctly rejects files with spaces in the
4467 file extension (e.g. Foo. jpg).
4468 * Image moving over an existing file no longer throws a database error
4469 * (bug 16786) Restored "redundant" links recently removed from Classic sidebar
4470 * (bug 16850) $wgActionPaths can have query strings now, previously, this broke
4471 local URLs
4472 * (bug 16376) Mention in deleteBatch.php and moveBatch.php maintenance scripts
4473 that STDIN can be used for page list
4474 * (bug 16560) Special:Random returns a page from ContentNamespaces, and no
4475 longer from NS_MAIN
4476
4477 === API changes in 1.14 ===
4478
4479 * Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
4480 shown as empty instead of the current time.
4481 * API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
4482 or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
4483 This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
4484 &srwhat=text to the query.
4485 * Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
4486 * (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
4487 are now listed on action=help
4488 * (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
4489 between requests
4490 * (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
4491 output.
4492 * When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
4493 * list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
4494 * (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
4495 non-hidden categories
4496 * (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of
4497 an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
4498 * list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
4499 etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
4500 for consistency with other list modules.
4501 * Added action=watch
4502 * (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
4503 * action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an
4504 empty section with section=new
4505 * Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
4506 nochange flag any more
4507 * (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
4508 * (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
4509 return just "Unknown error"
4510 * (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
4511 * (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
4512 * (bug 15466) Added action=purge
4513 * (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
4514 * (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
4515 * (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
4516 * (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
4517 if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
4518 * list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
4519 * Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
4520 hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
4521 * action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
4522 * (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
4523 WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
4524 * (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
4525 rather than causing an exception
4526 * Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo
4527 * (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info
4528 * Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can
4529 be disabled in LocalSettings.php
4530 * (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles
4531 * (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw
4532 * (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted
4533 and undeleted since the last edit
4534 * (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in
4535 action=protect
4536 * Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output
4537 * (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
4538 * (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
4539 manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
4540 * (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
4541 * The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
4542 * (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
4543 and patrolmarks right
4544 * (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
4545 descending order.
4546 * (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
4547 list=categorymembers
4548 * (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
4549 sortkeys containing pipes
4550 * (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
4551 works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
4552 * (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
4553 output
4554 * Added redirect resolution to action=parse
4555 * (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
4556 an error
4557 * (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
4558 * (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
4559 * (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
4560 * (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
4561 * meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty
4562 sifilter parameter.
4563 * (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate
4564 limits
4565 * (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases
4566 * (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions
4567 * (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores
4568 instead of spaces
4569 * (bug 16516) Made rvsection=T-2 work
4570 * (bug 16526) Added usprop=emailable to list=users
4571 * (bug 16548) list=search threw errors with an invalid error code
4572 * (bug 16515) Added pst and onlypst parameters to action=parse
4573 * (bug 16541) Added block expiry timestamp to list=logevents output
4574 * (bug 16613) action=protect doesn't tell when &cascade was set but cascading
4575 protection wasn't allowed
4576 * (bug 16626) action=delete now correctly handles empty "reason" param
4577 * (bug 15579) clshow considers all categories !hidden
4578 * (bug 16647) list=allcategories, prop=categories don't return "hidden"
4579 property for hidden categories
4580 * New siprop parameter of 'extensions' to list all installed extensions
4581 * (bug 16672) Include canonical namespace name in
4582 meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces.
4583 * (bug 16726) siprop=namespacealiases should also list localized aliases
4584 * (bug 16730) Added apprfiltercascade parameter to list=allpages to filter
4585 cascade-protected pages
4586
4587 === Languages updated in 1.14 ===
4588
4589 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
4590 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
4591
4592 * Bakhtiari (bqi) (new)
4593 * Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new)
4594 * Krio (kri) (new)
4595 * Lezghian (lez) (new)
4596 * Laz (lzz) (new)
4597 * Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
4598 * Niuean (niu) (new)
4599 * Oromo (om) (new)
4600 * Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
4601 * Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
4602 * Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
4603 * Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
4604 * Tulu (tcy) (new)
4605
4606
4607 == MediaWiki 1.13 ==
4608
4609 == Changes since 1.13.2 ==
4610
4611 David Remahl of Apple's Product Security team has identified a number of
4612 security issues in previous releases of MediaWiki. Subsequent analysis by the
4613 MediaWiki development team expanded the scope of these vulnerabilities. The
4614 issues with a significant impact are as follows:
4615
4616 * An XSS vulnerability affecting all MediaWiki installations between 1.13.0 and
4617 1.13.2. [CVE-2008-5249]
4618 * A local script injection vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer clients for
4619 all MediaWiki installations with uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
4620 * A local script injection vulnerability affecting clients with SVG scripting
4621 capability (such as Firefox 1.5+), for all MediaWiki installations with SVG
4622 uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
4623 * A CSRF vulnerability affecting the Special:Import feature, for all MediaWiki
4624 installations since the feature was introduced in 1.3.0. [CVE-2008-5252]
4625
4626 XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities allow an attacker to steal an
4627 authorised user's login session, and to act as that user on the wiki. The
4628 authorised user must visit a web page controlled by the attacker in order to
4629 activate the attack. Intranet wikis are vulnerable if the attacker can
4630 determine the intranet URL.
4631
4632 Local script injection vulnerabilities are like XSS vulnerabilities, except
4633 that the attacker must have an account on the local wiki, and there is no
4634 external site involved. The attacker uploads a script to the wiki, which another
4635 user is tricked into executing, with the effect that the attacker is able to act
4636 as the privileged user.
4637
4638 CSRF vulnerabilities allow an attacker to act as an authorised user on the wiki,
4639 but unlike an XSS vulnerability, the attacker can only act as the user in a
4640 specific and restricted way. The present CSRF vulnerability allows pages to be
4641 edited, with forged revision histories. Like an XSS vulnerability, the
4642 authorised user must visit the malicious web page to activate the attack.
4643
4644 These four vulnerabilities are all fixed in this release.
4645
4646 David Remahl also reminded us of some security-related configuration issues:
4647
4648 * By default, MediaWiki stores a backup of deleted images in the images/deleted
4649 directory. If you do not want these images to be publically accessible, make
4650 sure this directory is not accessible from the web. MediaWiki takes some steps
4651 to avoid leaking these images, but these measures are not perfect.
4652 * Set display_errors=off in your php.ini to avoid path disclosure via PHP fatal
4653 errors. This is the default on most shared web hosts.
4654 * Enabling MediaWiki's debugging features, such as $wgShowExceptionDetails, may
4655 lead to path disclosure.
4656
4657 Other changes in this release:
4658
4659 * Avoid fatal error in profileinfo.php when not configured.
4660 * Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection against
4661 exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default installations.
4662 * Avoid streaming uploaded files to the user via index.php. This allows
4663 security-conscious users to serve uploaded files via a different domain, and
4664 thus client-side scripts executed from that domain cannot access the login
4665 cookies. Affects Special:Undelete, img_auth.php and thumb.php.
4666 * When streaming files via index.php, use the MIME type detected from the
4667 file extension, not from the data. This reduces the XSS attack surface.
4668 * Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath. Such redirects exacerbate any
4669 XSS vulnerabilities involving uploads of files containing scripts.
4670 * Internationalisation updates.
4671
4672 == Changes since 1.13.1 ==
4673
4674 * Security: Work around misconfiguration by requiring strict comparisons for
4675 in_array in User::isAllowed().
4676 * (bug 14944) Added $wgShellLocale for configuration of an appropriate locale
4677 to use for LC_CTYPE during shell invocation. For servers that don't have
4678 en_US.utf8. Also added locale detection during install.
4679 * Localisation updates
4680 * Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability in useskin parameter.
4681
4682 == Changes since 1.13.0 ==
4683
4684 * (bug 15460) Fixed intermittent deadlock errors and poor concurrent
4685 performance for installations without memcached.
4686 * (bug 13770) Fixed DOM module detection for installations with both dom
4687 and domxml.
4688 * (bug 15148) Fixed Special:BlockIP for PostgreSQL
4689 * Fixed SQLite support for non-memcached installations
4690 * Localisation updates, Achinese (ace) added.
4691
4692 == Changes since 1.13.0rc2 ==
4693
4694 * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
4695 * Fix regression from r37834: accesskey tooltip hint should be given for the
4696 minor edit and watch labels on the edit page.
4697 * Updated Chinese simplified/traditional conversion tables
4698
4699 == Changes since 1.13.0rc1 ==
4700
4701 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
4702 has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
4703 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
4704 * (bug 14966) Fix SearchEngineDummy class for silently non-functional search
4705 on Sqlite instead of horribly fatal error breaky one.
4706 * (bug 14987) Only fix double redirects on page move when the checkbox is
4707 checked
4708 * (bug 13376) Use $wgPasswordSender, not $wgEmergencyContact, as return
4709 address for page update notification mails.
4710 * API: Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
4711 shown as empty instead of the current time.
4712 * (bug 14904): fragments were lost when redirects were fixed.
4713 * Added magic word __STATICREDIRECT__ to suppress the redirect fixer
4714 * (bug 15035) Revert English linkTrail to /^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD, as it was before
4715 r36253. Multiple reports of breakage due to old (pre-5.0) PCRE libraries,
4716 both bundled with PHP and packaged with distros such as RHEL.
4717 * (bug 14944) Shell invocation of external programs such as ImageMagick convert
4718 was broken in PHP 5.2.6, if the server had a non-UTF-8 locale.
4719
4720
4721 === Configuration changes in 1.13 ===
4722
4723 * New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
4724 * (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved
4725 links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
4726 * Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
4727 * Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
4728 * Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
4729 * (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to
4730 $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
4731 * (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated
4732 for only some namespaces
4733 * Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use:
4734 $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
4735 in your LocalSettings.php.
4736 * (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows
4737 you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local
4738 database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new
4739 $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share.
4740 * Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries
4741 * Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page
4742 * $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to
4743 be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge
4744 * $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits
4745 displayed on the recent changes special pages
4746 * The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target
4747 image page already exists
4748 * $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once
4749 (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
4750 * Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use
4751 $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
4752 * $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over
4753 a certain number of days to be considered active
4754 * $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
4755 * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
4756 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
4757 * New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving
4758 subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
4759 * New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output.
4760 Default: false
4761 * Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection
4762 is no longer possible.
4763 * $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class,
4764 previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType
4765 * $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages
4766 provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
4767 * Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for
4768 with MimeMagic.
4769 * Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when
4770 creating new directories.
4771 * (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults
4772 current behavior.
4773
4774 === New features in 1.13 ===
4775
4776 * __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
4777 article page
4778 * Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
4779 article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not
4780 confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
4781 * Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
4782 image syntax output
4783 * (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit&section=new that
4784 pre-fills the section title field
4785 * (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
4786 * (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
4787 reduce broken form submissions
4788 * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
4789 redirects to the redirect table
4790 * Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
4791 * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
4792 * (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
4793 * When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
4794 * (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled"
4795 link on diffs
4796 * Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
4797 * Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
4798 * Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
4799 ** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
4800 ** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
4801 * (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
4802 * (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
4803 * Image redirects are now enabled by default
4804 * (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
4805 * (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
4806 * Redesign of Special:UserRights
4807 * Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
4808 * (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
4809 * (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
4810 * (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of
4811 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
4812 * Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
4813 * (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or
4814 off on Special:WhatLinksHere
4815 * Cache image redirects
4816 * (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
4817 * Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
4818 to modify the output for edit conflicts
4819 * Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
4820 a slightly less huge margin and padding
4821 * (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
4822 * Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
4823 * On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove
4824 one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
4825 * (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
4826 * Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different
4827 text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
4828 * Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account,
4829 otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
4830 * Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content
4831 namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
4832 * (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository
4833 and local one
4834 * Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
4835 * (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
4836 * (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
4837 * Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
4838 * (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
4839 * Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
4840 * More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
4841 * (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
4842 * (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
4843 * Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
4844 * Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
4845 * Add support for SQLite
4846 * AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
4847 * (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
4848 * (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
4849 * Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
4850 * (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
4851 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
4852 * Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
4853 * (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
4854 * New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
4855 from other pages in their group.
4856 * (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
4857 * (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
4858 * Sidebar is now cached for all languages
4859 * The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
4860 out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
4861 edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
4862 * SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
4863 changed by extensions.
4864 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
4865 external links.
4866 * (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
4867 * (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
4868 * (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of
4869 e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
4870 * Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
4871 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output
4872 of external (hotlinked) images.
4873 * (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter:
4874 Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single
4875 page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
4876 * Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
4877 * (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that
4878 are in Special:Recentchanges
4879 * Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
4880 * Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
4881 * Add meta generator tag to HTML output
4882 * MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
4883 * Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
4884 * Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
4885 * (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
4886 * Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
4887 moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
4888 SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
4889 * Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
4890 the database is potentially queried
4891 * (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
4892 * New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ČSN and PČP.
4893 * Special:Recentchangeslinked now includes changes to transcluded pages and
4894 displayed images; also, the "Show changes to pages linked" checkbox now works on
4895 category pages too, showing all links that are not categorizations
4896 * (bug 4578) Automatically fix redirects broken by a page move
4897
4898 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
4899
4900 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
4901 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
4902 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
4903 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
4904 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
4905 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
4906 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
4907 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
4908 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
4909 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
4910 to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
4911 'opensearch-desc' message.
4912 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
4913 to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
4914 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
4915 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
4916 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
4917 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
4918 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
4919 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
4920 maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
4921 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
4922 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
4923 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
4924 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
4925 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
4926 back when using rollback
4927 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
4928 recentchanges entry
4929 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
4930 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
4931 autocomment-prefix)
4932 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
4933 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
4934 case-insensitive names.
4935 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
4936 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
4937 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
4938 for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
4939 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
4940 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
4941 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
4942 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
4943 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
4944 overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
4945 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
4946 'generated-sidebar'.
4947 * (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
4948 * (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
4949 * (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
4950 * (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
4951 * (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
4952 * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
4953 * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
4954 * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
4955 * (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
4956 so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
4957 * Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
4958 using the "delete and move" option.
4959 * (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
4960 * (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
4961 * (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
4962 * PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
4963 * (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
4964 * (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
4965 * (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
4966 * Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
4967 * (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
4968 * (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
4969 * (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
4970 * (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
4971 * (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
4972 * (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
4973 (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
4974 * Trackback display formatting fixed
4975 * Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
4976 that have an array index other than 0
4977 * (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
4978 * (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
4979 * (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
4980 * (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
4981 * (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
4982 * (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
4983 * (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
4984 * (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
4985 * (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
4986 * (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
4987 * (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
4988 Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
4989 * (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
4990 * (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
4991 * (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
4992 * (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
4993 * (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
4994 * (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
4995 * (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
4996 * (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
4997 * Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
4998 * Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
4999 * (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
5000 * (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
5001 without query
5002 * (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
5003 * (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
5004 * (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
5005 * (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
5006 * (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
5007 * (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
5008 the page is included
5009 * When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
5010 * Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
5011 search results
5012 * (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
5013 * Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are
5014 changeable or all unchangeable
5015 * Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
5016 * (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
5017 * (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
5018 * (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
5019 * (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
5020 * (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
5021 * Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
5022 * (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
5023 * Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
5024 * (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
5025 * (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
5026 * (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
5027 * (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
5028 * (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
5029 * (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
5030 * (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has
5031 "show hidden categories" option on
5032 * (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
5033 * (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
5034 * (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
5035 * (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
5036 * (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
5037 * (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
5038 * (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
5039 * (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
5040 * Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
5041 * (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
5042 * (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
5043 * (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
5044 * (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0
5045 Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
5046 * (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
5047 * (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
5048 * (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options
5049 Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
5050 * (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
5051 * (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
5052 * (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
5053 * Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
5054 * (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behavior on image pages
5055 * (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
5056 * (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check
5057 * (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
5058 * (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
5059 * (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
5060 * (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists
5061 even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
5062 * (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are
5063 loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
5064 * (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
5065 * (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also
5066 disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
5067 * (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
5068 * (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
5069 * (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
5070 * (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name
5071 for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
5072 with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
5073 * (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
5074 * (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
5075 and I to ı
5076 * (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
5077 * (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
5078 set to true
5079 * (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
5080 * (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
5081 * (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
5082 ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
5083 not the main namespace page.
5084 * (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
5085 * (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
5086 * (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
5087 * (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
5088 * (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
5089 * (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
5090 * (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
5091 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
5092 * (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
5093 and $2 (=revision numbers)
5094 * (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
5095 * (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
5096 * (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
5097 * (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
5098 * (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
5099 extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
5100 * (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
5101 * (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
5102 * We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
5103 created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
5104 * (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
5105 * (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files
5106 fail due to database permission or other error
5107 * (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual
5108 recent changes page.
5109 * (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
5110 * Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
5111 * (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
5112 * (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
5113 * (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
5114 * (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges
5115 and multiple servers
5116 * (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
5117 * (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
5118 * (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
5119 * (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
5120 * (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
5121 * (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
5122 * OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty
5123 searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
5124 * (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title
5125 on Special:Newpages.
5126 * (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer
5127 generates a log entry.
5128 * (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid,
5129 keeps the log page from being distorted.
5130 * (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
5131 * (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
5132 * (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
5133 * (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
5134 * (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
5135 * (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using
5136 application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
5137 * (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
5138 on non-mySQL schemas.
5139 * (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
5140 had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
5141 * (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
5142 * (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
5143 * (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
5144 * (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as
5145 history pages
5146 * (bug 14845) Bug in prefs javascript: Calling an array item without checking
5147 its existance.
5148 * Accesskeys for minor edit/watch checkboxes on edit now work in Firefox 3
5149 * (bug 12384) Comments in maintenance/*php
5150 * (bug 12441) ./maintenance/generateSitemap.php fix -fspath requiring
5151 a trailing slash.
5152 * (bug 12568) configuration script now produce valid XHTML.
5153 * The accesskey to edit a page is now disabled when editing the page, to pre-
5154 vent conflicts with Safari shortcuts.
5155
5156 === API changes in 1.13 ===
5157
5158 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
5159 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
5160 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
5161 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
5162 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
5163 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
5164 retrieval easier
5165 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
5166 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
5167 * Added action=edit
5168 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
5169 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
5170 a certain section only
5171 * Introduced list=allimages
5172 * (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
5173 * Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
5174 * (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
5175 * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
5176 * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
5177 * (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
5178 * (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
5179 handled properly.
5180 * (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
5181 * (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
5182 * Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
5183 * Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
5184 * Added createonly parameter to action=edit
5185 * Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
5186 * (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
5187 * (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
5188 * Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to
5189 meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
5190 * (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
5191 * (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
5192 * Cleaned up redirect resolution
5193 * Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
5194 * (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
5195 * (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
5196 very weak typing on array keys.
5197 * (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
5198 * (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
5199 * (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
5200 * (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old
5201 revisions
5202 * (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
5203 * action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
5204 * (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
5205 * (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
5206 * Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
5207 * (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with
5208 format=xml
5209 * (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
5210 * (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
5211 * (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
5212 * (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
5213 * (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
5214 * (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
5215 * (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
5216 * (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
5217 * (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete
5218 for ages)
5219 * (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
5220 * (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
5221 * Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
5222 * Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
5223 * Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
5224 * (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
5225 * (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
5226 * action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
5227 * Added md5 parameter to action=edit
5228 * (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
5229 * Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
5230 * (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
5231 * (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
5232 * (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
5233 * Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
5234 * Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
5235 * (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
5236 * Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
5237 * (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
5238 * Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
5239 * (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and
5240 $wgShowSQLErrors
5241 * (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
5242 * Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions
5243 can add their own tokens
5244 * Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
5245 * Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to
5246 prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
5247 * Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to
5248 the page
5249 * list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol
5250
5251
5252
5253 == MediaWiki 1.12 ==
5254
5255 This is the Winter 2007 quarterly release.
5256
5257 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
5258 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
5259 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
5260
5261 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
5262 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
5263 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
5264
5265 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
5266 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
5267
5268 === Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
5269 * Marking edits as bot edits with Special:Contributions?bot=1 now requires the
5270 markbotedit permission, rather than the rollback permission previously used.
5271 This permission is assigned by default to the sysop group.
5272 * MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
5273 variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
5274 to not check and assume they are always up to date)
5275 * The rollback permission can now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
5276 * New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
5277 * Behavior of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behavior:
5278 * * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights.
5279 * * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or
5280 remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for
5281 any groups they are in.
5282 * New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
5283 * $wgImplicitGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc.
5284 * $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria
5285 * $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove
5286 themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
5287 * When $wgUseTidy has been enabled, PHP's Tidy module is now used if it is
5288 present, in preference to an external Tidy executable which may or may not
5289 be present. To force use of external Tidy even when the PHP module is
5290 available, set $wgTidyInternal to false.
5291
5292
5293 === New features in 1.12 ===
5294 * (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
5295 * Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
5296 complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
5297 * (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
5298 is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
5299 * (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
5300 * (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
5301 * (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
5302 * (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
5303 deleted file
5304 * On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view
5305 source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to
5306 create it
5307 * Clarify instructions given when an exception is thrown
5308 * AuthPlugin added strictUserAuth() method to allow per-user override
5309 of the strict() authentication behavior.
5310 * (bug 7872) Deleted revisions can now be viewed as diffs showing changes
5311 against the previous revision, whether currently deleted or live.
5312 * Added tooltips for the "Go" and "Search" buttons
5313 * (bug 11649) Show input form when Special:Whatlinkshere has no parameters
5314 * isValidEmailAddr hook added to User method of that name, to allow, e.g., re-
5315 stricting e-mail addresses to a specific domain
5316 * Removed "Clear" link in watchlist editor tools, as people were afraid to
5317 click it. Existing clear links will fall back to the raw editor, which is
5318 very easy to clear your watchlist with.
5319 * (bug 1405) Add wgUseNPPatrol option to control patroling for new articles
5320 on Special:Newpages
5321 * LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
5322 * Support for Iranian calendar
5323 * (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
5324 Special:Newpages
5325 * ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
5326 * MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
5327 globals have been set up but before any actions have been taken.
5328 * BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
5329 * SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
5330 * OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
5331 * (bug 11848, 12506) Allow URL parameters 'section', 'editintro' and 'preload'
5332 in Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk
5333 * Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
5334 * Support for Hebrew calendar
5335 * Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
5336 * (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
5337 [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
5338 * Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
5339 user page
5340 * Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
5341 * Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
5342 fails
5343 because it is part of a blocked range.
5344 * (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
5345 created by another user
5346 * dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart
5347 cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
5348 * (bug 12028) Add Special:Listbots as shortcut for Special:Listusers/bot
5349 * (bug 9633) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the deletion form
5350 * Show a warning message when creating/editing a user (talk) page but the user
5351 does not exists
5352 * (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches
5353 * (bug 12195) Undeleting pages now requires 'undelete' permission
5354 * (bug 11810) Localize displayed semicolons
5355 * (bug 11657) Support for Thai solar calendar
5356 * (bug 943) RSS feed for Recentchangeslinked
5357 * Introduced AbortMove hook
5358 * (bug 2919) Protection of nonexistent pages with regular protection interface.
5359 * Special:Upload now lists permitted/prohibited file extensions.
5360 * Split ambiguous filetype-badtype message into two new messages,
5361 filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type.
5362 * Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage
5363 * On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable.
5364 * It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop
5365 extension
5366 * Add HTML ID's mw-read-only-warning and mw-anon-edit-warning to warnings when
5367 editing to allow CSS styling.
5368 * Parser now returns list of sections
5369 * When a user is prohibited from creating a page, a title of "View source"
5370 makes no sense, and there should be no "Return to [[Page]]" link.
5371 * (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors.
5372 * (bug 9939) Special:Search now sets focus to search input box when no existing
5373 search is active
5374 * For Special:Userrights, use GET instead of POST to search for users.
5375 * Allow subpage syntax for Special:Userrights, i.e., Special:Userrights/Name.
5376 * When submitting changes on Special:Userrights, show the full form again, not
5377 just the search box.
5378 * Added exception hooks
5379 * (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot
5380 edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1')
5381 * (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page
5382 * (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
5383 * Add caching to the AJAX search
5384 * Add APCOND_INGROUPS
5385 * Add DBA caching to installer
5386 * (bug 12585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
5387 * Support redirects in image namespace
5388 * (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
5389 * (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon
5390 * Add option to include templates in Special:Export.
5391 * (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender
5392 address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails.
5393 This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages
5394 when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value.
5395 * (bug 11897) Add alias [[Special:CreateAccount]] & [[Special:Userlogin/signup]]
5396 for Special:Userlogin?type=signup
5397 * (bug 12214) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the file deletion form
5398 * Merged backends for OpenSearch suggestions and AJAX search.
5399 Both now accept namespace prefixes, handle 'Media:' and 'Special:' pages,
5400 and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code,
5401 and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook.
5402 * (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version
5403 * When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for
5404 and installed when at the superuser level.
5405 * The default robot policy for the entire wiki is now configurable via the
5406 $wgDefaultRobotPolicy setting.
5407 * (bug 12239) Use different separators for autocomments
5408 * (bug 12857) Patrol link on new pages should clear floats
5409 * (bug 12968) Render redirect wikilinks in a redirect class for customization
5410 via user/site CSS.
5411 * EditPageBeforeEditButtons hook added for altering the edit buttons below the edit box
5412
5413 === Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
5414
5415 * Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
5416 * (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
5417 ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
5418 * (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
5419 getUserPermissionsErrors.
5420 * Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
5421 * (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
5422 translations
5423 * (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
5424 message, the level of protection.
5425 * (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
5426 message.
5427 * (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
5428 where rollback is given to non-sysops.
5429 * (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
5430 editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
5431 * (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
5432 * (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
5433 * Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
5434 is not defined
5435 * (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
5436 * (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
5437 * (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
5438 * (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
5439 * (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
5440 page
5441 * Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
5442 * (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
5443 linked to the main page instead of targetted page
5444 * Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
5445 Special:Listredirects
5446 * (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
5447 when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
5448 * (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
5449 object.
5450 * (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
5451 * (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
5452 oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
5453 TEXT.
5454 * (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
5455 * Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
5456 * (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade
5457 * Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages
5458 * Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis
5459 * (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name
5460 * (bug 11474) Fix unintentional fall-through in math error handling
5461 * (bug 11478) Fix undefined method call in file deletion interface
5462 * (bug 278) Search results no longer highlight incorrect partial word matches
5463 * Compatibility with incorrectly detected old-style DJVU mime types
5464 * (bug 11560) Fix broken HTML output from weird link nesting in edit comments.
5465 Nested links (as in image caption text) still don't work _right_ but they're
5466 less wrong
5467 * (bug 9718) Remove unnecessary css from main.css causing spacing issues on
5468 some browsers.
5469 * (bug 11574) Add an interface message loginstart, which, similarly to loginend,
5470 appears just before the login form. Patch by MinuteElectron.
5471 * Do not cache category pages if using 'from' or 'until'
5472 * Created new hook getUserPermissionsErrors, to go with userCan changes.
5473 * Diff pages did not properly display css/js pages.
5474 * (bug 11620) Add call to User::isValidEmailAddr during accout creation.
5475 * (bug 11629) If $wgEmailConfirmToEdit is true, require people to supply an
5476 email address when registering.
5477 * (bug 11612) Days to show in recent changes cannot be larger than 7
5478 * (bug 11131) Change filearchive width/height columns to int for Postgres
5479 * Support plural in undeleted{revisions,revisions-files,files}
5480 * (bug 11343) If the database is read-only, ensure that undelete fails.
5481 * (bug 11690) Show revert link for page moves in Special:Log to allowed users
5482 only
5483 * Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
5484 * Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
5485 * (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
5486 words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
5487 * (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
5488 * (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
5489 * (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
5490 * (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
5491 * (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
5492 present
5493 * (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
5494 * (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
5495 * Remove all commas when parsing float numbers in sorted tables
5496 * Limit text field of deletion, protection and user rights changes reasons to
5497 255 characters (already restricted in the database)
5498 * In the deletion default reasons, calculate how much text to get from the
5499 article text, rather than getting 150 characters (which may be too much)
5500 * Add two messages for Special:Blockme which were used but undefined
5501 * (bug 11921) Support plural in message number_of_watching_users_pageview
5502 * If an IP address is blocked as part of a rangeblock, attempting to unblock
5503 the single IP should not unblock the entire range.
5504 * (bug 6695) Fix native language name of Southern Sotho (Sesotho) (st)
5505 * Make action=render follow redirects by default
5506 * If restricted read access was enabled, whitelist didn't work with special
5507 pages which had spaces in theirs names
5508 * If restricted read access was enabled, requests for non-existing special pages
5509 threw an exception
5510 * Feeds for recent changes now provide correct URLs for the change, not just
5511 the page
5512 * Check for if IP is blocked as part of a range when unblocking (see above bug-
5513 fix) was faulty. Now fixed.
5514 * Fixed wpReason URL parameter to action=delete.
5515 * Do not force a password for account creation by email
5516 * Ensure that rate-limiting is applied to rollbacks.
5517 * Make a better rate-limiting error message (i.e. a normal MW error,
5518 rather than an "Internal Server Error").
5519 * Do not present an image bigger than the source when 'frameless' option is used
5520 (to be consistent with the 'thumb' option now)
5521 * Support {{PLURAL}} for import log
5522 * Make sure that the correct log entries are shown on Special:Userrights even
5523 for users with special characters in their names
5524 * The number of watching users in watchlists was always reported as 1
5525 * namespaceDupes.php no longer dies when coming across an illegal title
5526 * (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
5527 * (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
5528 * (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
5529 * (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
5530 instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
5531 conversion with China variant.
5532 * (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
5533 * Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
5534 in the page_restrictions matching its old page_restrictions field.
5535 May help with odd upgrade issues or race condition.
5536 * (bug 11993) Remove contentsub "revision history"
5537 * (bug 11952) Ensure we quote_ident() all schema names as needed
5538 inside of the DatabasePostgres.php file.
5539 * (bug 12184) Exceptions now sent to stderr instead of stdout for command-line
5540 scripts, making for cleaner reporting during batch jobs. PHP errors will also
5541 be redirected in most cases on PHP 5.2.4 and later, switching 'display_errors'
5542 to 'stderr' at runtime.
5543 * (bug 12148) Text highlight wasn't applied to cleanly deleted and added
5544 lines in diff output
5545 * (bug 10166) Fix a PHP warning in Language::getMagic
5546 * Only mark rollback edits as minor if the user can normally mark edits minor
5547 * Escape page names in the move successful page (e.g. for pages with two
5548 apostrophes).
5549 * (bug 12145) Add localized names of kk-variants
5550 * (bug 12259) Localize the numbers in deleted pages on the sysop view
5551 * Set proper page title for successful file deletion
5552 * (bug 11221) Do not show 'Compare selected versions' button for a history page
5553 with one revision only
5554 * (bug 12267) Set the default date format to Thai solar calender for the Thai
5555 language
5556 * (bug 10184) Extensions' stylesheets and scripts should be loaded before
5557 user-customized ones (like Common.css, Common.js)
5558 * (bug 12283) Special:Newpages forgets parameters
5559 * (bug 12031) All namespaces doesn't work in Special:Newpages
5560 * (bug 585) Only create searchindex replica table for parser tests if db is
5561 MySQL
5562 * Allow --record option if parserTests.php to work when using Postgres
5563 * (bug 12296) Simplify cache epoch in default LocalSettings.php
5564 * (bug 12346) XML fix when body double-click and click handlers are present
5565 * Fix regression -- missing feed links in sidebar on Special:Recentchanges
5566 * (bug 12371) Handle more namespace case variants in namespaceDupes.php
5567 * (bug 12380) Bot-friendly EditPage::spamPage
5568 * (bug 8066) Spaces can't be entered in special page aliases
5569 * Hide undo link if user can't edit article
5570 * (bug 12416) Fix password setting for createAndPromote.php
5571 * (bug 3097) Inconsistently usable titles containing HTML character entities
5572 are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up existing pages.
5573 * (bug 12446) Permissions check fix for undelete link
5574 * (bug 12451) AJAX title normalization tweaks
5575 * When a user creating a page is not allowed to either create the page nor edit
5576 it, all applicable reasons are now shown.
5577 * (bug 11428) Allow $wgScript inside $wgArticlePath when emulating PATH_INFO
5578 Fixes 'root'-style rewrite configurations
5579 * (bug 12493) Removed hardcoded MAX_FILE_SIZE from Special:Import upload form
5580 * (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again
5581 * (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen
5582 * (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw
5583 * (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
5584 * (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move
5585 * (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages
5586 * Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links.
5587 This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow,
5588 and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner.
5589 * (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code.
5590 * (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes
5591 * (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian
5592 * (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect.
5593 Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages.
5594 Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework.
5595 * Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the
5596 name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set).
5597 * (bug 12695) Suppress dvips verbiage from web server error log
5598 * (bug 12716) Unprotecting a non-protected page leaves a log entry
5599 * Log username blocks with canonical form of name instead of input form
5600 * (bug 11593, 12719) Fixes for overzealous invocation of thumb.php.
5601 Non-image handlers and full-size images may now decline it, fixing
5602 mystery failures when using $wgThumbnailScriptPath.
5603 * (bug 12327) Comma in username no longer disrupts mail headers
5604 * (bug 6436) Localization of Special:Import XML parser Error message(s).
5605 * Security fix for API on MSIE
5606 * (bug 12768) Database query syntax error in maintenance/storage/compressOld.inc
5607 * (bug 12753) Empty captions in MediaWiki:Sidebar result in PHP errors
5608 * (bug 12790) Page protection is not logged when edit-protection is used
5609 and move-protection is not
5610 * (bug 12793) Fix for restricted namespaces/pages in Special:Export
5611 * Fix for Special:Export so it doesn't ignore the page named '0'
5612 * Don't display rollback link if the user doesn't have all required permissions
5613 * The comment of a time-limited protection now contains the date in the default
5614 format
5615 * (bug 12880) wfLoadExtensionMessages does not use $fallback from MessagesXx.php
5616 * (bug 12885) Correction for Russian convertPlural function
5617 * (bug 12768) Make DatabasePostgres->hasContraint() schema aware.
5618 * (bug 12735) Truncate usernames in comments using mb_ functions.
5619 * (bug 12892) Poor tab indexing on "delete file" form
5620 * (bug 12660) When creating an account by e-mail, do not send the creator's IP
5621 address
5622 * (bug 12931) Fix wrong global variable in SpecialVersion
5623 * (bug 12919) Use 'deletedrevision' message as content when deleting an old file
5624 version
5625 * (bug 12952) Using Nosuchusershort instead of Nosuchuser when account creation
5626 is disabled
5627 * (bug 12869) Magnify icon alignment should be adjusted using linked CSS
5628 * Fixing message cache updates for MediaWiki messages moves
5629 * (bug 12815) Signature timestamps were always in UTC, even if the timezone code
5630 in parentheses after them claimed otherwise
5631 * (bug 12732) Fix installer and searching to handle built-in tsearch2 for Postgres.
5632 * (bug 12784) Change "bool" types to smallint to handle Postgres 8.3 strictness.
5633 * (bug 12301) Allow maintenance/findhooks.php to search hooks in multiple directories.
5634 * (bug 7681, 11559) Cookie values no longer override GET and POST variables.
5635 * (bug 5262) Fully-qualified $wgStylePath no longer corrupted on XML feeds
5636 * (bug 3269) Inaccessible titles ending in '/.' or '/..' now forbidden.
5637 * (bug 12935, 12981) Fully-qualify archive URLs in delete, revert messages
5638 * (bug 12938) Fix template expansion and 404 returns for action=raw with section
5639 * (bug 11567) Fix error checking for PEAR::Mail. UserMailer::send() now returns
5640 true-or-WikiError, which seems to be the calling convention expected by half
5641 its callers already
5642 * (bug 12846) IE rtl.css issue in RTL wikis special:Preferences when selecting an
5643 LTR user language
5644 * (bug 13005) DISPLAYTITLE does not work on preview
5645 * (bug 13004) Fix error on Postgres searches that return too many results.
5646
5647 == Parser changes in 1.12 ==
5648
5649 For help with migration to the MediaWiki 1.12 parser, please visit:
5650
5651 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor
5652
5653 The parser pass order has changed from
5654
5655 * Extension tag strip and render
5656 * HTML normalisation and security
5657 * Template expansion
5658 * Main section...
5659
5660 to
5661
5662 * Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation
5663 * Template expansion and extension rendering
5664 * HTML normalisation and security
5665 * Main section...
5666
5667 The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
5668 have changed.
5669
5670 Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas
5671 previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in
5672 one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a
5673 valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "&lt;table&gt;".
5674
5675 Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you
5676 have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be
5677 converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This
5678 was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
5679 the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion
5680 will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template
5681 expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
5682 pass.
5683
5684 Bug 5678 has been fixed. This has a number of user-visible effects related to
5685 the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples.
5686
5687 Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess"
5688 mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated,
5689 especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behavior
5690 of the former message mode.
5691
5692 The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section
5693 edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a
5694 whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by
5695 template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an
5696 entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings
5697 will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the
5698 template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major
5699 break from previous behavior, but I believe the effects are almost entirely
5700 beneficial.
5701
5702 The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass
5703 preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed
5704 #switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a
5705 significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
5706 Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement
5707 by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration.
5708
5709 The pre-expand include size limit has been removed, since there's no efficient
5710 way to calculate such a figure, and it would now be meaningless for performance
5711 anyway. The "preprocessor node count" takes its place, with a generous default
5712 limit.
5713
5714 The context in which XML-style extension tags are called has changed, so
5715 extensions which make use of the parser state may need compatibility changes.
5716
5717 The new preprocessor syntax has been documented in Backus-Naur Form at:
5718
5719 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF
5720
5721 The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse
5722 tree from wikitext source. This parse tree corresponds closely to the grammar
5723 documented on that page.
5724
5725 === API changes in 1.12 ===
5726
5727 Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
5728
5729 * (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
5730 * (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
5731 * (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
5732 pretty-printed
5733 help document.
5734 * (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
5735 * (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each
5736 page.
5737 * (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
5738 api error messages.
5739 * (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work
5740 * Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if
5741 revision content is requested.
5742 * Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
5743 query.
5744 * (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php
5745 * (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates
5746 * (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
5747 * (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges
5748 list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively.
5749 * Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x.
5750 * Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type
5751 * Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
5752 types and levels
5753 * Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A
5754 * (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page.
5755 * (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
5756 query.
5757 * (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query.
5758 * Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
5759 name
5760 * (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag
5761 * Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
5762 * Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots
5763 * Add limit=max to use maximal limit
5764 * Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render
5765 which has been removed
5766 * Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
5767 * Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
5768 * Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
5769 * Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and
5770 list={blocks,deletedrevs}
5771 * Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login
5772 * Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using
5773 200 / 10000, now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules.
5774 * Added list=allcategories module
5775 * (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data
5776 * Fix output of wfSajaxSearch
5777 * (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag
5778 * Add list of sections to action=parse output
5779 * Added action=logout
5780 * Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections
5781 * Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow
5782 (list=recentchanges)
5783 * Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo
5784 * action={login,block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} now must be
5785 POSTed
5786 * prop=imageinfo interface changed: iihistory replaced by iilimit, iistart and
5787 iiend parameters
5788 * Added amlang parameter to meta=allmessages
5789 * Added apfilterlanglinks parameter to list=allpages, replacing
5790 query.php?what=nolanglinks
5791 * (bug 12718) Added action=paraminfo module that provides information about API
5792 modules and their parameters
5793 * Added iiurlwidth and iiurlheight parameters to prop=imageinfo
5794 * Added format=txt and format=dbg, imported from query.php
5795 * Added uiprop=editcount to meta=userinfo
5796 * Added list=users which fetches user information
5797 * Added list=random which fetches a list of random pages
5798 * Added page parameter to action=parse to facilitate parsing of existing pages
5799 * Added uiprop=ratelimits to meta=userinfo
5800 * Added siprop=namespacealiases to meta=siteinfo
5801 * Made multiple values for ucuser possible in list=usercontribs
5802 * (bug 12944) Added cmstart and cmend parameters to list=categorymembers
5803 * Allow queries to have a where range that does not match the range field
5804
5805 == MediaWiki 1.11 ==
5806
5807 This is the Summer 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
5808
5809 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
5810 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
5811 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
5812
5813 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
5814 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
5815 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
5816
5817 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
5818 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
5819
5820 == Configuration changes since 1.10 ==
5821
5822 * $wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is
5823 used
5824 * $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups - Finer control over who can assign which
5825 usergroups
5826 * $wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ - Bulk mail options for large sites
5827 * $wgShowHostnames - Expose server host names through the API and HTML comments
5828 * $wgSaveDeletedFiles has been removed, the feature is now enabled unconditionally
5829
5830 == New features since 1.10 ==
5831
5832 * (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks
5833 * Adding expiry of block to block messages
5834 * Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in
5835 <span class="redirect-in-category"></span>
5836 * Introduced 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
5837 more information
5838 * (bug 9628) Show warnings about slave lag on Special:Contributions,
5839 Special:Watchlist
5840 * (bug 8818) Expose "wpDestFile" as parameter $1 to "uploaddisabledtext"
5841 * Introducing new image keyword 'upright' and corresponding variable
5842 $wgThumbUpright. This allows better proportional view of upright images
5843 related to landscape images on a page without nailing the width of upright
5844 images to a fix value which makes views for anon unproportional and user
5845 preferences useless
5846 * (bug 6072) Introducing 'border' keyword to the [[Image:]] syntax
5847 * Introducing 'frameless' keyword to [[Image:]] syntax which respects the
5848 user preferences for image width like 'thumb' but without a frame.
5849 * (bug 7960) Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry
5850 * Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style
5851 file repositories.
5852 * Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output
5853 * Improved thumb.php error handling
5854 * Display file history on local image description pages of shared images
5855 * Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies
5856 * (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext
5857 containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the
5858 * (bug 7691) Show relevant lines from the deletion log when re-creating a
5859 previously deleted article
5860 * Added variables 'wgRestrictionEdit' and 'wgRestrictionMove' for JS to header
5861 * (bug 9898) Allow viewing all namespaces in Special:Newpages
5862 * (bug 10139) Introduce 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks;
5863 see docs/hooks.txt for details
5864 * (bug 9769) Provide "watch this page" toggle on protection form
5865 * (bug 9886) Provide clear example "stub link" in Special:Preferences
5866 * (bug 10055) Populate email address and real name properties of User objects
5867 passed to the 'AbortNewAccount' hook
5868 * Show result of Special:Booksources in wiki content language always, it's
5869 normally better maintained than the generic list from the standard message
5870 files
5871 * (bug 7997) Allow users to be blocked from using Special:Emailuser
5872 * (bug 8989) Blacklist 'mhtml' and 'mht' files from upload
5873 * (bug 8760) Allow wiki links in "protectexpiry" message
5874 * (bug 5908) Add "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases for
5875 "DEFAULTSORT" magic word
5876 * (bug 10181) Support the XCache object caching mechanism
5877 * (bug 9058) Introduce '--aconf' option for all maintenance scripts, to provide
5878 a path to the AdminSettings.php file
5879 * (bug 8781) Remind users to check file permissions for LocalSettings.php
5880 post-installation
5881 * Use shared.css for all skins and oldshared.css in place of common.css for
5882 pre-Monobook skins. As always, modifications should go in-wiki to MediaWiki:
5883 Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css.
5884 * (bug 8869) Introduce Special:Uncategorizedtemplates
5885 * (bug 8734) Different log message when article protection level is changed
5886 * (bug 8458, 10338) Limit custom signature length to $wgMaxSigChars Unicode
5887 characters
5888 * (bug 10096) Added an ability to query interwiki map table
5889 * On reupload, add a null revision to the image description page
5890 * Group log output by date
5891 * Kurdish interface latin/arabic writing system with transliteration
5892 * Support wiki text in all query page headers
5893 * Add 'Orphanedpages' as an alias to Special:Lonelypages
5894 * (bug 9328) Use "revision-info-current" message in place of "revision-info"
5895 when viewing the current revision of a page, if available
5896 * (bug 8890) Enable wiki text for "license" message
5897 * Throw a showstopper exception when a hook function fails to return a value.
5898 Forgetting to give a 'true' return value is a very common error which tends
5899 to cause hard-to-track-down interactions between extensions.
5900 * Use $wgJobClasses to determine the correct Job to instantiate for a particular
5901 queued task; allows extensions to introduce custom jobs
5902 * (bug 10326) AJAX-based page watching and unwatching has been cleaned up and
5903 enabled by default.
5904 * Added option to install to MyISAM
5905 * (bug 9250) Remove hardcoded minimum image name length of three characters
5906 * Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behavior to reject titles which don't normalise to the
5907 same title as the current page, and enabled per default
5908 * Wrap site CSS and JavaScript in a <pre> tag, like user JS/CSS
5909 * (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the <pre>s on CSS and JS pages (new
5910 classes: mw-code, mw-css, mw-js)
5911 * (bug 6711) Add $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups to allow finer control over
5912 usergroup assignment.
5913 * Introduce 'UserEffectiveGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
5914 * (bug 10387) Detect and handle '.php5' extension environments at install time
5915 * Introduce 'ShowRawCssJs' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
5916 * (bug 10404) Show rights log for the selected user in Special:Userrights
5917 * New javascript for upload page that will show a warning if a file with the
5918 "destination filename" already exists.
5919 * Add 'editsection-brackets' message to allow localization (or removal) of the
5920 brackets in the "[edit]" link for sections
5921 * (bug 10437) Move texvc styling to shared.css
5922 * Introduce "raw editing" mode for the watchlist, to allow bulk additions,
5923 removals, and convenient exporting of watchlist contents
5924 * Show "undo" links in page histories
5925 * Option to jump to specified time period in user contributions
5926 * Improved feedback on "rollback success" page
5927 * Show distinct 'namespaceprotected' message to users when namespace protection
5928 prevents page editing
5929 * (bug 9936) Per-edit suppression of preview-on-first edit with "preview=no"
5930 * Allow showing a one-off preview on first edit with "preview=yes"
5931 * (bug 9151) Remove timed redirects on "Return to X" pages for accessibility.
5932 * Link to user logs in toolbox when viewing a user page
5933 * (bug 10508) Allow HTML attributes on <gallery>
5934 * (bug 1962) Allow HTML attributes on <math>
5935 * (bug 10530) Introduce optional "sp-contributions-explain" message for
5936 additional explanation in Special:Contributions
5937 * (bug 10520) Preview licences during upload via AJAX (toggle with
5938 $wgAjaxLicensePreview)
5939 * New Parser::setTransparentTagHook for parser extension and template
5940 compatibility
5941 * Introduced 'ContributionsToolLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
5942 information
5943 * Add a message if category is empty
5944 * Add CSS compatibility for Opera 9.5
5945 * Remove largely untested handheld stylesheet, which was causing more trouble
5946 than good. Proper handheld support will be added at a future date. For now,
5947 display should be acceptable either with CSS turned off or when using a so-
5948 phisticated handheld browser.
5949 * (bug 3173) Option to offer exported pages as a download, rather than displaying
5950 inline, as in most browsers
5951 * Pass the user as an argument to 'isValidPassword' hook callbacks; see
5952 docs/hooks.txt for more information
5953 * Introduce 'UserGetRights' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
5954 * (bug 9595) Pass new Revision to the 'ArticleInsertComplete' and
5955 'ArticleSaveComplete' hooks; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
5956 * (bug 9575) Accept upload description from GET parameters
5957 * Skip the difference engine cache when 'action=purge' is used while requesting
5958 a difference page, to allow refreshing the cache in case of errors
5959 * (bug 10701) Link to Special:Listusers in default Special:Statistics messages
5960 * Improved file history presentation
5961 * (bug 10739) Users can now enter comments when reverting files
5962 * Improved handling of permissions errors
5963 * (bug 10793) "Mark patrolled" links will now be shown for users with
5964 patrol permissions on all eligible diff pages
5965 * (bug 10655) Show standard tool links for blocked users in block log messages
5966 * Show standard tool links for blocked users in Special:Ipblocklist
5967 * Miscellaneous aesthetic improvements to Special:Ipblocklist
5968 * (bug 10826) Added link trail with Cyrillic characters for Mongolian language
5969 * (bug 10859) Introduce 'UserGetImplicitGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
5970 more information
5971 * (bug 10832) Include user information when viewing a deleted revision
5972 * (bug 10872) Fall back to sane defaults when generating protection selector
5973 labels for custom restriction levels
5974 * Show edit count in user preferences
5975 * Improved support for audio/video extensions
5976 * (bug 10937) Distinguish overwritten files in upload log
5977 * Introduce 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
5978 information
5979 * Confirmation is now required when deleting old versions of files
5980 * (bug 7535) Users can now enter comments when deleting old versions of files
5981 * (bug 11001) Submit Special:Newpages as a GET, rather than a POST request
5982 * The <strong></strong> around links to watched pages in change lists now
5983 has a class - "mw-watched"
5984 * (bug 9002) Provide a "view/restore deleted edits" link on Special:Upload
5985 when a destination filename is provided that corresponds with previous
5986 deleted files
5987 * Make the "invalid special page" message clearer
5988 * Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'upload file' button at Special:Upload
5989 * Introduced 'SkinAfterBottomScripts' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
5990 more information
5991 * (bug 11095) Honour "preview on first edit" preference when preloading
5992 text for a non-existent page
5993 * (bug 11022) Use a more accurate page title for Special:Whatlinkshere and
5994 Special:Recentchangeslinked
5995 * Add link to user contributions in normal watchlist edit mode
5996 * (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow
5997 modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new
5998 argument is supplied
5999 * (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the
6000 text that prefixes a new section link in Recent Changes
6001
6002 == Bugfixes since 1.10 ==
6003
6004 * (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi
6005 * (bug 9670) Follow redirects when render edit section links to transcluded
6006 templates.
6007 * (bug 6204) Fix incorrect unindentation with $wgMaxTocLevel
6008 * (bug 3431) Suppress "next page" link in Special:Search at end of results
6009 * Don't show unblock form if the user doesn't have permission to use it
6010 (cosmetic change, no vulnerabilities existed)
6011 * Subtitle success message when unblocking a block ID instead of a pseudo link
6012 like [[User:#123|#123]]
6013 * Use the standard HTTP fetch functions when retrieving remote wiki pages
6014 through transwiki, so we can take advantage of cURL goodies if available
6015 * Disable user JavaScript on Special:Userlogin, Special:Resetpass and
6016 Special:Preferences, to avoid a compromised script sniffing passwords, etc.
6017 * (bug 9854, 3770) Clip overflow text in gallery boxes for visual cleanliness
6018 instead of letting it flow outside the box or trigger ugly scroll bars.
6019 * Tooltips for print version and permalink
6020 * Links to the MediaWiki namespace for system messages having their default
6021 values are no longer shown as nonexistent (e.g., in red)
6022 * Special:Ipblocklist differentiates between empty list and no search results.
6023 * (bug 5375) profiling does not respect read-only mode.
6024 * (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts
6025 * (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset
6026 * (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR
6027 * (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer
6028 throws warnings.
6029 * (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error.
6030 * (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines.
6031 Diff style rules have been broken out to common/diff.css,
6032 and the dupes removed from the default skin files.
6033 Skins can still override the default rules.
6034 * (bug 1229) Balance columns in diff display evenly
6035 * Right-align diff line numbers in RTL language display
6036 * (bug 9332) Fix instructions in tests/README
6037 * (bug 9813) Reject usernames containing '#' to avoid silent truncation
6038 of fragments during the normalisation process
6039 * (bug 7989) RSS feeds content now use black text when using white background.
6040 * (bug 9971) Typo in a french language message.
6041 * (bug 9973) Changed size was shown in advanced recentchanges collapsible items
6042 with $wgRCShowChangedSized = false.
6043 * Fix PHP strict standards warning in enhanced recent changes.
6044 * (bug 5850) Added hexadecimal html entities comments for $digitTransformTable
6045 entries.
6046 * (bug 7432) Change language name for Aromanian (roa-rup)
6047 * (bug 908) Unexistent special pages now generate a red link.
6048 * (bug 7899) Added \hline and \vline to the list of allowed TeX commands
6049 * (bug 7993) support mathematical symbol classes
6050 * (bug 10007) Allow Block IP to work with Postgrs again.
6051 * Add Google Wireless Transcoder to the Unicode editing blacklist
6052 * (bug 10083) Fix for Special:Version breakage on PHP 5.2 with some hooks
6053 * (bug 3624) TeX: \ker, \hom, \arg, \dim treated like \sin & \cos
6054 * (bug 10132, 10134) Restore back-compatibility Image::imageUrl() function
6055 * (bug 10113) Fix double-click for view source on protected pages
6056 * (bug 10117) Special:Wantedpages doesn't handle invalid titles in result
6057 set [now prints out a warning]
6058 * (bug 10118) Introduced Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, report which lists
6059 templates with a high number of inclusion links
6060 * (bug 10104) Fixed Database::getLag() for PostgreSQL and Oracle
6061 * (bug 9820) session.save_path check no longer halts installation, but
6062 warns of possible bad values
6063 * (bug 9978) Fixed session.save_path validation when using extended
6064 configuration format, e.g. "5;/tmp"
6065 * Don't generate a diff link in the patrol log if the page doesn't exist
6066 * (bug 10067) Translations for former skins removed from message files
6067 * (bug 9993) Force $wgShowExceptionDetails on during installation
6068 * (bug 9980) Validate administrator username and password during
6069 installation
6070 * (bug 9383) Don't set a default value for BLOB column in rc-deleted
6071 database patch
6072 * (bug 10149) Don't show full template list on section-0 edit
6073 * (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob()
6074 and decodeBlob()
6075 * (bug 6743) Don't link broken image links to the upload form when uploads
6076 are disabled
6077 * (bug 9679) Improve documentation for $wgSiteNotice
6078 * (bug 10215) Show custom editing introduction when editing existing pages
6079 * (bug 10223) Fix edit link in noarticletext localizations for fr, oc
6080 * (bug 10247) Fix IP address regex to avoid false positive IPv6 matches
6081 * (bug 9948) Workaround for diff regression with old Mozilla versions
6082 * (bug 10265) Fix regression in category image gallery paging
6083 * (bug 8577) Fix some weird misapplications of time zones.
6084 {{CURRENT*}} functions now consistently use UTC as intended, while
6085 {{LOCAL*}} functions return local time per server config or $wgLocaltimezone.
6086 Signature dates for Japanese and other languages including weekday now show
6087 the correct day to match the rest of the time in local time.
6088 * Escape the output of magic variables that return page name or part of it
6089 * (bug 10309) Initialise parser state properly in extractSections(), fixes
6090 some cases where section edits broke because tags were improperly stripped
6091 * Avoid PHP notice errors when doing HTTP proxy purges for an empty list
6092 * As intended, *skip* the HTTP proxy purges when doing HTCP purges
6093 * (bug 9696) Fix handling of brace transformations in "pagemovedtext"
6094 * (bug 10325) Fix regression in form action on Special:Listusers
6095 * Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving
6096 overlong key errors.
6097 * Fixed zero-padding issues with MySQL 5 binary schema
6098 * (bug 10344) Don't follow a redirect after changing its protection level
6099 * (bug 10333) Correct date format in Slovenian
6100 * (bug 10160) Show error message for unknown namespace on Special:Allpages and
6101 Special:Prefixindex; making forms prettier for RTL wikis.
6102 * (bug 10334) Replace normal spaces before percent (%) signs with non-breaking
6103 spaces
6104 * (bug 10372) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores namespace aliases
6105 * (bug 10198) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores interwiki prefixes
6106 * namespaceDupes.php should work better for initial-lowercase wikis
6107 * (bug 10377) "Permanent links" to revisions still work if the page is moved
6108 and the redirect deleted
6109 * (bug 7071) Properly handle an 'oldid' passed to view or edit that doesn't
6110 match the given title. Fixes inconsistencies with talk, history, edit links.
6111 * (bug 10397) Fix AJAX watch error fallback when we receive a bogus result
6112 * (bug 10396) Fix AJAX error when $wgScriptPath/index.php is not valid;
6113 using $wgScript now included in JS info
6114 * Use native XMLHttpRequest class in preference to ActiveX on IE 7; this
6115 avoids the "ActiveX "Do you want to allow ActiveX?" prompt when something
6116 security settings are cranked this way and AJAX-y gets used.
6117 * Delay AJAX watch initialization until click so IE 6 with ugly security
6118 settings doesn't prompt you until you use the link.
6119 * (bug 10401) Provide non-redirecting link to original title in Special:Movepage
6120 * Fix broken handling of log views for page titles consisting of one
6121 or more zeros, e.g. "0", "00" etc.
6122 * Fix read permission check for special pages with subpage parameters, e.g.
6123 Special:Confirmemail
6124 * Fix read permission check for unreadable page titles which are numerically
6125 equivalent to a whitelisted title
6126 * '?>' closing tag removed from all files to help avoid problems with extraneous
6127 whitespace (broken XML feeds, etc.)
6128 * Don't use garbled parser cache output when viewing custom CSS or JavaScript
6129 pages
6130 * (bug 10406) Fix Special:Listusers filter form for non-ASCII localizations
6131 * Fix empty message checks for message names containing &
6132 This corrects some odd behavior with sidebar items and custom namespaces
6133 containing ampersands.
6134 * (bug 10375) Change thousands separator character to &nbsp; for Latin (la)
6135 * (bug 10477) Fix AJAX watch for Farsi on Firefox: JavaScript encoding tweak
6136 * (bug 10496) Fix broken DISTINCT option logic in database backend
6137 * Fix CSS media declaration for "screen, projection"; was causing some
6138 validation issues
6139 * (bug 10495) $wgMemcachedDebug set twice in includes/DefaultSettings.php
6140 * (bug 10316) Prevent inconsistent cached skin settings in gen=js by setting
6141 the intended skin directly in the URL.
6142 * (bug 9903) Don't mark redirects in categories as stubs
6143 * (bug 6965) Cannot include "Template:R" with {{R}} (magic word conflict)
6144 * Padding parser functions now work with strings like '0' that evaluate to false
6145 * (bug 10332) Title->userCan( 'edit' ) may return false positive
6146 * Fix bug with <nowiki> in front of links for wikis where linkPrefixExtension is true
6147 * (bug 10552) Suppress rollback link in history for single-revision pages
6148 * (bug 10538) Gracefully handle invalid input on move success page
6149 * Fix for Esperanto double-x-encoding in move success page
6150 * (bug 10526) Fix toolbar/insertTags behavior for IE 6/7 and Opera (8+)
6151 Now matches the selection behavior on Mozilla / Safari.
6152 Patch by Alex Smotrov.
6153 * Don't show non-functional toolbar buttons on Opera 7 anymore
6154 * (bug 9151) Fix relative subpage links with section fragments
6155 * (bug 10560) Adding a space between category letter heading and "continues"
6156 * (bug 4650) Keep impossibly large/small counts off Special:Statistics
6157 * (bug 10608) PHP notice when installing with PostgreSQL
6158 * (bug 10615) Fix for transwiki import when CURL not available
6159 * (bug 8054) Return search page for empty search requests with ugly URLs
6160 * (bug 10572) Force refresh after clearing visitation timestamps on watchlist
6161 * (bug 10631) Warn when illegal characters are removed from filename at upload
6162 * Fix several JavaScript bugs under MSIE 5/Macintosh
6163 * (bug 10591) Use Arabic numerals (0,1,2...) for the Malayam language
6164 * (bug 10642) Fix shift-click checkbox behavior for Opera 9.0+ and 6.0
6165 * Work around Safari bug with pages ending in ".gz" or ".tgz"
6166 * Removed obsolete maintenance/changeuser.sql script; use RenameUser extension
6167 * (bug 2735) "Preview" shown in title bar for action=submit on special pages
6168 * Removed "restore" links from the deletion log embedded in Special:Undelete
6169 * Improved error reporting and robustness for file delete/undelete.
6170 * Improved speed of file delete by storing the SHA-1 hash in image/oldimage
6171 * Fixed leading zero in base 36 SHA-1 hash
6172 * Protection form no longer produces JavaScript errors
6173 * (bug 10741) File histories show "delete" links for non-sysops
6174 * (bug 10744) Treat "noarticletext" and "noarticletextanon" as wiki text when
6175 used on a non-existent page with "action=info"
6176 * Fix escaping of raw message text when used on a non-existent page with
6177 "action=info"
6178 * (bug 10683) Fix inconsistent handling of URL-encoded titles in links
6179 used in redirects (i.e. they now work)
6180 * (bug 8878) Changes to $dateFormats in German localization (removing unused,
6181 nonexistent formats, putting time after date)
6182 * (bug 10769) Database::update() should return boolean result
6183 * Fix preference checkbox display for right-to-left languages which caused
6184 them to be hidden in IE in some cases
6185 * Fix upload form display in right-to-left languages
6186 * Fixed regression in blocking of username '0'
6187 * (bug 9437) Don't overwrite edit form submission handler when setting up
6188 edit box scroll position preserve/restore behavior
6189 * (bug 10805) Fix "undo" link when viewing the diff of the most recent
6190 change to a page using "diff=0"
6191 * (bug 10765) img_auth.php will now refuse logged-out requests where
6192 $wgWhitelistRead is undefined, instead of (incorrectly) honouring them
6193 * Fixed img_auth.php file name extraction for whitelist checking
6194 * Tweak spacing of email preference display
6195 * Table sorting JavaScript prefers textContent over innerText to allow hidden
6196 sort keys to work on Safari
6197 * (bug 4530) Fix local name of Kurdish language
6198 * (bug 10830) Fix local name of Haitian Creole language
6199 * Fix invalid XHTML in Special:Protectedpages
6200 * Fix comments in contributions and log pages for right-to-left languages
6201 * Make installer include_path-independent, so it should work on hosts which
6202 disable user setting of PHP include_path setting
6203 * glob() is horribly unreliable and doesn't work on some systems, including
6204 free.fr shared hosting. No longer using it in Language::getLanguageNames()
6205 * (bug 10763) Fix multi-insert logic for PostgreSQL
6206 * Fix invalid XHTML when viewing a deleted revision
6207 * Fix syntax error in translations of magic words in Romanian language
6208 * (bug 8737) Fix warnings caused by incorrect use of `/dev/null` when piping
6209 process error output under Windows
6210 * (bug 7890) Don't list redirects to special pages in Special:BrokenRedirects
6211 * (bug 10783) Resizing PNG-24 images with GD no longer causes all alpha
6212 channel transparency to be lost and transparent pixels to be turned black
6213 * (bug 9339) General error pages were transforming messages and their parameters
6214 in the wrong order
6215 * (bug 9026) Incorrect heading numbering when viewing Special:Statistics with
6216 "auto-numbered headings" enabled
6217 * Fixed invalid XHTML in Special:Upload
6218 * (bug 11013) Make sure dl() is available before attempting to use it to check
6219 available databases in installer
6220 * Resizing transparent GIF images with GD now retains transparency by skipping
6221 resampling
6222 * (bug 11065) Fix regression in handling of wiki-formatted EXIF metadata
6223 * Double encoding broke Special:Newpages for some languages
6224 * Adding a newline before the statistics footer, to prevent parsing problems
6225 * Preventing the TOC from appearing in Special:Statistics
6226 * (bug 11082) Fix check for fully-specced table names in Database::tableName
6227 * (bug 11067) Fix regression in upload conflict thumbnail display
6228 * (bug 10985) Resolved cached entries on Special:DoubleRedirects were being
6229 supressed, breaking paging - now strikes out "fixed" results
6230 * (bug 8393) <sup> and <sub> need to be preserved (without attributes) for
6231 entries in the table of contents
6232 * (bug 11114) Fix regression in read-only mode error display during editing
6233 * Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure
6234 that the first page_title is truly the first page title.
6235 * (bug 10836) Change the summary on creating of new section
6236 * Inclusion of Special:Wantedpages now works again
6237
6238 == API changes since 1.10 ==
6239
6240 Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
6241
6242 * New properties: links, templates, images, langlinks, categories, external
6243 links
6244 * Breaking Change: imagelinks renamed into imageusage (il->iu)
6245 * Bug fix: incorrect generator behavior in some cases
6246 * JSON format allows an optional callback function to wrap the result.
6247 * Login module disabled until a more secure solution can be implemented
6248 * (bug 9938) Querying by revision identifier returns the most recent revision
6249 for the corresponding page, rather than the requested revision
6250 * (bug 8772) Filter page revision queries by user
6251 * (bug 9927) User contributions queries do not accept IP addresses
6252 * Watchlist feed now reports a proper feed item when the user is not logged in
6253 * Watchlist feed date bug fixed - automatically shows one last day
6254 * Watchlist feed now allows to specify number of hours to monitor
6255 * list=allpages now returns a list instead of a map in JSON format
6256 * Breaking Change: in json, revisions are now returned as a list, not as a map.
6257 * Add: prop=info can show page is new flag, current page length, and visit
6258 counter.
6259 * Change: Query watchlist now shows flags only when explicitly requested with
6260 wlparam=flags
6261 * rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible from query watchlist
6262 * action=usercontribs: additional filtering by ucshow=; selection of needed
6263 fields with ucprop=; the textid (rev_text_id) is no longer being exposed
6264 * (bug 9970) Breaking Change: backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage now return
6265 lists in JSON instead of a map, and do not return anything when titles do
6266 not exist
6267 * (bug 9121) Introduced indexpageids query parameter to list the page_id
6268 values of all returned page items
6269 * (bug 10147) Now interwiki titles are not processed but added to a separate
6270 "interwiki" section of the output.
6271 * Added categorymembers list to query for pages in a category.
6272 * (bug 10260) Show page protection status
6273 * (bug 10392) Include MediaWiki version details in version output
6274 * (bug 10411) Site language in meta=siteinfo
6275 * (bug 10391) action=help doesn't return help if format is fancy markup
6276 * backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage lists should use (bl|ei|iu)title parameter
6277 instead of titles. Titles for these lists is obsolete and might stop working soon.
6278 * Added prop=imageinfo - gets image properties and upload history
6279 * (bug 10211) Added db server replication lag information in meta=siteinfo
6280 * Added external url search within wiki pages (list=exturlusage)
6281 * Added link enumeration (list=alllinks)
6282 * Added registered users enumeration (list=allusers)
6283 * Added full text search in titles and content (list=search)
6284 * (bug 10684) Expanded list=allusers functionality
6285 * Possible breaking change: prop=revisions no longer includes pageid for rvprop=ids
6286 * Added rvprop=size to prop=revisions (The size will not be shown if it is NULL in the database)
6287 * list=allpages now allows to filter by article min/max size and protection status
6288 * Added site statistics (siprop=statistics for meta=siteinfo)
6289 * (bug 10902) Unable to fetch user contributions from IP addresses
6290 * `list=usercontribs` no longer requires that the user exist
6291 * (bug 10971) `aufrom` parameter doesn't work with spaces
6292 * Fix username handling issue with `auprefix` parameter
6293 * Treat underscores as spaces for `aufrom` and `auprefix` parameters
6294 * Added edit/delete/... token retrieval to prop=info
6295 * Added meta=userinfo - logged-in user information, group membership, rights
6296 * (bug 11072) Fix regression in API image history query
6297 * (bug 11115) Adding SHA1 hash to imageinfo query
6298 * (bug 10898) API does not return an edit token for non-existent pages
6299 * (bug 10890) Timestamp support for categorymembers query
6300 * (bug 10980) Add exclude redirects on backlinks
6301 * IPv6 titles in User namespace are normalized (run cleanupTitles.php to fix any old stray pages)
6302
6303 == Maintenance script changes since 1.10 ==
6304
6305 * Add support for wgMaxTocLevel option in parserTests
6306 * (bug 6823) Disable article view counter in maintenance/dumpHTML.php
6307 * Fix maintenance/importImages.php so it doesn't barf PHP errors when no
6308 suitable files are found, and make the list of extensions an option (defaults
6309 to $wgFileExtensions)
6310 * Add option to maintenance/createAndPromote.php to give the user bureaucrat
6311 permissions (--bureaucrat)
6312 * Allow overwriting existing files with a conflicting name using
6313 maintenance/importImages.php
6314 * (bug 10266) Use native newlines when rebuilding a messages file.
6315
6316 == Languages updated since 1.10 ==
6317
6318 * Afrikaans (af)
6319 * Arabic (ar)
6320 * Bikol (bcl)
6321 * Bulgarian (bg)
6322 * Catalan (ca)
6323 * Danish (da)
6324 * German (de)
6325 * Greek (el)
6326 * Esperanto (eo)
6327 * Spanish (es)
6328 * Estonian (et)
6329 * Extremaduran (ext)
6330 * Farsi (fa)
6331 * Finnish (fi)
6332 * Vöro (fiu-vro)
6333 * French (fr)
6334 * Français Cadien (frc) (new)
6335 * Franco-Provençal/Arpetan (frp)
6336 * Galician (gl)
6337 * Hakka (hak)
6338 * Hebrew (he)
6339 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
6340 * Haitian (ht)
6341 * Indonesian (id)
6342 * Icelandic (is)
6343 * Italian (it)
6344 * Japanese (ja)
6345 * Georgian (ka)
6346 * Kabyle (kab)
6347 * Kazakh (kk)
6348 * Korean (ko)
6349 * Kinaray-a (krj) (new)
6350 * Kurdish (ku)
6351 * Latin (la)
6352 * Lao (lo)
6353 * Lithuanian (lt)
6354 * Latviešu (lv)
6355 * Malayalam (ml)
6356 * Bahasa Melayu (ms)
6357 * Burmese (my)
6358 * Low German (nds)
6359 * Dutch (nl)
6360 * Norwegian (no)
6361 * Occitan (oc)
6362 * Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (pa)
6363 * Polish (pl)
6364 * Piedmontese (pms)
6365 * Portuguese (pt)
6366 * Romani (rmy)
6367 * Romanian (ro)
6368 * Aromanian (roa-rup)
6369 * Russian (ru)
6370 * Sakha (sah)
6371 * Sango (se) (new)
6372 * Slovak (sk)
6373 * Slovenian (sl)
6374 * Shona (sn)
6375 * Somali (so)
6376 * Albanian (sq)
6377 * Sundanese (su)
6378 * Swedish (sv)
6379 * Tamil (ta)
6380 * Thai (th)
6381 * Tigrinya (ti)
6382 * Setswana (tn)
6383 * Tok Pisin (tpi)
6384 * Uyghur (ug)
6385 * Volapük (vo)
6386 * Winaray (war) (new)
6387 * Yiddish (yi)
6388 * Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
6389 * Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
6390 * Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
6391 * Cantonese (zh-yue)
6392
6393 == MediaWiki 1.10 ==
6394
6395 This is the Spring 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
6396
6397 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
6398 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
6399 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
6400
6401 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
6402 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
6403 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
6404
6405 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
6406 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
6407
6408 == Configuration changes ==
6409
6410 * A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php).
6411 It lets you specify if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized
6412 output will be made lighter making things easier to read.
6413 * The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be
6414 customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
6415 the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
6416 * Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
6417 $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
6418 * Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser
6419 * Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions
6420 * (Bug 8590) limited HTML is now always enabled ($wgUserHtml = true).
6421 * Deprecated $wgUseImageResize, thumbnailing will be enabled unconditionally.
6422
6423 == New features since 1.9 ==
6424
6425 * (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to
6426 Special:Statistics
6427 * (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
6428 * (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
6429 * Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
6430 starts page output
6431 (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
6432 * Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded
6433 into a page protected with this option enabled
6434 * (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown
6435 out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output.
6436 * (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be
6437 overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
6438 * Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
6439 determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
6440 permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
6441 * (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
6442 * (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
6443 * (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
6444 the appropriate permission
6445 * (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
6446 * (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
6447 * Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
6448 * Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
6449 * Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
6450 * (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
6451 * (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
6452 * Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
6453 * New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
6454 and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
6455 to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
6456 "semi protected".
6457 * (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same
6458 format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite,
6459 as are protections made with the new field left blank.
6460 * (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
6461 keywords
6462 * (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
6463 * (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as
6464 MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are
6465 disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also
6466 be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr).
6467 * Sort log types in Special:Log
6468 * Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit
6469 toolbar buttons
6470 * Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an
6471 IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.)
6472 * (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages
6473 * (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages.
6474 * (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
6475 * (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the
6476 confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id.
6477 * (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page
6478 * (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions
6479 * (bug 1723) Article size in history
6480 * (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames
6481 * (bug 6997) Link from Special:log/block to unblock form
6482 * (bug 9117) Link from Special:log/delete to undelete form
6483 * Link from Special:log/protect to change protection form
6484 * (bug 1196) Add IPv6 support added to blocks, more consistancy for IPv6 contribs
6485 * (bug 3984) Searching in logs by title%
6486 * Show thumbnail of existing image if image exists already under this filename
6487 * (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete
6488 * Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols
6489 * (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images
6490 * Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase
6491 extension exists
6492 * (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere
6493 * Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt
6494 for more information
6495 * (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon"
6496 messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target
6497 * (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction')
6498 * (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images
6499 * (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path
6500 which can lead to broken session storage
6501 * (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links
6502 * (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions
6503 * Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
6504 * Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
6505 * Introduce 'mywatchlist' message; used on personal menu to link to watchlist page
6506 * Introduce magic word {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
6507 * Introduced media handlers for file-type specific operations.
6508 * Improved error reporting for image thumbnailing
6509 * Added sharpening option for ImageMagick thumbnailing
6510 * (bug 9656) Autosummaries will be generated for deletion of pages longer than
6511 500 characters
6512 * Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip
6513 * (bug 9196) Installer now check that zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is off
6514 * (bug 9697) Introduce 'InternalParseBeforeLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
6515 * 'contribsub' message changed to 'contribsub2' with two parameters to permit
6516 better localization. Change is reverse-compatible and can be ignored for
6517 most wikis.
6518 * Adding a 'reason' field to Special:Userrights
6519
6520 == Bugfixes since 1.9 ==
6521
6522 * (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
6523 * (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála
6524 * Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
6525 * Fixed up the AjaxSearch
6526 * Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
6527 null to be treated properly with isset.
6528 * Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
6529 * Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
6530 (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
6531 * (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
6532 * Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
6533 optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
6534 * PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated
6535 * (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
6536 * Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
6537 * (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
6538 * Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
6539 * Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
6540 * (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
6541 * (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions
6542 * (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins
6543 * (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback
6544 * (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer
6545 * Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on
6546 * (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is
6547 not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
6548 * Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:")
6549 * use configured cache servers for mctest.php
6550 * bucket details in mcc.php
6551 * fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
6552 * full ID range for moveToExternal
6553 * fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
6554 * maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
6555 * recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
6556 * profile unicode cleanup in Xml
6557 * log slow parses in Article.php
6558 * profile wfMsgReal
6559 * log mkdir failures
6560 * profile AutoLoader
6561 * rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
6562 * security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
6563 * Undelete page list can use plural marker
6564 * (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
6565 * (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
6566 * (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
6567 * (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
6568 * Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag.
6569 * Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>')
6570 * (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header
6571 * Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment
6572 * (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist
6573 in a consistent manner
6574 * (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users
6575 * ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files
6576 * (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language
6577 * Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name
6578 * (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the
6579 message page exists
6580 * ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found
6581 * (bug 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li)
6582 * (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
6583 * (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
6584 * Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
6585 * (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation
6586 * (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11;
6587 accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows.
6588 * Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link
6589 red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an
6590 alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating.
6591 * (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync
6592 * (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies
6593 * (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media
6594 * (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile
6595 * (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page
6596 * (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs
6597 * Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title
6598 is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as
6599 a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL
6600 * (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies
6601 * Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles
6602 * Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js
6603 * (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area
6604 * (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note
6605 in DefaultSettings to make it clear.
6606 * (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression
6607 affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second
6608 edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin.
6609 * Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script
6610 * (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key
6611 * (bug 6844) Use <ins> and <del> tags to emphase the differences
6612 * (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration
6613 * (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to
6614 * Add AlphabeticPager abstract class
6615 * Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories
6616 * (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent
6617 pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images
6618 * Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was
6619 opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner
6620 cases.
6621 * (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix
6622 * Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied
6623 by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence
6624 of other tables while they work.
6625 * Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758
6626 for better localisations.
6627 * (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php
6628 * (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history
6629 * (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice.
6630 * (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked
6631 when using the Postgres database.
6632 * Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php.
6633 The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older
6634 LocalSettings.php files.
6635 * Give Content-Length header for HTTP/1.0 clients.
6636 * Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering.
6637 * Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to
6638 dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES
6639 and such are used.
6640 * Add 'charset' to Content-Type headers on various HTTP error responses
6641 to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. PHP sends only
6642 'text/html' by default when the script didn't specify more details,
6643 which some inconsiderate browsers consider a license to autodetect
6644 the deadly, hard-to-escape UTF-7.
6645 This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when
6646 $wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant
6647 on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec:
6648 http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
6649 * Trackback responses now specify XML content type
6650 * (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode
6651 to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly,
6652 particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia
6653 * (bug 8919) Suppress paging links and related messages where there are no
6654 rows to list for query pages
6655 * (bug 9057) Standardize MediaWiki: namespace for oc
6656 * (bug 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when
6657 there are none
6658 * (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres)
6659 * (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and
6660 Special:DoubleRedirects
6661 * (bug 8918) Enable PLURAL option for MediaWiki:showingresults and
6662 MediaWiki:showingresultsnum
6663 * (bug 9122) Fix minor display issue in RTL with section edit link margin
6664 * (bug 5805) Enable PLURAL option for some messages of watchlist and statistic
6665 * (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other
6666 languages section of MonoBook skin
6667 * (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges.
6668 * (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages
6669 * (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres
6670 * (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook
6671 * (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect
6672 loops on some server configurations
6673 * (bug 9097) column "pr_pagetype" does not exist
6674 * (bug 9217) Balance wfProfile calls in Skin::outputPage
6675 * (bug 9222) PostgreSQL updater should not be version-specific
6676 * Fix fallback implementation of mb_strlen so it works and isn't insanely
6677 slow for large strings, since it's used for page edit lengths
6678 * (bug 8815) Setting password in initUser() breaks LdapAuthentication plugin
6679 * (bug 9256) Add a quick note to index.php header comments
6680 * Make Special:Listusers caseinsensitive for first letter
6681 * Default tidy.conf has been moved from extensions module into includes.
6682 * Ignore lonely '''''
6683 * (bug 9244) When calling edit page for nonexistent section, generate error
6684 inside of just discarding edits, since edit links sometimes go to the wrong
6685 place.
6686 * (bug 9019) No warning during upload if image description page exists, but no
6687 image
6688 * (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space.
6689 * (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to bytea for Postgres
6690 * (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language
6691 * (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked
6692 * (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader
6693 * (bug 4777) Separate prev/next messages for Special:Whatlinkshere
6694 * Merge approx 15 missing Wikipedia language codes into wikipedia-interwiki.sql
6695 based on Jeff Merkey's mediawiki-1.9.3.WG-20070316.tar.gz.bz2 archive.
6696 * (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles
6697 * (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log
6698 instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension
6699 * (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent
6700 target page instead of silently redirecting
6701 * (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}}
6702 * (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached
6703 templates the same as the first transclusion.
6704 * (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment
6705 * (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages
6706 * (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages
6707 * (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions
6708 * (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere
6709 * (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed
6710 to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions
6711 * Fixed $wgFeedLimit
6712 * (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
6713 * (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences
6714 * (bug 9554) Extension-provided group name messages not used
6715 * (bug 9565) Translate template namespace name for Hindi (hi)
6716 * (bug 8599) Correct localized names of zh-variants
6717 * (bug 3366) Require skins based on SkinTemplate to override the skinname
6718 property.
6719 * (bug 9220) Removed obsoletes functions in install-utils.inc.
6720 * Removed obsoletes Title::getRelatedCache and Title:touchArray
6721 * (bug 7285) Check MySQL username length during install
6722 * (bug 6910) Correct date/time formats in Vietnamese (vi)
6723 * (bug 9608) Correctly use ORDER BY in dumpLinks.php
6724 * (bug 9609) Correctly use ORDER BY in SpecialWhatlinkshere.php
6725 * Special:Random and Special:Randomredirect now try harder to send the user to
6726 a random page, and will give an error message if none really can be found
6727 instead of sending the user to the main page like they used to
6728 * Fix object variable used for displaying "not-patrolled" CSS class on list
6729 * Fixed interaction of page parameter to ImagePage with the HTML file cache
6730 * Fixed MIME type for SVG files, will be silently changed from image/svg
6731 to image/svg+xml after loading from the database.
6732 * Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump
6733 instead.
6734 * Fixed odd behavior in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors
6735 * (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and
6736 MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited.
6737 * (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter
6738 * Fixed upgrade for the non-standard MySQL schemas
6739 * Disable MySQL's strict mode at session start for MySQL 4.1+, to avoid the
6740 various problems that occur when it is on.
6741 * (bug 9585) Fix regression in tidy usage in Special:Undelete previews
6742 * (bug 3826) Normalize some invalid cookie name characters when setting
6743 up $wgCookiePrefix. Completes application of patch by Anders Kaseorg.
6744 * (bug 9649) Fix RTL form alignment for Special:Movepage
6745 * (bug 9582) Members of bot group now mark edits patrolled by default
6746 * (bug 9669) Fix limit ordering for rebuildrecentchanges; broken since
6747 converted from 1.4 to 1.5 schema
6748 * (bug 9682) Revert PHP 5.1 dependency on warning suppression for SVN info
6749 * (bug 5959) Anchors dropped from stub links
6750 * (bug 3348) Some additional weak password checks: password which is same
6751 as username will now be rejected.
6752 * (bug 8602) Converted Special:Contributions to use an IndexPager. The
6753 interpretation of the offset parameter has changed, and the go parameter
6754 has been removed.
6755 * (bug 6204) Fixes for indentation with $wgMaxTocLevel:
6756 - don't emit too many list close tags after an invisible header
6757 - don't emit too many final list close tags if last header is invisible
6758 - don't emit TOC when there are no visible headers
6759 * (bug 7629) Fix $wgBrowserBlackList to avoid false positive on MSIE
6760 when certain plugins are present which alter the user agent
6761
6762
6763 == Maintenance ==
6764
6765 * New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
6766 progress in the extension repository.
6767 * Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
6768 automatically attempt to create the required tables
6769 * --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
6770 * Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
6771 * parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
6772 it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
6773 * (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php
6774 exists but is not readable
6775 * dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL
6776 * (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php
6777 and importTextFile.php scripts
6778 * (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script
6779 * (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org
6780 * (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning
6781 * Restore '--norc' option for maintenance/importTextFile.php
6782 * Help information for maintenance/importTextFile.php now easier to read on
6783 consoles
6784 * Doxygen documentation now show the revision number of each file, generate
6785 graphs using dot and include a search engine.
6786
6787
6788 == Languages updated ==
6789
6790 * Arabic (ar)
6791 * Aramaic (arc)
6792 * Aymara (ay)
6793 * Belarusian normative (be)
6794 * Belarusian alternative (be-x-old)
6795 * Bulgarian (bg)
6796 * Bihara (bh)
6797 * Breton (br)
6798 * Catalan (ca)
6799 * Czech (cs)
6800 * Danish (da)
6801 * German (de)
6802 * Greek (el)
6803 * Esperanto (eo)
6804 * Spanish (es)
6805 * Estonian (et)
6806 * Basque (eu)
6807 * Finnish (fi)
6808 * Võro (fiu-vro)
6809 * French (fr)
6810 * Hebrew (he)
6811 * Hindi (hi)
6812 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
6813 * Hungarian (hu)
6814 * Armenian (hy)
6815 * Indonesian (id)
6816 * Italian (it)
6817 * Japanese (ja)
6818 * Javanese (jv)
6819 * Georgian (ka)
6820 * Kabyle (kab)
6821 * Kazakh (kk)
6822 * Korean (ko)
6823 * Kashmiri (ks)
6824 * Ripuarian (ksh)
6825 * Latin (la)
6826 * Luganda (lg)
6827 * Limburgish (li)
6828 * Lithuanian (lt)
6829 * Latvian (lv)
6830 * Marathi (mr)
6831 * Low Saxon (nds)
6832 * Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
6833 * Nepali (ne)
6834 * Nepal Bhasa (new)
6835 * Dutch (nl)
6836 * Occitan (oc)
6837 * Pali (pi)
6838 * Polish (pl)
6839 * Romanian (ro)
6840 * Russian (ru)
6841 * Sanskrit (sa)
6842 * Sicilian (scn)
6843 * Slovak (sk)
6844 * Sundanese (su)
6845 * Swedish (sv)
6846 * Tahitian (ty)
6847 * Ukrainian (uk)
6848 * Urdu (ur)
6849 * Uzbek (uz)
6850 * Vietnamese (vi)
6851 * Zealandic (zea)
6852 * Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
6853 * Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
6854 * Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
6855 * Cantonese (zh-yue)
6856
6857 == Compatibility ==
6858
6859 MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
6860
6861 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
6862 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
6863 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
6864
6865 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
6866 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
6867
6868
6869 == Upgrading ==
6870
6871 1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, and will not work without schema
6872 updates.
6873
6874 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
6875 new database fields are filled with data.
6876
6877 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
6878 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
6879 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
6880
6881 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
6882
6883 = MediaWiki release notes =
6884
6885 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
6886 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
6887
6888
6889 == Changes since 1.8 ==
6890
6891 * (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres.
6892 * (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist
6893 adding problem.
6894 * (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function,
6895 because it seems to be unused.
6896 * (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger
6897 screen sizes, for the default monobook skin.
6898 * Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends
6899 * Improved register_globals paranoia checks
6900 * (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install
6901 * Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails
6902 is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call
6903 parameters.
6904 * (bug 6164) Avoid smashing Cite state if message transformation triggers
6905 during bad image list check, by skipping message transformation.
6906 This isn't a good permanent fix.
6907 * (bug 6918) Stopped borders and backgrounds from showing through floated
6908 tables in Monobook
6909 * (bug 6868) Un-hardcode section edit link style
6910 * (bug 3205) Stop right floats from stacking horizontally in non-Monobook skins
6911 * Added global $wgStyleVersion to centralize bumping CSS and JS file versions
6912 for cache-friendly style and script updating
6913 * (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers
6914 * Friendlier check for PHP 5 in command-line scripts; it's common for parallel
6915 PHP 4 and 5 installations to interfere on the command-line.
6916 * Fix regression in autoconfirm permission check
6917 * (bug 3015) Add CSS ids to subcategory and page sections on category pages
6918 * (bug 7587) Fix erroneous id for specialpage tab, enabling informative popup
6919 * (bug 7599) Fix thumbnail purging, PHP notices on HTCP image page purge
6920 * (bug 7581) Update language name for cbk-zam
6921 * (bug 7444) Update namespace translations for Telugu (te), kept old values as
6922 alias for compatibility
6923 * (bug 4525) Move section links down visually to same level as headings
6924 (editsection links are now inside the heading elements)
6925 * Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 , PATH_INFO and hence
6926 URLs of the style /index.php/Main_Page were broken on some CGI installations.
6927 * (bug 7623) Validate custom HTML id's correctly in Monobook interface
6928 * (bug 2241) Fix collision of 'w' and 'd' accesskeys
6929 * (bug 5795) CSS class added to body based on page name for page-specific
6930 styling
6931 * (bug 6276) Stopped search field from getting too large in Cologne Blue
6932 * (bug 7644) User creations that are aborted by hooks shouldn't be counted
6933 against account creations per day limit
6934 * (bug 7636) Show Firefox 2 users correct accesskey prefix
6935 * (bug 6427) Block blocked IPs from using the mail password function
6936 to allow blocking of flooders
6937 * Include common.css from classic-style skins in main HTML with the bump URL
6938 * (bug 7607) Add Karakalpak (kaa) to Names.php and stub message file for linktrail
6939 * (bug 7582) Add 'tog-nolangconversion' to MessagesEn.php.
6940 This key is need for languages with variants (zh, sr, kk)
6941 * (bug 7606) MediaWiki messages for "rss" and "atom" missing
6942 * (bug 7609) Add some more '*-summary' messages to MessagesEn.php with empty
6943 strings to allow better localisation via Special:Allmessages. Mark this new
6944 messages as optional for localisation.
6945 * Fix user_newpass upgrade for prefixed tables (reported by Fyren)
6946 * (bug 7663) Include language variant switcher links on Nostalgia skin
6947 * (bug 6531) Fix PHP fatal error on installation page with bad username input.
6948 * (bug 6977) Remove 404 link for autogenerated database documentation.
6949 * (bug 7369) Allow "Show Changes" without requiring edit token.
6950 * (bug 7687) Fix movetalk box checks itself when confirming a delete and move.
6951 * (bug 7684) Obey watchcreated preference for Special:Upload watch checkbox
6952 * (bug 7686) Include id attribute on delete form confirmation button
6953 * Allow compound interwiki prefixes in $wgImportSources
6954 * (bug 7304) Added redirect table to store redirect targets.
6955 * Added querycachetwo table (similar to querycache but has two titles)
6956 * PageArchive can now return a Revision object for more convenient processing
6957 of deleted revision data
6958 * Added 'UndeleteShowRevision' hook in Special:Undelete
6959 * Error message on attempt to view invalid or missing deleted revisions
6960 * Remove unsightly "_" from namespace in Special:Allpages, Special:Prefixindex
6961 * (bug 3224) Allow minor edits by bots to skip new message notification on
6962 user talk pages. This can be disabled by adjusting the 'nominornewtalk'
6963 permission. Patch by Werdna.
6964 * (bug 7741) MATH: fixed broken syntax of underbrace etc. Fixed arrays
6965 * Fix purging for updated SVG files
6966 * (bug 7745) Add id attribute to search button in Monobook
6967 * (bug 7749) MATH: added some more LaTeX symbols, e.g. parallel, diamond, ast, ...
6968 * (bug 7304) Added code in Article.php to keep redirect table up to date.
6969 * Made special page names case-insensitive and localisable. Care has been taken
6970 to maintain backwards compatibility.
6971 * Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters.
6972 * (bug 7758) Added wrapper span to "templates used" explanation to allow CSS
6973 styling (class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation").
6974 * Added {{#special:}} parser function, to give the local default title for
6975 special pages
6976 * (bug 7766) Remove redundant / from AJAX requests, can break some servers
6977 * Add tab links from extensions to classic-based skins (SkinTemplateTab hook)
6978 Provides better cross-skin compatibility for extensions using the modern
6979 skin hooks, such as Oversight
6980 * Moved variant language links on Cologne Blue and Nostalgia to before the
6981 login/logout link
6982 * Fix for parser tests with MySQL 5 in strict mode
6983 * Added block option "enable autoblocks"
6984 * Amend Special:Ipblocklist to note when a block has autoblock DISABLED.
6985 * (bug 7780) Fix regression in editing redirects
6986 * Add whitespace above "templates included on this page" using CSS, not
6987 hardcoded line break.
6988 * Remove entries from redirect table on article deletion
6989 * (bug 7788) Force section headers in new section links for users who have
6990 'prompt for blank edit summaries' on.
6991 * (bug 1133) Special:Emailuser: add an option to send yourself a copy of your mail.
6992 * (bug 461) Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via
6993 pagecategorieslink message.
6994 * Sort the list of skins in "My Preferences" -> Skins by alphabetical order.
6995 * (bug 7785) Postgres compatibility for timestamps in RC feeds
6996 * (bug 7550) Normalize user parameter normally on Special:Log
6997 * (bug 7294) Fix PATH search for diff3 on install
6998 * Various fixes related to the blocking change re: autoblocks. On inserting
6999 an IP block, the ipb_enable_autoblock field is now automagically blanked,
7000 because it doesn't make any sense for an IP. Additionally, IP blocks
7001 without the ipb_enable_autoblock option no longer show up as "autoblock
7002 disabled" on Special:Ipblocklist.
7003 * (bug 7774) MATH: aded more amstex functions
7004 * (bug 1182) MATH: fixed inconsistent rendering of upper case Greek letters in TeX
7005 * Fix regression in streaming page dump generation
7006 * (bug 7801) Add support for parser function hooks in parser tests
7007 * checkUsernames.php now uses wfDebugLog instead of hardcoded path to log
7008 * (bug 7810) Update talk namespaces for Occitan
7009 * Allow case-sensitive URLs to be used for uploading from URLs.
7010 * (bug 1109) Correct fix for compressed 304 responses when additional output
7011 buffers have been installed within the compression handler
7012 * (bug 7819) Move automatic redirect edit summary after pre-save transform
7013 to work properly with subst: fun
7014 * (bug 7826) Fix typos in two English messages.
7015 * (bug 5365) Stop users being prompted to enter an edit summary for null edits,
7016 if they have selected that option in preferences.
7017 * (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits.
7018 * (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL.
7019 * (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most
7020 recently used IP of a user when they are blocked.
7021 * Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will
7022 make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster.
7023 * Fix regression in Special:Undelete for revisions deleted under MediaWiki 1.4
7024 with compression or legacy encoding
7025 * (bug 6737) Fixes for MySQL 5 schema in strict mode
7026 * Approximate height for client-side scaling fallback instead of passing -1
7027 into the HTML output.
7028 * Make the DNSBL to check for proxy blocking configurable via $wgSorbsUrl
7029 * Add experimental recording/reporting mode to parser tests runner, to
7030 compare changes against the previous run.
7031 Additional tables 'testrun' and 'testitem' are in maintenance/testRunner.sql,
7032 source this and pass --record option to parserTests.php
7033 * Make the set of default parser test input files extensible via
7034 $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local
7035 configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically
7036 run along with the main batch.
7037 * Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see
7038 new version requirements
7039 * Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive
7040 as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a
7041 warning and a request to upgrade.
7042 * (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images)
7043 * Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks
7044 * (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display,
7045 with count.
7046 * (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in
7047 Monobook.
7048 * Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled.
7049 * Add auto-summaries to blankings and large removals without summaries.
7050 * (bug 7811) Allow preview of edit summaries.
7051 * (bug 6839) Wikibits.js minor changes to make JS-lint happier.
7052 * (bug 7932) Make sure that edit toolbar clears floats so it appears correctly.
7053 * (bug 6873) When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version.
7054 * (bug 3315) Provide rollback link directly on history page.
7055 * Replace 'old-revision-navigation' message with 'revision-info' and
7056 'revision-nav' messages, wrapped in divs with appropriate id's.
7057 * (bug 4178) MediaWiki:Common.js will now be included for all users if
7058 $wgUseSiteJs is enabled, in addition to (if applicable) MediaWiki:Monobook.js
7059 and user JS subpages.
7060 * (bug 7918) "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect
7061 any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits.
7062 * (bug 7919) "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages.
7063 * (bug 7688) When viewing diff, section anchors in autosummary jump to section
7064 on current page instead of loading the latest version.
7065 * (bug 7970) Use current connection explicitly on Database::getServerVersion
7066 * (bug 2001) Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via
7067 JavaScript.
7068 * Added autosummary for new pages with 500 or less characters, and refactor
7069 the autosummary code so it's all done in one function. doEdit is getting too
7070 big!
7071 * (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the
7072 image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg).
7073 * (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges
7074 can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format,
7075 in the autoblock_whitelist system message.
7076 * Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php
7077 * (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages
7078 * Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema
7079 * Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like
7080 behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...)
7081 * Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two
7082 member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks.
7083 * (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone
7084 (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3).
7085 This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL
7086 that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages.
7087 The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the
7088 edit.
7089 * Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages
7090 * (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned
7091 images, not horizontally.
7092 * Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php
7093 * Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration
7094 * Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login
7095 * (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs
7096 * (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference
7097 * Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved.
7098 * (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation
7099 * Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain
7100 broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions
7101 * (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php
7102 * (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform
7103 * (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set;
7104 now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB
7105 * {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone
7106 to ensure consistent behavior
7107 * {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends
7108 * (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment
7109 * Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output
7110 * (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht
7111 * (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit
7112 instead of hardcoding to 1000
7113 * Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting
7114 * (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view
7115 * (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization
7116 * Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely.
7117 * Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature
7118 to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default.
7119 * Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute
7120 * DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store
7121 the text lengths before and after the edit
7122 * (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions
7123 * Removed a redundant <strong> tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users
7124 * (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it
7125 when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview".
7126 * (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning
7127 buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export.
7128 Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers()
7129 * Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next
7130 chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk.
7131 * (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage')
7132 * (bug 8121) wfRandom() was not between 0 and 1
7133 * Add static method Parser::createAssocArgs($args), so parser functions can
7134 use the same code to parse arguments as the templates do.
7135 * Change behavior of logins using the temporary e-mailed password (as stored
7136 in user_newpassword hash field). Instead of just logging in silently and
7137 leaving the previous user_password field in place indefinitely, the user
7138 is now prompted to set a new password.
7139
7140 The password-changing form is at Special:Resetpass; currently it's only
7141 usable for changing from the temporary password during login, but it
7142 could perhaps be generalized, replacing the subform in preferences.
7143
7144 Once the new password is set successfully, the temporary password is wiped
7145 so it cannot be used to login a second time, and the login process
7146 is completed.
7147 * Suppress 'mail new password' button on login form if $wgAuth forbids
7148 changing user passwords; it wouldn't work very well...
7149 * Consolidate password length checks and $wgAuth manipulation into
7150 User::setPassword() to avoid duplicate code in different places
7151 that set passwords.
7152 * User::setPassword() now throws PasswordError exceptions if the password
7153 is illegal or cannot be set via $wgAuth. These can be caught and a human-
7154 readable error message displayed by UI code.
7155 * Added Title::isSubpage()
7156 * (bug 8241) Don't consider user pages of User:Foo.css to be CSS subpages
7157 * Set an explicit class on framed thumbnail inner divs and images, changed some
7158 CSS to use these instead of using descendent selectors.
7159 * Accept null parameter to User::setPassword() as indicating the password
7160 field should be cleared to an unusable state. Login will only be possible
7161 after the password is reset, for instance by e-mail.
7162 * (bug 6394) Invalidate the password set for "by e-mail" account creations
7163 to avoid accidental empty password creations.
7164 * Made the show change size function work on page moves, page creations, and
7165 log entries. Also fixed it in the javascript recentchanges.
7166 * (bug 8239) correctly get 50 new contributions when clicking '(50 next)'
7167 * (bug 2259) Fix old regression where e-mail addresses were no longer
7168 confirmed on login with mailed password.
7169 * Add a notification about the confirmation mail sent during account
7170 creation, so people don't immediately go off to request a second one.
7171 * Add a warning on Special:Confirmemail if a code was already sent and has
7172 not yet expired.
7173 * Add user_editcount field to provide data for heuristics on account use.
7174 Incremented on edit, with lazy initialization from past revision data.
7175 Can batch-initialize with maintenance/initEditCount.php (not yet friendly
7176 to replication environments, this will do all accounts in one query).
7177 * Allow raw SQL subsections in Database::update() SET portion as well as
7178 for WHERE portion. Handy for increments and such.
7179 * User::getOption now accept a default value to override default user values
7180 this makes it consistent with WebRequest::get* methods. Corrected code in
7181 various places accordingly.
7182 * (bug 8264) Fix JavaScript global vars for XHTML mode
7183 * Make $wgSiteNotice value wikitext again, for consistency with editable
7184 MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice.
7185 * (bug 8044) When redirecting from the canonical name of the special page
7186 to the localised one, parameters/subpages are omitted
7187 * (bug 8164) Special:Booksources should use GET for form submission
7188 * Rewrite Special:Booksources to clean up interface and remove redundant code
7189 * (bug 7925) Change Special:Allmessages message name filter javascript to be
7190 a bit more responsive and easier on the CPU
7191 * (bug 4488) Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference
7192 * Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch
7193 pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options
7194 * (bug 8153) <nowiki> doesn't work in site notice
7195 * (bug 6690) wfMsgNoTrans() transforms messages
7196 * (bug 8274) Wrap edit tools in a <div> with a specified class
7197 * Detect PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug and abort in WebStart.php; too many things break
7198 mysteriously otherwise (detection code copied from install-utils.inc)
7199 * (bug 8295) Change handling of <center> tags in doBlockLevels() to match that
7200 of <div>
7201 * (bug 8110) Make magic ISBN linking stricter: only match ten-digit sequences
7202 (plus optional ISBN-13 prefix) with no immediately following alphanumeric
7203 character, disallow multiple consecutive internal redirects
7204 * (bug 2785) Accept optional colon prefix in links when formatting comments
7205 * Don't show "you can view and copy the source of this page" message for
7206 pages which don't exist
7207 * (bug 8310) Blank line added to top of 'post' when page is blank
7208 * (bug 8109) Template parameters ignored in "recentchangestext"
7209 * Gracefully skip redirect-to-fragment on WebKit versions less than 420;
7210 it messes up on current versions of Safari but is ok in the latest
7211 nightlies. Checking the version number will allow it to automatically
7212 work when new releases of Safari appear.
7213 * Fix regression in thumb styles; size and padding didn't match with
7214 new arrangement.
7215 * (bug 8333) Fix quick user data update on login password change on
7216 replication database setups. User data is now pulled from master
7217 instead of slave in User::loadFromDatabase, ensuring that it is
7218 fresh and accurate when read and then saved back into cache.
7219 This was breaking with the Special:Rename operation which
7220 automatically logs the user in with the new password after changing
7221 it; pulling from slave meant the record was often not the updated
7222 one.
7223 * (bug 8335) Set image width to the first valid parameter found.
7224 * (bug 8350) Fix watchlist viewing bug when using Postgres.
7225 * (bug 6603) When warning about invalid file extensions, output the bit
7226 of the extension we actually checked
7227 * (bug 7669) Drop defaults on BLOB/TEXT columns for better compatibility
7228 with MySQL's strict mode, often enabled by the Windows installer.
7229 The defaults are ignored anyway when strict mode is off...
7230 * (bug 7685) Use explicit values for ar_text and ar_flags when deleting,
7231 for better compatibility with MySQL's strict mode
7232 * Update default interwiki values to reflect changed location of ursine:
7233 * (bug 5411) Remove autopatrol preference
7234 * Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as
7235 patrolled automatically
7236 * Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able
7237 to mark their own edits as patrolled
7238 * Introduce 'PingLimiter' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
7239 * (bug 532) Tweaked alt text for some interface messages
7240 * (bug 8231) Gave useful alt text to the main <img> on image pages
7241 * (bug 371) Remove alt text for "Enlarge" icon on thumbnails
7242 * Initialize user_editcount to 0 instead of NULL for newly created accounts
7243 * (bug 3696) Strip LRM and RLM characters from titles to work around the
7244 problem some people have where titles cut-and-pasted from lists include
7245 the bidi override characters appended to the lists.
7246 A more thorough blacklist for forbidden and translatable characters would
7247 be wise, though, as might a cleaner method for the lists in the first place.
7248 * Fix regression in email password resets on read-restricted sites
7249 * Set tabindex on fields in deletion form so you don't have to tab through
7250 the links in the sitenotice
7251 * (bug 8271) Show full time and date on viewer for individual deleted
7252 revisions
7253 * (bug 8214) Output file size limit and actual file size in appropriate units
7254 on Special:Upload
7255 * (bug 8016) Purge objectcache table during upgrade processes - use the --nopurge
7256 option to prevent this when running maintenance/update.php
7257 * (bug 7612) Remove superfluous link to Special:Categories from result items
7258 on Special:Mostcategories
7259 * {{PLURAL:}} now handles formatted numbers correctly
7260 * (bug 8331) Added the change size value to watchlists; therefore made
7261 watchlists use RecentChange::newFromRow() instead of newFromCurRow()
7262 * (bug 8351) Fix undo for simple reverts
7263 * (bug 6856) User::clearNotification() does not respect read-only mode
7264 * (bug 6853) Use a checkbox on the installer form to indicate that a superuser
7265 account should be used; this is clearer than the old check which relied on
7266 the password never being an obscure value
7267 * Remove old unused watchlist cache, which was a leftover from the old schema
7268 where watchlists were more expensive to generate
7269 * Minor cosmetic changes to Special:Userrights
7270 * Added wgCanonicalSpecialPageName to JavaScript variables
7271 * Fix image deleting when using Postgres.
7272 * Output both source and destination titles in maintenance/moveBatch.php
7273 * Added basic parser tests for language variants
7274 * Enable selflinks and categories to be written in some of the language variants
7275 * Prevent conversion of JavaScript code in language variants
7276 * Output software version number in maintenance/parserTests.php
7277 * (bug 7169) Use Ajax to watch/unwatch articles if enabled
7278 * Make variant table caching a little more robust, using main language code
7279 in cache key. Probably this is still a bit wonky, though. Was breaking
7280 parser tests when Chinese tables were getting loaded into Serbian code.
7281 * (bug 8380) Be nicer about blank lines in deleteBatch.php
7282 * (bug 8401) Fix regression in SORBS lookup for some DNS setups
7283 * Use raw file descriptor in posix_isatty() check to avoid warning on
7284 Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP
7285 * (bug 5908) Allow overriding the default category sort key for all items on
7286 a page using {{DEFAULTSORT}}
7287 * (bug 6449) Throw a more definitive error message when installation fails
7288 due to an invalid database name
7289 * (bug 5827) Use full text for option link labels on Special:Watchlist
7290 * (bug 8018) Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist
7291 * (bug 8427) MonoBook RTL IE 7.0 tweaks failed when sidebar's navigation
7292 section is renamed; no longer relies on first section name
7293 * Stabilize client-side table sorting even if the underlying Javascript sort()
7294 implementation is unstable
7295 * Add hook for extensions to add user information to the panel in preferences,
7296 next to the user name and ID.
7297 * (bug 8392) Display protection status of transcluded pages in the edit page
7298 template list. Patch by Fyren, with i18n naming tweak.
7299 * Fix for interwiki transclusion where target wiki uses query string for title
7300 * Resolve namespaces on interwiki Title objects using canonical namespace names
7301 if possible (should not happen, though, outside interwiki transclusion... and
7302 maybe not even then, but it does)
7303 * (bug 8447) Fix SQL typo breaking non-default $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq
7304 * Do not allow previews of deleted images to be cached
7305 * Add global variable $wgDefaultLanguageVariant used to set the default language
7306 variant of a wiki to something different than the main language code
7307 * Add 'variant' option to parserTests - runs test with the given variant as
7308 preferred, utilize it for more parser tests of language variants code
7309 * (bug 6503) Fix bug that stopped certain irrelevant links from being hidden
7310 for printing
7311 * Avoid PHP warning in Creative Commons metadata when a creative commons
7312 license is not actually set up
7313 * (bug 8463) Don't print external link icons for Monobook
7314 * (bug 8461) Support watching pages on move
7315 * (bug 8041) Work around bug with debug_backtrace when Zend Optimizer is
7316 loaded by skipping the function. Use wfDebugBacktrace() wrapper function.
7317 * Reduce config file clutter by setting various script and upload paths
7318 based on $IP or $wgScriptPath in Setup.php. They can still be explicitly
7319 overridden in LocalSettings.php if desired...
7320 * Attempt to detect redirect loops for the canonical title redirect, and
7321 give some hints to the poor confused administrator.
7322 * Introduce new flag 'R' - raw output for language variant escape tags
7323 * Advise users when updates for a query page have been disabled using
7324 $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate
7325 * (bug 8413) Improve comments for $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies
7326 * (bug 8330) Show "bytes" suffix on recent changes diff counter
7327 optionally... if set in rc-changes-size message (default empty for now)
7328 * (bug 8489) Support basic links in <gallery> caption attribute
7329 * (bug 8485) Correct Lingala number formatting
7330 * The MediaWiki namespace is no longer pre-filled with default messages on
7331 install. All default messages will be removed from the MediaWiki namespace
7332 on upgrade.
7333 * Recentchanges RSS/Atom feeds now use a separate message for the description
7334 to avoid cluttering it with useless wiki formatting
7335 * (bug 8417) Handle EXIF unknown dates
7336 * (bug 8372) Return nothing on empty <math> tags.
7337 * New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php.
7338 * Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php
7339 * (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission
7340 key has been added to enable this behavior, by default assigned to sysops.
7341 * (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild.
7342 * (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization
7343 * (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond)
7344 * Fix regression with default lock file and cache directories; threw visible
7345 warning with open_basedir
7346
7347
7348 == 1.8 Compatibility changes ==
7349
7350 === Zend Optimizer ===
7351
7352 A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under
7353 MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging
7354 features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common
7355 "blank page" problems.
7356
7357 === PHP 5.0 64-bit ===
7358
7359 MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data
7360 on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This
7361 bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8
7362 and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions.
7363
7364 The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you
7365 probably should do anyway for security reasons!
7366
7367 === MySQL 5 ===
7368
7369 MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when
7370 MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows
7371 installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.)
7372
7373 This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields".
7374
7375 === ImageMagick ===
7376
7377 Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing
7378 due to use of the -thumbnail option.
7379
7380
7381 == 1.8 Behavior changes ==
7382
7383 === Localized special pages ===
7384
7385 The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them
7386 are more legible in languages that aren't English.
7387
7388 Not all languages have included localized names yet.
7389
7390 === E-mail password ===
7391
7392 Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first
7393 log in with a newly generated e-mailed password.
7394
7395 Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing.
7396
7397 === Undo revision ===
7398
7399 An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits.
7400 When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much
7401 easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding
7402 changes elsewhere in the page.
7403
7404 The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional
7405 full-revision reverts.
7406
7407 === Blocking ===
7408
7409 User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the
7410 account logs in with.
7411
7412
7413 == 1.8 Database changes ==
7414
7415 * new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects
7416 * new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages
7417 * 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock'
7418 * 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking
7419 * 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields
7420 * some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges'
7421
7422 == 1.8 Configuration changes ==
7423
7424 Several configuration options have changed since 1.8:
7425
7426 === $wgEnableAPI ===
7427
7428 The experimental machine API interface is now enabled by default, read-only.
7429 You can disable it by setting $wgEnableAPI = false; in LocalSettings.php.
7430
7431 === $wgPathInfo ===
7432
7433 The use of PATH_INFO (the text after the script name in 'index.php/Blah')
7434 is controlled by the $wgUsePathInfo setting. This is now explicitly disabled
7435 for CGI, apache2filter, and ISAPI configurations of PHP, for more consistency
7436 with the autodetection from the installer.
7437
7438 In some rarer configurations you may have to switch $wgUsePathInfo from false
7439 to true or, perhaps, from true to false to make things work properly if bad
7440 PATH_INFO data comes through the server.
7441
7442 The wiki now tries to detect this condition and should show you an error
7443 message describing what to change instead of sending the browser into an
7444 infinite redirect loop.
7445
7446 === $wgScript and other path settings ===
7447
7448 The following configuration variables are now automatically set in Setup.php
7449 if they are not overridden in LocalSettings.php:
7450
7451 from $wgScriptPath:
7452 + $wgScript
7453 | \- $wgArticlePath
7454 + $wgRedirectScript
7455 + $wgStylePath
7456 + $wgUploadPath
7457 \- $wgLogo
7458 + $wgMathPath
7459
7460 from $IP:
7461 - $wgStyleDirectory
7462 + $wgUploadDirectory
7463 \- $wgMathDirectory
7464 + $wgTmpDirectory
7465
7466 Newly generated configuration files will by default include only $wgScriptPath
7467 (hardcoded from the installer) and $IP (detected at runtime).
7468
7469 Old configuration files which specify all these values explicitly should
7470 continue to work just fine, but if you use the defaults you can remove them
7471 to reduce clutter.
7472
7473 === $wgGroupPermissions ===
7474
7475 The sysop group now holds the "autopatrol" and "ipblock-exempt" rights by
7476 default.
7477
7478 "autopatrol" replaces the preference for marking ones own edits patrolled
7479 by default; users holding this permission will automatically have their
7480 edits patrolled, while others cannot mark their own edits as patrolled
7481 even if they have patrolling rights.
7482
7483 "ipblock-exempt" excludes the user from IP blocks; accounts which are blocked
7484 explicitly by name will still be blocked, however. This is given to sysops
7485 to minimize annoyance from accidental "collateral damage"; remember that a
7486 sysop will be able to lift the block if they desire.
7487
7488 The bot group now holds the "nominornewtalk" right. A user with this right
7489 will not trigger new message notifications when making minor edits to user
7490 talk pages. This is meant to minimize annoyance from maintenance bot
7491 processes.
7492
7493 === $wgUseWatchlistCache ===
7494
7495 Watchlist caching has been removed. The feature was not maintained, and has
7496 been unnecessary since switching to the 'recentchanges' database table
7497 reduced server pressure for Wikipedia's watchlists.
7498
7499 === $wgBreakFrames ===
7500
7501 MediaWiki in the past attempted to detect when it was embedded in a frameset
7502 and "break out" of it, assuming it to be hostile.
7503
7504 This behavior is now disabled by default, but can be reenabled by setting
7505 $wgBreakFrames to true in LocalSettings.php.
7506
7507
7508 == 1.8 New settings ==
7509
7510 === $wgVariantArticlePath ===
7511
7512 For languages with script variant support (Chinese, Serbian, and others),
7513 it's possible to use alternate URL paths to select the variant for article
7514 display, setting $wgVariantArticlePath.
7515
7516 Documentation for this setting would be useful.
7517
7518 === $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize ===
7519
7520 The message cache can now skip items larger than a given size; this allows
7521 it to better handle the primary caching case when large CSS and JS blobs are
7522 present.
7523
7524 === $wgStyleVersion ===
7525
7526 When making significant changes to skin stylesheets and JavaScript files,
7527 you can append a string to this variable to tweak the generated URLs,
7528 forcing newly rendered pages to bring in a fresh version despite server-
7529 or browser-side caching.
7530
7531 Normally this will be set in the course of MediaWiki development, but
7532 if doing development on a custom skin you may wish to poke it as well.
7533
7534 === $wgRCShowChangedSize ===
7535
7536 Special:Recentchanges and Special:Watchlist now show the number of bytes
7537 added or removed to an article to give an idea of the size of the edit.
7538 This information was previously available only in the IRC update feeds.
7539
7540 To disable this site-wide, set $wgRCShowChangedSize to false.
7541 (Individual users can suppress the data in custom CSS.)
7542
7543 Adjust $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold to trigger highlighting of particularly
7544 large changes.
7545
7546 The formatting of the size figure can be adjusted through the
7547 [[MediaWiki:Rc-change-size]] message.
7548
7549 === $wgQueryCacheLimit ===
7550
7551 The number of rows stored for "expensive" special pages in miser mode
7552 can now be adjusted up or down from the default 1000.
7553
7554 === $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate ===
7555
7556 Individual "expensive" special pages can be skipped in processing by
7557 updateSpecialPages if added to this list.
7558
7559 === $wgSorbsUrl ===
7560
7561 The base hostname for the DNS-based proxy blacklist can now be overridden
7562 when $wgEnableSorbs is set, to use a different blacklist instead of SORBS.
7563 The blacklist would need to respond the same was as SORBS; any positive
7564 response will be taken as a proxy.
7565
7566 === $wgAjaxWatch ===
7567
7568 Experimental AJAX mode for the watch/unwatch tabs to execute inline.
7569 Does not include the UI messages describing how to reach the watchlist,
7570 so you may not want it on a general-audience site just yet.
7571
7572 === $wgParserTestFiles ===
7573
7574 MediaWiki's parser test suite can now be expanded with additional test
7575 files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and
7576 they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php
7577
7578
7579 == Changes since 1.7 ==
7580
7581 * Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy
7582 * Changes to sajax_do_call: optionally accept an element to fill instead of a
7583 callback function; take the target function or element as a third parameter;
7584 pass the full XMLHttpRequest object to the handler function, instead of just
7585 the resultText value; use HTTP response codes to report errors.
7586 * (bug 6562) Removed unmaintained ParserXml.php for now
7587 * History paging overlap bug fixed
7588 * (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle
7589 * Don't put empty-page message into view-source when page text is blank
7590 * (bug 6587) Remove redundant "allnonarticles" message
7591 * Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow
7592 or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses. Prevent duplicate
7593 blocks. Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting
7594 multiple blocks. Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user
7595 attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in
7596 the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an
7597 indexed pager.
7598 * (bug 6448) Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username
7599 * (bug 6618) Improve permissions/error detection in Special:Lockdb
7600 * Quick hack for extension testing: parser test doesn't create new message
7601 cache object.
7602 * (bug 6299) Maintain parser's revision ID across recursive calls to fix
7603 {{REVISIONID}} when Cite extension is used
7604 * (bug 6622) Removed deprecated function Image::newFromTitle
7605 * (bug 6627) Fix regression in Special:Ipblocklist with table prefix
7606 * Removed forced dereferencements (new() returns a reference in PHP5)
7607 * Note about $wgUploadSizeWarning using byte
7608 * (bug 6592) Add most viewed pages summary to Special:Statistics
7609 * Pre-strip characters ignored in IDNs from URLs so they can't be used
7610 to break the blacklists for regular URLs
7611 * Fix regression in blocking of user accounts
7612 * (bug 6635) Fix regression searching for range blocks on Ipblocklist
7613 * Fix regression searching Ipblocklist with ugly URLs
7614 * (bug 6639) Use a consistent default for upload directories
7615 * Preserve entered reason when reporting unconfirmed lock on Special:Lockdb
7616 * (bug 6642) Don't offer to unlock the database when it isn't locked
7617 * cleanupTitles.php changed from --dry-run option to --fix, so default
7618 behavior is now a non-invasive check as with namespaceDupes.php
7619 * (bug 6660) Fix behavior of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does
7620 not exist; now doesn't show the source box if the user hasn't provided it
7621 (blocked mid-edit) and the page doesn't exist
7622 * Improve default value of "blockedtext"
7623 * (bug 6680) Added localisation for Dutch bookstore list (nl)
7624 * Renamed maintainace script redundanttrans.php to unusedMessages.php - clearer usage
7625 * Fix regression which allowed some blocked users to create additional accounts
7626 * (bug 6657) Fix Hungarian linktrail
7627 * (bug 6751) Fix preview of blanked section with edit on first preview option
7628 * (bug 5456) Separate MediaWiki:Search into messages for both noun and verb,
7629 introduced 'MediaWiki:Searchbutton'
7630 * Made lines from initialiseMessages() appear as list items during installation
7631 * Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the
7632 Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files.
7633 * Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core
7634 modules.
7635 * Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will
7636 now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php
7637 or another entry point.
7638 * Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches.
7639 * Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in
7640 the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer
7641 identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should
7642 be transparent in most cases.
7643 * Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects.
7644 * Removed the broken altencoding feature.
7645 * Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects
7646 are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles,
7647 via a slightly different interface.
7648 * Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless
7649 $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled.
7650 * Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php.
7651 * Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is
7652 now consistently done from Language::factory().
7653 * Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the
7654 profiler during maintenance scripts.
7655 * Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form.
7656 * Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace
7657 * Fix regression in ordering of namespaces
7658 * (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name,
7659 page title, etc.
7660 * hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body
7661 by all skins.
7662 * Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the
7663 framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box.
7664 * Added experimental installer for extensions.
7665 See maintenance/installExtension.php
7666 * Added Tajic (tg) language file.
7667 * (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue)
7668 * Fix regression in Korean and Japanese date formatting (day of week)
7669 * (bug 6919) Add English alias magic words for Tatar (tt) language file.
7670 * (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk)
7671 * (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php
7672 * (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch
7673 * Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and
7674 OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead.
7675 * Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper -
7676 use User::isAllowed instead.
7677 * (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission
7678 * (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view
7679 * Revamped Special:Imagelist
7680 * (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php
7681 * (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export
7682 * (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting
7683 point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit.
7684 * Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip
7685 * (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms
7686 * (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly
7687 * (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order
7688 * (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success
7689 * (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user
7690 has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page
7691 * Added {{CURRENTHOUR}}
7692 * Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table
7693 * Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import
7694 * (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message
7695 * (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages
7696 * (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions
7697 * Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update
7698 default message text
7699 * Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php
7700 Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate
7701 * (bug 832) Return to user page after emailing a user
7702 * (bug 366) Add local-system-timezone equivalents for date/time variables
7703 * (bug 7109) Fix Atom feed version number in header links
7704 * (bug 7075) List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version
7705 * (bug 7059) Introduce "anchorencode" colon function
7706 * Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable
7707 * Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list
7708 * (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows
7709 * (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip
7710 * [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number
7711 of disambiguation templates.
7712 * [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed
7713 any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]].
7714 * Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete
7715 * (bug 7026) Fix action=raw&templates=expand
7716 * (bug 6976) Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins
7717 * (bug 7144) Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't
7718 read the main page in the first place
7719 * (bug 7188) Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm
7720 * (bug 6675) Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload in Special:Upload
7721 * Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the
7722 format for WSR-1 SisterSites support
7723 * (bug 7223) Monobook.js is used for site content, should not be localized
7724 * Set default disabled values for DjVu render options
7725 * Added Xml::option() for generating <option>s easily
7726 * Localized page numbers in drop-down for DjVu page selection
7727 * Fixed linktrail for vi
7728 * (bug 6893) "Call to a member function exists() on a non-object" on trackback.php with bad input
7729 * (bug 6886) PHP undefined offset on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
7730 * (bug 6887) PHP error for call to getId() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
7731 * (bug 6888) PHP error for call to getTimestamp() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
7732 * (bug 7252) Use dvipng support in texvc math rastrization. dvipng is required if texvc is rebuilt.
7733 * (bug 7279) Use wfBaseName in place of basename() in more places
7734 * Clear newtalk marker on diff links with explicit current revision number
7735 * (bug 7064) Replace hard-coded empty message checks with wfEmptyMsg calls
7736 * (bug 6777) Remove some PHP 4 compat cruft
7737 * Add --user, --comment, and --license options to importImages.php
7738 * (bug 6216) The immobile namespace message does not mention the source page
7739 * (bug 7299) Normalize username filter on Special:Newpages
7740 * (bug 7306) RTL text in an LTR wiki breaks appearance of Special:Recentchanges
7741 * (bug 7312) Don't emit SET NAMES utf8 if connection failed
7742 * (bug 7305) Proper compare for bot check on RC notify, should fix overrides
7743 that force edits by non-bot users to bot mode
7744 * Set Vary: Cookie on action=raw generated CSS and JS, to ensure that user
7745 preferences don't get stuck in proxy caches for other people
7746 * (bug 7324) Fix error message for failure of Database::sourceFile()
7747 * (bug 7309) Plurals: use singular form for zero in French and Brazilian Portuguese
7748 * Add page_no_title_convert field to support language variant conversion
7749 for page titles which shouldn't be converted on display/linking
7750 * Lazy extraction of text chunks in Revision objects, may reduce hits to
7751 external storage when actual text content is not used
7752 * Added experimental $wgRevisionCacheExpiry to cache extracted revision text
7753 in $wgMemc, to further reduce hits to external storage.
7754 Set to 0 (disabled) by default.
7755 * Minor changes to the installer.
7756 * Remove ":" for 'youremail' and 'yourrealname' in includes/templates/Userlogin.php
7757 so that ":" could be used in i18n for Special:Preferences (like 'username' and 'uid').
7758 * Fix layout for Special:Preferences->Date and Time (position for 'timezonetext').
7759 * Updates to language variant code for Serbian et al
7760 * (bug 6756) Enabling RTL direction for kk-cn
7761 * (bug 6701) Kazakh language variants in MessagesEn.php
7762 * (bug 7335) SVN revision check in Special:Version fails on SVN 1.4 working copy
7763 * (bug 6518) Replaced 'lastmodified' with 'lastmodifiedat' and 'lastmodifiedby' with 'lastmodifiedatby'
7764 with separated parameters for date and time to allow better localisation. Updated all message files
7765 to display the old format for compatibility.
7766 * (bug 7357) Make supposedly static methods of Skin actually static
7767 * Added info text to Special:Deadendpages and Special:Lonelypages
7768 * Fix regression in cachability of generated CSS and JS for MonoBook skin,
7769 while avoiding clobbering of different users' cached data
7770 * (bug 6849) Block @ from usernames; interferes with multi-database tools and
7771 was meant to be banned years ago... For now existing accounts will not be
7772 prevented fromm login.
7773 * (bug 6092) Introduce magic words {{REVISIONDAY}}, {{REVISIONDAY2}, {{REVISIONMONTH}},
7774 {{REVISIONYEAR}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
7775 * (bug 7425) Preceeding whitespace in [[...]] breaks subpages
7776 * Try to reconnect after transitory database errors in dumpTextPass.php
7777 * (bug 6023) Fixed mismatch of 0/NULL for wl_notificationtimestamp; now notification
7778 mails are working after 'Mark all pages visited' button on Special:Watchlist is clicked
7779 * Made {{INT:}} a core parser function instead of a special case. The syntax
7780 and behavior is largely unchanged.
7781 * (bug 7448) Fixing the native name for Ewe (ee)
7782 * (bug 6864) Replace message 'editing' with new message 'editinguser' in Special:Userrights
7783 to allow better localisation
7784 * Add '*-summary' for special pages to MessagesEn.php to allow customizing/translation
7785 directly through Special:Allmessages
7786 * (bug 6130, bug 5818) Replaced message 'go' with the new message 'searcharticle' in skins
7787 to allow better localisation
7788 * Add + to $wgLegalTitleChars by default. Some sites may have occasional
7789 problems with hard-to-reach pages, but it should be less trouble than
7790 "I can't import dumps from Wikipedia" complaints
7791 * (bug 7460) Revert broken patch for bug 7226 which slows down
7792 Special:Allmessages by a factor of 16
7793 * Committed a bunch of live hacks from Wikimedia servers
7794 * (bug 6889) PHP notices in thumb.php with missing params
7795 * Cleaner error behavior on thumb.php with invalid page selection
7796 * (bug 6617) Validate timestamps on Special:Undelete
7797 * Do fewer unnecessary full writes of user rows; only update user_touched
7798 for watch/unwatch, group membership change, and login operations
7799 * Restructured the languages directory, to avoid problems when people
7800 untar MW 1.8 over the top of a 1.7 installation.
7801 * (bug 6890) SQL query error on bad input to Pager lists
7802 due to negative LIMIT clause, caused by integer wraparound.
7803 * Fixed various bugs related to table prefixes, especially the interaction
7804 between table prefixes and memcached, which was formerly completely broken.
7805 * (bug 7004) PHP iconv() notice on bad password input to Special:Userlogin.
7806 * (bug 6826) Extend pre-save transform context link ("pipe trick")
7807 syntax to pages with commas in title
7808 * Use ImageMagick -thumbnail option instead of -resize to avoid including
7809 excessive metadata in thumbs (requires ImageMagick 6.0.0 or newer).
7810 * (bug 7499) Corrections to Swedish talk namespace names
7811 * (bug 7508) Added option to compress HTML pages by dumpHTML.php
7812 * (bug 7519) Add plural in SpecialWatchlist
7813 * (bug 7459) Magic word variables are always case sensitive
7814 * Replaced {{SERVER}}{{localurl:xxx}} with {{fullurl:xxx}} in localisation files
7815 * Fix regression in Special:Watchlist text header
7816 * (bug 7510) Update article counts etc on undelete
7817 * (bug 7520) Update article counts on XML import
7818 * (bug 7526) Make $wgDefaultUserOptions work again
7819 * (bug 7472) Localize Help namespace for Basque
7820 * (bug 7529) Including a non-existent category in an article places that article in the category
7821 * (bug 4528) Lack of important LaTeX functions stackrel, rightleftharpoon
7822 * (bug 6721) missing symbols ulcorner, urcorner, llcorner, lrcorner, twoheadrightarrow, twoheadleftarrow
7823 * (bug 7367) Hyphens sometimes erroneously appended to equations when not converted to PNG
7824 * Add "title" to the opensearch link to allow automatic adding of the search engine in Firefox 2
7825 * (bug 7537) Add php5 to $wgFileBlacklist
7826 * (bug 6929) Restore AutoAuthenticate hook
7827
7828
7829 == Changes since 1.6 ==
7830
7831 * (bug 5458) Fix double-URL encoding in block log link in contribs and contribs
7832 link in block log
7833 * (bug 5462) Bogus missing patch warning in updater
7834 * (bug 5461) Use of deprecated "showhideminor" in Special:Recentchangeslinked
7835 * PHP warning when allow_call_time_pass_reference is off
7836 * Update to Finnish localization
7837 * (bug 5467) Link to page histories in watchlist edit mode
7838 * Further additions to Hebrew localisation
7839 * (bug 5476) Invalid xhtml in German localization
7840 * (bug 5479) Id translation for preferences tabs caption
7841 * (bug 5493) Id translation for special pages
7842 * Added skinname and style path parameters to CBT version of MonoBook
7843 * Include subversion revision number in Special:Version if available
7844 * (bug 5344) Fix regression that broke slashes in extension tag parameters
7845 * Improve Special:Log performance on big log sets
7846 * (bug 5507) Changed mediawiki:logouttext from plain to wikitext
7847 * (bug 4760) Prevent creation of entries in protection log when protection
7848 levels haven't changed
7849 * (bug 861) Show page protection/unprotection events in histories
7850 * (bug 5499) Don't clear the tag strip state when asked not to clear state.
7851 Fixes regression with use of <ref> in a template breaking <nowiki> etc.
7852 * Minor improvements to English language files
7853 * Display the anon talk page info message on anon talk pages again
7854 (moved outside the parser cache)
7855 * Optional {{DISPLAYTITLE|title with markup}} magic word
7856 Deactivated by default, set "$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true" in LocalSettings.php
7857 to activate
7858 * Cleaned SpecialContributions a bit
7859 * Added a table to track interlanguage links
7860 * (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left
7861 languages
7862 * Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the
7863 appropriate arrow
7864 * (bug 5537) Add stub language file for Samogitian (bat-smg); inherits
7865 Lithuanian (lt)
7866 * Don't force edit summaries when a user is editing their own user/talk page
7867 * (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces
7868 * (bug 385) Installer support for PostgreSQL, fixes for PG compatibility
7869 * PersistentObject removed; it doesn't do anything and was broken besides.
7870 All extensions using it have been corrected.
7871 * Propagate ISBN number for Booksources in LanguageNo.php
7872 * (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin]
7873 * Add TALKSPACE, SUBJECTSPACE, TALKPAGENAME, SUBJECTPAGENAME (and encoded forms
7874 for all) magic words
7875 * (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds
7876 * Reject malformed addresses in X-Forwarded-For entries
7877 * (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload
7878 * (bug 5559) Improve detection of ImageMagick [patch: Greg Turnquist]
7879 * (bug 5475) New pages feeds ignore "limit" argument
7880 * (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to
7881 conflicting anchor identifiers
7882 * (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default.
7883 * Maintenance script to import the contents of a text file into a wiki page
7884 * Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use
7885 * (bug 5576) Remove debugging hack in session check
7886 * (bug 5426) Lowercase treatment of titles in rights log leads to broken links
7887 on Special:Log
7888 * Minor improvements to French localisation files
7889 * (bug 5181) Update "nogomatch" for Slovak
7890 * (bug 5594) Id translation up to # Login and logout pages section
7891 * (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link
7892 * Improvements to German localisation files
7893 * (bug 5570) Problems using <special page>/parameter link form for long titles
7894 * (bug 3884) Add $user parameter to AddNewUser hook, call it for by-email
7895 registrations as well as self-registrations.
7896 * (bug 4327) Report age of cached data sets in query pages
7897 * (bug 4662) Fix Safari check in wikibits.js
7898 * (bug 4663) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Safari
7899 * (bug 5572) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Konqueror (3.5+)
7900 * (bug 5235) Edit toolbar tooltips no longer show JavaScript junk in Opera
7901 * Edit toolbar now works in pure XHTML mode (application/xhtml+xml)
7902 * Add watchlist clear function to allow quick purging of all items
7903 * (bug 5625) Additional namespace translations for Welsh
7904 * Add meta tag and JavaScript variables to cached special pages which provides
7905 the timestamp of the last update, in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.
7906 * (bug 5628) More translations for MessagesHr.php
7907 * (bug 5595) Localisation for Bosnian language (bs)
7908 * (bug 2910) Default view preferences for watchlists
7909 * Add "hide bot edits from the watchlist" user preference
7910 * (bug 5250) Introduce Special:Unusedtemplates
7911 * Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent
7912 edits up to a certain edit, and not just the latest edit..
7913 * Made MessageRo.php more general
7914 * (bug 5640) Indonesian localisation improvements
7915 * (bug 5592) Actions are logged with the default language for the
7916 wiki, not the language of the user performing the operation.
7917 * (bug 5644) Error in LanguageBs.php file
7918 * (bug 5646) Compare for identical types in wfElement()
7919 * (bug 5472) Language::userAdjust()->minDiff not initialized on else condition
7920 * (bug 5386) LanguageMk.php: updated namespaces translations
7921 * (bug 5422) Stub for Romani (rmy) language which extends ro
7922 * Fix linktrail for LanguageSr
7923 * (bug 5664) Fix Bosnian linktrail
7924 * (bug 3825) Namespace filtering on Special:Newpages
7925 * (bug 1922) When Special:Wantedpages is cached, mark links to pages
7926 which have since been created
7927 * (bug 5659) Change grammar hacks for Bosnian Wikimedia namespaces.
7928 This sort of special casing should be removed and fixed properly.
7929 * Remove useless whitespace from Special:Brokenredirects header
7930 * Treat "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" as wikitext when echoing; change default
7931 text
7932 * (bug 5497) Regression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>)
7933 * (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories
7934 * (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect
7935 * (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in
7936 read-only pages
7937 * Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface")
7938 * (bug 4259) Indicate when a protected page being edited is an interface message
7939 ("editinginterface")
7940 * (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel
7941 * Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter
7942 * (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache
7943 miss
7944 * Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages
7945 * Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser
7946 credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if
7947 the connection fails
7948 * (bug 5005) Fix XHTML <gallery> output.
7949 * (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date).
7950 * (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation
7951 * Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories
7952 * (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals
7953 * (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files
7954 * (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word
7955 * (bug 93) <nowiki> tags and tildes in templates
7956 * The returnto parameter is now actually used by SpecialUserlogin.php
7957 * Parser can now know that it is parsing an interface message
7958 * (bug 4737) MediaWiki:Viewcount supports {{PLURAL}} now
7959 * Fix bug in wfMsgExt under PHP 5.1.2
7960 * (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv
7961 * Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to
7962 recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes
7963 * Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles
7964 * (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously
7965 deleted
7966 * (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages
7967 * "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language
7968 * (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated
7969 * (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers
7970 * (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page
7971 * (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user
7972 * (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters
7973 * Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup
7974 * (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title
7975 * (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags
7976 * Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}}
7977 will produce a count minus formatting
7978 * Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an
7979 appropriate output format given the scope of the clean
7980 * (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log"
7981 * Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for
7982 user rights
7983 * (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL
7984 * (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted"
7985 * (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time
7986 formatted according to the current user's settings
7987 * (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian
7988 * Updated initStats maintenance script
7989 * (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale
7990 * (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are.
7991 * (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to
7992 show up on specific pages on demand
7993 * Bidi-aid on list pages
7994 * (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names
7995 * (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext
7996 * Sanitizer: now handles nested <li> in <ul> or <ol>
7997 * (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14
7998 * Add 'EmailConfirmed' hook
7999 * New findhooks.php script to find undocumented hooks.
8000 * Silently ignore errors on profiling table update.
8001 * (bug 5801) Correct handling of underscores in Special:Listusers
8002 * Clean up Special:Listusers; add an "(all)" label to the group selection box
8003 * (bug 5812) Use appropriate link colour in Special:Mostlinked
8004 * (bug 5802) {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} variable broken in Vietnamese locale
8005 * (bug 5817) Appropriate handling for Special:Recentchangeslinked where the target
8006 page doesn't exist
8007 * Special:Randompage now additionally accepts English namespace name as parameter
8008 * (bug 2981) Really fixed linktrail for Tamil (ta)
8009 * Disallow substituting Special pages when included into a page
8010 * (bug 5587) Clean up the languages from references to the Groups special page
8011 * Added new group-X and group-X-member messages
8012 * Rewritten removeUnusedAccounts to be more efficient, print names of inactive
8013 accounts
8014 * Redirect Special:Userlist to Special:Listusers
8015 * Introduce $wgAllowTitlesInSVG, which allows the <title> attribute in uploaded files
8016 bearing the image/svg MIME type. Disabled by default due to the vast majority of
8017 web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details.
8018 * Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it
8019 * (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories,
8020 Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories.
8021 * (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages
8022 * Clean up Special:Undelete a bit
8023 * (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}}
8024 * Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit
8025 * (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL
8026 * (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files
8027 * (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show
8028 * (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users
8029 * (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
8030 * (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name
8031 * (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message
8032 * (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers
8033 * (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de)
8034 * (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru)
8035 * (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id)
8036 * (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs)
8037 * Added many missing formatNum calls
8038 * Added grammar function to Belarusian (be)
8039 * (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook
8040 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be)
8041 * (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
8042 * (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links
8043 * (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id)
8044 * (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms)
8045 * (bug 5890) Update for German language (de)
8046 * (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي
8047 * --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension
8048 * (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl)
8049 * (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl)
8050 * User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in
8051 v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8
8052 * dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the
8053 previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump.
8054 * dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched
8055 * dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch
8056 * (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
8057 * (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de)
8058 * (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs)
8059 * Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with
8060 $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups
8061 * (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages
8062 * (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl)
8063 * Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages
8064 * Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word
8065 * (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word
8066 * (bug 5370) Allow throttling of password reminder requests with the rate limiter
8067 * (bug 5683) Respect parser output marked as uncacheable when saving
8068 * (bug 5918) Links autonumbering now work for all defined protocols
8069 * (bug 5935) Improvement to German localisation (de)
8070 * (bug 5937) Register links from gallery captions with the parent parser output
8071 object so that link tables receive those updates too
8072 * (bug 5845) Introduce BASEPAGENAME and BASEPAGENAMEE magic words
8073 * (bug 5941) Use content language when getting the administrator page title for
8074 Special:Statistics
8075 * (bug 5949) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
8076 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian translation (be)
8077 * (bug 5950) Improvements to French localisation
8078 * (bug 5805) {{plural:}} support for counters in some special pages
8079 * (bug 5952) Improvement to German localisation (de)
8080 * Rename conflicting metadata help message to "metadata_help" (was "metadata")
8081 and treat it as wiki text
8082 * Improve preferences input filtering
8083 * Maintenance script to import multiple files into the wiki
8084 * (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he)
8085 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
8086 * (bug 5961) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
8087 * (bug 5849) Remove some hard-coded references to "Wikipedia" in messages
8088 * (bug 5967) Improvement to German localisation (de)
8089 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
8090 * Suppress images in galleries which appear on the bad image list (when rendering
8091 for a wiki page; galleries in special pages and categories are unaffected)
8092 * Maintenance script to remove orphaned revisions from the database
8093 * (bug 5991) Update for Russian language (ru)
8094 * (bug 6001) PAGENAMEE and FULLPAGENAMEE don't work in FULLURL and LOCALURL magic
8095 words
8096 * (bug 5958) Switch Uzbek language name to use latin script
8097 * (bug 839) Add URLENCODE magic word
8098 * (bug 6004) Update for Polish language (pl)
8099 * (bug 5971) Improvement to German localisation (de)
8100 * (bug 4873) Don't overwrite the subtitle navigation when viewing a redirect page
8101 that isn't current
8102 * (bug 2203) Namespace updates for Thai
8103 * Fix breakage in parser test suite which caused incorrect reporting of the failure of
8104 {{NUMBEROFFILES}}. Now initialises the site_stats table with some dumb data. Updated
8105 the expected output for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to reflect this.
8106 * (bug 6009) Use {{ns:project}} in messages where appropriate
8107 * (bug 6012) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
8108 * (bug 6017) Update list of bookstores in German localisation files
8109 * (bug 5187) Allow programmatically bypassing username validation, for scripts
8110 * (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected
8111 * (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this"
8112 * (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified')
8113 * (bug 2015) Add "\sim" to ~ conversion for HTML rendering
8114 * (bug 6029) Improvement to German localisation (de)
8115 * (bug 5015) Update be: magic words
8116 * (bug 3974) Add parameter for site URL to "passwordremindertext"
8117 * (bug 6039) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
8118 * (bug 764) Add CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES to default database permissions
8119 * Big update to Swedish localisation (sv)
8120 * Use appropriate HTML functions to create the tool links on image pages, so they don't
8121 look garbled when tidy isn't on
8122 * (bug 5511) Fix URL-encoding of usernames in links on Special:Ipblocklist
8123 * (bug 6046) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #15
8124 * (bug 5523) $wgNoFollowNsExceptions to allow disabling rel="nofollow" in
8125 specially-selected namespaces.
8126 * (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick Jenkins)
8127 * Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better
8128 handle some overlapping tag cases.
8129 * Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC
8130 * (bug 4610) Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark
8131 changes as patrolled using the diff links there
8132 * Add 'DiffViewHeader' hook called before diff page output
8133 * (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de)
8134 * (bug 6054) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #16
8135 * Add {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} magic word
8136 * (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms
8137 * (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics.
8138 * (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs
8139 * To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays
8140 can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is
8141 no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a
8142 custom log type.
8143 * (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages)
8144 * Added $wgGrammarForms global
8145 * Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries.
8146 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
8147 * (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate()
8148 * wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages
8149 * Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group
8150 * wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code
8151 * Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed.
8152 Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways.
8153 * (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language
8154 * Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when
8155 adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs.
8156 * Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory.
8157 * (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an)
8158 * (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru)
8159 * Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering
8160 problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages
8161 making it into cached display.
8162 * (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink")
8163 * (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded
8164 character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg
8165 &#61; when making URLs for template parameters.
8166 * Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness
8167 under HTML-compatible browsers.
8168 * (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage
8169 * Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext'
8170 * (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history
8171 * Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed
8172 * Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs
8173 * (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization
8174 * (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs.
8175 * Add APC as object caching option
8176 * Update to Albanian localization (sq)
8177 * (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias)
8178 * Use optimized php5-only microtime()
8179 * Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script
8180 * Fix profiling table definition
8181 * (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a
8182 "show changes" operation in the editor
8183 * (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins
8184 * Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php
8185 * Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer
8186 * (bug 6133) Update strip state as we work. This mostly fixes extensions
8187 used in Cite.php <ref> tags when Tidy is on.
8188 * (bug 6139) Workaround for transclusion oddities in Vietnamese upload text
8189 * (bug 6136) Update to Catalan language (ca)
8190 * Update to Japanese localization (ja)
8191 * Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer
8192 * (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17
8193 * (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views
8194 * (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page
8195 * (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word
8196 * Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles
8197 * (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language
8198 message contains '-'; fixes licenses selector on Commons configuration after
8199 recent addition of the message to Messages.php
8200 * (bug 5527) Batch up job queue insertions for, hopefully, better survivability
8201 of lock contention etc. Duplicates are now removed at pop time instead of
8202 at insert time.
8203 * When showing the "blah has been undeleted" page, make sure it's a blue link
8204 * parserTests.php accepts a --file parameter to run an alternate test sutie
8205 * parser tests can now test extensions using !!hooks sections
8206 * Fix oddity with open tag parameters getting stuck on </li>
8207 * (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension
8208 * Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more
8209 consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the
8210 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to
8211 further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise
8212 expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences
8213 in behavior based on the order tags are loaded.
8214 * (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags
8215 * Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags
8216 * (bug 6164) Fix regression with <gallery> resetting <ref> state
8217 * Hackaround for IE 7 wrapping bug in MonoBook footer
8218 * New message sp-newimages-showfrom replaces rclistfrom on special:newimages
8219 * Improve handling of ;: definition list construct with overlapping or
8220 nested HTML tags
8221 * (bug 6171) Fix sanitizing of HTML-elements with an optional closing
8222 tag. The sanitizer still needs to learn how to make well-formed XML
8223 in this case.
8224 * Fix fatal error when specifying illegal name for manual thumbnail
8225 * (bug 6184) Use shinier Linker::userLink() to make user links in
8226 Special:Undelete
8227 * (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb)
8228 * (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18
8229 * (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa)
8230 * Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a
8231 per-namespace basis.
8232 * Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being
8233 interspersed into your ordered lists.
8234 * (bug 5021) Transcluding the same special page twice now works
8235 * Add 'SiteNoticeBefore' and 'SiteNoticeAfter' hooks
8236 * (bug 6182) Date passed in "sp-newimages-showfrom" not adjusted to user time
8237 preferences
8238 * (bug 2587) Fix for section editing with comment prefix
8239 * (bug 2607) Fix for section editing with mix of wiki and HTML headings
8240 * (bug 3342) Fix for section editing with headings wrapped in <noinclude>
8241 * (bug 3476) Fix for section editing with faux headings in extensions
8242 * (bug 5272) Fix for section editing with HTML-heading subsections
8243 * Fix for bogus wiki headings improperly detected with following text
8244 * Fix for HTML headings improperly not detected with preceding/following text
8245 * Section extraction and replacement functions merged into one implementation
8246 on the Parser object, so they can't get out of sync with each other.
8247 * Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc
8248 * (bug 6197) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #19
8249 * (bug 6175) Improvement to German translation (de)
8250 * Redirect Special:Logs to Special:Log
8251 * (bug 6206) Linktrail for Swedish localization (se)
8252 * (bug 3202) Attributes now allowed on <pre> tags
8253 * Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes now available to discard illegal/unsafe
8254 attribute values from an array.
8255 * (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement
8256 to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype
8257 (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and
8258 could even result in invalid output from valid input.
8259 * (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default
8260 meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of
8261 robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt
8262 doesn't forbid access.
8263 * Regression fix: suppress warning about session failure when clicking to
8264 edit with 'preview on first edit' enabled.
8265 * (bug 6230) Regression fix: <nowiki> in [URL link text]
8266 * Added AutoLoader.php, which loads classes without need of require_once()
8267 * (bug 5981) Add plural function Slovenian (sl)
8268 * (bug 5945) Introduce {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word
8269 * {{PLURAL}} can now take up to five forms
8270 * (bug 6243) Fix email for usernames containing dots when using PEAR::Mail
8271 * Remove a number of needless {{ns:project}}-type transforms from messages files. These
8272 usages already have separate label text. Such transforms are wasteful on each page view.
8273 * Update to Yiddish localization (yi)
8274 * (bug 6254) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #20
8275 * (bug 6255) Fix transclusions starting with "#" or "*" in HTML attributes
8276 * Whitespace now normalized more or less properly in HTML attributes
8277 * Fix regression(?) in behavior of initial-whitespace-pre in <center>
8278 * (bug 6260) Update to Interlingua localization (ia)
8279 * Update to Vlax Romany localization (rmy)
8280 * Update to Latin translation (la)
8281 * Update to Dutch translation (nl)
8282 * Avoid some notices in page history with bad input
8283 * Use double quoted consistently on attributes in linker output; preparing
8284 for new normalization code when tidy not in use
8285 * Replace "nogomatch" with "noexactmatch" and place the magic colon in the messages
8286 themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content.
8287 * Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other
8288 than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics.
8289 * (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word
8290 * Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default.
8291 * (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags.
8292 * Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this
8293 could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong.
8294 * Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile;
8295 it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html".
8296 * (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl)
8297 * (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
8298 * (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21
8299 * Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information
8300 * (bug 4054) Add "boteditletter" to recent changes flags
8301 * Update to Catalan localization (ca)
8302 * (bug 2099) Deleted image files can now be archived and undeleted.
8303 Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in
8304 $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory']
8305 * (bug 6324) Fix regression in enhanced RC alignment
8306 * Introduce {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} magic word
8307 * Update to Slovak translation (sk)
8308 * Update to Alemannic localization (gsw)
8309 * (bug 6300) Bug fixes for sr: variants
8310 * namespaceDupes.php can now accept an arbitrary prefix, for checking rogue
8311 interwikis and such. Not yet fully automated.
8312 * (bug 6344) Add Special:Uncategorizedimages page
8313 * (bug 6357) Update to Russian translation (ru)
8314 * Workaround possible bug in Firefox nightlies by properly removing the
8315 Content-Encoding header instead of sending explicit 'identity' value
8316 in StreamFile
8317 * (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages
8318 * Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display
8319 * (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message
8320 * (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account
8321 * (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links
8322 * Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
8323 * (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22
8324 * (bug 6279) Add genitive month names to Slovenian localisation
8325 * (bug 6351) Update to German translation (de)
8326 * Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects
8327 * Remove unused "validation" table definitions from the schema files
8328 * (bug 6398) Work around apparent PCRE bug breaking section editing when
8329 massively-indented preformatted text immediately followed a header
8330 * (bug 6392) Fix misbehaving <br /> in preferences form
8331 * Add translated magic words to Hebrew localization
8332 * (bug 6396) Change name for Chuvash language
8333 * Introduce optional (off by default) language selector bar for user login
8334 and registration. Customisable via the "loginlanguagelinks" message, the
8335 links will preserve "returnto" values. If the user creates an account while
8336 using such a link, then the language in use will be saved as their language
8337 preference.
8338 * Make sure '~~~' '~~~~' '~~~~~' are removed in Nickname preference.
8339 * Rename "ipusuccess" to "unblocked", change the format (now wiki text)
8340 * (bug 2316) Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag
8341 * Allow setting the skin object that ImageGallery will use; needed during parse
8342 operations (the skin must come from the ParserOptions, not $wgUser)
8343 * Fix notice in MacBinary detection debug data for files of certain lengths
8344 * (bug 6131) Add type detection for DjVu files, allowing them to be uploaded
8345 with validity checking and size detection. No inline thumbnailing yet,
8346 but could be added in the future.
8347 * (bug 6423) Don't update newtalk flag if page content didn't change (null edits
8348 were causing the newtalk flag to trigger inappropriately)
8349 * Parser functions are now set using magic words.
8350 * (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set
8351 * (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version
8352 if blocked during an edit
8353 * (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page,
8354 return blank content (as opposed to the message key)
8355 * Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css
8356 * (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export
8357 * (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories
8358 * Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off
8359 * (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23
8360 * Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow
8361 localizble extensions magic words.
8362 * Update to Romanian translation (ro)
8363 * Update to Esperanto translation (eo)
8364 * Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE
8365 if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error
8366 * (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook
8367 * Update to Piedmontese localization (pms)
8368 * dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2
8369 * (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import
8370 * (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import
8371 * (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events
8372 * Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import
8373 * Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request
8374 * Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming
8375 large numbers of history items.
8376 * Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export;
8377 pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from
8378 export when history is requested.
8379 * Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name
8380 * Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import
8381 * Update to Korean translation (ko)
8382 * Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist
8383 * (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex
8384 * Added Latvian localization (lv)
8385 * (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages
8386 * Update to Macedonian translation (mk)
8387 * Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created
8388 as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if
8389 we can move over them.
8390 * Show some error results in moveBatch.php
8391 * (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps
8392 * (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages
8393 * (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing
8394 * (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}}
8395 * (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin
8396 * (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages
8397 * Added formatnum magic word
8398 * Added Javanese localization (jv)
8399 * (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries
8400 * (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage
8401 * Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true
8402 * Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in
8403 the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields.
8404 Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a
8405 "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe
8406 in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes
8407 distinct.
8408 * (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set
8409 * (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete
8410 * (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24
8411 * Extension messages translation is now possible.
8412 * Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports.
8413 $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for
8414 Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc.
8415 * (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de)
8416 * (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page
8417 * (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar
8418 * (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation'
8419 * Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms
8420 * (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex
8421 more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input
8422 with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does.
8423 * (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation
8424 * New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'.
8425 * Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it
8426 * Introduce updateArticleCount maintenance script which uses a better check that
8427 reflects what Article::isCountable() tests for
8428 * Introduce 'BadImage' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
8429 * Add "searchsubtitleinvalid" message for searches that are not valid titles.
8430 * (bug 5962) Update to Italian localisation
8431 * (bug 6530) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #25
8432 * (bug 6523) Fix SVG issue in rebuildImages.php
8433 * (bug 6512) Link to page-specific logs on page histories
8434 * (bug 6504) Allow configuring session name with $wgSessionName
8435 * (bug 6185) Add standard user tool links to log page views
8436 * Update to Venetian translation (vec)
8437 * Update to Slovenian translation (sl)
8438 * Add standard user tool links to deleted revision list
8439 * Separate out EditPage's getContent bits from regular Article getContent.
8440 Cleans up read-only-mode warning on empty pages and neats up some code.
8441 * (bug 6565) Strict JavaScript writing
8442 * (bug 6570) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #26
8443 * Added Telugu translation (te)
8444 * Update to Catalan translation (ca)
8445 * (bug 6560) Avoid PHP notice when trimming ISBN whitespace
8446 * Added namespace translation to Kannada (ka)
8447 * (bug 6566) Improve input validation on timestamp conversion
8448 * Implicit group "emailconfirmed" for all users whose email addresses are confirmed
8449 * (bug 6577) Avoid multiline parser breakage on <pre> with newline in attribute
8450 * (bug 6771) Make old revisions of MediaWiki pages available with action=raw
8451
8452 == Changes since 1.5 ==
8453
8454 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
8455
8456 Code quality:
8457 * Use strval() to make sure we don't accidentally get null on bad revision
8458 text loads or other fields mucking up XML export output
8459 * Clean up duplicate code for selection of changeslist style
8460 * Correct blob caching to reduce redundant blob loads on backups
8461 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
8462 * Fixed possible infinite loop in formatComment
8463 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
8464 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
8465 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
8466 * Avoid numerous redundant latest-revision lookups in history
8467 * Require PHP 4.3.2 or higher strictly now.
8468 * Tweak infinite-template-handling loop for PHP 5.1.1 string handling change
8469 * Remove unused OutputPage::addCookie()
8470 * Fix for short_open_tag off again; please don't break this, guys
8471 * (bug 4507) Adjust FULLPAGENAMEE escaping to standard form
8472 * (bug 5302) Merge the two #p-search .pBody statements in monobook css.
8473
8474 Database:
8475 * Finally dropped MySQL 3.23.x support
8476 * Oracle support
8477 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
8478 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
8479 * (bug 3227) Fix SQL injection introduced in experimental code
8480 * Fix table prefix usage in Block::enumBlocks
8481 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
8482 * (bug 3506) Avoid MySQL error when Listusers returns no results
8483 * Skip update of disused 'rc_cur_time' field (todo: discard the field)
8484 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
8485 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
8486 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
8487 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
8488 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
8489 * Ability to set the table name for external storage servers
8490 * Update ipblocks table in MySQL 5 table defs
8491 * Removed FulltextStoplist.php, no longer used (was for MySQL 3.x workaround)
8492 * Added templatelinks table, to track template inclusions. User-visible effects
8493 will be:
8494 * (inclusion) tag for inclusions in Special:Whatlinkshere
8495 * More accurate list of used templates on the edit page
8496 * More reliable cache invalidation when templates outside the template
8497 namespace are changed
8498 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
8499 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
8500 * Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs
8501 * Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is
8502 to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed.
8503 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
8504
8505 Documentation:
8506 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
8507
8508 Hooks:
8509 (list not complete)
8510 * Move ArticleSave hook execution into Article insert/update functions,
8511 so they get called on non-EditPage actions that use these functions
8512 to create or update pages.
8513 * Added EditFilter hook, and output callback on EditPage::showEditForm()
8514 for a place to add in captcha-type extensions in the edit flow
8515 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
8516 * Fix for hook callbacks on objects containing no fields
8517 * Add a hook for additional user creation throttle / limiter extensions
8518 * Use $wgOut->parse() in wfGetSiteNotice() instead of creating a new parser
8519 instance. This allows use of extension hooks if required.
8520 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
8521 * Added 'PageRenderingHash' hook for changing the parser cache hash key
8522 from an extension that changes rendering based on nonstandard options.
8523 * Add 'GetInternalURL' hook to match the GetFullURL and GetLocalURL ones
8524 * (bug 4456) Add hook for marking article patrolled
8525 * Add UserRights hook, fires after a user's group memberships are changed
8526
8527 Images:
8528 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
8529 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
8530 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
8531 * Fix scaling of non-integer SVG unit sizes
8532 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small images on |thumb| without explicit size
8533 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
8534 large SVG images on image description page
8535 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
8536 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
8537 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
8538 * Added a limit to the size of image files which can be thumbnailed
8539 * (bug 3806) Gracefully fall back to client-side scaling on |thumb| image
8540 that passes $wgMaxImageArea
8541 * (bug 153) Adjust thumbnail size calculations to match consistently;
8542 patch by David Benbennick
8543 * (bug 4162) Add $wgThumbnailEpoch timestamp to force old thumbs to
8544 be rerendered on demand, sitewide
8545 * (bug 1850) Additional fixes so existing local and remote images
8546 get a blue link even if there's no local description page
8547 * Avoid FATAL ERROR when creating thumbnail of non-existing image
8548 * (bug 4207) Wrong image size when using 100x200px syntax to scale image up
8549 patch by David Benbennick
8550 * Don't delete thumbnails when refreshing exif metadata. This caused thumbs
8551 to vanish mysteriously from time to time for files that didn't have metadata.
8552 * (bug 4426) Add link to user_talk page on image pages
8553 * Support a custom convert command for thumbnailing. See DefaultSettings.php
8554 and the comments for $wgCustomConvertCommand, for more information.
8555 * UserCan hook now allows advisory return values, rather than mandatory ones.
8556
8557 Installer:
8558 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
8559 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
8560 * Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
8561 * (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
8562 patch by Rob Church
8563 * Improve installer
8564 * Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
8565 * Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
8566 permissions, if said user exists
8567 * Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields
8568 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
8569 * Add basic check for session support in PHP and die if not present
8570
8571 Maintenance:
8572 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert
8573 duplicate rows with the same id field)
8574 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
8575 different LocalSettings.php.
8576 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
8577 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
8578 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
8579 * Maintenance script to reassign edits from one user to another
8580 * Maintenance script to find and remove links to a given domain (cleanupSpam.php)
8581 * Fix --report interval option for dumpTextPass
8582
8583 i18n / Languages:
8584 * Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
8585 * (bug 3141) Partial support for Breton language (thanks Fulup).
8586 * Support for venitian language
8587 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
8588 * Finnish date format was hardcoded, now implemented properly
8589 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
8590 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
8591 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
8592 * (bug 3177) Estonian date formats not implemented in LanguageEt.php
8593 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
8594 * (bug 3271) Updated LanguageNn.php for HEAD
8595 * Experimental feature to allow translation of block expiry times
8596 Implementation only for Finnish currently
8597 * (bug 3304) Language file for Croatian (LanguageHr.php)
8598 * (bug 2143) Update Vietnamese interface
8599 * (bug 3063) Remove some hardcodings from Hebrew localisation
8600 * (bug 3408) Bulgarian formatNum corrected
8601 * (bug 1512) Disable x-code interp on Esperanto URLs for now, it does more
8602 harm than good under current system by breaking incoming URLs with "ux".
8603 (Editing is not affected, just URLs.)
8604 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
8605 * Fix language name for dv
8606 * (bug 3503) Update LanguageSq.php from sq.wikipedia.org messages
8607 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
8608 * (bug 3334) Namespace changes for Polish
8609 * (bug 3580) Change default Dutch language file to more neutral
8610 * (bug 3656) LanguageHr.php - added convertPlural
8611 * (bug 3414) LanguageBe.php - added convertPlural
8612 * (bug 3163) Full translation of LanguageBr
8613 * (bug 3617) Update for portuguese language (pt)
8614 * Namespaces hacks on LanguagePl
8615 * (bug 3682) LanguageSr.php - added convertPlural
8616 * (bug 3694) LanguageTr.php update
8617 * (bug 3711) Removed invisible unicode characters from LanguageHu
8618 * (bug 2981) Linktrail for Tamil (ta)
8619 * (bug 3722) Update of Arabic language (ar) Namespace changes
8620 * Removed hardcoded Norwegian (no) project namespaces
8621 * (bug 2324) image for redirects should be without text and oriented according to content language
8622 * (bug 3666) Don't spew PHP warnings in prefs on unrecognized site language
8623 * (bug 3817) Use localized date formats in preferences; 'no preference' option
8624 localizable as 'datedefault' message. Tweaked lots of languages files...
8625 * (bug 2721) Regression: Use European number separators for vi: wikis
8626 * (bug 3961) minor languageDe changes
8627 * (bug 1984) LanguageKo.php (Korean) update
8628 * (bug 3804) update of LanguageWa.php file
8629 * (bug 3886) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
8630 * (bug 4020) Update namespaces for ms
8631 * (bug 3922) bidi embedding overrides on category links
8632 * (bug 4061) Update of Slovene namespace names (LanguageSl.php)
8633 * (bug 4064) LanguageDe comma changes
8634 * (bug 3922) Further tweaks to bidi overrides in category list for old
8635 versions of Safari and Konqueror
8636 * Fix custom namespaces on wikis set for Portuguese
8637 * (bug 4153) Fix block length localizations in Greek
8638 * (bug 3844) ab: av: ba: ce: & kv: now inherit from LanguageRu.php
8639 ii: & za: now inherit from LanguageZn_cn.php
8640 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
8641 * (bug 4192) Remove silly 'The Free Encyclopedia' default sitesubtitle
8642 * Use content-lang for sitenotice
8643 * (bug 4233) Update LanguageJa.php
8644 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
8645 * (bug 4108, 4336) Remove trailing whitespace from various messages, which
8646 mucks up message updating to create dupe entries
8647 * (bug 4389) Fix math options on zh-hk and zh-tw (but not localized)
8648 * (bug 4392) Update of LanguageSr.php
8649 * (bug 4382) Frisian numeric format
8650 * (bug 4424) Update for Spanish language (es) 100% messages translated
8651 * (bug 4425) Typos in Polish translation
8652 * (bug 4436) Update for Turkish language (tr)
8653 * (bug 4413) Update of Farsi language file (LanguageFa.php)
8654 * Update for LanguageSr (Serbian): magic words
8655 * (bug 137) MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning hardcoding
8656 * (bug 4457) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
8657 * convertPlural breakage fixed a little
8658 * (bug 4144) Support for Sudanese language (Basa Sunda)
8659 * Big cleanup:
8660 - Removed obsolote, badly or untranslated messages
8661 - Removed references to wikipedia/wikimedia etc in messages
8662 - Other cleanup, like removing html and javascript and extension calls
8663 - Removed hardcoded namespaces: Tt, Ms, Ia, Ga, Fo, Bn, Csb, He, Nv, Oc, Tlh
8664 - Removed some useless backwards compatibility hacks
8665 - Fixed formatnum on many languages
8666 * wgAmericanDates check produced incorrect results in languages that don't have
8667 a such distinction
8668 * (bug 4548) Update for Portuguese language (pt): time format
8669 * (bug 4530) Use consistent name for Kurdish
8670 * Tweak default "upload disabled" text
8671 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
8672 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
8673 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
8674 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
8675 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
8676 * (bug 4615) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
8677 * Separated MessagesSl.php as the other languages.
8678 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yiddish for compatibility
8679 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from MessagesUk.php
8680 * (bug 5015) Update magic words translation in LanguageBe.php
8681 * (bug 4859) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
8682 * (bug 4788) One string for MessagesPl
8683 * Restriction types now use restriction-* messages instead of ui messages
8684 * (bug 4685) Slovenian LanguageSl.php hardcodes project namespace
8685 * (bug 5097) Fix Hungarian language (hu): thousands separator
8686 * (bug 5098) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
8687 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
8688 * (bug 5105) Magic words for LanguageAr.php
8689 * (bug 3993) Variants for Serbian language
8690 * Typo in English messages file
8691 * (bug 4114) Spacing in watchlist rows (in editing mode)
8692 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
8693 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yi projects: Yiddish Wikinews fix
8694 * (bug 5357) Add the icon near the user name also in RTL interfaces
8695 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he)
8696 * (bug 4497,4704,5010) Added some new language codes.
8697 * (bug 5362) Piedmontese added
8698 * (bug 5349) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
8699 * (bug 3573) Finished full Greek translation: namespaces
8700 * (bug 5288) Initial localisation for Az
8701 * (bug 4361) Fix "allmessagesnotsupportedui" so it doesn't refer to nonexisting
8702 page
8703 * Tweak wording of "allmessagesnotsupporteddb"
8704
8705 Parser:
8706 * (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits
8707 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
8708 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
8709 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
8710 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
8711 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 5.1.0RC4
8712 * (bug 3797) Don't expand variables and sigs in comments
8713 * Allow parser cache on redirect targets
8714 * Run wikitext-escaping on plaintext sigs (no wiki markup, just name)
8715 * Check for unbalanced HTML tags on raw sigs (markup allowed, but show
8716 a warning in prefs and use default sig if not balanced)
8717 * Respect <noinclude> and <includeonly> during {{subst:}} expansion as well as
8718 ordinary templates.
8719 * Support <includeonly> in templates loaded through preload= parameter
8720 * (bug 3979) Save correct {{REVISIONID}} into parser cache on edit
8721 * Substitute {{REVISIONID}} correctly in diff display
8722 * (bug 1850) Allow red-links on image pages linked with [[:image:foo]]
8723 * Fix XML validity checks in parser tests on PHP 5.1
8724 * (bug 4377) "[" is not valid in URLs
8725 * (bug 4453) fix for __TOC__ dollar-number breakage
8726 * Convert unnecessary URL escape codes in external links to their equivalent
8727 character before doing anything with them. This prevents certain kinds of
8728 spam filter evasion.
8729 * (bug 4783) : Fix for "{{ns:0}} does not render"
8730 * Improved support for interwiki transclusion
8731 * (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed.
8732 * (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables
8733 * (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish
8734 * Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}}
8735 etc. Registered via an interface similar to tag hooks.
8736
8737 Upload:
8738 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
8739 * (bug 3076) Support MacBinary-encoded uploads from IE/Mac
8740 * (bug 2554) Tell users they are uploading too large file
8741 * Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses
8742 * Add 'reupload' and 'reupload-shared' permission keys to restrict new uploads
8743 overwriting existing files; default is the old behavior (allowed).
8744
8745 Security:
8746 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
8747 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
8748 * (bug 2613) Clear saved passwords from the form
8749 * IP privacy fix for blocklist search on autoblocks
8750 * Security fix for <math>
8751 * Security fix for tables
8752 * Security fix for Special:Upload license selection list
8753 * Add UploadVerification hook for custom file upload validation/security checks
8754 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
8755 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
8756 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
8757 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
8758 * Forbid usernames that can be interpreted as titles with namespaces, as that
8759 leads to hard-to-manage names.
8760 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
8761 * Add createpage and createtalk permission keys, allowing a quick
8762 switch to disable page creation for anonymous users.
8763 * (bug 675) Add page protection level for unregistered/new accounts
8764 * User::isNewbie now uses the registration date and $wgAutoconfirmAge
8765 * Add 'deletedhistory' permission key for ability to view deleted history
8766 list via Special:Undelete. Default is off, replicating the 1.5 behavior,
8767 but it can be turned back on for random users to replicate the previous
8768 1.6 dev behavior.
8769 * Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure
8770 * (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures
8771 * Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit
8772 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
8773 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
8774 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
8775 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
8776 * Blocked users can no longer roll back, change the protection of, or delete/undelete pages
8777 * Protect against spoofing of X-Forwarded-For header
8778 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input (fixed in 1.5rc3)
8779 * Remove deprecated $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol references; use User::isAllowed( 'patrol' )
8780 per bug 5282. Patch by Alan Harder.
8781 * Prevent registration/login with the username "MediaWiki default"
8782
8783 Special Pages:
8784 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
8785 title and reason input boxes
8786 * (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
8787 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
8788 * (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
8789 * Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting
8790 $wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
8791 * Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
8792 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
8793 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
8794 * (bug 2369) Add separate message for input box on Special:Prefixindex
8795 * (bug 3798) DoubleRedirects no longer has hard coded arrows
8796 * (bug 3803) Fix links on Special:Wantedcategories with miser mode off
8797 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
8798 * (bug 3807) Fix 'all' in namespaces drop-down on contribs, rc
8799 * Fail gracefully on invalid namespace in Special:Newpages
8800 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
8801 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
8802 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
8803 * (bug 4059) fix 'hide minor edits' on Recentchangeslinked
8804 * (bug 146) List number of category members in Special:Categories
8805 (patch by Joel Nothman)
8806 * (bug 4090) Fix diff links in Special:Recentchangeslinked
8807 * (bug 4093) '&bot=1' in Special:Contributions now propagate to other links
8808 * Fix display of old recentchanges records for page moves
8809 * (bug 360) Let Whatlinkshere track [[:image:foo]] links
8810 * (bug 3073) Keep search parameter on paging in Special:Newimages
8811 * Removed Special:Validate, it's been superseded by the Review extension
8812 * (bug 4359) red [[user:#id]] links generated in [[special:Log]]
8813 * (bug 1996) Special page to list redirects
8814 * (bug 4334) Add "watch" links to Special:Unwatchedpages
8815 * Generate target user page links in Special:Ipblocklist where appropriate
8816 (i.e. not an autoblock)
8817 * Generate link to talk page of the blocker in Special:Ipblocklist, move
8818 contribs. link of the target next to their name
8819 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
8820 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
8821 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
8822 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
8823 * Add block, block log and general log links to Special:Contributions
8824 * Add contributions link to block log items
8825 * Added optional "hide own edits" feature to Special:Recentchanges
8826 * (bug 5018) Anchors for each message in Special:Allmessages
8827 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
8828 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
8829 * (bug 4319) Don't show a "create account" link on the login form when
8830 account creation is disabled.
8831 * JavaScript filter for Special:Allmessages
8832 * (bug 3047) Don't mention talk pages on Special:Movepage when there isn't one
8833 * Show links to user page, talk page and contributions page on Special:Newpages
8834 * Special:Export can now export a list of all contributors to an article (off by default)
8835 * (bug 5372) Add number of files to Special:Statistics
8836 * (bug 2871) Links to talk pages in watchlist editing view
8837 * (bug 5385) Allow hiding anonymous edits on Special:Recentchanges
8838 * (bug 2544) Illogical error reporting order in Special:Userlogin
8839 * (bug 5409) Hide "show/hide patrolled edits" in Special:Recentchanges if patrolling
8840 is disabled
8841 * (bug 5447) Convert first letter of username to uppercase before searching in Special:Listusers
8842 * (bug 759) Wrap redirects on the watchlist editing page in a span, class "watchlistredir"
8843 * (bug 1862) Namespace filtering in watchlists
8844
8845 Misc.:
8846 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
8847 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
8848 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
8849 * (bug 2323) Remove "last" tabindex from history page
8850 * (bug 3116) Division by zero on [[Image:Foo.png|123x123px|]]
8851 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
8852 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
8853 as a proxy debugging aid
8854 * (bug 3170) Page Title failed to obey MediaWiki:Pagetitle.
8855 wikititlesuffix was removed
8856 * Add ability to break off certain debug topics into additional log files;
8857 use $wgDebugLogGroups to configure and wfDebugLog() to log.
8858 * Edit conflict on recreation of deleted page
8859 * (bug 3216) Don't show empty warning page when no warnings.
8860 * (bug 3218) Use proper quoting on history Compare Revisions button
8861 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage [for rc future]
8862 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
8863 * Remove "info" editing toolbar that was shown in browsers which do not
8864 fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
8865 * Don't override edit conflict suppression on section edits; section merging
8866 should provide the expected transparency here and fits usage patterns better.
8867 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
8868 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
8869 * Fix regressions in ChangesList traditional layout
8870 * Fix edit on double-click for move-protected pages in Classic skin
8871 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
8872 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
8873 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
8874 * Add options to dumpBackup.php for making split/partial dumps by page id
8875 * Added filter options, compression piping, and multiple output streams for
8876 dumpBackup.php
8877 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
8878 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
8879 * Added separate noarticletext and newarticletext messages for logged in and anon users.
8880 * (bug 3332) Installation now uses Monobook, validates, plus usability improvements.
8881 * (bug 3660) Update diff3 detection to work with Windows/Cygwin
8882 * (bug 2330) Don't do funny thinks with "links" in MediaWiki:Undeletedtext
8883 * Two-pass data dump for friendliness to the DB (--stub, then dumpTextPass.php)
8884 * Data dump 'prefetch' mode to read normalized text from a prior dump
8885 (requires PHP 5, XMLReader extension)
8886 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
8887 * (bug 2938) Update MediaWiki:Exporttext to be more general
8888 * Various fixes
8889 * Fix wfMsg*() replacements; args containing literal $[2-9] were wiped
8890 * Added @import for [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to all skins
8891 * Edit box now remembers scrollbar position on preview
8892 * (bug 3816) Throw edit conflict instead of fatal error when a page is
8893 moved or deleted during section edit
8894 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
8895 * (bug 3291) 'last' diff link for last history line when not at end
8896 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
8897 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
8898 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
8899 * (bug 3852) "Redirected from" link no longer obscured on double-redirects
8900 * changed directory hierarchy in images/math/. System upgrades from old to
8901 new hierarchy on the fly.
8902 * (bug 3487) Fix category edit preview with preview-on-bottom
8903 * (bug 918) Search index incorrectly joined words at == headings ==
8904 * (bug 3877) Render math images into temp directory, then move to hashed
8905 subdir so you can render new math images and have them work
8906 * (bug 2392) Fix Atom items content type, upgrade to Atom 1.0
8907 * Allow $wgFeedCacheTimeout of 0 to disable feed caching
8908 * Fix WebRequest::getRequestURL() to strip off the host bits squid prepends
8909 * Require POST for action=purge, to stop bots from purging the cache
8910 * Added local message cache feature ($wgLocalMessageCache), to reduce bandwidth
8911 requirements to the memcached server.
8912 * (bug 3562) for go search, try Caps-Variants-Broken-At-Non-Whitespace
8913 * (bug 2569) Use PATH_SEPARATOR instead of trying to guess based on
8914 DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (was wrong on NetWare)
8915 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
8916 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
8917 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
8918 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
8919 * (bug 3999) Change atom 1.0 feed id; had been unnecessarily complex due to
8920 unclear language in the spec. Now using the URL, same as the permalink,
8921 which someone else will probably whine about because it's not 'perma'
8922 enough or something.
8923 * (bug 4014) Fix include mode for Allpages on small page sets
8924 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
8925 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
8926 * Changed mail form to have a bigger message entry box (like for editing
8927 a page
8928 * Fix ulimit parameters for wfShellExec when memory_limit is specified in 'm'
8929 * (bug 2111) Collapsable exif metadata table, clean up display
8930 * Reduce fractions in display of exif exposure time
8931 * (bug 4048) Optional footer link to site privacy policy
8932 * Don't die() when update.php reaches the end of the warning count
8933 * (bug 1915) Fix edit links when 'direction' used with 'oldid';
8934 using revision ID reported via OutputPage; Skin::editUrlOptions()
8935 * Remove obsolete 'redirect=no' on some edit links
8936 * Include oldid for the second revision on edit link on diff view
8937 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
8938 * (bug 4100, 3049) Add 'edittools' message to hold edit tools, put it
8939 on Special:Upload as well as edit, rearrange edit page pieces a bit.
8940 Copyright warning now above the buttons to ensure it's visible,
8941 template list at the bottom so it can grow.
8942 * Optional summary parameter to action=rollback, for user javascript
8943 * (bug 4167) Fix regression caused by patch for bug 153
8944 * (bug 4169) Use $wgLegalTitleChars in pipe trick conversions
8945 * (bug 4170) Decode HTML character escapes in sort key
8946 * (bug 4201) Fix user-talk mode for Enotif, and general code cleanup
8947 * (bug 4214) Skip redundant action text inserts into the HTML <title>
8948 * (bug 4212) Skip redundant meta-robots tag for default settings
8949 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links in Nostalgia skin
8950 * (bug 1600) Trigger edit conflict on duplicate section=new submissions
8951 * (bug 4001) Use local variables properly in wikibits.js akeytt()
8952 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links on CSS/JS pages
8953 * (bug 3211) Include Date, To mail headers when using PEAR::Mail
8954 * (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification
8955 mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of
8956 a raw string to abstract things a level.
8957 * Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php
8958 * Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output
8959 sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension
8960 * (bug 349) Fix for some numeric differences not being highlighted
8961 patch by Andrius Ramanauskas
8962 * (bug 4298) Include rc_id on enhanced RC singleton diff links for patrolling
8963 * Did some refactoring on ChangesList.php merging dupe code
8964 * (bug 1586) Fix interwiki generator for wikimedia obscure domains
8965 * (bug 3493) Mark edits patrolled when they are reverted
8966 patch by Leon Planken
8967 * Removed experimental Amethyst skin from default set
8968 * Upgrade old skin preferences properly at Special:Preferences
8969 (used to spontaneously switch to Classic skin for old numeric pref records)
8970 * (bug 3424) Update page_touched for category members on category page creation
8971 * Log views show message when no matches
8972 * Fix raw sitenotice display on database error
8973 * Fix autoconfirm check for old accounts
8974 * (bug 4368) Don't show useless empty preview on new section creation
8975 * Don't show useless empty preview on new page creation
8976 * (bug 4411) Fix messages diff link for classic skin
8977 * (bug 4385) Separate parser cache entries for non-editing users, so section
8978 edit links don't vanish / appear unwanted on protected pages
8979 * (bug 2726, 3397) Fix [[Special:]] and [[:Image]] links in action=render
8980 * (bug 4419) Remove obsolete magnify.png.old
8981 * Removed $wgUseCategoryMagic option, categories are now enabled unconditionally
8982 * (bug 3318) UI workarounds for disabled items in license selector
8983 MSIE/Win: items now grayed out, JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked
8984 Safari: JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked (but not gray)
8985 MSIE/Mac: indented items now visible (JS hack)
8986 * (bug 714) "plainlinks" class issues in IE, Opera
8987 * (bug 4317) Inconsistent "broken redirects" messages
8988 * Default interface text for "selflinks" tweaked
8989 * (bug 3194) default implementation of translateBlockExpiry
8990 which uses ipboptions
8991 * (bug 4446) $wgExportAllowHistory option to explicitly disable history in
8992 Special:Export form, 'exportnohistory' message to translate live hack.
8993 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
8994 * (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links)
8995 * $wgParserCacheExpireTime added
8996 * Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed
8997 * Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source
8998 size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage.
8999 * Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects
9000 * Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage
9001 * Improve "upload disabled" notice
9002 * Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php
9003 and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object
9004 * (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output
9005 HTML on final output (cached or not)
9006 * Avoid PHP notice on command-line scripts if empty argument is passed ('')
9007 * (bug 4571) Partial fix hack for {{fulllurl:}} in action=render
9008 * (bug 3502) Bowtie symbol for TeX
9009 * (bug 4000) Support for \textstyle et al. in <math>
9010 * (bug 1663) support color in TeX formulas
9011 * (bug 2026) missing glue around \not= (TeX)
9012 * (bug 4576) Missing '>' broke license selector's first option in IE, Opera
9013 * Override $wgLocaltimezone in parser tests for us outside Iceland and UK
9014 * Fix extra whitespace at end of Wiki.php, DESTROYS XML OUTPUT
9015 * Remove redundant 'echo' statements from MonoBook.php
9016 * (bug 1103) Fix up redirect handling for images, categories
9017 Redirects are now followed from the top-level, outside of the Article
9018 content loading and viewing, for clarity and consistency.
9019 * (bug 4104) 'OutputPageBeforeHTML' hook to postprocess article HTML on
9020 page view (comes after parser cache, if used). Patch by ThomasV.
9021 * Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5
9022 if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy.
9023 * Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers.
9024 * Remove obsolete killthread.php
9025 * Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code
9026 to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error.
9027 * Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin
9028 for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell
9029 * Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs
9030 * Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks.
9031 Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5
9032 * (bug 4482) Include move comment on the null edit as well as the redirect
9033 * (bug 3990) Use existing session name if session.auto_start is on
9034 Fixes checks for open sessions, such as the cookie warning on login.
9035 Patch by Zbigniew Braniecki.
9036 * Add cache-safe alternate sitenotice for anonymous users. (MediaWiki:Anonnotice)
9037 This is displayed instead of the regular sitenotice, if it exists. If not, the
9038 regular sitenotice shows. If that doesn't exist, the value of $wgSiteNotice is used,
9039 and if that's null, then nothing is shown.
9040 * Spit the generated LocalSettings code out during the installer as an aid
9041 to debugging issues. (Keep this?)
9042 * Use __FILE__ to form path in new LocalSettings.php, so it stays accurate
9043 when the directory is relocated for typical usage.
9044 * Auto-update $wgCacheEpoch when LocalSettings.php changes on new installs.
9045 For typical usage this will be a light burden and should reduce confusion
9046 when the configuration is edited.
9047 * Fix $wgCacheEpoch's effect on client-side caching.
9048 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
9049 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
9050 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
9051 name attribute)
9052 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
9053 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
9054 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
9055 * Add ".deps.php" include-file preloaders for some dynamically-loaded
9056 language and skin classes. Should help with the broken base-class
9057 problem under PHP 5 with APC as opcode cache. See details:
9058 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033660.html
9059 * Small changes to tabs in Monobook skin c/o Chris Ware
9060 * (bug 4679) Work around buggy basename() function in PHP5, which breaks
9061 uploads of files starting with multibyte characters on Linux.
9062 wfBaseName() doesn't suffer this bug, and understands backslash on
9063 both Unix and Windows.
9064 * (bug 3603) headscripts variable not hooked up to MonoBook skin
9065 * Allow local cdb-based interwiki cache
9066 * Use the "block", not the "protect" permission, when determining whether to
9067 show a "block user" link in the toolbox
9068 * Fix backup dump text prefetch for XMLReader constant changes in PHP 5.1
9069 * Suppress useless percentage indicator on output from 7za during dumps
9070 * (bug 4633) Add (previous 200) (next 200) also above catlinks
9071 * (bug 4686) Fix regression where ?diff=0&oldid=0 caused fatal error on
9072 pages with only one revision. Fixes message diff link on first edit.
9073 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
9074 * Do not check lag on external storage servers
9075 * Do not tidy interface messages (unless full tidy is set)
9076 * Do not trust equality propagation and give more hints to MySQL
9077 optimizer for revision fetches (avoids index scans)
9078 * Use revision rate for ETA in dump generation; it tends to be more stable
9079 than the per-page count for full-history dumps.
9080 * Include timestamp in wfDebugLog breakouts
9081 * (bug 4469) Namespace-specific notice to be displayed below site-notice
9082 Edit messages like "MediaWiki:Namespacenotice-" plus namespace name
9083 which is blank for main namespace, or like e.g. "User_talk"
9084 * Adjust user login/creation form hooks to work with a captcha plugin
9085 * (bug 1284) Inline styles for diffs in Recent Changes RSS/Atom feeds
9086 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
9087 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
9088 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
9089 * Fix extra namespace for Bulgarian
9090 * (bug 4303) Add $wgFavicon to change the shorticon icon link from
9091 the default /favicon.ico or disable it (if set to false)
9092 * (bug 3347) strip linebreaks in math error source
9093 * (bug 4841) Warning for non-logged-in edits
9094 * (bug 4867) Leave invalid EXIF date fields unformatted instead of
9095 showing a bogus current timestamp
9096 * Reset $wgActionPaths during parser test; corrects some false failures
9097 in the automated test report.
9098 * (bug 4875) Define a div containing the shared image description
9099 * (bug 4860) Expose Title->userCan() as Hooks
9100 * (bug 4828) Fix genitive month-name variable for cs, pl, uk
9101 * (bug 4842) Fix 'show number of watching users' with enhanced RC
9102 * (bug 4889) Fix image talk namespace for Tamil
9103 * (bug 4147) Added cleanupWatchlist.php to clear out bogus watchlist entries
9104 * (partial bug 3456) Disable auto redirect to Main Page after account creation
9105 * (bug 4824) Separate out IE7 CSS compat hacks, fix for RTL pages
9106 * Added support for wikidiff2 and similar external diff engines.
9107 * Allow cookies to be shared between multiple wikis with a shared user database
9108 * Blocking some Unicode whitespace characters in usernames. Should check
9109 if some or all should be blocked from all page titles.
9110 * Unknown log types no longer throw notices everywhere in RecentChanges
9111 * (bug 4502, 5017) Don't render potentially hostile deleted page contents
9112 on Special:Undelete by default; show source, with an optional preview.
9113 The revisions list no longer shows the latest text by default, so it can
9114 still be operated if the text is hostile.
9115 * (bug 5013) Check for existence on "return to" links
9116 * Removed trailing whitespace on a bunch more messages.
9117 * Fix missing bad title check in Special:Booksources
9118 * Remove empty booksources string in fy
9119 * Avoid corrupting <gallery> inside <!-- comment -->
9120 * Remove legacy PHPTal code, hasn't been maintained in ages.
9121 * Tweak Userlogin include order for APC issue
9122 * Don't try to link to current page on protection tab
9123 * More exact checking in Title::equals() to fox moves of numerically similar
9124 page titles. (Odd hex title bug on 64-bit.)
9125 * Fix explicit s-maxage=0 on raw pages; should help with proxy issues in
9126 generated stylesheets... hopefully...
9127 * (bug 4685) More fixes for Slovenian project namespace
9128 * Fixed and enhanced a little the Live Preview, which had been broken for some time
9129 * Added article size limit, $wgMaxArticleSize
9130 * (bug 4974) Don't follow redirected talk page on "new messages" link
9131 * (bug 4970) Make category paging limits configurable
9132 * (bug 4535) Warn user when editing CSS or JS subpage of a skin that doesn't exist
9133 * Make Live Preview an user preference, still controllable by the global variable
9134 * Rename the stub LanguageAls / LanguageGem_alsation to LanguageGsw to follow
9135 updated language code assignments
9136 * (bug 5081) Remove bogus fix for invalid characters in links which simply
9137 broke use of legitimate multiple whitespace characters in bracketed link.
9138 * (bug 4838) Add relative oldids (prev, next, cur) for raw pages
9139 Patch by Lupin
9140 * (bug 5086) Force image resize dimensions on ImageMagick, as for instance
9141 "-resize 100x35!"; some thumbs were off due to differences in rounding and
9142 would be generated smaller than expected.
9143 * (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights
9144 * Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page
9145 * (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment
9146 with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field)
9147 * (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off
9148 * (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector
9149 * (bug 5152) Proper HTML escaping on subpage breadcrumbs
9150 * (bug 4855) Section edit links now have the section name in the title attribute.
9151 * (bug 2115) Support shift-selecting multiple checkboxes with JavaScript.
9152 * (bug 5161) Don't try to load template list for nonexistent pages
9153 * (bug 5228) Workaround for broken LanguageConverter title overrides; avoid
9154 unnecessary hidden UI work when watch/unwatch is performed on edit
9155 * Fixed bogus master fallback in external storage
9156 * (bug 5246) Add speak:none to "hiddenStructure" class in main.css
9157 * Further work on rev_deleted; changed to a bitfield with several data-hiding
9158 options. Not yet ready for production use; Special:Revisiondelete is
9159 incomplete, and the flags are not preserved across page deletion/undeletion.
9160 To try it; add the 'deleterevision' permission to a privileged group.
9161 * (bug 5270) Fix broken linktrail for br, cv, fr, hr, nn, oc, ta, wa
9162 * Add a clickable contribs link in user tool links (rc, watchlist, diff view)
9163 to see how people like it. (There was one in the old hacked-up diff view.)
9164 * (bug 5236) Load wikibits.js before site-customized javascript
9165 * (bug 4119) Workaround for <nowiki> following link in Walloon; remove capitals
9166 from linktrail, as they're not used anywhere else.
9167 * (bug 4781) Output links with the percent-encoding they're supplied with;
9168 save the normalization for internal link storage. The normalization is a bit
9169 buggy and can make incorrect foldings in the query string and such, so isn't
9170 reliable beyond the hostname where it's used for the spam bulk checker.
9171 * Don't URL-decode in the title attribute for URL links; it can produce false
9172 results that don't code back to their original values.
9173 * (bug 4611) Add user preference (default on) to add new pages to creators's watchlist
9174 * (bug 5286) Fix regression in display of missing/bad revision IDs
9175 * (bug 4729) Add user preference that marks a user's edits as patrolled if user is able to
9176 * (bug 4630) Add user preference to prompt users when entering blank edit summaries
9177 * Added optional suggest feature for the search box. Set wgUseAjax to true to
9178 enable it.
9179 * (bug 5277) Use audio/midi rather that audio/mid
9180 * (bug 5410) Use namespace name when a custom namespace's nstab-NS message is nonexistent
9181 * (bug 5432) Fix inconsistencies in cookie names when using table prefixes
9182 * Additional protections against HTML breakage in table parsing
9183 * (bug 5355) Include skin name and style JS settings in page source;
9184 fixes regression where Opera 6/7 and KHTML CSS fixes weren't applied
9185 when wikibits.js was moved up before user JS inclusion.
9186 * Added $wgColorErrors: if set, database error messages will be highlighted
9187 when running command-line scripts in a Unix terminal.
9188 * (bug 5195) rebuildrecentchanges.php works again; Database::insertSelect now
9189 has a parameter for select options.
9190 * Fix updateSearchIndex.php for new schema
9191 * Fix bogus "filename too short" error when uploading files with a period in the base
9192 name, e.g. "Mr. Zee.png"
9193 * (bug 2139) Show page title in subtitle when viewing "read only" page
9194 * (bug 5452) Update language name for Cree
9195
9196
9197
9198 ----
9199
9200 == MediaWiki 1.5.8 ==
9201
9202 March 26, 2006
9203
9204 MediaWiki 1.5.8 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
9205
9206 A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw
9207 HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks.
9208
9209 Some minor UI fixes were also made, see the change log at the bottom of
9210 this file.
9211
9212
9213 == MediaWiki 1.5.7 ==
9214
9215 March 2, 2006
9216
9217 MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release.
9218
9219 Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug
9220 affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root
9221 password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the
9222 installer would not only create the new account but also change the root
9223 password to be equal to the password of the new account.
9224
9225 Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back
9226 manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see:
9227 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html
9228
9229 This version includes fixes for compatibility with Internet Explorer 7
9230 beta 2, and various other bugs; see the full changelog at the end of
9231 the release notes.
9232
9233
9234 == MediaWiki 1.5.6 ==
9235
9236 January 19, 2006
9237
9238 MediaWiki 1.5.6 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
9239
9240 A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop
9241 if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this
9242 would cause the script to fail after PHP's 30-second failsafe timeout.
9243
9244 Some improvements have been made to the installer which should make
9245 installation possible on a system with a broken MySQL "root" account.
9246
9247 For several other minor fixes, see the complete changelog at the end
9248 of this file.
9249
9250
9251 == MediaWiki 1.5.5 ==
9252
9253 January 5, 2006
9254
9255 MediaWiki 1.5.5 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
9256
9257 Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added
9258 to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft
9259 Windows operating systems.
9260
9261 Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types
9262 (such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure
9263 that malicious .wmf files can't be uploaded with a fake extension;
9264 such files could put visitors to the site at risk.
9265
9266 For more details on this, see:
9267 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
9268
9269 Additionally, a maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts.php has been added;
9270 this replaces an older Perl script which had not been updated for the new
9271 schema in 1.5.
9272
9273
9274 == MediaWiki 1.5.4 ==
9275
9276 December 21, 2005
9277
9278 MediaWiki 1.5.4 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
9279
9280 A hardcoded internal placeholder string has been replaced with a random
9281 one. This closes a hole where security checks in inline style attributes
9282 could be bypassed, injecting JavaScript code that could execute in
9283 Microsoft Internet Explorer.
9284
9285 Other browsers would not be vulnerable.
9286
9287 Several minor fixes are included in this release, most notably a fix
9288 to clear the "you have new messages" flag properly for usernames
9289 containing spaces when e-mail notification is enabled.
9290
9291 See the changelog at the end of the release notes for a full list of
9292 fixes.
9293
9294
9295 == MediaWiki 1.5.3 ==
9296
9297 December 4, 2005
9298
9299 MediaWiki 1.5.3 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
9300
9301 Validation of the user language option was broken by a code change in
9302 May 2005, opening the possibility of remote code execution as this
9303 parameter is used in forming a class name dynamically created with
9304 eval().
9305
9306 The validation has been corrected in this version. All prior 1.5 release
9307 and prelease versions are affected; 1.4 and earlier and not affected.
9308
9309 Additionally several bugs have been fixed; see the changelog later in
9310 this file for a complete list.
9311
9312
9313 == MediaWiki 1.5.2 ==
9314
9315 November 2, 2005
9316
9317 MediaWiki 1.5.2 is a bugfix maintenance release.
9318
9319 A change in PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC broke handling of extension and
9320 <pre> sections, causing garbage data to be inserted in output and saved
9321 edits. This version works around the change.
9322
9323 Several other glitches with MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0.5 were also fixed;
9324 see the change log below for a complete list.
9325
9326
9327 == MediaWiki 1.5.1 ==
9328
9329 October 26, 2005
9330
9331 MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a
9332 recommended upgrade for all installations.
9333
9334 This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style sanitation
9335 which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
9336 Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may be vulnerable to
9337 XSS injections on prior versions; users of standards-compliant browsers
9338 are not vulnerable.
9339
9340 Major fixes include:
9341 * Image pages work again with resizing disabled
9342 * Works in MySQL 5.0 strict mode
9343
9344 There is experimental support in this release for explicitly declaring
9345 the UTF-8 charset in the database; this has been tested with MySQL 5.0.15
9346 but should work on 4.1 as well.
9347
9348 IMPORTANT: Changing this setting on an existing wiki may produce interesting
9349 data corruption, depending on server configuration. Page contents should,
9350 usually, be unaffected, but page titles and other items may be. Limitations
9351 in MySQL's Unicode support mean that characters outside the BMP cannot be used
9352 in page titles or various other fields when using this mode.
9353
9354 Table definitions are in maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql, and the runtime
9355 option to send 'SET NAMES utf8' is set by $wgDBmysql5 = true.
9356
9357 (MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on these
9358 versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is blissfully
9359 unaware of it.)
9360
9361
9362
9363 == MediaWiki 1.5.0 final ==
9364
9365 October 5, 2005
9366
9367 MediaWiki 1.5.0 is the new stable release branch of MediaWiki, and is
9368 recommended for all new installations.
9369
9370 Any wikis running a 1.5 beta or release candidate are strongly recommended
9371 to upgrade to the final release, which includes a number of bug fixes and
9372 a security fix for CSS bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
9373
9374 IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet?
9375 Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions
9376 prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is
9377 triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.
9378
9379
9380 === What's new in 1.5? ===
9381
9382 Schema:
9383 The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better
9384 use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up
9385 rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories.
9386
9387 Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require
9388 some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend
9389 changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily.
9390
9391 Permalinks:
9392 The current revision of a page now has a permanent 'oldid' number assigned
9393 immediately, and the id numbers are now preserved across deletion/undeletion.
9394 A permanent reference to the current revision of a page is now just a matter
9395 of going to the 'history' tab and copying the first link in the list.
9396
9397 Page move log:
9398 Renames of pages are now recorded in Special:Log and the page history.
9399 A handy revert link is available from the log for sysops.
9400
9401 Editing diff:
9402 Ever lost track of what you'd done so far during an edit? A 'Show diff'
9403 button on the edit page now makes it easy to remember.
9404
9405 Uploads:
9406 It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct
9407 from the original filename on your disk.
9408
9409 An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page.
9410
9411 More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure
9412 on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on
9413 the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module.
9414
9415 If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render
9416 them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several
9417 external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options.
9418
9419 User accounts:
9420 There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable
9421 groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only
9422 accessible to certain groups.
9423
9424 For details see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights
9425
9426 E-mail:
9427 User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation
9428 first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses.
9429
9430 Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail
9431 notifications.
9432
9433 External hooks:
9434 A somewhat experimental interface for hooking in an external editor
9435 application is included.
9436
9437 And...
9438 A bunch of stuff we forgot to mention.
9439
9440
9441 === What's gone? ===
9442
9443 Latin-1:
9444 Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for
9445 some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode.
9446 This is no longer supported.
9447
9448 You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's
9449 "view source"; look for a line like this:
9450
9451 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
9452
9453 If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1,
9454 you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding
9455 any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.)
9456
9457 MySQL 3.x:
9458 Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema
9459 clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields).
9460
9461 MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should
9462 very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support
9463 will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release.
9464
9465 Special:Maintenance
9466 These tools were, ironically enough, not really maintained. This special
9467 page has been removed; insofar as some of its pieces were useful and haven't
9468 already been supplanted by other special pages they should be rewritten in
9469 an efficient and safe manner in the future.
9470
9471
9472 === Caveats ===
9473
9474 Upgrade:
9475 Wikis in Latin-1 encoding are no longer supported; only Unicode UTF-8.
9476 A new option $wgLegacyEncoding is provided to allow on-the-fly recoding of
9477 old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need
9478 to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate
9479 this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php.
9480
9481 The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so
9482 it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations.
9483
9484 Backups:
9485 The text entries of deleted pages are no longer removed from the main
9486 text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases,
9487 you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available
9488 as maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
9489
9490 For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia,
9491 see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
9492
9493 PostgreSQL:
9494 The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date. PostgreSQL
9495 support may return in later releases, pending appropriate patches.
9496
9497 MySQL 4.1+:
9498 Some users may encounter installation problems with MySQL 4.1 or higher
9499 due to strange charset encoding / collation configurations. Try setting
9500 to 'latin1' or 'utf8' if you encounter problems.
9501
9502
9503
9504 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 4 ==
9505
9506 August 29, 2005
9507
9508 MediaWiki 1.5rc4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
9509 It fixes compatibility with PHP 5.1, and corrects two cross-site scripting
9510 security bugs:
9511
9512 * <math> tags were handled incorrectly when TeX rendering support is off,
9513 as in the default configuration.
9514 * Extension or <nowiki> sections in Wiki table syntax could bypass HTML
9515 style attribute restrictions for cross-site scripting attacks against
9516 Microsoft Internet Explorer
9517
9518 Wikis where the optional math support has been *enabled* are not vulnerable
9519 to the first, but are vulnerable to the second.
9520
9521
9522
9523 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 3 ==
9524
9525 August 24, 2005
9526
9527 MediaWiki 1.5rc3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
9528 It fixes several major problems in 1.5rc2:
9529
9530 * Fixed a cross-site scripting injection in the search form
9531 (broken since 1.5beta1)
9532
9533 * Fixed upgrades from 1.4 database schema
9534 (broken since 1.5rc2)
9535
9536 1.3 and 1.4 releases are not vulnerable to the XSS bug, but anyone
9537 running an earlier 1.5 beta or release candidate should upgrade
9538 immediately.
9539
9540
9541 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 2 ==
9542
9543 August 23, 2005
9544
9545 MediaWiki 1.5rc2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
9546 Numerous bug fixes since last beta, plus a security fix; see change
9547 log below for full details.
9548
9549 A flaw in the interaction between extensions and HTML attribute
9550 sanitization was discovered which could allow unauthorized use
9551 of offsite resources in style sheets, and possible exploitation
9552 of a JavaScript injection feature on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
9553
9554 This version expands the returned text and properly checks it
9555 before output.
9556
9557 A 1.5rc1 release was mistakenly made from the incorrect source code
9558 branch; 1.5rc2 is identical to the actual 1.5rc1 in revision control
9559 except for version number.
9560
9561
9562 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 ==
9563
9564 July 30, 2005
9565
9566 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
9567 A number of bugs have been fixed since beta 3; see the full changelist below.
9568
9569
9570 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 ==
9571
9572 July 7, 2005
9573
9574 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release
9575 series, with a security update over beta 2.
9576
9577 Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could
9578 be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a
9579 maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are
9580 recommended to upgrade to this release.
9581
9582 Vulnerable versions:
9583 * 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3
9584 * 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6
9585 * 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable
9586
9587 This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates.
9588 See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list.
9589
9590
9591
9592 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 ==
9593
9594 July 5, 2005
9595
9596 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
9597 While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point,
9598 third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release
9599 on a public site without closely following additional development.
9600
9601 Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to
9602 upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including
9603 a couple of HTML and SQL injections.
9604
9605 This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and
9606 a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks.
9607
9608 Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades
9609 from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and
9610 configuration file changes.
9611
9612 Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool,
9613 maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
9614 These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able
9615 to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database
9616 and compression format.
9617
9618
9619 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 ==
9620
9621 June 26, 2005
9622
9623 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 is a preview release, pretty much feature complete,
9624 of the new 1.5 release series. There are several known and likely a number
9625 of unknown bugs; it is not recommended to use this release in a production
9626 environment but would be recommended for testing in mind of an upcoming
9627 deployment.
9628
9629 A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases,
9630 including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings.
9631 See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior
9632 configuration settings for the new system.
9633
9634
9635
9636 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 ==
9637
9638 June 3, 2005
9639
9640 MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 includes a lot of bug fixes, feature merges,
9641 and a security update.
9642
9643 Incorrect handling of page template inclusions made it possible to
9644 inject JavaScript code into HTML attributes, which could lead to
9645 cross-site scripting attacks on a publicly editable wiki.
9646
9647 Vulnerable releases and fix:
9648 * 1.5 prerelease: fixed in 1.5alpha2
9649 * 1.4 stable series: fixed in 1.4.5
9650 * 1.3 legacy series: fixed in 1.3.13
9651 * 1.2 series no longer supported; upgrade to 1.4.5 strongly recommended
9652
9653
9654 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 1 ==
9655
9656 May 3, 2005
9657
9658 This is a testing preview release, being put out mainly to aid testers in
9659 finding installation bugs and other major problems. It is strongly recommended
9660 NOT to run a live production web site on this alpha release.
9661
9662 ** WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH **
9663 ** TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH, GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE **
9664 ** INNUENDO INTO YOUR C.V. RIGHT BEFORE A JOB INTERVIEW! **
9665 ** DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE. **
9666
9667
9668 === Smaller changes since 1.4 ===
9669
9670 Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things:
9671
9672 * 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
9673 * support for external editors for files and wiki pages:
9674 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors
9675 * Schema reworking: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
9676 * (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit
9677 * (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
9678 * (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
9679 * (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
9680 * (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
9681 * (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
9682 * (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month
9683 * (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see:
9684 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
9685 * (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database
9686 revision id, useful for proper citation.
9687 * (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
9688 * (bug 2064) Configurable JavaScript mimetype with $wgJsMimeType
9689 * (bug 2084) Fixed a regular expression in includes/Title.php that was accepting invalid syntax like #REDIRECT [[foo] in redirects
9690 * It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
9691 * No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
9692 * What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
9693 * Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
9694 * Language conversion support for category pages
9695 * $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
9696 * Special:Movepage can now take paramaters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move
9697 (used to just be able to take paramaters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
9698 * (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one has edited the article.
9699 * (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail.
9700 * (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation
9701 * ...and more!
9702
9703
9704 === Changes since 1.5alpha1 ===
9705
9706 * (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category to
9707 file description from upload page (previously it would be set to
9708 "Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging)
9709 * (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable through
9710 the MediaWiki namespace on the MediaWiki:navbar page.
9711 * (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable
9712 * (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded files
9713 including virus checks using external programs.
9714 * (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab
9715 * (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization, update namespaces
9716 * (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs" to "Limburgs
9717 * (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in <div dir='ltr'> in order
9718 to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis.
9719 * (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute
9720 * (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization
9721 * (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message
9722 * (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases
9723 * (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed
9724 * (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for "sharedupload" media
9725 * (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form
9726 * (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for <td> and <th>
9727 * (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now
9728 * (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests
9729 * (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation
9730 * (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install
9731 * Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates, {{msg: is
9732 now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent()
9733 * Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries
9734 * HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up
9735 multiple-revision pulls
9736 * Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of
9737 copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub reference
9738 records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields. Requires
9739 that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields are migrated
9740 into the main text store.
9741 * Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by
9742 default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason)
9743 * dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with current
9744 revisions only or complete histories.
9745 * The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved word in
9746 SQL which caused some inconveniances.
9747 * New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid, mov, o,
9748 ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on the KDE
9749 crystalsvg theme.
9750 * Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0'
9751 * Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Íslenzka"
9752 * The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation
9753 * Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of
9754 admnistrators out of normal users.
9755 * links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce pain
9756 dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages.
9757 * Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater.
9758 * Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits
9759 (somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached)
9760 * (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled
9761 * (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image.
9762 * Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema
9763 * Remove linkscc table code, no longer used.
9764 * (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text
9765 instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation.
9766 * Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once.
9767 * Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single function
9768 that does both numeric and named chars: Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences
9769 * Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions
9770 * Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements
9771 * (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move
9772 * (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save;
9773 leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview.
9774 * (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list
9775 * (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title from the watchlist
9776 * Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces.
9777 * (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments
9778 * (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags
9779 * (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's external
9780 LDAP authentication plugin
9781 * (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging
9782
9783 === Changes since 1.5alpha2 ===
9784
9785 * (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching
9786 * (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages
9787 * (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts
9788 * (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set
9789 * (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning
9790 * (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute zone,
9791 with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304)
9792 * Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for <hr> and <br>
9793 * Changed user_groups format quite a bit.
9794 * (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line
9795 * (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move
9796 * (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links
9797 * (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking
9798 * (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a possible
9799 version conflict is detected
9800 * (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes
9801 * (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1
9802 when the default charset is set to utf8
9803 * (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if
9804 $wgEmailAuthentication is false.
9805 * (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings
9806 when a template with a gallery was used.
9807 * Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery
9808 * (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!)
9809 * Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact
9810 * Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all groups
9811 when searching for a specific group and can't be split across pages
9812 * (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank link
9813 for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files.
9814 * (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount
9815 * (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser
9816 * (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file
9817 * (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special page
9818 rather than to "".
9819 * (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation
9820 * A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath
9821 * A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName
9822 * A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in the image table
9823 * Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_"
9824 * Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary
9825 * badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages
9826 * Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format
9827 * 'developer' group deprecated by default
9828 * Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check
9829 * Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import
9830 * (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links
9831 * (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke too many
9832 things for the current parser to handle cleanly
9833 * (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file
9834 * Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to
9835 be forgotten between submits
9836 * Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
9837 * (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to separate it from
9838 "Show preview" and "Show changes"
9839 * Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to
9840 harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
9841 * The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off by default
9842 and can be turned back on by setting $wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value.
9843 * Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail, replacing
9844 the factually inaccurate text that was there.
9845 * (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again
9846 * (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext
9847 * (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php
9848 * (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who don't
9849 realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted printable page.
9850 * Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems
9851 * Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA)
9852 * (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation
9853 * (bug 2506, 2512) Updated the Nynorsk translation
9854 * (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup UPGRADE
9855 documentation about edit and read whitelists.
9856 * (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update
9857 * Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's
9858 * (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page
9859 * Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension
9860 writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension
9861 can be used with.
9862 * Serialized user objects now checked for versioning
9863 * Fix for interwiki link regression
9864 * Printable link shorter in monobook
9865 * Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script
9866 * (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled
9867
9868 == Changes since 1.5beta1 ==
9869
9870 * (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to
9871 Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski))
9872 * Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace()
9873 * Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php
9874 * Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave
9875 * (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks
9876 * Fix paging on Special:Contributions
9877 * (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab
9878 * (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page
9879 * Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
9880 * Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
9881 * (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image
9882 * (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage
9883 * Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave
9884 * Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
9885 * (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit
9886 * Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user
9887 agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was
9888 not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of
9889 PHP ucfirst() )
9890 * Moved the user name / password validity checking from
9891 LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions,
9892 User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do
9893 these checks without rewriting code.
9894 * Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-'
9895 * Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a
9896 factor of two.
9897 * upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization
9898 * Fix namespaces in category list.
9899 * Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields
9900 * Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now
9901 * (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused
9902 the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off.
9903 * (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size
9904 * Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled
9905 * Don't show old debug messages in watchlist
9906 * (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links
9907 * (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times
9908 * Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert'
9909 status between next/previous buttons.
9910 * Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar
9911 * (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list
9912 * (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages
9913 * (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries
9914 for uploaded files that don't have them
9915 * (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling
9916 * (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last
9917 page in the article history pager.
9918 * Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page
9919 * (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere
9920 * (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list
9921 * (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page
9922 * (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision
9923 * Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets
9924 * Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4
9925 * (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit
9926 * Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage
9927 * HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first
9928 * (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set
9929 Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view.
9930 * (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as
9931 subpage parent links) on current-diff view.
9932 * (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for
9933 categories only if the page does not exist.
9934 * (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers
9935 * (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection
9936 * Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4
9937 * (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems.
9938 * (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces.
9939 * (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list
9940 * (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and
9941 recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly.
9942 * (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin.
9943 * (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles.
9944 * (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images
9945 * (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of
9946 rejecting lowercase with a useless error message
9947 * (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs
9948 * Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into
9949 edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead
9950 of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
9951 * (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and
9952 Spanish numeric formatting
9953 * Fixed Swedish numeric formatting
9954 * (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again
9955 * Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their
9956 image description pages when viewed on local wikis.
9957 * Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia
9958 * Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link
9959 * (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support
9960 dynamic date conversion.
9961 * FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links
9962 * (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse
9963 * Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it
9964 * (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru:
9965 * (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips
9966 * (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page
9967 * (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used <a></a> instead of [ ]
9968 * (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch)
9969 * Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits
9970 * Removed language conversion support from Icelandic
9971 * (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height
9972 * (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images
9973 * Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs
9974 * (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses
9975 * (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data:
9976 namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version.
9977 * Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export <text> elements
9978 * Make language variant selection work again for zh
9979
9980 == Changes since 1.5beta2 ==
9981
9982 * Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions
9983 * (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work
9984 * (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt
9985 * (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization
9986 * Fixed number formatting for Dutch
9987 * (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css
9988 * (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia
9989 * Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia
9990 * (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia
9991 * (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database
9992 * (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles
9993 * Fix escaping in page move template.
9994 * (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and <img> height attribute
9995
9996 == Changes since 1.5beta3 ==
9997
9998 * Fix talk page move handling
9999 * (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation
10000 * (bug 2749) &nbsp; would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv
10001 * (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash
10002 * Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some
10003 interesting errors with signitures.
10004 * (bug 2764) Number format for Nds
10005 * (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language.
10006 * (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories
10007 * (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian
10008 * Fix nohistory message on empty page history
10009 * Fix fatal error in history when validation on
10010 * Cleaned up email notification message formatting
10011 * Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK
10012 * (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish
10013 * (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion
10014 * Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records
10015 * (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema
10016 * (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format
10017 * (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing
10018 * Nynorsk numeric format fix
10019 * (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off
10020 * (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix
10021 * With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match
10022 * Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]]
10023 * (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]]
10024 * (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements
10025 * Some shared upload fixes
10026 * (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
10027 * support preload= parameter for section=new
10028 * show comment subject in preview when using section=new
10029 * use comment form when creating a new talk page
10030 * (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block.
10031 * Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
10032 * (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
10033 * PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing
10034 * (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan
10035 * Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed
10036 inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
10037 * Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
10038 * Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php
10039 * Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost
10040 due to bogus optimization
10041 * (bug 275) Section duplication fix
10042 * Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
10043 * Fix notice on search index update due to non-array
10044 * (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3
10045 * (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0
10046 * (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add
10047 their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an
10048 example of this.
10049 * (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages
10050 * (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections
10051 * (bug 796) Trackback support
10052 * Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC
10053 are now suppressed as before.
10054 * New skin: Simple
10055 * "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
10056 viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively.
10057 * Skins can now be previewed in preferences
10058 * (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
10059 patch from robla
10060 * Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
10061 edit conflict.
10062 * (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
10063 * (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
10064 content language
10065 * Removed useless protectreason message
10066 * Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
10067 * Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
10068 * Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
10069 * (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization
10070 * (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces
10071 * (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output
10072 for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash.
10073 * (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
10074 * compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.
10075
10076
10077 === Changes since 1.5beta4 ===
10078
10079 * Fix Special:Allmessages under PHP 5
10080 * (bug 2911) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time
10081 * (bug 693) Special:Allmessages is excessively wide and redundant
10082 * (bug 3001) Updated and applied live hack for recentchanges-based watchlist
10083 * (bug 145) Finish 'exclude redirect' implementation in search form
10084 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
10085 title and reason input boxes
10086 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
10087 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
10088 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
10089 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
10090 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
10091 * (bug 1487) invalid html on empty list in banlist
10092 * (bug 3017) Hotkey conflict for delete and show changes
10093 * made pixel unit translateable and blocklistline now eats infiniteblock
10094 and expiringblock
10095 * (bug 3092) Wrong numerical separator for big numbers in Serbian.
10096 * (bug 2855) Credit for a uniq author showed its realname even with
10097 $wgAllowRealName=false.
10098 * New special page: SpecialMostlinked
10099 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
10100 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
10101 * Added a new hook, 'AddNewAccount', which is run after account creation
10102 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
10103 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
10104 as a proxy debugging aid
10105 * (bug 3162) Fix 'undefined property page_is_new' error on watchlist
10106 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
10107 * (bug 3170) wikititlesuffix was removed, use pagetitle instead
10108 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
10109 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
10110 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
10111 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
10112 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
10113 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
10114 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
10115 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
10116 * (bug 3238): Updated LanguageNn.php for 1_5 branch
10117 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
10118 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
10119 * Fix URL sanitization in HTML attributes, which broke in this branch
10120 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
10121
10122
10123 === Changes since 1.5rc2 ===
10124
10125 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage
10126 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
10127 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
10128 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input
10129
10130
10131 === Changes since 1.5rc3 ===
10132
10133 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
10134 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
10135 * Security fix for <math>
10136 * Security fix for tables
10137
10138
10139 === Changes since 1.5rc4 ===
10140
10141 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
10142 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
10143 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
10144 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
10145 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
10146 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
10147 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
10148 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small iamges on |thumb| without explicit size
10149 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
10150 large SVG images on image description page
10151 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
10152 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
10153 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
10154 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
10155 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
10156 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
10157 * (bug 2792) Update rebuildrecentchanges.inc for new schema
10158 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
10159 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
10160 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
10161 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
10162 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
10163 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
10164 * (bug 3573) Full Greek Translation
10165 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
10166 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
10167 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
10168
10169
10170 === Changes since 1.5.0 ===
10171
10172 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
10173 * (bug 3641) Fix handling of unrecognized file uploads with known extensions
10174 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
10175 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
10176 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
10177 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
10178 * Backport fix for reference usage notice in Special:Search on PHP 4.4.0
10179 * Backport database connect error display fix from HEAD
10180 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
10181 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
10182 name attribute)
10183 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
10184 * Fix Special:MovePage invalid HTML attribute for reason textarea
10185 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
10186 * (bug 3734) Swapped out obsolete recount.sql with initStats.php
10187 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
10188 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
10189 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
10190 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
10191 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
10192
10193
10194 === Changes since 1.5.1 ===
10195
10196 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
10197 * (bug 3809) Backport fix for detecting diff3 failure
10198 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
10199 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
10200 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
10201 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
10202 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
10203 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
10204 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
10205 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
10206 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
10207 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
10208 * (bug 3845) Update attribute.php for 1.5 schema
10209 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC4
10210
10211
10212 === Changes since 1.5.2 ===
10213
10214 * (bug 3612) Remove old broken version of maintenance/compressOld.php
10215 The working version is in maintenance/storage/compressOld.php
10216 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
10217 * (bug 3933) specify XML namespace for Atom 0.3 feeds
10218 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
10219 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
10220 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
10221 * (bug 4013) typo in fr
10222 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
10223 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
10224 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
10225 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
10226 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
10227 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
10228 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
10229 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
10230
10231
10232 === Changes since 1.5.3 ===
10233
10234 * (bug 3805) Clear 'new messages' flag properly in enotif mode
10235 for usernames containing spaces
10236 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
10237 * (bug 4249) Typo in entities2literals.pl
10238 * (bug 4233) Update for japanese language
10239 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
10240 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
10241 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
10242 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
10243 * Parser internal placeholder string now fully randomized for safety
10244
10245 === Changes since 1.5.4 ===
10246
10247 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
10248 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
10249 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
10250 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
10251 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
10252
10253 === Changes since 1.5.5 ===
10254
10255 * (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1"
10256 should be set
10257 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
10258 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
10259 * Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of
10260 establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor
10261 changes to installer.
10262 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work
10263 (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field)
10264 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
10265 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
10266 * Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script
10267 * Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1
10268 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
10269 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
10270 different LocalSettings.php.
10271
10272 === Changes since 1.5.6 ===
10273
10274 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
10275 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
10276 * Fixed Special:Unlockdb
10277 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
10278 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
10279 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
10280 * (bug 4768) Wrong Russian translation (typo)
10281 * Performance bugfix: propagate equality manually for Revision fetches
10282 * (bug 4773) PHP fatal error when invalid title passed to Special:Export
10283 * Added missing table defs. for transcache to installer schemas
10284 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
10285 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
10286 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
10287 * (bug 2532) Image directory structure migration bug
10288 * (bug 4881) Correction to the fix for 1487; Ipblocklist showed 'no blocks'
10289 message at the end of the list even if there were blocks.
10290 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from LanguageUk.php
10291 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
10292 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
10293 * Allow customisation of paging limits for items in categories using the
10294 $wgCategoryPagingLimit global, per bug 4970.
10295 * Improve "nogomatch" text to make it more obvious that a page can be created.
10296 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
10297 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
10298
10299 === Changes since 1.5.7 ===
10300
10301 * (bug 5180) User login page shows inappropriate email blurb
10302 * Add the "AbortNewAccount" hook on account creation; see hooks.txt for more info.
10303 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
10304 * Add links to useful material to the default main page content
10305 * Fix fragment HTML injection
10306
10307 === Changes since 1.5.8 ===
10308
10309 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Finnish (fi) translation
10310 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Kurdish (ku) translation
10311 * Merge two #p-search .pBody statements i monobook/main.css
10312 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he) translation
10313 * Add the "UserRights" hook on user group changes; see hooks.txt for more info.
10314 * Translated "listingcontinuesabbrev" for German
10315
10316 === Caveats ===
10317
10318 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
10319 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
10320 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
10321 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
10322 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
10323
10324 ----
10325
10326 == MediaWiki 1.4.3 ==
10327
10328 (released 2005-04-28)
10329
10330 MediaWiki 1.4.3 is a bugfix release for the 1.4 stable release series.
10331
10332 Chiefly, this fixes a compatibility problem with PHP 5 and a minor link
10333 table corruption bug on initial page save.
10334
10335
10336 == MediaWiki 1.4.2 ==
10337
10338 (released 2005-04-20)
10339
10340 MediaWiki 1.4.2 is a security and bug fix release for the 1.4 stable release
10341 series.
10342
10343 A cross-site scripting injection vulnerability was discovered, which
10344 affects only MSIE clients and is only open if MediaWiki has been
10345 manually configured to run output through HTML Tidy ($wgUseTidy).
10346
10347 Several other bugs are fixed in this release, see the changelog below.
10348
10349 All new installations are highly recommended to use 1.4.2 instead of
10350 1.3.x; 1.3.x users should consider upgrading for bug fixes and new
10351 features. Ealier 1.4.x release and beta users should upgrade to this
10352 release for relevant bug fixes; see the changelog later in this file.
10353
10354
10355 If you have trouble, remember to read this whole file and the online FAQ page
10356 before asking for help:
10357
10358 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
10359
10360
10361 === READ THIS FIRST: Upgrading ===
10362
10363 If upgrading from an older release, see the notes in the file UPGRADE.
10364 There are a couple of minor database changes from the beta releases,
10365 and somewhat larger changes from 1.3.x.
10366
10367 Upgrading from a previous 1.4.x stable release installation should
10368 generally only require copying the new files over the old ones.
10369
10370
10371 ==== READ THIS FIRST, TOO: MySQL 4.1 AND 5.0 ====
10372
10373 MySQL 5.0 is a beta release, not yet ready for production use. If you
10374 are using it, the notes below about 4.1 apply to you too.
10375
10376 If you have the choice of MySQL 4.0 or MySQL 4.1 and don't need 4.1 for
10377 some other application, you should consider sticking with 4.0 for the
10378 moment. 4.1 may require you to do extra fiddling to get things to work
10379 due to changes that aren't fully backwards-compatible.
10380
10381 MySQL 4.1 has changed the authentication protocol in an incompatible
10382 way; many PHP installations still use the older client libraries and
10383 CANNOT CONNECT TO THE SERVER WITH A PASSWORD without some changes.
10384
10385 See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html
10386
10387 If MySQL is set with utf-8 as the default character set, installation
10388 may fail with "key too long" errors. Set the default charset to 'latin1'
10389 for installation and it should work.
10390
10391 The mysqldump backup generator now applies an automatic conversion to
10392 UTF-8, which may irretrivably corrupt your data. Pass the -charset option
10393 with the original default charset (eg 'latin1') to skip the conversion.
10394
10395
10396 ==== READ THIS FIRST IF RUNNING ON A WINDOWS SERVER ====
10397
10398 MediaWiki is tested and deployed primarily under the Apache web server
10399 on Linux Unix systems. There are known to be problems running on
10400 Microsoft's IIS which are not fully resolved. If you have a choice,
10401 try running under Apache on Windows, or on a Unix/Linux box instead.
10402
10403 If you're having trouble with blank pages on IIS and can't switch,
10404 try the workaround suggested in this bug report:
10405 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1763
10406
10407
10408 === New features ===
10409
10410 * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
10411 * New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs
10412 * Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and <gallery> tag)
10413 * SVG rasterization support (requires external support tools)
10414 * Users can select from the available localizations to override the
10415 default user interface language.
10416 * Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support
10417 * rel="nofollow" support to combat linkspam
10418
10419 The current implementation adds this attribute to _all_ external URL
10420 links in wiki text (but not internal [[wiki links]] or interwiki links).
10421 To disable the attribute for _all_ external links, add this line to your
10422 LocalSettings.php:
10423
10424 $wgNoFollowLinks = false
10425
10426 For background information on nofollow see:
10427
10428 http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
10429
10430
10431 === Installation and compatibility ===
10432
10433 * The default MonoBook theme now works with PHP 5.0
10434 * Installation on systems with PHP's safe mode or other oddities
10435 should work more reliably, as MonoBook no longer needs to
10436 create a compiled template file for the wiki to run.
10437 * A table prefix may be specified, to avoid conflicts with other
10438 web applications forced to share a database.
10439 * More thorough UTF-8 input validation; fixes non-ASCII uploaded
10440 filenames from Safari.
10441 * Command-line database upgrade script.
10442
10443
10444 === Customizability ===
10445
10446 * Default user options can now be overridden in LocalSettings.
10447 * Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/
10448 New skins can be dropped into this directory and used immediately.
10449 * More extension hooks have been added.
10450 * Authentication plugin hook.
10451 * More internal code documentation, generated with phpdoc:
10452 http://www.mediawiki.org/docs/html/
10453
10454
10455 === Optimization ===
10456
10457 * For many operations, MediaWiki 1.4 should run faster and use
10458 less memory than MediaWiki 1.3. Page rendering is up to twice
10459 as fast. (Use a PHP accelerator such as Turck MMCache for best
10460 results with any PHP application, though!)
10461 * The parser cache no longer requires memcached, and is enabled
10462 by default. This avoids a lot of re-rendering of pages that
10463 have been shown recently, greatly speeding longer page views.
10464 * Support for compiled PHP modules to speed up page diff and
10465 Unicode validation/normalization. (Requires ability to compile
10466 and load PHP extensions).
10467
10468
10469 === What isn't ready yet ===
10470
10471 * A new user/groups permissions scheme has been held back to 1.5.
10472 * An experimental SOAP interface will be made available as an extension
10473 * PostgreSQL support is largely working, minus search and the installer.
10474 You can perform a manual installation.
10475 * E-mail notification of watched page changes and verification of
10476 user-submitted e-mail addresses is not yet included.
10477 * Log pages are not automatically imported into the new log table
10478 at upgrade time. A script to import old text log entries is
10479 incomplete, but may be available in later point releases.
10480 * Some localizations are still incomplete.
10481
10482
10483
10484 == Changelog ==
10485
10486 === Important security updates ===
10487
10488 A security audit found and fixed a number of problems. Users of MediaWiki
10489 1.3.10 and earlier should upgrade to 1.3.11; users of 1.4 beta releases
10490 prior to 1.4rc1 should upgrade immediately.
10491
10492 ==== Cross-site scripting vulnerability ====
10493
10494 XSS injection points can be used to hijack session and authentication
10495 cookies as well as more serious attacks.
10496
10497 * Media: links output raw text into an attribute value, potentially
10498 abusable for JavaScript injection. This has been corrected.
10499 * Additional checks added to file upload to protect against MSIE and
10500 Safari MIME-type autodetection bugs.
10501
10502 As of 1.3.10/1.4beta6, per-user customized CSS and JavaScript is disabled
10503 by default as a general precaution. Sites which want this ability may set
10504 $wgAllowUserCss and $wgAllowUserJs in LocalSettings.php.
10505
10506
10507 ==== Cross-site request forgery ====
10508
10509 An attacker could use JavaScript-submitted forms to perform various
10510 restricted actions by tricking an authenticated user into visiting
10511 a malicious web page. A fix for page editing in 1.3.10/1.4beta6 has
10512 been expanded in this release to other forms and functions.
10513
10514 Authors of bot tools may need to update their code to include the
10515 additional fields.
10516
10517
10518 ==== Directory traversal ====
10519
10520 An unchecked parameter in image deletion could allow an authenticated
10521 administrator to delete arbitary files in directories writable by the
10522 web server, and confirm existence of files not deletable.
10523
10524
10525 ==== Older issues ====
10526
10527 Note that 1.4 beta releases prior to beta 5 include an input validation
10528 error which could lead to execution of arbitrary PHP code on the server.
10529 Users of older betas should upgrade immediately to the current version.
10530
10531
10532 Beta 6 also introduces the use of rel="nofollow" attributes on external
10533 links in wiki pages to reduce the effectiveness of wiki spam. This will
10534 cause participating search engines to ignore external URL links from wiki
10535 pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
10536
10537
10538 === Misc bugs fixed in beta 1 ===
10539
10540 * (bug 95) Templates no longer limited to 5 inclusions per page
10541 * New user preference for limiting the image size for images on image description
10542 pages
10543 * (bug 530) Allow user to preview article on first edit
10544 * (bug 479) [[RFC 1234]] will now make an internal link
10545 * (bug 511) PhpTal skins shown bogus 'What links here' etc on special pages
10546 * (bug 770) Adding filter and username exact search match for Special:Listusers
10547 * (bug 733) Installer die if it can not write LocalSettings.php
10548 * (bug 705) Various special pages no more show the rss/atom feed links
10549 * (bug 114) use category backlinks in Special:Recentchangeslinked
10550
10551 === Beta 2 fixes ===
10552
10553 * (bug 987) Reverted bogus fix for bug 502
10554 * (bug 992) Fix enhanced recent changes in PHP5
10555 * (bug 1009) Fix Special:Makesysop when using table prefixes
10556 * (bug 1010) fix broken Commons image link on Classic & Cologne Blue
10557 * (bug 985) Fix auto-summary for section edits
10558 * (bug 995) Close <a> tag
10559 * (bug 1004) renamed norsk language links (twice)
10560 * Login works again when using an old-style default skin
10561 * Fix for load balancing mode, notify if using old settings format
10562 * (bug 1014) Missing image size option on old accounts handled gracefully
10563 * (bug 1027) Fix page moves with table prefix
10564 * (bug 1018) Some pages fail with stub threshold enabled
10565 * (bug 1024) Fix link to high-res image version on Image: pages
10566 * (bug 1016) Fix handling of lines omitting Image: in a <gallery> tag
10567 * security fix for image galleries
10568 * (bug 1039) Avoid error message in certain message cache failure modes
10569 * Fix string escaping with PostgreSQL
10570 * (bug 1015) [partial] -- use comment formatter on image gallery text
10571 * Allow customization of all UI languages
10572 * use $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg to make regular UI messages act as content
10573 * new user option for zh users to disable language conversion
10574 * Defer message cache initialization, shaving a few ms off file cache hits
10575 * Fixed Special:Allmessages when using table prefixes
10576 * (bug 996) Fix $wgWhitelistRead to work again
10577 * (bug 1028) fix page move over redirect to not fail on the unique index
10578
10579 === Beta 3 fixes ===
10580
10581 * Hide RC patrol markers when patrol is disabled or not allowed to patrol.
10582 * Fix language selection for upgraded accounts
10583 * (bug 1076) navigation links in QueryPage should be translated by wgContLang.
10584 * (bug 922) bogus DOS line endings in LanguageEl.php
10585 * Fix index usage in contribs
10586 * Caching and load limiting options for Recentchanges RSS/Atom feed
10587 * (bug 1074) Add stock icons for non-image files in gallery/Newimages
10588 * Add width and height attributes on thumbs in gallery/Newimages
10589 * Enhance upload extension blacklist to protect against vulnerable
10590 Apache configurations
10591
10592 === Beta 4 fixes ===
10593
10594 * (bug 1090) Fix sitesupport links in CB/classic skins
10595 * Gracefully ignore non-legal titles in a <gallery>
10596 * Fix message page caching behavior when $wgCapitalLinks is turned off
10597 after installation and the wiki is subsequently upgraded
10598 * Database error messages include the database server name/address
10599 * Paging support for large categories
10600 * Fix image page scaling when thumbnail generation is disabled
10601 * Select the content language in prefs when bogus interface language is set
10602 * Fix interwiki links in edit comments
10603 * Fix crash on banned user visit
10604 * Avoid PHP warning messages when thumbnail not generated
10605 * (bug 1157) List unblocks correctly in Special:Log
10606 * Fix fatal errors in LanguageLi.php
10607 * Undo overly bright, difficult to read colors in Cologne Blue
10608 * (bug 1162) fix five-tilde date inserter
10609 * Add raw signatures option for those who simply must have cute sigs
10610 * (bug 1164) Let wikitext be used in Loginprompt and Loginend messages
10611 * Add the dreaded <span> to the HTML whitelist
10612 * (bug 1170) Fix Russian linktrail
10613 * (bug 1168) Missing text on the bureaucrat log
10614 * (bug 1180) Fix Makesysop on shared-user-table sites
10615 * (bug 1178) Fix previous diff link when using 'oldid=0'
10616 * (bug 1173) Stop blocked accounts from reverting/deleting images
10617 * Keep generated stylesheets cache-separated for each user
10618 * (bug 1175) Fix "preview on first edit" mode
10619 * Fix revert bug caused by bug 1175 fix
10620 * Fix CSS classes on minor, new, unpatrolled markers in enhanced RC
10621 * Set MySQL 4 boolean search back to 'and' mode by default
10622 * (bug 1193) Fix move-only page protection mode
10623 * Fix zhtable Makefile to include the traditional manual table
10624 * Add memcache timeout for the zh conversion tables
10625 * Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through
10626 Mediawiki:zhconversiontable
10627 * Add zh-min-man (back) to language names list
10628 * Ported $wgCopyrightIcon setting from REL1_3A
10629 * (bug 1218) Show the original image on image pages if the thumbnail would be
10630 bigger than the original image
10631 * (bug 1213) i18n of Special:Log labels
10632 * (bug 1013) Fix jbo, minnan in language names list
10633 * Added magic word MAG_NOTITLECONVERT to indicate that the title of the page
10634 do not need to be converted. Useful in zh:
10635 * (bug 1224) Use proper date messages for date reformatter
10636 * (bug 1241) Don't show 'cont.' for first entry of the category list
10637 * (bug 1240) Special:Preferences was broken in Slovenian locale when
10638 $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled
10639 * Added magic word MAG_NOCONTENTCONVERT to supress the conversion of the
10640 content of an article. Useful in zh:
10641 * write-lock for updating the zh conversion tables in memcache
10642 * recursively parse subpages of MediaWiki:Zhconversiontable
10643 * (bug 1144) Fix export for fy language
10644 * make removal of an entry from zhconversiontable work
10645 * (bug 752) Don't insert newline in link title for url with %0a
10646 * Fix missing search box contents in MonoBook skin
10647 * Add option to forward search directly to an external URL (eg google)
10648 * Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected
10649 variant is disabled. Used in zh: only for now.
10650
10651 === Beta 5 fixes ===
10652
10653 * (bug 1124) Fix ImageGallery XHTML compliance
10654 * (bug 1186) news: in the middle of a word
10655 * (bug 1283) Use underlining and borders to highlight additions/deletions
10656 in diff-view
10657 * Use user's local timezone in Special:Log display
10658 * Show filename for images in gallery by default (restore beta 3 behavior)
10659 * (bug 1201) Double-escaping in brokenlinks, imagelinks, categorylinks, searchindex
10660 * When using squid reverse proxy, cache the redirect to the Main_Page
10661 * (bug 1302) Fix Norwegian language file
10662 * (bug 1205) Fix broken article saving in PHP 5.1
10663 * (bug 1206) Implement CURRENTWEEK and CURRENTDOW magic keyword (will give
10664 number of the week and number of the day).
10665 * (bug 1204) Blocks do not expire automatically
10666 * (bug 1184) expiry time of indefinite blocks shown as the current time
10667 * (bug 1317) Fix external links in image captions
10668 * (bug 1084) Fix logo not rendering centrally in IE
10669 * (bug 288) Fix tabs wrapping in IE6
10670 * (bug 119) Fix full-width tabs with RTL text in IE
10671 * (bug 1323) Fix logo rendering off-screen in IE with RTL language
10672 * Show "block" link in Special:Recentchanges for logged in users, too, if
10673 wgUserSysopBans is true.
10674 * (bug 1326) Use content language for '1movedto2' in edit history
10675 * zh: Fix warning when HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is not set
10676 * zh: Fix double conversion for zh-sg and zh-hk
10677 * (bug 1132) Fix concatenation of link lists in refreshLinks
10678 * (bug 1101) Fix memory leak in refreshLinks
10679 * (bug 1339) Fix order of @imports in Cologne Blue CSS
10680 * Don't try to create links without namespaces ([[Category:]] link bug)
10681 * Memcached data compression fixes
10682 * Several valid XHTML fixes
10683 * (bug 624) Fix IE freezing rendering whilst waiting for CSS with MonoBook
10684 * (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type
10685 * Fix for script execution vulnerability.
10686
10687 === Beta 6 fixes ===
10688
10689 * (bug 1335) implement 'tooltip-watch' in Language.php
10690 * Fix linktrail for nn: language
10691 * (bug 1214) Fix prev/next links in Special:Log
10692 * (bug 1354) Fix linktrail for fo: language
10693 * (bug 512) Reload generated CSS on preference change
10694 * (bug 63) Fix displaying as if logged in after logout
10695 * Set default MediaWiki:Sitenotice to '-', avoiding extra database hits
10696 * Skip message cache initialization on raw page view (quick hack)
10697 * Fix notice errors in wfDebugDieBacktrace() in XML callbacks
10698 * Suppress notice error on bogus timestamp input (returns epoch as before)
10699 * Remove unnecessary initialization and double-caching of parser variables
10700 * Call-tree output mode for profiling
10701 * (bug 730) configurable $wgRCMaxAge; don't try to update purged RC entries
10702 * Add $wgNoFollowLinks option to add rel="nofollow" on external links
10703 (on by default)
10704 * (bug 1130) Show actual title when moving page instead of encoded one.
10705 * (bug 925) Fix headings containing <math>
10706 * (bug 1131) Fix headings containing interwiki links
10707 * (bug 1380) Update Nynorsk language file
10708 * (bug 1232) Fix sorting of cached Special:Wantedpages in miser mode
10709 * (bug 1217) Image within an image caption broke rendering
10710 * (bug 1384) Make patrol signs have the same width for page moves as for edits
10711 * (bug 1364) fix "clean up whitespace" in Title:SecureAndSplit
10712 * (bug 1389) i18n for proxyblocker message
10713 * Add fur/Furlan/Friulian to language names list
10714 * Add TitleMoveComplete hook on page renames
10715 * Allow simple comments for each translation rules in MW:Zhconversiontable
10716 * (bug 1402) Make link color of tab subject page link on talk page indicate whether article exists
10717 * (bug 1368) Fix SQL error on stopword/short word search w/ MySQL 3.x
10718 * Translated Hebrew namespace names
10719 * (bug 1429) Stop double-escaping of block comments; fix formatting
10720 * (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success
10721 * (bug 1228) Fix double-escaping on &amp; sequences in [enclosed] URLs
10722 * (bug 1435) Fixed many CSS errors
10723 * (bug 1457) Fix XHTML validation on category column list
10724 * (bug 1458) Don't save if edit form submission is incomplete
10725 * Logged-in edits and preview of user CSS/JS are now locked to a session token.
10726 * Per-user CSS and JavaScript subpage customizations now disabled by default.
10727 They can be re-enabled via $wgAllowUserJs and $wgAllowUserCss.
10728 * Removed .ogg from the default uploads whitelist as an extra precaution.
10729 If your web server is configured to serve Ogg files with the correct
10730 Content-Type header, you can re-add it in LocalSettings.php:
10731 $wgFileExtensions[] = 'ogg';
10732
10733 === RC1 fixes ===
10734
10735 * Fix notice error on nonexistent template in wikitext system message
10736 * (bug 1469) add missing <ul> tags on Special:Log
10737 * (bug 1470) remove extra <ul> tags from Danish log messages
10738 * Fix notice on purge w/ squid mode off
10739 * (bug 1477) hide details of SQL error messages by default
10740 Set $wgShowSQLErrors = true for debugging.
10741 * (bug 1430) Don't check for template data when editing page that doesn't exist
10742 * Recentchanges table purging fixed when using table prefix
10743 * (bug 1431) Avoid redundant objectcache garbage collection
10744 * (bug 1474) Switch to better-cached index for statistics page count
10745 * Run Unicode normalization on all input fields
10746 * Fix translation for allpagesformtext2 in LanguageZh_cn and LanguageZh_tw
10747 * Block image revert without valid login
10748 * (bug 1446) stub Bambara (bm) language file using French messages
10749 * (bug 1432) Update Estonian localization
10750 * (bug 1471) unclosed <p> tag in Danish messages
10751 * convertLinks script fixes
10752 * Corrections to template loop detection
10753 * XHTML encoding fix for usernames containing & in Special:Emailuser
10754 * (for zh) Search for variant links even when conversion is turned off,
10755 to help prevent duplicate articles.
10756 * Disallow ISO 8859-1 C1 characters and "no-break space" in user names
10757 on Latin-1 wikis.
10758 * Correct the name of the main page it LanguageIt
10759 * Allow Special:Makesysop to work for usernames containing SQL special
10760 characters.
10761 * Fix annoying blue line in Safari on scaled-down images on description page
10762 * Increase upload sanity checks
10763 * Fix XSS bug in Media: links
10764 * Add cross-site form submission protection to various actions
10765 * Fix fatal error on some dubious page titles
10766 * Stub threshold displays correctly again
10767
10768
10769 === 1.4.0 final fixes ===
10770
10771 * (bug 65) Fix broken interwiki link encoding on Latin-1 wikis; force to UTF-8
10772 * (bug 563) Fix UTF-8 interwiki URL redirects via Latin-1 wikis
10773 * (bug 1536) Fix page info
10774 * Support os (Ossetic) as language code, using Russian localization base
10775 * (bug 1610) Support non (Old Norse) as language code, using Icelandic localization base
10776 * (bug 1618) Properly list custom namespaces in Special:Allpages
10777 * (bug 1622) Remove trailing' >' when using category browser
10778 * (bug 1570) Fix php 4.2.x error on conflict merging
10779 * (bug 1585) Fix page title on post-login redirection page
10780 * Run UTF-8 validation on old text in Recentchanges RSS diffs
10781 * (bug 1642) fix a mime type typo in img_auth.php
10782 * Automated interwiki redirects only for local interwikis
10783 * Respect read-only mode on block removals
10784 * Trim old illegal characters from syndication feeds
10785 * Reduce message cache outage recovery delay from 1 day to 5 minutes
10786 * (bug 1403) Update Finnish localization
10787 * (bug 1478) Punjabi localization
10788 * (bug 1667) Update script 5 second countdown.
10789 * (bug 1057) Fix logging table encoding (error on MySQL 4.1)
10790 * (bug 1680) Fix linktrail for fo
10791 * (bug 1653) Removing hardcoded messages in Special:Allmessages
10792 * (bug 1594) Render a hyphen in a formula as &minus; in HTML
10793 * (bug 1495) Fall back to default language MediaWiki: for custom messages
10794 * (bug 1617) Show different error messages for "user does not
10795 exist" and "wrong password" when using AuthPlugin
10796 * (bug 1532), (bug 1544) Changed language names for
10797 'bn', 'bo', 'dv', 'dz', 'ht', 'ii', 'li', 'lo', 'ng', 'or', 'pa', 'si',
10798 'ti', 've'
10799 * Fix editing on non-Esperanto wiki with user language pref set to Esperanto
10800 * Make conversion table for zh-sg default to zh-cn, and zh-hk default to zh-tw
10801 * Fix PHP notice in MonoBook when counters disabled
10802 * (bug 1696) Update namespaces, dates in uk localization
10803 * (bug 551) Installer warns about magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase
10804 instead of trying to install with corrupt table files
10805 * Installer no longer tries to move non-default MediaWiki: pages into Template:
10806 * User-to-user email disabled by default ($wgEnableUserEmail)
10807
10808
10809 === 1.4.1 fixes ===
10810
10811 * (bug 1720) fix genitive month names for uk
10812 * (bug 1704) fixed untranslateable string in Special:Log
10813 * (bug 1638) Added Belrusian language file
10814 * (bug 1736) typo in SpecialValidate.php
10815 * (bug 73) Upload doesn't run edit updates on description page (links,
10816 search index and categories)
10817 * (bug 646) <math> fails to recognize \ll and \gg
10818 * (bug 926) \div element from TeX not supported in <math> element
10819 * (bug 1147) add \checkmark to whitelist in texutil.ml
10820 * (bug 937) \limits function from LaTeX not supported in <math> element
10821 * Support for manually converting article title to different Chinese
10822 variants (for zh)
10823 * (bug 1488, bug 1744) Fix encoding for preferences, dates in Latin-1 mode
10824 * (bug 1042) Fix UTF-8 case conversion for PHP <4.3 with mbstring extension
10825 * Fix code typo that broke article credits display
10826 * Installation fixes for running under IIS
10827 * (bug 1556) login page tab order. "remember" checkbox now come after password.
10828 * SQL debug log fixlets
10829 * (bug 1815) Fix namespace in old revision display with mismatched title
10830 * (bug 1788) Fix link duplication when edit/upload comment includes newlines
10831 * Change default on $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans to true
10832 * Fix link conversion for URL request
10833 * (bug 1851) Updated download URL for the SCIM packages used by zhtable
10834 * (bug 1853) Try stripping quotes from term for 'go' title match
10835 * Fix missing function in Latin1 mode
10836 * (bug 1860) Anchors of interwiki links did not get normalized
10837 * (bug 1847) accept lowercase x in ISBN, do not accept invalid A-W,Y,Z
10838 * Fix link conversion for URL request, hopefully without breaking the wiki
10839 * (bug 1849) New option allows to consider categorized images as used on
10840 Special:Unusedimages
10841 * Localized category namespace for ka (Georgian)
10842 * (bug 1107) Work around includes problem in installer when parent dir is not
10843 readable by the web server
10844 * (bug 1927) Incorrect escaping on wikitext message in Blockip
10845
10846
10847 === 1.4.2 fixes ===
10848
10849 * Fix math options in Finnish localization
10850 * Use in-process Tidy extension if available when $wgUseTidy is on
10851 * (bug 1933) Fix PATH_INFO usage under IIS with PHP ISAPI module
10852 * (bug 1188) <nowiki> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
10853 * (bug 1936) <!-- comments --> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
10854 * Fix a potential MSIE JavaScript injection vector in Tidy mode
10855
10856
10857 === 1.4.3 fixes ===
10858
10859 * (bug 1636) Refs like &#0355; were misinterpreted as octal in some places
10860 * (bug 1163) Special:Undelete showed oldest revision instead of newest
10861 * (bug 1938) Fix escaping of illegal character references in link text
10862 * (bug 1997) Fix for error on display of renamed items in Recentchanges on PHP5
10863 * (bug 1949) Profiling typo in rare error case
10864 * (bug 1963) Fix deletion log link when $wgCapitalLinks is off
10865 * (bug 1970) Don't show move tab for immobile pages
10866 * (bug 1770) Page creation recorded links from the 'newarticletext' message
10867 * Optional change to the site_stats table. When applied, this removes the need
10868 for expensive queries in Special:Statistics.
10869
10870
10871 === 1.4.4 fixes ===
10872
10873 * (bug 725) Let dir="ltr" attribute work again in MonoBook on RTL languages
10874 * (bug 2024) Skip JavaScript error for custom skins where .js message not set
10875 * (bug 2025) Updated Indonesian localization
10876 * (bug 2039) Updated Lithuanian localization
10877
10878
10879 === Caveats ===
10880
10881 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
10882 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
10883 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
10884 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
10885 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
10886
10887
10888 For notes on 1.3.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
10889
10890
10891 === Online documentation ===
10892
10893 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
10894 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
10895 License:
10896
10897 http://www.mediawiki.org/
10898
10899
10900 === Mailing list ===
10901
10902 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
10903 wikitech-l list:
10904
10905 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
10906
10907 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
10908 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
10909
10910 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
10911 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
10912
10913
10914 === IRC help ===
10915
10916 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net