RELEASE-NOTES

   1 = MediaWiki release notes =
   2
   3 == Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 ==
   4
   5 This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected
   6 to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0
   7 release.
   8
   9 New features in 1.1:
  10 * New wiki table syntax:
  11   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables
  12 * User-editable interface messages:
  13   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
  14 * XML-wrapped page source export with optional history:
  15   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export
  16   (There is not yet an import function!)
  17 * "Magic words"
  18
  19 Fixes and tweaks:
  20 * linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php
  21 * Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed
  22 * Login gives warning about missing cookies
  23 * Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
  24 * Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
  25 * Problems with <nowiki> segments in section titles etc mitigated
  26 * Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
  27 * Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
  28 * Various exciting new profiling options.
  29 * Debug log is off by default.
  30 * Various small bugs fixed.
  31
  32 Internal changes:
  33 * wfQuery has had a second parameter inserted, DB_READ or DB_WRITE. This value
  34   is not actually used so far.
  35 * Partial code for categories and Smarty template-based skins is in the tree
  36   but disabled.
  37 * Parts of Article.php have been moved to EditPage.php and ImagePage.php.
  38
  39 New translations:
  40 * fi - Finnish
  41 * ia - Interlingua
  42 * no - Norwegian
  43 * sk - Slovak
  44 * ta - Tamil
  45
  46 === Database changes ===
  47
  48 "linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php),
  49 run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table.
  50
  51 Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
  52
  53 == mediawiki-20031118 ==
  54
  55 * Image deletion fixed.
  56 * Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops
  57   (this is an irreversible action and not well logged)
  58 * Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
  59 * Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed.
  60
  61 == mediawiki-20031117 ==
  62
  63 * SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
  64 * Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
  65 * Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis
  66   to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved
  67   password cookies.
  68 * Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
  69 * Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
  70 * Check existence of source page before performing a move.
  71 * Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
  72 * Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
  73 * Updates to some translations.
  74 * Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
  75 * Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
  76 * Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
  77 * install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions,
  78   added compatibility functions that might or might not help
  79
  80 No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean.
  81
  82
  83 == mediawiki-20031107 ==
  84
  85 * Fixed various bugs!
  86 * Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
  87 * Limited support for memcached (see below)
  88 * New translations (see below)
  89 * Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
  90 * Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when
  91   the db is locked or the page is protected.
  92 * Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
  93 * Optional support for blocking usernames
  94 * Uploads disabled by default (see below)
  95
  96
  97 === Security note ===
  98
  99 Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration
 100 you can reenable uploads by putting:
 101
 102   $wgDisableUploads = false;
 103
 104 into LocalSettings.php.
 105
 106 Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged-
 107 in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server
 108 user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed.
 109
 110 As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory!
 111 You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie-
 112 stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:
 113
 114   <Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
 115      # Ignore .htaccess files
 116      AllowOverride None
 117
 118      # Serve HTML as plaintext
 119      AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
 120
 121      # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
 122      php_admin_flag engine off
 123
 124      # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
 125   </Directory>
 126
 127
 128 === Database updates ===
 129
 130 If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should
 131 be made automatically.
 132
 133 To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the
 134 following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory:
 135
 136   archives/patch-ipblocks.sql
 137   archives/patch-interwiki.sql
 138   archives/patch-indexes.sql
 139   interwiki.sql
 140
 141 To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add:
 142
 143   wikipedia-interwiki.sql
 144
 145
 146 === Translations ===
 147
 148 New interface localization files are included for:
 149   fy Frisian
 150   ro Romanian
 151   sl Slovene
 152   sq Albanian
 153   sr Serbian
 154
 155
 156 === Memcached ===
 157
 158 Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/
 159 MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls
 160 to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and
 161 talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the
 162 UTF-8 conversion tables.
 163
 164 MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by
 165 Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with
 166 minimal overhead.
 167
 168 To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not
 169 in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details.
 170
 171 Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the
 172 local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login
 173 sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary
 174 other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.)
 175
 176 To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain
 177 appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be
 178 volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable
 179 when this option is turned on.
 180
 181
 182 === Online documentation ===
 183
 184 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 185 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 186 License:
 187
 188   http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
 189
 190
 191 === Mailing list ===
 192
 193 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 194 wikitech-l list:
 195
 196   http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 197
 198
 199 === UseModWiki import script ===
 200
 201 A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance
 202 subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but
 203 does function for the brave and pure of heart.
 204
 205
 206 === Test suite removed ===
 207
 208 The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball
 209 release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.
 210
 211
 212 == mediawiki-20030829 ==
 213
 214 First release under MediaWiki name.