RELEASE-NOTES

   1 = MediaWiki release notes =
   2
   3 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
   4 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
   5
   6 == MediaWiki 1.12 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  10 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
  11 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
  12 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
  13
  14 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
  15 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
  16 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
  17
  18 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
  19 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
  20
  21 === Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
  22
  23 === New features in 1.12 ===
  24 * (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
  25 * Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
  26   complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
  27 * (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema is
  28   not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
  29 * (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
  30 * (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
  31 * (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
  32 * Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously deleted file
  33 * On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view source"
  34   tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to create it
  35 * Clarify instructions given when an exception is thrown
  36 * AuthPlugin added strictUserAuth() method to allow per-user override
  37   of the strict() authentication behavior.
  38
  39
  40 === Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
  41
  42 * Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
  43 * (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
  44   ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
  45 * (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
  46   getUserPermissionsErrors.
  47 * Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
  48 * (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
  49   translations
  50 * (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
  51   message, the level of protection.
  52 * (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
  53   message.
  54 * (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
  55   where rollback is given to non-sysops.
  56 * (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
  57   editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
  58 * (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
  59 * (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
  60 * Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
  61   is not defined
  62 * (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
  63 * (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
  64 * (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
  65 * (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
  66 * (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent page
  67 * Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
  68 * (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
  69   linked to the main page instead of targetted page
  70 * Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in Special:Listredirects
  71 * (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
  72   when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
  73 * (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob object.
  74 * (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
  75 * (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make oldimage
  76   cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key TEXT.
  77 * (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
  78 * Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
  79 * (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade
  80 * Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages
  81 * Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis
  82 * (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name
  83 * (bug 11474) Fix unintentional fall-through in math error handling
  84 * (bug 11478) Fix undefined method call in file deletion interface
  85 * (bug 278) Search results no longer highlight incorrect partial word matches
  86 * Compatibility with incorrectly detected old-style DJVU mime types
  87 * (bug 11560) Fix broken HTML output from weird link nesting in edit comments.
  88   Nested links (as in image caption text) still don't work _right_ but they're
  89   less wrong
  90 * (bug 11561) Don't throw a PHP fatal error when non-existent "revert" action
  91   attempted
  92 * (bug 9718) Remove unnecessary css from main.css causing spacing issues on
  93   some browsers.
  94
  95 === API changes in 1.12 ===
  96
  97 Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
  98
  99 * (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
 100 * (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
 101 * (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in pretty-printed
 102   help document.
 103 * (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
 104 * (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each page.
 105 * (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal api
 106   error messages.
 107 * (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work
 108 * Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if
 109   revision content is requested.
 110 * Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo query.
 111
 112 === Languages updated in 1.12 ===
 113
 114 * Amharic (am) (new)
 115 * Arabic (ar)
 116 * Mapudungun (arn) (new)
 117 * Asturian (ast)
 118 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
 119 * Bikol Central (bcl)
 120 * Belarusian Taraskievica orthography (be-tarask)
 121 * Bulgarian (bg)
 122 * Bislama (bi) (new)
 123 * Bengali (bn)
 124 * Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy)
 125 * Breton (br)
 126 * Catalan (ca)
 127 * Czech (cs)
 128 * Cassubian (csb)
 129 * Welsh (cy)
 130 * Danish (da)
 131 * German (de)
 132 * Lower Sorbian (dsb) (new)
 133 * Ewe (ee) (new)
 134 * Greek (el)
 135 * Spanish (es)
 136 * Extremaduran (ext)
 137 * Finnish (fi)
 138 * Persian (fa)
 139 * Võro (fiu-vro)
 140 * Faroese (fo)
 141 * Frisian (fy)
 142 * French (fr)
 143 * Cajun French (frc)
 144 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 145 * Irish (ga)
 146 * Gön-gnŷ (gan) (new)
 147 * Galician (gl)
 148 * Ancient Greek (grc) (new)
 149 * Hakka (hak)
 150 * Hebrew (he)
 151 * Croatian (hr)
 152 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 153 * Indonesian (id)
 154 * Icelandic (is)
 155 * Italian (it)
 156 * Japanese (ja)
 157 * Kazakh (kk)
 158 * Korean (ko)
 159 * Latin (la)
 160 * Limbugian (li)
 161 * Malay (ms)
 162 * Nahuatl (nah)
 163 * Low Saxon (nds)
 164 * Dutch (nl)
 165 * Norwegian (no)
 166 * Portugese (pt)
 167 * Romanian (ro)
 168 * Russian (ru)
 169 * Sakha (sah)
 170 * Sicilian (scn)
 171 * Sassarese (sdc) (new)
 172 * Seri (sei) (new)
 173 * Tachelhit (shi)
 174 * Slovak (sk)
 175 * Serbian (Cyrillic) (sr-ec)
 176 * Sundanese (su)
 177 * Swedish (sv)
 178 * Tamil (ta)
 179 * Tetun (tet) (new)
 180 * Tagalog (tl) (new)
 181 * Walloon (wa)
 182 * Yiddish (yi)
 183 * Cantonese (yue)
 184 * Zhuang (za)
 185 * Zealandic (zea)
 186 * Old Chinese/Late Time Chinese (zh-classical)
 187 * Chinese (Simplified) (zh-hans)
 188 * Chinese (Traditional) (zh-hant)
 189
 190 == Compatibility ==
 191
 192 MediaWiki 1.12 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 193
 194 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 195 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 196 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 197
 198 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 199 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 200
 201
 202 == Upgrading ==
 203
 204 1.12 has several database changes since 1.11, and will not work without schema
 205 updates.
 206
 207 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 208 new database fields are filled with data.
 209
 210 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 211 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 212 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 213
 214 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 215
 216
 217 === Caveats ===
 218
 219 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 220 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 221 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 222 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 223 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 224
 225 For notes on 1.11.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 226
 227
 228 === Online documentation ===
 229
 230 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 231 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 232 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 233 the public domain) :
 234
 235   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 236
 237
 238 === Mailing list ===
 239
 240 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 241 wikitech-l list:
 242
 243   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 244
 245 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 246
 247   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 248
 249 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 250 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 251
 252
 253 === IRC help ===
 254
 255 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net