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 * 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 11035) Add descriptive <title> to Special:Search
  32
  33 === Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
  34
  35 * Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
  36 * (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
  37   ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
  38 * (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
  39   getUserPermissionsErrors.
  40 * Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
  41 * (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
  42   translations
  43 * (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
  44   message, the level of protection.
  45 * (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
  46   message.
  47 * (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
  48   where rollback is given to non-sysops.
  49 * (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
  50   editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
  51 * (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
  52 * (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
  53 * Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
  54   is not defined
  55 * (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
  56 * (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
  57 * (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
  58 * (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
  59 * (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent page
  60 * Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
  61 * (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
  62   linked to the main page instead of targetted page
  63 * Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in Special:Listredirects
  64 * (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
  65   when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
  66 * (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob object.
  67 * (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
  68 * (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make oldimage
  69   cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key TEXT.
  70
  71 === API changes in 1.12 ===
  72
  73 Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
  74
  75 * (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
  76 * (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
  77 * (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in pretty-printed
  78   help document.
  79
  80 === Languages updated in 1.12 ===
  81
  82 * Amharic (am) (new)
  83 * Arabic (ar)
  84 * Mapudungun (arn) (new)
  85 * Asturian (ast)
  86 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
  87 * Bikol Central (bcl)
  88 * Belarusian Taraskievica orthography (be-tarask)
  89 * Bulgarian (bg)
  90 * Bislama (bi) (new)
  91 * Bengali (bn)
  92 * Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy)
  93 * Catalan (ca)
  94 * Breton (br)
  95 * Czech (cs)
  96 * Cassubian (csb)
  97 * Welsh (cy)
  98 * Danish (da)
  99 * German (de)
 100 * Lower Sorbian (dsb) (new)
 101 * Greek (el)
 102 * Spanish (es)
 103 * Extremaduran (ext)
 104 * Finnish (fi)
 105 * Persian (fa)
 106 * Võro (fiu-vro)
 107 * Frisian (fy)
 108 * French (fr)
 109 * Cajun French (frc)
 110 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 111 * Irish (ga)
 112 * Galician (gl)
 113 * Ancient Greek (grc) (new)
 114 * Hakka (hak)
 115 * Hebrew (he)
 116 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 117 * Indonesian (id)
 118 * Icelandic (is)
 119 * Italian (it)
 120 * Kazakh (kk)
 121 * Korean (ko)
 122 * Latin (la)
 123 * Limbugian (li)
 124 * Malay (ms)
 125 * Low Saxon (nds)
 126 * Dutch (nl)
 127 * Norwegian (no)
 128 * Russian (ru)
 129 * Sakha (sah)
 130 * Sicilian (scn)
 131 * Seri (sei) (new)
 132 * Slovak (sk)
 133 * Serbian (Cyrillic) (sr-ec)
 134 * Sundanese (su)
 135 * Tamil (ta)
 136 * Tetun (tet) (new)
 137 * Walloon (wa)
 138 * Yiddish (yi)
 139 * Zhuang (za)
 140 * Zealandic (zea)
 141
 142 == Compatibility ==
 143
 144 MediaWiki 1.12 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 145
 146 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 147 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 148 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 149
 150 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 151 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 152
 153
 154 == Upgrading ==
 155
 156 1.12 has several database changes since 1.11, and will not work without schema
 157 updates.
 158
 159 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 160 new database fields are filled with data.
 161
 162 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 163 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 164 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 165
 166 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 167
 168
 169 === Caveats ===
 170
 171 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 172 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 173 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 174 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 175 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 176
 177 For notes on 1.11.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 178
 179
 180 === Online documentation ===
 181
 182 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 183 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 184 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 185 the public domain) :
 186
 187   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 188
 189
 190 === Mailing list ===
 191
 192 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 193 wikitech-l list:
 194
 195   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 196
 197 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 198
 199   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 200
 201 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 202 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 203
 204
 205 === IRC help ===
 206
 207 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net