RELEASE-NOTES-1.19

   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 1.19 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  10 MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
  11 production.
  12
  13 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
  14 * Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
  15 * (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
  16 * Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
  17
  18 === New features in 1.19 ===
  19 * (bug 30497) Add client-nojs and client-js classes on document element
  20   to let styles easily hide or show things based on general JS availability
  21 * (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
  22   cache is used.
  23 * $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
  24   elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
  25   Project Honeypot.
  26 * (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader.
  27 * (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external
  28   links and images links.
  29 * (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry.
  30 * (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed
  31   as with templates.
  32 * Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present.
  33 * (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit
  34   plugin.
  35 * Extensions can now participate in the extraction of titles from url paths
  36 * Added two new GetLocalURL hooks to better serve extensions working on a
  37   limited type of titles.
  38 * Added a --no-updates flag to importDump.php that skips updating the links
  39   tables.
  40 * Most presentational html attributes like valign are now converted to inline
  41   css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean
  42   them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using
  43   $wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes.
  44 * Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not
  45   NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site
  46   language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages,
  47   although they are not used there.
  48 * (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent
  49 * (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion
  50 * Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle
  51 * (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when
  52   generating sitemaps
  53 * (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version
  54 * (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like
  55   'class') in the Html helper class.
  56 * (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages.
  57 * (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
  58   attribute values and element contents.
  59 * Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language
  60 * (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
  61   to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error.
  62 * (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better
  63   localisation
  64 * (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
  65   instead of the wiki content language
  66 * Jump links will now be usable in css-capable browsers instead of only
  67   in outdated text browsers.
  68 * New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
  69   of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
  70 * Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically converted to css.
  71
  72 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
  73 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if
  74   $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
  75   until the second was introduced in 1.17.
  76 * (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
  77 * (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
  78   div#bodyContent.
  79 * (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
  80   when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced
  81   Maintenance::posix_isatty().
  82 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use
  83   require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
  84 * Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
  85 * (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages
  86 * (bug 11374) Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
  87 * (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
  88   warnings/notices to be thrown.
  89 * (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs are
  90   used
  91 * (bug 28649) Avoiding half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
  92   truncating log comments.
  93 * Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it
  94 * (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
  95   unescaped
  96 * (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>)
  97 * (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
  98   importing a new revision into it
  99 * Allowing moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
 100   has no subpage.
 101 * (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
 102 * (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are
 103   really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other.
 104 * Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
 105 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title
 106 * (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ causes many unnecessary jobs to be queued
 107
 108 === API changes in 1.19 ===
 109 * (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
 110 * (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
 111 * (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
 112 * (bug 29685) do not output NULL parentid with list=deletedrevs&drprop=parentid.
 113 * siprop=interwikimap and siprop=languages can use silanguagecode to have
 114   a best effort language name translation. Use CLDR extension for best result.
 115 * (bug 30230) action=expandtemplates should not silently override invalid title
 116   inputs.
 117 * (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure.
 118 * (bug 26885) Allow show/hide of account blocks, temporary blocks and single IP
 119   address blocks for list=blocks.
 120 * (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
 121
 122 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
 123
 124 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
 125 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 126 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 127
 128 * Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
 129 * (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt
 130
 131 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
 132 * jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
 133 * The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
 134   populateImageSha1.php
 135 * The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
 136   real IP address.
 137
 138 == Compatibility ==
 139
 140 MediaWiki 1.19 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 141
 142 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 143 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
 144 DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
 145
 146 The supported versions are:
 147
 148 * MySQL 4.0 or later
 149 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 150 * SQLite 3
 151 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 152
 153 == Upgrading ==
 154
 155 1.19 has several database changes since 1.18, and will not work without schema
 156 updates.
 157
 158 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 159 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 160 due to database schema changes.
 161
 162 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 163 new database fields are filled with data.
 164
 165 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 166 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 167 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 168
 169 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 170
 171 For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 172
 173 == Online documentation ==
 174
 175 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 176 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 177 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 178
 179         http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 180
 181 == Mailing list ==
 182
 183 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 184
 185         http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 186
 187 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 188
 189         http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 190
 191 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 192 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 193
 194 == IRC help ==
 195
 196 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.