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 * (bug 31204) Removed old user.user_options
  18
  19 === New features in 1.19 ===
  20 * (bug 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
  21   cache is used.
  22 * $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
  23   elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
  24   Project Honeypot.
  25 * (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader.
  26 * (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external
  27   links and images links.
  28 * (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry.
  29 * (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed
  30   as with templates.
  31 * Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present.
  32 * (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit
  33   plugin.
  34 * Extensions can now participate in the extraction of titles from url paths
  35 * Added two new GetLocalURL hooks to better serve extensions working on a
  36   limited type of titles.
  37 * Added a --no-updates flag to importDump.php that skips updating the links
  38   tables.
  39 * Most presentational html attributes like valign are now converted to inline
  40   css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean
  41   them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using
  42   $wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes.
  43 * Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not
  44   NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site
  45   language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages,
  46   although they are not used there.
  47 * (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent
  48 * (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion
  49 * Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle
  50 * (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when
  51   generating sitemaps
  52 * (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version
  53 * (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like
  54   'class') in the Html helper class.
  55 * (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages.
  56 * (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
  57   attribute values and element contents.
  58 * Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language
  59 * (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
  60   to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error.
  61 * (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better
  62   localisation
  63 * (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
  64   instead of the wiki content language
  65 * Jump links will now be usable in css-capable browsers instead of only
  66   in outdated text browsers.
  67 * New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
  68   of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
  69 * Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically converted to css.
  70 * (bug 31233) New OutputPage::addJsConfigVars() method to make the output page specific
  71   mw.config map extendable.
  72 * (bug 31297) Add support for namespaces in Special:RecentChanges subpage filter syntax.
  73 * The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
  74
  75 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
  76 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if
  77   $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
  78   until the second was introduced in 1.17.
  79 * (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
  80 * (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
  81   div#bodyContent.
  82 * (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
  83   when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced
  84   Maintenance::posix_isatty().
  85 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use
  86   require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
  87 * Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
  88 * (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages
  89 * (bug 11374) Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
  90 * (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
  91   warnings/notices to be thrown.
  92 * (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs are
  93   used
  94 * (bug 28649) Avoiding half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
  95   truncating log comments.
  96 * Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it
  97 * (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
  98   unescaped
  99 * (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>)
 100 * (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
 101   importing a new revision into it
 102 * Allowing moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
 103   has no subpage.
 104 * (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
 105 * Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
 106 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title
 107 * (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ causes many unnecessary jobs to be queued
 108 * (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of
 109   restrictions on some of the database fields.
 110
 111 === API changes in 1.19 ===
 112 * (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
 113 * (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
 114 * (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
 115 * (bug 29685) do not output NULL parentid with list=deletedrevs&drprop=parentid.
 116 * siprop=interwikimap and siprop=languages can use silanguagecode to have
 117   a best effort language name translation. Use CLDR extension for best result.
 118 * (bug 30230) action=expandtemplates should not silently override invalid title
 119   inputs.
 120 * (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure.
 121 * (bug 26885) Allow show/hide of account blocks, temporary blocks and single IP
 122   address blocks for list=blocks.
 123 * (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
 124 * (bug 29392) Setting the start or end parameter now works with lists blocks,
 125   categorymembers, deletedrevs, logevents, protectedtitles, usercontributions
 126   and watchlist in Postgres
 127
 128 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
 129
 130 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
 131 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 132 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 133
 134 * Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
 135 * (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt
 136 * (bug 31193) Set fallback language of Assamese from Bengali to English
 137
 138 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
 139 * jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
 140 * The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
 141   populateImageSha1.php
 142 * The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
 143   real IP address.
 144
 145 == Compatibility ==
 146
 147 MediaWiki 1.19 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 148
 149 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 150 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
 151 DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
 152
 153 The supported versions are:
 154
 155 * MySQL 4.0 or later
 156 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 157 * SQLite 3
 158 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 159
 160 == Upgrading ==
 161
 162 1.19 has several database changes since 1.18, and will not work without schema
 163 updates.
 164
 165 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 166 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 167 due to database schema changes.
 168
 169 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 170 new database fields are filled with data.
 171
 172 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 173 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 174 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 175
 176 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 177
 178 For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 179
 180 == Online documentation ==
 181
 182 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 183 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 184 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 185
 186         http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 187
 188 == Mailing list ==
 189
 190 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 191
 192         http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 193
 194 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 195
 196         http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 197
 198 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 199 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 200
 201 == IRC help ==
 202
 203 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.