RELEASE-NOTES-1.22

   1 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals. If you
   2 have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
   3
   4 == MediaWiki 1.22 ==
   5
   6 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   7
   8 MediaWiki 1.22 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   9 production.
  10
  11 === Configuration changes in 1.22 ===
  12 * $wgRedirectScript was removed. It was unused.
  13 * Removed $wgLocalMessageCacheSerialized, it is now always true.
  14 * When $wgUseVFormUserLogin is true, the redesign of Special:UserLogin is
  15   activated; when $wgUseVFormCreateAccount is true, the redesign of
  16   Special:UserLogin/signup is activated.
  17 * $wgVectorUseIconWatch is now enabled by default.
  18
  19 === New features in 1.22 ===
  20 * (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
  21 * (bug 33454) Language::sprintfDate now has a timezone parameter, and supports
  22   the "eIOPTZ" formatting characters.
  23 * EditWarning: A warning is shown when an editor leaves the edit form without
  24   saving (enabled by default, users can opt-out via the 'useeditwarning'
  25   preference). This feature was moved from the Vector extension, and is now part
  26   of core for all skins. Take care when upgrading that you don't use an older
  27   version of the Vector extension as this feature may conflict.
  28 * New 'mediawiki.ui' CSS module providing mw-ui-* styles for buttons and a
  29   compact vertical form layout.
  30 * New versions of login (Special:UserLogin) and create account
  31   (Special:UserLogin/signup) forms. They are opt-in for now, controlled by
  32   the $wgUseVFormUserLogin and $wgUseVFormCreateAccount settings or a 'useNew'
  33   URL parameter trigger.
  34 * (bug 23343) Implemented ability to apply IP blocks to the contents of X-Forwarded-For headers
  35   by adding a new configuration variable $wgApplyIpBlocksToXff (disabled by default).
  36 * The new hook 'APIGetPossibleErrors' to modify the list of possible errors was
  37   added.
  38 * (bug 25592) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() will now ignore various
  39   Pager-related WebRequest parameters by default, as this is overwhelmingly
  40   likely to be what was intended by users of the method. If any caller wishes
  41   to use these parameters, the new param 'useRequestParams' may be set to true.
  42 * mw.util.addPortletLink: Tooltip is no longer required to be plain (without
  43   an accesskey in it already). As such it now rountrips. Creating a link with a
  44   message as tooltip, grabbing the title attribute and using it to create
  45   another portlet will work as expected.
  46 * (bug 6747) {{ROOTPAGENAME}} introduced, contains the name of the topmost
  47   page without namespace.
  48 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 41729) Display editsection links next to headings. Also
  49   change their class name from .editsection to .mw-editsection and place them at
  50   the end of the heading element instead of the beginning. Client-side code and
  51   screen-scrapers will have to be adjusted to handle both cases (old HTML will
  52   still be visible on cached page renders until they are purged); extensions
  53   using the DoEditSectionLink or EditSectionLink hooks might need adjustments as
  54   well.
  55 * (bug 45535) introduced the new 'LanguageLinks' hook for manipulating the
  56   language links associated with a page before display.
  57 * Chosen (http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/) was added as module 'jquery.chosen'
  58 * HTMLForm will turn multiselect checkboxes into a Chosen interface when setting cssclass 'mw-chosen'
  59 * rebuildLocalisationCache learned --lang option. Let you rebuild l10n caches
  60   of the specified languages instead of all of them.
  61
  62 === Bug fixes in 1.22 ===
  63 * Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail. Previously one could still
  64   navigate to the page by entering the URL directly.
  65 * (bug 47138) Fixed a fatal error when a blocked user tries to automatically
  66   create an account on login due external authentication in some circumstances.
  67 * (bug 23393) HTML <hN> headings containing line breaks are now handled
  68   correctly.
  69 * (bug 45803) Whitespace within == Headline == syntax and within <hN> headings
  70   is now non-significant and not preserved in the HTML output.
  71 * (bug 47218) Special:BlockList now handles correctly user names with spaces
  72   when passed as subpage.
  73 * Pager's properly validate which fields are allowed to be sorted on.
  74 * mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp: The regex now matches "option-" as well.
  75   Support for Mac "option" was added in 1.16, but the regex was never updated.
  76 * (bug 46768) Usernames of blocking users now display correctly, even if numeric.
  77 * (bug 39590) {{PAGESIZE}} for the current page and self-transclusions now
  78   show the most up to date result always instead of being a revision behind.
  79 * A bias in wfRandomString() toward digits 1-7 has been corrected. Generated
  80   strings will now start with digits 0 and 8-f as often as they should.
  81
  82 === API changes in 1.22 ===
  83 * (bug 46626) xmldoublequote parameter was removed. Because of a bug, the
  84   parameter has had no effect since MediaWiki 1.16, and so its removal is
  85   unlikely to impact existing clients.
  86 * (bug 25325) Added support for wlshow filtering (bots/anon/minor/patrolled)
  87   to action=feedwatchlist.
  88 * WDDX formatted output will actually be formatted (and normal output will no
  89   longer be), and will no longer choke on booleans.
  90 * action=opensearch no longer silently ignores the format parameter.
  91 * action=opensearch now supports format=jsonfm.
  92 * list=usercontribs&ucprop=ids will now include the parent revision id.
  93 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=parse no longer returns all langlinks for the page
  94   with prop=langlinks by default. The new effectivelanglinks parameter will
  95   request that the LanguageLinks hook be called to determine the effective
  96   language links.
  97 * BREAKING CHANGE: list=allpages, list=langbacklinks, and prop=langlinks do not
  98   apply the new LanguageLinks hook, and thus only consider language links
  99   stored in the database.
 100 * (bug 47219) Allow specifying change type of Wikipedia feed items
 101
 102 === Languages updated in 1.22===
 103
 104 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
 105 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 106 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 107
 108 === Other changes in 1.22 ===
 109 * redirect.php was removed. It was unused.
 110 * ClickTracking integration was dropped from the mediaWiki.user.bucket
 111   JavaScript function. The 'tracked' option is now ignored.
 112 * BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy skins Simple, MySkin and Standard were all removed.
 113   Nostalgia was moved to an extension.
 114 * Event namespace used by jquery.makeCollapsible has been changed from
 115   'mw-collapse' to 'mw-collapsible' for consistency with the module name.
 116 * BREAKING CHANGE: The "ExternalAuth" authentication subsystem was removed, along
 117   with its associated globals of $wgExternalAuthType, $wgExternalAuthConf,
 118   $wgAutocreatePolicy and $wgAllowPrefChange. Affected users are encouraged to
 119   use AuthPlugin for external authentication/authorization needs.
 120 * The Quickbar feature of the legacy skin model and the last remnants of it
 121   throughout the code base have been removed.
 122 * Externaledit/externaldiff preference was removed. Very few users used this
 123   feature, and improper configuration can actually prevent a user from editing
 124 * Calling Linker methods using a skin will now output deprecation warnings.
 125 * (bug 46680) "Return to" links are no longer tagged with rel="next".
 126 * The Special:ActiveUsers special page was removed.
 127 * BREAKING CHANGE: mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp: The match group for the
 128   accesskey character is now $6 instead of $5.
 129
 130 == Compatibility ==
 131
 132 MediaWiki 1.22 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later.
 133
 134 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 135 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 136 Oracle.
 137
 138 The supported versions are:
 139
 140 * MySQL 5.0.2 or later
 141 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 142 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 143 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 144
 145 == Upgrading ==
 146
 147 1.22 has several database changes since 1.21, and will not work without schema
 148 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 149 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 150 many hours on a large site).
 151
 152 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 153 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 154 due to database schema changes.
 155
 156 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 157 new database fields are filled with data.
 158
 159 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to
 160 1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed
 161 with MediaWiki 1.21.
 162
 163 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 164
 165 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 166
 167 For notes on 1.21.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 168
 169 == Online documentation ==
 170
 171 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 172 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 173 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 174
 175         https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 176
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 188 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 189
 190 == IRC help ==
 191
 192 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.