+Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.20.
+
+== MediaWiki 1.18 ==
+=== Changes since 1.18.1 ===
+
+* (bug 33686) could not get a list of contributor for an article when using
+ a SQLite database.
+* (Bug 33865) Exception thrown in action=parse when attempting to use the title
+ parameter without setting the text parameter.
+* UserMailer could potentially throw a fatal error when a MailAddress object had
+ an empty email address.
+* (bug 34528) Edit section tooltips show correction section name again
+* (bug 34246) MediaWiki:Whatlinkshere-summary message is displayed again in
+ Special:Whatlinkshere
+
+=== MediaWiki 1.18.1 ===
+2012-01-11
+
+This a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
+
+==== Security changes ====
+* (bug 33117) prop=revisions allows deleted text to be exposed through cache pollution.
+
+==== Changes since 1.18.0 ====
+* (bug 32712) Fix for search indexing of pages with certain unicode chars following URL.
+* (bug 3901) Lang, hreflang attribs added to sidebar interlanguage links for screen readers.
+* (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
+ attribute values and element contents.
+* (bug 32473) [[Special:PasswordReset]] can not be used on private wiki.
+* (bug 32853) Fixed CACHE_DBA object cache type.
+* (bug 32786) Backward compatibility for extension using 1.17's Database::newFromType().
+* Fixed exception when using Special:WhatLinksHere on a Media: file.
+* (bug 32709) Private Wiki users were always taken to Special:Badtitle on login.
+* (bug 33240) Sort images are missing but referenced in css.
+* (bug 31921) Magic words REVISIONDAY, REVISIONMONTH and REVISIONYEAR were
+ not showing their values on preview.
+* (bug 32702) Removed method Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript() has been readded
+ for backward compatibility.
+* (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
+ when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced Maintenance::posix_isatty().
+* (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting
+ cssText after DOM insertion.
+* (bug 29102) Upgrades no longer fail with the error "Unknown character set: 'mysql4'.
+* (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
+* (bug 33321) Adding a line to MediaWiki:Sidebar that contains a pipe, but doesn't
+ have any pipes after being transformed by MessageCache, causes exception on
+ all pages.
+* Fixed recentchanges FK violation on page delete and cache purge error in updater
+ for Oracle DB.
+
+=== Summary of selected changes in 1.18 ===
+
+Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.17 that may be of interest:
+
+* Some of the more commonly used MediaWiki extensions are now included in the
+ release tarball. These extensions are ConfirmEdit, Gadgets, Nuke, ParserFunctions,
+ Renameuser, Vector and WikiEditor.
+
+* Gender support has been improved, meaning user pages can display the correct gender
+ variant of "User" can now be used.
+
+* MediaWiki can now detect the camera orientation of an image from the Exif metadata, and
+ can rotate the image thumbnail appropriately. Metadata support has been generally
+ improved, and can now extract IPTC and XMP metadata.
+
+* Improved directionality support in 1.18 means that MediaWiki is better to use for
+ RTL users.
+
+* MediaWiki now supports protocol - relative URLs in links, interwiki targets and $wgServer
+
+* Math support has been removed from core
+
+=== Changes since 1.18.0rc1 ===
+* (bug 32228) regression in Special:Search which did not conserve profile on new search
+* (bug 32460) Categories were improperly aligned in Simple and CologneBlue
+* (bug 32412) TOC links on [[Special:EditWatchlist]] points to the fieldsets
+* (bug 32582) Fix TOC show/hide link regression on IE 8
+
+=== Changes since 1.18 beta 1 ===
+* (bug 31886) Wrong titles redirecting to Special:Badtitle in the 1.18 deployment.
+* (bug 32051) Fix description for wlprop=sizes.
+* (bug 31913) Special:MostLinkedTemplates had an incorrect GROUP BY clause
+ under Microsoft SQL.
+* (bug 32100) installer complains about suhosin GET limit.
+* (bug 31933) fix 1.18 regression in Monobook sidebar: huge spacing between portlets
+ on IE 7 and IE 8/9 in compatibility view.
+* (bug 32126) Fix 1.18 regression in watchlist editor when items already removed
+ from watchlist.
+* (bug 32183) remove the client-* classes added from user-agent-sniffing onto
+ the <html> element.
+* (bug 29912) Unit tests break if parsertest tables are still present.
+* (bug 31694) During installation, tabbing order (cursor focus) goes to logo
+ instead of 'continue'.
+* (bug 29102) Upgrade fails "Unknown character set: 'mysql4".
+* (bug 31990) justify paragraphs pref adds extra space to category listing.
+* (bug 20148) Better title for [[Special:Disambiguations]] page.
+* (bug 31502) TOC is missing on Special:EditWatchlist.
+* (bug 32256) API list=search stops at first invalid result.
+* (bug 32047) jquery.tablesorter.js: thead is before caption.
+* (bug 29854) Store protocol-relative links twice in the externallinks table,
+ one with http: in el_index and once with https.
+* (bug 31822) Error during upgrade due to output buffer reset in stdout.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
+* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
+ WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions.
+* The SkinTemplateBuildContentActionUrlsAfterSpecialPage,
+ SkinTemplateContentActions and SkinTemplateTabs hooks have been removed in
+ favor of SkinTemplateNavigation and SkinTemplateNavigation::SpecialPage.
+* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined
+ login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login
+ and create account links.
+* Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in
+ $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for
+ $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try
+ loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook.
+* $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit
+ per upload type.
+* $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set
+ $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0;
+* OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed
+ by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false.
+* Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins
+ should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate.
+* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old
+ Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with
+ $wgLegacyEncoding set.
+* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we
+ look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
+* $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed.
+ Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the
+ same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to
+ replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality.
+* The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box
+ makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation"
+ and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk
+ edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block
+ anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings
+ remain the same.
+* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which
+ will probably break screen-scraping bots.
+* (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default.
+ $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default.
+* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least
+ *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the
+ ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the
+ output.
+* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable
+ math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php:
+ require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php";
+* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for
+ details.
+* $wgProfiling has been removed.
+* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3.
+* (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed
+* $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead.
+* $wgProto has been removed. You now only need to set $wgServer to change the
+ URL protocol.
+* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed.
+* $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed.
+* $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed.
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed.
+* LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed.
+* (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say
+ whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated.
+* $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core,
+ and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCommonsRdf as appropriate.
+* (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS
+* Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature
+ was removed in about 1.5.
+* LogPageValidTypes, LogPageLogName, LogPageLogHeader and LogPageActionText
+ hooks have been removed.
+* New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom
+ category collations.
+* $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions.
+* $wgEnableAutoRotation enables or disables auto-rotation. Leaving it set to
+ null will cause MediaWiki to determine if auto-rotation is available.
+
+=== New features in 1.18 ===
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Article class hierarchy split into WikiPage (backend).
+ and Article (frontend) hierarchies. Several hooks now pass a WikiPage object instead
+ of an Article object. These hooks all use an $article paramater as documented in hooks.txt.
+ Extensions should be updated to account for this, though most won't require any changes.
+* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab
+ Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you
+ create a page or new section.
+* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main
+ namespace.
+* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions.
+* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
+ This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
+* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0.
+* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be
+ saved.
+* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation
+ to be selectively disabled.
+* Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class.
+* Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a
+ thumbnail.
+* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}.
+* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file.
+* Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the
+ upload form instead of edittools if available.
+* (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user
+ specified a filename without extension.
+* (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field
+* New maintenance script to fix double redirects
+ (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php).
+* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages.
+* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable.
+* (bug 29047) CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js,
+ MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css, etc.
+* (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be
+ safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for
+ potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
+ specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked.
+* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes.
+* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers.
+* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript
+ disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag).
+* Added UserGetLanguageObject hook to change the language used in $wgLang.
+* (bug 14645) When $wgMiserMode is on, expensive special pages are styled
+ differently (italicized by default) on Special:SpecialPages.
+* Added $wgAggregateStatsID, which allows UDP stats to be aggregated over
+ several wikis.
+* When $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes is true, all itemtypes are allowed, not just
+ the three that were defined in the original specification.
+* (bug 14706) Added support for the Imagick PHP extension.
+* (bug 18691) Added support for SVG rasterization using the Imagick PHP
+ extension.
+* (bug 2581, bug 6834) Added links to thumbnail in several resolutions to the
+ file description page. The sizes are set by $wgImageLimits.
+* (bug 28031) Add pageCount support to ArchivedFile.
+* (bug 27924) PhpHttpRequest doesn't return response body if HTTP != 200.
+* Added hook BitmapHandlerTransform to allow extension to transform a file
+ without overriding the entire handler.
+* The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the
+ rendering of them post-cache to reduce parser cache fragmentation and ensure
+ skin customizability of edit section links.
+* (bug 24755) AuthPlugin auto-creation of local accounts can now be aborted by
+ other extensions by handling the 'AbortAutoAccount' hook, similar to the
+ 'AbortNewAccount' triggered by explicit account creations. (They are separate
+ to avoid loops and confusion; auth plugins like CentralAuth need to handle
+ AbortNewAccount separately.
+* Special:ListFiles is now transcludable.
+* (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without.
+* (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images.
+* (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images.
+* (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users.
+* (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from
+ LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals.
+* (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols.
+* (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content
+ namespaces as articles.
+* Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php
+ --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads;
+ furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path.
+* Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory',
+ 'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions
+ may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own
+ class that extends PageArchive.
+* (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript.
+ Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance.
+* (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is
+ added to the textarea on the edit form.
+* mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
+* (bug 29067) Expose user.tokens (like we do user.options) in ResourceLoader.
+* New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog().
+* (bug 27655) Require token for watching/unwatching pages)
+* (bug 28904) (bug 29773) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.2 (the latest version)
+* (bug 29441) Expose CapitalLinks config in JS to allow modules to properly
+ handle titles on case-sensitive wikis.
+* (bug 29397) Implement mw.Title module in core.
+* In MySQL 4.1.9+ with replication enabled, fetch the slave lag from SHOW SLAVE
+ STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST. This ensures that lag is reported
+ correctly in the case where there are no write events occurring. Note that
+ the DB user now needs to have the REPLICATION CLIENT privilege if you are
+ using replication.
+* Language codes in $wgDummyLanguageCodes are now excluded on localization
+ statistics (maintenance/language/transstat.php).
+* (bug 29586) Make the (next 200) links on categories link directly to
+ the relevant section of the category.
+* (bug 29109) Allow the automatic edit summary for redirect creation
+ show the first bit of the new redirect page.
+* (bug 29723) mw.util.wikiGetlink() now defaults to wgPageName.
+* (bug 29680) Add GetDefaultSortkey hook to override the default sortkey.
+* (bug 16699) {{#language:}} accepts second parameter to specify the language in
+ which the language name is wanted. Coverage depends on the cldr extension.
+* (bug 15802) An easy way to look up messages: language qqx which returns
+ the message keys.
+* (bug 29868) Add support for passing parameters to mw.msg in jquery.localize.
+* (bug 29558) $wgMiserMode now disables update.php by default.
+* AjaxCategories: Easily add, edit or delete categories on article pages.
+ Suggests possible categories when typing, all saves are done via AJAX.
+ Supports editing of multiple categories and then saving them in one batch.
+* $wgAutopromoteOnce was added, allowing for users to be automatically promoted
+ to explicit usergroups. If a group is removed from a user via Special:UserRights,
+ it will not automatically be re-added. Configuration is similar to
+ $wgAutopromote (see DefaultSettings.php).
+* The PerformRetroactiveAutoblock hook was added to allow overriding or complementing
+ retroactive autoblock handling. This runs when blocking a user with the 'autoblock' option.
+* MediaWiki now supports using protocol-relative URLs in links, interwiki
+ targets and $wgServer.
+* Introduced $wgVaryOnXFPForAPI which will cause the API to send
+ Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto headers.
+* New maintenance script to refresh image metadata (maintenance/refreshImageMetadata.php).
+* (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version.
+* (bug 30722) Add an identity collation that sorts things based on what the
+ unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behaviour).
+* (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions.
+ To give extensions a better and more flexible way of providing default
+ values for preferences a hook has been introdiced in User:getDefaultOptions().
+ Setting preferences in $wgDefaultUserOptions still work fine, but when reading
+ them (i.e. with array_keys) to get a list of all preferences, then
+ $wgDefaultUserOptions should no longer be used as it will contain those set via
+ User:getDefaultOptions().
+* (bug 30497) Add client-nojs and client-js classes on document element
+ to let styles easily hide or show things based on general JS availability.
+* (bug 31293) If Special:Userlogin is loaded over HTTPS, display
+ MediaWiki:loginend-https instead of MediaWiki:loginend, if it's not empty.
+ Same for signupend on the account creation page.
+* (bug 31233) New OutputPage::addJsConfigVars() method to make the output page specific
+ mw.config map extendable.
+* mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php).
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
+* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab.
+* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated.
+* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
+ treated as wikitext on preview.
+* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
+ indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "...".
+* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
+ cannot read the page in question.
+* (bug 19006) {{REVISIONUSER}} no longer acts like {{CURRENTUSER}} in some
+ cases.
+* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
+* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown
+ as "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
+* (bug 26379) importImages.php gives more descriptive error message on failure.
+* (bug 26410) + signs are no longer treated as spaces in internal links if
+ link has a % sign in it.
+* (bug 26412) Search results headers no longer show a bogus edit link.
+* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
+* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
+ pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
+ disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
+* If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse.
+* (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages.
+* (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary.
+* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
+* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
+ selected when the action is "purge".
+* (bug 14267) Support a MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab override for the subject
+ namespace tab on the mainpage of a wiki.
+* (bug 10158) Do not mention allowing others to contact you when the feature
+ is disabled ($wgEnableUserEmail=false).
+* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
+* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
+ members.
+* (bug 2585) Image pages should send 404 if no image, no shared image and no
+ description page.
+* Custom editintro's using the editintro url parameter will no longer show
+ <noinclude> sections on pages they are included on.
+* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
+ adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
+* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
+* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
+ to table.wikitable instead.
+* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output
+ better.
+* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related
+ preferences and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is
+ going on.
+* Trying to upload a file with no extension or with a disallowed MIME type now
+ gives the right message instead of complaining about a MIME/extension
+ mismatch.
+* (bug 26809) Uploading files with multiple extensions where one of the
+ extensions is blacklisted now gives the proper extension in the error message.
+* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
+* (bug 19751) Filesystem is now checked during image undeletion.
+* Send last modified headers for Special:Recentchanges when RC patrol is
+ enabled, but user cannot see rc patrol links.
+* (bug 26548) ForeignAPIRepo (InstantCommons) now works with PDF files
+ and other multi-paged file formats.
+* Files with a mime type that does not match the extension are now properly
+ thumbnailed.
+* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
+* (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk:
+ link at the top of the page.
+* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in Walloon language.
+* (bug 27679) Broken embedded files with special characters are no longer
+ double HTML escaped.
+* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
+ exist.
+* (bug 27763) Article::getParserOutput() no longer throws a fatal given when an
+ incorrect revision ID is passed.
+* Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could
+ cause confusing error messages.
+* (bug 27854) Http::isValidURI is way too lax.
+* Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits.
+* AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled. Also allows message identifier
+ for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user.
+* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
+ (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
+* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
+* (bug 14005) editing section 0 of an existing but empty page gives no such
+ section error.
+* (bug 26939) Installer does not set $wgMetaNamespace.
+* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
+ page restrictions.
+* Make truncate function automatically consider length of '...' string,
+ since length can vary by localization.
+* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
+ prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
+* (bug 15641) blocked administrators are now prevented from deleting or
+ protecting their own talk page; and all blocked users are more
+ comprehensively prevented from performing other actions.
+* (bug 27893) Edit-on-doubleclick now applies only on view and purge actions;
+ no longer triggers unexpectedly on delete, history etc.
+* (bug 28417) Fix PHP notice when importing revision without a listed id.
+* (bug 28430) Make html and TeX output of <math> always be left-to-right.
+* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
+* (bug 28372) Fix bogus link to suppressed file versions in ForeignDBRepo.
+* (bug 27473) Fix regression: bold, italic no longer interfere with linktrail
+ for ca, kaa.
+* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
+* ' character entity is now allowed in wikitext.
+* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
+ intl installed.
+* (bug 28561) The css class small will no longer make nested elements even
+ smaller.
+* (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from
+ images.
+* (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse().
+* (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output
+ parsed messages.
+* (bug 27249) "Installed software" table in Special:Version should always be
+ left-to-right.
+* (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly.
+* (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL.
+* (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode.
+* (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles.
+* (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries.
+* (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough.
+* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS.
+* (bug 29263) Add LTR class to the shared CSS to be used for left-to-right text
+ such as SQL queries shown in dberrortext and similar messages in RTL
+ environments.
+* (bug 14977) Fixed $wgServer detection in cases where an IPv6 address is used
+ as the server name.
+* The View X deleted revisions is now shown again on Special:Upload.
+* (bug 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API.
+* (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the
+ file description page for multi-paged documents.
+* (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly
+ used in Tiff files.
+* When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
+* (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request.
+* (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells
+ the user a page named [[:]] already exists.
+* (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove.
+* (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all
+ pages.
+* (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images should not be uploadable as .jpg files.
+* (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based
+ on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string.
+* (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only.
+* (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height
+ make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG.
+* (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on
+ Windows.
+* (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading.
+* (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any
+ LTR/RTL screen layout.
+* (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user
+ language.
+* (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles marker should be dynamically appended to
+ the document head if it doesn't exist.
+* (bug 27023) After the document is ready, mw.loader is broken (calls callback
+ before module is parsed).
+* (bug 4330) External URLs without a custom title should be treated as LTR,
+ even in RTL text.
+* (bug 29055) Make "don't send email on minor edits" preference apply to
+ changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits.
+* (bug 28272) Special:AllMessages should have only one "Go" button.
+* (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch no longer shows silly message.
+* (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same
+ as lastTabIndex().
+* (bug 29332) Warn if user requests mediawiki-announce subscription but does not
+ enter an e-mail address.
+* (bug 25375) Add canonical namespaces to "wgNamespaceIds" in mw.config.
+* The class JpegOrTiffHandler was renamed ExifBitmapHandler.
+* (bug 29443) Special:Undelete should use JavaScript to invert all checkboxes
+ instead of reloading the page.
+* (bug 29325) Setting $wgStrictFileExtensions to false no longer gives incorrect warning.
+* (bug 29437) Multiple apostrophes in deleted article title cause odd rendering.
+* (bug 29485) RSS feed of Special:RecentChange grouped together multiple
+ consecutive edits by same user in included diff, but then linked to
+ a single ungrouped diff.
+* Do not try to group together a page creation and edit in the RSS feed of RC.
+* (bug 29342) Patrol preferences shouldn't be visible to users who don't have
+ patrol permissions.
+* (bug 29471) Exception no longer thrown for files with invalid date in metadata.
+* (bug 29492) Long-running steps in the installer (such as Upgrade and Install)
+ no longer cause timeouts.
+* (bug 29507) Change 'image link' to 'file link' in Special:Whatlinkshere.
+* If the db is really screwed up, and doesn't have a recentchanges table,
+ make the updater throw an exception instead of a fatal.
+* wfArrayToCGI() and wfCgiToArray() now handle nested and associative arrays
+ correctly.
+* (bug 29567) mw.util.addPortletLink should only wrap link in <span> for
+ "vectorTabs" portlets.
+* (bug 8556) Incorrect session failure warning on preview-on-open
+ namespaces (categories) when combined with $wgRawHtml.
+* Use content language in formatting of dates in revertpage message
+ (rollback revert edit summary) and do not adjust for user timezone.
+* (bug 29277) MediaWiki:Filepage.css is also shown on the local wiki
+* Make sure Backlink cache does not retrieve interwiki redirects when looking for
+ redirects to a local page.
+* (bug 6100) Allow different directionality (LTR/RTL) for user interface
+ and wiki content, along with many other RTL and directionality improvements
+ (such as bugs 28030, 12406, 28349).
+* (bug 29712) Removed broken defaultUserOptionOverrides in MessagesXx files and
+ unneeded CSS flipping of quickbar. Instead, introduce option 5 which sets
+ left/right according to the directionality of your interface language.
+* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit).
+* (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a <label> element.
+* (bug 29779) DairikiDiff/WikiDiff <ins> and <del> should undo browser default
+ styling (strike/underline).
+* (bug 28630) Add iwlinks, langlinks, redirect to
+ RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent.
+* (bug 29797) Error: "Tried to load block with invalid type" when subpages
+ are disabled for user pages.
+* (bug 12205) Bidirectional names in action=credits are split and displayed.
+ incorrectly when wrapped to the next line.
+* (bug 20781) Move 'mainpagetext' messages to installer's .i18n file.
+* (bug 29737) "MediaWiki:Qbsettings-directionality" should refer to script,
+ not language.
+* (bug 26360) $wgSessionHandler was overriding system settings unconditionally.
+* Removed AjaxFunctions.php. The last remaining function js_unescape() was moved
+ to the FCKEditor extension.
+* (bug 28762) Resizing to specified height broken for very thin images.
+* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
+ tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce.
+* (bug 27427) mw.util.getParamValue shouldn't return value from hash even if
+ param is only present in hash.
+* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
+* (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
+ caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
+* $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very wide
+ pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
+* (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on
+ Windows servers.
+* (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because
+ #REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS.
+* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs
+ are used.
+* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
+ instead require() for included extensions.
+* Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages.
+* (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>).
+* $wgOverrideSiteFeed no longer double escapes urls.
+* The preprocessor no longer fails with a PHP warning about XML_PARSE_HUGE when
+ processing complex pages using newer versions of libxml2.
+* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
+* (bug 28545) When using the uca-default collation, sortkey's starting with a
+ space (U+20) will sort under an invisible header like in 1.16 rather than a U+6DE.
+* (bug 30192) Thumbnails of archived files are now deleted.
+* (bug 30843) mediawiki.Title should not convert extensions (anything after the
+ last full stop) to lower case).
+* (bug 31213) Exception thrown when trying to move file cross-namespace.
+* (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are
+ really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other.
+* (bug 30466) Entries in iwlinks table are now cleared when moving a page over
+ redirect.
+* (bug 31674) Can't edit watchlist if it contains special pages.
+* (bug 32100) Installer complains about Suhosin GET limit even if it is
+ already set above 1024 bytes.
+
+=== API changes in 1.18 ===
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
+* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result.
+* (bug 14869) Add API module for accessing QueryPage-based special pages.
+* (bug 14020) API for Special:Unwatchedpages.
+* (bug 24287) Wrap API Help output at 100 characters.
+* Add a realname uiprop option to query=userinfo so a user's realname can be
+ extracted.
+* Add a &watchuser option to ApiBlock.
+* (bug 26541) Generator-ise ApiQueryRecentChanges.
+* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
+* (bug 25767) Add userrights properties to allusers and users query lists.
+* (bug 26558) list=allusers auprop=groups does not list groups a user is
+ automatically a member of.
+* (bug 26559) list=allusers auprop=rights does not match
+ list=users usprop=rights.
+* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
+ duplicate.
+* (bug 25135) add "normalized" to action=parse.
+* (bug 26460) Add support for listing category members by category pageid.
+* (bug 26482) add a imimages param to prop=images.
+* (bug 26498) allow LinksUpdate with API.
+* (bug 26485) add a elextlinks param to prop=extlinks.
+* (bug 26483) add a iwtitles param to prop=iwlinks.
+* (bug 26484) add a lltitles param to prop=langlinks.
+* (bug 26480) add a pppageprops param to prop=pageprops.
+* (bug 26650) Remove $wgAPICacheHelp in favour of $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout.
+* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
+* Expose list of skins in meta=siteinfo.
+* (bug 26548) Add iiurlparam param to query=imageinfo and query=stashimageinfo.
+* (bug 27205) aiprop=metadata and aiprop=parsedcomment need help text.
+* Add a amtitle param to meta=allmessages.
+* (bug 25832) query=allimages now outputs ns/title as well.
+* (bug 27199) Thumbnail urls can be fetched for old files as well.
+* (bug 27376) when using ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'integer' without a min or
+ max value, API doesn't validate the input is actually an integer.
+* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
+ prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
+* (bug 27554) Update API information text to reflect change in bug 26125.
+* (bug 27611) list=blocks: Use ipb_by_text instead of join with user table.
+* (bug 27616) Add userid of blocked user and blocker to list=blocks.
+* (bug 27688) Simplify queries to list user block information.
+* (bug 27708) list=users does not have a property to return user id.
+* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
+* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
+* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
+* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
+* (bug 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version.
+* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
+* (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode.
+* (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute.
+* (bug 28010) Passing a non existant user to list=users gives internal error.
+* (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
+ groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
+* (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
+ in auto generated document, as it is on mediawiki.org.
+* (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages.
+* (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages.
+* (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories.
+* (bug 27342) Add audir param to list=allusers.
+* (bug 27203) add fato param to list=filearchive.
+* (bug 27341) Add drto param to list=deletedrevs.
+* (bug 26630) Add API for Special:ActiveUsers.
+* (bug 27020) API: Allow title prefix search of logevents (only when not in
+ miser mode).
+* (bug 26629) add Special:MIMESearch to API.
+* (bug 27585) add pagecount to list=filearchive.
+* (bug 28104) Namespace for local pages in interwiki backlinks (iwbacklinks)
+ is missing.
+* (bug 27343) Add parseddescription to list=filearchive.
+* (bug 27469) label implicit groups in list=allusers&auprop=groups/
+ list=users&usprop=groups.
+* Addition of APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo hook to add extra information to
+ the general site info results.
+* (bug 16288) API: consider making closure status of wikis more clear
+ with meta=siteinfo.
+* (bug 27589) list=allimages&aiprop=archivename is useless.
+* (bug 27586) Remove duplication of props in ApiQueryStashImageInfo
+ by using ApiQueryImageInfo.
+* (bug 28226) prop=extlinks&eloffset should be an integer.
+* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
+ real timestamp field.
+* API upload errors may now return the parameter that needs to be changed and
+ a sessionkey to fix the error.
+* (bug 28249) allow dupes in meta=allmessages&amargs.
+* (bug 28263) cannot import xml with the API, when have not "import" user
+ right, but "importupload".
+* (bug 28365) Added description for uiprop=preferencestoken in meta=userinfo.
+* (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock.
+* (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse.
+* (bug 28368) add hint for multipart/form-data to API information of
+ action=import&xml=.
+* (bug 28391) action=feedwatchlist&allrev should be a bool.
+* (bug 28364) add registration date to meta=userinfo.
+* (bug 28254) action=paraminfo: Extract type from PARAM_DFLT if
+ PARAM_TYPE is not set.
+* (bug 27712) add parent_id to list=deletedrevs.
+* (bug 28455) Add 'toponly' to recentchanges API module.
+* (bug 26873) API: Add 'toponly' filter in usercontribs module.
+* (bug 28586) YAML: strings that are the same as boolean literals.
+* (bug 28591) Update/replace/supplement spyc (YAML parsing library).
+* YAML API output is now 1.2 compliant, using JSON as the formatter.
+* (bug 28672) give information about misermode on API.
+* (bug 28558) Add iw_api and iw_wikiid to meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap
+* (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the API.
+* (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs.
+* (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid.
+* (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param.
+* (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo.
+* Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo.
+* Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers.
+* (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers.
+* (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages.
+* (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates.
+* (bug 27790) Add query type for querymodules to output of ApiParamInfo.
+* (bug 28963) Add langbacklinks query module to the api.
+* (bug 27593) API should return error message when sha1/sha1base36 is invalid.
+* (bug 28578) API's parse module should not silently override invalid
+ title inputs.
+* (bug 20699) Watchlist API should list log-events.
+* (bug 29070) Require a token in API action=watch.
+* (bug 29221) Expose oldrevid in ApiQueryWatchlist output.
+* (bug 29267) Always give the servername for meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag.
+* (bug 28897) rvparse now respects rvsection for action=query&prop=revisions.
+* (bug 25734) API: Possible issue with revids validation.
+* (bug 28002) Internal error in ApiFormatRaw::getMimeType.
+* (bug 29237) ApiQuery now has an option to output the "iwurl" attribute.
+* (bug 28392) Mark action=undelete×tamps as type "timestamp".
+* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash (disabled in Miser Mode).
+* (bug 27595) sha1 search of list=filearchive does not work.
+* (bug 26763) Make RSS/Atom of user contributions more visible.
+* (bug 25133) Allow redirects also for action=parse&pageid.
+* (bug 29745) Fatal error in API search.
+* (bug 29476) API returns page title instead of sectiontitle for
+ srprop=sectiontitle.
+* Correct the documentation of srprop properties.
+* (bug 28817) Add reference help page link to API Modules.
+* (bug 29935) Improve formatting of examples in ApiParamInfo.
+* (bug 29938) list=users&usprop=rights shows rights the user doesn't have.
+* (bug 24781) The API will include an XML namespace if the includexmlnamespace
+ parameter is set.
+* (bug 29392) Setting the start or end parameter now works with lists blocks,
+ categorymembers, deletedrevs, logevents, protectedtitles, usercontributions
+ and watchlist in Postgres.
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+
+* Angika (anp) (new).
+* Brahui (brh) (new).
+* Central Dusun (dtp) (new).
+* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
+* Khowar (khw) (new).
+* Liv (liv) (new).
+* Kichwa (qug) (new).
+* Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still valid.
+* (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace.
+* Link trail added for sl and sh.
+* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
+* (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar).
+* (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases.
+* (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
+* (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now.
+* (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers.
+* (bug 28040) Turkish: properly lower case 'I' to 'i' (dotless i) and
+ uppercase 'i' to 'I' (dotted i).
+* Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language.
+* Date formats for Indonesian (id) updated.
+* Bhojpuri (bho) (renamed from "bh").
+* (bug 29031) When translating block log entries, indefinite, infinite, and
+ infinity are now considered the same.
+* Aromanian (rup) (renamed from "rua-rup").
+* Kashmiri (ks) split into Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic) (ks-arab) and Kashmiri
+ (Devanagari) (ks-deva). Defaults to ks-arab.
+* (bug 30864) Use bengali numerals for <ol> for Assamese.
+* (bug 30817) Restored linktrail for kk (Kazakh).
+* (bug 27398) Add $wgExtraGenderNamespaces for configured gendered namespaces.
+* (bug 30846) New LanguageOs class.
+
+=== Other changes in 1.18 ===
+* Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
+* (bug 28556) Upload support for MacBinary files has been removed (Used by
+ Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9).
+* On wiki farm setups using $wgConf, 'wgCanonicalServer' is now expected to be
+ set for all wikis. This was already the case for 'wgServer'.
+
+== MediaWiki 1.17 ==
+
+=== PHP 5.2 now required ==
+Since 1.17, the lowest supported version of MediaWiki is now 5.2.3. Please
+upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
+
+=== New installer in 1.17 ===
+MediaWiki 1.17 is shipping with a completely redesigned installer to fix
+a lot of outstanding bugs, cleanup the code quality, and make it easier to
+use. Notably, you can now run upgrades from the web without having to move
+LocalSettings.php. Also, configuration script directory has been renamed
+from config/ to mw-config/. The specific bugs are listed below in the
+general notes.
+
+=== New ResourceLoader in 1.17 ===
+MediaWiki 1.17 ships with a ResourceLoader which combines and minifies css and
+javascript attached to the page. They are served from the new entry point load.php
+If the page is served with the &debug=true parameter, the non-minified files
+are used instead.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
+* DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
+ extensions has been removed.
+* $wgAllowImageTag can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag in wikitext.
+* (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display
+ options.
+* $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option allows disabling CSS-based preferences; which can
+ improve page loading speed.
+* (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as
+ $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is
+ on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly.
+* (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable
+ which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
+ showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
+ research into its user experience implications.
+* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
+* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
+ or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks)
+* $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has
+ been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory.
+* $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted
+ uploads in.
+* IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the
+ normal $wgDBport.
+* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
+ navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
+* $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
+ provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
+* Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized,
+ $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors,
+ $wgUseZhdaemon, $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
+* (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
+* $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use.
+* $wgLoadScript was added to specify alternative locations for ResourceLoader
+ requests.
+* $wgResourceLoaderMaxage was added to specify maxage and smaxage times for
+ responses from ResourceLoader based on whether the request's URL contained a
+ version parameter or not.
+* $wgResourceLoaderDebug was added to specify the default state of debug mode;
+ this will still be overridden with the debug URL parameter a la
+ $wgLanguageCode.
+* $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules was added to specify whether private
+ modules such as user.options should be embedded in the HTML output or
+ delivered through a resource loader request, which bypasses server cache (like
+ squid) and checks the user parameter against $wgUser. The former adds more
+ data to all pages, while the latter adds a request which cannot be cached
+ server side.
+* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extension should use
+ DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate().
+* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
+ available as input for other configuration items, either.
+* Remove $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by
+ $wgUploadNavigationUrl.
+* (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades
+ without having to move LocalSettings.php
+* The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed
+* $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls.
+* $wgSecureLogin to optionaly login using HTTPS
+* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to allow customise the name associed
+ with $wgPasswordSender
+* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
+* (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in
+ the footers of skins.
+* $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy
+ used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior
+* It's no longer necessary for LocalSettings.php to include DefaultSettings.php.
+* It's no longer necessary to set $wgCacheEpoch to the file modification time
+ of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done
+ automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is
+ the default).
+* (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed
+
+=== New features in 1.17 ===
+* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
+ User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled).
+* (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights.
+* (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
+ apply the names of the individual files within the gallery.
+* Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer
+ if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>.
+* Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links.
+* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the
+ 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default).
+* (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced
+ changes list.
+* (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when
+ viewing contributions of a blocked IP address.
+* (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second paramter for type of
+ escaping.
+* Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter.
+* Special:Random carries over query string parameters.
+* (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go".
+* When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt
+ is provided on the Upload form.
+* (bug 22647) Add category details in search results.
+* (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query.
+* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences.
+* Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits.
+* ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
+ watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on.
+* (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there
+ is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages.
+* (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine.
+* (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching.
+* (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be
+ notified about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions.
+* (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup.
+* (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages
+* (bug 21312) RevisionMove allows moving individual revisions of a page to
+ another page. Introducing 'revisionmove' user right; disabled by default;
+ experimental feature.
+* Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
+ Special:Preferences
+* Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip.
+* (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
+* (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
+ contributions
+* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids
+* (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math>
+* (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math>
+* (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math>
+* texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time.
+* SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB.
+* (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages
+* Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being
+ well-formed XML
+* texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto
+* Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos
+* ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set
+* (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign
+ client wikis.
+* (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
+ page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
+ {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
+* (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class
+ "mw-ipb-needreblock"
+* Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa.
+* (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user
+ input
+* (bug 24563) Entries on Special:WhatLinksHere now have a link to their history
+* (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users
+* (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token
+* A variety of category sort-related fixes, including:
+** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same.
+ (This should be expanded to proper sorting for other languages before the
+ 1.17 release.)
+** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately.
+** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names
+ instead of randomly.
+* (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word.
+* JavaScript-based password complexity checker on account creation and
+ password change.
+* (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements
+* (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages
+* The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
+ used in the page.
+* Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
+* (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
+ intermediate revisions
+* Added new hook GetIP
+* Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text
+ search.
+* TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader
+ for versioning
+* Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which
+ is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit)
+* (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled
+ by default
+* (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails
+* Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly
+ when a wiki has multiple variant languages.
+* (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts
+* Now rebuildtextindex.php warns if SQLite doesn't support full-text search.
+* (bug 10541) Front/backend separation of installation/upgrade code
+* (bug 10596) Allow installer to enable extensions already in extensions folder
+* (bug 17394) Make installer check for latest version against MediaWiki.org
+* (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English
+* Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description).
+* Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages
+* Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent
+ changes/watchlist entries
+* (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text
+ customizable
+* Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets
+* (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign
+ file repositories.
+* When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both
+ wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection
+ arrow can be customized with CSS
+* (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message
+ [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead.
+ Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw
+ number of the textsize in Byte
+* (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width
+* Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions
+* Added Special:Myuploads special page that redirects to Special:Listfiles
+* The footerlinks used in Monobook/Vector/Modern are now part of common skin
+ code, SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec can be used to customize the list.
+* Special wrapping setups can now define MW_CONFIG_FILE to load a config file
+ other than LocalSettings.php. This is like MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK but works in
+ some cases where MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK will not work.
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
+* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
+ without updating database.
+* (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer
+ throws an error.
+* (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block
+ settings changed.
+* (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different
+ when the address changed.
+* (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name.
+* (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and
+ redirects.
+* (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when
+ the URL contains a colon.
+* (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again.
+* (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is
+ now only displayed when relevant.
+* (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages.
+* (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects.
+* (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion.
+* (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language.
+* (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN.
+* (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work.
+* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users.
+* (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not
+ correctly set.
+* (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so
+ that links with non-NFC character references work correctly.
+* (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for
+ anonymous users instead of null.
+* (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited.
+* (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being
+ logged in (anonpreviewwarning).
+* (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files.
+* (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly.
+* (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text.
+* (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content
+ language.
+* (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page
+ when using rebuildFileCache.php
+* (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid".
+ parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target.
+* (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend.
+* (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed.
+* (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases.
+* (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces
+ rather than only main namespace.
+* (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all
+ frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than
+ the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images
+ exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size.
+* (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first
+ item.
+* (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase.
+* Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
+ style is not valid for the user's interface language.
+* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
+ preference is set.
+* Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
+ in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
+* (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
+* (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer
+ displays incorrect tabs.
+* (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers.
+* (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display.
+* (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources.
+* (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files
+ work.
+* (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery.
+* (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer
+ displayed on Special:Listusers.
+* (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences
+ to enhance preference grouping.
+* (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the
+ correct link.
+* (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
+* (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
+* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create)
+ are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
+ is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
+* (Bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as ˜ not ∼
+* (Bug 23241) Remove License selector, because it is not used when uploading a
+ new version.
+* (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist.
+* The pipe | character in urls is now escaped.
+* (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved.
+* (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of
+ MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary.
+* (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
+ new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed.
+* Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if
+ user did not capitalize first letter of username.
+* (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables.
+* (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
+ as Opera 8.
+* (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
+ account upload rights.
+* (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
+ and correct render results.
+* (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
+ consistent and correct render results.
+* (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo.
+* (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for
+ multibyte characters.
+* (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser.
+* (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if
+ the $noRedir parameter is set to true
+* (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents.
+* (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php
+* (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter
+* (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not
+ accidently activated when hitting enter.
+* (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores
+* Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0
+* (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
+* (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
+ a fatal error
+* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
+ Special:Upload after following a red link
+* (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
+* (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments.
+* (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings
+* (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
+* (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers
+* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect
+ Image: --> File: namespace rename.
+* Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
+* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
+ disabled
+* (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when special:recentchanges(linked)
+ or special:newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the
+ page.
+* (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer
+ throw fatal errors
+* (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a
+ useful error message.
+* Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
+ instead of showing an error page
+* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in
+ SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
+* (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
+* (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules
+* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages
+* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
+ longer pollutes the parser cache.
+* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a
+ letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons,
+ underscores, hyphens, and/or periods).
+* Save 200 useless queries on each category page view
+* Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec
+* (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian
+* "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between
+ revisions" on diffs when appropriate.
+* (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as
+ a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages
+* (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also
+ make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case
+* (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
+ memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
+* Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
+ when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
+* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again
+* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file
+* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available
+* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel
+* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff
+ instead of alterning focus between the two buttons.
+* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account
+* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output
+* SQLite system table names are now never prefixed.
+* (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second
+ parameter
+* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16)
+* (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled
+ passthru()
+* (bug 25462) Fix double-escaping for section edit link tooltips
+* action=raw was removed for Special:Statistics. This information is still
+ available via the API
+* (bug 23934) Groups defined in $wgRevokePermissions but not in
+ $wgGroupPermissions now appear on Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 23923) Special:Prefixindex no longer shows results if nothing was
+ requested.
+* (bug 22308) Search now finds text in default main page immediately after setup
+* (bug 25697) Make sure empty lines render in diff view.
+* Use an actual minus sign in diff views, instead of a hyphen.
+* (bug 23732) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedFiles
+* (bug 23731) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedTemplates
+* (bug 25642) A exception is now thrown instead of a fatal error when using
+ $wgSMTP without PEAR mail package
+* (bug 19633) When possible, Upscale small SVGs when creating thumbnails.
+* (bug 11013) Database driver detection needs rewriting for robustness
+* (bug 13409) Installer prompts could use clarification--now has help boxes
+* (bug 16902) Installer spews warnings when exec() and dl() are not available
+* (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported
+* (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled
+* Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails
+* (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error
+ on discussion pages with vector as default skin
+* (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing
+* (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores
+* (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir
+ parameters
+* (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if
+ $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set
+* (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3
+* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now
+ normalised like normal links to special pages
+* (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect
+ $wgExternalLinkTarget
+* (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that
+ is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages
+* (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page
+* (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in
+ some cases
+* (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only
+ "File" and "Media" are allowed now
+* (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict
+ with php extension that defines same class.
+* (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when
+ $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false.
+* Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database.
+* (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation
+* (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2.
+* Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong
+ case.
+* (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available
+* (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated
+* (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow
+ absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google)
+* Partial workaround for bug 6220: at least make files on shared repositories
+ show up as (struck-out) bluelinks instead of redlinks on Special:WantedFiles
+* rebuildFileCache.php no longer creates inappropriate cache files for redirects
+* (bug 18372) $wgFileExtensions will now override $wgFileBlacklist
+* (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members.
+* (bug 20244) Installer does not validate SQLite database directory for stable path
+* (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel.
+* (bug 12070) After Installation MySQL was blocked
+* Fix XML well-formedness on a few pages when $wgHtml5 is true (the default)
+* (bug 28568) Entries in the iwlinks table are now removed on page deletion
+
+=== API changes in 1.17 ===
+* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
+* (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse.
+* (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent.
+* (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
+* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment.
+ is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
+* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
+ module.
+* (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests.
+* (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option.
+* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash.
+* (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions.
+* (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
+ using token and username.
+* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
+ track inline interwiki link usage).
+* Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
+ similar to prop=categories's clcategorie
+* (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when
+ thumbnailing larger than original image
+* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query
+* (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages
+* (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups
+* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
+ ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help
+* (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied
+* (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules
+* (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but
+ forceditsummary
+* (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
+ in IE 7.
+* (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result
+* (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the
+ hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added
+ unconditionally on error
+* (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
+ title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved
+ to the local alias.
+* (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
+ canonical language variant.
+* (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame"
+ parameter.
+* (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API
+* (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and
+ iwtitle
+* (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
+ one of the backlinks generators with limit=max.
+* (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report
+* PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user
+ does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
+* (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to
+ NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit
+* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks,
+ allmessages, allpages, and allusers
+* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups
+* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module
+* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit
+* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and
+ blockreason if the user is actually blocked.
+* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format
+* For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as
+ missing
+* (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1)
+* (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags
+* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
+ $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
+* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
+ implicit groups rather than showing 0.
+* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules
+* (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually enforce
+ validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning. Also add flag
+ to enforce (die) if integer out of range (breaking change!)
+* (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a
+ POST request was needed due to cache pollution
+* Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions
+* Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is
+ used, rvlimit is enforced to 1.
+* (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the
+ current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary
+* (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to
+ reduce confusion
+* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page
+ <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
+ ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
+ list.
+* The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs,
+ empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters
+* (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop
+* (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when
+ $wgDisableCounters enabled
+* (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages
+* (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL
+* (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook
+* (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo
+* (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the
+ file is a multi-page file
+* (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist
+* (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+
+* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary) (new)
+* Banjar (bjn) (new)
+* Danish (dk) (removed deprecated language code)
+* Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) (removed)
+* Kabardian (kdb) (new, dummy)
+* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl) (new)
+* Latgalian (ltg) (new)
+* Minangkabau (min) (new)
+* Dutch (informal) (nl-informal) (new)
+* Rusyn (rue) (new)
+
+* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
+ (Taraškievica).
+* (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc.
+* (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca.
+* (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script.
+* (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto.
+* (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia.
+* (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated.
+* Esperanto date format corrected.
+
+== MediaWiki 1.16 ==
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
+* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
+* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
+ be used when uploading/moving files
+* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
+ to be shown to users
+* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
+ $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
+ for backwards-compatibility
+* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
+* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
+ functions and other potential errors when developing.
+* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
+ mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
+ which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
+* Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
+ appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
+ oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
+* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
+* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
+ $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
+ files.
+* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
+ needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
+* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
+ to true
+* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
+ functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
+* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
+ interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
+* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
+ to same server
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
+ to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
+* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
+* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
+ should be used instead
+* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
+ characters in file names.
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
+ was denied to users(img_auth only)
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
+ correctly (img_auth only)
+* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
+ maintenance
+* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
+* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
+ to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
+* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
+* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
+ CIDR ranges for blocking
+* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
+ file repository
+* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
+* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
+ similarly to the category namespace.
+* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
+ backward compatibility)
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
+ exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
+ it as appropriate.
+* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
+ signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
+ but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
+ by default.
+* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
+ If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
+* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
+ with some search engines.
+* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
+ neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
+ longer advertised by default (but it still works).
+* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
+ memcached servers.
+* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
+ for controlling debug output.
+* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
+ logging in.
+* (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
+ extension "MetadataEdit".
+
+=== New features in 1.16 ===
+
+* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
+* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
+ viewing talk pages
+* Superfluous border="0" removed from images
+* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
+ to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
+ a cached MonoBook sidebar
+* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
+* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
+ to Special:Version
+* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
+ type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
+* (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
+* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
+ Special:Version
+* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
+* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
+* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
+* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
+* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
+* Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
+ each page
+* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
+* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
+ it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
+* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
+* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
+ month number without the leading zero
+* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
+* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
+* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
+* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
+* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
+ 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
+ customisation of the user interface
+* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
+ items)
+* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
+ wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
+ various user groups.
+* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
+ syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
+ have these rights stripped from them.
+* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
+ the DBA extension is not available.
+* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
+ fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
+ time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
+ set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
+* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
+ files.
+* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
+ task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
+ invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
+* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
+ headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
+ removing the redundant anchor elements.
+* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
+ preprocesor level.
+* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
+ display for old versions of images.
+* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
+ appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
+* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
+ thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
+* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
+ now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
+* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
+* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
+ will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
+* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
+ class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
+* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
+* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
+ message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
+* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
+ AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
+* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
+ difficulties
+* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
+ browsers
+* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
+* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
+ extension version in Special:Version
+* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
+ right name in Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
+ to {{ns:...}}
+* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
+ params
+* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
+* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
+* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
+ flags have tooltips.
+* (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
+ but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
+* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
+ page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
+* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
+ use
+* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
+ This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
+ if HTML 5 is used:
+** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers.
+** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
+ obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
+** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
+** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
+ output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
+** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
+* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
+* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
+ criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
+ deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
+* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
+* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
+ detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
+* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
+* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
+ display-in-limit-form.
+* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
+ and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
+* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
+ database connection and query errors.
+* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
+* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
+ excerpt from the block log.
+* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
+ file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
+* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
+* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
+ non-existent pages.
+* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
+ on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
+ of anonymous users that edited the page
+* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
+ for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
+* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
+* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
+ called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
+* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
+ a smaller subversion checkout.
+* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
+* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
+ of existing users
+* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
+ function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
+ setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
+ etc) to "-".
+* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
+* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
+* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
+ reuploading.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
+ the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
+* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
+ an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
+* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
+ or ExtUser-driven requests.
+* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
+ contains the number of revisions in the history
+* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
+* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
+ to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
+* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
+* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
+ MySQL
+* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
+* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
+ respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
+* Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
+ and common coding mistakes
+* Updated Unicode normalization tables
+* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
+* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
+* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
+ membership in SpecialActiveusers
+* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
+* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
+* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
+* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
+* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
+* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
+* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
+* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
+* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
+ Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
+ convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
+ equivalents.
+* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
+ stops normal output
+* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
+* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
+ "-{-{}-}-"
+* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
+* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
+* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
+ restrict/expand it.
+* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
+ article
+* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
+ the return value
+* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
+ maintenance/tests/.
+* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
+comment from another wiki.
+* Support for Turck MMCache was removed
+* (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
+ account will not be renamed
+* Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
+ selection
+* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
+* (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
+* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
+* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
+* Improved error handling for image moving
+* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
+ with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
+* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
+ MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
+* Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
+* (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
+* (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
+* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
+* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
+ skins
+* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
+* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
+* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
+ an IP address
+* (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
+* (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
+* (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
+* (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
+* (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
+* (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
+* (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
+* (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
+* (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
+* (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
+* Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
+ after some parsed math syntax.
+* (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
+* (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
+ <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
+* (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
+ divisible by 3
+* (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
+ revisions when --delete is not passed
+* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
+* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
+** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
+** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
+** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
+** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
+ to $wgSharedTables.
+** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
+ for it.
+* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
+ languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
+* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
+* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
+* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
+ problems in FF2
+* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
+* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
+* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
+ 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
+* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
+* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
+* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
+ tweaked spacing.
+* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
+* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
+ $wgSysopEmailBans
+* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
+* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
+* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
+* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
+* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
+* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
+ tags that were redundantly defined.
+* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
+* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
+ .inc
+* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
+ Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
+* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
+ and user can upload
+* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
+ uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
+* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
+* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
+* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
+ variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
+* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
+ show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
+* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
+* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
+* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
+* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
+ link from the edit comment
+* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
+* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
+* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
+* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
+* Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
+* Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only
+* (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they
+ can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
+* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
+* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
+ via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
+ work.
+* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
+ Chinese
+* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
+ whether the engines are actually available
+* (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version
+* (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan
+* (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input
+ and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an
+ extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid)
+* (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on
+* (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once
+* (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url
+* (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self
+* Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6
+* Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore
+ and was causing problems.
+* Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links.
+* (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on
+ Special:BlockIP
+* (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite.
+* Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from
+ history view, edit page, or something similar
+* (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
+* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
+* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
+* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
+ database type
+* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
+ standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
+* (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]])
+ are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table
+* (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id
+* (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data.
+ Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway.
+* (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file
+* (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist
+* (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5
+* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
+* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
+* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
+* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
+ table.
+* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
+* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
+ users who can't edit them
+* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
+* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
+ "enhanced recent changes"
+* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
+ the recentchanges table
+* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
+ when using long urls
+* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
+ BCP 47 standards.
+* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
+* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
+ $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on
+ Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
+ to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as
+ content's language
+* (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL
+ database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup
+* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
+ if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
+* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
+* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
+ option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
+* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
+* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
+ "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
+* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
+ "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
+* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
+ (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
+* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
+ language ($wgContLang)
+* (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php
+* (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count
+* (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have
+ not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their
+ preferences
+* (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
+ using the full path
+* (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
+* (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
+* (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
+* (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
+* (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip
+* (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on
+ Special:RecentChangesLinked
+* Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
+ foo,bar@example,com
+* (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
+* (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
+* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
+ namespaces
+* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
+* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
+ versions of MediaWiki were affected).
+* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
+* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
+* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
+ are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
+ titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
+* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
+ cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
+* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
+* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
+* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
+ enabled
+* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
+ target page
+* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
+ Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
+* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
+* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
+ use wikitext
+* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
+ DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
+* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
+ the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
+* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
+ Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
+* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
+ if they contain non-ASCII characters
+* (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
+ Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
+* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
+* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
+ execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
+ at script execution, it now throws an exception
+* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
+ (analogous to EditFilter hook)
+* (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
+ by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
+* (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
+ $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
+* (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
+* (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
+ the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
+* (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
+ argument
+* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
+ any change, in addition to onkeyup.
+* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
+ allowed to create page. Done via new message
+ MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
+* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
+ wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
+ portlet unhides it
+* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
+ be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
+* (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
+* (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
+ correct type="text" parameter
+* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
+* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
+* (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
+* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
+ the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
+* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
+* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
+ assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
+* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
+ editing an old version
+* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
+ by disable_functions
+* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
+ returns false if the page doesn't exist
+* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
+* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
+* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
+ command line scripts to fail
+* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
+ MediaWiki:Missing-article
+* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
+* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
+ be rendered.
+* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
+* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
+ now links to the file rather than the file description page
+* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
+ attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
+* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
+* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
+* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
+ searching for special pages
+* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
+ hideuser right
+* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
+* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
+ field names per driver.
+* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
+ false on non-special pages
+* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
+ displayed when there isn't any entry in it
+* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
+ revisions
+* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
+ MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
+* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
+ Special:Log
+* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
+* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
+ databases
+* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
+* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
+ dummy
+* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
+* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
+* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
+* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
+* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
+* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
+ shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
+ complete the move.
+* (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
+* User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results,
+ User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string
+* The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
+* (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
+* Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
+* Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
+* (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
+* (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
+* (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
+* (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
+* (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
+* (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
+ id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
+* (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
+* (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
+* (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
+ even to non-logged in users
+* (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and
+ general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as
+ Varnish.
+* Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
+ instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
+* (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
+ of the displayed page
+* (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with
+ PHP's memcached extension
+* (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible
+* (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
+* (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
+ only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
+* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
+ "unknown error"
+* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
+ redirects-only switch is not present
+* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
+* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
+ due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
+* (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
+ the page selector when they have only one page
+* (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
+ "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
+* (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
+ a redirect instead of a baderror.
+* (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
+* Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g.
+ for namespace)
+* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
+ groups if there are duplicate entries
+* (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username
+ now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links
+* (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID
+* (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
+ previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
+* (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
+* refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
+* (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
+ consistency with RC/WL
+* (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language
+* If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
+ type selector on Special:Log
+* (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
+ user can't create an account
+* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
+* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
+ user's page if possible
+* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
+* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
+ reimplementing it.
+* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
+* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
+ skin-specific JS pages
+* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
+ for image divs.
+* (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook
+ and Chick skins
+* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
+* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
+* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
+* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
+* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
+ not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
+* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
+ that can only change their rights
+* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
+* (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload
+ link from file pages
+* Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in
+ $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used
+ as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it
+ was unintentionally sorted along with other fields.
+* (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8
+* Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken
+ multibyte characters
+* (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist
+* (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to
+ the page set in the &returnto parameter.
+* (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome
+* (bug 17790) Users instantly logged off on HughesNet
+* (bug 21549) Make foreign key constraints DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED
+ when using Postgres as the database backend.
+
+== API changes in 1.16 ==
+
+* Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
+* Added usprop=gender to list=users
+* (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
+* Add parentid to prop=revisions output
+* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
+ when the user is blocked
+* (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
+* (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
+ users
+* (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
+* (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
+* Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories
+* (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo
+ output
+* (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version
+* (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output
+* (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs
+* (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output
+* Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans
+* Made deleting file description pages without files possible
+* (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output
+* (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and
+ list=recentchanges
+* Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections
+ output
+* (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups
+* (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite
+ warnings
+* (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output
+* (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang
+ rather than UI lang
+* (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
+* (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
+* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
+ parameter in action=edit
+* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
+ parameter in action=edit
+* Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
+* Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
+ optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
+ external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
+ Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
+* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
+ srprop and srinfo.
+* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
+ customized messages
+* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
+* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
+* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
+ drcontinue param is passed
+* (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 19004) Added support for tags
+* (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
+ without registration date
+* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
+* (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
+* (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
+* (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
+* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
+ for logged-in users under certain circumstances
+* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
+* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
+ descriptionurl
+* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
+* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
+* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
+* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
+* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
+* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
+* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
+* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
+* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
+* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
+* (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output
+* (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+
+* Capiznon (cps) (new)
+* North Frisian (frr) (new)
+* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
+* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
+* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
+* Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
+* Prussian (prg) (new)
+* Romagnol (rgn) (new)
+* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
+* Picard (pcd) (new)
+* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
+* Upper Franconian (vmf) (new)
+* Votic (vot) (new)
+* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
+* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
+* Ladin (lld) (removed)
+* Laz (lzz) (removed)
+* Palembang (plm) (removed)
+* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
+* Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
+* Laz (lzz) (new)
+
+* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
+* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
+* Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et)
+* (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my)
+* (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash
+ (Чӑвашла)
+* (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language
+* (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc)
+* (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail
+* (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl)
+* (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian
+* (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail
+* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
+* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
+* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
+* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
+* (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku)
+* (bug 23767) PHP warning/error when REQUEST_URI returns blank (IIS issue).
+
+== MediaWiki 1.15 ==
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
+
+* Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
+ temporary passwords
+* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
+* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
+ from rel="nofollow" on external links
+* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
+* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
+ to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
+* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
+ namespace" option (disabled by default)
+
+=== New features in 1.15 ===
+
+* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
+* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
+ for the current page for a given action
+* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
+ to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
+* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
+* When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
+ Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
+ hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
+* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
+ from the database.
+* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
+ existing block when modifying an existing block.
+* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
+ rather than hardcoded HTML tags
+* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
+ extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
+ pages
+* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
+ specialpages
+* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
+* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
+ recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
+* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
+ special pages.
+* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
+* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
+ link instead of Go button & Search button
+* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
+* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
+* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
+* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
+* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
+* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
+ content language.
+* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
+ set to false.
+* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
+* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
+* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
+ can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
+* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
+ "mw-confirmemail-pending"
+* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
+ parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
+ part for a given title.
+* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
+ rest of the font
+* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
+* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
+* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
+* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
+ class "mw-searchresult"
+* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
+* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
+* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
+* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
+* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
+ "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
+* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
+ this information will be public
+* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
+* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
+ the active users data from site_stats.
+* Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
+* Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
+ 'ellipsis' message
+* Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
+ 'mw-editinginterface'
+* (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
+* Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
+ of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
+ next section anyway.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
+ Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
+ $wgForeignFileRepos
+* Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
+* (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
+* (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
+* Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
+* (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
+ username
+* Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
+ with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
+* $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
+ of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
+* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
+ $wgRedirectOnLogin
+* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
+* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
+ of the displayed revision's author user name
+* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
+ a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
+* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with
+ dynamic dates.
+* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the dateformat
+ parser function.
+* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited to 5000 pages)
+* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
+ enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,
+ optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting
+ $wgTiffThumbnailType
+* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and
+ 'mw-log-user', respectively
+* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
+ usernames during registration (such as "@")
+* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
+ used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
+ on a different database
+* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
+ line
+* Title attributes are now always blank on framed and thumbnailed images, and default to blank
+ on inline images instead of defaulting to the image's filename. Additionally, the alt
+ attribute now defaults to the filename on framed and thumbnailed images if no caption or alt
+ attribute is specified.
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
+* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
+* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
+ before trying to delete the edit.
+* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
+* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
+ the destination page exists
+* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
+ been disabled
+* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
+* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
+* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
+* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
+ allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
+* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
+* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
+* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
+ to 'administrator'
+* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
+* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
+* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
+* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
+ "user contributions"
+* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
+* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
+ comment label uses better message
+* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
+ LocalSettings
+* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
+ error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
+* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
+* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
+ for identical files at different titles are still given.
+* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
+ certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
+ and the entries can be styled with CSS.
+* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
+* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
+ results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
+* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
+* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
+ configs
+* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
+* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
+* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
+* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
+ history
+* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
+ and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
+* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
+* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
+ longer affects the page title
+* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
+* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
+* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
+* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
+* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
+* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
+ cache is enabled.
+* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
+* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
+ maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
+* (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
+* (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
+* Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
+ use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
+ in next page link
+* (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
+* Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
+* File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
+* (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
+ used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
+* (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
+* (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
+ now point to the actual contributors' feed.
+* ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
+* Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
+ $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
+* (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
+ redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
+* (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
+* (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
+ changed to rc_timestamp_bot
+* (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
+* (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
+* (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
+ on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
+* (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
+ it unreadable in RTL
+* Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
+* (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
+ PostgreSQL
+* (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
+* (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
+* (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
+* (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
+ toolbar present
+* (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
+* (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
+* (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
+ queue
+* (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
+ displayed revision if it's not the current one
+* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
+* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
+ namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
+* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
+* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
+ no longer corrupts the message cache
+* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
+* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
+* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
+* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
+* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
+* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
+ two "page" parameters
+* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
+ don't use PathInfo or short urls
+* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
+ $wgScriptExtension
+* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
+ IS NULL
+* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
+* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
+* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when you cut-and-paste article text
+* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
+* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
+* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and "Previous edit" diff links
+* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as target'
+* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
+* Fixed a CSS validation issue which allowed external images to be included
+ into wikis where that is disallowed by configuration.
+* Fixed a data leakage vulnerability for private wikis using img_auth.php or
+ similar image access authentication schemes. Check user permissions before
+ streaming out scaled images from thumb.php.
+
+== API changes in 1.15 ==
+* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
+ and listing all deleted pages possible
+* (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
+* (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
+* (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
+ created the page, even if it's not the top revision
+* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
+* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
+* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
+* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
+ Building query properly now using makeList()
+* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
+ autolinked correctly
+* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
+* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
+* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
+* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
+* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
+* (bug 17007) Added action=import
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
+ of performance concerns
+* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
+ and list=logevents
+* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
+ limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
+* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
+* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
+* (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
+* Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
+* (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
+ aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
+* (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
+* (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
+* (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
+* Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
+ conversion rules
+* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
+ is set
+* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
+ without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
+* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
+ when someone tries to use them
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
+ a POST request
+* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
+ message to be included in the page text
+* Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop
+ involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is
+ possible.
+* (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter
+* (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter
+* (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output
+* (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data
+ directory is wrong.
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+
+* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
+* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
+* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
+* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
+* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
+* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
+* Veps (vep) (new)
+* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
+* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
+* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
+* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
+* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
+* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when
+ the user is blocked
+* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
+
+== MediaWiki 1.14 ==
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.14 ===
+
+* $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
+ the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words. (Default: null, ex-
+ empt all content namespaces.)
+* $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
+ has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
+* (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
+ $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent
+ Changes feed that appears on all pages.
+* $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
+ SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from
+ $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki.
+* $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
+ $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
+ group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
+ Backwards compatibility is maintained.
+* $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
+ word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
+ is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
+* $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
+* $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
+* Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
+ with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
+ is not required.
+* $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
+* Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
+ whitelist on or off.
+* Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
+ sitenotice cache keys.
+* $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
+* (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
+ write actions using the API.
+* Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
+ ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
+* Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
+ on the wiki. If it's set to false, then the skin used will *always* be
+ $wgDefaultSkin.
+* Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
+ on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
+* Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
+ ForeignAPIRepo)
+* (bug 44) Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File.
+ For backward compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may
+ need to be updated.
+* The constants NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK can now be used instead of NS_IMAGE and
+ NS_IMAGE_TALK. The old constants are retained as aliases for compatibility,
+ and should still be used in code meant to be compatible with v1.13 or older.
+* MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by
+ using $wgUsePrivateIPs.
+* The 'BeforeWatchlist' hook has been removed due to internal changes in
+ Special:Watchlist. 'SpecialWatchlistQuery' should now be used by extensions
+ to customize the watchlist database query.
+
+=== Migrated extensions ===
+The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
+
+* Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was
+ extension DeletedContributions)
+* Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
+* Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
+* RenderHash
+* NoMoveUserPages
+* UniversalEditButton
+
+=== New features in 1.14 ===
+
+* New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
+ 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
+ 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
+* Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
+ respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
+ MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
+ PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
+* (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
+ search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
+* Handheld stylesheet options
+* Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
+ 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks. Note that the
+ 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
+ run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
+ if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
+* Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
+ $wgCleanSignatures=false
+* Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
+ sidebar and add custom portlets to it
+* Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
+ ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
+* (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
+ Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
+* (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
+ the main page to be customized
+* Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
+ the wiki
+* Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
+ added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
+ being converted or not
+* (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
+ Patch by Emufarmers
+* Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
+* Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
+ after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
+ templates to work with that hook.
+* (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
+ 'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
+* (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
+* By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
+ so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
+* (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
+ option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
+* (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
+ Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
+* Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
+ groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
+* HTML entities like now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
+* (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
+ instead of a hardcoded colon.
+* Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
+* Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
+* BMP images are now displayed as PNG
+* (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
+* (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
+* Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
+* Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
+* Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
+ treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
+ displaying an external image inline.
+* (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
+* (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
+* (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
+* Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
+ small categories
+* After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
+* (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
+* (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
+ Special:Statistics
+* (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
+ plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
+* (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
+ deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
+* Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
+ image.
+* (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for
+ different restriction types on the protection form.
+* (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
+* Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
+* Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
+ $wgExternalLinkTarget
+* api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the
+ maxlag check fails, just like index.php does
+* Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
+ arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
+ solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
+* (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
+ using new "alt=" parameter for images
+* (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized
+ namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of
+ underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
+* Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
+ default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
+ marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
+* Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
+ several uses of the same image.
+* (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
+ wiki is set to read-only mode.
+* Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.
+ This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page
+ from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only
+ called from within Article.php
+* Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
+ $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
+* (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
+ is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
+* Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
+ linked from articles
+* Make search matches bold only, not red as well
+* (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
+* (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is
+ already directly blocked
+* (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter
+ "watchthis"
+* (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by
+ Nathan Larson.
+* Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
+* (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
+* (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
+* (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
+* Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
+ image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
+ $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
+* New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
+* (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
+* (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the
+ namespace.
+* Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that
+ admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS
+* Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
+* Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
+* Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
+* Added complimentary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
+* Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered
+ algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm.
+* Cascading protection no longer requires that both edit and move are restricted
+ to sysop, just edit=sysop is enough
+* (bug 2391) A warning is now shown for invalid ISBN numbers on Special:Booksources.
+* Installer has been updated to reflect the release of the GFDL 1.3. The URL for 1.2
+ has been updated, and the 1.3 URL has been given. 1.2 is still Wikipedia-compatible.
+ RightsCode was changed from 'gfdl' to 'gfdl1_2', so we can now support 1.2 as well
+ as 1.3 (gfdl1_3).
+* (bug 16293) PD URL was changed to the CreativeCommons site on PD (which auto-detects
+ your language) instead of Wikipedia.
+* (bug 16635) The "view and edit watchlist" page (Special:Watchlist/edit) now
+ includes a table of contents
+* File objects returned by wfFindFile() are now cached by default
+* (bug 7492) Rights can now be assigned to specific IP addresses and ranges by
+ using $wgAutopromote (new defines: APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE)
+* Add a 'change block' link to Special:IPBlockList and Special:Log
+* (bug 16459) Use native getElementsByClassName where possible, for better
+ performance in modern browsers
+* Enable \cancel and \cancelto in texvc (recompile required)
+* Added 'UserCryptPassword' and 'UserComparePasswords' hooks to allow extensions to implement
+ their own password hashing methods.
+* (bug 16760) Add CSS-class to action links of Special:Log
+* (bug 505) Time zones can now be specified by location in user preferences,
+ avoiding the need to manually update for DST. Patch by Brad Jorsch.
+* (bug 2585) HTTP 404 return code is now given for a page view if the page
+ does not exist, allowing spiders and link checkers to detect broken links.
+* Special:Log: Add 'change protection' link for unprotected pages too
+* Special:Log: Add log type specific CSS classes 'mw-logline-$logtype' to
+ 'li' elements
+* (bug 16754) Making arbitrary rows of sortable tables sticky:
+ |- class="unsortable"
+* Show subversion too even if a "normal" version number is available
+* (bug 16121) Add a note that a page move was without creating a redirect in the
+ move log
+* Image moving is now enabled for sysops by default
+* Make "Did you mean" search feature more noticeable
+* (bug 16720) Transcluded Special:NewPages processes "/username="
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
+
+* (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
+* (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
+ falls back to the user option
+* (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
+* Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
+* Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
+* Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
+* (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
+* (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
+* (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
+* Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
+* (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
+ no longer redirect to the second link
+* (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
+ a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
+ Patch by Max Semenik.
+* (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
+ user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
+* (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in
+ 5 minutes.
+* (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
+ wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
+* (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the
+ diff entirely, not just the display of it.
+* (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
+ allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
+* (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
+ ns-special to special pages.
+* (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
+* (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
+ for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
+ WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
+* (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
+ again
+* (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
+* (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
+ gives results
+* Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
+ contain '/*' in the title
+* Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
+* $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
+ addition to body text.
+* Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
+ from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
+* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
+ description pages).
+* (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
+* (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
+ literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
+* (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
+ namespace in Special:Watchlist
+* (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
+ last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
+* (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
+* Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
+ Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
+ long-lasting locks on that table.
+* Respect file restrictions in the file history list
+* (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
+ tables, and have been disabled by default.
+* (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
+* (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
+* (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
+* (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
+* (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
+* (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
+ Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned.
+* Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
+ LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
+* Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent
+ pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the
+ database
+* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for
+ recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50.
+* (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
+ instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
+* (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
+ has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
+* (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
+* Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST.
+* (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users
+* Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL
+* (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview
+* (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner
+* (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex
+* Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page
+* (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button
+* (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous
+* (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode
+* (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the
+ user can only change his rights
+* (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
+* (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
+* (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
+* (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now
+ bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
+* Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the
+ Konqueror browser correctly use the latter
+* (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
+* (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
+ preferences.
+* (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
+* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
+ search box
+* (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding
+ new namespace
+* Purge form uses valid XHTML
+* (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
+* (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback
+ if JavaScript is disabled
+* (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
+* Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
+* (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
+* (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
+* (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
+ of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
+* Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now
+ produces a warning
+* (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case
+ letters
+* (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
+* (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
+ have corrupt URLs
+* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
+ search box
+* (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
+ revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
+* (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
+ filename as the remote site.
+* (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
+* Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb
+ path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
+* (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
+ {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
+* Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for
+ formatting and path exposure.
+* Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured
+* Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use.
+* Improved input validation on Special:Import form
+* Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection
+ against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default
+ installations.
+* Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection.
+* Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads.
+* (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes
+* (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script
+* (bug 7726) Searches for words less than 4 characters now work without
+ requiring customization of MySQL server settings
+* Honour unchecked "Leave a redirect behind" for moved subpages
+* (bug 16440) Broken 0-byte math renderings are now deleted and re-rendered
+ when page is re-parsed.
+* (bug 6100) Unicode BiDi embedding/override characters (U+202A - U+202E) are
+ now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end
+ up in copy-and-pasted titles, and, by overriding normal bidirectional text
+ handling, can lead to annoying behavior such as text rendering backwards
+* Fixed minor bug where the memcached value for how many accounts an IP had
+ created that day would be increased even if $wgAccountCreationThrottle was
+ hit. This meant if an IP hit the throttle and then the throttle was raised
+ later that day, the IP still couldn't create another account, because it
+ had marked them as having created another account, when their last account
+ creation had actually failed.
+* (bug 12647) Allow autogenerated edit summary messages to be blanked with '-'
+* (bug 16026) 'Revision-info' and 'revision-info-current' both accept wiki
+ markup now.
+* (bug 16529) Fix for search suggestions with some third-party JS libraries
+* (bug 13342) importScript() generates more consistent URI encoding
+* (bug 16577) When a blocked user tries to rollback a page, the block message
+ is now only displayed once
+* (bug 14268) SVG image sizes now extracted with proper XML parser
+* (bug 14365) RepoGroup::findFiles() no longer crashes if passed an invalid
+ title via the API
+* (bug 4253, bug 16586) Revision ID is now given instead of title in URLs for
+ new pages in the recent changes IRC feed
+* Ugly tooltips in Special:Statistics were phased out in favor of more direct
+ information. Went ahead and rewrote SpecialStatistics to subclass SpecialPage
+* (bug 5506) Links to files on foreign repositories are now shown consistently
+ as bluelinks e.g. in logs and edit summaries
+* (bug 16623) Add missing </p> tag in Special:LockDB
+* (bug 15849) Special:Movepage now throws a more specific error when trying to
+ move a title to an interwiki target
+* (bug 16638) 8-bit URL fallback encoding now set on additional languages using
+ Arabic script (Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi)
+* (bug 16656) cleanupTitles and friends should now work in load-balanced
+ DB environments when $wgDBserver isn't set.
+* (bug 3691) Aspect ratio from viewBox attribute is now preserved for SVG
+ images which do not specify width and height attributes.
+* (bug 15027) Internet domain names and IP addresses can now be indexed and
+ searched sensibly with the default MySQL search backend.
+* (bug 11733) Fixed parameter validation in importTextFile.php
+* (bug 16712) Special:NewFiles updated to use "newer"/"older" paging messages
+ for clarity over "previous/next"
+* (bug 16612) Fixed "noprint" class for Modern skin print style
+* Section anchors now have an "id" attribute as well as a "name" attribute,
+ even when Tidy is not used
+* (bug 16026) revision-info, revision-info-current, cannotdelete,
+ redirectedfrom, historywarning and difference messages now use Wiki text
+ rather than raw HTML markup
+* (bug 13835) Fix rendering of {{filepath:Wiki.png|nowiki}}
+* (bug 16772) Special:Upload now correctly rejects files with spaces in the
+ file extension (e.g. Foo. jpg).
+* Image moving over an existing file no longer throws a database error
+* (bug 16786) Restored "redundant" links recently removed from Classic sidebar
+* (bug 16850) $wgActionPaths can have query strings now, previously, this broke
+ local URLs
+* (bug 16376) Mention in deleteBatch.php and moveBatch.php maintenance scripts
+ that STDIN can be used for page list
+* (bug 16560) Special:Random returns a page from ContentNamespaces, and no
+ longer from NS_MAIN
+
+=== API changes in 1.14 ===
+
+* Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
+ shown as empty instead of the current time.
+* API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
+ or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
+ This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
+ &srwhat=text to the query.
+* Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
+* (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
+ are now listed on action=help
+* (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
+ between requests
+* (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
+ output.
+* When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
+* list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
+* (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
+ non-hidden categories
+* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of
+ an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
+* list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
+ etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
+ for consistency with other list modules.
+* Added action=watch
+* (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
+* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an
+ empty section with section=new
+* Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
+ nochange flag any more
+* (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
+* (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
+ return just "Unknown error"
+* (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
+* (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
+* (bug 15466) Added action=purge
+* (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
+* (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
+* (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
+* (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
+ if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
+* list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
+* Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
+ hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
+* action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
+* (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
+ WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
+* (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
+ rather than causing an exception
+* Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo
+* (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info
+* Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can
+ be disabled in LocalSettings.php
+* (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles
+* (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw
+* (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted
+ and undeleted since the last edit
+* (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in
+ action=protect
+* Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output
+* (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
+* (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
+ manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
+* (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
+* The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
+* (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
+ and patrolmarks right
+* (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
+ descending order.
+* (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
+ list=categorymembers
+* (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
+ sortkeys containing pipes
+* (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
+ works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
+* (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
+ output
+* Added redirect resolution to action=parse
+* (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
+ an error
+* (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
+* (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
+* (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
+* meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty
+ sifilter parameter.
+* (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate
+ limits
+* (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases
+* (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions
+* (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores
+ instead of spaces
+* (bug 16516) Made rvsection=T-2 work
+* (bug 16526) Added usprop=emailable to list=users
+* (bug 16548) list=search threw errors with an invalid error code
+* (bug 16515) Added pst and onlypst parameters to action=parse
+* (bug 16541) Added block expiry timestamp to list=logevents output
+* (bug 16613) action=protect doesn't tell when &cascade was set but cascading
+ protection wasn't allowed
+* (bug 16626) action=delete now correctly handles empty "reason" param
+* (bug 15579) clshow considers all categories !hidden
+* (bug 16647) list=allcategories, prop=categories don't return "hidden"
+ property for hidden categories
+* New siprop parameter of 'extensions' to list all installed extensions
+* (bug 16672) Include canonical namespace name in
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces.
+* (bug 16726) siprop=namespacealiases should also list localized aliases
+* (bug 16730) Added apprfiltercascade parameter to list=allpages to filter
+ cascade-protected pages
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.14 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
+
+* Bakhtiari (bqi) (new)
+* Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new)
+* Krio (kri) (new)
+* Lezghian (lez) (new)
+* Laz (lzz) (new)
+* Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
+* Niuean (niu) (new)
+* Oromo (om) (new)
+* Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
+* Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
+* Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
+* Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
+* Tulu (tcy) (new)
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.13 ==
+
+== Changes since 1.13.2 ==
+
+David Remahl of Apple's Product Security team has identified a number of
+security issues in previous releases of MediaWiki. Subsequent analysis by the
+MediaWiki development team expanded the scope of these vulnerabilities. The
+issues with a significant impact are as follows:
+
+* An XSS vulnerability affecting all MediaWiki installations between 1.13.0 and
+ 1.13.2. [CVE-2008-5249]
+* A local script injection vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer clients for
+ all MediaWiki installations with uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
+* A local script injection vulnerability affecting clients with SVG scripting
+ capability (such as Firefox 1.5+), for all MediaWiki installations with SVG
+ uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
+* A CSRF vulnerability affecting the Special:Import feature, for all MediaWiki
+ installations since the feature was introduced in 1.3.0. [CVE-2008-5252]
+
+XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities allow an attacker to steal an
+authorised user's login session, and to act as that user on the wiki. The
+authorised user must visit a web page controlled by the attacker in order to
+activate the attack. Intranet wikis are vulnerable if the attacker can
+determine the intranet URL.
+
+Local script injection vulnerabilities are like XSS vulnerabilities, except
+that the attacker must have an account on the local wiki, and there is no
+external site involved. The attacker uploads a script to the wiki, which another
+user is tricked into executing, with the effect that the attacker is able to act
+as the privileged user.
+
+CSRF vulnerabilities allow an attacker to act as an authorised user on the wiki,
+but unlike an XSS vulnerability, the attacker can only act as the user in a
+specific and restricted way. The present CSRF vulnerability allows pages to be
+edited, with forged revision histories. Like an XSS vulnerability, the
+authorised user must visit the malicious web page to activate the attack.
+
+These four vulnerabilities are all fixed in this release.
+
+David Remahl also reminded us of some security-related configuration issues:
+
+* By default, MediaWiki stores a backup of deleted images in the images/deleted
+ directory. If you do not want these images to be publically accessible, make
+ sure this directory is not accessible from the web. MediaWiki takes some steps
+ to avoid leaking these images, but these measures are not perfect.
+* Set display_errors=off in your php.ini to avoid path disclosure via PHP fatal
+ errors. This is the default on most shared web hosts.
+* Enabling MediaWiki's debugging features, such as $wgShowExceptionDetails, may
+ lead to path disclosure.
+
+Other changes in this release:
+
+* Avoid fatal error in profileinfo.php when not configured.
+* Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection against
+ exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default installations.
+* Avoid streaming uploaded files to the user via index.php. This allows
+ security-conscious users to serve uploaded files via a different domain, and
+ thus client-side scripts executed from that domain cannot access the login
+ cookies. Affects Special:Undelete, img_auth.php and thumb.php.
+* When streaming files via index.php, use the MIME type detected from the
+ file extension, not from the data. This reduces the XSS attack surface.
+* Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath. Such redirects exacerbate any
+ XSS vulnerabilities involving uploads of files containing scripts.
+* Internationalisation updates.
+
+== Changes since 1.13.1 ==
+
+* Security: Work around misconfiguration by requiring strict comparisons for
+ in_array in User::isAllowed().
+* (bug 14944) Added $wgShellLocale for configuration of an appropriate locale
+ to use for LC_CTYPE during shell invocation. For servers that don't have
+ en_US.utf8. Also added locale detection during install.
+* Localisation updates
+* Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability in useskin parameter.
+
+== Changes since 1.13.0 ==
+
+* (bug 15460) Fixed intermittent deadlock errors and poor concurrent
+ performance for installations without memcached.
+* (bug 13770) Fixed DOM module detection for installations with both dom
+ and domxml.
+* (bug 15148) Fixed Special:BlockIP for PostgreSQL
+* Fixed SQLite support for non-memcached installations
+* Localisation updates, Achinese (ace) added.
+
+== Changes since 1.13.0rc2 ==
+
+* (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
+* Fix regression from r37834: accesskey tooltip hint should be given for the
+ minor edit and watch labels on the edit page.
+* Updated Chinese simplified/traditional conversion tables
+
+== Changes since 1.13.0rc1 ==
+
+* $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
+ has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
+* (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
+* (bug 14966) Fix SearchEngineDummy class for silently non-functional search
+ on Sqlite instead of horribly fatal error breaky one.
+* (bug 14987) Only fix double redirects on page move when the checkbox is
+ checked
+* (bug 13376) Use $wgPasswordSender, not $wgEmergencyContact, as return
+ address for page update notification mails.
+* API: Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
+ shown as empty instead of the current time.
+* (bug 14904): fragments were lost when redirects were fixed.
+* Added magic word __STATICREDIRECT__ to suppress the redirect fixer
+* (bug 15035) Revert English linkTrail to /^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD, as it was before
+ r36253. Multiple reports of breakage due to old (pre-5.0) PCRE libraries,
+ both bundled with PHP and packaged with distros such as RHEL.
+* (bug 14944) Shell invocation of external programs such as ImageMagick convert
+ was broken in PHP 5.2.6, if the server had a non-UTF-8 locale.
+
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.13 ===
+
+* New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
+* (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved
+ links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
+* Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
+* Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
+* Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
+* (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to
+ $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
+* (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated
+ for only some namespaces
+* Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use:
+ $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
+ in your LocalSettings.php.
+* (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows
+ you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local
+ database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new
+ $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share.
+* Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries
+* Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page
+* $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to
+ be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge
+* $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits
+ displayed on the recent changes special pages
+* The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target
+ image page already exists
+* $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once
+ (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
+* Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use
+ $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
+* $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over
+ a certain number of days to be considered active
+* $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
+* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
+ $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
+* New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving
+ subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
+* New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output.
+ Default: false
+* Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection
+ is no longer possible.
+* $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class,
+ previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType
+* $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages
+ provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
+* Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for
+ with MimeMagic.
+* Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when
+ creating new directories.
+* (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults
+ current behavior.
+
+=== New features in 1.13 ===
+
+* __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
+ article page
+* Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
+ article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not
+ confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
+* Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
+ image syntax output
+* (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit§ion=new that
+ pre-fills the section title field
+* (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
+* (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
+ reduce broken form submissions
+* Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
+ redirects to the redirect table
+* Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
+* (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
+* (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
+* When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
+* (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled"
+ link on diffs
+* Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
+* Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
+* Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
+** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
+** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
+* (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
+* (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
+* Image redirects are now enabled by default
+* (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
+* (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
+* Redesign of Special:UserRights
+* Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
+* (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
+* (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of
+ 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
+* Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
+* (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or
+ off on Special:WhatLinksHere
+* Cache image redirects
+* (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
+* Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
+ to modify the output for edit conflicts
+* Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
+ a slightly less huge margin and padding
+* (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
+* Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
+* On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove
+ one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
+* (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
+* Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different
+ text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
+* Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account,
+ otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
+* Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content
+ namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
+* (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository
+ and local one
+* Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
+* (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
+* (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
+* Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
+* (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
+* Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
+* More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
+* (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
+* (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
+* Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
+* Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
+* Add support for SQLite
+* AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
+* (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
+* (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
+* Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
+* (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
+ 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
+* Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
+* (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
+* New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
+ from other pages in their group.
+* (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
+* (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
+* Sidebar is now cached for all languages
+* The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
+ out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
+ edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
+* SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
+ changed by extensions.
+* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
+ external links.
+* (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
+* (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
+* (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of
+ e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
+* Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
+* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output
+ of external (hotlinked) images.
+* (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter:
+ Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single
+ page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
+* Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
+* (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that
+ are in Special:Recentchanges
+* Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
+* Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
+* Add meta generator tag to HTML output
+* MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
+* Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
+* Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
+* (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
+* Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
+ moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
+ SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
+* Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
+ the database is potentially queried
+* (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
+* New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ČSN and PČP.
+* Special:Recentchangeslinked now includes changes to transcluded pages and
+ displayed images; also, the "Show changes to pages linked" checkbox now works on
+ category pages too, showing all links that are not categorizations
+* (bug 4578) Automatically fix redirects broken by a page move
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
+
+* (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
+* (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
+* (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
+* (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
+* (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
+* Make the default filepageexists message accurate
+* (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
+* (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
+* (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
+* (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
+ to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
+ 'opensearch-desc' message.
+* (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
+ to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
+* (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
+* (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
+* (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
+* (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
+* (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
+* (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
+ maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
+* All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
+* (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
+* (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
+* maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
+* (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
+ back when using rollback
+* (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
+ recentchanges entry
+* (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
+* (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
+ autocomment-prefix)
+* Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
+* (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
+ case-insensitive names.
+* Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
+* (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
+* (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
+ for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
+* (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
+* Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
+* (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
+* (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
+* (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
+ overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
+* (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
+ 'generated-sidebar'.
+* (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
+* (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
+* (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
+* (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
+* (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
+* (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
+* (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
+* (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
+* (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
+ so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
+* Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
+ using the "delete and move" option.
+* (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
+* (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
+* (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
+* PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
+* (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
+* (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
+* (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
+* Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
+* (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
+* (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
+* (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
+* (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
+* (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
+* (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
+ (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
+* Trackback display formatting fixed
+* Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
+ that have an array index other than 0
+* (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
+* (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
+* (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
+* (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
+* (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
+* (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
+* (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
+* (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
+* (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
+* (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
+* (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
+ Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
+* (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
+* (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
+* (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
+* (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
+* (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
+* (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
+* (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
+* (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
+* Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
+* Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
+* (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
+* (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
+ without query
+* (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
+* (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
+* (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
+* (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
+* (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
+* (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
+ the page is included
+* When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
+* Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
+ search results
+* (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
+* Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are
+ changeable or all unchangeable
+* Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
+* (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
+* (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
+* (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
+* (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
+* (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
+* Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
+* (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
+* Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
+* (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
+* (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
+* (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
+* (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
+* (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
+* (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
+* (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has
+ "show hidden categories" option on
+* (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
+* (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
+* (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
+* (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
+* (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
+* (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
+* (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
+* (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
+* Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
+* (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
+* (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
+* (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
+* (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0
+ Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
+* (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
+* (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
+* (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options
+ Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
+* (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
+* (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
+* (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
+* Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
+* (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behaviour on image pages
+* (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
+* (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check
+* (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
+* (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
+* (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
+* (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists
+ even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
+* (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are
+ loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
+* (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
+* (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also
+ disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
+* (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
+* (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
+* (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
+* (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name
+ for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
+ with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
+* (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
+* (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
+ and I to ı
+* (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
+* (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
+ set to true
+* (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
+* (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
+* (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
+ ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
+ not the main namespace page.
+* (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
+* (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
+* (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
+* (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
+* (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
+* (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
+* (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
+ $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
+* (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
+ and $2 (=revision numbers)
+* (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
+* (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
+* (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
+* (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
+* (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
+ extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
+* (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
+* (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
+* We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
+ created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
+* (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
+* (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files
+ fail due to database permission or other error
+* (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual
+ recent changes page.
+* (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
+* Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
+* (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
+* (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
+* (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
+* (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges
+ and multiple servers
+* (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
+* (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
+* (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
+* (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
+* (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
+* (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
+* OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty
+ searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
+* (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title
+ on Special:Newpages.
+* (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer
+ generates a log entry.
+* (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid,
+ keeps the log page from being distorted.
+* (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
+* (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
+* (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
+* (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
+* (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
+* (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using
+ application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
+* (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
+ on non-mySQL schemas.
+* (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
+ had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
+* (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
+* (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
+* (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
+* (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as
+ history pages
+* (bug 14845) Bug in prefs javascript: Calling an array item without checking
+ its existance.
+* Accesskeys for minor edit/watch checkboxes on edit now work in Firefox 3
+* (bug 12384) Comments in maintenance/*php
+* (bug 12441) ./maintenance/generateSitemap.php fix -fspath requiring
+ a trailing slash.
+* (bug 12568) configuration script now produce valid XHTML.
+* The accesskey to edit a page is now disabled when editing the page, to pre-
+ vent conflicts with Safari shortcuts.
+
+=== API changes in 1.13 ===
+
+* Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
+* Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
+* (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
+* (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
+* (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
+ retrieval easier
+* (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
+* Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
+* Added action=edit
+* (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
+* Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
+ a certain section only
+* Introduced list=allimages
+* (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
+* Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
+* (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
+* (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
+* (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
+* (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
+* (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
+ handled properly.
+* (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
+* (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
+* Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
+* Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
+* Added createonly parameter to action=edit
+* Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
+* (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
+* (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
+* Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
+* (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
+* (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
+* Cleaned up redirect resolution
+* Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
+* (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
+* (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
+ very weak typing on array keys.
+* (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
+* (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
+* (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
+* (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old
+ revisions
+* (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
+* action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
+* (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
+* (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
+* Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
+* (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with
+ format=xml
+* (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
+* (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
+* (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
+* (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
+* (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
+* (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
+* (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
+* (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete
+ for ages)
+* (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
+* (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
+* Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
+* Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
+* Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
+* (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
+* (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
+* action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
+* Added md5 parameter to action=edit
+* (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
+* Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
+* (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
+* (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
+* (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
+* Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
+* Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
+* (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
+* Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
+* (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
+* Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
+* (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and
+ $wgShowSQLErrors
+* (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
+* Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions
+ can add their own tokens
+* Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
+* Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to
+ prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
+* Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to
+ the page
+* list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol
+
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.12 ==
+
+This is the Winter 2007 quarterly release.
+
+MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
+quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
+"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
+
+Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
+from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
+will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
+
+Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
+it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
+* Marking edits as bot edits with Special:Contributions?bot=1 now requires the
+ markbotedit permission, rather than the rollback permission previously used.
+ This permission is assigned by default to the sysop group.
+* MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
+ variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
+ to not check and assume they are always up to date)
+* The rollback permission can now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
+* New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
+* Behaviour of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behaviour:
+* * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights.
+* * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or
+ remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for
+ any groups they are in.
+* New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
+* $wgImplicitGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc.
+* $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria
+* $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove
+ themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
+* When $wgUseTidy has been enabled, PHP's Tidy module is now used if it is
+ present, in preference to an external Tidy executable which may or may not
+ be present. To force use of external Tidy even when the PHP module is
+ available, set $wgTidyInternal to false.
+
+
+=== New features in 1.12 ===
+* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
+* Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
+ complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
+* (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
+ is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
+* (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
+* (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
+* (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
+* (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
+ deleted file
+* On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view
+ source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to
+ create it
+* Clarify instructions given when an exception is thrown
+* AuthPlugin added strictUserAuth() method to allow per-user override
+ of the strict() authentication behavior.
+* (bug 7872) Deleted revisions can now be viewed as diffs showing changes
+ against the previous revision, whether currently deleted or live.
+* Added tooltips for the "Go" and "Search" buttons
+* (bug 11649) Show input form when Special:Whatlinkshere has no parameters
+* isValidEmailAddr hook added to User method of that name, to allow, e.g., re-
+ stricting e-mail addresses to a specific domain
+* Removed "Clear" link in watchlist editor tools, as people were afraid to
+ click it. Existing clear links will fall back to the raw editor, which is
+ very easy to clear your watchlist with.
+* (bug 1405) Add wgUseNPPatrol option to control patroling for new articles
+ on Special:Newpages
+* LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
+* Support for Iranian calendar
+* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
+ Special:Newpages
+* ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
+* MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
+ globals have been set up but before any actions have been taken.
+* BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
+* SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
+* OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
+* (bug 11848, 12506) Allow URL parameters 'section', 'editintro' and 'preload'
+ in Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk
+* Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
+* Support for Hebrew calendar
+* Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
+* (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
+ [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
+* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
+ user page
+* Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
+* Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
+ fails
+ because it is part of a blocked range.
+* (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
+ created by another user
+* dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart
+ cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
+* (bug 12028) Add Special:Listbots as shortcut for Special:Listusers/bot
+* (bug 9633) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the deletion form
+* Show a warning message when creating/editing a user (talk) page but the user
+ does not exists
+* (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches
+* (bug 12195) Undeleting pages now requires 'undelete' permission
+* (bug 11810) Localize displayed semicolons
+* (bug 11657) Support for Thai solar calendar
+* (bug 943) RSS feed for Recentchangeslinked
+* Introduced AbortMove hook
+* (bug 2919) Protection of nonexistent pages with regular protection interface.
+* Special:Upload now lists permitted/prohibited file extensions.
+* Split ambiguous filetype-badtype message into two new messages,
+ filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type.
+* Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage
+* On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable.
+* It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop
+ extension
+* Add HTML ID's mw-read-only-warning and mw-anon-edit-warning to warnings when
+ editing to allow CSS styling.
+* Parser now returns list of sections
+* When a user is prohibited from creating a page, a title of "View source"
+ makes no sense, and there should be no "Return to [[Page]]" link.
+* (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors.
+* (bug 9939) Special:Search now sets focus to search input box when no existing
+ search is active
+* For Special:Userrights, use GET instead of POST to search for users.
+* Allow subpage syntax for Special:Userrights, i.e., Special:Userrights/Name.
+* When submitting changes on Special:Userrights, show the full form again, not
+ just the search box.
+* Added exception hooks
+* (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot
+ edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1')
+* (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page
+* (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
+* Add caching to the AJAX search
+* Add APCOND_INGROUPS
+* Add DBA caching to installer
+* (bug 12585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
+* Support redirects in image namespace
+* (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
+* (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon
+* Add option to include templates in Special:Export.
+* (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender
+ address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails.
+ This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages
+ when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value.
+* (bug 11897) Add alias [[Special:CreateAccount]] & [[Special:Userlogin/signup]]
+ for Special:Userlogin?type=signup
+* (bug 12214) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the file deletion form
+* Merged backends for OpenSearch suggestions and AJAX search.
+ Both now accept namespace prefixes, handle 'Media:' and 'Special:' pages,
+ and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code,
+ and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook.
+* (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version
+* When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for
+ and installed when at the superuser level.
+* The default robot policy for the entire wiki is now configurable via the
+ $wgDefaultRobotPolicy setting.
+* (bug 12239) Use different separators for autocomments
+* (bug 12857) Patrol link on new pages should clear floats
+* (bug 12968) Render redirect wikilinks in a redirect class for customization
+ via user/site CSS.
+* EditPageBeforeEditButtons hook added for altering the edit buttons below the edit box
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
+
+* Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
+* (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
+ ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
+* (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
+ getUserPermissionsErrors.
+* Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
+* (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
+ translations
+* (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
+ message, the level of protection.
+* (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
+ message.
+* (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
+ where rollback is given to non-sysops.
+* (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
+ editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
+* (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
+* (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
+* Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
+ is not defined
+* (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
+* (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
+* (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
+* (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
+* (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
+ page
+* Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
+* (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
+ linked to the main page instead of targetted page
+* Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
+ Special:Listredirects
+* (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
+ when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
+* (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
+ object.
+* (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
+* (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
+ oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
+ TEXT.
+* (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
+* Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
+* (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade
+* Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages
+* Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis
+* (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name
+* (bug 11474) Fix unintentional fall-through in math error handling
+* (bug 11478) Fix undefined method call in file deletion interface
+* (bug 278) Search results no longer highlight incorrect partial word matches
+* Compatibility with incorrectly detected old-style DJVU mime types
+* (bug 11560) Fix broken HTML output from weird link nesting in edit comments.
+ Nested links (as in image caption text) still don't work _right_ but they're
+ less wrong
+* (bug 9718) Remove unnecessary css from main.css causing spacing issues on
+ some browsers.
+* (bug 11574) Add an interface message loginstart, which, similarly to loginend,
+ appears just before the login form. Patch by MinuteElectron.
+* Do not cache category pages if using 'from' or 'until'
+* Created new hook getUserPermissionsErrors, to go with userCan changes.
+* Diff pages did not properly display css/js pages.
+* (bug 11620) Add call to User::isValidEmailAddr during accout creation.
+* (bug 11629) If $wgEmailConfirmToEdit is true, require people to supply an
+ email address when registering.
+* (bug 11612) Days to show in recent changes cannot be larger than 7
+* (bug 11131) Change filearchive width/height columns to int for Postgres
+* Support plural in undeleted{revisions,revisions-files,files}
+* (bug 11343) If the database is read-only, ensure that undelete fails.
+* (bug 11690) Show revert link for page moves in Special:Log to allowed users
+ only
+* Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
+* Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
+* (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
+ words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
+* (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
+* (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
+* (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
+* (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
+* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
+ present
+* (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
+* (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
+* Remove all commas when parsing float numbers in sorted tables
+* Limit text field of deletion, protection and user rights changes reasons to
+ 255 characters (already restricted in the database)
+* In the deletion default reasons, calculate how much text to get from the
+ article text, rather than getting 150 characters (which may be too much)
+* Add two messages for Special:Blockme which were used but undefined
+* (bug 11921) Support plural in message number_of_watching_users_pageview
+* If an IP address is blocked as part of a rangeblock, attempting to unblock
+ the single IP should not unblock the entire range.
+* (bug 6695) Fix native language name of Southern Sotho (Sesotho) (st)
+* Make action=render follow redirects by default
+* If restricted read access was enabled, whitelist didn't work with special
+ pages which had spaces in theirs names
+* If restricted read access was enabled, requests for non-existing special pages
+ threw an exception
+* Feeds for recent changes now provide correct URLs for the change, not just
+ the page
+* Check for if IP is blocked as part of a range when unblocking (see above bug-
+ fix) was faulty. Now fixed.
+* Fixed wpReason URL parameter to action=delete.
+* Do not force a password for account creation by email
+* Ensure that rate-limiting is applied to rollbacks.
+* Make a better rate-limiting error message (i.e. a normal MW error,
+ rather than an "Internal Server Error").
+* Do not present an image bigger than the source when 'frameless' option is used
+ (to be consistent with the 'thumb' option now)
+* Support {{PLURAL}} for import log
+* Make sure that the correct log entries are shown on Special:Userrights even
+ for users with special characters in their names
+* The number of watching users in watchlists was always reported as 1
+* namespaceDupes.php no longer dies when coming across an illegal title
+* (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
+* (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
+* (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
+* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
+ instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
+ conversion with China variant.
+* (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
+* Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
+ in the page_restrictions matching its old page_restrictions field.
+ May help with odd upgrade issues or race condition.
+* (bug 11993) Remove contentsub "revision history"
+* (bug 11952) Ensure we quote_ident() all schema names as needed
+ inside of the DatabasePostgres.php file.
+* (bug 12184) Exceptions now sent to stderr instead of stdout for command-line
+ scripts, making for cleaner reporting during batch jobs. PHP errors will also
+ be redirected in most cases on PHP 5.2.4 and later, switching 'display_errors'
+ to 'stderr' at runtime.
+* (bug 12148) Text highlight wasn't applied to cleanly deleted and added
+ lines in diff output
+* (bug 10166) Fix a PHP warning in Language::getMagic
+* Only mark rollback edits as minor if the user can normally mark edits minor
+* Escape page names in the move successful page (e.g. for pages with two
+ apostrophes).
+* (bug 12145) Add localized names of kk-variants
+* (bug 12259) Localize the numbers in deleted pages on the sysop view
+* Set proper page title for successful file deletion
+* (bug 11221) Do not show 'Compare selected versions' button for a history page
+ with one revision only
+* (bug 12267) Set the default date format to Thai solar calender for the Thai
+ language
+* (bug 10184) Extensions' stylesheets and scripts should be loaded before
+ user-customized ones (like Common.css, Common.js)
+* (bug 12283) Special:Newpages forgets parameters
+* (bug 12031) All namespaces doesn't work in Special:Newpages
+* (bug 585) Only create searchindex replica table for parser tests if db is
+ MySQL
+* Allow --record option if parserTests.php to work when using Postgres
+* (bug 12296) Simplify cache epoch in default LocalSettings.php
+* (bug 12346) XML fix when body double-click and click handlers are present
+* Fix regression -- missing feed links in sidebar on Special:Recentchanges
+* (bug 12371) Handle more namespace case variants in namespaceDupes.php
+* (bug 12380) Bot-friendly EditPage::spamPage
+* (bug 8066) Spaces can't be entered in special page aliases
+* Hide undo link if user can't edit article
+* (bug 12416) Fix password setting for createAndPromote.php
+* (bug 3097) Inconsistently usable titles containing HTML character entities
+ are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up existing pages.
+* (bug 12446) Permissions check fix for undelete link
+* (bug 12451) AJAX title normalization tweaks
+* When a user creating a page is not allowed to either create the page nor edit
+ it, all applicable reasons are now shown.
+* (bug 11428) Allow $wgScript inside $wgArticlePath when emulating PATH_INFO
+ Fixes 'root'-style rewrite configurations
+* (bug 12493) Removed hardcoded MAX_FILE_SIZE from Special:Import upload form
+* (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again
+* (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen
+* (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw
+* (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
+* (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move
+* (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages
+* Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links.
+ This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow,
+ and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner.
+* (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code.
+* (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes
+* (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian
+* (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect.
+ Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages.
+ Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework.
+* Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the
+ name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set).
+* (bug 12695) Suppress dvips verbiage from web server error log
+* (bug 12716) Unprotecting a non-protected page leaves a log entry
+* Log username blocks with canonical form of name instead of input form
+* (bug 11593, 12719) Fixes for overzealous invocation of thumb.php.
+ Non-image handlers and full-size images may now decline it, fixing
+ mystery failures when using $wgThumbnailScriptPath.
+* (bug 12327) Comma in username no longer disrupts mail headers
+* (bug 6436) Localization of Special:Import XML parser Error message(s).
+* Security fix for API on MSIE
+* (bug 12768) Database query syntax error in maintenance/storage/compressOld.inc
+* (bug 12753) Empty captions in MediaWiki:Sidebar result in PHP errors
+* (bug 12790) Page protection is not logged when edit-protection is used
+ and move-protection is not
+* (bug 12793) Fix for restricted namespaces/pages in Special:Export
+* Fix for Special:Export so it doesn't ignore the page named '0'
+* Don't display rollback link if the user doesn't have all required permissions
+* The comment of a time-limited protection now contains the date in the default
+ format
+* (bug 12880) wfLoadExtensionMessages does not use $fallback from MessagesXx.php
+* (bug 12885) Correction for Russian convertPlural function
+* (bug 12768) Make DatabasePostgres->hasContraint() schema aware.
+* (bug 12735) Truncate usernames in comments using mb_ functions.
+* (bug 12892) Poor tab indexing on "delete file" form
+* (bug 12660) When creating an account by e-mail, do not send the creator's IP
+ address
+* (bug 12931) Fix wrong global variable in SpecialVersion
+* (bug 12919) Use 'deletedrevision' message as content when deleting an old file
+ version
+* (bug 12952) Using Nosuchusershort instead of Nosuchuser when account creation
+ is disabled
+* (bug 12869) Magnify icon alignment should be adjusted using linked CSS
+* Fixing message cache updates for MediaWiki messages moves
+* (bug 12815) Signature timestamps were always in UTC, even if the timezone code
+ in parentheses after them claimed otherwise
+* (bug 12732) Fix installer and searching to handle built-in tsearch2 for Postgres.
+* (bug 12784) Change "bool" types to smallint to handle Postgres 8.3 strictness.
+* (bug 12301) Allow maintenance/findhooks.php to search hooks in multiple directories.
+* (bug 7681, 11559) Cookie values no longer override GET and POST variables.
+* (bug 5262) Fully-qualified $wgStylePath no longer corrupted on XML feeds
+* (bug 3269) Inaccessible titles ending in '/.' or '/..' now forbidden.
+* (bug 12935, 12981) Fully-qualify archive URLs in delete, revert messages
+* (bug 12938) Fix template expansion and 404 returns for action=raw with section
+* (bug 11567) Fix error checking for PEAR::Mail. UserMailer::send() now returns
+ true-or-WikiError, which seems to be the calling convention expected by half
+ its callers already
+* (bug 12846) IE rtl.css issue in RTL wikis special:Preferences when selecting an
+ LTR user language
+* (bug 13005) DISPLAYTITLE does not work on preview
+* (bug 13004) Fix error on Postgres searches that return too many results.
+
+== Parser changes in 1.12 ==
+
+For help with migration to the MediaWiki 1.12 parser, please visit:
+
+http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor
+
+The parser pass order has changed from
+
+ * Extension tag strip and render
+ * HTML normalisation and security
+ * Template expansion
+ * Main section...
+
+to
+
+ * Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation
+ * Template expansion and extension rendering
+ * HTML normalisation and security
+ * Main section...
+
+The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
+have changed.
+
+Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas
+previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in
+one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a
+valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>".
+
+Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you
+have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be
+converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This
+was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
+the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion
+will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template
+expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
+pass.
+
+Bug 5678 has been fixed. This has a number of user-visible effects related to
+the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples.
+
+Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess"
+mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated,
+especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behaviour
+of the former message mode.
+
+The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section
+edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a
+whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by
+template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an
+entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings
+will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the
+template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major
+break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects are almost entirely
+beneficial.
+
+The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass
+preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed
+#switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a
+significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
+Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement
+by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration.
+
+The pre-expand include size limit has been removed, since there's no efficient
+way to calculate such a figure, and it would now be meaningless for performance
+anyway. The "preprocessor node count" takes its place, with a generous default
+limit.
+
+The context in which XML-style extension tags are called has changed, so
+extensions which make use of the parser state may need compatibility changes.
+
+The new preprocessor syntax has been documented in Backus-Naur Form at:
+
+http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF
+
+The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse
+tree from wikitext source. This parse tree corresponds closely to the grammar
+documented on that page.
+
+=== API changes in 1.12 ===
+
+Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
+
+* (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
+* (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
+* (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
+ pretty-printed
+ help document.
+* (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
+* (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each
+ page.
+* (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
+ api error messages.
+* (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work
+* Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if
+ revision content is requested.
+* Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
+ query.
+* (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php
+* (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates
+* (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
+* (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges
+ list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively.
+* Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x.
+* Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type
+* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
+ types and levels
+* Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A
+* (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page.
+* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
+ query.
+* (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query.
+* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
+ name
+* (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag
+* Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
+* Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots
+* Add limit=max to use maximal limit
+* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render
+ which has been removed
+* Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
+* Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
+* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
+* Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and
+ list={blocks,deletedrevs}
+* Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login
+* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using
+ 200 / 10000, now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules.
+* Added list=allcategories module
+* (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data
+* Fix output of wfSajaxSearch
+* (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag
+* Add list of sections to action=parse output
+* Added action=logout
+* Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections
+* Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow
+ (list=recentchanges)
+* Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo
+* action={login,block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} now must be
+ POSTed
+* prop=imageinfo interface changed: iihistory replaced by iilimit, iistart and
+ iiend parameters
+* Added amlang parameter to meta=allmessages
+* Added apfilterlanglinks parameter to list=allpages, replacing
+ query.php?what=nolanglinks
+* (bug 12718) Added action=paraminfo module that provides information about API
+ modules and their parameters
+* Added iiurlwidth and iiurlheight parameters to prop=imageinfo
+* Added format=txt and format=dbg, imported from query.php
+* Added uiprop=editcount to meta=userinfo
+* Added list=users which fetches user information
+* Added list=random which fetches a list of random pages
+* Added page parameter to action=parse to facilitate parsing of existing pages
+* Added uiprop=ratelimits to meta=userinfo
+* Added siprop=namespacealiases to meta=siteinfo
+* Made multiple values for ucuser possible in list=usercontribs
+* (bug 12944) Added cmstart and cmend parameters to list=categorymembers
+* Allow queries to have a where range that does not match the range field
+
+== MediaWiki 1.11 ==
+
+This is the Summer 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
+
+MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
+quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
+"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
+
+Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
+from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
+will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
+
+Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
+it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
+
+== Configuration changes since 1.10 ==
+
+* $wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is
+ used
+* $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups - Finer control over who can assign which
+ usergroups
+* $wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ - Bulk mail options for large sites
+* $wgShowHostnames - Expose server host names through the API and HTML comments
+* $wgSaveDeletedFiles has been removed, the feature is now enabled unconditionally
+
+== New features since 1.10 ==
+
+* (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks
+* Adding expiry of block to block messages
+* Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in
+ <span class="redirect-in-category"></span>
+* Introduced 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
+ more information
+* (bug 9628) Show warnings about slave lag on Special:Contributions,
+ Special:Watchlist
+* (bug 8818) Expose "wpDestFile" as parameter $1 to "uploaddisabledtext"
+* Introducing new image keyword 'upright' and corresponding variable
+ $wgThumbUpright. This allows better proportional view of upright images
+ related to landscape images on a page without nailing the width of upright
+ images to a fix value which makes views for anon unproportional and user
+ preferences useless
+* (bug 6072) Introducing 'border' keyword to the [[Image:]] syntax
+* Introducing 'frameless' keyword to [[Image:]] syntax which respects the
+ user preferences for image width like 'thumb' but without a frame.
+* (bug 7960) Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry
+* Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style
+ file repositories.
+* Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output
+* Improved thumb.php error handling
+* Display file history on local image description pages of shared images
+* Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies
+* (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext
+ containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the
+* (bug 7691) Show relevant lines from the deletion log when re-creating a
+ previously deleted article
+* Added variables 'wgRestrictionEdit' and 'wgRestrictionMove' for JS to header
+* (bug 9898) Allow viewing all namespaces in Special:Newpages
+* (bug 10139) Introduce 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks;
+ see docs/hooks.txt for details
+* (bug 9769) Provide "watch this page" toggle on protection form
+* (bug 9886) Provide clear example "stub link" in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 10055) Populate email address and real name properties of User objects
+ passed to the 'AbortNewAccount' hook
+* Show result of Special:Booksources in wiki content language always, it's
+ normally better maintained than the generic list from the standard message
+ files
+* (bug 7997) Allow users to be blocked from using Special:Emailuser
+* (bug 8989) Blacklist 'mhtml' and 'mht' files from upload
+* (bug 8760) Allow wiki links in "protectexpiry" message
+* (bug 5908) Add "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases for
+ "DEFAULTSORT" magic word
+* (bug 10181) Support the XCache object caching mechanism
+* (bug 9058) Introduce '--aconf' option for all maintenance scripts, to provide
+ a path to the AdminSettings.php file
+* (bug 8781) Remind users to check file permissions for LocalSettings.php
+ post-installation
+* Use shared.css for all skins and oldshared.css in place of common.css for
+ pre-Monobook skins. As always, modifications should go in-wiki to MediaWiki:
+ Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css.
+* (bug 8869) Introduce Special:Uncategorizedtemplates
+* (bug 8734) Different log message when article protection level is changed
+* (bug 8458, 10338) Limit custom signature length to $wgMaxSigChars Unicode
+ characters
+* (bug 10096) Added an ability to query interwiki map table
+* On reupload, add a null revision to the image description page
+* Group log output by date
+* Kurdish interface latin/arabic writing system with transliteration
+* Support wiki text in all query page headers
+* Add 'Orphanedpages' as an alias to Special:Lonelypages
+* (bug 9328) Use "revision-info-current" message in place of "revision-info"
+ when viewing the current revision of a page, if available
+* (bug 8890) Enable wiki text for "license" message
+* Throw a showstopper exception when a hook function fails to return a value.
+ Forgetting to give a 'true' return value is a very common error which tends
+ to cause hard-to-track-down interactions between extensions.
+* Use $wgJobClasses to determine the correct Job to instantiate for a particular
+ queued task; allows extensions to introduce custom jobs
+* (bug 10326) AJAX-based page watching and unwatching has been cleaned up and
+ enabled by default.
+* Added option to install to MyISAM
+* (bug 9250) Remove hardcoded minimum image name length of three characters
+* Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behaviour to reject titles which don't normalise to the
+ same title as the current page, and enabled per default
+* Wrap site CSS and JavaScript in a <pre> tag, like user JS/CSS
+* (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the <pre>s on CSS and JS pages (new
+ classes: mw-code, mw-css, mw-js)
+* (bug 6711) Add $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups to allow finer control over
+ usergroup assignment.
+* Introduce 'UserEffectiveGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 10387) Detect and handle '.php5' extension environments at install time
+* Introduce 'ShowRawCssJs' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 10404) Show rights log for the selected user in Special:Userrights
+* New javascript for upload page that will show a warning if a file with the
+ "destination filename" already exists.
+* Add 'editsection-brackets' message to allow localization (or removal) of the
+ brackets in the "[edit]" link for sections
+* (bug 10437) Move texvc styling to shared.css
+* Introduce "raw editing" mode for the watchlist, to allow bulk additions,
+ removals, and convenient exporting of watchlist contents
+* Show "undo" links in page histories
+* Option to jump to specified time period in user contributions
+* Improved feedback on "rollback success" page
+* Show distinct 'namespaceprotected' message to users when namespace protection
+ prevents page editing
+* (bug 9936) Per-edit suppression of preview-on-first edit with "preview=no"
+* Allow showing a one-off preview on first edit with "preview=yes"
+* (bug 9151) Remove timed redirects on "Return to X" pages for accessibility.
+* Link to user logs in toolbox when viewing a user page
+* (bug 10508) Allow HTML attributes on <gallery>
+* (bug 1962) Allow HTML attributes on <math>
+* (bug 10530) Introduce optional "sp-contributions-explain" message for
+ additional explanation in Special:Contributions
+* (bug 10520) Preview licences during upload via AJAX (toggle with
+ $wgAjaxLicensePreview)
+* New Parser::setTransparentTagHook for parser extension and template
+ compatibility
+* Introduced 'ContributionsToolLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
+ information
+* Add a message if category is empty
+* Add CSS compatibility for Opera 9.5
+* Remove largely untested handheld stylesheet, which was causing more trouble
+ than good. Proper handheld support will be added at a future date. For now,
+ display should be acceptable either with CSS turned off or when using a so-
+ phisticated handheld browser.
+* (bug 3173) Option to offer exported pages as a download, rather than displaying
+ inline, as in most browsers
+* Pass the user as an argument to 'isValidPassword' hook callbacks; see
+ docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'UserGetRights' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 9595) Pass new Revision to the 'ArticleInsertComplete' and
+ 'ArticleSaveComplete' hooks; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 9575) Accept upload description from GET parameters
+* Skip the difference engine cache when 'action=purge' is used while requesting
+ a difference page, to allow refreshing the cache in case of errors
+* (bug 10701) Link to Special:Listusers in default Special:Statistics messages
+* Improved file history presentation
+* (bug 10739) Users can now enter comments when reverting files
+* Improved handling of permissions errors
+* (bug 10793) "Mark patrolled" links will now be shown for users with
+ patrol permissions on all eligible diff pages
+* (bug 10655) Show standard tool links for blocked users in block log messages
+* Show standard tool links for blocked users in Special:Ipblocklist
+* Miscellaneous aesthetic improvements to Special:Ipblocklist
+* (bug 10826) Added link trail with Cyrillic characters for Mongolian language
+* (bug 10859) Introduce 'UserGetImplicitGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
+ more information
+* (bug 10832) Include user information when viewing a deleted revision
+* (bug 10872) Fall back to sane defaults when generating protection selector
+ labels for custom restriction levels
+* Show edit count in user preferences
+* Improved support for audio/video extensions
+* (bug 10937) Distinguish overwritten files in upload log
+* Introduce 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
+ information
+* Confirmation is now required when deleting old versions of files
+* (bug 7535) Users can now enter comments when deleting old versions of files
+* (bug 11001) Submit Special:Newpages as a GET, rather than a POST request
+* The <strong></strong> around links to watched pages in change lists now
+ has a class - "mw-watched"
+* (bug 9002) Provide a "view/restore deleted edits" link on Special:Upload
+ when a destination filename is provided that corresponds with previous
+ deleted files
+* Make the "invalid special page" message clearer
+* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'upload file' button at Special:Upload
+* Introduced 'SkinAfterBottomScripts' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
+ more information
+* (bug 11095) Honour "preview on first edit" preference when preloading
+ text for a non-existent page
+* (bug 11022) Use a more accurate page title for Special:Whatlinkshere and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked
+* Add link to user contributions in normal watchlist edit mode
+* (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow
+ modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new
+ argument is supplied
+* (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the
+ text that prefixes a new section link in Recent Changes
+
+== Bugfixes since 1.10 ==
+
+* (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi
+* (bug 9670) Follow redirects when render edit section links to transcluded
+ templates.
+* (bug 6204) Fix incorrect unindentation with $wgMaxTocLevel
+* (bug 3431) Suppress "next page" link in Special:Search at end of results
+* Don't show unblock form if the user doesn't have permission to use it
+ (cosmetic change, no vulnerabilities existed)
+* Subtitle success message when unblocking a block ID instead of a pseudo link
+ like [[User:#123|#123]]
+* Use the standard HTTP fetch functions when retrieving remote wiki pages
+ through transwiki, so we can take advantage of cURL goodies if available
+* Disable user JavaScript on Special:Userlogin, Special:Resetpass and
+ Special:Preferences, to avoid a compromised script sniffing passwords, etc.
+* (bug 9854, 3770) Clip overflow text in gallery boxes for visual cleanliness
+ instead of letting it flow outside the box or trigger ugly scroll bars.
+* Tooltips for print version and permalink
+* Links to the MediaWiki namespace for system messages having their default
+ values are no longer shown as nonexistent (e.g., in red)
+* Special:Ipblocklist differentiates between empty list and no search results.
+* (bug 5375) profiling does not respect read-only mode.
+* (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts
+* (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset
+* (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR
+* (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer
+ throws warnings.
+* (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error.
+* (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines.
+ Diff style rules have been broken out to common/diff.css,
+ and the dupes removed from the default skin files.
+ Skins can still override the default rules.
+* (bug 1229) Balance columns in diff display evenly
+* Right-align diff line numbers in RTL language display
+* (bug 9332) Fix instructions in tests/README
+* (bug 9813) Reject usernames containing '#' to avoid silent truncation
+ of fragments during the normalisation process
+* (bug 7989) RSS feeds content now use black text when using white background.
+* (bug 9971) Typo in a french language message.
+* (bug 9973) Changed size was shown in advanced recentchanges collapsible items
+ with $wgRCShowChangedSized = false.
+* Fix PHP strict standards warning in enhanced recent changes.
+* (bug 5850) Added hexadecimal html entities comments for $digitTransformTable
+ entries.
+* (bug 7432) Change language name for Aromanian (roa-rup)
+* (bug 908) Unexistent special pages now generate a red link.
+* (bug 7899) Added \hline and \vline to the list of allowed TeX commands
+* (bug 7993) support mathematical symbol classes
+* (bug 10007) Allow Block IP to work with Postgrs again.
+* Add Google Wireless Transcoder to the Unicode editing blacklist
+* (bug 10083) Fix for Special:Version breakage on PHP 5.2 with some hooks
+* (bug 3624) TeX: \ker, \hom, \arg, \dim treated like \sin & \cos
+* (bug 10132, 10134) Restore back-compatibility Image::imageUrl() function
+* (bug 10113) Fix double-click for view source on protected pages
+* (bug 10117) Special:Wantedpages doesn't handle invalid titles in result
+ set [now prints out a warning]
+* (bug 10118) Introduced Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, report which lists
+ templates with a high number of inclusion links
+* (bug 10104) Fixed Database::getLag() for PostgreSQL and Oracle
+* (bug 9820) session.save_path check no longer halts installation, but
+ warns of possible bad values
+* (bug 9978) Fixed session.save_path validation when using extended
+ configuration format, e.g. "5;/tmp"
+* Don't generate a diff link in the patrol log if the page doesn't exist
+* (bug 10067) Translations for former skins removed from message files
+* (bug 9993) Force $wgShowExceptionDetails on during installation
+* (bug 9980) Validate administrator username and password during
+ installation
+* (bug 9383) Don't set a default value for BLOB column in rc-deleted
+ database patch
+* (bug 10149) Don't show full template list on section-0 edit
+* (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob()
+ and decodeBlob()
+* (bug 6743) Don't link broken image links to the upload form when uploads
+ are disabled
+* (bug 9679) Improve documentation for $wgSiteNotice
+* (bug 10215) Show custom editing introduction when editing existing pages
+* (bug 10223) Fix edit link in noarticletext localizations for fr, oc
+* (bug 10247) Fix IP address regex to avoid false positive IPv6 matches
+* (bug 9948) Workaround for diff regression with old Mozilla versions
+* (bug 10265) Fix regression in category image gallery paging
+* (bug 8577) Fix some weird misapplications of time zones.
+ {{CURRENT*}} functions now consistently use UTC as intended, while
+ {{LOCAL*}} functions return local time per server config or $wgLocaltimezone.
+ Signature dates for Japanese and other languages including weekday now show
+ the correct day to match the rest of the time in local time.
+* Escape the output of magic variables that return page name or part of it
+* (bug 10309) Initialise parser state properly in extractSections(), fixes
+ some cases where section edits broke because tags were improperly stripped
+* Avoid PHP notice errors when doing HTTP proxy purges for an empty list
+* As intended, *skip* the HTTP proxy purges when doing HTCP purges
+* (bug 9696) Fix handling of brace transformations in "pagemovedtext"
+* (bug 10325) Fix regression in form action on Special:Listusers
+* Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving
+ overlong key errors.
+* Fixed zero-padding issues with MySQL 5 binary schema
+* (bug 10344) Don't follow a redirect after changing its protection level
+* (bug 10333) Correct date format in Slovenian
+* (bug 10160) Show error message for unknown namespace on Special:Allpages and
+ Special:Prefixindex; making forms prettier for RTL wikis.
+* (bug 10334) Replace normal spaces before percent (%) signs with non-breaking
+ spaces
+* (bug 10372) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores namespace aliases
+* (bug 10198) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores interwiki prefixes
+* namespaceDupes.php should work better for initial-lowercase wikis
+* (bug 10377) "Permanent links" to revisions still work if the page is moved
+ and the redirect deleted
+* (bug 7071) Properly handle an 'oldid' passed to view or edit that doesn't
+ match the given title. Fixes inconsistencies with talk, history, edit links.
+* (bug 10397) Fix AJAX watch error fallback when we receive a bogus result
+* (bug 10396) Fix AJAX error when $wgScriptPath/index.php is not valid;
+ using $wgScript now included in JS info
+* Use native XMLHttpRequest class in preference to ActiveX on IE 7; this
+ avoids the "ActiveX "Do you want to allow ActiveX?" prompt when something
+ security settings are cranked this way and AJAX-y gets used.
+* Delay AJAX watch initialization until click so IE 6 with ugly security
+ settings doesn't prompt you until you use the link.
+* (bug 10401) Provide non-redirecting link to original title in Special:Movepage
+* Fix broken handling of log views for page titles consisting of one
+ or more zeros, e.g. "0", "00" etc.
+* Fix read permission check for special pages with subpage parameters, e.g.
+ Special:Confirmemail
+* Fix read permission check for unreadable page titles which are numerically
+ equivalent to a whitelisted title
+* '?>' closing tag removed from all files to help avoid problems with extraneous
+ whitespace (broken XML feeds, etc.)
+* Don't use garbled parser cache output when viewing custom CSS or JavaScript
+ pages
+* (bug 10406) Fix Special:Listusers filter form for non-ASCII localizations
+* Fix empty message checks for message names containing &
+ This corrects some odd behavior with sidebar items and custom namespaces
+ containing ampersands.
+* (bug 10375) Change thousands separator character to for Latin (la)
+* (bug 10477) Fix AJAX watch for Farsi on Firefox: JavaScript encoding tweak
+* (bug 10496) Fix broken DISTINCT option logic in database backend
+* Fix CSS media declaration for "screen, projection"; was causing some
+ validation issues
+* (bug 10495) $wgMemcachedDebug set twice in includes/DefaultSettings.php
+* (bug 10316) Prevent inconsistent cached skin settings in gen=js by setting
+ the intended skin directly in the URL.
+* (bug 9903) Don't mark redirects in categories as stubs
+* (bug 6965) Cannot include "Template:R" with {{R}} (magic word conflict)
+* Padding parser functions now work with strings like '0' that evaluate to false
+* (bug 10332) Title->userCan( 'edit' ) may return false positive
+* Fix bug with <nowiki> in front of links for wikis where linkPrefixExtension is true
+* (bug 10552) Suppress rollback link in history for single-revision pages
+* (bug 10538) Gracefully handle invalid input on move success page
+* Fix for Esperanto double-x-encoding in move success page
+* (bug 10526) Fix toolbar/insertTags behavior for IE 6/7 and Opera (8+)
+ Now matches the selection behavior on Mozilla / Safari.
+ Patch by Alex Smotrov.
+* Don't show non-functional toolbar buttons on Opera 7 anymore
+* (bug 9151) Fix relative subpage links with section fragments
+* (bug 10560) Adding a space between category letter heading and "continues"
+* (bug 4650) Keep impossibly large/small counts off Special:Statistics
+* (bug 10608) PHP notice when installing with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 10615) Fix for transwiki import when CURL not available
+* (bug 8054) Return search page for empty search requests with ugly URLs
+* (bug 10572) Force refresh after clearing visitation timestamps on watchlist
+* (bug 10631) Warn when illegal characters are removed from filename at upload
+* Fix several JavaScript bugs under MSIE 5/Macintosh
+* (bug 10591) Use Arabic numerals (0,1,2...) for the Malayam language
+* (bug 10642) Fix shift-click checkbox behavior for Opera 9.0+ and 6.0
+* Work around Safari bug with pages ending in ".gz" or ".tgz"
+* Removed obsolete maintenance/changeuser.sql script; use RenameUser extension
+* (bug 2735) "Preview" shown in title bar for action=submit on special pages
+* Removed "restore" links from the deletion log embedded in Special:Undelete
+* Improved error reporting and robustness for file delete/undelete.
+* Improved speed of file delete by storing the SHA-1 hash in image/oldimage
+* Fixed leading zero in base 36 SHA-1 hash
+* Protection form no longer produces JavaScript errors
+* (bug 10741) File histories show "delete" links for non-sysops
+* (bug 10744) Treat "noarticletext" and "noarticletextanon" as wiki text when
+ used on a non-existent page with "action=info"
+* Fix escaping of raw message text when used on a non-existent page with
+ "action=info"
+* (bug 10683) Fix inconsistent handling of URL-encoded titles in links
+ used in redirects (i.e. they now work)
+* (bug 8878) Changes to $dateFormats in German localization (removing unused,
+ nonexistent formats, putting time after date)
+* (bug 10769) Database::update() should return boolean result
+* Fix preference checkbox display for right-to-left languages which caused
+ them to be hidden in IE in some cases
+* Fix upload form display in right-to-left languages
+* Fixed regression in blocking of username '0'
+* (bug 9437) Don't overwrite edit form submission handler when setting up
+ edit box scroll position preserve/restore behaviour
+* (bug 10805) Fix "undo" link when viewing the diff of the most recent
+ change to a page using "diff=0"
+* (bug 10765) img_auth.php will now refuse logged-out requests where
+ $wgWhitelistRead is undefined, instead of (incorrectly) honouring them
+* Fixed img_auth.php file name extraction for whitelist checking
+* Tweak spacing of email preference display
+* Table sorting JavaScript prefers textContent over innerText to allow hidden
+ sort keys to work on Safari
+* (bug 4530) Fix local name of Kurdish language
+* (bug 10830) Fix local name of Haitian Creole language
+* Fix invalid XHTML in Special:Protectedpages
+* Fix comments in contributions and log pages for right-to-left languages
+* Make installer include_path-independent, so it should work on hosts which
+ disable user setting of PHP include_path setting
+* glob() is horribly unreliable and doesn't work on some systems, including
+ free.fr shared hosting. No longer using it in Language::getLanguageNames()
+* (bug 10763) Fix multi-insert logic for PostgreSQL
+* Fix invalid XHTML when viewing a deleted revision
+* Fix syntax error in translations of magic words in Romanian language
+* (bug 8737) Fix warnings caused by incorrect use of `/dev/null` when piping
+ process error output under Windows
+* (bug 7890) Don't list redirects to special pages in Special:BrokenRedirects
+* (bug 10783) Resizing PNG-24 images with GD no longer causes all alpha
+ channel transparency to be lost and transparent pixels to be turned black
+* (bug 9339) General error pages were transforming messages and their parameters
+ in the wrong order
+* (bug 9026) Incorrect heading numbering when viewing Special:Statistics with
+ "auto-numbered headings" enabled
+* Fixed invalid XHTML in Special:Upload
+* (bug 11013) Make sure dl() is available before attempting to use it to check
+ available databases in installer
+* Resizing transparent GIF images with GD now retains transparency by skipping
+ resampling
+* (bug 11065) Fix regression in handling of wiki-formatted EXIF metadata
+* Double encoding broke Special:Newpages for some languages
+* Adding a newline before the statistics footer, to prevent parsing problems
+* Preventing the TOC from appearing in Special:Statistics
+* (bug 11082) Fix check for fully-specced table names in Database::tableName
+* (bug 11067) Fix regression in upload conflict thumbnail display
+* (bug 10985) Resolved cached entries on Special:DoubleRedirects were being
+ supressed, breaking paging - now strikes out "fixed" results
+* (bug 8393) <sup> and <sub> need to be preserved (without attributes) for
+ entries in the table of contents
+* (bug 11114) Fix regression in read-only mode error display during editing
+* Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure
+ that the first page_title is truly the first page title.
+* (bug 10836) Change the summary on creating of new section
+* Inclusion of Special:Wantedpages now works again
+
+== API changes since 1.10 ==
+
+Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
+
+* New properties: links, templates, images, langlinks, categories, external
+ links
+* Breaking Change: imagelinks renamed into imageusage (il->iu)
+* Bug fix: incorrect generator behavior in some cases
+* JSON format allows an optional callback function to wrap the result.
+* Login module disabled until a more secure solution can be implemented
+* (bug 9938) Querying by revision identifier returns the most recent revision
+ for the corresponding page, rather than the requested revision
+* (bug 8772) Filter page revision queries by user
+* (bug 9927) User contributions queries do not accept IP addresses
+* Watchlist feed now reports a proper feed item when the user is not logged in
+* Watchlist feed date bug fixed - automatically shows one last day
+* Watchlist feed now allows to specify number of hours to monitor
+* list=allpages now returns a list instead of a map in JSON format
+* Breaking Change: in json, revisions are now returned as a list, not as a map.
+* Add: prop=info can show page is new flag, current page length, and visit
+ counter.
+* Change: Query watchlist now shows flags only when explicitly requested with
+ wlparam=flags
+* rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible from query watchlist
+* action=usercontribs: additional filtering by ucshow=; selection of needed
+ fields with ucprop=; the textid (rev_text_id) is no longer being exposed
+* (bug 9970) Breaking Change: backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage now return
+ lists in JSON instead of a map, and do not return anything when titles do
+ not exist
+* (bug 9121) Introduced indexpageids query parameter to list the page_id
+ values of all returned page items
+* (bug 10147) Now interwiki titles are not processed but added to a separate
+ "interwiki" section of the output.
+* Added categorymembers list to query for pages in a category.
+* (bug 10260) Show page protection status
+* (bug 10392) Include MediaWiki version details in version output
+* (bug 10411) Site language in meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 10391) action=help doesn't return help if format is fancy markup
+* backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage lists should use (bl|ei|iu)title parameter
+ instead of titles. Titles for these lists is obsolete and might stop working soon.
+* Added prop=imageinfo - gets image properties and upload history
+* (bug 10211) Added db server replication lag information in meta=siteinfo
+* Added external url search within wiki pages (list=exturlusage)
+* Added link enumeration (list=alllinks)
+* Added registered users enumeration (list=allusers)
+* Added full text search in titles and content (list=search)
+* (bug 10684) Expanded list=allusers functionality
+* Possible breaking change: prop=revisions no longer includes pageid for rvprop=ids
+* Added rvprop=size to prop=revisions (The size will not be shown if it is NULL in the database)
+* list=allpages now allows to filter by article min/max size and protection status
+* Added site statistics (siprop=statistics for meta=siteinfo)
+* (bug 10902) Unable to fetch user contributions from IP addresses
+* `list=usercontribs` no longer requires that the user exist
+* (bug 10971) `aufrom` parameter doesn't work with spaces
+* Fix username handling issue with `auprefix` parameter
+* Treat underscores as spaces for `aufrom` and `auprefix` parameters
+* Added edit/delete/... token retrieval to prop=info
+* Added meta=userinfo - logged-in user information, group membership, rights
+* (bug 11072) Fix regression in API image history query
+* (bug 11115) Adding SHA1 hash to imageinfo query
+* (bug 10898) API does not return an edit token for non-existent pages
+* (bug 10890) Timestamp support for categorymembers query
+* (bug 10980) Add exclude redirects on backlinks
+* IPv6 titles in User namespace are normalized (run cleanupTitles.php to fix any old stray pages)
+
+== Maintenance script changes since 1.10 ==
+
+* Add support for wgMaxTocLevel option in parserTests
+* (bug 6823) Disable article view counter in maintenance/dumpHTML.php
+* Fix maintenance/importImages.php so it doesn't barf PHP errors when no
+ suitable files are found, and make the list of extensions an option (defaults
+ to $wgFileExtensions)
+* Add option to maintenance/createAndPromote.php to give the user bureaucrat
+ permissions (--bureaucrat)
+* Allow overwriting existing files with a conflicting name using
+ maintenance/importImages.php
+* (bug 10266) Use native newlines when rebuilding a messages file.
+
+== Languages updated since 1.10 ==
+
+* Afrikaans (af)
+* Arabic (ar)
+* Bikol (bcl)
+* Bulgarian (bg)
+* Catalan (ca)
+* Danish (da)
+* German (de)
+* Greek (el)
+* Esperanto (eo)
+* Spanish (es)
+* Estonian (et)
+* Extremaduran (ext)
+* Farsi (fa)
+* Finnish (fi)
+* Vöro (fiu-vro)
+* French (fr)
+* Français Cadien (frc) (new)
+* Franco-Provençal/Arpetan (frp)
+* Galician (gl)
+* Hakka (hak)
+* Hebrew (he)
+* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
+* Haitian (ht)
+* Indonesian (id)
+* Icelandic (is)
+* Italian (it)
+* Japanese (ja)
+* Georgian (ka)
+* Kabyle (kab)
+* Kazakh (kk)
+* Korean (ko)
+* Kinaray-a (krj) (new)
+* Kurdish (ku)
+* Latin (la)
+* Lao (lo)
+* Lithuanian (lt)
+* Latviešu (lv)
+* Malayalam (ml)
+* Bahasa Melayu (ms)
+* Burmese (my)
+* Low German (nds)
+* Dutch (nl)
+* Norwegian (no)
+* Occitan (oc)
+* Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (pa)
+* Polish (pl)
+* Piedmontese (pms)
+* Portuguese (pt)
+* Romani (rmy)
+* Romanian (ro)
+* Aromanian (roa-rup)
+* Russian (ru)
+* Sakha (sah)
+* Sango (se) (new)
+* Slovak (sk)
+* Slovenian (sl)
+* Shona (sn)
+* Somali (so)
+* Albanian (sq)
+* Sundanese (su)
+* Swedish (sv)
+* Tamil (ta)
+* Thai (th)
+* Tigrinya (ti)
+* Setswana (tn)
+* Tok Pisin (tpi)
+* Uyghur (ug)
+* Volapük (vo)
+* Winaray (war) (new)
+* Yiddish (yi)
+* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
+* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
+* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
+* Cantonese (zh-yue)
+
+== MediaWiki 1.10 ==
+
+This is the Spring 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
+
+MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
+quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
+"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
+
+Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
+from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
+will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
+
+Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
+it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
+
+== Configuration changes ==
+
+* A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php).
+ It lets you specify if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized
+ output will be made lighter making things easier to read.
+* The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be
+ customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
+ the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
+* Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
+ $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
+* Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser
+* Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions
+* (Bug 8590) limited HTML is now always enabled ($wgUserHtml = true).
+* Deprecated $wgUseImageResize, thumbnailing will be enabled unconditionally.
+
+== New features since 1.9 ==
+
+* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to
+ Special:Statistics
+* (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
+* (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
+* Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
+ starts page output
+ (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
+* Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded
+ into a page protected with this option enabled
+* (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown
+ out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output.
+* (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be
+ overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
+* Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
+ determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
+ permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
+* (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
+* (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
+* (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
+ the appropriate permission
+* (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
+* (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
+* Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
+* Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
+* Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
+* (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
+* (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
+* Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
+ and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
+ to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
+ "semi protected".
+* (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same
+ format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite,
+ as are protections made with the new field left blank.
+* (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
+ keywords
+* (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
+* (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as
+ MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are
+ disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also
+ be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr).
+* Sort log types in Special:Log
+* Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit
+ toolbar buttons
+* Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an
+ IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.)
+* (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages
+* (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages.
+* (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
+* (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the
+ confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id.
+* (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page
+* (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions
+* (bug 1723) Article size in history
+* (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames
+* (bug 6997) Link from Special:log/block to unblock form
+* (bug 9117) Link from Special:log/delete to undelete form
+* Link from Special:log/protect to change protection form
+* (bug 1196) Add IPv6 support added to blocks, more consistancy for IPv6 contribs
+* (bug 3984) Searching in logs by title%
+* Show thumbnail of existing image if image exists already under this filename
+* (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete
+* Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols
+* (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images
+* Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase
+ extension exists
+* (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere
+* Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt
+ for more information
+* (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon"
+ messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target
+* (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction')
+* (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images
+* (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path
+ which can lead to broken session storage
+* (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links
+* (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions
+* Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'mywatchlist' message; used on personal menu to link to watchlist page
+* Introduce magic word {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
+* Introduced media handlers for file-type specific operations.
+* Improved error reporting for image thumbnailing
+* Added sharpening option for ImageMagick thumbnailing
+* (bug 9656) Autosummaries will be generated for deletion of pages longer than
+ 500 characters
+* Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip
+* (bug 9196) Installer now check that zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is off
+* (bug 9697) Introduce 'InternalParseBeforeLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* 'contribsub' message changed to 'contribsub2' with two parameters to permit
+ better localization. Change is reverse-compatible and can be ignored for
+ most wikis.
+* Adding a 'reason' field to Special:Userrights
+
+== Bugfixes since 1.9 ==
+
+* (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
+* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála
+* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
+* Fixed up the AjaxSearch
+* Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
+ null to be treated properly with isset.
+* Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
+* Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
+ (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
+* (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
+* Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
+ optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
+* PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated
+* (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
+* Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
+* (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
+* Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
+* Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
+* (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
+* (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions
+* (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins
+* (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback
+* (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer
+* Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on
+* (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is
+ not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
+* Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:")
+* use configured cache servers for mctest.php
+* bucket details in mcc.php
+* fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
+* full ID range for moveToExternal
+* fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
+* maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
+* recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
+* profile unicode cleanup in Xml
+* log slow parses in Article.php
+* profile wfMsgReal
+* log mkdir failures
+* profile AutoLoader
+* rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
+* security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
+* Undelete page list can use plural marker
+* (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
+* (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
+* (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
+* (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
+* Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag.
+* Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>')
+* (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header
+* Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment
+* (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist
+ in a consistent manner
+* (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users
+* ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files
+* (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language
+* Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name
+* (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the
+ message page exists
+* ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found
+* (bug 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li)
+* (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
+* (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
+* Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
+* (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation
+* (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11;
+ accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows.
+* Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link
+ red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an
+ alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating.
+* (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync
+* (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies
+* (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media
+* (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile
+* (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page
+* (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs
+* Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title
+ is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as
+ a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL
+* (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies
+* Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles
+* Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js
+* (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area
+* (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note
+ in DefaultSettings to make it clear.
+* (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression
+ affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second
+ edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin.
+* Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script
+* (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key
+* (bug 6844) Use <ins> and <del> tags to emphase the differences
+* (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration
+* (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to
+* Add AlphabeticPager abstract class
+* Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories
+* (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent
+ pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images
+* Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was
+ opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner
+ cases.
+* (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix
+* Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied
+ by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence
+ of other tables while they work.
+* Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758
+ for better localisations.
+* (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php
+* (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history
+* (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice.
+* (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked
+ when using the Postgres database.
+* Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php.
+ The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older
+ LocalSettings.php files.
+* Give Content-Length header for HTTP/1.0 clients.
+* Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering.
+* Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to
+ dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES
+ and such are used.
+* Add 'charset' to Content-Type headers on various HTTP error responses
+ to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. PHP sends only
+ 'text/html' by default when the script didn't specify more details,
+ which some inconsiderate browsers consider a license to autodetect
+ the deadly, hard-to-escape UTF-7.
+ This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when
+ $wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant
+ on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec:
+ http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
+* Trackback responses now specify XML content type
+* (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode
+ to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly,
+ particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia
+* (bug 8919) Suppress paging links and related messages where there are no
+ rows to list for query pages
+* (bug 9057) Standardize MediaWiki: namespace for oc
+* (bug 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when
+ there are none
+* (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres)
+* (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and
+ Special:DoubleRedirects
+* (bug 8918) Enable PLURAL option for MediaWiki:showingresults and
+ MediaWiki:showingresultsnum
+* (bug 9122) Fix minor display issue in RTL with section edit link margin
+* (bug 5805) Enable PLURAL option for some messages of watchlist and statistic
+* (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other
+ languages section of MonoBook skin
+* (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges.
+* (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages
+* (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres
+* (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook
+* (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect
+ loops on some server configurations
+* (bug 9097) column "pr_pagetype" does not exist
+* (bug 9217) Balance wfProfile calls in Skin::outputPage
+* (bug 9222) PostgreSQL updater should not be version-specific
+* Fix fallback implementation of mb_strlen so it works and isn't insanely
+ slow for large strings, since it's used for page edit lengths
+* (bug 8815) Setting password in initUser() breaks LdapAuthentication plugin
+* (bug 9256) Add a quick note to index.php header comments
+* Make Special:Listusers caseinsensitive for first letter
+* Default tidy.conf has been moved from extensions module into includes.
+* Ignore lonely '''''
+* (bug 9244) When calling edit page for nonexistent section, generate error
+ inside of just discarding edits, since edit links sometimes go to the wrong
+ place.
+* (bug 9019) No warning during upload if image description page exists, but no
+ image
+* (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space.
+* (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to bytea for Postgres
+* (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language
+* (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked
+* (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader
+* (bug 4777) Separate prev/next messages for Special:Whatlinkshere
+* Merge approx 15 missing Wikipedia language codes into wikipedia-interwiki.sql
+ based on Jeff Merkey's mediawiki-1.9.3.WG-20070316.tar.gz.bz2 archive.
+* (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles
+* (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log
+ instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension
+* (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent
+ target page instead of silently redirecting
+* (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}}
+* (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached
+ templates the same as the first transclusion.
+* (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment
+* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages
+* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages
+* (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions
+* (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere
+* (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed
+ to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions
+* Fixed $wgFeedLimit
+* (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
+* (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 9554) Extension-provided group name messages not used
+* (bug 9565) Translate template namespace name for Hindi (hi)
+* (bug 8599) Correct localized names of zh-variants
+* (bug 3366) Require skins based on SkinTemplate to override the skinname
+ property.
+* (bug 9220) Removed obsoletes functions in install-utils.inc.
+* Removed obsoletes Title::getRelatedCache and Title:touchArray
+* (bug 7285) Check MySQL username length during install
+* (bug 6910) Correct date/time formats in Vietnamese (vi)
+* (bug 9608) Correctly use ORDER BY in dumpLinks.php
+* (bug 9609) Correctly use ORDER BY in SpecialWhatlinkshere.php
+* Special:Random and Special:Randomredirect now try harder to send the user to
+ a random page, and will give an error message if none really can be found
+ instead of sending the user to the main page like they used to
+* Fix object variable used for displaying "not-patrolled" CSS class on list
+* Fixed interaction of page parameter to ImagePage with the HTML file cache
+* Fixed MIME type for SVG files, will be silently changed from image/svg
+ to image/svg+xml after loading from the database.
+* Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump
+ instead.
+* Fixed odd behaviour in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors
+* (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and
+ MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited.
+* (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter
+* Fixed upgrade for the non-standard MySQL schemas
+* Disable MySQL's strict mode at session start for MySQL 4.1+, to avoid the
+ various problems that occur when it is on.
+* (bug 9585) Fix regression in tidy usage in Special:Undelete previews
+* (bug 3826) Normalize some invalid cookie name characters when setting
+ up $wgCookiePrefix. Completes application of patch by Anders Kaseorg.
+* (bug 9649) Fix RTL form alignment for Special:Movepage
+* (bug 9582) Members of bot group now mark edits patrolled by default
+* (bug 9669) Fix limit ordering for rebuildrecentchanges; broken since
+ converted from 1.4 to 1.5 schema
+* (bug 9682) Revert PHP 5.1 dependency on warning suppression for SVN info
+* (bug 5959) Anchors dropped from stub links
+* (bug 3348) Some additional weak password checks: password which is same
+ as username will now be rejected.
+* (bug 8602) Converted Special:Contributions to use an IndexPager. The
+ interpretation of the offset parameter has changed, and the go parameter
+ has been removed.
+* (bug 6204) Fixes for indentation with $wgMaxTocLevel:
+ - don't emit too many list close tags after an invisible header
+ - don't emit too many final list close tags if last header is invisible
+ - don't emit TOC when there are no visible headers
+* (bug 7629) Fix $wgBrowserBlackList to avoid false positive on MSIE
+ when certain plugins are present which alter the user agent
+
+
+== Maintenance ==
+
+* New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
+ progress in the extension repository.
+* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
+ automatically attempt to create the required tables
+* --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
+* Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
+* parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
+ it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
+* (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php
+ exists but is not readable
+* dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php
+ and importTextFile.php scripts
+* (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script
+* (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org
+* (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning
+* Restore '--norc' option for maintenance/importTextFile.php
+* Help information for maintenance/importTextFile.php now easier to read on
+ consoles
+* Doxygen documentation now show the revision number of each file, generate
+ graphs using dot and include a search engine.
+
+
+== Languages updated ==
+
+* Arabic (ar)
+* Aramaic (arc)
+* Aymara (ay)
+* Belarusian normative (be)
+* Belarusian alternative (be-x-old)
+* Bulgarian (bg)
+* Bihara (bh)
+* Breton (br)
+* Catalan (ca)
+* Czech (cs)
+* Danish (da)
+* German (de)
+* Greek (el)
+* Esperanto (eo)
+* Spanish (es)
+* Estonian (et)
+* Basque (eu)
+* Finnish (fi)
+* Võro (fiu-vro)
+* French (fr)
+* Hebrew (he)
+* Hindi (hi)
+* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
+* Hungarian (hu)
+* Armenian (hy)
+* Indonesian (id)
+* Italian (it)
+* Japanese (ja)
+* Javanese (jv)
+* Georgian (ka)
+* Kabyle (kab)
+* Kazakh (kk)
+* Korean (ko)
+* Kashmiri (ks)
+* Ripuarian (ksh)
+* Latin (la)
+* Luganda (lg)
+* Limburgish (li)
+* Lithuanian (lt)
+* Latvian (lv)
+* Marathi (mr)
+* Low Saxon (nds)
+* Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
+* Nepali (ne)
+* Nepal Bhasa (new)
+* Dutch (nl)
+* Occitan (oc)
+* Pali (pi)
+* Polish (pl)
+* Romanian (ro)
+* Russian (ru)
+* Sanskrit (sa)
+* Sicilian (scn)
+* Slovak (sk)
+* Sundanese (su)
+* Swedish (sv)
+* Tahitian (ty)
+* Ukrainian (uk)
+* Urdu (ur)
+* Uzbek (uz)
+* Vietnamese (vi)
+* Zealandic (zea)
+* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
+* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
+* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
+* Cantonese (zh-yue)
+
+== Compatibility ==
+
+MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+
+PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
+http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
+Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
+
+MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
+At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
+
+
+== Upgrading ==
+
+1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, and will not work without schema
+updates.
+
+If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
+new database fields are filled with data.
+
+If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
+changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
+break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
+
+See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
+
+= MediaWiki release notes =