+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.