-
-= MediaWiki 1.2 =
-
-== MediaWiki 1.2.6, 2004-05-24 ==
-* Spam blocker ({{wg|SpamRegex}} - refuses to save edits that match)
-* Updated documentation about {{wg|WhitelistRead}}
-* Ensure that searchindex table is created as MyISAM
-* Interwiki cache timeout (memcached)
-* Fix uploads on Windows with magic_quotes_gpc
-* Some config fixes for Windows (slashes etc)
-* Local interwiki URL redirects
-* Fixed obscure deletion problem in squid mode on corrupt entries
-* Language files updated to remove more hard-coded "Wikipedia" strings
-
-== MediaWiki 1.2.5, 2004-05-03 ==
-* Fixed install problem with blank root password
-* Fixed Special:Emailuser/Username links
-* Fixed main-page edit links on fuzzy search results
-* Fixed wikipedia-interwiki.sql
-* Fixed install with apache2filter (ugly URLs)
-* IP in 'go' search brings up contributions
-* Switch from broken & to ? on top-level wiki URL hack
-* Fix for moved pages in enhanced Recentchanges
-* Initial main page on new installs links to the online documentation
-
-== MediaWiki 1.2.4, 2004-04-13 ==
-* Fixed edit toolbar in Mozilla
-* Diff links in Contributions for 'top' edits
-* Fixed Nostalgia skin drop-down for register_globals off
-* Backported optional open proxy blocker
-* Backported {{wg|WhitelistRead}}
-* {{wg|CapitalLinks}} option to force full case sensitivity in titles
-* Cleaned up error handling when can't talk to database
-* Disabled unsafe command-line installer (remove the <code>die()</code> call to
-use)
-
-== MediaWiki 1.2.3, 2004-04-02 ==
-* Fixed an in-place install bug with non-root MySQL user
-* Fixed history diff checkboxes bug on titles with ampersands
-* Fixed printable link bug on special pages with parameters
-* Fixed bug that broke IP blocking w/o memcached
-* Turns off E_NOTICE warnings if PHP settings have them on (you can grope in
-and turn this off if you like to debug)
-
-== MediaWiki 1.2.2, 2004-03-28 ==
-* Fixed an upgrade bug introduced in 1.2.1.
-* Disabled {{wg|UseCategoryMagic}}, which feature is incomplete broken
-
-== MediaWiki 1.2.1, 2004-03-27 ==
-Installation, compatibility, security fixlets:
-* Detect use of PHP as CGI and disable <code>index.php/Title</code> URLs
-* Try to auto-create math tmp & output directories if not present
-* Disable Asksql in default install ({{wg|AllowSysopQueries}})
-* Better handling of <code>get_magic_quotes_gpc</code> (apostrophe problems)
-* French localisation no longer hard-codes "Wikipedia" name
-
-== MediaWiki 1.2.0, 2004-03-24 ==
-This is the new production release; it is more or less in sync with what is
-running on Wikipedia right now. However this software is provided with NO
-WARRANTY of fitness for any purpose; there may be some interesting bugs, it may
-eat all your data, and documentation may not be up to date. New features in 1.2:
-* In-place web-based installation [experimental!] Note that maintenance
-functions are not yet available through the web install script.
-* Image resizing/thumbnail generation
-* Stricter upload file extension blacklist and whitelist options
-* More flexible blocking system; time period may be set
-* Handier sysop account management. An account marked "bureaucrat" may assign
-sysop access to other accounts via Special:Makesysop. (The exact details of
-this may change in the future)
-* Support for a squid cache with explicit purging of cached anon pages
-* Optional compression of old revision text (requires zlib support)
-* Fuzzy title search (experimental, requires memcached)
-* Page rendering cache (experimental)
-* Editing toolbar to demonstrate wiki syntax to newbies (off by default in user
-preferences)
-* Support for authenticated SMTP outgoing e-mail (experimental)
-* It's now possible to assign sysop accounts from within the wiki. An account
-with this ability must be labeled with the "bureaucrat" privilege, such as the
-'Developer' account created by the install. Fixes and tweaks:
-* Now works with register_globals off!
-* Should work out of the box on MySQL 3.2.x again. On 4.x set
-{{wg|EnablePersistentLC}}<code> = true;</code> to turn on the link cache table
-for a slight rendering speed boost.
-* Should work on PHP 5.0 beta (not thoroughly tested)
-* Works with short tags disabled.
-* rebuildMessages.php can now selectively update new messages, or overwrite
-everything.
-* Some layout fixes for RTL languages.
-* Now includes arrow icons for enhanced recent changes.
-* Various bug fixes.
-
-=== Behavior changes ===
-* wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml are now renamed to index.php and redirect.php
-The old names are provided too for compatibility, but make sure they don't
-conflict if you've been putting other files in your wiki.
-* Uploaded filenames are more strictly checked than before. See bits in
-DefaultSettings.php to tweak this behavior to your needs.
-* Database messages are now enabled by default, so the interface messages can
-be tweaked through the wiki with a sysop account. Disable this if you don't
-want the performance hit.
-
-=== Database changes ===
-An index was added to recentchanges table to speed up Newpages
-(patch-rc-newindex.sql for manual updaters). Expiration date field has been
-added to ipblocks table ({{manual|patch-ipb_expiry.sql}} for manual updaters).
-The links tables have slightly stricter indexes. ('links' and 'brokenlinks' are
-not changed on existing installations.)
-
-=== Known problems ===
-The version 1.1.0 LocalSettings.sample file included the setting
-{{wg|CategoryMagic}}<code> = true;</code> this setting is for an experimental
-feature that _does not work correctly_. If you have it left over, turn it off
-or you'll see mysterious problems with vanishing links. There may be problems
-with session handling on some systems. Checking the "remember my password" box
-may help as a temporary workaround. If you receive "Cannot load input file"
-errors when trying to get at the wiki after installation, make the following
-changes:
- in LocalSettings.php change the line something like this:
- {{wg|ArticlePath}} = "/wiki/index.php/$1";
- to:
- {{wg|ArticlePath}} = "/wiki/index.php?title=$1";
- in index.php, remove these lines:
- if( isset( $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] ) ) {
- $title = substr( $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], 1 );
- } else {
- $title = $_REQUEST['title'];
- }
-
-= MediaWiki 1.1 =
-
-== MediaWiki 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 ==
-
-This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected
-to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0
-release.
-New features in 1.1:
-* New wiki table syntax:
-http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables
-* User-editable interface messages:
-http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
-* XML-wrapped page source export with optional history:
-http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export (There is not yet an
-import function!)
-* "Magic words" Fixes and tweaks:
-* linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster
-{{manual|rebuildlinks.php}}
-* Numerous bugs in [[skin:Cologne Blue|Cologne Blue]] skin fixed
-* Login gives warning about missing cookies
-* Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
-* Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
-* Problems with <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki> segments in section titles etc
-mitigated
-* Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
-* Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
-* Various exciting new profiling options.
-* Debug log is off by default.
-* Various small bugs fixed. Internal changes:
-* wfQuery has had a second parameter inserted, DB_READ or DB_WRITE. This value
-is not actually used so far.
-* Partial code for categories and Smarty template-based skins is in the tree
-but disabled.
-* Parts of Article.php have been moved to {{manual|EditPage.php}} and
-{{manual|ImagePage.php}}. New translations:
-* fi - Finnish
-* ia - Interlingua
-* no - Norwegian
-* sk - Slovak
-* ta - Tamil
-
-=== Database changes ===
-"linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with
-{{manual|update.php}}), run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create
-the table. Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
-
-= pre-MediaWiki 1.1.0 =
-
-== Mediawiki-20031118 ==
-* Image deletion fixed.
-* Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops (this is an
-irreversible action and not well logged)
-* Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
-* Many errors in {{manual|rebuildlinks.php|rebuildlinks}} script fixed.
-
-== Mediawiki-20031117 ==
-* SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
-* Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
-* Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis to coexist
-in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved password cookies.
-* Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
-* Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
-* Check existence of source page before performing a move.
-* Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
-* Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
-* Updates to some translations.
-* Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
-* Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
-* Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
-* install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions, added
-compatibility functions that might or might not help No database changes since
-20031107; upgrading should be clean.
-
-== Mediawiki-20031107 ==
-* Fixed various bugs!
-* Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
-* Limited support for memcached (see below)
-* New translations (see below)
-* Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
-* Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when the db is
-locked or the page is protected.
-* Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
-* Optional support for blocking usernames
-* Uploads disabled by default (see below)
-
-== Mediawiki-20030829 ==
-First release under MediaWiki name.
-
-=== Security note ===
-Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration
-you can reenable uploads by putting: $wgDisableUploads = false;
-into LocalSettings.php. Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that
-potentially allows logged- in users to delete arbitrary files in directories
-writable by the web server user by manually feeding false form data; this is
-now fixed. As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory!
-You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie- stealing
-JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:
-<pre>
-<Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
- # Ignore .htaccess files
- AllowOverride None
-
- # Serve HTML as plaintext
- AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
-
- # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
- php_admin_flag engine off
-
- # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
-</Directory>
-</pre>
-
-=== Database updates ===
-If you're using {{manual|update.php}}, the necessary database changes should be
-made automatically. To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29
-release, run the following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory:
-archives/patch-ipblocks.sql archives/patch-interwiki.sql
-archives/patch-indexes.sql interwiki.sql To copy in the Wikipedia
-language-prefix interwikis as well, add: wikipedia-interwiki.sql
-
-=== Translations ===
-New interface localization files are included for:
-*fy - Frisian
-*ro - Romanian
-*sl - Slovene
-*sq - Albanian
-*sr - Serbian
-
-=== Memcached ===
-Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/
-MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls to
-reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and talk page
-notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the UTF-8 conversion
-tables. MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client
-by Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with
-minimal overhead. To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets
-support (this is not in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for
-some more details. Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached
-instead of the local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by
-letting login sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers.
-(The primary other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in
-handling.) To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set
-$wgCookieDomain appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is
-new and may be volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is
-unavailable when this option is turned on.
-
-=== Online documentation ===
-Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
-built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
-License: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
-
-=== Mailing list ===
-A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
-wikitech-l list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
-
-=== UseModWiki import script ===
-A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance
-subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but does
-function for the brave and pure of heart.
-
-=== Test suite removed ===
-The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball
-release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.