-
-= 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.