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@@ -11,145 +11,45 @@ MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
 production.
 
 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
 production.
 
 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===

-* $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:CreativeCoreRdf 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.
-* $wgCategoryCollation can now use a class name as its value, in order for
-  extensions to be able to define new collations
+* Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
+* (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.

 
 === New features in 1.19 ===
 
 === New features in 1.19 ===

-* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
-* (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) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.1 (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, the slave lag should come from
-  SHOW SLAVE STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST.
-* 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 19838) Possibility to get all interwiki prefixes if the interwiki
+  cache is used.
+* $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
+  elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
+  Project Honeypot.
+* (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader.
+* (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external
+  links and images links.
+* (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry.
+* (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed
+  as with templates.
+* Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present.
+* (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit plugin.

 
 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===

-* (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 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API.
-* (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.
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if
+  $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
+  until the second was introduced in 1.17.
+* (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
+* (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
+  div#bodyContent.
+* (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 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
+  instead require() for included extensions.

 
 === API changes in 1.19 ===
 
 === API changes in 1.19 ===

-* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
-* (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&timestamps 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 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
+* (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
+* (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
+* (bug 29685) do not output NULL parentid with list=deletedrevs&drprop=parentid.
+* siprop=interwikimap and siprop=languages can use silanguagecode to have
+  a best effort language name translation. Use CLDR extension for best result.
+* (bug 30230) action=expandtemplates should not silently override invalid title inputs
+* (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure

 
 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
 
 
 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
 


@@ -157,15 +57,9 @@ 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.
 
 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 

-* 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").
+* Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.

 
 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
 
 === Other changes in 1.19 ===

-* 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)

 
 == Compatibility ==
 
 
 == Compatibility ==
 


@@ -184,7 +78,7 @@ The supported versions are:
 
 == Upgrading ==
 
 
 == Upgrading ==
 

-1.19 has several database changes since 1.17, and will not work without schema
+1.19 has several database changes since 1.18, and will not work without schema

 updates.
 
 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 updates.
 
 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons