= MediaWiki release notes =
-== Version 1.2.0rc1, 2004-02-28 ==
+Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
+setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
-This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE for the new production release. It is more or
-less in sync with what is running on Wikipedia right now. There may be
-some interesting bugs, it may eat all your data, and documentation may
-not be up to date. If you use this on a production site, BE CAREFUL.
-New features in 1.2:
-* 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)
+*** COMMITTERS! Before 1.4 release, make sure 1.3.x release notes are
+*** up to date in the file HISTORY. Don't put 1.3 updates here please.
-Fixes and tweaks:
-* Should work out of the box on MySQL 3.2.x again. On 4.x set
- $wgEnablePersistentLC = true; to turn on the link cache table
- for a slight rendering speed boost.
-* Works with short tags disabled.
-* Various bug fixes.
-* Other stuff we forgot.
-* Documentation more out of date than ever before!
+== MediaWiki 1.4 PRE-ALPHA ==
-=== Behavior changes ===
+Major changes from 1.3.x:
+* (?) Support for table prefixes for better sharing with other web apps
+* (?) PostgreSQL support
+* Optional article validation voting features
+* 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed
+* Support for faster C++ diff module (WikiDiff extension)
+* More scary link caching modes
+* Old manually maintained log pages replaced with searchable Special:Log
+* Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/
+* ... and more!
-* 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.
+=== Caveats ===
-=== Database changes ===
+Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
+produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
+set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
+cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
+MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-An index was added to recentchanges table to speed up Newpages
-(patch-rc-newindex.sql for manual updaters).
+The new 'MonoBook' skin is not compatible with PHP 5 due to bugs in the
+underlying PHPTAL library. It will be automatically disabled when running
+on PHP5; the older look and feel will be used instead.
-Expiration date field has been added to ipblocks table
-(patch-ipb_expiry.sql for manual updaters).
-
-== Version 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 rebuildlinks.php
-* Numerous bugs in 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> 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 EditPage.php and 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 update.php),
-run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table.
-
-Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
-
-== 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 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)
-
-
-=== 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:
-
- <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>
-
-
-=== Database updates ===
-
-If you're using 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.
+For notes on 1.3.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===
built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
License:
- http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
+ http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
=== Mailing 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.
-
-
-== mediawiki-20030829 ==
+=== IRC help ===
-First release under MediaWiki name.
+There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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