it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
=== PHP 5.2 now required ==
-In 1.18, the lowest supported version of MediaWiki is now 5.2.x. Please upgrade
+In 1.18, the lowest supported version of MediaWiki is now 5.2.3. Please upgrade
PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
$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.
-* The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the
- rendering of them so skin and language specific markup does not need to be
- saved inside the parser cache note that this changes the cache key making all
- old entries in the parser cache invalid you can set $wgUseEditSectionTokens to
- false to disable this and keep your old parser cache entries.
- Note that this feature should reduce parser cache fragmentation when enabled.
* $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
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+* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension.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";
=== New features in 1.18 ===
* Added a special page, disabled by default, that allows users with the
* (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 fixes in 1.18 ===
* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated
* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
* (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
* 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.
-
-=== API changes in 1.18 ===
+* (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 15641) Fixed positioning of permissions checks in Special:Import which
+ allowed users without the 'import' permission to import pages if they directly
+ submitted the form.
+* (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
+* (bug 28485) Block::purgeExpired Database returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout
+ exceeded;"
+* (bug 27639) Transaction timeout when trying to OldLocalFile::upgradeRow()
+
+ === API changes in 1.18 ===
* (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 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
=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
* (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 'ı' (dotless i) and
+ uppercase 'i' to 'İ' (dotted i)
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer
-supported.
+MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.