= MediaWiki release notes =
-== Version 1.3.0pre-alpha ==
+== Version 1.3.0beta2, 2004-06-05 ==
+
+**** THIS IS A BETA AND MAY STUNT YOUR GROWTH OR KILL YOUR PETS ****
Look & layout:
* New default layout 'MonoBook'
Wiki features:
* Image captions can now include links and other basic formatting
+* Image bounding box can be specified instead of width, e.g. as
+ 100x100px, making the image not wider than 100px and not higher
+ than 100px, keeping aspect ratio.
* Templates have been expanded with parameters, and separated from
the MediaWiki: localization scheme.
* Categories more or less work
Optional modules:
* WikiHiero hieroglyphic module can be added (separate download)
+* Timeline module can be added (separate download).
+ Requires ploticus.
* TeX now has an experimental MathML output mode (incomplete)
Installation and upgrading:
* Should now run clean with error reporting set to E_ALL.
* register_globals hack from 1.2 has been replaced with safer code
* Bundled PHPTAL 0.7.0 from http://phptal.sourceforge.net/
+ (with some patches)
+* Most image-related code moved to Image.php
+* More fixes for PHP 4.1.2 (thanks to Asheesh Laroia)
+* URL encoding fix for anchors
=== Caveats ===
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
+== Version 1.2.6, 2004-05-24 ==
+* Spam blocker ($wgSpamRegex - refuses to save edits that match)
+* Updated documentation about $wgWhitelistRead
+* 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
+
+== Version 1.2.5, 2004-05-01 ==
+* 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
+
== Version 1.2.4, 2004-04-13 ==
* Fixed edit toolbar in Mozilla