= MediaWiki release notes =
-== 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'
-* Print stylesheet now built-in to every page
-* More or less correct XHTML 1.0 (served as text/html by default)
-
-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
-
-Editing:
-* Automatic merging of edit conflicts that don't directly interfere
-* Edit summaries can now include basic formatting and links
-
-Metadata and output:
-* Linked Creative Commons copyright metadata (optional)
-* RSS 2.0 feeds for Recent Changes, New Pages
-
-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:
-* The old install.php and update.php have been removed. In-place
- installation introduced in 1.2 is now the standard installation
- and upgrade method, see INSTALL for directions.
-
-Database:
-* The links table has been changed to use a cur_id for l_from.
- The link tables must be converted on upgrade, which may entail
- some downtime.
-
-Code and compatibility:
-* 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
+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.
+
+** NOTE TO COMMITTERS: Before 1.5.0 release, rearrange these nicely
+** and move 1.4 stuff to HISTORY.
+
+== MediaWiki 1.5 ==
+
+New exciting things! Need further work and testing...
+* user groups/permissions scheme
+* e-mail change notifications
+* 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
+* Schema reworking: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
+* New WikiSyntax: -- turns into — or – depending on context
+* (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit
+* (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
+* (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
+* (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
+* (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
+* (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
+* (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month
+* (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see:
+ http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
+* (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database
+ revision id, useful for proper citation.
+* (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
+* It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
+* No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
+* What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
+* Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
+* Language conversion support for category pages
+* $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
+* ...and more!
+
+Need to merge:
+* stuff
+
+
+== Version Enotif+Eauthent EN+EA v2.00/CVS, 14.12.2004 ==
+written by Thomas Gries, Berlin and Markus Arndt, Munich
+
+Executive summary for the impatient reader:
+
+Enotif adds e-mail notification to MediaWiki and sends e-mails
+to watching users when a watch-listed page or user_talk page is changed
+http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454
+Visit the complete documentation on http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif
+
+Eauthent is a mechanism to use a temporary one-time password cycle
+to check whether the email address a user has entered is a valid one.
+http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866
+Visit the complete documentation on http://meta.wikipedia.org/Eauthent
+
+The current patch has only been checked for (see DefaultSettings.php):
+
+- php mail()
+ ( = not using PEAR:Mail() module --- I do not know anyone who uses that)
+ $wgSMTP = false;
+- MySQL database
+ ( = not using PostgreSQL --- I do not know anyone who uses that)
+ $wgDBtype = "mysql";
+ $wgSearchType = "MyISAM";
+
+- STILL TODO:
+ NEW (newpageletter) and CORR (minoreditletter) markers needs
+ corresponding "spacers"
+
+- table user_newtalk dropped; changes on usertalk pages and their
+ notifications are now fully handled via existing table watchlist
+ The user interface and behavious is unchanged to previous version.
+- updaters.inc for compatibility with older mediawiki tables:
+ the conversion script converts existing user_newtalk entries
+ watchlist table entries
+ (user_newtalk) id ==> (watchlist) NS_USER_TALK:namefromId(id) timestamp=1
+- minor bug fixes:
+ updated marker now correctly shown on watchlist page
+ watching users number display with enhanced RC view + RCUseModStyle
+- wfUrlencode() instead of rawurlencode() in enotif mails
+- duplicate enotif code moved from UserTalkUpdate.php and
+ merged into UserMailer.php and using usermailer() solely
+- fixed an enotif mail text error for user names with spaces
+- fixed missing part for suppressing watching user number
+
+v1.36:
+magic watchlist shows and counts now only the content page, notwithstanding
+the content and talk page are stored separately in watchlist.
+* bug fixed: rawurlencode for pagetitles in enotif mails
+* bug fixed: link to userpages of anonymous user are correct now
+
+* Enotif v1.34
+ bugs fixed regarding missing $oldid parameter
+
+* v1.33
+* Details:
+ Implements almost all enotif options as user preferences.
+ These are only shown on the user preference page, if they are globally
+ enabled by the corresponding admin option in DefaultSettings.php.
+ Added admin feature to let enotifs appear to come from the page editor.
+ This facilitates automatic mail sorting and anti-spam filtering; feature was
+ originally proposed by Nick Triantos, thank you !
+ Page editor's email address is however only shown, if this user enabled
+ the option "reveal my email address" in user preferences. Otherwise,
+ the enotifs appear to come from WikiAdmin as usual (tricky to program,
+ but simply trust the algorithm. or look into UserMailer.php and
+ UserTalkPage.php).
+
+* Changes from previous enotif versions
+* v1.31 is an improved version with many security and also cosmetic changes
+ applied after two first reviews by Brion Vibber. v1.31 is basically the same as
+ the older Enotif v1.30 and v1.22 versions.
+
+ Added UseMod style for recent changes view so that only the most recent
+ change of any page is listed. The (diff) and (hist) still allow to retrieve the
+ older versions at users' discretion, but the RC view is much cleaner for
+ trusted environments such as medium-size companies or family wikis.
+
+* Enotif v1.30 redesign after review by Brion Vibber 25.10.2003
+
+* v1.22 "updated (since my last visit)" also shown for users without stored
+ email address in preferences, so that they can see, what watched pages
+ have changed.
+* show "updated (since my last visit)" markers in RC, history and watchlist
+* Systemvariables to suppress updated marker in all views
+* show number of watching users in RC and on bottom of articles in
+ classic skin and in monobook skin
+* Systemvariables in DefaultSettings.php to enable or disable features
+* v1.21 now suppresses displaying the marker "updated (since my last visit)"
+ in recent changes view for the older (already visited) versions of watched
+ pages - i.e. page versions before the enotif was sent do not bear that
+ marker any longer.
+* enotif mails come with a link to the diff view between current and last
+ visited version of the watching user.
+*database structure is changed automatically when installing via the
+ recommended way (starting index.php and re-using the old database name).
+ run php /maintenance/update.php
+ OR see /maintenance/archives/patch-email-notification.sql and apply the
+ command
+ ALTER TABLE watchlist
+ ADD (wl_notificationtimestamp varchar(14) binary NOT NULL default '0');
+ manually to your database, which does not harm the non notification versions
+
+*adding a page x to the watchlist does automatically add a watch
+ for the accompanying talk_page talk:x and vice versa;
+
+== MediaWiki 1.4 BETA ==
+
+[Not everything is 100% working in beta yet, the installer needs fixes still.]
+
+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/
+* New user preference for limitting the image size for images on image description
+ pages
+* Error pages no more offer edit / talk / watch links (bug #502)
+* Allow user to preview article on first edit (bug #530)
+* New dark background skin named Amethyst (thanks Sorwena and Sorkhiri)
+* [[RFC 1234]] will now make an internal link (bug #479)
+* PhpTal skins shown bogus 'What links here' etc on special pages (bug #511)
+* Experimental code to manage user and group rights (Special:Userlevels)
+* UI language switching
+* Adding filter and username exact search match for Special:Listusers (bug #770)
+* Special:Listadmins outdated, use Special:Listusers instead (bug #857)
+* Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion
+* New tag "<gallery>" to generate a table of image thumbnails
+* Installer die if it can not write LocalSettings.php (bug #733)
+* Various special pages no more show the rss/atom feed links (bug #705)
+* Support for external authentication plug-ins
+* (bug 114) use category backlinks in Special:Recentchangeslinked
+* ... and more!
=== Caveats ===
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
+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.
-== 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
-* Diff links in Contributions for 'top' edits
-* Fixed Nostalgia skin drop-down for register_globals off
-* Backported optional open proxy blocker
-* Backported $wgWhitelistRead
-* $wgCapitalLinks option to force full case sensitivity in titles
-* Cleaned up error handling when can't talk to database
-* Disabled unsafe command-line installer (remove the "die()" call to use)
-
-== Version 1.2.3, 2004-04-02 ==
-
-* Fixed an in-place install bug with non-root MySQL user
-* Fixed history diff checkboxes bug on titles with ampersands
-* Fixed printable link bug on special pages with parameters
-* Fixed bug that broke IP blocking w/o memcached
-* Turns off E_NOTICE warnings if PHP settings have them on
- (you can grope in and turn this off if you like to debug)
-
-== Version 1.2.2, 2004-03-28 ==
-
-* Fixed an upgrade bug introduced in 1.2.1.
-* Disabled $wgUseCategoryMagic, which feature is incomplete broken
-
-== Version 1.2.1, 2004-03-27 ==
-
-Installation, compatibility, security fixlets:
-* Detect use of PHP as CGI and disable index.php/Title URLs
-* Try to auto-create math tmp & output directories if not present
-* Disable Asksql in default install ($wgAllowSysopQueries)
-* Better handling of get_magic_quotes_gpc (apostrophe problems)
-* French localisation no longer hard-codes "Wikipedia" name
-
-== Version 1.2.0 ==
-
-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)
-* It's now possible to assign sysop accounts from within the wiki.
- An account with this ability must be labeled with the "bureaucrat"
- privilege, such as the 'Developer' account created by the install.
-
-Fixes and tweaks:
-* Now works with register_globals off!
-* Works with short tags disabled.
-* 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.
-* rebuildMessages.php can now selectively update new messages, or
- overwrite everything.
-* Various bug fixes.
-* Other stuff we forgot.
-* Documentation more out of date than ever before!
-
-=== Behavior changes ===
-
-* 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.
-
-=== Database changes ===
-
-An index was added to recentchanges table to speed up Newpages
-(patch-rc-newindex.sql for manual updaters).
-
-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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