- = MediaWiki release notes =
+= MediaWiki release notes =
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.
hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
from the database.
-* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
+* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
existing block when modifying an existing block.
-* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
+* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
rather than hardcoded HTML tags
* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
+* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
+ "mw-confirmemail-pending"
+* Local redirects to foreign images are now displayed on the ImagePage when
+ viewing on the local wiki.
+* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
+ parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title part
+ for a given title.
+* Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the rest of the font (bug 17110)
+* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
+* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
+* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
+* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
+ class "mw-searchresult"
=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
LanguageConverter class)
* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
-* (bug 15936) New page's patrol button should always be visible
* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
comment label uses better message
* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in LocalSettings
-* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids error
+* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids error
messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
for identical files at different titles are still given.
+* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
+ certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes, and
+ the entries can be styled with CSS.
+* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
+* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
+ results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
+* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
+* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL configs
+* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
+* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
+* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
+* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
+ history
+* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
+ and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
+* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
+* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
+ longer affects the page title
== API changes in 1.15 ==
* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
Building query properly now using makeList()
+* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
+ autolinked correctly
+* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
+* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
+* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
+* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
+* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
+* (bug 17007) Added action=import
=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
-regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
+* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
+* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
== Compatibility ==