THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
-MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
+This is a release candidate of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch. Please test it and let us
+know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in
production.
+=== Changes since 1.18 beta 1 ===
+* (bug 31886) Wrong titles redirecting to Special:Badtitle in the 1.18 deployment.
+* (bug 32051) Fix description for wlprop=sizes.
+* (bug 31913) Special:MostLinkedTemplates had an incorrect GROUP BY clause
+ under Microsoft SQL.
+* (bug 32100) installer complains about suhosin GET limit.
+* (bug 31933) fix 1.18 regression in Monobook sidebar: huge spacing between portlets
+ on IE 7 and IE 8/9 in compatibility view.
+* (bug 32126) Fix 1.18 regression in watchlist editor when items already removed
+ from watchlist.
+* (bug 32183) remove the client-* classes added from user-agent-sniffing onto
+ the <html> element.
+* (bug 29912) Unit tests break if parsertest tables are still present.
+* (bug 31694) During installation, tabbing order (cursor focus) goes to logo
+ instead of 'continue'.
+* (bug 29102) Upgrade fails "Unknown character set: 'mysql4".
+* (bug 31990) justify paragraphs pref adds extra space to category listing.
+* (bug 20148) Better title for [[Special:Disambiguations]] page.
+* (bug 31502) TOC is missing on Special:EditWatchlist.
+* (bug 32256) API list=search stops at first invalid result.
+* (bug 32047) jquery.tablesorter.js: thead is before caption.
+* (bug 29854) Store protocol-relative links twice in the externallinks table,
+ one with http: in el_index and once with https.
+* (bug 31822) Error during upgrade due to output buffer reset in stdout.
+* (bug 32412) TOC links on [[Special:EditWatchlist]] points to the fieldsets
+
=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions.
+* The SkinTemplateBuildContentActionUrlsAfterSpecialPage,
+ SkinTemplateContentActions and SkinTemplateTabs hooks have been removed in
+ favor of SkinTemplateNavigation and SkinTemplateNavigation::SpecialPage.
* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined
login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login
and create account links.
* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3.
* (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed
* $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead.
+* $wgProto has been removed. You now only need to set $wgServer to change the
+ URL protocol.
+* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed.
+* $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed.
+* $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed.
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed.
+* LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed.
+* (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say
+ whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated.
+* $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core,
+ and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCommonsRdf as appropriate.
+* (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS
+* Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature
+ was removed in about 1.5.
+* LogPageValidTypes, LogPageLogName, LogPageLogHeader and LogPageActionText
+ hooks have been removed.
+* New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom
+ category collations.
+* $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions.
+* $wgEnableAutoRotation enables or disables auto-rotation. Leaving it set to
+ null will cause MediaWiki to determine if auto-rotation is available.
=== New features in 1.18 ===
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Article class hierarchy split into WikiPage (backend).
+ and Article (frontend) hierarchies. Several hooks now pass a WikiPage object instead
+ of an Article object. These hooks all use an $article paramater as documented in hooks.txt.
+ Extensions should be updated to account for this, though most won't require any changes.
+* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab
+ Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you
+ create a page or new section.
* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main
namespace.
* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5
* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions.
* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
-* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0
+* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0.
* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be
saved.
* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation
(maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php).
* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages.
* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable.
-* CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Sysop.js,
- MediaWiki:Autoconfirmed.css, etc.
+* (bug 29047) CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js,
+ MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css, etc.
* (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be
safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for
potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
* (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without.
* (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images.
* (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images.
-* (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users
+* (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users.
+* (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from
+ LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals.
+* (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols.
+* (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content
+ namespaces as articles.
+* Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php
+ --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads;
+ furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path.
+* Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory',
+ 'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions
+ may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own
+ class that extends PageArchive.
+* (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript.
+ Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance.
+* (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is
+ added to the textarea on the edit form.
+* mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
+* (bug 29067) Expose user.tokens (like we do user.options) in ResourceLoader.
+* New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog().
+* (bug 27655) Require token for watching/unwatching pages)
+* (bug 28904) (bug 29773) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.2 (the latest version)
+* (bug 29441) Expose CapitalLinks config in JS to allow modules to properly
+ handle titles on case-sensitive wikis.
+* (bug 29397) Implement mw.Title module in core.
+* In MySQL 4.1.9+ with replication enabled, fetch the slave lag from SHOW SLAVE
+ STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST. This ensures that lag is reported
+ correctly in the case where there are no write events occurring. Note that
+ the DB user now needs to have the REPLICATION CLIENT privilege if you are
+ using replication.
+* Language codes in $wgDummyLanguageCodes are now excluded on localization
+ statistics (maintenance/language/transstat.php).
+* (bug 29586) Make the (next 200) links on categories link directly to
+ the relevant section of the category.
+* (bug 29109) Allow the automatic edit summary for redirect creation
+ show the first bit of the new redirect page.
+* (bug 29723) mw.util.wikiGetlink() now defaults to wgPageName.
+* (bug 29680) Add GetDefaultSortkey hook to override the default sortkey.
+* (bug 16699) {{#language:}} accepts second parameter to specify the language in
+ which the language name is wanted. Coverage depends on the cldr extension.
+* (bug 15802) An easy way to look up messages: language qqx which returns
+ the message keys.
+* (bug 29868) Add support for passing parameters to mw.msg in jquery.localize.
+* (bug 29558) $wgMiserMode now disables update.php by default.
+* AjaxCategories: Easily add, edit or delete categories on article pages.
+ Suggests possible categories when typing, all saves are done via AJAX.
+ Supports editing of multiple categories and then saving them in one batch.
+* $wgAutopromoteOnce was added, allowing for users to be automatically promoted
+ to explicit usergroups. If a group is removed from a user via Special:UserRights,
+ it will not automatically be re-added. Configuration is similar to
+ $wgAutopromote (see DefaultSettings.php).
+* The PerformRetroactiveAutoblock hook was added to allow overriding or complementing
+ retroactive autoblock handling. This runs when blocking a user with the 'autoblock' option.
+* MediaWiki now supports using protocol-relative URLs in links, interwiki
+ targets and $wgServer.
+* Introduced $wgVaryOnXFPForAPI which will cause the API to send
+ Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto headers.
+* New maintenance script to refresh image metadata (maintenance/refreshImageMetadata.php).
+* (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version.
+* (bug 30722) Add an identity collation that sorts things based on what the
+ unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behaviour).
+* (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions.
+ To give extensions a better and more flexible way of providing default
+ values for preferences a hook has been introdiced in User:getDefaultOptions().
+ Setting preferences in $wgDefaultUserOptions still work fine, but when reading
+ them (i.e. with array_keys) to get a list of all preferences, then
+ $wgDefaultUserOptions should no longer be used as it will contain those set via
+ User:getDefaultOptions().
+* (bug 30497) Add client-nojs and client-js classes on document element
+ to let styles easily hide or show things based on general JS availability.
+* (bug 31293) If Special:Userlogin is loaded over HTTPS, display
+ MediaWiki:loginend-https instead of MediaWiki:loginend, if it's not empty.
+ Same for signupend on the account creation page.
+* (bug 31233) New OutputPage::addJsConfigVars() method to make the output page specific
+ mw.config map extendable.
=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
+* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab.
+* mw.util.getScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php).
* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated.
* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
treated as wikitext on preview.
* If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse.
* (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages.
* (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary.
-* (bug 25506) Exception is thrown if OutputPage::parse is called inside a tag
- hook, which would reset parser state.
* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
selected when the action is "purge".
smaller.
* (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from
images.
-* (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse()
+* (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse().
* (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output
parsed messages.
* (bug 27249) "Installed software" table in Special:Version should always be
left-to-right.
-* (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly
+* (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly.
* (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL.
* (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode.
-* (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles
-* (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries
+* (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles.
+* (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries.
* (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough.
-* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS
+* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS.
+* (bug 29263) Add LTR class to the shared CSS to be used for left-to-right text
+ such as SQL queries shown in dberrortext and similar messages in RTL
+ environments.
+* (bug 14977) Fixed $wgServer detection in cases where an IPv6 address is used
+ as the server name.
+* The View X deleted revisions is now shown again on Special:Upload.
+* (bug 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API.
+* (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the
+ file description page for multi-paged documents.
+* (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly
+ used in Tiff files.
+* When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
+* (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request.
+* (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells
+ the user a page named [[:]] already exists.
+* (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove.
+* (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all
+ pages.
+* (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images should not be uploadable as .jpg files.
+* (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based
+ on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string.
+* (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only.
+* (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height
+ make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG.
+* (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on
+ Windows.
+* (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading.
+* (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any
+ LTR/RTL screen layout.
+* (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user
+ language.
+* (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles marker should be dynamically appended to
+ the document head if it doesn't exist.
+* (bug 27023) After the document is ready, mw.loader is broken (calls callback
+ before module is parsed).
+* (bug 4330) External URLs without a custom title should be treated as LTR,
+ even in RTL text.
+* (bug 29055) Make "don't send email on minor edits" preference apply to
+ changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits.
+* (bug 28272) Special:AllMessages should have only one "Go" button.
+* (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch no longer shows silly message.
+* (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same
+ as lastTabIndex().
+* (bug 29332) Warn if user requests mediawiki-announce subscription but does not
+ enter an e-mail address.
+* (bug 25375) Add canonical namespaces to "wgNamespaceIds" in mw.config.
+* The class JpegOrTiffHandler was renamed ExifBitmapHandler.
+* (bug 29443) Special:Undelete should use JavaScript to invert all checkboxes
+ instead of reloading the page.
+* (bug 29325) Setting $wgStrictFileExtensions to false no longer gives incorrect warning.
+* (bug 29437) Multiple apostrophes in deleted article title cause odd rendering.
+* (bug 29485) RSS feed of Special:RecentChange grouped together multiple
+ consecutive edits by same user in included diff, but then linked to
+ a single ungrouped diff.
+* Do not try to group together a page creation and edit in the RSS feed of RC.
+* (bug 29342) Patrol preferences shouldn't be visible to users who don't have
+ patrol permissions.
+* (bug 29471) Exception no longer thrown for files with invalid date in metadata.
+* (bug 29492) Long-running steps in the installer (such as Upgrade and Install)
+ no longer cause timeouts.
+* (bug 29507) Change 'image link' to 'file link' in Special:Whatlinkshere.
+* If the db is really screwed up, and doesn't have a recentchanges table,
+ make the updater throw an exception instead of a fatal.
+* wfArrayToCGI() and wfCgiToArray() now handle nested and associative arrays
+ correctly.
+* (bug 29567) mw.util.addPortletLink should only wrap link in <span> for
+ "vectorTabs" portlets.
+* (bug 8556) Incorrect session failure warning on preview-on-open
+ namespaces (categories) when combined with $wgRawHtml.
+* Use content language in formatting of dates in revertpage message
+ (rollback revert edit summary) and do not adjust for user timezone.
+* (bug 29277) MediaWiki:Filepage.css is also shown on the local wiki
+* Make sure Backlink cache does not retrieve interwiki redirects when looking for
+ redirects to a local page.
+* (bug 6100) Allow different directionality (LTR/RTL) for user interface
+ and wiki content, along with many other RTL and directionality improvements
+ (such as bugs 28030, 12406, 28349).
+* (bug 29712) Removed broken defaultUserOptionOverrides in MessagesXx files and
+ unneeded CSS flipping of quickbar. Instead, introduce option 5 which sets
+ left/right according to the directionality of your interface language.
+* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit).
+* (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a <label> element.
+* (bug 29779) DairikiDiff/WikiDiff <ins> and <del> should undo browser default
+ styling (strike/underline).
+* (bug 28630) Add iwlinks, langlinks, redirect to
+ RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent.
+* (bug 29797) Error: "Tried to load block with invalid type" when subpages
+ are disabled for user pages.
+* (bug 12205) Bidirectional names in action=credits are split and displayed.
+ incorrectly when wrapped to the next line.
+* (bug 20781) Move 'mainpagetext' messages to installer's .i18n file.
+* (bug 29737) "MediaWiki:Qbsettings-directionality" should refer to script,
+ not language.
+* (bug 26360) $wgSessionHandler was overriding system settings unconditionally.
+* Removed AjaxFunctions.php. The last remaining function js_unescape() was moved
+ to the FCKEditor extension.
+* (bug 28762) Resizing to specified height broken for very thin images.
+* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
+ tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce.
+* (bug 27427) mw.util.getParamValue shouldn't return value from hash even if
+ param is only present in hash.
+* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
+* (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
+ caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
+* $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very wide
+ pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
+* (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on
+ Windows servers.
+* (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because
+ #REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS.
+* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs
+ are used.
+* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
+ instead require() for included extensions.
+* Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages.
+* (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>).
+* $wgOverrideSiteFeed no longer double escapes urls.
+* The preprocessor no longer fails with a PHP warning about XML_PARSE_HUGE when
+ processing complex pages using newer versions of libxml2.
+* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
+* (bug 28545) When using the uca-default collation, sortkey's starting with a
+ space (U+20) will sort under an invisible header like in 1.16 rather than a U+6DE.
+* (bug 30192) Thumbnails of archived files are now deleted.
+* (bug 30843) mediawiki.Title should not convert extensions (anything after the
+ last full stop) to lower case).
+* (bug 31213) Exception thrown when trying to move file cross-namespace.
+* (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are
+ really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other.
+* (bug 30466) Entries in iwlinks table are now cleared when moving a page over
+ redirect.
+* (bug 31674) Can't edit watchlist if it contains special pages.
+* (bug 32100) Installer complains about Suhosin GET limit even if it is
+ already set above 1024 bytes.
=== API changes in 1.18 ===
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
* (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 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
* (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
- in auto generated document, as it is on mw.org.
+ in auto generated document, as it is on mediawiki.org.
* (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages.
* (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages.
* (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories.
* (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the API.
* (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs.
* (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid.
-* (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param
-* (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo
-* Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo
-* Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers
-* (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers
-* (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages
-* (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates
+* (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param.
+* (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo.
+* Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo.
+* Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers.
+* (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers.
+* (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages.
+* (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates.
+* (bug 27790) Add query type for querymodules to output of ApiParamInfo.
+* (bug 28963) Add langbacklinks query module to the api.
+* (bug 27593) API should return error message when sha1/sha1base36 is invalid.
+* (bug 28578) API's parse module should not silently override invalid
+ title inputs.
+* (bug 20699) Watchlist API should list log-events.
+* (bug 29070) Require a token in API action=watch.
+* (bug 29221) Expose oldrevid in ApiQueryWatchlist output.
+* (bug 29267) Always give the servername for meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag.
+* (bug 28897) rvparse now respects rvsection for action=query&prop=revisions.
+* (bug 25734) API: Possible issue with revids validation.
+* (bug 28002) Internal error in ApiFormatRaw::getMimeType.
+* (bug 29237) ApiQuery now has an option to output the "iwurl" attribute.
+* (bug 28392) Mark action=undelete×tamps as type "timestamp".
+* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash (disabled in Miser Mode).
+* (bug 27595) sha1 search of list=filearchive does not work.
+* (bug 26763) Make RSS/Atom of user contributions more visible.
+* (bug 25133) Allow redirects also for action=parse&pageid.
+* (bug 29745) Fatal error in API search.
+* (bug 29476) API returns page title instead of sectiontitle for
+ srprop=sectiontitle.
+* Correct the documentation of srprop properties.
+* (bug 28817) Add reference help page link to API Modules.
+* (bug 29935) Improve formatting of examples in ApiParamInfo.
+* (bug 29938) list=users&usprop=rights shows rights the user doesn't have.
+* (bug 24781) The API will include an XML namespace if the includexmlnamespace
+ parameter is set.
+* (bug 29392) Setting the start or end parameter now works with lists blocks,
+ categorymembers, deletedrevs, logevents, protectedtitles, usercontributions
+ and watchlist in Postgres.
=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
* Angika (anp) (new).
* Brahui (brh) (new).
-* Central Dusun (new).
+* Central Dusun (dtp) (new).
* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
* Khowar (khw) (new).
* Liv (liv) (new).
+* Kichwa (qug) (new).
* Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still valid.
* (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace.
* Link trail added for sl and sh.
-* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Potuguese (pt and pt-br).
+* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
* (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar).
* (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases.
* (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
uppercase 'i' to 'İ' (dotted i).
* Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language.
* Date formats for Indonesian (id) updated.
+* Bhojpuri (bho) (renamed from "bh").
+* (bug 29031) When translating block log entries, indefinite, infinite, and
+ infinity are now considered the same.
+* Aromanian (rup) (renamed from "rua-rup").
+* Kashmiri (ks) split into Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic) (ks-arab) and Kashmiri
+ (Devanagari) (ks-deva). Defaults to ks-arab.
+* (bug 30864) Use bengali numerals for <ol> for Assamese.
+* (bug 30817) Restored linktrail for kk (Kazakh).
+* (bug 27398) Add $wgExtraGenderNamespaces for configured gendered namespaces.
+* (bug 30846) New LanguageOs class.
+
+=== Other changes in 1.18 ===
+* Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
+* (bug 28556) Upload support for MacBinary files has been removed (Used by
+ Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9).
+* On wiki farm setups using $wgConf, 'wgCanonicalServer' is now expected to be
+ set for all wikis. This was already the case for 'wgServer'.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
-MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
+MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL, Oracle or SQLite can also be used, but
support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
-DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
+DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
The supported versions are:
* MySQL 4.0 or later
* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
* SQLite 3
+* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
== Upgrading ==
1.18 has several database changes since 1.17, and will not work without schema
updates.
-If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
-repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
+repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
due to database schema changes.
If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
== Online documentation ==
-Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
-MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
+Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
+MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
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