* (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, the slave lag should come from
- SHOW SLAVE STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST.
+* 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
* $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.
+* 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 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 fixes in 1.18 ===
* mw.util.getScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
environments
* (bug 14977) Fixed $wgServer detection in cases where an IPv6 address is used
as the server name.
-* (bug 19725) Do not list suppressed edits in the "View X deleted edits" link
- if user cannot view suppressed edits.
* 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
Windows servers.
* (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because
#REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS
+* Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages
+* $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 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
=== API changes in 1.18 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
* Khowar (khw) (new).
* Liv (liv) (new).
-* Chimborazo Highland Quichua (qug) (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).
* 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 ==