=== Configuration changes in 1.20 ===
* $wgGitRepositoryViewers defines a mapping from Git remote repository to the
- Gitweb instance URL used in Special:Version
+ Gitweb instance URL used in Special:Version.
* `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers
using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts
path info from REQUEST_URI if it's available.
* Introduce a cryptographic random number generator source api for use when
generating various tokens.
* (bug 30963) Option on Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages to not show redirects.
-* (bug 18062) new message when edit or create the local page of a shared file.
+* (bug 18062) New message when edit or create the local page of a shared file.
* (bug 22870) Separate interface message when creating a page.
* (bug 17615) nosummary option should be reassigned on preview/captcha.
-* (bug 34355) add a variable and parser function for the namespace number.
+* (bug 34355) Add a variable and parser function for the namespace number.
* (bug 35649) Special:Version now shows hashes of extensions checked out from git.
* (bug 35728) Git revisions are now linked on Special:Version.
* "Show Changes" on default messages shows now diff against default message text
* (bug 23006) create #speciale parser function.
* generateSitemap can now optionally skip redirect pages.
-* (bug 27757) new API command just for retrieving tokens (not page-based)
+* (bug 27757) New API command just for retrieving tokens (not page-based).
* Added GitViewers hook for extensions using external git repositories to have a web-based
repository viewer linked to from Special:Version.
* Memcached debug logs can now be sent to their own file logs by setting
Special:Version
* Edit notices can now be translated.
* (bug 35680) jQuery upgraded to 1.7.2.
-* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.19.
+* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.21.
* (bug 22887) Add warning and tracking category for preprocessor errors
* (bug 31704) Allow selection of associated namespace on the watchlist
* (bug 5445) Now remove autoblocks when a user is unblocked.
* New getCreator and getOldestRevision methods added to WikiPage class
* (bug 4220) the XML dump format schema now have unique identity constraints
for page and revision identifiers. Patch by Elvis Stansvik.
-* (bug 35705) QUnit upgraded from 1.2.0 to 1.7.0
+* (bug 35705) QUnit upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.8.0.
+* cleanupSpam.php now can delete spam pages if --delete was specified instead of blanking
+ them.
+* Added new hook ChangePasswordForm to allow adding of additional fields in Special:ChangePassword
=== Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
* (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed
in user language instead of content language
* (bug 35264) Wrong type used for <ns> in export.xsd
+* (bug 24985) Use $wgTmpDirectory as the default temp directory so that people
+ who don't have access to /tmp can specify an alternative.
+* (bug 27283) SqlBagOStuff breaks PostgreSQL transactions
+* (bug 35727) mw.Api ajax() should put token parameter last.
=== API changes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
* Removed ./tests/qunit/index.html from core. It wasn't actively maintained and
has been made obsolete when [[Special:JavaScriptTest/qunit]] was introduced,
which actually uses ResourceLoader, LocalSettings and the Skin.
+* Removed $wgDBtransactions global. This was only checked in one class
+ and only applies to MyISAM or similar DBs. Those should only be used
+ for archived sites anyway. We can't get edit conflicts on such sites,
+ so the WikiPage code wasn't useful there either.
== Compatibility ==