X-Git-Url: http://git.heureux-cyclage.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=145bfb51fd3538e3bee2c2813c7af08865f33042;hb=ae4393ad3b4311bf640c95c9849aa39450949047;hp=b74efaa2fac58de1c68d2f164d857c89641059f3;hpb=d549ba097a18a3eea15d6aa66971002cc1e97ea8;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index b74efaa2fa..145bfb51fd 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,6 +3,54 @@ 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. +== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 == + +July 7, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release +series, with a security update over beta 2. + +Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could +be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a +maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are +recommended to upgrade to this release. + +Vulnerable versions: +* 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3 +* 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6 +* 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable + +This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates. +See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list. + + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 == + +July 5, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. +While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point, +third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release +on a public site without closely following additional development. + +Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to +upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including +a couple of HTML and SQL injections. + +This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and +a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks. + +Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades +from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and +configuration file changes. + +Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool, +maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php. +These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able +to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database +and compression format. + == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 == @@ -378,6 +426,191 @@ Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things: * Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local * (bug 2460) width & height properly filled when resizing image * (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage +* Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave +* Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages +* (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit +* Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user + agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was + not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of + PHP ucfirst() ) +* Moved the user name / password validity checking from + LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions, + User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do + these checks without rewriting code. +* Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-' +* Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a + factor of two. +* upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization +* Fix namespaces in category list. +* Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields +* Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now +* (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused + the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off. +* (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size +* Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled +* Don't show old debug messages in watchlist +* (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links +* (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times +* Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert' + status between next/previous buttons. +* Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar +* (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list +* (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages +* (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries + for uploaded files that don't have them +* (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling +* (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last + page in the article history pager. +* Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page +* (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere +* (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list +* (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page +* (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision +* Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets +* Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4 +* (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit +* Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage +* HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first +* (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set + Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view. +* (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as + subpage parent links) on current-diff view. +* (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for + categories only if the page does not exist. +* (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers +* (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection +* Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4 +* (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems. +* (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces. +* (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list +* (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and + recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly. +* (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin. +* (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles. +* (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images +* (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of + rejecting lowercase with a useless error message +* (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs +* Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into +edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead +of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new. +* (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and + Spanish numeric formatting +* Fixed Swedish numeric formatting +* (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again +* Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their + image description pages when viewed on local wikis. +* Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia +* Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link +* (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support + dynamic date conversion. +* FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links +* (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse +* Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it +* (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru: +* (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips +* (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page +* (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used instead of [ ] +* (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch) +* Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits +* Removed language conversion support from Icelandic +* (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height +* (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images +* Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs +* (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses +* (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data: + namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version. +* Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export elements +* Make language variant selection work again for zh + +== Changes since 1.5beta2 == + +* Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions +* (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work +* (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt +* (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization +* Fixed number formatting for Dutch +* (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css +* (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia +* Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia +* (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia +* (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database +* (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles +* Fix escaping in page move template. +* (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and height attribute + +== Changes since 1.5beta3 == + +* Fix talk page move handling +* (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation +* (bug 2749)   would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv +* (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash +* Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some + interesting errors with signitures. +* (bug 2764) Number format for Nds +* (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language. +* (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories +* (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian +* Fix nohistory message on empty page history +* Fix fatal error in history when validation on +* Cleaned up email notification message formatting +* Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK +* (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish +* (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion +* Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records +* (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema +* (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format +* (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing +* Nynorsk numeric format fix +* (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off +* (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix +* With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match +* Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]] +* (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]] +* (bug 785) Parser did not get out of 
 with list elements
+* Some shared upload fixes
+* (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
+* support preload= parameter for section=new
+* show comment subject in preview when using section=new
+* use comment form when creating a new talk page
+* (bug 460) Properly handle 
 tags as a block.
+* Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
+* (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
+* PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing
+* (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan
+* Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed
+  inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
+* Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
+* Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php
+* Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost
+  due to bogus optimization
+* (bug 275) Section duplication fix
+* Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
+* Fix notice on search index update due to non-array
+* (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3
+* (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0
+* (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add
+  their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an
+  example of this.
+* (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages
+* (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in 
 sections
+* (bug 796) Trackback support
+* Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC
+  are now suppressed as before.
+* New skin: Simple
+* "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
+  viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively.
+* Skins can now be previewed in preferences
+* (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
+  patch from robla
+* Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
+  edit conflict.
+* (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
+* (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
+  content language
+* Removed useless protectreason message
+* Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
+
 
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