X-Git-Url: http://git.heureux-cyclage.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=7c1903af73f520b6982d63d17d780c4cc2c8ccc3;hb=45e9738dabc91bf2fdef2114bedf49fae991a39e;hp=ffddb5a9c50a09f8d3b173f011b998883f139b78;hpb=37f7039ee633e01a6e59eb4b818cd9a48eca33a0;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index ffddb5a9c5..7c1903af73 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 == @@ -443,7 +491,103 @@ Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things: * (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of rejecting lowercase with a useless error message * (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs -* (bugs 2633, 2672) Fix Estonian, Portuguese and Finnish numeric formatting +* 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.
+* (bug 2001) Implement client-side sorting of table fields with JavaScript
+* Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
+* (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
+* (bug 2866) Revert experimental, non-cross-platform sortable table hack
+* 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
+
 
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