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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
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 1.15 ==
+== MediaWiki 1.16 ==
THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
@@ -18,142 +18,31 @@ will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
-=== Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
-
-* Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
- temporary passwords
-* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
-* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
- from rel="nofollow" on external links
-* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
-* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
- to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
-* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
- namespace" option (disabled by default)
+=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
+
* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
+* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
+ be used when uploading/moving files
+* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
+ to be shown to users
+* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
+ $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
+ for backwards-compatibility
+* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
+* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
+ functions and other potential errors when developing.
+* (bug 18958) $wgEnableVariants is a new boolean value to turn on or off the
+ entire variant conversion engine, and the default is set to true. Former
+ variable $wgDisableLangConversion was superseded by this variable.
+* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
+ mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
+ which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
+* (bug 10837) $wgVariant is a user variant selected in the user's preferences
+ if the $wgContLang does not have variant, then the $wgLang is used instead.
+
+=== New features in 1.16 ===
-=== New features in 1.15 ===
-
-* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
-* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
- for the current page for a given action
-* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
- to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
-* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
-* When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
- Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
- hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
-* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
- from the database.
-* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
- existing block when modifying an existing block.
-* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
- rather than hardcoded HTML tags
-* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
- extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
- pages
-* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
- specialpages
-* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
-* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
- recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
-* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
- special pages.
-* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
-* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
- link instead of Go button & Search button
-* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
-* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
-* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
-* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
-* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
-* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
- content language.
-* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
- set to false.
-* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
-* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
-* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
- can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
-* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
- "mw-confirmemail-pending"
-* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
- parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
- part for a given title.
-* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
- rest of the font
-* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
-* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
-* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
-* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
- class "mw-searchresult"
-* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
-* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
-* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
- LanguageConverter class)
-* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
-* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
-* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
- "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
-* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
- this information will be public
-* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
-* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
- the active users data from site_stats.
-* Add a tag on redirected page views
-* Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
- 'ellipsis' message
-* Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
- 'mw-editinginterface'
-* (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
-* Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
- of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
- next section anyway.
-* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
- rate limits.
-* (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
- Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
- $wgForeignFileRepos
-* Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
-* (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
-* (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
-* Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
-* (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
- username
-* Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
- with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
-* $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
- of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
-* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on
- wiki with LanguageConverter class)
-* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
- $wgRedirectOnLogin
-* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged
- users
-* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
- of the displayed revision's author user name
-* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
- a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
-* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a tag, fixing sortable tables
- with dynamic dates.
-* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the
- dateformat parser function.
-* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited
- to 5000 pages)
-* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
- enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using
- ImageMagick, optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be
- enabled by setting $wgTiffThumbnailType
-* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page'
- and 'mw-log-user', respectively
-* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
- usernames during registration (such as "@")
-* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
- used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
- on a different database
-* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
- line
* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
viewing talk pages
@@ -161,7 +50,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
"{{GROUPCONVERT:xxx}}" enabled for this new feature. You can set related
conversion rules in [[MediaWiki:Groupconversiontable-xxx/language_code]].
* Superfluous border="0" removed from images
-* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
+* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
a cached MonoBook sidebar
* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
@@ -169,153 +58,38 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} (and friends) and {{REVISIONUSER}} magic words
* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
to Special:Version
-* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
+* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
* (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
-
-
-=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
-* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
-* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
- before trying to delete the edit.
-* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
-* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
- the destination page exists
-* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
- been disabled
-* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
- LanguageConverter class)
-* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
- LanguageConverter class)
-* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
-* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
-* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
-* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
- allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
-* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
-* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
-* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
- to 'administrator'
-* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
-* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
-* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
-* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
- "user contributions"
-* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
-* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
- comment label uses better message
-* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
-* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
- LocalSettings
-* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
- error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
-* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
-* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
-* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
- for identical files at different titles are still given.
-* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
- certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
- and the entries can be styled with CSS.
-* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
-* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
- results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
-* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
-* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
- configs
-* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
-* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
-* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
-* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
- history
-* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
- and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
-* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
-* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
- longer affects the page title
-* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
-* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
-* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
-* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
-* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
-* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
- cache is enabled.
-* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
-* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
- maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
-* (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
-* (bug 17472) use print << parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
- now point to the actual contributors' feed.
-* ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
-* Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
- $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
-* (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
- redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
-* (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
-* (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
- changed to rc_timestamp_bot
-* (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
-* (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in elements
-* (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
- on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
-* (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
- it unreadable in RTL
-* Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
-* (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
- PostgreSQL
-* (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
-* (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
-* (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
-* (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
- toolbar present
-* (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
-* (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
-* (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
- queue
-* (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
- displayed revision if it's not the current one
-* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary
- passwords
-* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
- namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
-* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
-* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
- no longer corrupts the message cache
-* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
-* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in
tags
-* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
-* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
-* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
-* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
- two "page" parameters
-* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
- don't use PathInfo or short urls
-* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
- $wgScriptExtension
-* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
-* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
- IS NULL
-* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
-* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
-* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when
- you cut-and-paste article text
-* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
-* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
-* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and
- "Previous edit" diff links
-* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as
- target'
-* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
-* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
+* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
+ Special:Version
+* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
+* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
+* New hook: MessageNotInMwNs to handle localised messages that aren't in the
+ Mediawiki Namespace, before checking the message files
+* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
+* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
+* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
+* Watchlist now has a specialized
tag that contains a unique class for
+ each page
+* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
+* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
+ it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
+* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
+* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
+ month number without the leading zero
+* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
+* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
+* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
+* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
+* (bug 18958) Added ability to disable entire variant conversion engine
+ per user preferences
+* (bug 19012) Introduce {{NUMBEROFCONTRIBS}} variable to display the number
+ of contributions a user has.
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
selection
* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
@@ -323,7 +97,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
* Improved error handling for image moving
-* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
+* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
with tags, helps with text-based browsers
* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
@@ -365,58 +139,55 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
* (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
* Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
for it.
-* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
+* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
+* (bug 18535) Search tab tool-tops are corrupted
+* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links not need on ImagePage file history if less than
+ limit
+* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
+* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
+ problems in FF2
+* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
+* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
+* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
+ 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
+* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
+* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
+* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
+ tweaked spacing.
+* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
+* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
+ $wgSysopEmailBans
+* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
+* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
+* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
+* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
+* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
+* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
+ tags that were redundantly defined.
+* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
+* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
+ .inc
+* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
+ Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
+* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
+ and user can upload
+* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
+ uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
+* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
+* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
+* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
+ variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
+* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
+ show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
+* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
+* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
+* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
+* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
+ link from the edit comment
+
+== API changes in 1.16 ==
-== API changes in 1.15 ==
-* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
- and listing all deleted pages possible
-* (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
-* (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
-* (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
- created the page, even if it's not the top revision
-* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
-* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
-* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
-* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
- Building query properly now using makeList()
-* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
- autolinked correctly
-* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
-* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
-* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
-* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
-* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
-* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
-* (bug 17007) Added action=import
-* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
- of performance concerns
-* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
- and list=logevents
-* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
- limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
-* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
-* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
-* (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
-* Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
-* (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
- aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
-* (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
-* (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
-* (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
-* Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
- conversion rules
-* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
- is set
-* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
- without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
-* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
- when someone tries to use them
-* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
- a POST request
-* (bug 15935) Added action=userrights to add/remove users to/from groups
-* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
- message to be included in the page text
* Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
* Added usprop=gender to list=users
* (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
@@ -426,33 +197,42 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
* (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
* (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
users
-* (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
-
-=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
+* (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
+* (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
+* Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories
+* (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo
+ output
+* (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version
+* (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output
+* (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs
+* (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output
+* Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
-* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
-* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
-* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
-* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
-* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
-* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
-* Veps (vep) (new)
-* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
-* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
-* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
-* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
-* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
-* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
+* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
+* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
+
* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
+* Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et)
+* (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my)
+* (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash
+ (ЧÓваÑла)
+* (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language
+* (bug 18957) Updated number formatting for German
+* (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
@@ -464,7 +244,7 @@ At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
== Upgrading ==
-1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema
+1.16 has several database changes since 1.15, and will not work without schema
updates.
If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
@@ -489,7 +269,7 @@ set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===