X-Git-Url: http://git.heureux-cyclage.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES-1.18;h=53050c031f8a8ae98f0dd6463eec39f321ae344f;hb=d0d4bda8663c0ce5ef78e2516d1a80bf3c9714b5;hp=c45000fe971aaeb375819d026f54a93596ca762c;hpb=942cadd66295238ee45e75a8c6fbfcc43b7eeab0;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 index c45000fe97..53050c031f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 @@ -7,21 +7,103 @@ setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can. THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET -MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in +This is a release candidate of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch. Please test it and let us +know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in production. +=== Changes since 1.18 beta 1 === +* (bug 31886) Wrong titles redirecting to Special:Badtitle in the 1.18 deployment. +* (bug 32051) Fix description for wlprop=sizes. +* (bug 31913) Special:MostLinkedTemplates had an incorrect GROUP BY clause + under Microsoft SQL. +* (bug 32100) installer complains about suhosin GET limit. +* (bug 31933) fix 1.18 regression in Monobook sidebar: huge spacing between portlets + on IE 7 and IE 8/9 in compatibility view. +* (bug 32126) Fix 1.18 regression in watchlist editor when items already removed + from watchlist. +* (bug 32183) remove the client-* classes added from user-agent-sniffing onto + the element. +* (bug 29912) Unit tests break if parsertest tables are still present. +* (bug 31694) During installation, tabbing order (cursor focus) goes to logo + instead of 'continue'. +* (bug 29102) Upgrade fails "Unknown character set: 'mysql4". +* (bug 31990) justify paragraphs pref adds extra space to category listing. +* (bug 20148) Better title for [[Special:Disambiguations]] page. +* (bug 31502) TOC is missing on Special:EditWatchlist. +* (bug 32256) API list=search stops at first invalid result. +* (bug 32047) jquery.tablesorter.js: thead is before caption. +* (bug 29854) Store protocol-relative links twice in the externallinks table, + one with http: in el_index and once with https. +* (bug 31822) Error during upgrade due to output buffer reset in stdout. +* (bug 32412) TOC links on [[Special:EditWatchlist]] points to the fieldsets + === Configuration changes in 1.18 === -* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed -* $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed -* $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed -* $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed -* LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed +* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with + WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions. +* The SkinTemplateBuildContentActionUrlsAfterSpecialPage, + SkinTemplateContentActions and SkinTemplateTabs hooks have been removed in + favor of SkinTemplateNavigation and SkinTemplateNavigation::SpecialPage. +* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined + login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login + and create account links. +* Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in + $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for + $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try + loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook. +* $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit + per upload type. +* $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set + $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0; +* OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed + by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false. +* Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins + should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate. +* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old + Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with + $wgLegacyEncoding set. +* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we + look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage. +* $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed. + Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the + same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to + replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality. +* The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box + makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation" + and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk + edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block + anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings + remain the same. +* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which + will probably break screen-scraping bots. +* (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default. + $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default. +* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least + *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the + ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the + output. +* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable + math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from + http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php: + require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php"; +* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for + details. +* $wgProfiling has been removed. +* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3. +* (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed +* $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead. +* $wgProto has been removed. You now only need to set $wgServer to change the + URL protocol. +* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed. +* $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed. +* $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed. +* $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed. +* LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed. * (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated. * $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core, and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCoreRdf as appropriate + http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCommonsRdf as appropriate. * (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS * Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature was removed in about 1.5. @@ -30,17 +112,91 @@ production. * New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom category collations. * $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions. +* $wgEnableAutoRotation enables or disables auto-rotation. Leaving it set to + null will cause MediaWiki to determine if auto-rotation is available. === New features in 1.18 === * BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token. +* BREAKING CHANGE: Article class hierarchy split into WikiPage (backend). + and Article (frontend) hierarchies. Several hooks now pass a WikiPage object instead + of an Article object. These hooks all use an $article paramater as documented in hooks.txt. + Extensions should be updated to account for this, though most won't require any changes. +* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab + Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you + create a page or new section. +* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main + namespace. +* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5 + datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4. +* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions. +* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation. + This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated. +* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0. +* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be + saved. +* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation + to be selectively disabled. +* Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class. +* Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a + thumbnail. +* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}. +* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file. +* Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the + upload form instead of edittools if available. +* (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user + specified a filename without extension. +* (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field +* New maintenance script to fix double redirects + (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php). +* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages. +* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable. +* (bug 29047) CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js, + MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css, etc. +* (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be + safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for + potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked + specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked. +* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes. +* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers. +* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript + disabled (enclosed in the head in a