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1 = MediaWiki release notes =
2
3 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
4 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
5
6 == MediaWiki 1.15 ==
7
8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
9
10 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
11 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
12 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
13
14 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
15 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
16 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
17
18 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
19 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
20
21 === Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
22
23 * Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
24 temporary passwords
25 * Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
26 * Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
27 from rel="nofollow" on external links
28 * (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
29 * Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
30 to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
31 * Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
32 namespace" option (disabled by default)
33 * (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
34 * $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
35
36 === New features in 1.15 ===
37
38 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
39 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
40 for the current page for a given action
41 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
42 to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
43 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
44 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
45 Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
46 hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
47 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
48 from the database.
49 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
50 existing block when modifying an existing block.
51 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
52 rather than hardcoded HTML tags
53 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
54 extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
55 pages
56 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
57 specialpages
58 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
59 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
60 recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
61 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
62 special pages.
63 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
64 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
65 link instead of Go button & Search button
66 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
67 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
68 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
69 * (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
70 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
71 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
72 content language.
73 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
74 set to false.
75 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
76 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
77 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
78 can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
79 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
80 "mw-confirmemail-pending"
81 * (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
82 parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
83 part for a given title.
84 * (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
85 rest of the font
86 * (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
87 * (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
88 * (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
89 * Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
90 class "mw-searchresult"
91 * (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
92 * Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
93 * New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
94 LanguageConverter class)
95 * (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
96 * Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
97 * (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
98 "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
99 * (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
100 this information will be public
101 * Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
102 * Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
103 the active users data from site_stats.
104 * Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
105 * Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
106 'ellipsis' message
107 * Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
108 'mw-editinginterface'
109 * (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
110 * Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
111 of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
112 next section anyway.
113 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
114 rate limits.
115 * (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
116 Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
117 $wgForeignFileRepos
118 * Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
119 * (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
120 * (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
121 * Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
122 * (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
123 username
124 * Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
125 with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
126 * $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
127 of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
128 * New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on
129 wiki with LanguageConverter class)
130 * (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
131 $wgRedirectOnLogin
132 * Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged
133 users
134 * (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
135 of the displayed revision's author user name
136 * LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
137 a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
138 * (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables
139 with dynamic dates.
140 * (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the
141 dateformat parser function.
142 * (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited
143 to 5000 pages)
144 * (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
145 enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using
146 ImageMagick, optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be
147 enabled by setting $wgTiffThumbnailType
148 * Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page'
149 and 'mw-log-user', respectively
150 * Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
151 usernames during registration (such as "@")
152 * Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
153 used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
154 on a different database
155 * Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
156 line
157 * Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
158 * (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
159 viewing talk pages
160 * Add group convertsion support for LanguageConverter. New magic word
161 "{{GROUPCONVERT:xxx}}" enabled for this new feature. You can set related
162 conversion rules in [[MediaWiki:Groupconversiontable-xxx/language_code]].
163 * Superfluous border="0" removed from images
164 * Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
165 to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
166 a cached MonoBook sidebar
167
168 === Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
169 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
170 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
171 before trying to delete the edit.
172 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
173 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
174 the destination page exists
175 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
176 been disabled
177 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
178 LanguageConverter class)
179 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
180 LanguageConverter class)
181 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
182 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
183 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
184 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
185 allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
186 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
187 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
188 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
189 to 'administrator'
190 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
191 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
192 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
193 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
194 "user contributions"
195 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
196 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
197 comment label uses better message
198 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
199 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
200 LocalSettings
201 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
202 error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
203 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
204 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
205 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
206 for identical files at different titles are still given.
207 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
208 certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
209 and the entries can be styled with CSS.
210 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
211 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
212 results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
213 * (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
214 * (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
215 configs
216 * (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
217 * (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
218 * (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
219 * (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
220 history
221 * (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
222 and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
223 * (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
224 * (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
225 longer affects the page title
226 * (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
227 * (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
228 * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
229 * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
230 * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
231 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
232 cache is enabled.
233 * (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
234 * (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
235 maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
236 * (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
237 * (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
238 * Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
239 use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
240 in next page link
241 * (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
242 * Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
243 * File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
244 * (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
245 used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
246 * (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
247 * (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
248 now point to the actual contributors' feed.
249 * ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
250 * Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
251 $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
252 * (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
253 redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
254 * (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
255 * (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
256 changed to rc_timestamp_bot
257 * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
258 * (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
259 * (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
260 on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
261 * (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
262 it unreadable in RTL
263 * Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
264 * (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
265 PostgreSQL
266 * (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
267 * (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
268 * (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
269 * (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
270 toolbar present
271 * (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
272 * (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
273 * (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
274 queue
275 * (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
276 displayed revision if it's not the current one
277 * (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary
278 passwords
279 * (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
280 namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
281 * (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
282 * (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
283 no longer corrupts the message cache
284 * (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
285 * (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
286 * (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
287 * (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
288 * Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
289 * (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
290 two "page" parameters
291 * (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
292 don't use PathInfo or short urls
293 * (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
294 $wgScriptExtension
295 * (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
296 * (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
297 IS NULL
298 * (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
299 * (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
300 * (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when
301 you cut-and-paste article text
302 * (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
303 * (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
304 * (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and
305 "Previous edit" diff links
306 * (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as
307 target'
308 * (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
309 * (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
310 selection
311 * The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
312 * (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
313 * (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
314 * (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
315 * (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
316 * Improved error handling for image moving
317 * (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
318 with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
319 * (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
320 MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
321 * Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
322 * (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
323 * (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
324 * (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
325 * (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
326 * "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
327 skins
328 * Fixed a PHP notice when $wgEnableSerializedMessages was set to false
329 * (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
330 * (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
331 * The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
332 an IP address
333 * (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
334 * (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
335 * (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
336 * (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
337 * (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
338 * (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
339 * (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
340 * (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
341 * (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
342 * (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
343 * Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
344 after some parsed math syntax.
345 * (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
346 * (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
347 <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
348
349 == API changes in 1.15 ==
350 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
351 and listing all deleted pages possible
352 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
353 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
354 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
355 created the page, even if it's not the top revision
356 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
357 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
358 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
359 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
360 Building query properly now using makeList()
361 * (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
362 autolinked correctly
363 * (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
364 * (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
365 * (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
366 * (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
367 * (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
368 * (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
369 * (bug 17007) Added action=import
370 * BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
371 of performance concerns
372 * Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
373 and list=logevents
374 * (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
375 limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
376 * (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
377 * (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
378 * (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
379 * Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
380 * (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
381 aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
382 * (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
383 * (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
384 * (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
385 * Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
386 conversion rules
387 * (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
388 is set
389 * (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
390 without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
391 * Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
392 when someone tries to use them
393 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
394 a POST request
395 * (bug 15935) Added action=userrights to add/remove users to/from groups
396 * (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
397 message to be included in the page text
398 * Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
399 * Added usprop=gender to list=users
400 * (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
401 * Add parentid to prop=revisions output
402
403 === Languages updated in 1.15 ===
404
405 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
406 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
407 changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
408
409 * Austrian German (de-at) (new)
410 * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
411 * Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
412 * Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
413 * Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
414 * Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
415 * Veps (vep) (new)
416 * Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
417 * (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
418 * (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
419 * (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
420 * (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
421 * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
422 when the user is blocked
423 * Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
424
425 == Compatibility ==
426
427 MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
428
429 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
430 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
431 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
432
433 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
434 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
435
436
437 == Upgrading ==
438
439 1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema
440 updates.
441
442 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
443 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
444 database schema changes.
445
446 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
447 new database fields are filled with data.
448
449 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
450 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
451 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
452
453 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
454
455
456 === Caveats ===
457
458 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
459 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
460 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
461 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
462 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
463
464 For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
465
466
467 === Online documentation ===
468
469 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
470 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
471 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
472 the public domain) :
473
474 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
475
476
477 === Mailing list ===
478
479 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
480 wikitech-l list:
481
482 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
483
484 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
485
486 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
487
488 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
489 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
490
491
492 === IRC help ===
493
494 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net