RELEASE-NOTES

   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 1.10 ==
   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 development happen
  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 ==
  22
  23 === $wgCommandLineDarkBg ==
  24
  25 A new switch used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php). It lets you specify
  26 if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized output will be made
  27 lighter making things easier to read.
  28
  29 == Major new features ==
  30
  31 == Changes since 1.9 ==
  32
  33 * (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
  34 * (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to Special:Statistics
  35 * (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond)
  36 * (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
  37 * New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
  38   progress in the extension repository.
  39 * Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now automaticly
  40   tries to create its database tables.
  41 * Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default.
  42 * Fixed up the AjaxSearch
  43 * (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
  44 * Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
  45   starts page output (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
  46 * Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be null
  47   to be treated properly with isset.
  48 * Branch page_restrictions column out into its own table, also creating a "cascading protection"
  49    feature, which automagically disallows edits to pages transcluded into a page protected with
  50    this new option. Various other code tidiness fixes and refactoring in the log messages of
  51    branches/werdna/restrictions-separation.
  52 * The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can
  53   now be customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array.  By default,
  54   editing pages in the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface"
  55   permissions, just as before.
  56 * (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown out in action=raw,
  57              so extensions might influence the output.
  58 * Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh (it uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
  59 * (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be overridden by adding
  60              diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
  61 * (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
  62 * Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
  63   optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
  64 * Fixed Postgres upgrade script.
  65 * (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
  66 * Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
  67 * (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
  68 * Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
  69   determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
  70   permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
  71 * Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
  72 * Made Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link red when the user has zero edits
  73 * Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
  74 * (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
  75 * (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
  76 * (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
  77 * (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions
  78 * (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
  79   the appropriate permission
  80 * (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
  81 * (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins
  82 * (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback
  83 * (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer
  84 * Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on
  85 * (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is
  86   not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
  87 * (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
  88 * Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
  89 * English Wikipedia added to interwiki table as wikipedia: No idea why it wasn't
  90   there before.
  91 * use configured cache servers for mctest.php
  92 * bucket details in mcc.php
  93 * fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
  94 * full ID range for moveToExternal
  95 * fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
  96 * maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
  97 * recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
  98 * --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
  99 * profile unicode cleanup in Xml
 100 * log slow parses in Article.php
 101 * profile wfMsgReal
 102 * log mkdir failures
 103 * profile AutoLoader
 104 * rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
 105 * security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
 106 * Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
 107 * Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
 108 * Undelete page list can use plural marker
 109 * (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
 110 * Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
 111   $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
 112 * (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
 113 * (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
 114 * (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
 115 * Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
 116 * parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
 117   it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
 118 * Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occuring before the first wikitag.
 119 * Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>')
 120
 121 == Languages updated ==
 122
 123 * Belarusian (be)
 124 * Breton (br)
 125 * Finnish (fi)
 126 * French (fr)
 127 * German (de)
 128 * Hebrew (he)
 129 * Indonesian (id)
 130 * Lithuanian (lt)
 131 * Polish (pl)
 132 * Sicilian (scn)
 133 * Swedish (sv)
 134
 135 == Compatibility ==
 136
 137 MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 138
 139 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 140 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 141 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 142
 143 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 144 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 145
 146
 147 == Upgrading ==
 148
 149 Some minor database changes have been made since 1.7:
 150 * new fields and indexes on ipblocks
 151 * index change on recentchanges
 152
 153 Several changes from 1.5 and 1.6 do require updates to be run on upgrade.
 154 To ensure that these tables are filled with data, run refreshLinks.php after
 155 the upgrade.
 156
 157 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 158 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 159 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 160
 161 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 162
 163
 164
 165 === Caveats ===
 166
 167 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 168 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 169 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 170 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 171 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 172
 173
 174 For notes on 1.9.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 175
 176
 177 === Online documentation ===
 178
 179 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 180 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 181 License:
 182
 183   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 184
 185
 186 === Mailing list ===
 187
 188 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 189 wikitech-l list:
 190
 191   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 192
 193 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 194
 195   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 196
 197 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 198 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 199
 200
 201 === IRC help ===
 202
 203 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net