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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) Added $wgForceClientThumbnails to force client rendering of thumbs,
29 instead of falling back to GD.
30
31 === New features in 1.15 ===
32
33 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
34 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
35 for the current page for a given action
36 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
37 to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
38 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
39 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
40 Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
41 hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
42 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
43 from the database.
44 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
45 existing block when modifying an existing block.
46 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
47 rather than hardcoded HTML tags
48 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
49 extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
50 pages
51 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
52 specialpages
53 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
54 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
55 recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
56 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
57 special pages.
58 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
59 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
60 link instead of Go button & Search button
61 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
62 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
63 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
64 * (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
65 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
66 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
67 content language.
68 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
69 set to false.
70 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
71 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
72 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
73 can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
74 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
75 "mw-confirmemail-pending"
76 * (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
77 parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
78 part for a given title.
79 * (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
80 rest of the font
81 * (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
82 * (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
83 * (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
84 * Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
85 class "mw-searchresult"
86 * (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
87 * Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
88 * New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
89 LanguageConverter class)
90 * (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
91 * Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
92 * (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
93 "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
94 * (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
95 this information will be public
96 * Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
97 * Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
98 the active users data from site_stats.
99 * Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
100 * Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
101 'ellipsis' message
102 * Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
103 'mw-editinginterface'
104 * (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
105 * Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
106 of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
107 next section anyway.
108 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
109 rate limits.
110 * (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
111 Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
112 $wgForeignFileRepos
113 * Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
114 * (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
115 * (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
116 * (bug 15876) Users with 'reset-passwords' right can change the passwords of
117 other users.
118 * Add an ID if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
119 line
120 * Add logging to password resets if not resetting your own
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 wiki with
129 LanguageConverter class)
130
131 === Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
132 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
133 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
134 before trying to delete the edit.
135 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
136 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
137 the destination page exists
138 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
139 been disabled
140 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
141 LanguageConverter class)
142 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
143 LanguageConverter class)
144 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
145 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
146 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
147 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
148 allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
149 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
150 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
151 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
152 to 'administrator'
153 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
154 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
155 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
156 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
157 "user contributions"
158 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
159 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
160 comment label uses better message
161 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
162 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
163 LocalSettings
164 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
165 error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
166 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
167 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
168 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
169 for identical files at different titles are still given.
170 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
171 certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
172 and the entries can be styled with CSS.
173 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
174 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
175 results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
176 * (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
177 * (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
178 configs
179 * (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
180 * (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
181 * (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
182 * (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
183 history
184 * (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
185 and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
186 * (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
187 * (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
188 longer affects the page title
189 * (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
190 * (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
191 * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
192 * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
193 * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
194 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
195 cache is enabled.
196 * (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
197 * (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
198 maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
199 * (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
200 * (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
201 * Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
202 use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
203 in next page link
204 * (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
205 * Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
206 * File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
207 * (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
208 used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
209 * (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
210 * (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
211 now point to the actual contributors' feed.
212 * ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
213 * Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
214 $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
215 * (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
216 redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
217 * (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
218 * (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
219 changed to rc_timestamp_bot
220 * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
221 * (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
222 * (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
223 on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
224 * (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
225 it unreadable in RTL
226 * Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
227 * (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
228 PostgreSQL
229 * (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
230 * (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
231 * (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
232 * (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
233 toolbar present
234 * (bug 16899) DISPLAYTITLE should allow Arabic and Persian harakats
235 * (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
236 * (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
237 * (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
238 queue
239 * (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
240 displayed revision if it's not the current one
241 * (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
242
243 == API changes in 1.15 ==
244 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
245 and listing all deleted pages possible
246 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
247 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
248 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
249 created the page, even if it's not the top revision
250 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
251 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
252 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
253 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
254 Building query properly now using makeList()
255 * (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
256 autolinked correctly
257 * (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
258 * (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
259 * (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
260 * (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
261 * (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
262 * (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
263 * (bug 17007) Added action=import
264 * BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
265 of performance concerns
266 * Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
267 and list=logevents
268 * (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
269 limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
270 * (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
271 * (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
272 * (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
273 * Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
274 * (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
275 aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
276 * (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
277 * (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
278 * (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
279
280 === Languages updated in 1.15 ===
281
282 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
283 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
284 changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
285
286 * Austrian German (de-at) (new)
287 * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
288 * Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
289 * Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
290 * Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
291 * (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
292 * (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
293 * (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
294 * (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
295
296 == Compatibility ==
297
298 MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
299
300 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
301 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
302 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
303
304 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
305 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
306
307
308 == Upgrading ==
309
310 1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema
311 updates.
312
313 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
314 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
315 database schema changes.
316
317 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
318 new database fields are filled with data.
319
320 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
321 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
322 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
323
324 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
325
326
327 === Caveats ===
328
329 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
330 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
331 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
332 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
333 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
334
335 For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
336
337
338 === Online documentation ===
339
340 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
341 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
342 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
343 the public domain) :
344
345 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
346
347
348 === Mailing list ===
349
350 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
351 wikitech-l list:
352
353 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
354
355 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
356
357 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
358
359 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
360 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
361
362
363 === IRC help ===
364
365 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net