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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 1.13 ==
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 1.13 ===
22
23 * New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
24 * (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved
25 links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
26 * Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
27 * Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
28 * Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
29 * (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to
30 $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
31 * (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated
32 for only some namespaces
33 * Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use:
34 $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
35 in your LocalSettings.php.
36 * (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows
37 you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local
38 database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new
39 $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share.
40 * Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries
41 * Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page
42 * $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to
43 be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge
44 * $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits
45 displayed on the recent changes special pages
46 * The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target
47 image page already exists
48 * $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once
49 (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
50 * Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use
51 $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
52 * $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over
53 a certain number of days to be considered active
54 * $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
55 * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
56 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
57 * New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving
58 subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
59 * New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output. Default: false
60
61 === New features in 1.13 ===
62
63 * __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
64 article page
65 * Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
66 article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not
67 confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
68 * Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
69 image syntax output
70 * (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit&section=new that
71 pre-fills the section title field
72 * (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
73 * (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
74 reduce broken form submissions
75 * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
76 redirects to the redirect table
77 * Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
78 * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
79 * (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
80 * When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
81 * (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled"
82 link on diffs
83 * Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
84 * Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
85 * Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
86 ** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
87 ** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
88 * (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
89 * (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
90 * Image redirects are now enabled by default
91 * (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
92 * (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
93 * Redesign of Special:UserRights
94 * Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
95 * (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
96 * (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
97 * (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of
98 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
99 * Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
100 * (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or
101 off on Special:WhatLinksHere
102 * Cache image redirects
103 * (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
104 * Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
105 to modify the output for edit conflicts
106 * Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
107 a slightly less huge margin and padding
108 * (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
109 * Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
110 * On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove
111 one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
112 * (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
113 * Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different
114 text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
115 * Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account,
116 otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
117 * Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content
118 namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
119 * (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository
120 and local one
121 * Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
122 * (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
123 * (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
124 * Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
125 * (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
126 * Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
127 * More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
128 * (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
129 * (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
130 * Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
131 * Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
132 * Add support for SQLite
133 * AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
134 * (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
135 * (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
136 * Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
137 * (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
138 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
139 * Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
140 * (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
141 * New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
142 from other pages in their group.
143 * (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
144 * (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
145 * Sidebar is now cached for all languages
146 * The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
147 out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
148 edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
149 * SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
150 changed by extensions.
151 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
152 external links.
153 * (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
154
155 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
156
157 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
158 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
159 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
160 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
161 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
162 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
163 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
164 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
165 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
166 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
167 to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
168 'opensearch-desc' message.
169 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
170 to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
171 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
172 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
173 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
174 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
175 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
176 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
177 maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
178 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
179 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
180 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
181 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
182 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
183 back when using rollback
184 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
185 recentchanges entry
186 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
187 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
188 autocomment-prefix)
189 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
190 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
191 case-insensitive names.
192 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
193 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
194 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
195 for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
196 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
197 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
198 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
199 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
200 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
201 overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
202 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
203 'generated-sidebar'.
204 * (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
205 * (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
206 * (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
207 * (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
208 * (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
209 * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
210 * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
211 * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
212 * (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
213 so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
214 * Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
215 using the "delete and move" option.
216 * (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
217 * (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
218 * (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
219 * PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
220 * (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
221 * (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
222 * (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
223 * Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
224 * (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
225 * (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
226 * (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
227 * (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
228 * (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
229 * (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
230 (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
231 * Trackback display formatting fixed
232 * Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
233 that have an array index other than 0
234 * (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
235 * (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
236 * (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
237 * (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
238 * (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
239 * (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
240 * (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
241 * (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
242 * (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
243 * (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
244 * (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
245 Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
246 * (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
247 * (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
248 * (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
249 * (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
250 * (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
251 * (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
252 * (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
253 * (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
254 * Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
255 * Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
256 * (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
257 * (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
258 without query
259 * (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
260 * (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
261 * (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
262 * (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
263 * (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
264 * (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
265 the page is included
266 * When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
267 * Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
268 search results
269 * (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
270 * Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are
271 changeable or all unchangeable
272 * Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
273 * (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
274 * (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
275 * (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
276 * (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
277 * (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
278 * Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
279 * (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
280 * Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
281 * (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
282 * (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
283 * (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
284 * (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
285 * (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
286 * (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
287 * (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has
288 "show hidden categories" option on
289 * (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
290 * (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
291 * (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
292 * (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
293 * (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
294 * (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
295 * (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
296 * (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
297 * Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
298 * (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
299 * (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
300 * (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
301 * (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0
302 Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
303 * (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
304 * (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
305 * (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options
306 Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
307 * (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
308 * (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
309 * (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
310 * Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
311 * (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behaviour on image pages
312 * (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
313 * (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check
314 * (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
315 * (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
316 * (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
317 * (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists
318 even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
319 * (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are
320 loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
321 * (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
322 * (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also
323 disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
324 * (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
325 * (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
326 * (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
327 * (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name
328 for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
329 with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
330 * (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
331 * (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
332 and I to ı
333 * (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
334 * (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
335 set to true
336 * (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
337 * (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
338 * (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
339 ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
340 not the main namespace page.
341 * (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
342 * (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
343 * (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
344 * (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
345 * (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
346 * (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
347 * (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
348 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
349 * (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
350 and $2 (=revision numbers)
351 * (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
352 * (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
353 * (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
354 * (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
355 * (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
356 extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
357 * (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
358 * (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
359 * We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
360 created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
361 * (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
362
363
364 === API changes in 1.13 ===
365
366 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
367 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
368 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
369 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
370 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
371 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
372 retrieval easier
373 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
374 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
375 * Added action=edit
376 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
377 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
378 a certain section only
379 * Introduced list=allimages
380 * (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
381 * Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
382 * (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
383 * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
384 * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
385 * (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
386 * (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
387 handled properly.
388 * (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
389 * (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
390 * Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
391 * Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
392 * Added createonly parameter to action=edit
393 * Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
394 * (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
395 * (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
396 * Added fallback8bitEncoding field to meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
397 * (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
398 * (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
399 * Cleaned up redirect resolution
400 * Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
401 * (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
402 * (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
403 very weak typing on array keys.
404 * (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
405 * (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
406 * (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
407 * (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old revisions
408 * (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
409 * action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
410 * (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
411 * (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
412 * Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
413 * (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with
414 format=xml
415 * (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
416 * (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
417 * (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
418 * (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
419 * (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
420 * (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
421 * (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
422 * (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
423 * (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete for ages)
424 * (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
425 * (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
426 * Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
427 * Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
428 * Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
429 * (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
430 * (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
431 * action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
432 * Added md5 parameter to action=edit
433 * (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
434 * Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
435
436 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
437
438 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
439 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
440
441 * Egyptian Spoken Arabic (arz) (new)
442 * Southern Balochi (bcc) (new)
443 * Middle Dutch (dum) (removed)
444 * British English (en-gb) (new)
445 * Fiji Hindi (Latin) (hif-latn) (new)
446 * Old Norse (non) (removed)
447 * Serbian cyrillic iyekvian (sr-jc) (removed)
448 * Serbian latin iyekavian (sr-jl) (removed)
449 * Silesian (szl) (new)
450 * Tajiki (Cyrllic script) (tg-cyrl) (new)
451 * Tajiki (Latin script) (tg-latn) (new)
452
453
454 == Compatibility ==
455
456 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
457
458 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
459 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
460 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
461
462 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
463 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
464
465
466 == Upgrading ==
467
468 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
469 updates.
470
471 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
472 new database fields are filled with data.
473
474 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
475 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
476 database schema changes.
477
478 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
479 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
480 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
481
482 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
483
484
485 === Caveats ===
486
487 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
488 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
489 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
490 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
491 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
492
493 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
494
495
496 === Online documentation ===
497
498 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
499 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
500 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
501 the public domain) :
502
503 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
504
505
506 === Mailing list ===
507
508 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
509 wikitech-l list:
510
511 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
512
513 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
514
515 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
516
517 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
518 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
519
520
521 === IRC help ===
522
523 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net