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 1.14 ==
   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 1.14 ===
  22
  23 * $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
  24   the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words.  (Default: null, ex-
  25   empt all content namespaces.)
  26 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
  27   has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
  28 * (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
  29   $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent
  30   Changes feed that appears on all pages.
  31 * $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
  32   SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from
  33   $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki.
  34 * $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
  35   $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
  36   group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
  37   Backwards compatibility is maintained.
  38 * $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
  39   word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
  40   is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
  41 * $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
  42 * $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
  43 * Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
  44   with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
  45   is not required.
  46 * $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
  47 * Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
  48   whitelist on or off.
  49 * Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
  50   sitenotice cache keys.
  51 * $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
  52 * (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
  53   write actions using the API.
  54 * Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
  55   ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
  56 * Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
  57   on the wiki. If it's set to true, then the skin used will *always* be
  58   $wgDefaultSkin.
  59 * Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
  60   on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
  61 * Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
  62   ForeignAPIRepo)
  63 * Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File. For backward
  64   compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may need to be
  65   updated.
  66 * MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by
  67   using $wgUsePrivateIPs.
  68
  69 === Migrated extensions ===
  70 The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
  71
  72 * Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was
  73   extension DeletedContributions)
  74 * Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
  75 * Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
  76 * RenderHash
  77 * NoMoveUserPages
  78 * UniversalEditButton
  79
  80 === New features in 1.14 ===
  81
  82 * New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
  83   'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
  84   'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
  85 * Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
  86   respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
  87   MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
  88   PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
  89 * (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
  90   search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
  91 * Handheld stylesheet options
  92 * Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
  93   'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks.  Note that the
  94   'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
  95   run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
  96   if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
  97 * Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
  98   $wgCleanSignatures=false
  99 * Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
 100   sidebar and add custom portlets to it
 101 * Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
 102   ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
 103 * (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
 104   Special:ListGroupRights
 105 * (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
 106 * (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
 107   the main page to be customized
 108 * Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
 109   the wiki
 110 * Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
 111   added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
 112   being converted or not
 113 * (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
 114   Patch by Emufarmers
 115 * Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
 116 * Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
 117   after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
 118   templates to work with that hook.
 119 * (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
 120   'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
 121 * (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
 122 * By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
 123   so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
 124 * (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
 125   option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
 126 * (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
 127   Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
 128 * Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
 129   groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
 130 * HTML entities like &nbsp; now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
 131 * (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
 132   instead of a hardcoded colon.
 133 * Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
 134 * Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
 135 * BMP images are now displayed as PNG
 136 * (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
 137 * (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
 138 * Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
 139 * Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
 140 * Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
 141   treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
 142   displaying an external image inline.
 143 * (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
 144 * (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
 145 * (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
 146 * Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
 147   small categories
 148 * After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
 149 * (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
 150 * (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
 151   Special:Statistics
 152 * (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
 153   plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
 154 * (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
 155   deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
 156 * Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
 157   image.
 158 * (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for
 159   different restriction types on the protection form.
 160 * (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
 161 * Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
 162 * Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
 163   $wgExternalLinkTarget
 164 * api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the
 165   maxlag check fails, just like index.php does
 166 * Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
 167   arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
 168   solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
 169 * (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
 170   using new "alt=" parameter for images
 171 * (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized
 172   namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of
 173   underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
 174 * Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
 175   default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
 176   marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
 177 * Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
 178   several uses of the same image.
 179 * (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
 180   wiki is set to read-only mode.
 181 * Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.
 182   This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page
 183   from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only
 184   called from within Article.php
 185 * Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
 186   $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
 187 * (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
 188   is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
 189 * Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
 190   linked from articles
 191 * Make search matches bold only, not red as well
 192 * Added 'UserRights::showEditUserGroupsForm' hook to allow extensions to alter
 193   the groups that the user can be added to/removed from in Special:UserRights
 194 * (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
 195 * (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is
 196   already directly blocked
 197 * (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter
 198   "watchthis"
 199 * (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by
 200   Nathan Larson.
 201 * Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
 202 * (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
 203 * (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
 204 * (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
 205 * Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
 206   image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
 207   $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
 208 * New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
 209 * (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
 210 * (bug 11027)  Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the
 211   namespace.
 212 * Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that
 213   admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS
 214 * Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
 215 * Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
 216 * Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
 217
 218 === Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
 219
 220 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
 221 * (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
 222   falls back to the user option
 223 * (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
 224 * Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
 225 * Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
 226 * Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
 227 * (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
 228 * (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
 229 * (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
 230 * Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
 231 * (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
 232   no longer redirect to the second link
 233 * (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
 234   a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
 235   Patch by Max Semenik.
 236 * (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
 237   user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
 238 * (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in
 239   5 minutes.
 240 * (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
 241   wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
 242 * (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the
 243   diff entirely, not just the display of it.
 244 * (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
 245   allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
 246 * (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
 247   ns-special to special pages.
 248 * (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
 249 * (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
 250   for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
 251   WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
 252 * (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
 253   again
 254 * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
 255 * (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
 256   gives results
 257 * Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
 258   contain '/*' in the title
 259 * Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
 260 * $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
 261   addition to body text.
 262 * Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
 263   from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
 264 * Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
 265   description pages).
 266 * (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
 267 * (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
 268   literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
 269 * (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
 270   namespace in Special:Watchlist
 271 * (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
 272   last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
 273 * (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
 274 * Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
 275   Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
 276   long-lasting locks on that table.
 277 * Respect file restrictions in the file history list
 278 * (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
 279   tables, and have been disabled by default.
 280 * (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
 281 * (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
 282 * (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
 283 * (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
 284 * (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
 285 * (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
 286   Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned.
 287 * Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
 288   LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
 289 * Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent
 290   pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the
 291   database
 292 * (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for
 293   recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50.
 294 * (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
 295   instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
 296 * (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
 297   has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
 298 * (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
 299 * Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST.
 300 * (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users
 301 * Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL
 302 * (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview
 303 * (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner
 304 * (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex
 305 * Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page
 306 * (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button
 307 * (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous
 308 * (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode
 309 * (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the
 310   user can only change his rights
 311 * (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
 312 * (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
 313 * (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
 314 * (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now
 315   bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
 316 * Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the
 317   Konqueror browser correctly use the latter
 318 * (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
 319 * (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
 320   preferences.
 321 * (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
 322 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
 323   search box
 324 * (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding
 325   new namespace
 326 * Purge form uses valid XHTML
 327 * (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
 328 * (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback
 329   if JavaScript is disabled
 330 * (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
 331 * Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
 332 * (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
 333 * (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
 334 * (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
 335   of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
 336 * Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now
 337   produces a warning
 338 * (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case
 339   letters
 340 * (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
 341 * (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
 342   have corrupt URLs
 343 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
 344   search box
 345 * (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
 346   revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
 347 * (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
 348   filename as the remote site.
 349 * (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
 350 * Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb
 351   path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
 352 * (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
 353   {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
 354 * Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for
 355   formatting and path exposure.
 356 * Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured
 357 * Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use.
 358 * Improved input validation on Special:Import form
 359 * Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection
 360   against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default
 361   installations.
 362 * Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection.
 363 * Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads.
 364 * (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes
 365 * (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script
 366
 367 === API changes in 1.14 ===
 368
 369 * Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
 370   shown as empty instead of the current time.
 371 * API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
 372   or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
 373   This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
 374   &srwhat=text to the query.
 375 * Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
 376 * (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
 377   are now listed on action=help
 378 * (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
 379   between requests
 380 * (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
 381   output.
 382 * When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
 383 * list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
 384 * (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
 385   non-hidden categories
 386 * (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of
 387   an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
 388 * list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
 389   etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
 390   for consistency with other list modules.
 391 * Added action=watch
 392 * (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
 393 * action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228  when trying to create an
 394   empty section with section=new
 395 * Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
 396   nochange flag any more
 397 * (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
 398 * (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
 399   return just "Unknown error"
 400 * (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
 401 * (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
 402 * (bug 15466) Added action=purge
 403 * (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
 404 * (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
 405 * (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
 406 * (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
 407   if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
 408 * list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
 409 * Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
 410   hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
 411 * action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
 412 * (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
 413   WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
 414 * (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
 415   rather than causing an exception
 416 * Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo
 417 * (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info
 418 * Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can
 419   be disabled in LocalSettings.php
 420 * (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles
 421 * (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw
 422 * (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted
 423   and undeleted since the last edit
 424 * (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in
 425   action=protect
 426 * Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output
 427 * (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
 428 * (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
 429   manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
 430 * (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
 431 * The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
 432 * (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
 433   and patrolmarks right
 434 * (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
 435   descending order.
 436 * (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
 437   list=categorymembers
 438 * (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
 439   sortkeys containing pipes
 440 * (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
 441   works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
 442 * (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
 443   output
 444 * Added redirect resolution to action=parse
 445 * (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
 446   an error
 447 * (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
 448 * (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
 449 * (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
 450 * (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
 451 * meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty
 452   sifilter parameter.
 453 * (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate
 454   limits
 455 * (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases
 456 * (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions
 457 * (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores
 458   instead of spaces
 459
 460 === Languages updated in 1.14 ===
 461
 462 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
 463 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
 464
 465 * Bakhtiari (bqi) (new)
 466 * Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new)
 467 * Krio (kri) (new)
 468 * Lezghian (lez) (new)
 469 * Laz (lzz) (new)
 470 * Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
 471 * Niuean (niu) (new)
 472 * Oromo (om) (new)
 473 * Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
 474 * Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
 475 * Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
 476 * Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
 477 * Tulu (tcy) (new)
 478
 479 == Compatibility ==
 480
 481 MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 482
 483 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 484 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 485 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 486
 487 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 488 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 489
 490
 491 == Upgrading ==
 492
 493 1.14 has several database changes since 1.13, and will not work without schema
 494 updates.
 495
 496 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
 497 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 498 database schema changes.
 499
 500 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 501 new database fields are filled with data.
 502
 503 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 504 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 505 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 506
 507 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 508
 509
 510 === Caveats ===
 511
 512 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 513 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 514 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 515 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 516 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 517
 518 For notes on 1.13.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 519
 520
 521 === Online documentation ===
 522
 523 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 524 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 525 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 526 the public domain) :
 527
 528   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 529
 530
 531 === Mailing list ===
 532
 533 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 534 wikitech-l list:
 535
 536   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 537
 538 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 539
 540   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 541
 542 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 543 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 544
 545
 546 === IRC help ===
 547
 548 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net