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 1.11 ==
   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 since 1.10 ==
  22 * $wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is
  23   used
  24
  25 == New features since 1.10 ==
  26
  27 * (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks
  28 * Adding expiry of block to block messages
  29 * Bulk mail options ($wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ) for large sites
  30 * Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in
  31   <span class="redirect-in-category"></span>
  32 * Introduced 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
  33   more information
  34 * (bug 9628) Show warnings about slave lag on Special:Contributions,
  35   Special:Watchlist
  36 * (bug 8818) Expose "wpDestFile" as parameter $1 to "uploaddisabledtext"
  37 * Introducing new image keyword 'upright' and corresponding variable
  38   $wgThumbUpright. This allows better proportional view of upright images
  39   related to landscape images on a page without nailing the width of upright
  40   images to a fix value which makes views for anon unproportional and user
  41   preferences useless
  42 * (bug 6072) Introducing 'border' keyword to the [[Image:]] syntax
  43 * Introducing 'frameless' keyword to [[Image:]] syntax which respects the
  44   user preferences for image width like 'thumb' but without a frame.
  45 * (bug 7960) Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry
  46 * Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style
  47   file repositories.
  48 * Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output
  49 * Improved thumb.php error handling
  50 * Display file history on local image description pages of shared images
  51 * Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies
  52 * (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext
  53   containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the
  54 * (bug 7691) Deletion log now shown when creating a new article, following
  55   MediaWiki:Noarticletext(anon) or MediaWiki:Newarticletext(anon).
  56   current user.
  57
  58 == Bugfixes since 1.10 ==
  59
  60 * (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi
  61 * (bug 9670) Follow redirects when render edit section links to transcluded
  62   templates.
  63 * (bug 6204) Fix incorrect unindentation with $wgMaxTocLevel
  64 * (bug 3431) Suppress "next page" link in Special:Search at end of results
  65 * Don't show unblock form if the user doesn't have permission to use it
  66   (cosmetic change, no vulnerabilities existed)
  67 * Subtitle success message when unblocking a block ID instead of a pseudo link
  68   like [[User:#123|#123]]
  69 * Use the standard HTTP fetch functions when retrieving remote wiki pages
  70   through transwiki, so we can take advantage of cURL goodies if available
  71 * Disable custom user javascript in Special:Preferences, to avoid the risk
  72   of a compromised script sniffing passwords etc.
  73 * (bug 9854, 3770) Clip overflow text in gallery boxes for visual cleanliness
  74   instead of letting it flow outside the box or trigger ugly scroll bars.
  75 * Tooltips for print version and permalink
  76 * Links to the MediaWiki namespace for system messages having their default
  77   values are no longer shown as nonexistent (e.g., in red)
  78 * Special:Ipblocklist differentiates between empty list and no search results.
  79 * (bug 5375) profiling does not respect read-only mode.
  80 * (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts
  81 * (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset
  82 * (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR
  83 * (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer
  84   throws warnings.
  85 * (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error.
  86 * (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines.
  87   Diff style rules have been broken out to common/diff.css,
  88   and the dupes removed from the default skin files.
  89   Skins can still override the default rules.
  90 * (bug 1229) Balance columns in diff display evenly
  91 * Right-align diff line numbers in RTL language display
  92 * (bug 9332) Fix instructions in tests/README
  93 * (bug 9813) Reject usernames containing '#' to avoid silent truncation
  94   of fragments during the normalisation process
  95 * (bug 7989) RSS feeds content now use black text when using white background.
  96 * (bug 9971) Typo in a french language message.
  97 * (bug 9973) Changed size was shown in advanced recentchanges collapsible items
  98   with $wgRCShowChangedSized = false.
  99 * Fix PHP strict standards warning in enhanced recent changes.
 100 * (bug 5850) Added hexadecimal html entities comments for $digitTransformTable
 101   entries.
 102 * (bug 7432) Change language name for Aromanian (roa-rup)
 103 * (bug 908) Unexistent special pages now generate a red link.
 104 * (bug 7899) Added \hline and \vline to the list of allowed TeX commands
 105 * (bug 7993) support mathematical symbol classes
 106 * (bug 10007) Allow Block IP to work with Postgrs again.
 107 * Add Google Wireless Transcoder to the Unicode editing blacklist
 108 * (bug 10083) Fix for Special:Version breakage on PHP 5.2 with some hooks
 109 * (bug 3624) TeX: \ker, \hom, \arg, \dim treated like \sin & \cos
 110
 111
 112 == MediaWiki API changes since 1.10 ==
 113
 114 (For ongoing development discussion, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API)
 115
 116 * New properties: links, templates, images, langlinks, categories, external links
 117 * Breaking Change: imagelinks renamed into imageusage (il->iu)
 118 * Bug fix: incorrect generator behavior in some cases
 119 * JSON format allows an optional callback function to wrap the result.
 120 * Login module disabled until a more secure solution can be implemented
 121 * (bug 9938) Querying by revision identifier returns the most recent revision
 122   for the corresponding page, rather than the requested revision
 123 * (bug 8772) Filter page revision queries by user
 124 * (bug 9927) User contributions queries do not accept IP addresses
 125 * Watchlist feed now reports a proper feed item when the user is not logged in
 126 * Watchlist feed date bug fixed - automatically shows one last day
 127 * Watchlist feed now allows to specify number of hours to monitor
 128 * list=allpages now returns a list instead of a map in json format
 129 * Breaking Change: in json, revisions are now returned as a list, not as a map.
 130 * Add: prop=info can show page is new flag, current page length, and visit counter.
 131 * Change: Query watchlist now shows flags only when explicitly requested with wlparam=flags
 132           rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible from query watchlist
 133 * action=usercontribs: additional filtering by ucshow=; selection of needed fields with ucprop=;
 134   the textid (rev_text_id) is no longer being exposed
 135 * breaking change: backlinks, embeddedin & imageusage now return lists in json instead of a map,
 136                    and do not return anything when titles do not exist. (bug 9970)
 137 * added query parameter indexpageids to list the page ids of all returned page items (bug 9121)
 138
 139 == Maintenance script changes since 1.10 ==
 140
 141 * Add support for wgMaxTocLevel option in parserTests
 142 * (bug 6823) dumpHTML: explicitly disable article view counter
 143
 144 == Languages updated since 1.10 ==
 145
 146 * Arabic (ar)
 147 * Catalan (ca)
 148 * Danish (da)
 149 * German (de)
 150 * Greek (el)
 151 * Spanish (es)
 152 * Farsi (fa)
 153 * Finnish (fi)
 154 * Võro (fiu-vro)
 155 * French (fr)
 156 * Hakka (hak)
 157 * Hebrew (he)
 158 * Indonesian (id)
 159 * Italian (it)
 160 * Japanese (ja)
 161 * Georgian (ka)
 162 * Kabyle (kab)
 163 * Kazakh (kk)
 164 * Kurdish (ku)
 165 * Lithuanian (lt)
 166 * Burmese (my)
 167 * Norwegian (no)
 168 * Polish (pl)
 169 * Portuguese (pt)
 170 * Russian (ru)
 171 * Slovak (sk)
 172 * Shona (sn)
 173 * Somali (so)
 174 * Sundanese (su)
 175 * Swedish (sv)
 176 * Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
 177 * Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
 178 * Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
 179 * Cantonese (zh-yue)
 180
 181 == Compatibility ==
 182
 183 MediaWiki 1.11 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 184
 185 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 186 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 187 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 188
 189 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 190 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 191
 192
 193 == Upgrading ==
 194
 195 1.11 has several database changes since 1.10, and will not work without schema
 196 updates.
 197
 198 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 199 new database fields are filled with data.
 200
 201 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 202 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 203 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 204
 205 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 206
 207 === Caveats ===
 208
 209 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 210 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 211 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 212 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 213 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 214
 215
 216 For notes on 1.10.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 217
 218
 219 === Online documentation ===
 220
 221 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 222 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 223 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 224 the public domain) :
 225
 226   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 227
 228
 229 === Mailing list ===
 230
 231 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 232 wikitech-l list:
 233
 234   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 235
 236 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 237
 238   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 239
 240 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 241 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 242
 243
 244 === IRC help ===
 245
 246 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net