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[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / 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 1.17 ==
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 1.17 ===
22 * DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
23 extensions has been removed.
24 * $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged
25 to new users log.
26 * $wgAllowImageTag can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag in wikitext.
27 * (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display
28 options.
29 * $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option allows disabling CSS-based preferences; which can
30 improve page loading speed.
31 * (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as
32 $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is
33 on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly.
34 * (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable
35 which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
36 showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
37 research into its user experience implications.
38 * Added $wgJQueryVersion, $wgJQueryMinified and $wgJQueryOnEveryPage (true by
39 default) to configure loading of jQuery by MediaWiki.
40 * XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
41 * Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
42 or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks)
43 * $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has
44 been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory.
45 * $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted
46 uploads in.
47 * IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the
48 normal $wgDBport.
49 * The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
50 navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
51 * $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
52 provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
53 * Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized,
54 $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors,
55 $wgUseZhdaemon, $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
56 * (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
57 * $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use.
58 * $wgLoadScript was added to specify alternative locations for ResourceLoader
59 requests.
60 * $wgResourceLoaderMaxage was added to specify maxage and smaxage times for
61 responses from ResourceLoader based on whether the request's URL contained a
62 version parameter or not.
63 * $wgResourceLoaderDebug was added to specify the default state of debug mode;
64 this will still be overridden with the debug URL parameter a la $wgLanguageCode.
65
66 === New features in 1.17 ===
67 * (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
68 User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled).
69 * (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights.
70 * (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
71 apply the names of the individual files within the gallery.
72 * Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer
73 if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>.
74 * Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links.
75 * (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the
76 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default).
77 * (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced
78 changes list.
79 * (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when
80 viewing contributions of a blocked IP address.
81 * (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second paramter for type of
82 escaping.
83 * Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter.
84 * Special:Random carries over query string parameters.
85 * (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go".
86 * When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt
87 is provided on the Upload form.
88 * (bug 22647) Add category details in search results.
89 * (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query.
90 * Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences.
91 * Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode.
92 * (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits.
93 * ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
94 watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on.
95 * (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there
96 is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages.
97 * (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine.
98 * (bug 18488) Added maintenance script refreshCategoryCounts.php
99 * (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching.
100 * (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be
101 notified about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions.
102 * (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup.
103 * (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages
104 * (bug 21312) RevisionMove allows moving individual revisions of a page to
105 another page. Introducing 'revisionmove' user right; disabled by default;
106 experimental feature.
107 * Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
108 Special:Preferences
109 * Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip.
110 * (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
111 * (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
112 contributions
113 * (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids
114 * (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math>
115 * (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math>
116 * (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math>
117 * texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time.
118 * SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB.
119 * (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages
120 * Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being
121 well-formed XML
122 * texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto
123 * Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos
124 * ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set
125 * (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign
126 client wikis.
127 * (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
128 page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
129 {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
130 * (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class
131 "mw-ipb-needreblock"
132 * (bug 24313) The preference to mark edits minor by default was removed,
133 because it encourages edits to be marked minor accidentally and it can be
134 easily replicated by custom user scripts for those who really want it.
135 * Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa.
136 * (bug 671) The <dfn> element has been whitelisted in user input.
137 * (bug 24563) Entries on Special:WhatLinksHere now have a link to their history
138 * (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users
139 * (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token
140 * A variety of category sort-related fixes, including:
141 ** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same.
142 (This should be expanded to proper sorting for other languages before the
143 1.17 release.)
144 ** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately.
145 ** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names
146 instead of randomly.
147 * (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word.
148 * JavaScript-based password complexity checker on account creation and
149 password change.
150 * The HTML ID's generated for sections are now much prettier when they contain
151 punctuation or non-English letters, so a section named "Hello?" will now
152 result in a URL ending in "#Hello?" rather than "#Hello.3F".
153 * (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements
154 * (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages
155 * The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
156 used in the page.
157 * Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
158 * (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
159 intermediate revisions
160 * Added new hook GetIP
161 * (bug 16574) Allow administrators to temporarily disable the account creation
162 limit for IP addresses: [[MediaWiki:Ratelimit-excluded-ips]]
163
164 === Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
165 * (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
166 without updating database.
167 * (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer
168 throws an error.
169 * (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block
170 settings changed.
171 * (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different
172 when the address changed.
173 * (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name.
174 * (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and
175 redirects.
176 * (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when
177 the URL contains a colon.
178 * (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again.
179 * (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is
180 now only displayed when relevant.
181 * (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages.
182 * (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects.
183 * (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion.
184 * (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language.
185 * (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN.
186 * (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work.
187 * (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users.
188 * (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not
189 correctly set.
190 * (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so
191 that links with non-NFC character references work correctly.
192 * (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for
193 anonymous users instead of null.
194 * (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited.
195 * (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being
196 logged in (anonpreviewwarning).
197 * (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files.
198 * (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly.
199 * (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text.
200 * (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content
201 language.
202 * (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page
203 when using rebuildFileCache.php
204 * (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid".
205 parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target.
206 * (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend.
207 * (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed.
208 * (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases.
209 * (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces
210 rather than only main namespace.
211 * (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all
212 frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than
213 the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images
214 exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size.
215 * (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first
216 item.
217 * (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase.
218 * Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
219 style is not valid for the user's interface language.
220 * (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
221 preference is set.
222 * Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
223 in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
224 * (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
225 * (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer
226 displays incorrect tabs.
227 * (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers.
228 * (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display.
229 * (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources.
230 * (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files
231 work.
232 * (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery.
233 * (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer
234 displayed on Special:Listusers.
235 * (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences
236 to enhance preference grouping.
237 * (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the
238 correct link.
239 * (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
240 * (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
241 * (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create)
242 are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
243 is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
244 * (Bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as &tilde; not &sim;
245 * (Bug 23241) Remove License selector, because it is not used when uploading a
246 new version.
247 * (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist.
248 * The pipe | character in urls is now escaped.
249 * (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved.
250 * (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of
251 MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary.
252 * (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
253 new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed.
254 * Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if
255 user did not capitalize first letter of username.
256 * (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables.
257 * (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
258 as Opera 8.
259 * (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
260 account upload rights.
261 * (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
262 and correct render results.
263 * (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
264 consistent and correct render results.
265 * (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo.
266 * (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for
267 multibyte characters.
268 * (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser.
269 * (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if
270 the $noRedir parameter is set to true
271 * (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents.
272 * (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php
273 * (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter
274 * (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not
275 accidently activated when hitting enter.
276 * (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores
277 * Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0
278 * (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
279 * (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
280 a fatal error
281 * (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
282 Special:Upload after following a red link
283 * Correct the escaping of the autosummary URI fragments.
284 * (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
285 * (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments.
286 * (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings
287 * (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
288 * (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers
289 * (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect
290 Image: --> File: namespace rename.
291 * Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
292 * (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
293 disabled
294 * (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when special:recentchanges(linked)
295 or special:newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the
296 page.
297 * (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer
298 throw fatal errors
299 * (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a
300 useful error message.
301 * Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
302 instead of showing an error page
303 * (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in
304 SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
305 * (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
306 * (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules
307 * (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages
308 * (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
309 longer pollutes the parser cache.
310 * (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes.
311 * Save 200 useless queries on each category page view
312 * Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec
313 * (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian
314 * "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between
315 revisions" on diffs when appropriate.
316 * (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as
317 a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages
318 * (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also
319 make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case
320 * (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
321 memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
322 * Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
323 when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
324 * (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again
325 * (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file
326 * (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available
327 * (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel
328 * (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff
329 instead of alterning focus between the two buttons.
330 * (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account
331 * (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output
332 * SQLite system table names are now never prefixed.
333
334 === API changes in 1.17 ===
335 * (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
336 * (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse.
337 * (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent.
338 * (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
339 * (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment.
340 is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
341 * (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
342 module.
343 * (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests.
344 * (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option.
345 * (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash.
346 * (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions.
347 * (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
348 using token and username.
349 * (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
350 track inline interwiki link usage.
351 * Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
352 similar to prop=categories's clcategorie
353 * (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when
354 thumbnailing larger than original image
355 * (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query
356 * (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages
357 * (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups
358 * (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
359 ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help
360 * (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied
361 * (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules
362 * (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but
363 forceditsummary
364 * (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
365 in IE 7.
366 * (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result
367 * (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the
368 hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added
369 unconditionally on error
370 * (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
371 title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved
372 to the local alias.
373 * (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
374 canonical language variant.
375 * (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame" parameter.
376 * (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API
377 * (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and
378 iwtitle
379 * (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
380 one of the backlinks generators with limit=max.
381 * (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report
382 * PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user
383 does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
384 * (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to
385 NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit
386 * (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks,
387 allmessages, allpages, and allusers
388 * (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to
389 meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups
390 * (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module
391 * (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit
392 * (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and
393 blockreason if the user is actually blocked.
394 * Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format
395 * For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as
396 missing
397 * (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1)
398 * (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags
399 * Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
400 $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
401
402 === Languages updated in 1.17 ===
403
404 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
405 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
406 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
407
408 * Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary) (new)
409 * Banjar (bjn) (new)
410 * Danish (dk) (removed deprecated language code)
411 * Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) (removed)
412 * Kabardian (kdb) (new, dummy)
413 * Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl) (new)
414 * Latgalian (ltg) (new)
415 * Minangkabau (min) (new)
416 * Dutch (informal) (nl-informal) (new)
417 * Rusyn (rue) (new)
418
419 * (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
420 (Taraškievica).
421 * (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc.
422 * (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca.
423 * (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script.
424 * (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto.
425 * (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia.
426 * (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated.
427
428 == Compatibility ==
429
430 MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer
431 supported.
432
433 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
434 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
435
436
437 == Upgrading ==
438
439 1.17 has several database changes since 1.16, and will not work without schema
440 updates.
441
442 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
443 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
444 database schema changes.
445
446 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
447 new database fields are filled with data.
448
449 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
450 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
451 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
452
453 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
454
455
456 === Caveats ===
457
458 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
459 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
460 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
461 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
462 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
463
464 For notes on 1.16.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
465
466
467 === Online documentation ===
468
469 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
470 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
471 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
472 the public domain) :
473
474 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
475
476
477 === Mailing list ===
478
479 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
480 wikitech-l list:
481
482 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
483
484 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
485
486 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
487
488 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
489 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
490
491
492 === IRC help ===
493
494 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net