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 1.13 ==
   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
  25 === New features in 1.13 ===
  26
  27 * __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
  28   article page.
  29 * Don't show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
  30   article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is aren't
  31   confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
  32 * Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
  33   image syntax output.
  34 * (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit&section=new that
  35   pre-fills the section title field.
  36 * (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:Recentchangeslinked
  37 * (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
  38   reduce broken form submissions
  39 * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
  40   redirects to the redirect table
  41 * Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
  42 * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
  43 * (bug 2815) Search results for media files now use thumb instead of text extract
  44
  45 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
  46
  47 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
  48 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
  49 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
  50 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
  51 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
  52 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
  53 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
  54 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
  55 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
  56 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
  57   to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
  58   'opensearch-desc' message.
  59 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
  60   to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
  61 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
  62 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
  63 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
  64 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
  65 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
  66 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
  67   maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
  68 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
  69 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
  70 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
  71 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
  72 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
  73   back when using rollback
  74 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
  75   recentchanges entry
  76 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
  77 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
  78   autocomment-prefix)
  79 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
  80 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
  81   case-insensitive names.
  82 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
  83 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
  84 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
  85   for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
  86 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
  87 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
  88 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
  89
  90 === API changes in 1.13 ===
  91
  92 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
  93 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
  94 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
  95 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
  96 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
  97 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid retrieval easier
  98 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
  99 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
 100 * Added action=edit
 101 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
 102
 103 === Languages updated in 1.13 ===
 104
 105 * Afrikaans (af)
 106 * Gheg Albanian (aln)
 107 * Amharic (am)
 108 * Aragonese (an)
 109 * Arabic (ar)
 110 * Asturian (ast)
 111 * Kotava (avk)
 112 * Samogitian (bat-smg)
 113 * Bulgarian (bg)
 114 * Catalan (ca)
 115 * Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic) (crh-cyrl)
 116 * Crimean Turkish (Latin) (crh-latn)
 117 * Czech (cs)
 118 * Welsh (cy)
 119 * Danish (da)
 120 * Lower Sorbian (dsb)
 121 * Greek (el)
 122 * Esperanto (eo)
 123 * Spanish (es)
 124 * Estonian (et)
 125 * Extremaduran (ext)
 126 * Finnish (fi)
 127 * Faroese (fo)
 128 * French (fr)
 129 * Franco-Provençal (frp)
 130 * Friulian (fur)
 131 * Irish (ga)
 132 * Gan (gan)
 133 * Galician (gl)
 134 * Croatian (hr)
 135 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
 136 * Hungarian (hu)
 137 * Indonesian (id)
 138 * Eastern Canadian (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) (ike-cans)
 139 * Icelandic (is)
 140 * Italian (it)
 141 * Japanese (ja)
 142 * Georgian (ka)
 143 * Kalaallisut (kl)
 144 * Khmer (km)
 145 * Latin (la)
 146 * Luxembourgish (lb)
 147 * Limburgish (li)
 148 * Lao (lo)
 149 * Lithuanian (lt)
 150 * Malayalam (ml)
 151 * Moldavian (mo)
 152 * Marathi (mr)
 153 * Low German (nds)
 154 * Dutch (nl)
 155 * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
 156 * Norwegian (bokmål)‬ (no)
 157 * Polish (pl)
 158 * Pashto (ps)
 159 * Portuguese (pt)
 160 * Russian (ru)
 161 * Yakut (sah)
 162 * Sassaresu (sdc)
 163 * Slovak (sk)
 164 * Somali (so)
 165 * Albanian (sq)
 166 * Sranan Tongo (srn)
 167 * Seeltersk (stq)
 168 * Swedish (sv)
 169 * Tamil (ta)
 170 * Telugu (te)
 171 * Tajik (tg)
 172 * Thai (th)
 173 * Turkish (tr)
 174 * Tuvinian (tyv)
 175 * Venda (ve)
 176 * Vietnamese (vi)
 177 * Volapük (vo)
 178 * Wolof (wo)
 179 * Mingrelian (xmf)
 180 * Yiddish (yi)
 181 * Cantonese (yue)
 182 * Old Chinese / Late Time Chinese (zh-classical)
 183 * Chinese (Simplified) (zh-hans)
 184 * Chinese (Traditional) (zh-hant)
 185
 186 == Compatibility ==
 187
 188 MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 189
 190 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
 191 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
 192 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
 193
 194 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
 195 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
 196
 197
 198 == Upgrading ==
 199
 200 1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema
 201 updates.
 202
 203 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 204 new database fields are filled with data.
 205
 206 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
 207 make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
 208 database schema changes.
 209
 210 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 211 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 212 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 213
 214 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 215
 216
 217 === Caveats ===
 218
 219 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
 220 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
 221 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
 222 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 223 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 224
 225 For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 226
 227
 228 === Online documentation ===
 229
 230 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
 231 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
 232 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
 233 the public domain) :
 234
 235   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 236
 237
 238 === Mailing list ===
 239
 240 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
 241 wikitech-l list:
 242
 243   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 244
 245 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 246
 247   http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 248
 249 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 250 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 251
 252
 253 === IRC help ===
 254
 255 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net