RELEASE-NOTES-1.19

   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 1.19 ==
   7
   8 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   9
  10 MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
  11 production.
  12
  13 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
  14 * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed
  15 * $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed
  16 * $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed
  17 * $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed
  18 * LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed
  19 * (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say
  20   whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated.
  21 * $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core,
  22   and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See
  23   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and
  24   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCoreRdf as appropriate
  25 * (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS
  26
  27 === New features in 1.19 ===
  28 * (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from
  29   LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals.
  30 * (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols
  31 * (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content
  32   namespaces as articles
  33 * Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php
  34   --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads;
  35   furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path
  36 * Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory',
  37   'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions
  38   may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own
  39   class that extends PageArchive.
  40 * (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript.
  41   Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance.
  42 * (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is
  43   added to the textarea on the edit form.
  44 * mw.util.getScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
  45 * (bug 29067) Creating "user.tokens" module (like user.options) in ResourceLoader.
  46 * New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog()
  47
  48 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
  49 * (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the
  50   file description page for multi-paged documents.
  51 * (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly
  52   used in Tiff files.
  53 * When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
  54 * (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request.
  55 * New title field of Special:MovePage is now length limited on client side.
  56 * (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells
  57   the user a page named [[:]] already exists.
  58 * (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove.
  59 * (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all
  60   pages.
  61 * (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images can no longer be uploaded as JPEG image.
  62 * (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based
  63   on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string
  64 * (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only.
  65 * (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height
  66   make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG.
  67 * (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on
  68   Windows.
  69 * (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading.
  70 * (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any
  71   LTR/RTL screen layout.
  72 * (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user
  73   language.
  74 * (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles should be dynamically appended to
  75   the document if it doesn't exist.
  76 * (bug 27023) After dom ready event, using mediawiki.loader.using will
  77   call callback too early.
  78 * (bug 4330) External URLs without custom title should be treated as LTR,
  79   also in RTL text.
  80 * (bug 29055) Make don't send email on minor edits preference apply to
  81   changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits.
  82 * (bug 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API.
  83 * (bug 28272) Special:Allmessages should have only one "Go" button
  84 * (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch shows silly message
  85 * (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same
  86   as lastTabIndex().
  87
  88 === API changes in 1.19 ===
  89 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
  90 * (bug 27790) add query type for querymodules to action=paraminfo
  91 * (bug 28963) add langbacklinks module to api
  92 * (bug 27593) API: add error message when sha1/sha1base36 is invalid
  93 * (bug 28578) API's parse module should not silently override invalid
  94   title inputs
  95 * (bug 20699) API watchlist should list log-events
  96 * (bug 29070) Add token to action=watch
  97 * (bug 29221) Expose oldrevid in watchlist output
  98 * (bug 29267) always give the servername for meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag
  99 * (bug 28897) rvparse doesn’t seem to work with rvsection
 100 * (bug 25734) API: possible issue with revids validation
 101 * (bug 28002) Internal error in ApiFormatRaw::getMimeType
 102 * (bug 26597) Allow toggling of persistent cookies ("remember me") in API
 103   action=login
 104 * (bug 29237) add interwiki target url attribute to api/query/interwiki
 105 * (bug 28392) mark action=undelete&timestamps as type "timestamp"
 106 * (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash (disabled in Miser Mode)
 107
 108 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
 109
 110 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
 111 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 112 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 113
 114 * Bhojpuri (bho) (renamed from "bh").
 115 * (bug 29031) When translating block log entries, indefinite, infinite, and
 116   infinity are now considered the same.
 117
 118 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
 119 * Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
 120
 121 == Compatibility ==
 122
 123 MediaWiki 1.19 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 124
 125 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 126 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
 127 DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
 128
 129 The supported versions are:
 130
 131 * MySQL 4.0 or later
 132 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 133 * SQLite 3
 134 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 135
 136 == Upgrading ==
 137
 138 1.19 has several database changes since 1.17, and will not work without schema
 139 updates.
 140
 141 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 142 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 143 due to database schema changes.
 144
 145 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 146 new database fields are filled with data.
 147
 148 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
 149 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
 150 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 151
 152 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 153
 154 For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 155
 156 == Online documentation ==
 157
 158 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 159 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 160 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 161
 162         http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 163
 164 == Mailing list ==
 165
 166 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 167
 168         http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 169
 170 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 171
 172         http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 173
 174 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 175 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 176
 177 == IRC help ==
 178
 179 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.