= MediaWiki release notes =
Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
== MediaWiki 1.11 ==
THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET.
MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
== Configuration changes since 1.10 ==
* $wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is
used
== New features since 1.10 ==
* (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks
* Adding expiry of block to block messages
* Bulk mail options ($wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ) for large sites
* Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in
* Introduced 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
more information
* (bug 9628) Show warnings about slave lag on Special:Contributions,
Special:Watchlist
* (bug 8818) Expose "wpDestFile" as parameter $1 to "uploaddisabledtext"
* Introducing new image keyword 'upright' and corresponding variable
$wgThumbUpright. This allows better proportional view of upright images
related to landscape images on a page without nailing the width of upright
images to a fix value which makes views for anon unproportional and user
preferences useless
* (bug 6072) Introducing 'border' keyword to the [[Image:]] syntax
* Introducing 'frameless' keyword to [[Image:]] syntax which respects the
user preferences for image width like 'thumb' but without a frame.
* (bug 7960) Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry
* Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style
file repositories.
* Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output
* Improved thumb.php error handling
* Display file history on local image description pages of shared images
* Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies
* (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext
containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the
* (bug 7691) Show relevant lines from the deletion log when re-creating a
previously deleted article
* Added variables 'wgRestrictionEdit' and 'wgRestrictionMove' for JS to header
* (bug 9898) Allow viewing all namespaces in Special:Newpages
* (bug 10139) Introduce 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks;
see docs/hooks.txt for details
* (bug 9769) Provide "watch this page" toggle on protection form
* (bug 9886) Provide clear example "stub link" in Special:Preferences
* (bug 10055) Populate email address and real name properties of User objects
passed to the 'AbortNewAccount' hook
* Show result of Special:Booksources in wiki content language always, it's
normally better maintained than the generic list from the standard message
files
* (bug 7997) Allow users to be blocked from using Special:Emailuser
* (bug 8989) Blacklist 'mhtml' and 'mht' files from upload
* (bug 8760) Allow wiki links in "protectexpiry" message
* (bug 5908) Add "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases for
"DEFAULTSORT" magic word
* (bug 10181) Support the XCache object caching mechanism
* (bug 9058) Introduce '--aconf' option for all maintenance scripts, to provide
a path to the AdminSettings.php file
* (bug 8781) Remind users to check file permissions for LocalSettings.php
post-installation
* (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the s on user CSS and JS pages
(new classes: mw-user-css, mw-user-js)
* Use shared.css for all skins and oldshared.css in place of common.css for
pre-Monobook skins. As always, modifications should go in-wiki to MediaWiki:
Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css.
* (bug 8869) Introduce Special:Uncategorizedtemplates
* (bug 8734) Different log message when article protection level is changed
* (bug 8458) Limit custom signature length to $wgMaxSigChars bytes
* (bug 10096) Added an ability to query interwiki map table
== Bugfixes since 1.10 ==
* (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi
* (bug 9670) Follow redirects when render edit section links to transcluded
templates.
* (bug 6204) Fix incorrect unindentation with $wgMaxTocLevel
* (bug 3431) Suppress "next page" link in Special:Search at end of results
* Don't show unblock form if the user doesn't have permission to use it
(cosmetic change, no vulnerabilities existed)
* Subtitle success message when unblocking a block ID instead of a pseudo link
like [[User:#123|#123]]
* Use the standard HTTP fetch functions when retrieving remote wiki pages
through transwiki, so we can take advantage of cURL goodies if available
* Disable custom user javascript in Special:Preferences, to avoid the risk
of a compromised script sniffing passwords etc.
* (bug 9854, 3770) Clip overflow text in gallery boxes for visual cleanliness
instead of letting it flow outside the box or trigger ugly scroll bars.
* Tooltips for print version and permalink
* Links to the MediaWiki namespace for system messages having their default
values are no longer shown as nonexistent (e.g., in red)
* Special:Ipblocklist differentiates between empty list and no search results.
* (bug 5375) profiling does not respect read-only mode.
* (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts
* (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset
* (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR
* (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer
throws warnings.
* (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error.
* (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines.
Diff style rules have been broken out to common/diff.css,
and the dupes removed from the default skin files.
Skins can still override the default rules.
* (bug 1229) Balance columns in diff display evenly
* Right-align diff line numbers in RTL language display
* (bug 9332) Fix instructions in tests/README
* (bug 9813) Reject usernames containing '#' to avoid silent truncation
of fragments during the normalisation process
* (bug 7989) RSS feeds content now use black text when using white background.
* (bug 9971) Typo in a french language message.
* (bug 9973) Changed size was shown in advanced recentchanges collapsible items
with $wgRCShowChangedSized = false.
* Fix PHP strict standards warning in enhanced recent changes.
* (bug 5850) Added hexadecimal html entities comments for $digitTransformTable
entries.
* (bug 7432) Change language name for Aromanian (roa-rup)
* (bug 908) Unexistent special pages now generate a red link.
* (bug 7899) Added \hline and \vline to the list of allowed TeX commands
* (bug 7993) support mathematical symbol classes
* (bug 10007) Allow Block IP to work with Postgrs again.
* Add Google Wireless Transcoder to the Unicode editing blacklist
* (bug 10083) Fix for Special:Version breakage on PHP 5.2 with some hooks
* (bug 3624) TeX: \ker, \hom, \arg, \dim treated like \sin & \cos
* (bug 10132, 10134) Restore back-compatibility Image::imageUrl() function
* (bug 10113) Fix double-click for view source on protected pages
* (bug 10117) Special:Wantedpages doesn't handle invalid titles in result
set [now prints out a warning]
* (bug 10118) Introduced Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, report which lists
templates with a high number of inclusion links
* (bug 10104) Fixed Database::getLag() for PostgreSQL and Oracle
* (bug 9820) session.save_path check no longer halts installation, but
warns of possible bad values
* (bug 9978) Fixed session.save_path validation when using extended
configuration format, e.g. "5;/tmp"
* Don't generate a diff link in the patrol log if the page doesn't exist
* (bug 10067) Translations for former skins removed from message files
* (bug 9993) Force $wgShowExceptionDetails on during installation
* (bug 9980) Validate administrator username and password during
installation
* (bug 9383) Don't set a default value for BLOB column in rc-deleted
database patch
* (bug 10149) Don't show full template list on section-0 edit
* (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob()
and decodeBlob()
* (bug 6743) Don't link broken image links to the upload form when uploads
are disabled
* (bug 9679) Improve documentation for $wgSiteNotice
* (bug 10215) Show custom editing introduction when editing existing pages
* (bug 10223) Fix edit link in noarticletext localizations for fr, oc
* (bug 10247) Fix IP address regex to avoid false positive IPv6 matches
* (bug 9948) Workaround for diff regression with old Mozilla versions
== API changes since 1.10 ==
(For ongoing development discussion, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API)
* New properties: links, templates, images, langlinks, categories, external
links
* Breaking Change: imagelinks renamed into imageusage (il->iu)
* Bug fix: incorrect generator behavior in some cases
* JSON format allows an optional callback function to wrap the result.
* Login module disabled until a more secure solution can be implemented
* (bug 9938) Querying by revision identifier returns the most recent revision
for the corresponding page, rather than the requested revision
* (bug 8772) Filter page revision queries by user
* (bug 9927) User contributions queries do not accept IP addresses
* Watchlist feed now reports a proper feed item when the user is not logged in
* Watchlist feed date bug fixed - automatically shows one last day
* Watchlist feed now allows to specify number of hours to monitor
* list=allpages now returns a list instead of a map in JSON format
* Breaking Change: in json, revisions are now returned as a list, not as a map.
* Add: prop=info can show page is new flag, current page length, and visit
counter.
* Change: Query watchlist now shows flags only when explicitly requested with
wlparam=flags
* rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible from query watchlist
* action=usercontribs: additional filtering by ucshow=; selection of needed
fields with ucprop=; the textid (rev_text_id) is no longer being exposed
* (bug 9970) Breaking Change: backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage now return
lists in JSON instead of a map, and do not return anything when titles do
not exist
* (bug 9121) Introduced indexpageids query parameter to list the page_id
values of all returned page items
* (bug 10147) Now interwiki titles are not processed but added to a separate
"interwiki" section of the output.
== Maintenance script changes since 1.10 ==
* Add support for wgMaxTocLevel option in parserTests
* (bug 6823) Disable article view counter in maintenance/dumpHTML.php
* Fix maintenance/importImages.php so it doesn't barf PHP errors when no
suitable files are found, and make the list of extensions an option (defaults
to $wgFileExtensions)
== Languages updated since 1.10 ==
* Arabic (ar)
* Catalan (ca)
* Danish (da)
* German (de)
* Greek (el)
* Spanish (es)
* Farsi (fa)
* Finnish (fi)
* Võro (fiu-vro)
* French (fr)
* Galician (gl)
* Hakka (hak)
* Hebrew (he)
* Indonesian (id)
* Italian (it)
* Japanese (ja)
* Georgian (ka)
* Kabyle (kab)
* Kazakh (kk)
* Kurdish (ku)
* Lithuanian (lt)
* Malayalam (ml)
* Burmese (my)
* Norwegian (no)
* Polish (pl)
* Portuguese (pt)
* Romanian (ro)
* Russian (ru)
* Slovak (sk)
* Shona (sn)
* Somali (so)
* Sundanese (su)
* Swedish (sv)
* Volapük (vo)
* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
* Cantonese (zh-yue)
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.11 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
== Upgrading ==
1.11 has several database changes since 1.10, and will not work without schema
updates.
If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
new database fields are filled with data.
If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
=== Caveats ===
Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
For notes on 1.10.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===
Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
the public domain) :
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
=== Mailing list ===
A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
wikitech-l list:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
=== IRC help ===
There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net