= 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 1.19 ==

THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET

MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
production.

=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed
* $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed
* $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed
* $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed
* LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed
* (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say
  whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated.
* $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core,
  and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCoreRdf as appropriate
* (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS
* Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature
  was removed in about 1.5.
* LogPageValidTypes, LogPageLogName, LogPageLogHeader and LogPageActionText
  hooks have been removed.
* New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom
  category collations.

=== New features in 1.19 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
* (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from
  LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals.
* (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols
* (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content
  namespaces as articles
* Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php
  --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads;
  furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path
* Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory',
  'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions
  may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own
  class that extends PageArchive.
* (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript.
  Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance.
* (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is
  added to the textarea on the edit form.
* mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
* (bug 29067) Expose user.tokens (like we do user.options) in ResourceLoader.
* New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog()
* (bug 27655) Require token for watching/unwatching pages)
* (bug 28904) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.1 (the latest version)
* (bug 29441) Expose CapitalLinks config in JS to allow modules to properly
  handle titles on case-sensitive wikis.
* (bug 29397) Implement mw.Title module in core.
* In MySQL 4.1.9+ with replication enabled, the slave lag should come from
  SHOW SLAVE STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST.
* Language codes in $wgDummyLanguageCodes are now excluded on localization
  statistics (maintenance/language/transstat.php)
* (bug 29586) Make the (next 200) links on categories link directly to
  the relevant section of the category.
* (bug 29109) Allow the automatic edit summary for redirect creation
  show the first bit of the new redirect page.
* (bug 5800) Added $formCallback as a parameter to the hook
  EditPage::showEditForm:initial
* (bug 29723) mw.util.wikiGetlink() now defaults to wgPageName.
* (bug 29680) Add GetDefaultSortkey hook to override the default sortkey.

=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
* (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the
  file description page for multi-paged documents.
* (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly
  used in Tiff files.
* When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
* (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request.
* (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells
  the user a page named [[:]] already exists.
* (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove.
* (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all
  pages.
* (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images should not be uploadable as .jpg files.
* (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based
  on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string
* (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only.
* (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height
  make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG.
* (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on
  Windows.
* (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading.
* (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any
  LTR/RTL screen layout.
* (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user
  language.
* (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles marker should be dynamically appended to
  the document head if it doesn't exist.
* (bug 27023) After the document is ready, mw.loader is broken (calls callback
  before module is parsed).
* (bug 4330) External URLs without a custom title should be treated as LTR,
  even in RTL text.
* (bug 29055) Make "don't send email on minor edits" preference apply to
  changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits.
* (bug 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API.
* (bug 28272) Special:AllMessages should have only one "Go" button.
* (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch no longer shows silly message.
* (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same
  as lastTabIndex().
* (bug 29332) Warn if user requests mediawiki-announce subscription but does not
  enter an e-mail address.
* (bug 25375) Add canonical namespaces to "wgNamespaceIds" in mw.config.
* The class JpegOrTiffHandler was renamed ExifBitmapHandler.
* (bug 29443) Special:Undelete should use JavaScript to invert all checkboxes
  instead of reloading the page.
* (bug 29325) Setting $wgStrictFileExtensions to false no longer gives incorrect warning
* (bug 29437) Multiple apostrophes in deleted article title cause odd rendering
* (bug 29485) RSS feed of Special:RecentChange grouped together multiple
  consecutive edits by same user in included diff, but then linked to
  a single ungrouped diff.
* Do not try to group together a page creation and edit in the RSS feed of RC.
* (bug 29342) Patrol preferences shouldn't be visible to users who don't have
  patrol permissions
* (bug 29471) Exception no longer thrown for files with invalid date in metadata
* (bug 29492) Long-running steps in the installer (such as Upgrade and Install)
  no longer cause timeouts
* (bug 29507) Change 'image link' to 'file link' in Special:Whatlinkshere
* If the db is really screwed up, and doesn't have a recentchanges table,
  make the updater throw an exception instead of a fatal.
* wfArrayToCGI() and wfCgiToArray() now handle nested and associative arrays
  correctly.
* (bug 29567) mw.util.addPortletLink should only wrap link in <span> for
  "vectorTabs" portlets.
* (bug 8556) Incorrect session failure warning on preview-on-open
  namespaces (categories) when combined with $wgRawHtml.
* Use content language in formatting of dates in revertpage message
  (rollback revert edit summary) and do not adjust for user timezone.
* (bug 29277) MediaWiki:Filepage.css is also shown on the local wiki
* Make sure Backlink cache does not retrieve interwiki redirects when looking for
  redirects to a local page.
* (bug 6100) Allow different directionality (LTR/RTL) for user interface
  and wiki content, along with many other RTL and directionality improvements
  (such as bugs 28030, 12406, 28349)
* (bug 29712) Removed broken defaultUserOptionOverrides in MessagesXx files and
  unneeded CSS flipping of quickbar. Instead, introduce option 5 which sets
  left/right according to the directionality of your interface language.
* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit)
* (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a <label> element
* (bug 29779) DairikiDiff/WikiDiff <ins> and <del> should undo browser default
  styling (strike/underline).

=== API changes in 1.19 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
* (bug 27790) Add query type for querymodules to output of ApiParamInfo
* (bug 28963) Add langbacklinks query module to the api
* (bug 27593) API should return error message when sha1/sha1base36 is invalid
* (bug 28578) API's parse module should not silently override invalid
  title inputs
* (bug 20699) Watchlist API should list log-events
* (bug 29070) Require a token in API action=watch
* (bug 29221) Expose oldrevid in ApiQueryWatchlist output
* (bug 29267) Always give the servername for meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag
* (bug 28897) rvparse now respects rvsection for action=query&prop=revisions
* (bug 25734) API: Possible issue with revids validation
* (bug 28002) Internal error in ApiFormatRaw::getMimeType
* (bug 29237) ApiQuery now has an option to output the "iwurl" attribute.
* (bug 28392) Mark action=undelete&timestamps as type "timestamp"
* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash (disabled in Miser Mode)
* (bug 27595) sha1 search of list=filearchive does not work
* (bug 26763) Make RSS/Atom of user contributions more visible
* (bug 25133) Allow redirects also for action=parse&pageid
* (bug 29745) Fatal error in API search
* (bug 29476) API returns page title instead of sectiontitle for
  srprop=sectiontitle
* Correct the documentation of srprop properties

=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===

MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.

* Bhojpuri (bho) (renamed from "bh").
* (bug 29031) When translating block log entries, indefinite, infinite, and
  infinity are now considered the same.
* Aromanian (rup) (renamed from "rua-rup").

=== Other changes in 1.19 ===
* Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
* (bug 28556) Upload support for MacBinary files has been removed (Used by
  Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9)

== Compatibility ==

MediaWiki 1.19 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.

MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.

The supported versions are:

* MySQL 4.0 or later
* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
* SQLite 3
* Oracle 9.0.1 or later

== Upgrading ==

1.19 has several database changes since 1.17, and will not work without schema
updates.

If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
due to database schema changes.

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.

For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.

== Online documentation ==

Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available 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 mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:

	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.