-Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
+Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
+
+== MediaWiki 1.12 ==
+
+This is the Winter 2007 quarterly release.
+
+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 in 1.12 ===
+* Marking edits as bot edits with Special:Contributions?bot=1 now requires the
+ markbotedit permission, rather than the rollback permission previously used.
+ This permission is assigned by default to the sysop group.
+* MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
+ variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
+ to not check and assume they are always up to date)
+* The rollback permission can now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
+* New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
+* Behaviour of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behaviour:
+* * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights.
+* * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or
+ remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for
+ any groups they are in.
+* New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
+* $wgImplictGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc.
+* $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria
+* $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove
+ themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
+* When $wgUseTidy has been enabled, PHP's Tidy module is now used if it is
+ present, in preference to an external Tidy executable which may or may not
+ be present. To force use of external Tidy even when the PHP module is
+ available, set $wgTidyInternal to false.
+
+
+=== New features in 1.12 ===
+* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
+* Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
+ complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
+* (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
+ is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
+* (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
+* (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
+* (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
+* (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
+ deleted file
+* On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view
+ source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to
+ create it
+* Clarify instructions given when an exception is thrown
+* AuthPlugin added strictUserAuth() method to allow per-user override
+ of the strict() authentication behavior.
+* (bug 7872) Deleted revisions can now be viewed as diffs showing changes
+ against the previous revision, whether currently deleted or live.
+* Added tooltips for the "Go" and "Search" buttons
+* (bug 11649) Show input form when Special:Whatlinkshere has no parameters
+* isValidEmailAddr hook added to User method of that name, to allow, e.g., re-
+ stricting e-mail addresses to a specific domain
+* Removed "Clear" link in watchlist editor tools, as people were afraid to
+ click it. Existing clear links will fall back to the raw editor, which is
+ very easy to clear your watchlist with.
+* (bug 1405) Add wgUseNPPatrol option to control patroling for new articles
+ on Special:Newpages
+* LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
+* Support for Iranian calendar
+* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
+ Special:Newpages
+* ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
+* MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
+ globals have been set up but before any actions have been taken.
+* BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
+* SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
+* OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
+* (bug 11848, 12506) Allow URL parameters 'section', 'editintro' and 'preload'
+ in Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk
+* Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
+* Support for Hebrew calendar
+* Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
+* (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
+ [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
+* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
+ user page
+* Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
+* Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
+ fails
+ because it is part of a blocked range.
+* (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
+ created by another user
+* dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart
+ cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
+* (bug 12028) Add Special:Listbots as shortcut for Special:Listusers/bot
+* (bug 9633) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the deletion form
+* Show a warning message when creating/editing a user (talk) page but the user
+ does not exists
+* (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches
+* (bug 12195) Undeleting pages now requires 'undelete' permission
+* (bug 11810) Localize displayed semicolons
+* (bug 11657) Support for Thai solar calendar
+* (bug 943) RSS feed for Recentchangeslinked
+* Introduced AbortMove hook
+* (bug 2919) Protection of nonexistent pages with regular protection interface.
+* Special:Upload now lists permitted/prohibited file extensions.
+* Split ambiguous filetype-badtype message into two new messages,
+ filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type.
+* Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage
+* On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable.
+* It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop
+ extension
+* Add HTML ID's mw-read-only-warning and mw-anon-edit-warning to warnings when
+ editing to allow CSS styling.
+* Parser now returns list of sections
+* When a user is prohibited from creating a page, a title of "View source"
+ makes no sense, and there should be no "Return to [[Page]]" link.
+* (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors.
+* (bug 9939) Special:Search now sets focus to search input box when no existing
+ search is active
+* For Special:Userrights, use GET instead of POST to search for users.
+* Allow subpage syntax for Special:Userrights, i.e., Special:Userrights/Name.
+* When submitting changes on Special:Userrights, show the full form again, not
+ just the search box.
+* Added exception hooks
+* (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot
+ edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1')
+* (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page
+* (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
+* Add caching to the AJAX search
+* Add APCOND_INGROUPS
+* Add DBA caching to installer
+* (bug 12585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
+* Support redirects in image namespace
+* (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
+* (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon
+* Add option to include templates in Special:Export.
+* (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender
+ address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails.
+ This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages
+ when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value.
+* (bug 11897) Add alias [[Special:CreateAccount]] & [[Special:Userlogin/signup]]
+ for Special:Userlogin?type=signup
+* (bug 12214) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the file deletion form
+* Merged backends for OpenSearch suggestions and AJAX search.
+ Both now accept namespace prefixes, handle 'Media:' and 'Special:' pages,
+ and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code,
+ and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook.
+* (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version
+* When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for
+ and installed when at the superuser level.
+* The default robot policy for the entire wiki is now configurable via the
+ $wgDefaultRobotPolicy setting.
+* (bug 12239) Use different separators for autocomments
+* (bug 12857) Patrol link on new pages should clear floats
+* (bug 12968) Render redirect wikilinks in a redirect class for customization
+ via user/site CSS.
+* EditPageBeforeEditButtons hook added for altering the edit buttons below the edit box
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
+
+* Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
+* (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
+ ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
+* (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
+ getUserPermissionsErrors.
+* Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
+* (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
+ translations
+* (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
+ message, the level of protection.
+* (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
+ message.
+* (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
+ where rollback is given to non-sysops.
+* (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
+ editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
+* (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
+* (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
+* Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
+ is not defined
+* (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
+* (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
+* (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
+* (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
+* (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
+ page
+* Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
+* (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
+ linked to the main page instead of targetted page
+* Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
+ Special:Listredirects
+* (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
+ when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
+* (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
+ object.
+* (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
+* (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
+ oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
+ TEXT.
+* (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
+* Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
+* (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade
+* Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages
+* Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis
+* (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name
+* (bug 11474) Fix unintentional fall-through in math error handling
+* (bug 11478) Fix undefined method call in file deletion interface
+* (bug 278) Search results no longer highlight incorrect partial word matches
+* Compatibility with incorrectly detected old-style DJVU mime types
+* (bug 11560) Fix broken HTML output from weird link nesting in edit comments.
+ Nested links (as in image caption text) still don't work _right_ but they're
+ less wrong
+* (bug 9718) Remove unnecessary css from main.css causing spacing issues on
+ some browsers.
+* (bug 11574) Add an interface message loginstart, which, similarly to loginend,
+ appears just before the login form. Patch by MinuteElectron.
+* Do not cache category pages if using 'from' or 'until'
+* Created new hook getUserPermissionsErrors, to go with userCan changes.
+* Diff pages did not properly display css/js pages.
+* (bug 11620) Add call to User::isValidEmailAddr during accout creation.
+* (bug 11629) If $wgEmailConfirmToEdit is true, require people to supply an
+ email address when registering.
+* (bug 11612) Days to show in recent changes cannot be larger than 7
+* (bug 11131) Change filearchive width/height columns to int for Postgres
+* Support plural in undeleted{revisions,revisions-files,files}
+* (bug 11343) If the database is read-only, ensure that undelete fails.
+* (bug 11690) Show revert link for page moves in Special:Log to allowed users
+ only
+* Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
+* Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
+* (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
+ words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
+* (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
+* (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
+* (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
+* (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
+* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
+ present
+* (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
+* (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
+* Remove all commas when parsing float numbers in sorted tables
+* Limit text field of deletion, protection and user rights changes reasons to
+ 255 characters (already restricted in the database)
+* In the deletion default reasons, calculate how much text to get from the
+ article text, rather than getting 150 characters (which may be too much)
+* Add two messages for Special:Blockme which were used but undefined
+* (bug 11921) Support plural in message number_of_watching_users_pageview
+* If an IP address is blocked as part of a rangeblock, attempting to unblock
+ the single IP should not unblock the entire range.
+* (bug 6695) Fix native language name of Southern Sotho (Sesotho) (st)
+* Make action=render follow redirects by default
+* If restricted read access was enabled, whitelist didn't work with special
+ pages which had spaces in theirs names
+* If restricted read access was enabled, requests for non-existing special pages
+ threw an exception
+* Feeds for recent changes now provide correct URLs for the change, not just
+ the page
+* Check for if IP is blocked as part of a range when unblocking (see above bug-
+ fix) was faulty. Now fixed.
+* Fixed wpReason URL parameter to action=delete.
+* Do not force a password for account creation by email
+* Ensure that rate-limiting is applied to rollbacks.
+* Make a better rate-limiting error message (i.e. a normal MW error,
+ rather than an "Internal Server Error").
+* Do not present an image bigger than the source when 'frameless' option is used
+ (to be consistent with the 'thumb' option now)
+* Support {{PLURAL}} for import log
+* Make sure that the correct log entries are shown on Special:Userrights even
+ for users with special characters in their names
+* The number of watching users in watchlists was always reported as 1
+* namespaceDupes.php no longer dies when coming across an illegal title
+* (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
+* (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
+* (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
+* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
+ instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
+ conversion with China variant.
+* (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
+* Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
+ in the page_restrictions matching its old page_restrictions field.
+ May help with odd upgrade issues or race condition.
+* (bug 11993) Remove contentsub "revision history"
+* (bug 11952) Ensure we quote_ident() all schema names as needed
+ inside of the DatabasePostgres.php file.
+* (bug 12184) Exceptions now sent to stderr instead of stdout for command-line
+ scripts, making for cleaner reporting during batch jobs. PHP errors will also
+ be redirected in most cases on PHP 5.2.4 and later, switching 'display_errors'
+ to 'stderr' at runtime.
+* (bug 12148) Text highlight wasn't applied to cleanly deleted and added
+ lines in diff output
+* (bug 10166) Fix a PHP warning in Language::getMagic
+* Only mark rollback edits as minor if the user can normally mark edits minor
+* Escape page names in the move successful page (e.g. for pages with two
+ apostrophes).
+* (bug 12145) Add localized names of kk-variants
+* (bug 12259) Localize the numbers in deleted pages on the sysop view
+* Set proper page title for successful file deletion
+* (bug 11221) Do not show 'Compare selected versions' button for a history page
+ with one revision only
+* (bug 12267) Set the default date format to Thai solar calender for the Thai
+ language
+* (bug 10184) Extensions' stylesheets and scripts should be loaded before
+ user-customized ones (like Common.css, Common.js)
+* (bug 12283) Special:Newpages forgets parameters
+* (bug 12031) All namespaces doesn't work in Special:Newpages
+* (bug 585) Only create searchindex replica table for parser tests if db is
+ MySQL
+* Allow --record option if parserTests.php to work when using Postgres
+* (bug 12296) Simplify cache epoch in default LocalSettings.php
+* (bug 12346) XML fix when body double-click and click handlers are present
+* Fix regression -- missing feed links in sidebar on Special:Recentchanges
+* (bug 12371) Handle more namespace case variants in namespaceDupes.php
+* (bug 12380) Bot-friendly EditPage::spamPage
+* (bug 8066) Spaces can't be entered in special page aliases
+* Hide undo link if user can't edit article
+* (bug 12416) Fix password setting for createAndPromote.php
+* (bug 3097) Inconsistently usable titles containing HTML character entities
+ are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up existing pages.
+* (bug 12446) Permissions check fix for undelete link
+* (bug 12451) AJAX title normalization tweaks
+* When a user creating a page is not allowed to either create the page nor edit
+ it, all applicable reasons are now shown.
+* (bug 11428) Allow $wgScript inside $wgArticlePath when emulating PATH_INFO
+ Fixes 'root'-style rewrite configurations
+* (bug 12493) Removed hardcoded MAX_FILE_SIZE from Special:Import upload form
+* (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again
+* (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen
+* (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw
+* (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
+* (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move
+* (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages
+* Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links.
+ This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow,
+ and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner.
+* (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code.
+* (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes
+* (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian
+* (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect.
+ Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages.
+ Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework.
+* Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the
+ name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set).
+* (bug 12695) Suppress dvips verbiage from web server error log
+* (bug 12716) Unprotecting a non-protected page leaves a log entry
+* Log username blocks with canonical form of name instead of input form
+* (bug 11593, 12719) Fixes for overzealous invocation of thumb.php.
+ Non-image handlers and full-size images may now decline it, fixing
+ mystery failures when using $wgThumbnailScriptPath.
+* (bug 12327) Comma in username no longer disrupts mail headers
+* (bug 6436) Localization of Special:Import XML parser Error message(s).
+* Security fix for API on MSIE
+* (bug 12768) Database query syntax error in maintenance/storage/compressOld.inc
+* (bug 12753) Empty captions in MediaWiki:Sidebar result in PHP errors
+* (bug 12790) Page protection is not logged when edit-protection is used
+ and move-protection is not
+* (bug 12793) Fix for restricted namespaces/pages in Special:Export
+* Fix for Special:Export so it doesn't ignore the page named '0'
+* Don't display rollback link if the user doesn't have all required permissions
+* The comment of a time-limited protection now contains the date in the default
+ format
+* (bug 12880) wfLoadExtensionMessages does not use $fallback from MessagesXx.php
+* (bug 12885) Correction for Russian convertPlural function
+* (bug 12768) Make DatabasePostgres->hasContraint() schema aware.
+* (bug 12735) Truncate usernames in comments using mb_ functions.
+* (bug 12892) Poor tab indexing on "delete file" form
+* (bug 12660) When creating an account by e-mail, do not send the creator's IP
+ address
+* (bug 12931) Fix wrong global variable in SpecialVersion
+* (bug 12919) Use 'deletedrevision' message as content when deleting an old file
+ version
+* (bug 12952) Using Nosuchusershort instead of Nosuchuser when account creation
+ is disabled
+* (bug 12869) Magnify icon alignment should be adjusted using linked CSS
+* Fixing message cache updates for MediaWiki messages moves
+* (bug 12815) Signature timestamps were always in UTC, even if the timezone code
+ in parentheses after them claimed otherwise
+* (bug 12732) Fix installer and searching to handle built-in tsearch2 for Postgres.
+* (bug 12784) Change "bool" types to smallint to handle Postgres 8.3 strictness.
+* (bug 12301) Allow maintenance/findhooks.php to search hooks in multiple directories.
+* (bug 7681, 11559) Cookie values no longer override GET and POST variables.
+* (bug 5262) Fully-qualified $wgStylePath no longer corrupted on XML feeds
+* (bug 3269) Inaccessible titles ending in '/.' or '/..' now forbidden.
+* (bug 12935, 12981) Fully-qualify archive URLs in delete, revert messages
+* (bug 12938) Fix template expansion and 404 returns for action=raw with section
+* (bug 11567) Fix error checking for PEAR::Mail. UserMailer::send() now returns
+ true-or-WikiError, which seems to be the calling convention expected by half
+ its callers already
+* (bug 12846) IE rtl.css issue in RTL wikis special:Preferences when selecting an
+ LTR user language
+* (bug 13005) DISPLAYTITLE does not work on preview
+* (bug 13004) Fix error on Postgres searches that return too many results.
+
+== Parser changes in 1.12 ==
+
+For help with migration to the MediaWiki 1.12 parser, please visit:
+
+http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor
+
+The parser pass order has changed from
+
+ * Extension tag strip and render
+ * HTML normalisation and security
+ * Template expansion
+ * Main section...
+
+to
+
+ * Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation
+ * Template expansion and extension rendering
+ * HTML normalisation and security
+ * Main section...
+
+The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
+have changed.
+
+Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas
+previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in
+one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a
+valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>".
+
+Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you
+have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be
+converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This
+was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
+the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion
+will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template
+expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
+pass.
+
+Bug 5678 has been fixed. This has a number of user-visible effects related to
+the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples.
+
+Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess"
+mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated,
+especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behaviour
+of the former message mode.
+
+The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section
+edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a
+whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by
+template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an
+entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings
+will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the
+template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major
+break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects are almost entirely
+beneficial.
+
+The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass
+preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed
+#switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a
+significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
+Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement
+by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration.
+
+The pre-expand include size limit has been removed, since there's no efficient
+way to calculate such a figure, and it would now be meaningless for performance
+anyway. The "preprocessor node count" takes its place, with a generous default
+limit.
+
+The context in which XML-style extension tags are called has changed, so
+extensions which make use of the parser state may need compatibility changes.
+
+The new preprocessor syntax has been documented in Backus-Naur Form at:
+
+http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF
+
+The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse
+tree from wikitext source. This parse tree corresponds closely to the grammar
+documented on that page.
+
+=== API changes in 1.12 ===
+
+Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
+
+* (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
+* (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
+* (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
+ pretty-printed
+ help document.
+* (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
+* (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each
+ page.
+* (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
+ api error messages.
+* (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work
+* Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if
+ revision content is requested.
+* Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
+ query.
+* (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php
+* (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates
+* (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
+* (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges
+ list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively.
+* Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x.
+* Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type
+* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
+ types and levels
+* Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A
+* (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page.
+* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
+ query.
+* (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query.
+* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
+ name
+* (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag
+* Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
+* Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots
+* Add limit=max to use maximal limit
+* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render
+ which has been removed
+* Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
+* Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
+* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
+* Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and
+ list={blocks,deletedrevs}
+* Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login
+* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using
+ 200 / 10000, now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules.
+* Added list=allcategories module
+* (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data
+* Fix output of wfSajaxSearch
+* (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag
+* Add list of sections to action=parse output
+* Added action=logout
+* Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections
+* Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow
+ (list=recentchanges)
+* Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo
+* action={login,block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} now must be
+ POSTed
+* prop=imageinfo interface changed: iihistory replaced by iilimit, iistart and
+ iiend parameters
+* Added amlang parameter to meta=allmessages
+* Added apfilterlanglinks parameter to list=allpages, replacing
+ query.php?what=nolanglinks
+* (bug 12718) Added action=paraminfo module that provides information about API
+ modules and their parameters
+* Added iiurlwidth and iiurlheight parameters to prop=imageinfo
+* Added format=txt and format=dbg, imported from query.php
+* Added uiprop=editcount to meta=userinfo
+* Added list=users which fetches user information
+* Added list=random which fetches a list of random pages
+* Added page parameter to action=parse to facilitate parsing of existing pages
+* Added uiprop=ratelimits to meta=userinfo
+* Added siprop=namespacealiases to meta=siteinfo
+* Made multiple values for ucuser possible in list=usercontribs
+* (bug 12944) Added cmstart and cmend parameters to list=categorymembers
+* Allow queries to have a where range that does not match the range field
+
+== MediaWiki 1.11 ==
+
+This is the Summer 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
+
+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
+* $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups - Finer control over who can assign which
+ usergroups
+* $wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ - Bulk mail options for large sites
+* $wgShowHostnames - Expose server host names through the API and HTML comments
+* $wgSaveDeletedFiles has been removed, the feature is now enabled unconditionally
+
+== New features since 1.10 ==
+
+* (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks
+* Adding expiry of block to block messages
+* Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in
+ <span class="redirect-in-category"></span>
+* 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
+* 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, 10338) Limit custom signature length to $wgMaxSigChars Unicode
+ characters
+* (bug 10096) Added an ability to query interwiki map table
+* On reupload, add a null revision to the image description page
+* Group log output by date
+* Kurdish interface latin/arabic writing system with transliteration
+* Support wiki text in all query page headers
+* Add 'Orphanedpages' as an alias to Special:Lonelypages
+* (bug 9328) Use "revision-info-current" message in place of "revision-info"
+ when viewing the current revision of a page, if available
+* (bug 8890) Enable wiki text for "license" message
+* Throw a showstopper exception when a hook function fails to return a value.
+ Forgetting to give a 'true' return value is a very common error which tends
+ to cause hard-to-track-down interactions between extensions.
+* Use $wgJobClasses to determine the correct Job to instantiate for a particular
+ queued task; allows extensions to introduce custom jobs
+* (bug 10326) AJAX-based page watching and unwatching has been cleaned up and
+ enabled by default.
+* Added option to install to MyISAM
+* (bug 9250) Remove hardcoded minimum image name length of three characters
+* Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behaviour to reject titles which don't normalise to the
+ same title as the current page, and enabled per default
+* Wrap site CSS and JavaScript in a <pre> tag, like user JS/CSS
+* (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the <pre>s on CSS and JS pages (new
+ classes: mw-code, mw-css, mw-js)
+* (bug 6711) Add $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups to allow finer control over
+ usergroup assignment.
+* Introduce 'UserEffectiveGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 10387) Detect and handle '.php5' extension environments at install time
+* Introduce 'ShowRawCssJs' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 10404) Show rights log for the selected user in Special:Userrights
+* New javascript for upload page that will show a warning if a file with the
+ "destination filename" already exists.
+* Add 'editsection-brackets' message to allow localization (or removal) of the
+ brackets in the "[edit]" link for sections
+* (bug 10437) Move texvc styling to shared.css
+* Introduce "raw editing" mode for the watchlist, to allow bulk additions,
+ removals, and convenient exporting of watchlist contents
+* Show "undo" links in page histories
+* Option to jump to specified time period in user contributions
+* Improved feedback on "rollback success" page
+* Show distinct 'namespaceprotected' message to users when namespace protection
+ prevents page editing
+* (bug 9936) Per-edit suppression of preview-on-first edit with "preview=no"
+* Allow showing a one-off preview on first edit with "preview=yes"
+* (bug 9151) Remove timed redirects on "Return to X" pages for accessibility.
+* Link to user logs in toolbox when viewing a user page
+* (bug 10508) Allow HTML attributes on <gallery>
+* (bug 1962) Allow HTML attributes on <math>
+* (bug 10530) Introduce optional "sp-contributions-explain" message for
+ additional explanation in Special:Contributions
+* (bug 10520) Preview licences during upload via AJAX (toggle with
+ $wgAjaxLicensePreview)
+* New Parser::setTransparentTagHook for parser extension and template
+ compatibility
+* Introduced 'ContributionsToolLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
+ information
+* Add a message if category is empty
+* Add CSS compatibility for Opera 9.5
+* Remove largely untested handheld stylesheet, which was causing more trouble
+ than good. Proper handheld support will be added at a future date. For now,
+ display should be acceptable either with CSS turned off or when using a so-
+ phisticated handheld browser.
+* (bug 3173) Option to offer exported pages as a download, rather than displaying
+ inline, as in most browsers
+* Pass the user as an argument to 'isValidPassword' hook callbacks; see
+ docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'UserGetRights' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 9595) Pass new Revision to the 'ArticleInsertComplete' and
+ 'ArticleSaveComplete' hooks; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 9575) Accept upload description from GET parameters
+* Skip the difference engine cache when 'action=purge' is used while requesting
+ a difference page, to allow refreshing the cache in case of errors
+* (bug 10701) Link to Special:Listusers in default Special:Statistics messages
+* Improved file history presentation
+* (bug 10739) Users can now enter comments when reverting files
+* Improved handling of permissions errors
+* (bug 10793) "Mark patrolled" links will now be shown for users with
+ patrol permissions on all eligible diff pages
+* (bug 10655) Show standard tool links for blocked users in block log messages
+* Show standard tool links for blocked users in Special:Ipblocklist
+* Miscellaneous aesthetic improvements to Special:Ipblocklist
+* (bug 10826) Added link trail with Cyrillic characters for Mongolian language
+* (bug 10859) Introduce 'UserGetImplicitGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
+ more information
+* (bug 10832) Include user information when viewing a deleted revision
+* (bug 10872) Fall back to sane defaults when generating protection selector
+ labels for custom restriction levels
+* Show edit count in user preferences
+* Improved support for audio/video extensions
+* (bug 10937) Distinguish overwritten files in upload log
+* Introduce 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
+ information
+* Confirmation is now required when deleting old versions of files
+* (bug 7535) Users can now enter comments when deleting old versions of files
+* (bug 11001) Submit Special:Newpages as a GET, rather than a POST request
+* The <strong></strong> around links to watched pages in change lists now
+ has a class - "mw-watched"
+* (bug 9002) Provide a "view/restore deleted edits" link on Special:Upload
+ when a destination filename is provided that corresponds with previous
+ deleted files
+* Make the "invalid special page" message clearer
+* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'upload file' button at Special:Upload
+* Introduced 'SkinAfterBottomScripts' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
+ more information
+* (bug 11095) Honour "preview on first edit" preference when preloading
+ text for a non-existent page
+* (bug 11022) Use a more accurate page title for Special:Whatlinkshere and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked
+* Add link to user contributions in normal watchlist edit mode
+* (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow
+ modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new
+ argument is supplied
+* (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the
+ text that prefixes a new section link in Recent Changes
+
+== 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 user JavaScript on Special:Userlogin, Special:Resetpass and
+ Special:Preferences, to avoid 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
+* (bug 10265) Fix regression in category image gallery paging
+* (bug 8577) Fix some weird misapplications of time zones.
+ {{CURRENT*}} functions now consistently use UTC as intended, while
+ {{LOCAL*}} functions return local time per server config or $wgLocaltimezone.
+ Signature dates for Japanese and other languages including weekday now show
+ the correct day to match the rest of the time in local time.
+* Escape the output of magic variables that return page name or part of it
+* (bug 10309) Initialise parser state properly in extractSections(), fixes
+ some cases where section edits broke because tags were improperly stripped
+* Avoid PHP notice errors when doing HTTP proxy purges for an empty list
+* As intended, *skip* the HTTP proxy purges when doing HTCP purges
+* (bug 9696) Fix handling of brace transformations in "pagemovedtext"
+* (bug 10325) Fix regression in form action on Special:Listusers
+* Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving
+ overlong key errors.
+* Fixed zero-padding issues with MySQL 5 binary schema
+* (bug 10344) Don't follow a redirect after changing its protection level
+* (bug 10333) Correct date format in Slovenian
+* (bug 10160) Show error message for unknown namespace on Special:Allpages and
+ Special:Prefixindex; making forms prettier for RTL wikis.
+* (bug 10334) Replace normal spaces before percent (%) signs with non-breaking
+ spaces
+* (bug 10372) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores namespace aliases
+* (bug 10198) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores interwiki prefixes
+* namespaceDupes.php should work better for initial-lowercase wikis
+* (bug 10377) "Permanent links" to revisions still work if the page is moved
+ and the redirect deleted
+* (bug 7071) Properly handle an 'oldid' passed to view or edit that doesn't
+ match the given title. Fixes inconsistencies with talk, history, edit links.
+* (bug 10397) Fix AJAX watch error fallback when we receive a bogus result
+* (bug 10396) Fix AJAX error when $wgScriptPath/index.php is not valid;
+ using $wgScript now included in JS info
+* Use native XMLHttpRequest class in preference to ActiveX on IE 7; this
+ avoids the "ActiveX "Do you want to allow ActiveX?" prompt when something
+ security settings are cranked this way and AJAX-y gets used.
+* Delay AJAX watch initialization until click so IE 6 with ugly security
+ settings doesn't prompt you until you use the link.
+* (bug 10401) Provide non-redirecting link to original title in Special:Movepage
+* Fix broken handling of log views for page titles consisting of one
+ or more zeros, e.g. "0", "00" etc.
+* Fix read permission check for special pages with subpage parameters, e.g.
+ Special:Confirmemail
+* Fix read permission check for unreadable page titles which are numerically
+ equivalent to a whitelisted title
+* '?>' closing tag removed from all files to help avoid problems with extraneous
+ whitespace (broken XML feeds, etc.)
+* Don't use garbled parser cache output when viewing custom CSS or JavaScript
+ pages
+* (bug 10406) Fix Special:Listusers filter form for non-ASCII localizations
+* Fix empty message checks for message names containing &
+ This corrects some odd behavior with sidebar items and custom namespaces
+ containing ampersands.
+* (bug 10375) Change thousands separator character to for Latin (la)
+* (bug 10477) Fix AJAX watch for Farsi on Firefox: JavaScript encoding tweak
+* (bug 10496) Fix broken DISTINCT option logic in database backend
+* Fix CSS media declaration for "screen, projection"; was causing some
+ validation issues
+* (bug 10495) $wgMemcachedDebug set twice in includes/DefaultSettings.php
+* (bug 10316) Prevent inconsistent cached skin settings in gen=js by setting
+ the intended skin directly in the URL.
+* (bug 9903) Don't mark redirects in categories as stubs
+* (bug 6965) Cannot include "Template:R" with {{R}} (magic word conflict)
+* Padding parser functions now work with strings like '0' that evaluate to false
+* (bug 10332) Title->userCan( 'edit' ) may return false positive
+* Fix bug with <nowiki> in front of links for wikis where linkPrefixExtension is true
+* (bug 10552) Suppress rollback link in history for single-revision pages
+* (bug 10538) Gracefully handle invalid input on move success page
+* Fix for Esperanto double-x-encoding in move success page
+* (bug 10526) Fix toolbar/insertTags behavior for IE 6/7 and Opera (8+)
+ Now matches the selection behavior on Mozilla / Safari.
+ Patch by Alex Smotrov.
+* Don't show non-functional toolbar buttons on Opera 7 anymore
+* (bug 9151) Fix relative subpage links with section fragments
+* (bug 10560) Adding a space between category letter heading and "continues"
+* (bug 4650) Keep impossibly large/small counts off Special:Statistics
+* (bug 10608) PHP notice when installing with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 10615) Fix for transwiki import when CURL not available
+* (bug 8054) Return search page for empty search requests with ugly URLs
+* (bug 10572) Force refresh after clearing visitation timestamps on watchlist
+* (bug 10631) Warn when illegal characters are removed from filename at upload
+* Fix several JavaScript bugs under MSIE 5/Macintosh
+* (bug 10591) Use Arabic numerals (0,1,2...) for the Malayam language
+* (bug 10642) Fix shift-click checkbox behavior for Opera 9.0+ and 6.0
+* Work around Safari bug with pages ending in ".gz" or ".tgz"
+* Removed obsolete maintenance/changeuser.sql script; use RenameUser extension
+* (bug 2735) "Preview" shown in title bar for action=submit on special pages
+* Removed "restore" links from the deletion log embedded in Special:Undelete
+* Improved error reporting and robustness for file delete/undelete.
+* Improved speed of file delete by storing the SHA-1 hash in image/oldimage
+* Fixed leading zero in base 36 SHA-1 hash
+* Protection form no longer produces JavaScript errors
+* (bug 10741) File histories show "delete" links for non-sysops
+* (bug 10744) Treat "noarticletext" and "noarticletextanon" as wiki text when
+ used on a non-existent page with "action=info"
+* Fix escaping of raw message text when used on a non-existent page with
+ "action=info"
+* (bug 10683) Fix inconsistent handling of URL-encoded titles in links
+ used in redirects (i.e. they now work)
+* (bug 8878) Changes to $dateFormats in German localization (removing unused,
+ nonexistent formats, putting time after date)
+* (bug 10769) Database::update() should return boolean result
+* Fix preference checkbox display for right-to-left languages which caused
+ them to be hidden in IE in some cases
+* Fix upload form display in right-to-left languages
+* Fixed regression in blocking of username '0'
+* (bug 9437) Don't overwrite edit form submission handler when setting up
+ edit box scroll position preserve/restore behaviour
+* (bug 10805) Fix "undo" link when viewing the diff of the most recent
+ change to a page using "diff=0"
+* (bug 10765) img_auth.php will now refuse logged-out requests where
+ $wgWhitelistRead is undefined, instead of (incorrectly) honouring them
+* Fixed img_auth.php file name extraction for whitelist checking
+* Tweak spacing of email preference display
+* Table sorting JavaScript prefers textContent over innerText to allow hidden
+ sort keys to work on Safari
+* (bug 4530) Fix local name of Kurdish language
+* (bug 10830) Fix local name of Haitian Creole language
+* Fix invalid XHTML in Special:Protectedpages
+* Fix comments in contributions and log pages for right-to-left languages
+* Make installer include_path-independent, so it should work on hosts which
+ disable user setting of PHP include_path setting
+* glob() is horribly unreliable and doesn't work on some systems, including
+ free.fr shared hosting. No longer using it in Language::getLanguageNames()
+* (bug 10763) Fix multi-insert logic for PostgreSQL
+* Fix invalid XHTML when viewing a deleted revision
+* Fix syntax error in translations of magic words in Romanian language
+* (bug 8737) Fix warnings caused by incorrect use of `/dev/null` when piping
+ process error output under Windows
+* (bug 7890) Don't list redirects to special pages in Special:BrokenRedirects
+* (bug 10783) Resizing PNG-24 images with GD no longer causes all alpha
+ channel transparency to be lost and transparent pixels to be turned black
+* (bug 9339) General error pages were transforming messages and their parameters
+ in the wrong order
+* (bug 9026) Incorrect heading numbering when viewing Special:Statistics with
+ "auto-numbered headings" enabled
+* Fixed invalid XHTML in Special:Upload
+* (bug 11013) Make sure dl() is available before attempting to use it to check
+ available databases in installer
+* Resizing transparent GIF images with GD now retains transparency by skipping
+ resampling
+* (bug 11065) Fix regression in handling of wiki-formatted EXIF metadata
+* Double encoding broke Special:Newpages for some languages
+* Adding a newline before the statistics footer, to prevent parsing problems
+* Preventing the TOC from appearing in Special:Statistics
+* (bug 11082) Fix check for fully-specced table names in Database::tableName
+* (bug 11067) Fix regression in upload conflict thumbnail display
+* (bug 10985) Resolved cached entries on Special:DoubleRedirects were being
+ supressed, breaking paging - now strikes out "fixed" results
+* (bug 8393) <sup> and <sub> need to be preserved (without attributes) for
+ entries in the table of contents
+* (bug 11114) Fix regression in read-only mode error display during editing
+* Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure
+ that the first page_title is truly the first page title.
+* (bug 10836) Change the summary on creating of new section
+* Inclusion of Special:Wantedpages now works again
+
+== API changes since 1.10 ==
+
+Full API documentation is available at 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.
+* Added categorymembers list to query for pages in a category.
+* (bug 10260) Show page protection status
+* (bug 10392) Include MediaWiki version details in version output
+* (bug 10411) Site language in meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 10391) action=help doesn't return help if format is fancy markup
+* backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage lists should use (bl|ei|iu)title parameter
+ instead of titles. Titles for these lists is obsolete and might stop working soon.
+* Added prop=imageinfo - gets image properties and upload history
+* (bug 10211) Added db server replication lag information in meta=siteinfo
+* Added external url search within wiki pages (list=exturlusage)
+* Added link enumeration (list=alllinks)
+* Added registered users enumeration (list=allusers)
+* Added full text search in titles and content (list=search)
+* (bug 10684) Expanded list=allusers functionality
+* Possible breaking change: prop=revisions no longer includes pageid for rvprop=ids
+* Added rvprop=size to prop=revisions (The size will not be shown if it is NULL in the database)
+* list=allpages now allows to filter by article min/max size and protection status
+* Added site statistics (siprop=statistics for meta=siteinfo)
+* (bug 10902) Unable to fetch user contributions from IP addresses
+* `list=usercontribs` no longer requires that the user exist
+* (bug 10971) `aufrom` parameter doesn't work with spaces
+* Fix username handling issue with `auprefix` parameter
+* Treat underscores as spaces for `aufrom` and `auprefix` parameters
+* Added edit/delete/... token retrieval to prop=info
+* Added meta=userinfo - logged-in user information, group membership, rights
+* (bug 11072) Fix regression in API image history query
+* (bug 11115) Adding SHA1 hash to imageinfo query
+* (bug 10898) API does not return an edit token for non-existent pages
+* (bug 10890) Timestamp support for categorymembers query
+* (bug 10980) Add exclude redirects on backlinks
+* IPv6 titles in User namespace are normalized (run cleanupTitles.php to fix any old stray pages)
+
+== 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)
+* Add option to maintenance/createAndPromote.php to give the user bureaucrat
+ permissions (--bureaucrat)
+* Allow overwriting existing files with a conflicting name using
+ maintenance/importImages.php
+* (bug 10266) Use native newlines when rebuilding a messages file.
+
+== Languages updated since 1.10 ==
+
+* Afrikaans (af)
+* Arabic (ar)
+* Bikol (bcl)
+* Bulgarian (bg)
+* Catalan (ca)
+* Danish (da)
+* German (de)
+* Greek (el)
+* Esperanto (eo)
+* Spanish (es)
+* Estonian (et)
+* Extremaduran (ext)
+* Farsi (fa)
+* Finnish (fi)
+* Vöro (fiu-vro)
+* French (fr)
+* Français Cadien (frc) (new)
+* Franco-Provençal/Arpetan (frp)
+* Galician (gl)
+* Hakka (hak)
+* Hebrew (he)
+* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
+* Haitian (ht)
+* Indonesian (id)
+* Icelandic (is)
+* Italian (it)
+* Japanese (ja)
+* Georgian (ka)
+* Kabyle (kab)
+* Kazakh (kk)
+* Korean (ko)
+* Kinaray-a (krj) (new)
+* Kurdish (ku)
+* Latin (la)
+* Lao (lo)
+* Lithuanian (lt)
+* Latviešu (lv)
+* Malayalam (ml)
+* Bahasa Melayu (ms)
+* Burmese (my)
+* Low German (nds)
+* Dutch (nl)
+* Norwegian (no)
+* Occitan (oc)
+* Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (pa)
+* Polish (pl)
+* Piedmontese (pms)
+* Portuguese (pt)
+* Romani (rmy)
+* Romanian (ro)
+* Aromanian (roa-rup)
+* Russian (ru)
+* Sakha (sah)
+* Sango (se) (new)
+* Slovak (sk)
+* Slovenian (sl)
+* Shona (sn)
+* Somali (so)
+* Albanian (sq)
+* Sundanese (su)
+* Swedish (sv)
+* Tamil (ta)
+* Thai (th)
+* Tigrinya (ti)
+* Setswana (tn)
+* Tok Pisin (tpi)
+* Uyghur (ug)
+* Volapük (vo)
+* Winaray (war) (new)
+* Yiddish (yi)
+* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
+* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
+* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
+* Cantonese (zh-yue)
+
+== MediaWiki 1.10 ==
+
+This is the Spring 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
+
+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 ==
+
+* A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php).
+ It lets you specify if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized
+ output will be made lighter making things easier to read.
+* The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be
+ customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
+ the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
+* Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
+ $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
+* Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser
+* Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions
+* (Bug 8590) limited HTML is now always enabled ($wgUserHtml = true).
+* Deprecated $wgUseImageResize, thumbnailing will be enabled unconditionally.
+
+== New features since 1.9 ==
+
+* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to
+ Special:Statistics
+* (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
+* (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
+* Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
+ starts page output
+ (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
+* Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded
+ into a page protected with this option enabled
+* (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown
+ out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output.
+* (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be
+ overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
+* Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
+ determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
+ permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
+* (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
+* (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
+* (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
+ the appropriate permission
+* (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
+* (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
+* Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
+* Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
+* Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
+* (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
+* (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
+* Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
+ and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
+ to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
+ "semi protected".
+* (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same
+ format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite,
+ as are protections made with the new field left blank.
+* (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
+ keywords
+* (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
+* (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as
+ MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are
+ disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also
+ be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr).
+* Sort log types in Special:Log
+* Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit
+ toolbar buttons
+* Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an
+ IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.)
+* (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages
+* (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages.
+* (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
+* (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the
+ confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id.
+* (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page
+* (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions
+* (bug 1723) Article size in history
+* (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames
+* (bug 6997) Link from Special:log/block to unblock form
+* (bug 9117) Link from Special:log/delete to undelete form
+* Link from Special:log/protect to change protection form
+* (bug 1196) Add IPv6 support added to blocks, more consistancy for IPv6 contribs
+* (bug 3984) Searching in logs by title%
+* Show thumbnail of existing image if image exists already under this filename
+* (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete
+* Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols
+* (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images
+* Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase
+ extension exists
+* (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere
+* Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt
+ for more information
+* (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon"
+ messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target
+* (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction')
+* (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images
+* (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path
+ which can lead to broken session storage
+* (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links
+* (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions
+* Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'mywatchlist' message; used on personal menu to link to watchlist page
+* Introduce magic word {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
+* Introduced media handlers for file-type specific operations.
+* Improved error reporting for image thumbnailing
+* Added sharpening option for ImageMagick thumbnailing
+* (bug 9656) Autosummaries will be generated for deletion of pages longer than
+ 500 characters
+* Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip
+* (bug 9196) Installer now check that zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is off
+* (bug 9697) Introduce 'InternalParseBeforeLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* 'contribsub' message changed to 'contribsub2' with two parameters to permit
+ better localization. Change is reverse-compatible and can be ignored for
+ most wikis.
+* Adding a 'reason' field to Special:Userrights
+
+== Bugfixes since 1.9 ==
+
+* (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
+* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála
+* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
+* Fixed up the AjaxSearch
+* Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
+ null to be treated properly with isset.
+* Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
+* Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
+ (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
+* (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
+* Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
+ optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
+* PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated
+* (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
+* Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
+* (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
+* Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
+* Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
+* (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
+* (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions
+* (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins
+* (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback
+* (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer
+* Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on
+* (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is
+ not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
+* Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:")
+* use configured cache servers for mctest.php
+* bucket details in mcc.php
+* fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
+* full ID range for moveToExternal
+* fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
+* maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
+* recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
+* profile unicode cleanup in Xml
+* log slow parses in Article.php
+* profile wfMsgReal
+* log mkdir failures
+* profile AutoLoader
+* rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
+* security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
+* Undelete page list can use plural marker
+* (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
+* (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
+* (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
+* (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
+* Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag.
+* Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>')
+* (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header
+* Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment
+* (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist
+ in a consistent manner
+* (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users
+* ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files
+* (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language
+* Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name
+* (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the
+ message page exists
+* ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found
+* (bug 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li)
+* (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
+* (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
+* Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
+* (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation
+* (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11;
+ accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows.
+* Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link
+ red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an
+ alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating.
+* (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync
+* (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies
+* (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media
+* (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile
+* (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page
+* (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs
+* Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title
+ is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as
+ a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL
+* (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies
+* Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles
+* Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js
+* (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area
+* (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note
+ in DefaultSettings to make it clear.
+* (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression
+ affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second
+ edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin.
+* Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script
+* (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key
+* (bug 6844) Use <ins> and <del> tags to emphase the differences
+* (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration
+* (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to
+* Add AlphabeticPager abstract class
+* Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories
+* (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent
+ pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images
+* Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was
+ opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner
+ cases.
+* (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix
+* Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied
+ by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence
+ of other tables while they work.
+* Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758
+ for better localisations.
+* (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php
+* (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history
+* (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice.
+* (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked
+ when using the Postgres database.
+* Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php.
+ The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older
+ LocalSettings.php files.
+* Give Content-Length header for HTTP/1.0 clients.
+* Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering.
+* Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to
+ dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES
+ and such are used.
+* Add 'charset' to Content-Type headers on various HTTP error responses
+ to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. PHP sends only
+ 'text/html' by default when the script didn't specify more details,
+ which some inconsiderate browsers consider a license to autodetect
+ the deadly, hard-to-escape UTF-7.
+ This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when
+ $wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant
+ on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec:
+ http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
+* Trackback responses now specify XML content type
+* (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode
+ to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly,
+ particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia
+* (bug 8919) Suppress paging links and related messages where there are no
+ rows to list for query pages
+* (bug 9057) Standardize MediaWiki: namespace for oc
+* (bug 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when
+ there are none
+* (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres)
+* (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and
+ Special:DoubleRedirects
+* (bug 8918) Enable PLURAL option for MediaWiki:showingresults and
+ MediaWiki:showingresultsnum
+* (bug 9122) Fix minor display issue in RTL with section edit link margin
+* (bug 5805) Enable PLURAL option for some messages of watchlist and statistic
+* (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other
+ languages section of MonoBook skin
+* (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges.
+* (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages
+* (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres
+* (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook
+* (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect
+ loops on some server configurations
+* (bug 9097) column "pr_pagetype" does not exist
+* (bug 9217) Balance wfProfile calls in Skin::outputPage
+* (bug 9222) PostgreSQL updater should not be version-specific
+* Fix fallback implementation of mb_strlen so it works and isn't insanely
+ slow for large strings, since it's used for page edit lengths
+* (bug 8815) Setting password in initUser() breaks LdapAuthentication plugin
+* (bug 9256) Add a quick note to index.php header comments
+* Make Special:Listusers caseinsensitive for first letter
+* Default tidy.conf has been moved from extensions module into includes.
+* Ignore lonely '''''
+* (bug 9244) When calling edit page for nonexistent section, generate error
+ inside of just discarding edits, since edit links sometimes go to the wrong
+ place.
+* (bug 9019) No warning during upload if image description page exists, but no
+ image
+* (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space.
+* (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to bytea for Postgres
+* (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language
+* (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked
+* (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader
+* (bug 4777) Separate prev/next messages for Special:Whatlinkshere
+* Merge approx 15 missing Wikipedia language codes into wikipedia-interwiki.sql
+ based on Jeff Merkey's mediawiki-1.9.3.WG-20070316.tar.gz.bz2 archive.
+* (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles
+* (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log
+ instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension
+* (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent
+ target page instead of silently redirecting
+* (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}}
+* (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached
+ templates the same as the first transclusion.
+* (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment
+* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages
+* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages
+* (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions
+* (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere
+* (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed
+ to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions
+* Fixed $wgFeedLimit
+* (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
+* (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 9554) Extension-provided group name messages not used
+* (bug 9565) Translate template namespace name for Hindi (hi)
+* (bug 8599) Correct localized names of zh-variants
+* (bug 3366) Require skins based on SkinTemplate to override the skinname
+ property.
+* (bug 9220) Removed obsoletes functions in install-utils.inc.
+* Removed obsoletes Title::getRelatedCache and Title:touchArray
+* (bug 7285) Check MySQL username length during install
+* (bug 6910) Correct date/time formats in Vietnamese (vi)
+* (bug 9608) Correctly use ORDER BY in dumpLinks.php
+* (bug 9609) Correctly use ORDER BY in SpecialWhatlinkshere.php
+* Special:Random and Special:Randomredirect now try harder to send the user to
+ a random page, and will give an error message if none really can be found
+ instead of sending the user to the main page like they used to
+* Fix object variable used for displaying "not-patrolled" CSS class on list
+* Fixed interaction of page parameter to ImagePage with the HTML file cache
+* Fixed MIME type for SVG files, will be silently changed from image/svg
+ to image/svg+xml after loading from the database.
+* Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump
+ instead.
+* Fixed odd behaviour in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors
+* (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and
+ MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited.
+* (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter
+* Fixed upgrade for the non-standard MySQL schemas
+* Disable MySQL's strict mode at session start for MySQL 4.1+, to avoid the
+ various problems that occur when it is on.
+* (bug 9585) Fix regression in tidy usage in Special:Undelete previews
+* (bug 3826) Normalize some invalid cookie name characters when setting
+ up $wgCookiePrefix. Completes application of patch by Anders Kaseorg.
+* (bug 9649) Fix RTL form alignment for Special:Movepage
+* (bug 9582) Members of bot group now mark edits patrolled by default
+* (bug 9669) Fix limit ordering for rebuildrecentchanges; broken since
+ converted from 1.4 to 1.5 schema
+* (bug 9682) Revert PHP 5.1 dependency on warning suppression for SVN info
+* (bug 5959) Anchors dropped from stub links
+* (bug 3348) Some additional weak password checks: password which is same
+ as username will now be rejected.
+* (bug 8602) Converted Special:Contributions to use an IndexPager. The
+ interpretation of the offset parameter has changed, and the go parameter
+ has been removed.
+* (bug 6204) Fixes for indentation with $wgMaxTocLevel:
+ - don't emit too many list close tags after an invisible header
+ - don't emit too many final list close tags if last header is invisible
+ - don't emit TOC when there are no visible headers
+* (bug 7629) Fix $wgBrowserBlackList to avoid false positive on MSIE
+ when certain plugins are present which alter the user agent
+
+
+== Maintenance ==
+
+* New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
+ progress in the extension repository.
+* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
+ automatically attempt to create the required tables
+* --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
+* Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
+* parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
+ it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
+* (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php
+ exists but is not readable
+* dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php
+ and importTextFile.php scripts
+* (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script
+* (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org
+* (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning
+* Restore '--norc' option for maintenance/importTextFile.php
+* Help information for maintenance/importTextFile.php now easier to read on
+ consoles
+* Doxygen documentation now show the revision number of each file, generate
+ graphs using dot and include a search engine.
+
+
+== Languages updated ==
+
+* Arabic (ar)
+* Aramaic (arc)
+* Aymara (ay)
+* Belarusian normative (be)
+* Belarusian alternative (be-x-old)
+* Bulgarian (bg)
+* Bihara (bh)
+* Breton (br)
+* Catalan (ca)
+* Czech (cs)
+* Danish (da)
+* German (de)
+* Greek (el)
+* Esperanto (eo)
+* Spanish (es)
+* Estonian (et)
+* Basque (eu)
+* Finnish (fi)
+* Võro (fiu-vro)
+* French (fr)
+* Hebrew (he)
+* Hindi (hi)
+* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
+* Hungarian (hu)
+* Armenian (hy)
+* Indonesian (id)
+* Italian (it)
+* Japanese (ja)
+* Javanese (jv)
+* Georgian (ka)
+* Kabyle (kab)
+* Kazakh (kk)
+* Korean (ko)
+* Kashmiri (ks)
+* Ripuarian (ksh)
+* Latin (la)
+* Luganda (lg)
+* Limburgish (li)
+* Lithuanian (lt)
+* Latvian (lv)
+* Marathi (mr)
+* Low Saxon (nds)
+* Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
+* Nepali (ne)
+* Nepal Bhasa (new)
+* Dutch (nl)
+* Occitan (oc)
+* Pali (pi)
+* Polish (pl)
+* Romanian (ro)
+* Russian (ru)
+* Sanskrit (sa)
+* Sicilian (scn)
+* Slovak (sk)
+* Sundanese (su)
+* Swedish (sv)
+* Tahitian (ty)
+* Ukrainian (uk)
+* Urdu (ur)
+* Uzbek (uz)
+* Vietnamese (vi)
+* Zealandic (zea)
+* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
+* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
+* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
+* Cantonese (zh-yue)
+
+== Compatibility ==
+
+MediaWiki 1.10 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 ==
+
+1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, 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.
= 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.
+
+== Changes since 1.8 ==
+
+* (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres.
+* (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist
+ adding problem.
+* (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function,
+ because it seems to be unused.
+* (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger
+ screen sizes, for the default monobook skin.
+* Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends
+* Improved register_globals paranoia checks
+* (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install
+* Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails
+ is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call
+ parameters.
+* (bug 6164) Avoid smashing Cite state if message transformation triggers
+ during bad image list check, by skipping message transformation.
+ This isn't a good permanent fix.
+* (bug 6918) Stopped borders and backgrounds from showing through floated
+ tables in Monobook
+* (bug 6868) Un-hardcode section edit link style
+* (bug 3205) Stop right floats from stacking horizontally in non-Monobook skins
+* Added global $wgStyleVersion to centralize bumping CSS and JS file versions
+ for cache-friendly style and script updating
+* (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers
+* Friendlier check for PHP 5 in command-line scripts; it's common for parallel
+ PHP 4 and 5 installations to interfere on the command-line.
+* Fix regression in autoconfirm permission check
+* (bug 3015) Add CSS ids to subcategory and page sections on category pages
+* (bug 7587) Fix erroneous id for specialpage tab, enabling informative popup
+* (bug 7599) Fix thumbnail purging, PHP notices on HTCP image page purge
+* (bug 7581) Update language name for cbk-zam
+* (bug 7444) Update namespace translations for Telugu (te), kept old values as
+ alias for compatibility
+* (bug 4525) Move section links down visually to same level as headings
+ (editsection links are now inside the heading elements)
+* Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 , PATH_INFO and hence
+ URLs of the style /index.php/Main_Page were broken on some CGI installations.
+* (bug 7623) Validate custom HTML id's correctly in Monobook interface
+* (bug 2241) Fix collision of 'w' and 'd' accesskeys
+* (bug 5795) CSS class added to body based on page name for page-specific
+ styling
+* (bug 6276) Stopped search field from getting too large in Cologne Blue
+* (bug 7644) User creations that are aborted by hooks shouldn't be counted
+ against account creations per day limit
+* (bug 7636) Show Firefox 2 users correct accesskey prefix
+* (bug 6427) Block blocked IPs from using the mail password function
+ to allow blocking of flooders
+* Include common.css from classic-style skins in main HTML with the bump URL
+* (bug 7607) Add Karakalpak (kaa) to Names.php and stub message file for linktrail
+* (bug 7582) Add 'tog-nolangconversion' to MessagesEn.php.
+ This key is need for languages with variants (zh, sr, kk)
+* (bug 7606) MediaWiki messages for "rss" and "atom" missing
+* (bug 7609) Add some more '*-summary' messages to MessagesEn.php with empty
+ strings to allow better localisation via Special:Allmessages. Mark this new
+ messages as optional for localisation.
+* Fix user_newpass upgrade for prefixed tables (reported by Fyren)
+* (bug 7663) Include language variant switcher links on Nostalgia skin
+* (bug 6531) Fix PHP fatal error on installation page with bad username input.
+* (bug 6977) Remove 404 link for autogenerated database documentation.
+* (bug 7369) Allow "Show Changes" without requiring edit token.
+* (bug 7687) Fix movetalk box checks itself when confirming a delete and move.
+* (bug 7684) Obey watchcreated preference for Special:Upload watch checkbox
+* (bug 7686) Include id attribute on delete form confirmation button
+* Allow compound interwiki prefixes in $wgImportSources
+* (bug 7304) Added redirect table to store redirect targets.
+* Added querycachetwo table (similar to querycache but has two titles)
+* PageArchive can now return a Revision object for more convenient processing
+ of deleted revision data
+* Added 'UndeleteShowRevision' hook in Special:Undelete
+* Error message on attempt to view invalid or missing deleted revisions
+* Remove unsightly "_" from namespace in Special:Allpages, Special:Prefixindex
+* (bug 3224) Allow minor edits by bots to skip new message notification on
+ user talk pages. This can be disabled by adjusting the 'nominornewtalk'
+ permission. Patch by Werdna.
+* (bug 7741) MATH: fixed broken syntax of underbrace etc. Fixed arrays
+* Fix purging for updated SVG files
+* (bug 7745) Add id attribute to search button in Monobook
+* (bug 7749) MATH: added some more LaTeX symbols, e.g. parallel, diamond, ast, ...
+* (bug 7304) Added code in Article.php to keep redirect table up to date.
+* Made special page names case-insensitive and localisable. Care has been taken
+ to maintain backwards compatibility.
+* Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters.
+* (bug 7758) Added wrapper span to "templates used" explanation to allow CSS
+ styling (class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation").
+* Added {{#special:}} parser function, to give the local default title for
+ special pages
+* (bug 7766) Remove redundant / from AJAX requests, can break some servers
+* Add tab links from extensions to classic-based skins (SkinTemplateTab hook)
+ Provides better cross-skin compatibility for extensions using the modern
+ skin hooks, such as Oversight
+* Moved variant language links on Cologne Blue and Nostalgia to before the
+ login/logout link
+* Fix for parser tests with MySQL 5 in strict mode
+* Added block option "enable autoblocks"
+* Amend Special:Ipblocklist to note when a block has autoblock DISABLED.
+* (bug 7780) Fix regression in editing redirects
+* Add whitespace above "templates included on this page" using CSS, not
+ hardcoded line break.
+* Remove entries from redirect table on article deletion
+* (bug 7788) Force section headers in new section links for users who have
+ 'prompt for blank edit summaries' on.
+* (bug 1133) Special:Emailuser: add an option to send yourself a copy of your mail.
+* (bug 461) Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via
+ pagecategorieslink message.
+* Sort the list of skins in "My Preferences" -> Skins by alphabetical order.
+* (bug 7785) Postgres compatibility for timestamps in RC feeds
+* (bug 7550) Normalize user parameter normally on Special:Log
+* (bug 7294) Fix PATH search for diff3 on install
+* Various fixes related to the blocking change re: autoblocks. On inserting
+ an IP block, the ipb_enable_autoblock field is now automagically blanked,
+ because it doesn't make any sense for an IP. Additionally, IP blocks
+ without the ipb_enable_autoblock option no longer show up as "autoblock
+ disabled" on Special:Ipblocklist.
+* (bug 7774) MATH: aded more amstex functions
+* (bug 1182) MATH: fixed inconsistent rendering of upper case Greek letters in TeX
+* Fix regression in streaming page dump generation
+* (bug 7801) Add support for parser function hooks in parser tests
+* checkUsernames.php now uses wfDebugLog instead of hardcoded path to log
+* (bug 7810) Update talk namespaces for Occitan
+* Allow case-sensitive URLs to be used for uploading from URLs.
+* (bug 1109) Correct fix for compressed 304 responses when additional output
+ buffers have been installed within the compression handler
+* (bug 7819) Move automatic redirect edit summary after pre-save transform
+ to work properly with subst: fun
+* (bug 7826) Fix typos in two English messages.
+* (bug 5365) Stop users being prompted to enter an edit summary for null edits,
+ if they have selected that option in preferences.
+* (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits.
+* (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL.
+* (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most
+ recently used IP of a user when they are blocked.
+* Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will
+ make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster.
+* Fix regression in Special:Undelete for revisions deleted under MediaWiki 1.4
+ with compression or legacy encoding
+* (bug 6737) Fixes for MySQL 5 schema in strict mode
+* Approximate height for client-side scaling fallback instead of passing -1
+ into the HTML output.
+* Make the DNSBL to check for proxy blocking configurable via $wgSorbsUrl
+* Add experimental recording/reporting mode to parser tests runner, to
+ compare changes against the previous run.
+ Additional tables 'testrun' and 'testitem' are in maintenance/testRunner.sql,
+ source this and pass --record option to parserTests.php
+* Make the set of default parser test input files extensible via
+ $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local
+ configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically
+ run along with the main batch.
+* Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see
+ new version requirements
+* Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive
+ as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a
+ warning and a request to upgrade.
+* (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images)
+* Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks
+* (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display,
+ with count.
+* (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in
+ Monobook.
+* Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled.
+* Add auto-summaries to blankings and large removals without summaries.
+* (bug 7811) Allow preview of edit summaries.
+* (bug 6839) Wikibits.js minor changes to make JS-lint happier.
+* (bug 7932) Make sure that edit toolbar clears floats so it appears correctly.
+* (bug 6873) When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version.
+* (bug 3315) Provide rollback link directly on history page.
+* Replace 'old-revision-navigation' message with 'revision-info' and
+ 'revision-nav' messages, wrapped in divs with appropriate id's.
+* (bug 4178) MediaWiki:Common.js will now be included for all users if
+ $wgUseSiteJs is enabled, in addition to (if applicable) MediaWiki:Monobook.js
+ and user JS subpages.
+* (bug 7918) "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect
+ any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits.
+* (bug 7919) "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages.
+* (bug 7688) When viewing diff, section anchors in autosummary jump to section
+ on current page instead of loading the latest version.
+* (bug 7970) Use current connection explicitly on Database::getServerVersion
+* (bug 2001) Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via
+ JavaScript.
+* Added autosummary for new pages with 500 or less characters, and refactor
+ the autosummary code so it's all done in one function. doEdit is getting too
+ big!
+* (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the
+ image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg).
+* (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges
+ can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format,
+ in the autoblock_whitelist system message.
+* Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php
+* (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages
+* Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema
+* Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like
+ behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...)
+* Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two
+ member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks.
+* (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone
+ (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3).
+ This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL
+ that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages.
+ The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the
+ edit.
+* Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages
+* (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned
+ images, not horizontally.
+* Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php
+* Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration
+* Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login
+* (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs
+* (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference
+* Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved.
+* (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation
+* Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain
+ broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions
+* (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php
+* (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform
+* (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set;
+ now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB
+* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone
+ to ensure consistent behavior
+* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends
+* (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment
+* Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output
+* (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht
+* (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit
+ instead of hardcoding to 1000
+* Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting
+* (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view
+* (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization
+* Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely.
+* Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature
+ to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default.
+* Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute
+* DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store
+ the text lengths before and after the edit
+* (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions
+* Removed a redundant <strong> tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users
+* (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it
+ when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview".
+* (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning
+ buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export.
+ Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers()
+* Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next
+ chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk.
+* (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage')
+* (bug 8121) wfRandom() was not between 0 and 1
+* Add static method Parser::createAssocArgs($args), so parser functions can
+ use the same code to parse arguments as the templates do.
+* Change behavior of logins using the temporary e-mailed password (as stored
+ in user_newpassword hash field). Instead of just logging in silently and
+ leaving the previous user_password field in place indefinitely, the user
+ is now prompted to set a new password.
+
+ The password-changing form is at Special:Resetpass; currently it's only
+ usable for changing from the temporary password during login, but it
+ could perhaps be generalized, replacing the subform in preferences.
+
+ Once the new password is set successfully, the temporary password is wiped
+ so it cannot be used to login a second time, and the login process
+ is completed.
+* Suppress 'mail new password' button on login form if $wgAuth forbids
+ changing user passwords; it wouldn't work very well...
+* Consolidate password length checks and $wgAuth manipulation into
+ User::setPassword() to avoid duplicate code in different places
+ that set passwords.
+* User::setPassword() now throws PasswordError exceptions if the password
+ is illegal or cannot be set via $wgAuth. These can be caught and a human-
+ readable error message displayed by UI code.
+* Added Title::isSubpage()
+* (bug 8241) Don't consider user pages of User:Foo.css to be CSS subpages
+* Set an explicit class on framed thumbnail inner divs and images, changed some
+ CSS to use these instead of using descendent selectors.
+* Accept null parameter to User::setPassword() as indicating the password
+ field should be cleared to an unusable state. Login will only be possible
+ after the password is reset, for instance by e-mail.
+* (bug 6394) Invalidate the password set for "by e-mail" account creations
+ to avoid accidental empty password creations.
+* Made the show change size function work on page moves, page creations, and
+ log entries. Also fixed it in the javascript recentchanges.
+* (bug 8239) correctly get 50 new contributions when clicking '(50 next)'
+* (bug 2259) Fix old regression where e-mail addresses were no longer
+ confirmed on login with mailed password.
+* Add a notification about the confirmation mail sent during account
+ creation, so people don't immediately go off to request a second one.
+* Add a warning on Special:Confirmemail if a code was already sent and has
+ not yet expired.
+* Add user_editcount field to provide data for heuristics on account use.
+ Incremented on edit, with lazy initialization from past revision data.
+ Can batch-initialize with maintenance/initEditCount.php (not yet friendly
+ to replication environments, this will do all accounts in one query).
+* Allow raw SQL subsections in Database::update() SET portion as well as
+ for WHERE portion. Handy for increments and such.
+* User::getOption now accept a default value to override default user values
+ this makes it consistent with WebRequest::get* methods. Corrected code in
+ various places accordingly.
+* (bug 8264) Fix JavaScript global vars for XHTML mode
+* Make $wgSiteNotice value wikitext again, for consistency with editable
+ MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice.
+* (bug 8044) When redirecting from the canonical name of the special page
+ to the localised one, parameters/subpages are omitted
+* (bug 8164) Special:Booksources should use GET for form submission
+* Rewrite Special:Booksources to clean up interface and remove redundant code
+* (bug 7925) Change Special:Allmessages message name filter javascript to be
+ a bit more responsive and easier on the CPU
+* (bug 4488) Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference
+* Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch
+ pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options
+* (bug 8153) <nowiki> doesn't work in site notice
+* (bug 6690) wfMsgNoTrans() transforms messages
+* (bug 8274) Wrap edit tools in a <div> with a specified class
+* Detect PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug and abort in WebStart.php; too many things break
+ mysteriously otherwise (detection code copied from install-utils.inc)
+* (bug 8295) Change handling of <center> tags in doBlockLevels() to match that
+ of <div>
+* (bug 8110) Make magic ISBN linking stricter: only match ten-digit sequences
+ (plus optional ISBN-13 prefix) with no immediately following alphanumeric
+ character, disallow multiple consecutive internal redirects
+* (bug 2785) Accept optional colon prefix in links when formatting comments
+* Don't show "you can view and copy the source of this page" message for
+ pages which don't exist
+* (bug 8310) Blank line added to top of 'post' when page is blank
+* (bug 8109) Template parameters ignored in "recentchangestext"
+* Gracefully skip redirect-to-fragment on WebKit versions less than 420;
+ it messes up on current versions of Safari but is ok in the latest
+ nightlies. Checking the version number will allow it to automatically
+ work when new releases of Safari appear.
+* Fix regression in thumb styles; size and padding didn't match with
+ new arrangement.
+* (bug 8333) Fix quick user data update on login password change on
+ replication database setups. User data is now pulled from master
+ instead of slave in User::loadFromDatabase, ensuring that it is
+ fresh and accurate when read and then saved back into cache.
+ This was breaking with the Special:Rename operation which
+ automatically logs the user in with the new password after changing
+ it; pulling from slave meant the record was often not the updated
+ one.
+* (bug 8335) Set image width to the first valid parameter found.
+* (bug 8350) Fix watchlist viewing bug when using Postgres.
+* (bug 6603) When warning about invalid file extensions, output the bit
+ of the extension we actually checked
+* (bug 7669) Drop defaults on BLOB/TEXT columns for better compatibility
+ with MySQL's strict mode, often enabled by the Windows installer.
+ The defaults are ignored anyway when strict mode is off...
+* (bug 7685) Use explicit values for ar_text and ar_flags when deleting,
+ for better compatibility with MySQL's strict mode
+* Update default interwiki values to reflect changed location of ursine:
+* (bug 5411) Remove autopatrol preference
+* Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as
+ patrolled automatically
+* Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able
+ to mark their own edits as patrolled
+* Introduce 'PingLimiter' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 532) Tweaked alt text for some interface messages
+* (bug 8231) Gave useful alt text to the main <img> on image pages
+* (bug 371) Remove alt text for "Enlarge" icon on thumbnails
+* Initialize user_editcount to 0 instead of NULL for newly created accounts
+* (bug 3696) Strip LRM and RLM characters from titles to work around the
+ problem some people have where titles cut-and-pasted from lists include
+ the bidi override characters appended to the lists.
+ A more thorough blacklist for forbidden and translatable characters would
+ be wise, though, as might a cleaner method for the lists in the first place.
+* Fix regression in email password resets on read-restricted sites
+* Set tabindex on fields in deletion form so you don't have to tab through
+ the links in the sitenotice
+* (bug 8271) Show full time and date on viewer for individual deleted
+ revisions
+* (bug 8214) Output file size limit and actual file size in appropriate units
+ on Special:Upload
+* (bug 8016) Purge objectcache table during upgrade processes - use the --nopurge
+ option to prevent this when running maintenance/update.php
+* (bug 7612) Remove superfluous link to Special:Categories from result items
+ on Special:Mostcategories
+* {{PLURAL:}} now handles formatted numbers correctly
+* (bug 8331) Added the change size value to watchlists; therefore made
+ watchlists use RecentChange::newFromRow() instead of newFromCurRow()
+* (bug 8351) Fix undo for simple reverts
+* (bug 6856) User::clearNotification() does not respect read-only mode
+* (bug 6853) Use a checkbox on the installer form to indicate that a superuser
+ account should be used; this is clearer than the old check which relied on
+ the password never being an obscure value
+* Remove old unused watchlist cache, which was a leftover from the old schema
+ where watchlists were more expensive to generate
+* Minor cosmetic changes to Special:Userrights
+* Added wgCanonicalSpecialPageName to JavaScript variables
+* Fix image deleting when using Postgres.
+* Output both source and destination titles in maintenance/moveBatch.php
+* Added basic parser tests for language variants
+* Enable selflinks and categories to be written in some of the language variants
+* Prevent conversion of JavaScript code in language variants
+* Output software version number in maintenance/parserTests.php
+* (bug 7169) Use Ajax to watch/unwatch articles if enabled
+* Make variant table caching a little more robust, using main language code
+ in cache key. Probably this is still a bit wonky, though. Was breaking
+ parser tests when Chinese tables were getting loaded into Serbian code.
+* (bug 8380) Be nicer about blank lines in deleteBatch.php
+* (bug 8401) Fix regression in SORBS lookup for some DNS setups
+* Use raw file descriptor in posix_isatty() check to avoid warning on
+ Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP
+* (bug 5908) Allow overriding the default category sort key for all items on
+ a page using {{DEFAULTSORT}}
+* (bug 6449) Throw a more definitive error message when installation fails
+ due to an invalid database name
+* (bug 5827) Use full text for option link labels on Special:Watchlist
+* (bug 8018) Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist
+* (bug 8427) MonoBook RTL IE 7.0 tweaks failed when sidebar's navigation
+ section is renamed; no longer relies on first section name
+* Stabilize client-side table sorting even if the underlying Javascript sort()
+ implementation is unstable
+* Add hook for extensions to add user information to the panel in preferences,
+ next to the user name and ID.
+* (bug 8392) Display protection status of transcluded pages in the edit page
+ template list. Patch by Fyren, with i18n naming tweak.
+* Fix for interwiki transclusion where target wiki uses query string for title
+* Resolve namespaces on interwiki Title objects using canonical namespace names
+ if possible (should not happen, though, outside interwiki transclusion... and
+ maybe not even then, but it does)
+* (bug 8447) Fix SQL typo breaking non-default $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq
+* Do not allow previews of deleted images to be cached
+* Add global variable $wgDefaultLanguageVariant used to set the default language
+ variant of a wiki to something different than the main language code
+* Add 'variant' option to parserTests - runs test with the given variant as
+ preferred, utilize it for more parser tests of language variants code
+* (bug 6503) Fix bug that stopped certain irrelevant links from being hidden
+ for printing
+* Avoid PHP warning in Creative Commons metadata when a creative commons
+ license is not actually set up
+* (bug 8463) Don't print external link icons for Monobook
+* (bug 8461) Support watching pages on move
+* (bug 8041) Work around bug with debug_backtrace when Zend Optimizer is
+ loaded by skipping the function. Use wfDebugBacktrace() wrapper function.
+* Reduce config file clutter by setting various script and upload paths
+ based on $IP or $wgScriptPath in Setup.php. They can still be explicitly
+ overridden in LocalSettings.php if desired...
+* Attempt to detect redirect loops for the canonical title redirect, and
+ give some hints to the poor confused administrator.
+* Introduce new flag 'R' - raw output for language variant escape tags
+* Advise users when updates for a query page have been disabled using
+ $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate
+* (bug 8413) Improve comments for $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies
+* (bug 8330) Show "bytes" suffix on recent changes diff counter
+ optionally... if set in rc-changes-size message (default empty for now)
+* (bug 8489) Support basic links in <gallery> caption attribute
+* (bug 8485) Correct Lingala number formatting
+* The MediaWiki namespace is no longer pre-filled with default messages on
+ install. All default messages will be removed from the MediaWiki namespace
+ on upgrade.
+* Recentchanges RSS/Atom feeds now use a separate message for the description
+ to avoid cluttering it with useless wiki formatting
+* (bug 8417) Handle EXIF unknown dates
+* (bug 8372) Return nothing on empty <math> tags.
+* New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php.
+* Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php
+* (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission
+ key has been added to enable this behaviour, by default assigned to sysops.
+* (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild.
+* (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization
+* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond)
+* Fix regression with default lock file and cache directories; threw visible
+ warning with open_basedir
+
+
+== 1.8 Compatibility changes ==
+
+=== Zend Optimizer ===
+
+A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under
+MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging
+features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common
+"blank page" problems.
+
+=== PHP 5.0 64-bit ===
+
+MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data
+on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This
+bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8
+and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions.
+
+The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you
+probably should do anyway for security reasons!
+
+=== MySQL 5 ===
+
+MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when
+MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows
+installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.)
+
+This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields".
+
+=== ImageMagick ===
+
+Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing
+due to use of the -thumbnail option.
+
+
+== 1.8 Behavior changes ==
+
+=== Localized special pages ===
+
+The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them
+are more legible in languages that aren't English.
+
+Not all languages have included localized names yet.
+
+=== E-mail password ===
+
+Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first
+log in with a newly generated e-mailed password.
+
+Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing.
+
+=== Undo revision ===
+
+An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits.
+When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much
+easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding
+changes elsewhere in the page.
+
+The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional
+full-revision reverts.
+
+=== Blocking ===
+
+User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the
+account logs in with.
+
+
+== 1.8 Database changes ==
+
+* new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects
+* new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages
+* 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock'
+* 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking
+* 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields
+* some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges'
+
+== 1.8 Configuration changes ==
+
+Several configuration options have changed since 1.8:
+
+=== $wgEnableAPI ===
+
+The experimental machine API interface is now enabled by default, read-only.
+You can disable it by setting $wgEnableAPI = false; in LocalSettings.php.
+
+=== $wgPathInfo ===
+
+The use of PATH_INFO (the text after the script name in 'index.php/Blah')
+is controlled by the $wgUsePathInfo setting. This is now explicitly disabled
+for CGI, apache2filter, and ISAPI configurations of PHP, for more consistency
+with the autodetection from the installer.
+
+In some rarer configurations you may have to switch $wgUsePathInfo from false
+to true or, perhaps, from true to false to make things work properly if bad
+PATH_INFO data comes through the server.
+
+The wiki now tries to detect this condition and should show you an error
+message describing what to change instead of sending the browser into an
+infinite redirect loop.
+
+=== $wgScript and other path settings ===
+
+The following configuration variables are now automatically set in Setup.php
+if they are not overridden in LocalSettings.php:
+
+from $wgScriptPath:
+ + $wgScript
+ | \- $wgArticlePath
+ + $wgRedirectScript
+ + $wgStylePath
+ + $wgUploadPath
+ \- $wgLogo
+ + $wgMathPath
+
+from $IP:
+ - $wgStyleDirectory
+ + $wgUploadDirectory
+ \- $wgMathDirectory
+ + $wgTmpDirectory
+
+Newly generated configuration files will by default include only $wgScriptPath
+(hardcoded from the installer) and $IP (detected at runtime).
+
+Old configuration files which specify all these values explicitly should
+continue to work just fine, but if you use the defaults you can remove them
+to reduce clutter.
+
+=== $wgGroupPermissions ===
+
+The sysop group now holds the "autopatrol" and "ipblock-exempt" rights by
+default.
+
+"autopatrol" replaces the preference for marking ones own edits patrolled
+by default; users holding this permission will automatically have their
+edits patrolled, while others cannot mark their own edits as patrolled
+even if they have patrolling rights.
+
+"ipblock-exempt" excludes the user from IP blocks; accounts which are blocked
+explicitly by name will still be blocked, however. This is given to sysops
+to minimize annoyance from accidental "collateral damage"; remember that a
+sysop will be able to lift the block if they desire.
+
+The bot group now holds the "nominornewtalk" right. A user with this right
+will not trigger new message notifications when making minor edits to user
+talk pages. This is meant to minimize annoyance from maintenance bot
+processes.
+
+=== $wgUseWatchlistCache ===
+
+Watchlist caching has been removed. The feature was not maintained, and has
+been unnecessary since switching to the 'recentchanges' database table
+reduced server pressure for Wikipedia's watchlists.
+
+=== $wgBreakFrames ===
+
+MediaWiki in the past attempted to detect when it was embedded in a frameset
+and "break out" of it, assuming it to be hostile.
+
+This behavior is now disabled by default, but can be reenabled by setting
+$wgBreakFrames to true in LocalSettings.php.
+
+
+== 1.8 New settings ==
+
+=== $wgVariantArticlePath ===
+
+For languages with script variant support (Chinese, Serbian, and others),
+it's possible to use alternate URL paths to select the variant for article
+display, setting $wgVariantArticlePath.
+
+Documentation for this setting would be useful.
+
+=== $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize ===
+
+The message cache can now skip items larger than a given size; this allows
+it to better handle the primary caching case when large CSS and JS blobs are
+present.
+
+=== $wgStyleVersion ===
+
+When making significant changes to skin stylesheets and JavaScript files,
+you can append a string to this variable to tweak the generated URLs,
+forcing newly rendered pages to bring in a fresh version despite server-
+or browser-side caching.
+
+Normally this will be set in the course of MediaWiki development, but
+if doing development on a custom skin you may wish to poke it as well.
+
+=== $wgRCShowChangedSize ===
+
+Special:Recentchanges and Special:Watchlist now show the number of bytes
+added or removed to an article to give an idea of the size of the edit.
+This information was previously available only in the IRC update feeds.
+
+To disable this site-wide, set $wgRCShowChangedSize to false.
+(Individual users can suppress the data in custom CSS.)
+
+Adjust $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold to trigger highlighting of particularly
+large changes.
+
+The formatting of the size figure can be adjusted through the
+[[MediaWiki:Rc-change-size]] message.
+
+=== $wgQueryCacheLimit ===
+
+The number of rows stored for "expensive" special pages in miser mode
+can now be adjusted up or down from the default 1000.
+
+=== $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate ===
+
+Individual "expensive" special pages can be skipped in processing by
+updateSpecialPages if added to this list.
+
+=== $wgSorbsUrl ===
+
+The base hostname for the DNS-based proxy blacklist can now be overridden
+when $wgEnableSorbs is set, to use a different blacklist instead of SORBS.
+The blacklist would need to respond the same was as SORBS; any positive
+response will be taken as a proxy.
+
+=== $wgAjaxWatch ===
+
+Experimental AJAX mode for the watch/unwatch tabs to execute inline.
+Does not include the UI messages describing how to reach the watchlist,
+so you may not want it on a general-audience site just yet.
+
+=== $wgParserTestFiles ===
+
+MediaWiki's parser test suite can now be expanded with additional test
+files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and
+they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php
+
+
== Changes since 1.7 ==
* Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy
=== Online documentation ===
Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
-built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
+built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
License:
- http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/
=== Mailing list ===
A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
wikitech-l list:
- http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
- http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
+ 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.
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