on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
* Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
ForeignAPIRepo)
+* (bug 44) Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File.
+ For backward compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may
+ need to be updated.
+* The constants NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK can now be used instead of NS_IMAGE and
+ NS_IMAGE_TALK. The old constants are retained as aliases for compatibility,
+ and should still be used in code meant to be compatible with v1.13 or older.
+* MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by
+ using $wgUsePrivateIPs.
=== Migrated extensions ===
The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
* Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
linked from articles
* Make search matches bold only, not red as well
-* Added 'UserRights::showEditUserGroupsForm' hook to allow extensions to alter
- the groups that the user can be added to/removed from in Special:UserRights
* (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
* (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is
already directly blocked
* (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
* (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
* (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
-* Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
- image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
+* Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
+ image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
$wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
* New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
* (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
namespace.
* Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that
admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS
+* Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
+* Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
+* Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
+* Added complimentary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
+* Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered
+ algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm.
+* Cascading protection no longer requires that both edit and move are restricted
+ to sysop, just edit=sysop is enough
+* (bug 2391) A warning is now shown for invalid ISBN numbers on Special:Booksources.
+* Installer has been updated to reflect the release of the GFDL 1.3. The URL for 1.2
+ has been updated, and the 1.3 URL has been given. 1.2 is still Wikipedia-compatible.
+ RightsCode was changed from 'gfdl' to 'gfdl1_2', so we can now support 1.2 as well
+ as 1.3 (gfdl1_3).
+* (bug 16293) PD URL was changed to the CreativeCommons site on PD (which auto-detects
+ your language) instead of Wikipedia.
+* (bug 16635) The "view and edit watchlist" page (Special:Watchlist/edit) now
+ includes a table of contents
+* File objects returned by wfFindFile() are now cached by default
+* (bug 7492) Rights can now be assigned to specific IP addresses and ranges by
+ using $wgAutopromote (new defines: APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE)
+* Add a 'change block' link to Special:IPBlockList and Special:Log
=== Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
search box
* (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
-* (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
+* (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
filename as the remote site.
* (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
* Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb
- path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
+ path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
* (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
-* API siteinfo query no longer throws an exception for empty sifilter parameter.
* Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for
formatting and path exposure.
-
+* Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured
+* Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use.
+* Improved input validation on Special:Import form
+* Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection
+ against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default
+ installations.
+* Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection.
+* Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads.
+* (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes
+* (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script
+* (bug 7726) Searches for words less than 4 characters now work without
+ requiring customization of MySQL server settings
+* Honour unchecked "Leave a redirect behind" for moved subpages
+* (bug 16440) Broken 0-byte math renderings are now deleted and re-rendered
+ when page is re-parsed.
+* (bug 6100) Unicode BiDi embedding/override characters (U+202A - U+202E) are
+ now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end
+ up in copy-and-pasted titles, and, by overriding normal bidirectional text
+ handling, can lead to annoying behavior such as text rendering backwards
+* Fixed minor bug where the memcached value for how many accounts an IP had
+ created that day would be increased even if $wgAccountCreationThrottle was
+ hit. This meant if an IP hit the throttle and then the throttle was raised
+ later that day, the IP still couldn't create another account, because it
+ had marked them as having created another account, when their last account
+ creation had actually failed.
+* (bug 12647) Allow autogenerated edit summary messages to be blanked with '-'
+* (bug 16026) 'Revision-info' and 'revision-info-current' both accept wiki
+ markup now.
+* (bug 16529) Fix for search suggestions with some third-party JS libraries
+* (bug 13342) importScript() generates more consistent URI encoding
+* (bug 16577) When a blocked user tries to rollback a page, the block message
+ is now only displayed once
+* (bug 14268) SVG image sizes now extracted with proper XML parser
+* (bug 14365) RepoGroup::findFiles() no longer crashes if passed an invalid
+ title via the API
+* (bug 4253, bug 16586) Revision ID is now given instead of title in URLs for
+ new pages in the recent changes IRC feed
+* Ugly tooltips in Special:Statistics were phased out in favor of more direct
+ information. Went ahead and rewrote SpecialStatistics to subclass SpecialPage
+* (bug 5506) Links to files on foreign repositories are now shown consistently
+ as bluelinks e.g. in logs and edit summaries
+* (bug 16623) Add missing </p> tag in Special:LockDB
+* (bug 1941) Explicitly tell browsers to use a monospaced font for textareas.
+ Safari apparently defaults to a proportional font, which can make editing
+ pages with preformatted text difficult
+* (bug 15849) Special:Movepage now throws a more specific error when trying to
+ move a title to an interwiki target
+* (bug 16638) 8-bit URL fallback encoding now set on additional languages using
+ Arabic script (Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi)
+* (bug 16656) cleanupTitles and friends should now work in load-balanced
+ DB environments when $wgDBserver isn't set.
+* (bug 3691) Aspect ratio from viewBox attribute is now preserved for SVG
+ images which do not specify width and height attributes.
=== API changes in 1.14 ===
* (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
* (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
* (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
+* meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty
+ sifilter parameter.
+* (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate
+ limits
+* (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases
+* (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions
+* (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores
+ instead of spaces
+* (bug 16516) Made rvsection=T-2 work
+* (bug 16526) Added usprop=emailable to list=users
+* (bug 16548) list=search threw errors with an invalid error code
+* (bug 16515) Added pst and onlypst parameters to action=parse
+* (bug 16541) Added block expiry timestamp to list=logevents output
+* (bug 16613) action=protect doesn't tell when &cascade was set but cascading
+ protection wasn't allowed
+* (bug 16626) action=delete now correctly handles empty "reason" param
+* (bug 15579) clshow considers all categories !hidden
+* (bug 16647) list=allcategories, prop=categories don't return "hidden"
+ property for hidden categories
+* New siprop parameter of 'extensions' to list all installed extensions
+* (bug 16672) Include canonical namespace name in
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces.
+* (bug 16527) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and
+ list=recentchanges
=== Languages updated in 1.14 ===