* $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class,
previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType
* $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages
-* provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
+ provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
+* Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for
+ with MimeMagic.
=== New features in 1.13 ===
* (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of
e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
* Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
-* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output of
- external (hotlinked) images.
-* (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter: Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
+* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output
+ of external (hotlinked) images.
+* (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter:
+ Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single
+ page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
* Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
-
+* (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that
+ are in Special:Recentchanges
+* Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
+* Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
+* Add meta generator tag to HTML output
+* MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
+* Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
+* Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
+* (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
+* Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
+ moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
+ SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES extensions may also add new custom boxes to the
+ sidebar by hooking into SkinSidebarSpecialBox to define the box and into
+ SkinSidebarOutputSpecialBox to output data for the box.
+* Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
+ the database is potentially queried
+* (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
+* New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ČSN and PČP.
+* Added new hook LinkerLinkAttributes for modifying attributes of <a> tags.
+* HTML entities like now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
+* (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
+ instead of a hardcoded colon.
+* Add a new hook SkinSetupSiteCss to allow extensions to define new stylesheets
+ to load site wide, or modify the list of stylesheets to load. This can be useful
+ for wiki farms who need a specific placement of the stylesheets to cascade right.
+* Add a new hook SkinGlobalVariables to allow extensions to add new global variables
+ to be exported for JavaScript code to make use of.
+
=== Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
* (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
* (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
* (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
* (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
+* (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
+* OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty
+ searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
+* (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title
+ on Special:Newpages.
+* (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer
+ generates a log entry.
+* (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid,
+ keeps the log page from being distorted.
+* (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
+* (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
+* (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
+* (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
+* (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
+* (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using
+ application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
+* (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
+ on non-mySQL schemas.
+* (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
+ had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
+* (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
+* (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
+* (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
=== API changes in 1.13 ===
* Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
* (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
* (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
-* Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
+* Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
* (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
* (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
* Cleaned up redirect resolution
* (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
* (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
* (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
-* (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old revisions
+* (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old
+ revisions
* (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
* action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
* (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
* (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
* (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
* (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
-* (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete for ages)
+* (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete
+ for ages)
* (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
* (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
* Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
* (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
* Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
* (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
+* Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
+* (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and
+ $wgShowSQLErrors
+* (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
+* Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions
+ can add their own tokens
+* Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
+* Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to
+ prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
+* Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to
+ the page
+* list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol
=== Languages updated in 1.13 ===
* British English (en-gb) (new)
* Fiji Hindi (Latin) (hif-latn) (new)
* Old Norse (non) (removed)
+* Tarifit (rif) (new)
* Serbian cyrillic iyekvian (sr-jc) (removed)
* Serbian latin iyekavian (sr-jl) (removed)
* Silesian (szl) (new)