* (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
- FIXME: this may leave doubled rules which won't stand up to certain changes.
- Will want to adjust these more to eliminate the dupe @includes.
* (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)
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
+* (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.
+* Detect CGI configurations where PATH_INFO is set up correctly.
+ PHP config var cgi.fix_pathinfo isn't detectable through ini_get(), but
+ we can find some side-effects. Only tested on lighttpd so far, hopefully
+ right on Apache too!
+* 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 NON-CURRENT revision headers on diff pages.
+* 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
+* Special:Contributions has been rewritten to inherit from QueryPage
+* New special page Special:NewbieContributions, with a (deprecated)
+ redirect from Special:Contributions/newbies for backwards compatibility
+* (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment
== Languages updated ==
* Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy)
+* Cantonese (zh-yue)
+* Finnish (fi)
+* Frisian (fy)
* German (de)
* Hebrew (he)
* Indonesian (id)
* Italian (it)
+* Japanese (ja)
* Kazakh (kk)
* Latin (la)
* Lithuanian (lt)
+* Norwegian (no)
* Occitan (oc)
+* Old Church Slavonic (cu)
* Polish (pl)
* Portuguese (pt)
* Russian (ru)
+* Slovak (sk)
+* Swedish (sv)
* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
+* Vietnamese (vi)
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.9 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.