* $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
* (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
- $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent Changes
- feed that appears on all pages.
+ $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent
+ Changes feed that appears on all pages.
* $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
- SQLite data directories on creation. Note this setting is separate from
- $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal directories created by MediaWiki.
+ SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from
+ $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki.
* $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
$wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
* $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
* $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
-* Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
- with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
+* Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
+ with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
is not required.
* $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
* Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
whitelist on or off.
* Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
sitenotice cache keys.
-* $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
+* $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
+* (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
+ write actions using the API.
+* Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
+ ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
+* Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
+ on the wiki. If it's set to true, then the skin used will *always* be
+ $wgDefaultSkin.
+* Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
+ 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)
+* Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File. For backward
+ compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may need to be
+ updated.
+* 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:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was extension
- DeletedContributions)
+* Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was
+ extension DeletedContributions)
* Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
* Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
* RenderHash
* NoMoveUserPages
-* Poem (patch by Nathaniel Herman)
* UniversalEditButton
=== New features in 1.14 ===
* (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
* (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
Special:Statistics
-* (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
+* (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
-* (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
+* (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
* Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
image.
-* (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for different
- restriction types on the protection form.
+* (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for
+ different restriction types on the protection form.
* (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
* Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
-* Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
+* Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
$wgExternalLinkTarget
-* api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the maxlag
- check fails, just like index.php does
-* Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
+* api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the
+ maxlag check fails, just like index.php does
+* Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
* (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
using new "alt=" parameter for images
-* (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized namespace
- names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of underscores to
- match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
-* Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
- default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
+* (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized
+ namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of
+ underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
+* Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
+ default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
* Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
several uses of the same image.
-* (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
+* (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
wiki is set to read-only mode.
-* Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor. This
- should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page from a watchlist
- lead to this hook being called (it was previously only called from within Article.php
-* Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
+* Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.
+ This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page
+ from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only
+ called from within Article.php
+* Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
$wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
* (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
+* 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 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter
+ "watchthis"
+* (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by
+ Nathan Larson.
+* Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
+* (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
+ $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
+* New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
+* (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
+* (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the
+ 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
=== Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
Patch by Max Semenik.
* (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
-* (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in 5
- minutes.
+* (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in
+ 5 minutes.
* (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
-* (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the diff
- entirely, not just the display of it.
+* (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the
+ diff entirely, not just the display of it.
* (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
* (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
addition to body text.
* Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
-* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
+* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
description pages).
* (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
* (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
* (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
* (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
-* Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
- Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
+* Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
+ Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
long-lasting locks on that table.
* Respect file restrictions in the file history list
* (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
* (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
* (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
* (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
- Special:Userlogin. Patch by Marooned.
-* Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
+ Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned.
+* Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
-* Special:Recentchangeslinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent pages
- even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the database
-* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for recentchanges
- limit instead of hardcoded 50.
+* Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent
+ pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the
+ database
+* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for
+ recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50.
* (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
- instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
+ instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
* (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
* (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
user can only change his rights
* (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
* (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
-* (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
-* (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now bolded
- if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
-* Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the Konqueror
- browser correctly use the latter
+* (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
+* (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now
+ bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
+* Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the
+ Konqueror browser correctly use the latter
* (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
* (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
preferences.
+* (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
+* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
+ search box
+* (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding
+ new namespace
+* Purge form uses valid XHTML
+* (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
+* (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback
+ if JavaScript is disabled
+* (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
+* Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
+* (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
+* (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
+* (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
+ of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
+* Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now
+ produces a warning
+* (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case
+ letters
+* (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
+* (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
+ have corrupt URLs
+* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
+ 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
+ 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.
+* (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
+ {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
+* 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
=== API changes in 1.14 ===
* list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
* (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
non-hidden categories
-* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of an
- error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
+* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of
+ an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
* list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
for consistency with other list modules.
* Added action=watch
* (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
-* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an empty
- section with section=new
+* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an
+ empty section with section=new
* Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
nochange flag any more
* (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
* Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
* action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
-* (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
+* (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
* (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
rather than causing an exception
* (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
* (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
-* (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
+* (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
* The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
* (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
and patrolmarks right
sortkeys containing pipes
* (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
+* (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
+ output
+* Added redirect resolution to action=parse
+* (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
+ an error
+* (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
+* (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
=== Languages updated in 1.14 ===
* Niuean (niu) (new)
* Oromo (om) (new)
* Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
+* Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
* Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
* Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
* Tulu (tcy) (new)
1.14 has several database changes since 1.13, and will not work without schema
updates.
-If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
-make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
+ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
database schema changes.
If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
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