image page already exists
* $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once
(default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
-* New option $wgPerLanguageCaching, for wikies with many translated system
- messages in MediaWiki namespace
+* Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use
+ $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
+* $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over
+ a certain number of days to be considered active
+* $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
+* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
+ $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
+* New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving
+ subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
+* New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output.
+ Default: false
+* Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection
+ is no longer possible.
+* $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
+* Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for
+ with MimeMagic.
=== New features in 1.13 ===
* (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
* (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
* Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
-* Sidebar is now cached for all languages
* (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
* Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
-
+* (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
+* New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
+ from other pages in their group.
+* (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
+* (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
+* Sidebar is now cached for all languages
+* The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
+ out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
+ edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
+* SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
+ changed by extensions.
+* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
+ external links.
+* (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
+* (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
+* (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 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 fixes in 1.13 ===
* (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
* (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
-
+* (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
+ and I to ı
+* (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
+* (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
+ set to true
+* (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
+* (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
+* (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
+ ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
+ not the main namespace page.
+* (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
+* (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
+* (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
+* (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
+* (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
+* (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
+* (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
+ $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
+* (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
+ and $2 (=revision numbers)
+* (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
+* (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
+* (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
+* (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
+* (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
+ extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
+* (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
+* (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
+* We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
+ created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
+* (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
+* (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files
+ fail due to database permission or other error
+* (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual
+ recent changes page.
+* (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
+* Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
+* (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
+* (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
+* (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
+* (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges
+ and multiple servers
+* (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
+* (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
+* (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.
=== 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 field 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 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
* action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
* Added md5 parameter to action=edit
+* (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
+* Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
+* (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
+* (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
+* (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
+* Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
+* Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
+* (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
=== Languages updated in 1.13 ===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
* Egyptian Spoken Arabic (arz) (new)
+* Southern Balochi (bcc) (new)
* Middle Dutch (dum) (removed)
* British English (en-gb) (new)
* Fiji Hindi (Latin) (hif-latn) (new)
* Silesian (szl) (new)
* Tajiki (Cyrllic script) (tg-cyrl) (new)
* Tajiki (Latin script) (tg-latn) (new)
-
+* Chinese (Macau) (zh-mo) (new)
+* Chinese (Malaysia) (zh-my) (new)
== Compatibility ==