which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
research into its user experience implications.
-* Added $wgJQueryVersion, $wgJQueryMinified and $wgJQueryOnEveryPage (true by
- default) to configure loading of jQuery by MediaWiki.
* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks)
server side.
* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extension should use
DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate().
-* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
+* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
available as input for other configuration items, either.
* Remove $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by
$wgUploadNavigationUrl.
* The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed
* $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls.
* $wgSecureLogin & $wgSecureLoginStickHTTPS to optionaly login using HTTPS
+* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to allow customise the name associed
+ with $wgPasswordSender
+* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
=== New features in 1.17 ===
* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
* (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
intermediate revisions
* Added new hook GetIP
-* (bug 16574) Allow administrators to temporarily disable the account creation
- limit for IP addresses: [[MediaWiki:Ratelimit-excluded-ips]]
* Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text
search.
* TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader
for versioning
* Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which
is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit)
-* (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled by default
+* (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled
+ by default
* (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails
* Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly
when a wiki has multiple variant languages.
* (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English
* Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description).
* Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages
+* Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent
+ changes/watchlist entries
+* (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text
+ customizable
+* Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets
+* (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign
+ file repositories.
+* When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both
+ wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection
+ arrow can be customized with CSS
+* (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message
+ [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead.
+ Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw
+ number of the textsize in Byte
+* (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width
+* Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions
=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file
* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available
* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel
-* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff
+* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff
instead of alterning focus between the two buttons.
* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account
* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output
* (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported
* (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled
* Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails
+* (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error
+ on discussion pages with vector as default skin
+* (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing
+* (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores
+* (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir
+ parameters
+* (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if
+ $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set
+* (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3
+* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now
+ normalised like normal links to special pages
+* (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect
+ $wgExternalLinkTarget
+* (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that
+ is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages
+* (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page
+* (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in
+ some cases
+* (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only
+ "File" and "Media" are allowed now
+* (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict
+ with php extension that defines same class.
+* (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when
+ $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false.
+* Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database.
+* (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation
+* (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2.
+* Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong
+ case.
+* (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available
+* (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated
+* (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow
+ absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google)
=== API changes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
missing
* (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1)
* (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags
-* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
+* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
$wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
implicit groups rather than showing 0.
* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules
-* (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually enforce validation
- on the input values in addition to giving a warning. Also add flag to enforce (die)
- if integer out of range (breaking change!)
+* (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually enforce
+ validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning. Also add flag
+ to enforce (die) if integer out of range (breaking change!)
* (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a
POST request was needed due to cache pollution
* Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions
-* Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is
+* Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is
used, rvlimit is enforced to 1.
* (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the
current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary
* (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to
reduce confusion
-* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page
- <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
- ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
+* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page
+ <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
+ ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
list.
-* The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs,
+* The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs,
empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters
* (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop
* (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when
$wgDisableCounters enabled
+* (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages
+* (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL
+* (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook
+* (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo
+* (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the
+ file is a multi-page file
+* (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist
+* (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description
=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===