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:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
* RenderHash
* NoMoveUserPages
-* Poem (patch by Nathaniel Herman)
* UniversalEditButton
=== New features in 1.14 ===
* (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
+* 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
-* Add class="disambiguationpage" to <body> tag for disambiguations
* (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 ===
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
+* (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.
+ 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
=== API changes in 1.14 ===
* (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 ===