* New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
* $wgImplictGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc.
* $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria
+* $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove
+ themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
=== New features in 1.12 ===
* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
* Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
-* (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
+* (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
* (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
* (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
* (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
-* (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
+* (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
deleted file
* On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view
source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to
on Special:Newpages
* LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
* Support for Iranian calendar
-* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
+* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
Special:Newpages
* ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
* MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
* BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
* SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
* OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
-* (bug 11848) Allow URL parameters 'editintro' and 'preload' in Special:Mypage
- and Special:Mytalk
+* (bug 11848, 12506) Allow URL parameters 'section', 'editintro' and 'preload'
+ in Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk
* Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
* Support for Hebrew calendar
* Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
* (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
[[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
-* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
+* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
user page
* Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
-* Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
- fails
+* Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
+ fails
because it is part of a blocked range.
-* (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
+* (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
created by another user
* dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart
cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
* Add HTML ID's mw-read-only-warning and mw-anon-edit-warning to warnings when
editing to allow CSS styling.
* Parser now returns list of sections
-* Add userrights-text message to display at all times on Special:Userrights.
+* When a user is prohibited from creating a page, a title of "View source"
+ makes no sense, and there should be no "Return to [[Page]]" link.
+* (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors.
+* (bug 9939) Special:Search now sets focus to search input box when no existing
+ search is active
+* For Special:Userrights, use GET instead of POST to search for users.
+* Allow subpage syntax for Special:Userrights, i.e., Special:Userrights/Name.
+* When submitting changes on Special:Userrights, show the full form again, not
+ just the search box.
+* Added exception hooks
+* (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot
+ edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1')
+* (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page
+* (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
+* Add caching to the AJAX search
+* Add APCOND_INGROUPS
+* Add DBA caching to installer
+* (bug 18585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
+* Support redirects in image namespace
+* (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
+* (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon
+* Add option to include templates in Special:Export.
+* (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender
+ address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails.
+ This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages
+ when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value.
+* (bug 11897) Add alias [[Special:CreateAccount]] & [[Special:Userlogin/signup]]
+ for Special:Userlogin?type=signup
+* (bug 12214) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the file deletion form
+* (bug 12681) New messages bar should appear above page title, for consistency
+ with other message boxes
=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
* (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
* (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
* (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
-* (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
+* (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
page
* Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
* (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
linked to the main page instead of targetted page
-* Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
+* Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
Special:Listredirects
* (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
-* (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
+* (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
object.
* (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
-* (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
- oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
+* (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
+ oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
TEXT.
* (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
* Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
* Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
* Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
* (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
- words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
+ words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
* (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
* (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
* (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
* (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
-* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
+* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
present
* (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
* (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
* (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
* (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
* (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
-* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
- instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
+* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
+ instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
conversion with China variant.
* (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
* Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up existing pages.
* (bug 12446) Permissions check fix for undelete link
* (bug 12451) AJAX title normalization tweaks
-
+* When a user creating a page is not allowed to either create the page nor edit
+ it, all applicable reasons are now shown.
+* (bug 11428) Allow $wgScript inside $wgArticlePath when emulating PATH_INFO
+ Fixes 'root'-style rewrite configurations
+* (bug 12493) Removed hardcoded MAX_FILE_SIZE from Special:Import upload form
+* (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again
+* (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen
+* (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw
+* (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
+* (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move
+* (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages
+* Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links.
+ This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow,
+ and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner.
+* (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code.
+* (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes
+* (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian
+* (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect.
+ Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages.
+ Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework.
+* Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the
+ name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set).
+* (bug 12695) Suppress dvips verbiage from web server error log
+* (bug 12716) Unprotecting a non-protected page leaves a log entry
+* Log username blocks with canonical form of name instead of input form
+* (bug 11593, 12719) Fixes for overzealous invocation of thumb.php.
+ Non-image handlers and full-size images may now decline it, fixing
+ mystery failures when using $wgThumbnailScriptPath.
+* (bug 12327) Comma in username no longer disrupts mail headers
+* (bug 6436) Localization of Special:Import XML parser Error message(s).
+* Security fix for API on MSIE
+* (bug 12768) Database query syntax error in maintenance/storage/compressOld.inc
+* (bug 12753) Empty captions in MediaWiki:Sidebar result in PHP errors
== Parser changes in 1.12 ==
* Template expansion
* Main section...
-to
+to
* Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation
* Template expansion and extension rendering
* HTML normalisation and security
* Main section...
-The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
-have changed.
+The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
+have changed.
Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas
previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in
one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a
-valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>".
+valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>".
Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you
have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be
converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This
-was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
+was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion
will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template
-expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
+expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
pass.
The rules for template expansion during message transformation were
edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a
whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by
template expansion or comment removal will still be rendered into a heading tag,
-and will get an entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link.
+and will get an entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link.
HTML-style headings will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext
-headings present in the template source text will get a template section edit
-link. This is a major break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects
+headings present in the template source text will get a template section edit
+link. This is a major break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects
are almost entirely beneficial.
The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass
preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed
#switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a
-significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
+significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement
by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration.
* (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
* (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
-* (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
+* (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
pretty-printed
help document.
* (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
* (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each
page.
-* (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
+* (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
api error messages.
* (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work
* Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if
revision content is requested.
-* Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
+* Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
query.
* (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php
* (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates
-* (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
+* (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
* (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges
list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively.
* Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x.
* Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type
-* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
+* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
types and levels
* Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A
* (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page.
-* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
+* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
query.
* (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query.
-* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
+* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
name
* (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag
* Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
* Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots
* Add limit=max to use maximal limit
-* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render which is deprecated.
+* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render which has been removed
* Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
* Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
-* Added action={block,changerights,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and list={blocks,deletedrevs}
+* Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and list={blocks,deletedrevs}
* Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login
-* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using 200 / 10000,
+* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using 200 / 10000,
now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules.
* Added list=allcategories module
* (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data
* Fix output of wfSajaxSearch
* (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag
* Add list of sections to action=parse output
+* Added action=logout
+* Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections
+* Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow (list=recentchanges)
+* Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo
+* action={login,block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} now must be POSTed
+* prop=imageinfo interface changed: iihistory replaced by iilimit, iistart and iiend parameters
+* Added amlang parameter to meta=allmessages
+* Added apfilterlanglinks parameter to list=allpages, replacing query.php?what=nolanglinks
+* (bug 12718) Added action=paraminfo module that provides information about API modules and their parameters
+* Added iiurlwidth and iiurlheight parameters to prop=imageinfo
+* Added format=txt and format=dbg, imported from query.php
+* Added uiprop=editcount to meta=userinfo
+* meta=userinfo can now fetch information on other users as well, through the uiusers parameter
=== Languages updated in 1.12 ===
* Mapudungun (arn) (new)
* Assamese (as)
* Asturian (ast)
+* Avaric (av)
+* Kotava (avk) (new)
* Aymara (ay)
* Samogitian (bat-smg)
* Boarisch (bar)
* Welsh (cy)
* Danish (da)
* German (de)
+* German (de-formal) (new)
* Zazaki (diq) (new)
* Lower Sorbian (dsb) (new)
* Middle Dutch (dum) (new)
* Divehi (dv)
* Ewe (ee) (new)
* Greek (el)
+* Emiliano-Romagnolo (eml)
* English (en)
* Spanish (es)
* Estonian (et)
* Franco-Provençal (frp)
* Frisian (fy)
* Irish (ga)
+* Gagauz (gag) (new)
* Gön-gnŷ (gan) (new)
* Scottish Gaelic (gd) (new)
* Galician (gl)
* Kurdish (Arabic) (ku-arab)
* Kurdish (Latin) (ku-latn)
* Cornish (kw) (new)
+* Kirghiz (ky) (new)
* Latin (la)
+* Ladino (lad) (new)
* Luxembourgish (lb) (new)
+* Lingua Franca Nova (new)
* Lak (lbe) (new)
* Limbugian (li)
+* Líguru (lij) (new)
* Lozi (loz) (new)
* Lingala (ln)
* Lithuanian (lt)
* Malagasy (mg) (new)
* Malayalam (ml)
* Macedonian (mk)
+* Marathi (mr)
* Malay (ms)
* Erzya (myv) (new)
+* Nauru (na) (new)
* Nahuatl (nah)
* Min-nan (nan)
* Napolitan (nap)
* Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
* Newari (new) (new)
* Dutch (nl)
-* Norwegian (no)
+* Norwegian (nynorsk) (nn)
+* Norwegian (bokmål) (no)
* Novial (nov) (new)
* Northern Sotho (nso) (new)
* Occitan (oc)
+* Pangasinan (pag) (new)
+* Papiamento (pap) (new)
* Deitsch (pdc) (new)
* Polish (pl)
* Piemontèis (pms)
* Walloon (wa)
* Wolof (wo)
* Wu (wuu) (new)
+* Xhosa (xh) (new)
* Yiddish (yi)
* Cantonese (yue)
* Zhuang (za)
If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
new database fields are filled with data.
-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 repository,
+make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
database schema changes.
If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
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