=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
-* $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports
-in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
+* $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports
+ in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
* $wgEnableTemporalOggUrls enable oggz_chop support a server side ogg seeking
-helper
+ helper
* $wgEnableScriptLoader if the script-loader shoudl be enabled
* $wgJSAutoloadClasses array of javascript classes to file paths used by
-script-loader to load javascript by class name.
-* $wgEnableJS2system if we should include js2 stuff like jquery,
-mv_embed.js (script-loader helper) and use new interfaces for upload
+ script-loader to load javascript by class name.
+* $wgEnableJS2system if we should include js2 stuff like jquery, mv_embed.js
+ (script-loader helper) and use new interfaces for upload
* $wgEnableScriptLoaderJsFile if we support grabbing js files with the script
-loader. By default we only grab classes in $wgJSAutoloadClasses
+ loader. By default we only grab classes in $wgJSAutoloadClasses
* $wgEnableScriptMinify if you want the script loader to minify js
* $wgEnableScriptLocalization if you want the script loader to do msg lookups
* $wgMwEmbedDirectory the path to MwEmbed Directory (maybe we can depreciate
-this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension.
+ this. Was used when mwEmbed was going to be an extension.
* $wgDebugJavaScript if we want to enable fresh debug javascript
* $wgPhpCliPath Path to php-cli for spinning up background php processes
* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
to same server
* $wgSpecialVersionExtended shows the extended version information besides
PHP and database version.
-* $wgSecondaryGoNamespaces allows an arry of namespaces to be checked when the
- GO button is pressed, in addition to the main namespace.
-* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainsRegex added
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
+ should be used instead
+* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
+ characters in file names.
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
+ was denied to users(img_auth only)
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
+ correctly (img_auth only)
+* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
+ maintenance
=== New features in 1.16 ===
Special:Version
* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
-* New hook: MessageNotInMwNs to handle localised messages that aren't in the
- Mediawiki Namespace, before checking the message files
* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
customisation of the user interface
-* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote items)
+* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
+ items)
* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
wikis with LanguageConverter
* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to various
user groups.
-* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The syntax is
- identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will have these rights
- stripped from them.
+* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
+ syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
+ have these rights stripped from them.
* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
the DBA extension is not available.
* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
-* Leading > is now syntax for <blockquote>.
* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
removing the redundant anchor elements.
* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
-* (bug 14201) Set $wgDBadminuser/$wgDBadminpassword during setup
* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
-* Added $wgSecondaryGoNamespaces, allowing an array of namespaces to be checked
- when the Go button is pressed in addition to the main namespace.
* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
-* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
-* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language difficulties
-* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some browsers
+* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
+ AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
+* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
+ difficulties
+* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
+ browsers
* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
extension version in Special:Version
right name in Special:ListGroupRights
* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
to {{ns:...}}
-* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or params
+* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
+ params
* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
-* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its use
+* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
+ use
* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
if HTML 5 is used:
** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
-* Added crop for inline images.
* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
+* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
+ criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
+ deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
+* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
+* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
+ detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
+* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
+* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
+ display-in-limit-form.
+* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
+ and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
+* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
+ database connection and query errors.
+* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
+* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
+ excerpt from the block log.
+* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
+ file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
skins
-* Fixed a PHP notice when $wgEnableSerializedMessages was set to false
* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
link from the edit comment
-* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor, $wgExternalDiffEngine
+* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
- via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now work.
-* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for Chinese
+ via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
+ work.
+* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
+ Chinese
* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
whether the engines are actually available
* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
-* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image table.
+* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
+ table.
* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
users who can't edit them
-* (bug 15745) The edit summary link parser now handles mismatched brackets
- better
* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
"enhanced recent changes"
-* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
- target page
* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
the recentchanges table
* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
-* (bug 19392) Favicon, apple-touch-icon links matching the defaults are no
- longer sent
* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
preferences
* (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
using the full path
-* (bug 18497) Opera in fullscreen mode doesn't use any style sheets
+* (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
* (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
* (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
* (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
* Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
foo,bar@example,com
* (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
+* (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
+* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
+ namespaces
+* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
+* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
+ versions of MediaWiki were affected).
+* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
+* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
+* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
+ are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
+ titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
+* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
+ cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
+* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
+* When creating accounts, don't prefill name from current username (which
+ presumably is already taken)
+* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
+* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
+* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
+ enabled
+* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
+ target page
+* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
+ Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
+* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
+* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
+ use wikitext
+* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
+ DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
+* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
+ the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
+* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
+ Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
+* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
+ if they contain non-ASCII characters
+* (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
+ Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
+* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
+* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
+ execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
+ at script execution, it now throws an exception
+* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
+ (analogous to EditFilter hook)
+* (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
+ by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
+* (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
+ $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
+* (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
+* (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
+ the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
+* (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
+ argument
+* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
+ any change, in addition to onkeyup.
+* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
+ allowed to create page. Done via new message
+ MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
+* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
+ wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
+ portlet unhides it
+* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
+ be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
+* (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
+* (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
+ correct type="text" parameter
+* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
+* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
-* (bug 19004) Added support for tags to the API.
+* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
+ srprop and srinfo.
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
* Picard (pcd) (new)
* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
+* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
+* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
+* Palembang (plm) (removed)
+* Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)