* Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
temporary passwords
+* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
+* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
+ from rel="nofollow" on external links
=== New features in 1.15 ===
* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
-* Special:Upload can now have a custom upload message instead of uploadtext by
- passing "uploadmsg" parameter in the url
* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
for the current page for a given action
* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
from the database.
-* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
+* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
existing block when modifying an existing block.
-* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
+* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
rather than hardcoded HTML tags
* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
specialpages
* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
-* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are recursed
- through until the "destination" page is reached.
-* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain special pages.
+* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
+ recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
+* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
+ special pages.
* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
-
+* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
+ link instead of Go button & Search button
+* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
+* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
+* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
+* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
+* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
+* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
+ content language.
+* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
+ set to false.
+* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
+* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
+* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
+ can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
+* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
+ "mw-confirmemail-pending"
+* Local redirects to foreign images are now displayed on the ImagePage when
+ viewing on the local wiki.
+* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
+ parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title part
+ for a given title.
+* Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the rest of the font (bug 17110)
+* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
+* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
+* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
+* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
+ class "mw-searchresult"
+* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
+* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
+* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
+* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
+
=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
-* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked before
- trying to delete the edit.
+* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
+ before trying to delete the edit.
* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
the destination page exists
-* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has been
- disabled
+* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
+ been disabled
* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
LanguageConverter class)
* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
LanguageConverter class)
* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
-* (bug 15936) New page's patrol button should always be visible
* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
-* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer allowed
- by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
+* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
+ allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
+* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
+* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
+* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
+ to 'administrator'
+* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
+* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
+* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
+* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
+ "user contributions"
+* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
+* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
+ comment label uses better message
+* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in LocalSettings
+* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids error
+ messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
+* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
+* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
+ for identical files at different titles are still given.
+* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
+ certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes, and
+ the entries can be styled with CSS.
+* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
+* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
+ results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
+* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
+* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL configs
+* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
+* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
+* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
+* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
+ history
+* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
+ and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
+* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
+* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
+ longer affects the page title
+* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
+* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
+* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
== API changes in 1.15 ==
* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
created the page, even if it's not the top revision
* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
+* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
+* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
+ Building query properly now using makeList()
+* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
+ autolinked correctly
+* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
+* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
+* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
+* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
+* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
+* (bug 17007) Added action=import
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because of
+ performance concerns
+* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions and
+ list=logevents
+* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the limit and still
+ set a query-continue in some cases
=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
-regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
+* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
+* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
+* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
+* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
+* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
+* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
== Compatibility ==