== Configuration changes ==
+=== $wgCommandLineDarkBg ==
+
+A new switch used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php). It lets you specify
+if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized output will be made
+lighter making things easier to read.
+
== Major new features ==
== Changes since 1.9 ==
* (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
* New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
progress in the extension repository.
-* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now automaticly
- tries to create its database tables.
-* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default.
+* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
+ automatically attempt to create the required tables
+* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
* Fixed up the AjaxSearch
* (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
* Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
starts page output (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
-* Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be null
- to be treated properly with isset.
-* Branch page_restrictions column out into its own table, also creating a "cascading protection"
- feature, which automagically disallows edits to pages transcluded into a page protected with
- this new option. Various other code tidiness fixes and refactoring in the log messages of
- branches/werdna/restrictions-separation.
-* The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can
- now be customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default,
- editing pages in the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface"
- permissions, just as before.
-* (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown out in action=raw,
- so extensions might influence the output.
-* Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh (it uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
-* (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be overridden by adding
- diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
+* Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
+ null to be treated properly with isset.
+* Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
+* Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded
+ into a page protected with this option enabled
+* The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be
+ customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
+ the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
+* (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown
+ out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output.
+* Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
+ (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
+* (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be
+ overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
* (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
* Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
-* Fixed Postgres upgrade script.
+* PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated
* (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
* Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
* (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
* Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
-* Made Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link red when the user has zero edits
* Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
* (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
* (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
* (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
* Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
-* English Wikipedia added to interwiki table as wikipedia: No idea why it wasn't
- there before.
+* Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:")
* use configured cache servers for mctest.php
* bucket details in mcc.php
* fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
* Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
* Undelete page list can use plural marker
* (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
-
+* Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
+ $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
+* (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
+* (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
+* (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
+* Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
+* parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
+ it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
+* Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag.
+* Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>')
+* (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header
+* Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment
+* (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
+* (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist
+ in a consistent manner
+* (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users
+* ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files
+* (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language
+* Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name
+* (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the message page exists
+* ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found
+* (bug 8703) Corrected Talk namespace name for Limburgish (li)
+* (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
+* Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
+* (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
+* New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
+ and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
+ to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
+ "semi protected".
+* (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same format
+ as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite, as are protections
+ made with the new field left blank.
+* Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
+* (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation
+* (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11;
+ accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows.
+* Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link
+ red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an
+ alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating.
+* (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync
+* (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies
+* (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media
+* (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile
+* (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php exists but is not readable
+* (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page
+* (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs
+* Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title
+ is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as
+ a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL
+* (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies
+* Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles
+* Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js
+* (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area
+* (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
+ keywords
+* (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
+* (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note
+ in DefaultSettings to make it clear.
+* (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression
+ affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second
+ edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin.
+* Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script
+* (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key
+* (bug 6844) Use <ins> and <del> tags to emphase the differences
+* (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration
+* (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to
+* Add AlphabeticPager abstract class
+* Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories
+* (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent
+ pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images
+* Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was
+ opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner
+ cases.
+* (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix
+* Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied
+ by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence
+ of other tables while they work.
+* Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758
+ for better localisations.
== Languages updated ==
+* Arabic (ar)
* Belarusian (be)
* Breton (br)
+* Czech (cs)
+* German (de)
+* Greek (el)
* Finnish (fi)
* French (fr)
-* German (de)
* Hebrew (he)
* Indonesian (id)
+* Italian (it)
+* Japanese (ja)
+* Kazakh (kk)
+* Korean (ko)
+* Ripuarian (ksh)
+* Latin (la)
+* Limburgish (li)
* Lithuanian (lt)
+* Marathi (mr)
+* Dutch (nl)
* Polish (pl)
+* Russian (ru)
* Sicilian (scn)
+* Slovak (sk)
* Swedish (sv)
+* Zealandic (zea)
== Compatibility ==