it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
== Configuration changes ==
+
* A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg 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.
$wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
* Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser
* Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions
+* (Bug 8590) limited HTML is now always enabled ($wgUserHtml = true).
+* Deprecated $wgUseImageResize, thumbnailing will be enabled unconditionally.
== New features since 1.9 ==
+
* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to
Special:Statistics
* (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
* (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
keywords
* (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
-* (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:aboutsite in the same way as
+* (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as
MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are
disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also
be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr).
* Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an
IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.)
* (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages
-* Have a checkered background on images on the description pages and in
- galeries to make transparency visible.
* (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages.
* (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
* (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the
confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id.
-* (bug 9118) Show deletion log on confirmdelete
+* (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page
* (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions
* (bug 1723) Article size in history
* (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames
* (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete
* Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols
* (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images
- Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase
+* Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase
extension exists
* (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere
* Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt
for more information
* (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon"
messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target
+* (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction')
+* (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images
+* (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path
+ which can lead to broken session storage
+* (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links
+* (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions
+* Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'mywatchlist' message; used on personal menu to link to watchlist page
+* Introduce magic word {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
+* Introduced media handlers for file-type specific operations.
+* Improved error reporting for image thumbnailing
+* Added sharpening option for ImageMagick thumbnailing
+* (bug 9656) Autosummaries will be generated for deletion of pages longer than
+ 500 characters
+* Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip
== Bugfixes since 1.9 ==
+
* (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála
* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
* (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 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li)
* (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
* (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
* Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
languages section of MonoBook skin
* (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges.
* (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages
-* (bug 9131) Be strict with offset values in SpecialContributions for Postgres
+* (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres
* (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook
* (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect
loops on some server configurations
image
* (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space.
* (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to byte for Postgres
-* (bug 8558) Correct display of timestamps on some pages when using Postgres
* (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language
* (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked
* (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader
* (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles
* (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log
instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension
+* (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent
+ target page instead of silently redirecting
+* (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}}
+* (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached
+ templates the same as the first transclusion.
+* (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment
+* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages
+* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages
+* (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions
+* (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere
+* (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed
+ to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions
+* Fixed $wgFeedLimit
+* (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
+* (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 9554) Extension-provided group name messages not used
+* (bug 9565) Translate template namespace name for Hindi (hi)
+* (bug 8599) Correct localized names of zh-variants
+* (bug 3366) Require skins based on SkinTemplate to override the skinname
+ property.
+* (bug 9220) Removed obsoletes functions in install-utils.inc.
+* Removed obsoletes Title::getRelatedCache and Title:touchArray
+* (bug 7285) Check MySQL username length during install
+* (bug 6910) Correct date/time formats in Vietnamese (vi)
+* (bug 9608) Correctly use ORDER BY in dumpLinks.php
+* (bug 9609) Correctly use ORDER BY in SpecialWhatlinkshere.php
+* Special:Random and Special:Randomredirect now try harder to send the user to
+ a random page, and will give an error message if none really can be found
+ instead of sending the user to the main page like they used to
+* Fix object variable used for displaying "not-patrolled" CSS class on list
+* Fixed interaction of page parameter to ImagePage with the HTML file cache
+* Fixed MIME type for SVG files, will be silently changed from image/svg
+ to image/svg+xml after loading from the database.
+* Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump
+ instead.
+* Fixed odd behaviour in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors
+* (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and
+ MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited.
+* (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter
+* Fixed upgrade for the non-standard MySQL schemas
+* Disable MySQL's strict mode at session start for MySQL 4.1+, to avoid the
+ various problems that occur when it is on.
== Maintenance ==
+
* New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
progress in the extension repository.
* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
* (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php
exists but is not readable
* dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php
+ and importTextFile.php scripts
+* (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script
+* (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org
+* (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning
+* Restore '--norc' option for maintenance/importTextFile.php
+* Help information for maintenance/importTextFile.php now easier to read on
+ consoles
+* Doxygen documentation now show the revision number of each file, generate
+ graphs using dot and include a search engine.
+
== Languages updated ==
* Arabic (ar)
* Aramaic (arc)
-* Belarusian (be)
+* Aymara (ay)
+* Belarusian normative (be)
+* Belarusian alternative (be-x-old)
* Bulgarian (bg)
+* Bihara (bh)
* Breton (br)
* Catalan (ca)
* Czech (cs)
* Estonian (et)
* Basque (eu)
* Finnish (fi)
+* Võro (fiu-vro)
* French (fr)
* Hebrew (he)
+* Hindi (hi)
* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
* Hungarian (hu)
* Indonesian (id)
* Italian (it)
* Japanese (ja)
+* Javanese (jv)
* Georgian (ka)
+* Kabyle (kab)
* Kazakh (kk)
* Korean (ko)
+* Kashmiri (ks)
* Ripuarian (ksh)
* Latin (la)
* Luganda (lg)
* Limburgish (li)
* Lithuanian (lt)
+* Latvian (lv)
* Marathi (mr)
* Low Saxon (nds)
+* Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
+* Nepali (ne)
+* Nepal Bhasa (new)
* Dutch (nl)
* Occitan (oc)
+* Pali (pi)
* Polish (pl)
* Romanian (ro)
* Russian (ru)
+* Sanskrit (sa)
* Sicilian (scn)
* Slovak (sk)
+* Sundanese (su)
* Swedish (sv)
+* Tahitian (ty)
* Ukrainian (uk)
+* Urdu (ur)
+* Uzbek (uz)
+* Vietnamese (vi)
* Zealandic (zea)
+* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
+* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
* Cantonese (zh-yue)
== Compatibility ==