it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
=== PHP 5.2 now required ==
-In 1.18, the lowest supported version of MediaWiki is now 5.2.x. Please upgrade
+In 1.18, the lowest supported version of MediaWiki is now 5.2.3. Please upgrade
PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
extension
* (bug 2581, bug 6834) Added links to thumbnail in several resolutions to the
file description page. The sizes are set by $wgImageLimits.
+* (bug 28031) Add pageCount support to ArchivedFile
+* (bug 27924) PhpHttpRequest doesn't return response body if HTTP != 200
+* Added hook BitmapHandlerTransform to allow extension to transform a file
+ without overriding the entire handler.
=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated
* Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits.
* AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled. Also allows message identifier
for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user.
+* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
+ (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message
+* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles
+* (bug 14005) editing section 0 of an existing but empty page gives no such
+ section error
+* (bug 26939) Installer does not set $wgMetaNamespace
=== API changes in 1.18 ===
* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result
* (bug 26630) Add api for Special:ActiveUsers
* (bug 27020) API: Allow title prefix search of logevents (only when not in
miser mode)
+* (bug 26629) add Special:MIMESearch to api
+* (bug 27585) add pagecount to list=filearchive
+* (bug 28104) Namespace for local pages in interwiki backlinks (iwbacklinks)
+ is missing
+* (bug 27343) Add parseddescription to list=filearchive
+* (bug 27469) label implicit groups in list=allusers&auprop=groups/
+ list=users&usprop=groups
+* Addition of APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo hook to add extra information to
+ the general site info results
+* (bug 16288) API: consider making closure status of wikis more clear
+ with meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 27589) list=allimages&aiprop=archivename is useless
+* (bug 27586) Remove duplication of props in ApiQueryStashImageInfo
+ by using ApiQueryImageInfo
=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
* (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br)
* (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now.
* (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers.
+* (bug 28040) Turkish: properly lower case 'I' to 'ı' (dotless i) and
+ uppercase 'i' to 'İ' (dotted i)
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer
-supported.
+MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.