THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
-MediaWiki 1.19 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
+This is a beta release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch. Please test it and let us
+know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in
production.
+=== Changes since 1.19 beta 1 ===
+* (bug 35014) Including a special page no longer sets the page's title to the
+ included page
+* (bug 35019) Edit summaries are no longer transformed in notification e-mails
+* (bug 35152) Help message for e-mail is shown again in user preferences
+* (bug 34887) $3 and $4 parameters are now substituted correctly in message
+ "movepage-moved"
+* (bug 34841) Edit links are no longer displayed when display old page versions
+* (bug 34889) User name should be normalized on Special:Contributions
+* (bug 35051) If heading has a trailing space after == then its name is not
+ preloaded into edit summary on section edit
+* (bug 31417) New ID mw-content-text around the actual page text, without categories,
+ contentSub, ... The same div often also contains the class mw-content-ltr/rtl.
+* (bug 35303) Proxy and DNS blacklist blocking works again
+* (bug 35294) jquery.byteLimit shouldn't set element specific variables outside
+ the "return this.each" loop.
+* (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like <nowiki> in
+ core parser functions which operate on strings, such as padleft.
+* (bug 18295) Don't expose strip markers when a tag appears inside a link
+ inside a heading.
+
=== Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
* Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
* (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
* Introduced $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit (defaults to 50) for the number of
items to show by default on query pages (special pages such as Whatlinkshere).
* (bug 32470) Increase the length of ug_group.
-* (bug 32239) Removed wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
+* (bug 32239) Removed $wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
* Removed $wgVectorShowVariantName.
-* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
+* Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use $wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
=== New features in 1.19 ===
* (bug 19838) Add ability to get all interwiki prefixes also if the interwiki
* New path mappings can be added using the WebRequestPathInfoRouter hook
and adding paths to the PathRouter.
* (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as value for the
- "target" query parameter (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username)
-* New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage
-* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar
+ "target" query parameter (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username).
+* New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage.
+* Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar.
* Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people
perceiving colors differently.
-* (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1
-* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17
+* (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1.
+* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17.
* Extensions can use the 'Language::getMessagesFileName' hook to define new
languages using messages files outside of core.
-* (bug 32512) Add 'Associated namespace' checkbox to Special:Contributions
+* (bug 32512) Add 'Associated namespace' checkbox to Special:Contributions.
* Added $wgSend404Code, true by default, which can be set to false to send a
200 status code instead of 404 for nonexistent articles.
* (bug 33447) Link to the broken image tracking category from Special:Wantedfiles.
* (bug 29309) Allow CSS class per tooltip (tipsy).
* (bug 33565) Add accesskey/tooltip to submit buttons on Special:EditWatchlist.
* (bug 17959) Inline rendering/thumbnailing for Gimp XCF images.
-* (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file.
+* (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file.
* (bug 30513) Redirect tag is now resolved in XML dump file.
-* sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file.
+* sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file.
* (bug 33646) Badtitle error page now emits a 400 HTTP status.
* Special:MovePage now has a dropdown menu for namespaces.
-* (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available
+* (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available.
* (bug 33952) Refactor mw.toolbar to allow dynamic additions at any time.
+* Now possible to specify separate section title and edit summary when adding a new section to a
+ page via the edit API action.
=== Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
* $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if.
"create account" when the user cannot create an account.
* (bug 31818) 'usercreated' message now supports GENDER.
* (bug 32022) Our phpunit.php script can now be executed from another directory.
-* (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs
+* (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs.
from recent changes feeds.
* (bug 30232) add current time to message wlnote on Special:Watchlist.
* (bug 29110) $wgFeedDiffCutoff did not affect new pages.
* (bug 33101) Viewing a User or User talk of username resembling IP ending
with .xxx causes Internal error.
* Warning about undefined index in certain situations when $wgLogRestrictions
- causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others
+ causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others.
* Use separate message ('prefixindex-namespace') for title of
Special:PrefixIndex rather then re-using Special:AllPages's allinnamespace.
* (bug 33156) Special:Block now allows you to confirm you want to block yourself
when using non-normalized username.
-* (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs
+* (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs.
* (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting
cssText after DOM insertion.
* (bug 30711) When adding a new section to a page with section=new, the text is
a null edit.
* (bug 33880) $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges should not send e-mail to user who made
the edit.
-* (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +
+* (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +.
* (bug 33762) QueryPage-based special pages no longer misses *-summary message.
* Other sizes links are no longer generated for wikis without a 404 thumbnail handler.
-* (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage
-* (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter
+* (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage.
+* (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter.
* Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the contributions for the user "newbies".
New user contributions are obtained using the form or using ?contribs=newbie in URL.
* It is now possible to delete images that have no corresponding description pages.
* (bug 33165) GlobalFunctions.php line 1312: Call to a member function
- getText() on a non-object
+ getText() on a non-object.
* (bug 31676) Group dynamically inserted CSS into a single <style> tag, to work
- around a bug where not all styles were applied in Internet Explorer
+ around a bug where not all styles were applied in Internet Explorer.
* (bug 28936, bug 5280) Broken or invalid titles can't be removed from watchlist.
-* (bug 34600) Older skins using useHeadElement=false were broken in 1.18
+* (bug 34600) Older skins using useHeadElement=false were broken in 1.18.
* (bug 34604) [mw.config] wgActionPaths should be an object instead of a numeral
array.
+* (bug 29753) mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyPrefix should be alt-shift for Chrome
+ on Windows
+* (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
+ when "from" is filled.
+* (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
+* (bug 34972) An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings for
+ [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Example]]
=== API changes in 1.19 ===
* Made action=edit less likely to return "unknownerror", by returning the actual error
- message (which may have come from a hook call or similar)
+ message (which may have come from a hook call or similar).
* (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
* (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
* (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
calling action=purge&forcelinkupdate.
* (bug 34377) action=watch now parses messages using the correct title instead
of "API".
+* (bug 35036) ResourceLoaderWikiModule should auto-update when messages (created
+ or overwritten) in the MediaWiki namespace change.
=== Languages updated in 1.19 ===
=== Other changes in 1.19 ===
* BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy global array 'ta' and global function 'akeytt' have
- been removed from wikibits.js
+ been removed from wikibits.js.
* jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
* The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
populateImageSha1.php.