=== Configuration changes in 1.20 ===
* $wgGitRepositoryViewers defines a mapping from Git remote repository to the
- Gitweb instance URL used in Special:Version
+ Gitweb instance URL used in Special:Version.
* `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers
using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts
path info from REQUEST_URI if it's available.
* Introduce a cryptographic random number generator source api for use when
generating various tokens.
* (bug 30963) Option on Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages to not show redirects.
-* (bug 18062) new message when edit or create the local page of a shared file.
+* (bug 18062) New message when edit or create the local page of a shared file.
* (bug 22870) Separate interface message when creating a page.
* (bug 17615) nosummary option should be reassigned on preview/captcha.
-* (bug 34355) add a variable and parser function for the namespace number.
+* (bug 34355) Add a variable and parser function for the namespace number.
* (bug 35649) Special:Version now shows hashes of extensions checked out from git.
* (bug 35728) Git revisions are now linked on Special:Version.
* "Show Changes" on default messages shows now diff against default message text
* (bug 23006) create #speciale parser function.
* generateSitemap can now optionally skip redirect pages.
-* (bug 27757) new API command just for retrieving tokens (not page-based)
+* (bug 27757) New API command just for retrieving tokens (not page-based).
* Added GitViewers hook for extensions using external git repositories to have a web-based
repository viewer linked to from Special:Version.
* Memcached debug logs can now be sent to their own file logs by setting
Special:Version
* Edit notices can now be translated.
* (bug 35680) jQuery upgraded to 1.7.2.
-* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.19.
+* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.21.
* (bug 22887) Add warning and tracking category for preprocessor errors
* (bug 31704) Allow selection of associated namespace on the watchlist
* (bug 5445) Now remove autoblocks when a user is unblocked.
* New getCreator and getOldestRevision methods added to WikiPage class
* (bug 4220) the XML dump format schema now have unique identity constraints
for page and revision identifiers. Patch by Elvis Stansvik.
-* (bug 35705) QUnit upgraded from 1.2.0 to 1.7.0
+* (bug 35705) QUnit upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.8.0.
* cleanupSpam.php now can delete spam pages if --delete was specified instead of blanking
them.
* Added new hook ChangePasswordForm to allow adding of additional fields in Special:ChangePassword
+* Added new function getDomain to AuthPlugin for getting a user's domain
+* (bug 23427) New magic word {{PAGEID}} which gives the current page ID.
+ Will be null on previewing a page being created.
+* (bug 37627) UserNotLoggedIn() exception to show a generic error page whenever
+ a user is not logged in.
=== Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
* (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username
* (bug 36537) Rename wfArrayToCGI to wfArrayToCgi for consistency with wfCgiToArray.
* (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed
- in user language instead of content language
+ in user language instead of content language.
* (bug 35264) Wrong type used for <ns> in export.xsd
* (bug 24985) Use $wgTmpDirectory as the default temp directory so that people
who don't have access to /tmp can specify an alternative.
-* (bug 27283) SqlBagOStuff breaks PostgreSQL transactions
+* (bug 27283) SqlBagOStuff breaks PostgreSQL transactions.
+* (bug 35727) mw.Api ajax() should put token parameter last.
+* (bug 37708) mw.Uri.clone() should make a deep copy.
+* (bug 38024) ResourceLoader should not create empty stylesheets for modules
+ that don't have stylesheets.
+* (bug 36812) Special:ActiveUsers "Hide bots" should hide users from any group
+ having the "bot" user right, instead of just the default "bot" user group.
=== API changes in 1.20 ===
* (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
the format parameter.
* (bug 32384) Allow descending order for list=watchlistraw.
* (bug 31883) Limit of bkusers of list=blocks and titles of action=query is not documented in API help.
-* (bug 32492) API now allows editing using pageid
-* (bug 32497) API now allows changing of protection level using pageid
-* (bug 32498) API now allows comparing pages using pageids
-* (bug 30975) API import of pages with invalid characters in this wiki leads to Fatal Error
+* (bug 32492) API now allows editing using pageid.
+* (bug 32497) API now allows changing of protection level using pageid.
+* (bug 32498) API now allows comparing pages using pageids.
+* (bug 30975) API import of pages with invalid characters in this wiki leads to Fatal Error.
* (bug 30488) API now allows listing of backlinks/embeddedin/imageusage per pageid
* (bug 34927) Output media_type for list=filearchive
* (bug 28814) add properties to output of action=parse
* (bug 36761) "Mark pages as visited" now submits previously established filter options
* (bug 32643) action=purge with forcelinkupdate no longer crashes when ratelimit is reached
* The paraminfo module now also contains result properties for most modules
+* (bug 32348) Allow descending order for list=alllinks
=== Languages updated in 1.20 ===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+* Emilian (egl) added.
* Tornedalen Finnish (fit) added.
* Mizo (lus) added.
* Santali (sat) added.
* Removed ./tests/qunit/index.html from core. It wasn't actively maintained and
has been made obsolete when [[Special:JavaScriptTest/qunit]] was introduced,
which actually uses ResourceLoader, LocalSettings and the Skin.
+* Removed $wgDBtransactions global. This was only checked in one class
+ and only applies to MyISAM or similar DBs. Those should only be used
+ for archived sites anyway. We can't get edit conflicts on such sites,
+ so the WikiPage code wasn't useful there either.
== Compatibility ==