= MediaWiki release notes =
-Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
-setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
+Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals. If you
+have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
== MediaWiki 1.21 ==
=== Configuration changes in 1.21 ===
* (bug 29374) $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch is now enabled by default.
-* Deprecated $wgAllowRealName is removed. Use $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname' instead
+* Deprecated $wgAllowRealName is removed. Use $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname'
+ instead.
=== New features in 1.21 ===
+* (bug 34876) jquery.makeCollapsible has been improved in performance.
* Added ContentHandler facility to allow extensions to support other content than wikitext.
See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
+* New feature was developed for showing high-DPI thumbnails for high-DPI mobile
+ and desktop displays (configurable with $wgResponsiveImages).
+* Added new backend to represent and store information about sites and site
+ specific configuration.
+* jQuery UI upgraded from 1.8.23 to 1.8.24.
+* Added separate fa_sha1 field to filearchive table. This allows sha1
+ searches with the api in miser mode for deleted files.
+* Add initial and programmatic sorting for tablesorter.
+* Add the event "sortEnd.tablesorter", triggered after sorting has completed.
+* The Job system was refactored to allow for different backing stores for queues
+ as well as cross-wiki access to queues, among other things. The schema for the
+ DB queue was changed to support better concurrency and reduce deadlock errors.
+* Added ApiQueryORM class to facilitate creation of query API modules based on
+ tables that have a corresponding ORMTable class.
+* (bug 40876) Icon for PSD (Adobe Photoshop) file types.
+* (bug 40641) Implemented Special:Version/Credits with a list of contributors.
=== Bug fixes in 1.21 ===
* (bug 40353) SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects.
* (bug 40352) fixDoubleRedirects.php should support interwiki redirects.
* (bug 9237) SpecialBrokenRedirect should not list interwiki redirects.
-* (bug 34960) Drop unused fields rc_moved_to_ns and rc_moved_to_title from recentchanges table.
+* (bug 34960) Drop unused fields rc_moved_to_ns and rc_moved_to_title from
+ recentchanges table.
* (bug 32951) Do not register internal externals with absolute protocol,
when server has relative protocol.
+* (bug 39005) When purging proxies listed in $wgSquidServers using HTTP PURGE
+ method requests, we now send a Host header by default, for Varnish
+ compatibility. This also works with Squid in reverse-proxy mode. If you wish
+ to support Squid configured in forward-proxy mode, set
+ $wgSquidPurgeUseHostHeader to false.
+* (bug 37020) sql.php with readline eats semicolon
+* (bug 11748) Properly handle optionally-closed HTML tags when Tidy is
+ disabled, and don't wrap HTML-syntax definition lists in paragraphs.
+* (bug 41409) Diffs while editing an old revision should again diff against the
+ current revision.
=== API changes in 1.21 ===
* prop=revisions can now report the contentmodel and contentformat, see docs/contenthandler.txt
* action=edit and action=parse now support contentmodel and contentformat parameters to control the interpretation of
page content; See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
* (bug 35693) ApiQueryImageInfo now suppresses errors when unserializing metadata.
+* (bug 40111) Disable minor edit for page/section creation by API
=== Languages updated in 1.21 ===
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.21 requires PHP 5.3.2. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.21 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later.
MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
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