instead.
=== New features in 1.21 ===
+* (bug 38110) Schema changes (adding or dropping tables, indicies and
+ fields) can be now be done separately from from other changes that
+ update.php makes. This is useful in environments that use database
+ permissions to restrict schema changes but allow the DB user that
+ MediaWiki normally runs as to perform other changes that update.php
+ makes. Schema changes can be run seperately. See the file UPGRADE
+ for more information.
* (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.
* (bug 40876) Icon for PSD (Adobe Photoshop) file types.
* (bug 40641) Implemented Special:Version/Credits with a list of contributors.
* (bug 7851) Implemented one-click AJAX patrolling.
+* The <data>, <time>, <meta>, and <link> elements are allowed within WikiText
+ for use with Microdata.
+* The HTML5 <mark> tag has been whitelisted.
+* Added ParserCloned hook for when the Parser object is cloned.
+* Added AlternateEditPreview hook to allow extensions to replace the page
+ preview from the edit page.
+* Added EditPage::showStandardInputs:options hook to allow extensions to add
+ new fields to the "editOptions" area of the edit form.
=== Bug fixes in 1.21 ===
* (bug 40353) SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects.
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 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.
* (bug 41494) Honor $wgLogExceptionBacktrace when logging non-API exceptions
caught during API execution.
-* (bug 37963) Fixed loading process for user options
+* (bug 37963) Fixed loading process for user options.
* (bug 26995) Update filename field on Upload page after having sanitized it.
* (bug 41793) Contribution links to users with 0 edits on Special:ListUsers didn't
show up red.
* (bug 41886) Rowspans are no longer exploded by tablesorter until the table is
actually sorted.
* (bug 2865) User interface HTML elements don't use lang attribute
- (completed the fix by adding the lang attribute to firstHeading)
+ (completed the fix by adding the lang attribute to firstHeading).
* (bug 42173) Removed namespace prefixes on Special:UncategorizedCategories.
+* (bug 36053) Log in "returnto" feature forgets query parameters if no
+ title parameter was specified.
=== API changes in 1.21 ===
-* prop=revisions can now report the contentmodel and contentformat, see docs/contenthandler.txt
+* 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
+* (bug 40111) Disable minor edit for page/section creation by API.
* (bug 41042) Revert change to action=parse&page=... behavior when the page does not exist.
=== Languages updated in 1.21 ===
MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+
+* (bug 30040) Autonym for nds-nl is now 'Nedersaksies' (was 'Nedersaksisch').
+* (bug 34977) Now formatted numbers in Spanish use space as separator
+ for thousands, as mandated by the Real Academia EspaƱola.
+* (bug 35031) Kurdish formatted numbers now use period and comma
+ as separators for thousands and decimals respectively.
+
=== Other changes in 1.21 ===
== Compatibility ==