X-Git-Url: https://git.heureux-cyclage.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=HISTORY;h=6e710a09d3b675d868627bdccdeb350c39db3f2c;hb=ba8fc3cf5e44e2ed9b74b20ca3fe39c8d9bce8a0;hp=6b5a3b6099fc29858dcba1b20494e2fbdf344304;hpb=47eaaf419d4e70564dc649759ae96b120bbec89b;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 6b5a3b6099..6e710a09d3 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -1,10 +1,3448 @@ -Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. +Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. = 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. + +== Changes since 1.8 == + +* (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres. +* (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist + adding problem. +* (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function, + because it seems to be unused. +* (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger + screen sizes, for the default monobook skin. +* Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends +* Improved register_globals paranoia checks +* (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install +* Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails + is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call + parameters. +* (bug 6164) Avoid smashing Cite state if message transformation triggers + during bad image list check, by skipping message transformation. + This isn't a good permanent fix. +* (bug 6918) Stopped borders and backgrounds from showing through floated + tables in Monobook +* (bug 6868) Un-hardcode section edit link style +* (bug 3205) Stop right floats from stacking horizontally in non-Monobook skins +* Added global $wgStyleVersion to centralize bumping CSS and JS file versions + for cache-friendly style and script updating +* (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers +* Friendlier check for PHP 5 in command-line scripts; it's common for parallel + PHP 4 and 5 installations to interfere on the command-line. +* Fix regression in autoconfirm permission check +* (bug 3015) Add CSS ids to subcategory and page sections on category pages +* (bug 7587) Fix erroneous id for specialpage tab, enabling informative popup +* (bug 7599) Fix thumbnail purging, PHP notices on HTCP image page purge +* (bug 7581) Update language name for cbk-zam +* (bug 7444) Update namespace translations for Telugu (te), kept old values as + alias for compatibility +* (bug 4525) Move section links down visually to same level as headings + (editsection links are now inside the heading elements) +* Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 , PATH_INFO and hence + URLs of the style /index.php/Main_Page were broken on some CGI installations. +* (bug 7623) Validate custom HTML id's correctly in Monobook interface +* (bug 2241) Fix collision of 'w' and 'd' accesskeys +* (bug 5795) CSS class added to body based on page name for page-specific + styling +* (bug 6276) Stopped search field from getting too large in Cologne Blue +* (bug 7644) User creations that are aborted by hooks shouldn't be counted + against account creations per day limit +* (bug 7636) Show Firefox 2 users correct accesskey prefix +* (bug 6427) Block blocked IPs from using the mail password function + to allow blocking of flooders +* Include common.css from classic-style skins in main HTML with the bump URL +* (bug 7607) Add Karakalpak (kaa) to Names.php and stub message file for linktrail +* (bug 7582) Add 'tog-nolangconversion' to MessagesEn.php. + This key is need for languages with variants (zh, sr, kk) +* (bug 7606) MediaWiki messages for "rss" and "atom" missing +* (bug 7609) Add some more '*-summary' messages to MessagesEn.php with empty + strings to allow better localisation via Special:Allmessages. Mark this new + messages as optional for localisation. +* Fix user_newpass upgrade for prefixed tables (reported by Fyren) +* (bug 7663) Include language variant switcher links on Nostalgia skin +* (bug 6531) Fix PHP fatal error on installation page with bad username input. +* (bug 6977) Remove 404 link for autogenerated database documentation. +* (bug 7369) Allow "Show Changes" without requiring edit token. +* (bug 7687) Fix movetalk box checks itself when confirming a delete and move. +* (bug 7684) Obey watchcreated preference for Special:Upload watch checkbox +* (bug 7686) Include id attribute on delete form confirmation button +* Allow compound interwiki prefixes in $wgImportSources +* (bug 7304) Added redirect table to store redirect targets. +* Added querycachetwo table (similar to querycache but has two titles) +* PageArchive can now return a Revision object for more convenient processing + of deleted revision data +* Added 'UndeleteShowRevision' hook in Special:Undelete +* Error message on attempt to view invalid or missing deleted revisions +* Remove unsightly "_" from namespace in Special:Allpages, Special:Prefixindex +* (bug 3224) Allow minor edits by bots to skip new message notification on + user talk pages. This can be disabled by adjusting the 'nominornewtalk' + permission. Patch by Werdna. +* (bug 7741) MATH: fixed broken syntax of underbrace etc. Fixed arrays +* Fix purging for updated SVG files +* (bug 7745) Add id attribute to search button in Monobook +* (bug 7749) MATH: added some more LaTeX symbols, e.g. parallel, diamond, ast, ... +* (bug 7304) Added code in Article.php to keep redirect table up to date. +* Made special page names case-insensitive and localisable. Care has been taken + to maintain backwards compatibility. +* Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters. +* (bug 7758) Added wrapper span to "templates used" explanation to allow CSS + styling (class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation"). +* Added {{#special:}} parser function, to give the local default title for + special pages +* (bug 7766) Remove redundant / from AJAX requests, can break some servers +* Add tab links from extensions to classic-based skins (SkinTemplateTab hook) + Provides better cross-skin compatibility for extensions using the modern + skin hooks, such as Oversight +* Moved variant language links on Cologne Blue and Nostalgia to before the + login/logout link +* Fix for parser tests with MySQL 5 in strict mode +* Added block option "enable autoblocks" +* Amend Special:Ipblocklist to note when a block has autoblock DISABLED. +* (bug 7780) Fix regression in editing redirects +* Add whitespace above "templates included on this page" using CSS, not + hardcoded line break. +* Remove entries from redirect table on article deletion +* (bug 7788) Force section headers in new section links for users who have + 'prompt for blank edit summaries' on. +* (bug 1133) Special:Emailuser: add an option to send yourself a copy of your mail. +* (bug 461) Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via + pagecategorieslink message. +* Sort the list of skins in "My Preferences" -> Skins by alphabetical order. +* (bug 7785) Postgres compatibility for timestamps in RC feeds +* (bug 7550) Normalize user parameter normally on Special:Log +* (bug 7294) Fix PATH search for diff3 on install +* Various fixes related to the blocking change re: autoblocks. On inserting + an IP block, the ipb_enable_autoblock field is now automagically blanked, + because it doesn't make any sense for an IP. Additionally, IP blocks + without the ipb_enable_autoblock option no longer show up as "autoblock + disabled" on Special:Ipblocklist. +* (bug 7774) MATH: aded more amstex functions +* (bug 1182) MATH: fixed inconsistent rendering of upper case Greek letters in TeX +* Fix regression in streaming page dump generation +* (bug 7801) Add support for parser function hooks in parser tests +* checkUsernames.php now uses wfDebugLog instead of hardcoded path to log +* (bug 7810) Update talk namespaces for Occitan +* Allow case-sensitive URLs to be used for uploading from URLs. +* (bug 1109) Correct fix for compressed 304 responses when additional output + buffers have been installed within the compression handler +* (bug 7819) Move automatic redirect edit summary after pre-save transform + to work properly with subst: fun +* (bug 7826) Fix typos in two English messages. +* (bug 5365) Stop users being prompted to enter an edit summary for null edits, + if they have selected that option in preferences. +* (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits. +* (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL. +* (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most + recently used IP of a user when they are blocked. +* Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will + make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster. +* Fix regression in Special:Undelete for revisions deleted under MediaWiki 1.4 + with compression or legacy encoding +* (bug 6737) Fixes for MySQL 5 schema in strict mode +* Approximate height for client-side scaling fallback instead of passing -1 + into the HTML output. +* Make the DNSBL to check for proxy blocking configurable via $wgSorbsUrl +* Add experimental recording/reporting mode to parser tests runner, to + compare changes against the previous run. + Additional tables 'testrun' and 'testitem' are in maintenance/testRunner.sql, + source this and pass --record option to parserTests.php +* Make the set of default parser test input files extensible via + $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local + configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically + run along with the main batch. +* Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see + new version requirements +* Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive + as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a + warning and a request to upgrade. +* (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images) +* Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks +* (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display, + with count. +* (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in + Monobook. +* Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled. +* Add auto-summaries to blankings and large removals without summaries. +* (bug 7811) Allow preview of edit summaries. +* (bug 6839) Wikibits.js minor changes to make JS-lint happier. +* (bug 7932) Make sure that edit toolbar clears floats so it appears correctly. +* (bug 6873) When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version. +* (bug 3315) Provide rollback link directly on history page. +* Replace 'old-revision-navigation' message with 'revision-info' and + 'revision-nav' messages, wrapped in divs with appropriate id's. +* (bug 4178) MediaWiki:Common.js will now be included for all users if + $wgUseSiteJs is enabled, in addition to (if applicable) MediaWiki:Monobook.js + and user JS subpages. +* (bug 7918) "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect + any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits. +* (bug 7919) "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages. +* (bug 7688) When viewing diff, section anchors in autosummary jump to section + on current page instead of loading the latest version. +* (bug 7970) Use current connection explicitly on Database::getServerVersion +* (bug 2001) Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via + JavaScript. +* Added autosummary for new pages with 500 or less characters, and refactor + the autosummary code so it's all done in one function. doEdit is getting too + big! +* (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the + image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg). +* (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges + can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format, + in the autoblock_whitelist system message. +* Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php +* (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages +* Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema +* Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like + behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...) +* Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two + member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks. +* (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone + (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3). + This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL + that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages. + The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the + edit. +* Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages +* (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned + images, not horizontally. +* Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php +* Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration +* Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login +* (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs +* (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference +* Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved. +* (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation +* Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain + broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions +* (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php +* (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform +* (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set; + now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB +* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone + to ensure consistent behavior +* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends +* (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment +* Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output +* (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht +* (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit + instead of hardcoding to 1000 +* Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting +* (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view +* (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization +* Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely. +* Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature + to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default. +* Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute +* DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store + the text lengths before and after the edit +* (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions +* Removed a redundant tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users +* (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it + when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview". +* (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning + buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export. + Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers() +* Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next + chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk. +* (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage') +* (bug 8121) wfRandom() was not between 0 and 1 +* Add static method Parser::createAssocArgs($args), so parser functions can + use the same code to parse arguments as the templates do. +* Change behavior of logins using the temporary e-mailed password (as stored + in user_newpassword hash field). Instead of just logging in silently and + leaving the previous user_password field in place indefinitely, the user + is now prompted to set a new password. + + The password-changing form is at Special:Resetpass; currently it's only + usable for changing from the temporary password during login, but it + could perhaps be generalized, replacing the subform in preferences. + + Once the new password is set successfully, the temporary password is wiped + so it cannot be used to login a second time, and the login process + is completed. +* Suppress 'mail new password' button on login form if $wgAuth forbids + changing user passwords; it wouldn't work very well... +* Consolidate password length checks and $wgAuth manipulation into + User::setPassword() to avoid duplicate code in different places + that set passwords. +* User::setPassword() now throws PasswordError exceptions if the password + is illegal or cannot be set via $wgAuth. These can be caught and a human- + readable error message displayed by UI code. +* Added Title::isSubpage() +* (bug 8241) Don't consider user pages of User:Foo.css to be CSS subpages +* Set an explicit class on framed thumbnail inner divs and images, changed some + CSS to use these instead of using descendent selectors. +* Accept null parameter to User::setPassword() as indicating the password + field should be cleared to an unusable state. Login will only be possible + after the password is reset, for instance by e-mail. +* (bug 6394) Invalidate the password set for "by e-mail" account creations + to avoid accidental empty password creations. +* Made the show change size function work on page moves, page creations, and + log entries. Also fixed it in the javascript recentchanges. +* (bug 8239) correctly get 50 new contributions when clicking '(50 next)' +* (bug 2259) Fix old regression where e-mail addresses were no longer + confirmed on login with mailed password. +* Add a notification about the confirmation mail sent during account + creation, so people don't immediately go off to request a second one. +* Add a warning on Special:Confirmemail if a code was already sent and has + not yet expired. +* Add user_editcount field to provide data for heuristics on account use. + Incremented on edit, with lazy initialization from past revision data. + Can batch-initialize with maintenance/initEditCount.php (not yet friendly + to replication environments, this will do all accounts in one query). +* Allow raw SQL subsections in Database::update() SET portion as well as + for WHERE portion. Handy for increments and such. +* User::getOption now accept a default value to override default user values + this makes it consistent with WebRequest::get* methods. Corrected code in + various places accordingly. +* (bug 8264) Fix JavaScript global vars for XHTML mode +* Make $wgSiteNotice value wikitext again, for consistency with editable + MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice. +* (bug 8044) When redirecting from the canonical name of the special page + to the localised one, parameters/subpages are omitted +* (bug 8164) Special:Booksources should use GET for form submission +* Rewrite Special:Booksources to clean up interface and remove redundant code +* (bug 7925) Change Special:Allmessages message name filter javascript to be + a bit more responsive and easier on the CPU +* (bug 4488) Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference +* Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch + pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options +* (bug 8153) doesn't work in site notice +* (bug 6690) wfMsgNoTrans() transforms messages +* (bug 8274) Wrap edit tools in a
with a specified class +* Detect PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug and abort in WebStart.php; too many things break + mysteriously otherwise (detection code copied from install-utils.inc) +* (bug 8295) Change handling of
tags in doBlockLevels() to match that + of
+* (bug 8110) Make magic ISBN linking stricter: only match ten-digit sequences + (plus optional ISBN-13 prefix) with no immediately following alphanumeric + character, disallow multiple consecutive internal redirects +* (bug 2785) Accept optional colon prefix in links when formatting comments +* Don't show "you can view and copy the source of this page" message for + pages which don't exist +* (bug 8310) Blank line added to top of 'post' when page is blank +* (bug 8109) Template parameters ignored in "recentchangestext" +* Gracefully skip redirect-to-fragment on WebKit versions less than 420; + it messes up on current versions of Safari but is ok in the latest + nightlies. Checking the version number will allow it to automatically + work when new releases of Safari appear. +* Fix regression in thumb styles; size and padding didn't match with + new arrangement. +* (bug 8333) Fix quick user data update on login password change on + replication database setups. User data is now pulled from master + instead of slave in User::loadFromDatabase, ensuring that it is + fresh and accurate when read and then saved back into cache. + This was breaking with the Special:Rename operation which + automatically logs the user in with the new password after changing + it; pulling from slave meant the record was often not the updated + one. +* (bug 8335) Set image width to the first valid parameter found. +* (bug 8350) Fix watchlist viewing bug when using Postgres. +* (bug 6603) When warning about invalid file extensions, output the bit + of the extension we actually checked +* (bug 7669) Drop defaults on BLOB/TEXT columns for better compatibility + with MySQL's strict mode, often enabled by the Windows installer. + The defaults are ignored anyway when strict mode is off... +* (bug 7685) Use explicit values for ar_text and ar_flags when deleting, + for better compatibility with MySQL's strict mode +* Update default interwiki values to reflect changed location of ursine: +* (bug 5411) Remove autopatrol preference +* Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as + patrolled automatically +* Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able + to mark their own edits as patrolled +* Introduce 'PingLimiter' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 532) Tweaked alt text for some interface messages +* (bug 8231) Gave useful alt text to the main on image pages +* (bug 371) Remove alt text for "Enlarge" icon on thumbnails +* Initialize user_editcount to 0 instead of NULL for newly created accounts +* (bug 3696) Strip LRM and RLM characters from titles to work around the + problem some people have where titles cut-and-pasted from lists include + the bidi override characters appended to the lists. + A more thorough blacklist for forbidden and translatable characters would + be wise, though, as might a cleaner method for the lists in the first place. +* Fix regression in email password resets on read-restricted sites +* Set tabindex on fields in deletion form so you don't have to tab through + the links in the sitenotice +* (bug 8271) Show full time and date on viewer for individual deleted + revisions +* (bug 8214) Output file size limit and actual file size in appropriate units + on Special:Upload +* (bug 8016) Purge objectcache table during upgrade processes - use the --nopurge + option to prevent this when running maintenance/update.php +* (bug 7612) Remove superfluous link to Special:Categories from result items + on Special:Mostcategories +* {{PLURAL:}} now handles formatted numbers correctly +* (bug 8331) Added the change size value to watchlists; therefore made + watchlists use RecentChange::newFromRow() instead of newFromCurRow() +* (bug 8351) Fix undo for simple reverts +* (bug 6856) User::clearNotification() does not respect read-only mode +* (bug 6853) Use a checkbox on the installer form to indicate that a superuser + account should be used; this is clearer than the old check which relied on + the password never being an obscure value +* Remove old unused watchlist cache, which was a leftover from the old schema + where watchlists were more expensive to generate +* Minor cosmetic changes to Special:Userrights +* Added wgCanonicalSpecialPageName to JavaScript variables +* Fix image deleting when using Postgres. +* Output both source and destination titles in maintenance/moveBatch.php +* Added basic parser tests for language variants +* Enable selflinks and categories to be written in some of the language variants +* Prevent conversion of JavaScript code in language variants +* Output software version number in maintenance/parserTests.php +* (bug 7169) Use Ajax to watch/unwatch articles if enabled +* Make variant table caching a little more robust, using main language code + in cache key. Probably this is still a bit wonky, though. Was breaking + parser tests when Chinese tables were getting loaded into Serbian code. +* (bug 8380) Be nicer about blank lines in deleteBatch.php +* (bug 8401) Fix regression in SORBS lookup for some DNS setups +* Use raw file descriptor in posix_isatty() check to avoid warning on + Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP +* (bug 5908) Allow overriding the default category sort key for all items on + a page using {{DEFAULTSORT}} +* (bug 6449) Throw a more definitive error message when installation fails + due to an invalid database name +* (bug 5827) Use full text for option link labels on Special:Watchlist +* (bug 8018) Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist +* (bug 8427) MonoBook RTL IE 7.0 tweaks failed when sidebar's navigation + section is renamed; no longer relies on first section name +* Stabilize client-side table sorting even if the underlying Javascript sort() + implementation is unstable +* Add hook for extensions to add user information to the panel in preferences, + next to the user name and ID. +* (bug 8392) Display protection status of transcluded pages in the edit page + template list. Patch by Fyren, with i18n naming tweak. +* Fix for interwiki transclusion where target wiki uses query string for title +* Resolve namespaces on interwiki Title objects using canonical namespace names + if possible (should not happen, though, outside interwiki transclusion... and + maybe not even then, but it does) +* (bug 8447) Fix SQL typo breaking non-default $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq +* Do not allow previews of deleted images to be cached +* Add global variable $wgDefaultLanguageVariant used to set the default language + variant of a wiki to something different than the main language code +* Add 'variant' option to parserTests - runs test with the given variant as + preferred, utilize it for more parser tests of language variants code +* (bug 6503) Fix bug that stopped certain irrelevant links from being hidden + for printing +* Avoid PHP warning in Creative Commons metadata when a creative commons + license is not actually set up +* (bug 8463) Don't print external link icons for Monobook +* (bug 8461) Support watching pages on move +* (bug 8041) Work around bug with debug_backtrace when Zend Optimizer is + loaded by skipping the function. Use wfDebugBacktrace() wrapper function. +* Reduce config file clutter by setting various script and upload paths + based on $IP or $wgScriptPath in Setup.php. They can still be explicitly + overridden in LocalSettings.php if desired... +* Attempt to detect redirect loops for the canonical title redirect, and + give some hints to the poor confused administrator. +* Introduce new flag 'R' - raw output for language variant escape tags +* Advise users when updates for a query page have been disabled using + $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate +* (bug 8413) Improve comments for $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies +* (bug 8330) Show "bytes" suffix on recent changes diff counter + optionally... if set in rc-changes-size message (default empty for now) +* (bug 8489) Support basic links in caption attribute +* (bug 8485) Correct Lingala number formatting +* The MediaWiki namespace is no longer pre-filled with default messages on + install. All default messages will be removed from the MediaWiki namespace + on upgrade. +* Recentchanges RSS/Atom feeds now use a separate message for the description + to avoid cluttering it with useless wiki formatting +* (bug 8417) Handle EXIF unknown dates +* (bug 8372) Return nothing on empty tags. +* New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php. +* Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php +* (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission + key has been added to enable this behaviour, by default assigned to sysops. +* (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild. +* (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization +* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond) +* Fix regression with default lock file and cache directories; threw visible + warning with open_basedir + + +== 1.8 Compatibility changes == + +=== Zend Optimizer === + +A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under +MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging +features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common +"blank page" problems. + +=== PHP 5.0 64-bit === + +MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data +on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This +bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8 +and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions. + +The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you +probably should do anyway for security reasons! + +=== MySQL 5 === + +MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when +MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows +installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.) + +This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields". + +=== ImageMagick === + +Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing +due to use of the -thumbnail option. + + +== 1.8 Behavior changes == + +=== Localized special pages === + +The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them +are more legible in languages that aren't English. + +Not all languages have included localized names yet. + +=== E-mail password === + +Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first +log in with a newly generated e-mailed password. + +Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing. + +=== Undo revision === + +An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits. +When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much +easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding +changes elsewhere in the page. + +The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional +full-revision reverts. + +=== Blocking === + +User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the +account logs in with. + + +== 1.8 Database changes == + +* new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects +* new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages +* 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock' +* 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking +* 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields +* some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges' + +== 1.8 Configuration changes == + +Several configuration options have changed since 1.8: + +=== $wgEnableAPI === + +The experimental machine API interface is now enabled by default, read-only. +You can disable it by setting $wgEnableAPI = false; in LocalSettings.php. + +=== $wgPathInfo === + +The use of PATH_INFO (the text after the script name in 'index.php/Blah') +is controlled by the $wgUsePathInfo setting. This is now explicitly disabled +for CGI, apache2filter, and ISAPI configurations of PHP, for more consistency +with the autodetection from the installer. + +In some rarer configurations you may have to switch $wgUsePathInfo from false +to true or, perhaps, from true to false to make things work properly if bad +PATH_INFO data comes through the server. + +The wiki now tries to detect this condition and should show you an error +message describing what to change instead of sending the browser into an +infinite redirect loop. + +=== $wgScript and other path settings === + +The following configuration variables are now automatically set in Setup.php +if they are not overridden in LocalSettings.php: + +from $wgScriptPath: + + $wgScript + | \- $wgArticlePath + + $wgRedirectScript + + $wgStylePath + + $wgUploadPath + \- $wgLogo + + $wgMathPath + +from $IP: + - $wgStyleDirectory + + $wgUploadDirectory + \- $wgMathDirectory + + $wgTmpDirectory + +Newly generated configuration files will by default include only $wgScriptPath +(hardcoded from the installer) and $IP (detected at runtime). + +Old configuration files which specify all these values explicitly should +continue to work just fine, but if you use the defaults you can remove them +to reduce clutter. + +=== $wgGroupPermissions === + +The sysop group now holds the "autopatrol" and "ipblock-exempt" rights by +default. + +"autopatrol" replaces the preference for marking ones own edits patrolled +by default; users holding this permission will automatically have their +edits patrolled, while others cannot mark their own edits as patrolled +even if they have patrolling rights. + +"ipblock-exempt" excludes the user from IP blocks; accounts which are blocked +explicitly by name will still be blocked, however. This is given to sysops +to minimize annoyance from accidental "collateral damage"; remember that a +sysop will be able to lift the block if they desire. + +The bot group now holds the "nominornewtalk" right. A user with this right +will not trigger new message notifications when making minor edits to user +talk pages. This is meant to minimize annoyance from maintenance bot +processes. + +=== $wgUseWatchlistCache === + +Watchlist caching has been removed. The feature was not maintained, and has +been unnecessary since switching to the 'recentchanges' database table +reduced server pressure for Wikipedia's watchlists. + +=== $wgBreakFrames === + +MediaWiki in the past attempted to detect when it was embedded in a frameset +and "break out" of it, assuming it to be hostile. + +This behavior is now disabled by default, but can be reenabled by setting +$wgBreakFrames to true in LocalSettings.php. + + +== 1.8 New settings == + +=== $wgVariantArticlePath === + +For languages with script variant support (Chinese, Serbian, and others), +it's possible to use alternate URL paths to select the variant for article +display, setting $wgVariantArticlePath. + +Documentation for this setting would be useful. + +=== $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize === + +The message cache can now skip items larger than a given size; this allows +it to better handle the primary caching case when large CSS and JS blobs are +present. + +=== $wgStyleVersion === + +When making significant changes to skin stylesheets and JavaScript files, +you can append a string to this variable to tweak the generated URLs, +forcing newly rendered pages to bring in a fresh version despite server- +or browser-side caching. + +Normally this will be set in the course of MediaWiki development, but +if doing development on a custom skin you may wish to poke it as well. + +=== $wgRCShowChangedSize === + +Special:Recentchanges and Special:Watchlist now show the number of bytes +added or removed to an article to give an idea of the size of the edit. +This information was previously available only in the IRC update feeds. + +To disable this site-wide, set $wgRCShowChangedSize to false. +(Individual users can suppress the data in custom CSS.) + +Adjust $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold to trigger highlighting of particularly +large changes. + +The formatting of the size figure can be adjusted through the +[[MediaWiki:Rc-change-size]] message. + +=== $wgQueryCacheLimit === + +The number of rows stored for "expensive" special pages in miser mode +can now be adjusted up or down from the default 1000. + +=== $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate === + +Individual "expensive" special pages can be skipped in processing by +updateSpecialPages if added to this list. + +=== $wgSorbsUrl === + +The base hostname for the DNS-based proxy blacklist can now be overridden +when $wgEnableSorbs is set, to use a different blacklist instead of SORBS. +The blacklist would need to respond the same was as SORBS; any positive +response will be taken as a proxy. + +=== $wgAjaxWatch === + +Experimental AJAX mode for the watch/unwatch tabs to execute inline. +Does not include the UI messages describing how to reach the watchlist, +so you may not want it on a general-audience site just yet. + +=== $wgParserTestFiles === + +MediaWiki's parser test suite can now be expanded with additional test +files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and +they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php + + +== Changes since 1.7 == + +* Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy +* Changes to sajax_do_call: optionally accept an element to fill instead of a + callback function; take the target function or element as a third parameter; + pass the full XMLHttpRequest object to the handler function, instead of just + the resultText value; use HTTP response codes to report errors. +* (bug 6562) Removed unmaintained ParserXml.php for now +* History paging overlap bug fixed +* (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle +* Don't put empty-page message into view-source when page text is blank +* (bug 6587) Remove redundant "allnonarticles" message +* Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow + or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses. Prevent duplicate + blocks. Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting + multiple blocks. Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user + attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in + the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an + indexed pager. +* (bug 6448) Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username +* (bug 6618) Improve permissions/error detection in Special:Lockdb +* Quick hack for extension testing: parser test doesn't create new message + cache object. +* (bug 6299) Maintain parser's revision ID across recursive calls to fix + {{REVISIONID}} when Cite extension is used +* (bug 6622) Removed deprecated function Image::newFromTitle +* (bug 6627) Fix regression in Special:Ipblocklist with table prefix +* Removed forced dereferencements (new() returns a reference in PHP5) +* Note about $wgUploadSizeWarning using byte +* (bug 6592) Add most viewed pages summary to Special:Statistics +* Pre-strip characters ignored in IDNs from URLs so they can't be used + to break the blacklists for regular URLs +* Fix regression in blocking of user accounts +* (bug 6635) Fix regression searching for range blocks on Ipblocklist +* Fix regression searching Ipblocklist with ugly URLs +* (bug 6639) Use a consistent default for upload directories +* Preserve entered reason when reporting unconfirmed lock on Special:Lockdb +* (bug 6642) Don't offer to unlock the database when it isn't locked +* cleanupTitles.php changed from --dry-run option to --fix, so default + behavior is now a non-invasive check as with namespaceDupes.php +* (bug 6660) Fix behaviour of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does + not exist; now doesn't show the source box if the user hasn't provided it + (blocked mid-edit) and the page doesn't exist +* Improve default value of "blockedtext" +* (bug 6680) Added localisation for Dutch bookstore list (nl) +* Renamed maintainace script redundanttrans.php to unusedMessages.php - clearer usage +* Fix regression which allowed some blocked users to create additional accounts +* (bug 6657) Fix Hungarian linktrail +* (bug 6751) Fix preview of blanked section with edit on first preview option +* (bug 5456) Separate MediaWiki:Search into messages for both noun and verb, + introduced 'MediaWiki:Searchbutton' +* Made lines from initialiseMessages() appear as list items during installation +* Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the + Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files. +* Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core + modules. +* Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will + now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php + or another entry point. +* Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches. +* Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in + the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer + identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should + be transparent in most cases. +* Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects. +* Removed the broken altencoding feature. +* Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects + are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles, + via a slightly different interface. +* Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless + $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled. +* Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php. +* Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is + now consistently done from Language::factory(). +* Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the + profiler during maintenance scripts. +* Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form. +* Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace +* Fix regression in ordering of namespaces +* (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name, + page title, etc. +* hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body + by all skins. +* Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the + framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box. +* Added experimental installer for extensions. + See maintenance/installExtension.php +* Added Tajic (tg) language file. +* (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue) +* Fix regression in Korean and Japanese date formatting (day of week) +* (bug 6919) Add English alias magic words for Tatar (tt) language file. +* (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk) +* (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php +* (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch +* Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and + OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead. +* Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper - + use User::isAllowed instead. +* (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission +* (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view +* Revamped Special:Imagelist +* (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php +* (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export +* (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting + point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit. +* Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip +* (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms +* (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly +* (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order +* (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success +* (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user + has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page +* Added {{CURRENTHOUR}} +* Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table +* Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import +* (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message +* (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages +* (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions +* Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update + default message text +* Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php + Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate +* (bug 832) Return to user page after emailing a user +* (bug 366) Add local-system-timezone equivalents for date/time variables +* (bug 7109) Fix Atom feed version number in header links +* (bug 7075) List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version +* (bug 7059) Introduce "anchorencode" colon function +* Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable +* Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list +* (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows +* (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip +* [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number + of disambiguation templates. +* [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed + any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]]. +* Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete +* (bug 7026) Fix action=raw&templates=expand +* (bug 6976) Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins +* (bug 7144) Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't + read the main page in the first place +* (bug 7188) Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm +* (bug 6675) Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload in Special:Upload +* Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the + format for WSR-1 SisterSites support +* (bug 7223) Monobook.js is used for site content, should not be localized +* Set default disabled values for DjVu render options +* Added Xml::option() for generating
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    ) +* (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories +* (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect +* (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in + read-only pages +* Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface") +* (bug 4259) Indicate when a protected page being edited is an interface message + ("editinginterface") +* (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel +* Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter +* (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache + miss +* Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages +* Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser + credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if + the connection fails +* (bug 5005) Fix XHTML output. +* (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date). +* (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation +* Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories +* (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals +* (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files +* (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word +* (bug 93) tags and tildes in templates +* The returnto parameter is now actually used by SpecialUserlogin.php +* Parser can now know that it is parsing an interface message +* (bug 4737) MediaWiki:Viewcount supports {{PLURAL}} now +* Fix bug in wfMsgExt under PHP 5.1.2 +* (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv +* Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to + recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes +* Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles +* (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously + deleted +* (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages +* "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language +* (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated +* (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers +* (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page +* (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user +* (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters +* Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup +* (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title +* (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags +* Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}} + will produce a count minus formatting +* Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an + appropriate output format given the scope of the clean +* (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log" +* Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for + user rights +* (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL +* (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted" +* (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time + formatted according to the current user's settings +* (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian +* Updated initStats maintenance script +* (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale +* (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are. +* (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to + show up on specific pages on demand +* Bidi-aid on list pages +* (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names +* (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext +* Sanitizer: now handles nested
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Disabled by default due to the vast majority of + web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details. +* Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it +* (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories, + Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories. +* (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages +* Clean up Special:Undelete a bit +* (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}} +* Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit +* (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL +* (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files +* (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show +* (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users +* (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt) +* (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name +* (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message +* (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers +* (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de) +* (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru) +* (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id) +* (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs) +* Added many missing formatNum calls +* Added grammar function to Belarusian (be) +* (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook +* (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be) +* (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt) +* (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links +* (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id) +* (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms) +* (bug 5890) Update for German language (de) +* (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي +* --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension +* (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl) +* (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl) +* User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in + v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8 +* dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the + previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump. +* dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched +* dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch +* (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) +* (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de) +* (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs) +* Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with + $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups +* (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages +* (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl) +* Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages +* Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word +* (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word +* (bug 5370) Allow throttling of password reminder requests with the rate limiter +* (bug 5683) Respect parser output marked as uncacheable when saving +* (bug 5918) Links autonumbering now work for all defined protocols +* (bug 5935) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 5937) Register links from gallery captions with the parent parser output + object so that link tables receive those updates too +* (bug 5845) Introduce BASEPAGENAME and BASEPAGENAMEE magic words +* (bug 5941) Use content language when getting the administrator page title for + Special:Statistics +* (bug 5949) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) +* (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian translation (be) +* (bug 5950) Improvements to French localisation +* (bug 5805) {{plural:}} support for counters in some special pages +* (bug 5952) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* Rename conflicting metadata help message to "metadata_help" (was "metadata") + and treat it as wiki text +* Improve preferences input filtering +* Maintenance script to import multiple files into the wiki +* (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he) +* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it) +* (bug 5961) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt) +* (bug 5849) Remove some hard-coded references to "Wikipedia" in messages +* (bug 5967) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it) +* Suppress images in galleries which appear on the bad image list (when rendering + for a wiki page; galleries in special pages and categories are unaffected) +* Maintenance script to remove orphaned revisions from the database +* (bug 5991) Update for Russian language (ru) +* (bug 6001) PAGENAMEE and FULLPAGENAMEE don't work in FULLURL and LOCALURL magic + words +* (bug 5958) Switch Uzbek language name to use latin script +* (bug 839) Add URLENCODE magic word +* (bug 6004) Update for Polish language (pl) +* (bug 5971) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 4873) Don't overwrite the subtitle navigation when viewing a redirect page + that isn't current +* (bug 2203) Namespace updates for Thai +* Fix breakage in parser test suite which caused incorrect reporting of the failure of + {{NUMBEROFFILES}}. Now initialises the site_stats table with some dumb data. Updated + the expected output for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to reflect this. +* (bug 6009) Use {{ns:project}} in messages where appropriate +* (bug 6012) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) +* (bug 6017) Update list of bookstores in German localisation files +* (bug 5187) Allow programmatically bypassing username validation, for scripts +* (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected +* (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this" +* (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified') +* (bug 2015) Add "\sim" to ~ conversion for HTML rendering +* (bug 6029) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 5015) Update be: magic words +* (bug 3974) Add parameter for site URL to "passwordremindertext" +* (bug 6039) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt) +* (bug 764) Add CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES to default database permissions +* Big update to Swedish localisation (sv) +* Use appropriate HTML functions to create the tool links on image pages, so they don't + look garbled when tidy isn't on +* (bug 5511) Fix URL-encoding of usernames in links on Special:Ipblocklist +* (bug 6046) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #15 +* (bug 5523) $wgNoFollowNsExceptions to allow disabling rel="nofollow" in + specially-selected namespaces. +* (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick Jenkins) +* Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better + handle some overlapping tag cases. +* Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC +* (bug 4610) Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark + changes as patrolled using the diff links there +* Add 'DiffViewHeader' hook called before diff page output +* (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de) +* (bug 6054) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #16 +* Add {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} magic word +* (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms +* (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics. +* (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs +* To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays + can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is + no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a + custom log type. +* (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages) +* Added $wgGrammarForms global +* Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries. +* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it) +* (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate() +* wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages +* Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group +* wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code +* Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed. + Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways. +* (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language +* Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when + adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs. +* Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory. +* (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an) +* (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru) +* Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering + problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages + making it into cached display. +* (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink") +* (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded + character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg + = when making URLs for template parameters. +* Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness + under HTML-compatible browsers. +* (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage +* Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext' +* (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history +* Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed +* Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs +* (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization +* (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs. +* Add APC as object caching option +* Update to Albanian localization (sq) +* (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias) +* Use optimized php5-only microtime() +* Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script +* Fix profiling table definition +* (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a + "show changes" operation in the editor +* (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins +* Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php +* Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer +* (bug 6133) Update strip state as we work. This mostly fixes extensions + used in Cite.php <ref> tags when Tidy is on. +* (bug 6139) Workaround for transclusion oddities in Vietnamese upload text +* (bug 6136) Update to Catalan language (ca) +* Update to Japanese localization (ja) +* Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer +* (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17 +* (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views +* (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page +* (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word +* Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles +* (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language + message contains '-'; fixes licenses selector on Commons configuration after + recent addition of the message to Messages.php +* (bug 5527) Batch up job queue insertions for, hopefully, better survivability + of lock contention etc. Duplicates are now removed at pop time instead of + at insert time. +* When showing the "blah has been undeleted" page, make sure it's a blue link +* parserTests.php accepts a --file parameter to run an alternate test sutie +* parser tests can now test extensions using !!hooks sections +* Fix oddity with open tag parameters getting stuck on </li> +* (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension +* Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more + consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the + 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to + further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise + expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences + in behavior based on the order tags are loaded. +* (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags +* Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags +* (bug 6164) Fix regression with <gallery> resetting <ref> state +* Hackaround for IE 7 wrapping bug in MonoBook footer +* New message sp-newimages-showfrom replaces rclistfrom on special:newimages +* Improve handling of ;: definition list construct with overlapping or + nested HTML tags +* (bug 6171) Fix sanitizing of HTML-elements with an optional closing + tag. The sanitizer still needs to learn how to make well-formed XML + in this case. +* Fix fatal error when specifying illegal name for manual thumbnail +* (bug 6184) Use shinier Linker::userLink() to make user links in + Special:Undelete +* (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb) +* (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18 +* (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa) +* Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a + per-namespace basis. +* Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being + interspersed into your ordered lists. +* (bug 5021) Transcluding the same special page twice now works +* Add 'SiteNoticeBefore' and 'SiteNoticeAfter' hooks +* (bug 6182) Date passed in "sp-newimages-showfrom" not adjusted to user time + preferences +* (bug 2587) Fix for section editing with comment prefix +* (bug 2607) Fix for section editing with mix of wiki and HTML headings +* (bug 3342) Fix for section editing with headings wrapped in <noinclude> +* (bug 3476) Fix for section editing with faux headings in extensions +* (bug 5272) Fix for section editing with HTML-heading subsections +* Fix for bogus wiki headings improperly detected with following text +* Fix for HTML headings improperly not detected with preceding/following text +* Section extraction and replacement functions merged into one implementation + on the Parser object, so they can't get out of sync with each other. +* Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc +* (bug 6197) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #19 +* (bug 6175) Improvement to German translation (de) +* Redirect Special:Logs to Special:Log +* (bug 6206) Linktrail for Swedish localization (se) +* (bug 3202) Attributes now allowed on <pre> tags +* Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes now available to discard illegal/unsafe + attribute values from an array. +* (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement + to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype + (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and + could even result in invalid output from valid input. +* (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default + meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of + robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt + doesn't forbid access. +* Regression fix: suppress warning about session failure when clicking to + edit with 'preview on first edit' enabled. +* (bug 6230) Regression fix: <nowiki> in [URL link text] +* Added AutoLoader.php, which loads classes without need of require_once() +* (bug 5981) Add plural function Slovenian (sl) +* (bug 5945) Introduce {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word +* {{PLURAL}} can now take up to five forms +* (bug 6243) Fix email for usernames containing dots when using PEAR::Mail +* Remove a number of needless {{ns:project}}-type transforms from messages files. These + usages already have separate label text. Such transforms are wasteful on each page view. +* Update to Yiddish localization (yi) +* (bug 6254) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #20 +* (bug 6255) Fix transclusions starting with "#" or "*" in HTML attributes +* Whitespace now normalized more or less properly in HTML attributes +* Fix regression(?) in behavior of initial-whitespace-pre in <center> +* (bug 6260) Update to Interlingua localization (ia) +* Update to Vlax Romany localization (rmy) +* Update to Latin translation (la) +* Update to Dutch translation (nl) +* Avoid some notices in page history with bad input +* Use double quoted consistently on attributes in linker output; preparing + for new normalization code when tidy not in use +* Replace "nogomatch" with "noexactmatch" and place the magic colon in the messages + themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content. +* Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other + than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics. +* (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word +* Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default. +* (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags. +* Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this + could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong. +* Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile; + it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html". +* (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl) +* (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl) +* (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21 +* Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 4054) Add "boteditletter" to recent changes flags +* Update to Catalan localization (ca) +* (bug 2099) Deleted image files can now be archived and undeleted. + Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in + $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory'] +* (bug 6324) Fix regression in enhanced RC alignment +* Introduce {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} magic word +* Update to Slovak translation (sk) +* Update to Alemannic localization (gsw) +* (bug 6300) Bug fixes for sr: variants +* namespaceDupes.php can now accept an arbitrary prefix, for checking rogue + interwikis and such. Not yet fully automated. +* (bug 6344) Add Special:Uncategorizedimages page +* (bug 6357) Update to Russian translation (ru) +* Workaround possible bug in Firefox nightlies by properly removing the + Content-Encoding header instead of sending explicit 'identity' value + in StreamFile +* (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages +* Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display +* (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message +* (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account +* (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links +* Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22 +* (bug 6279) Add genitive month names to Slovenian localisation +* (bug 6351) Update to German translation (de) +* Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects +* Remove unused "validation" table definitions from the schema files +* (bug 6398) Work around apparent PCRE bug breaking section editing when + massively-indented preformatted text immediately followed a header +* (bug 6392) Fix misbehaving <br /> in preferences form +* Add translated magic words to Hebrew localization +* (bug 6396) Change name for Chuvash language +* Introduce optional (off by default) language selector bar for user login + and registration. Customisable via the "loginlanguagelinks" message, the + links will preserve "returnto" values. If the user creates an account while + using such a link, then the language in use will be saved as their language + preference. +* Make sure '~~~' '~~~~' '~~~~~' are removed in Nickname preference. +* Rename "ipusuccess" to "unblocked", change the format (now wiki text) +* (bug 2316) Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag +* Allow setting the skin object that ImageGallery will use; needed during parse + operations (the skin must come from the ParserOptions, not $wgUser) +* Fix notice in MacBinary detection debug data for files of certain lengths +* (bug 6131) Add type detection for DjVu files, allowing them to be uploaded + with validity checking and size detection. No inline thumbnailing yet, + but could be added in the future. +* (bug 6423) Don't update newtalk flag if page content didn't change (null edits + were causing the newtalk flag to trigger inappropriately) +* Parser functions are now set using magic words. +* (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set +* (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version + if blocked during an edit +* (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page, + return blank content (as opposed to the message key) +* Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css +* (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export +* (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories +* Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off +* (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23 +* Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow + localizble extensions magic words. +* Update to Romanian translation (ro) +* Update to Esperanto translation (eo) +* Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE + if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error +* (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook +* Update to Piedmontese localization (pms) +* dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2 +* (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import +* (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import +* (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events +* Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import +* Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request +* Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming + large numbers of history items. +* Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export; + pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from + export when history is requested. +* Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name +* Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import +* Update to Korean translation (ko) +* Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist +* (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex +* Added Latvian localization (lv) +* (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages +* Update to Macedonian translation (mk) +* Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created + as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if + we can move over them. +* Show some error results in moveBatch.php +* (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps +* (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages +* (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing +* (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}} +* (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin +* (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages +* Added formatnum magic word +* Added Javanese localization (jv) +* (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries +* (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage +* Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true +* Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in + the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields. + Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a + "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe + in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes + distinct. +* (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set +* (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete +* (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24 +* Extension messages translation is now possible. +* Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports. + $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for + Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc. +* (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de) +* (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page +* (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar +* (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation' +* Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms +* (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex + more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input + with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does. +* (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation +* New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'. +* Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it +* Introduce updateArticleCount maintenance script which uses a better check that + reflects what Article::isCountable() tests for +* Introduce 'BadImage' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* Add "searchsubtitleinvalid" message for searches that are not valid titles. +* (bug 5962) Update to Italian localisation +* (bug 6530) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #25 +* (bug 6523) Fix SVG issue in rebuildImages.php +* (bug 6512) Link to page-specific logs on page histories +* (bug 6504) Allow configuring session name with $wgSessionName +* (bug 6185) Add standard user tool links to log page views +* Update to Venetian translation (vec) +* Update to Slovenian translation (sl) +* Add standard user tool links to deleted revision list +* Separate out EditPage's getContent bits from regular Article getContent. + Cleans up read-only-mode warning on empty pages and neats up some code. +* (bug 6565) Strict JavaScript writing +* (bug 6570) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #26 +* Added Telugu translation (te) +* Update to Catalan translation (ca) +* (bug 6560) Avoid PHP notice when trimming ISBN whitespace +* Added namespace translation to Kannada (ka) +* (bug 6566) Improve input validation on timestamp conversion +* Implicit group "emailconfirmed" for all users whose email addresses are confirmed +* (bug 6577) Avoid multiline parser breakage on <pre> with newline in attribute +* (bug 6771) Make old revisions of MediaWiki pages available with action=raw + +== Changes since 1.5 == + +* (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete + +Code quality: +* Use strval() to make sure we don't accidentally get null on bad revision + text loads or other fields mucking up XML export output +* Clean up duplicate code for selection of changeslist style +* Correct blob caching to reduce redundant blob loads on backups +* (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak +* Fixed possible infinite loop in formatComment +* Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation +* Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header +* (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script +* Avoid numerous redundant latest-revision lookups in history +* Require PHP 4.3.2 or higher strictly now. +* Tweak infinite-template-handling loop for PHP 5.1.1 string handling change +* Remove unused OutputPage::addCookie() +* Fix for short_open_tag off again; please don't break this, guys +* (bug 4507) Adjust FULLPAGENAMEE escaping to standard form +* (bug 5302) Merge the two #p-search .pBody statements in monobook css. + +Database: +* Finally dropped MySQL 3.23.x support +* Oracle support +* (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX +* Update all stats fields on recount.sql +* (bug 3227) Fix SQL injection introduced in experimental code +* Fix table prefix usage in Block::enumBlocks +* (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete +* (bug 3506) Avoid MySQL error when Listusers returns no results +* Skip update of disused 'rc_cur_time' field (todo: discard the field) +* (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode +* (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode + NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't + work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations. +* MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages +* Ability to set the table name for external storage servers +* Update ipblocks table in MySQL 5 table defs +* Removed FulltextStoplist.php, no longer used (was for MySQL 3.x workaround) +* Added templatelinks table, to track template inclusions. User-visible effects + will be: + * (inclusion) tag for inclusions in Special:Whatlinkshere + * More accurate list of used templates on the edit page + * More reliable cache invalidation when templates outside the template + namespace are changed +* Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc +* Removed read-only check from Database::query() +* Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs +* Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is + to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed. +* Don't change the password of the MySQL root user. + +Documentation: +* (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset + +Hooks: +(list not complete) +* Move ArticleSave hook execution into Article insert/update functions, + so they get called on non-EditPage actions that use these functions + to create or update pages. +* Added EditFilter hook, and output callback on EditPage::showEditForm() + for a place to add in captcha-type extensions in the edit flow +* (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php +* Fix for hook callbacks on objects containing no fields +* Add a hook for additional user creation throttle / limiter extensions +* Use $wgOut->parse() in wfGetSiteNotice() instead of creating a new parser + instance. This allows use of extension hooks if required. +* Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers +* Added 'PageRenderingHash' hook for changing the parser cache hash key + from an extension that changes rendering based on nonstandard options. +* Add 'GetInternalURL' hook to match the GetFullURL and GetLocalURL ones +* (bug 4456) Add hook for marking article patrolled +* Add UserRights hook, fires after a user's group memberships are changed + +Images: +* Support SVG rendering with rsvg +* Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide +* (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly +* Fix scaling of non-integer SVG unit sizes +* (bug 2800) Don't scale up small images on |thumb| without explicit size +* Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for + large SVG images on image description page +* Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images +* (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images +* (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled +* Added a limit to the size of image files which can be thumbnailed +* (bug 3806) Gracefully fall back to client-side scaling on |thumb| image + that passes $wgMaxImageArea +* (bug 153) Adjust thumbnail size calculations to match consistently; + patch by David Benbennick +* (bug 4162) Add $wgThumbnailEpoch timestamp to force old thumbs to + be rerendered on demand, sitewide +* (bug 1850) Additional fixes so existing local and remote images + get a blue link even if there's no local description page +* Avoid FATAL ERROR when creating thumbnail of non-existing image +* (bug 4207) Wrong image size when using 100x200px syntax to scale image up + patch by David Benbennick +* Don't delete thumbnails when refreshing exif metadata. This caused thumbs + to vanish mysteriously from time to time for files that didn't have metadata. +* (bug 4426) Add link to user_talk page on image pages +* Support a custom convert command for thumbnailing. See DefaultSettings.php + and the comments for $wgCustomConvertCommand, for more information. +* UserCan hook now allows advisory return values, rather than mandatory ones. + +Installer: +* (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on. + Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics? +* Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth) +* (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default + patch by Rob Church +* Improve installer + * Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables + * Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL + permissions, if said user exists + * Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields +* (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-' +* Add basic check for session support in PHP and die if not present + +Maintenance: +* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert + duplicate rows with the same id field) +* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a + different LocalSettings.php. +* Maintenance script to delete unused text records +* Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions +* Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database +* Maintenance script to reassign edits from one user to another +* Maintenance script to find and remove links to a given domain (cleanupSpam.php) +* Fix --report interval option for dumpTextPass + +i18n / Languages: +* Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta) +* (bug 3141) Partial support for Breton language (thanks Fulup). +* Support for venitian language +* (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update +* Finnish date format was hardcoded, now implemented properly +* (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr +* (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil) +* (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization +* (bug 3177) Estonian date formats not implemented in LanguageEt.php +* (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately +* (bug 3271) Updated LanguageNn.php for HEAD +* Experimental feature to allow translation of block expiry times + Implementation only for Finnish currently +* (bug 3304) Language file for Croatian (LanguageHr.php) +* (bug 2143) Update Vietnamese interface +* (bug 3063) Remove some hardcodings from Hebrew localisation +* (bug 3408) Bulgarian formatNum corrected +* (bug 1512) Disable x-code interp on Esperanto URLs for now, it does more + harm than good under current system by breaking incoming URLs with "ux". + (Editing is not affected, just URLs.) +* (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update +* Fix language name for dv +* (bug 3503) Update LanguageSq.php from sq.wikipedia.org messages +* (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian +* (bug 3334) Namespace changes for Polish +* (bug 3580) Change default Dutch language file to more neutral +* (bug 3656) LanguageHr.php - added convertPlural +* (bug 3414) LanguageBe.php - added convertPlural +* (bug 3163) Full translation of LanguageBr +* (bug 3617) Update for portuguese language (pt) +* Namespaces hacks on LanguagePl +* (bug 3682) LanguageSr.php - added convertPlural +* (bug 3694) LanguageTr.php update +* (bug 3711) Removed invisible unicode characters from LanguageHu +* (bug 2981) Linktrail for Tamil (ta) +* (bug 3722) Update of Arabic language (ar) Namespace changes +* Removed hardcoded Norwegian (no) project namespaces +* (bug 2324) image for redirects should be without text and oriented according to content language +* (bug 3666) Don't spew PHP warnings in prefs on unrecognized site language +* (bug 3817) Use localized date formats in preferences; 'no preference' option + localizable as 'datedefault' message. Tweaked lots of languages files... +* (bug 2721) Regression: Use European number separators for vi: wikis +* (bug 3961) minor languageDe changes +* (bug 1984) LanguageKo.php (Korean) update +* (bug 3804) update of LanguageWa.php file +* (bug 3886) Update for Portuguese language (pt) +* (bug 4020) Update namespaces for ms +* (bug 3922) bidi embedding overrides on category links +* (bug 4061) Update of Slovene namespace names (LanguageSl.php) +* (bug 4064) LanguageDe comma changes +* (bug 3922) Further tweaks to bidi overrides in category list for old + versions of Safari and Konqueror +* Fix custom namespaces on wikis set for Portuguese +* (bug 4153) Fix block length localizations in Greek +* (bug 3844) ab: av: ba: ce: & kv: now inherit from LanguageRu.php + ii: & za: now inherit from LanguageZn_cn.php +* (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint) +* (bug 4192) Remove silly 'The Free Encyclopedia' default sitesubtitle +* Use content-lang for sitenotice +* (bug 4233) Update LanguageJa.php +* (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php +* (bug 4108, 4336) Remove trailing whitespace from various messages, which + mucks up message updating to create dupe entries +* (bug 4389) Fix math options on zh-hk and zh-tw (but not localized) +* (bug 4392) Update of LanguageSr.php +* (bug 4382) Frisian numeric format +* (bug 4424) Update for Spanish language (es) 100% messages translated +* (bug 4425) Typos in Polish translation +* (bug 4436) Update for Turkish language (tr) +* (bug 4413) Update of Farsi language file (LanguageFa.php) +* Update for LanguageSr (Serbian): magic words +* (bug 137) MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning hardcoding +* (bug 4457) Update for Portuguese language (pt) +* convertPlural breakage fixed a little +* (bug 4144) Support for Sudanese language (Basa Sunda) +* Big cleanup: + - Removed obsolote, badly or untranslated messages + - Removed references to wikipedia/wikimedia etc in messages + - Other cleanup, like removing html and javascript and extension calls + - Removed hardcoded namespaces: Tt, Ms, Ia, Ga, Fo, Bn, Csb, He, Nv, Oc, Tlh + - Removed some useless backwards compatibility hacks + - Fixed formatnum on many languages +* wgAmericanDates check produced incorrect results in languages that don't have + a such distinction +* (bug 4548) Update for Portuguese language (pt): time format +* (bug 4530) Use consistent name for Kurdish +* Tweak default "upload disabled" text +* (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution +* (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs +* (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text +* (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL +* Default main page content improved per bug 4690 +* (bug 4615) Update for Portuguese language (pt) +* Separated MessagesSl.php as the other languages. +* (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yiddish for compatibility +* (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from MessagesUk.php +* (bug 5015) Update magic words translation in LanguageBe.php +* (bug 4859) Update for Portuguese messages (pt) +* (bug 4788) One string for MessagesPl +* Restriction types now use restriction-* messages instead of ui messages +* (bug 4685) Slovenian LanguageSl.php hardcodes project namespace +* (bug 5097) Fix Hungarian language (hu): thousands separator +* (bug 5098) Update for Portuguese messages (pt) +* (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file +* (bug 5105) Magic words for LanguageAr.php +* (bug 3993) Variants for Serbian language +* Typo in English messages file +* (bug 4114) Spacing in watchlist rows (in editing mode) +* Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists +* (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yi projects: Yiddish Wikinews fix +* (bug 5357) Add the icon near the user name also in RTL interfaces +* (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he) +* (bug 4497,4704,5010) Added some new language codes. +* (bug 5362) Piedmontese added +* (bug 5349) Update for Portuguese messages (pt) +* (bug 3573) Finished full Greek translation: namespaces +* (bug 5288) Initial localisation for Az +* (bug 4361) Fix "allmessagesnotsupportedui" so it doesn't refer to nonexisting + page +* Tweak wording of "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" + +Parser: +* (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits +* (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path +* (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST: +* (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default + format as designed. Documentation comments updated. +* Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 5.1.0RC4 +* (bug 3797) Don't expand variables and sigs in comments +* Allow parser cache on redirect targets +* Run wikitext-escaping on plaintext sigs (no wiki markup, just name) +* Check for unbalanced HTML tags on raw sigs (markup allowed, but show + a warning in prefs and use default sig if not balanced) +* Respect <noinclude> and <includeonly> during {{subst:}} expansion as well as + ordinary templates. +* Support <includeonly> in templates loaded through preload= parameter +* (bug 3979) Save correct {{REVISIONID}} into parser cache on edit +* Substitute {{REVISIONID}} correctly in diff display +* (bug 1850) Allow red-links on image pages linked with [[:image:foo]] +* Fix XML validity checks in parser tests on PHP 5.1 +* (bug 4377) "[" is not valid in URLs +* (bug 4453) fix for __TOC__ dollar-number breakage +* Convert unnecessary URL escape codes in external links to their equivalent + character before doing anything with them. This prevents certain kinds of + spam filter evasion. +* (bug 4783) : Fix for "{{ns:0}} does not render" +* Improved support for interwiki transclusion +* (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed. +* (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables +* (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish +* Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}} + etc. Registered via an interface similar to tag hooks. + +Upload: +* (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected +* (bug 3076) Support MacBinary-encoded uploads from IE/Mac +* (bug 2554) Tell users they are uploading too large file +* Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses +* Add 'reupload' and 'reupload-shared' permission keys to restrict new uploads + overwriting existing files; default is the old behavior (allowed). + +Security: +* (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE +* (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves +* (bug 2613) Clear saved passwords from the form +* IP privacy fix for blocklist search on autoblocks +* Security fix for <math> +* Security fix for tables +* Security fix for Special:Upload license selection list +* Add UploadVerification hook for custom file upload validation/security checks +* Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks +* Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable + versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms +* Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix +* Forbid usernames that can be interpreted as titles with namespaces, as that + leads to hard-to-manage names. +* (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength +* Add createpage and createtalk permission keys, allowing a quick + switch to disable page creation for anonymous users. +* (bug 675) Add page protection level for unregistered/new accounts +* User::isNewbie now uses the registration date and $wgAutoconfirmAge +* Add 'deletedhistory' permission key for ability to view deleted history + list via Special:Undelete. Default is off, replicating the 1.5 behavior, + but it can be turned back on for random users to replicate the previous + 1.6 dev behavior. +* Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure +* (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures +* Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit +* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this + MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images + which are not of known image types. This is in response to + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability +* Blocked users can no longer roll back, change the protection of, or delete/undelete pages +* Protect against spoofing of X-Forwarded-For header +* XSS issue : now sanitize search query input (fixed in 1.5rc3) +* Remove deprecated $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol references; use User::isAllowed( 'patrol' ) + per bug 5282. Patch by Alan Harder. +* Prevent registration/login with the username "MediaWiki default" + +Special Pages: +* Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination + title and reason input boxes +* (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages +* (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges +* (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search +* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting + $wgFilterRobotsWL = true. +* Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured +* (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages +* Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/> +* (bug 2369) Add separate message for input box on Special:Prefixindex +* (bug 3798) DoubleRedirects no longer has hard coded arrows +* (bug 3803) Fix links on Special:Wantedcategories with miser mode off +* Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0 +* (bug 3807) Fix 'all' in namespaces drop-down on contribs, rc +* Fail gracefully on invalid namespace in Special:Newpages +* (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages +* (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import +* (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes +* (bug 4059) fix 'hide minor edits' on Recentchangeslinked +* (bug 146) List number of category members in Special:Categories + (patch by Joel Nothman) +* (bug 4090) Fix diff links in Special:Recentchangeslinked +* (bug 4093) '&bot=1' in Special:Contributions now propagate to other links +* Fix display of old recentchanges records for page moves +* (bug 360) Let Whatlinkshere track [[:image:foo]] links +* (bug 3073) Keep search parameter on paging in Special:Newimages +* Removed Special:Validate, it's been superseded by the Review extension +* (bug 4359) red [[user:#id]] links generated in [[special:Log]] +* (bug 1996) Special page to list redirects +* (bug 4334) Add "watch" links to Special:Unwatchedpages +* Generate target user page links in Special:Ipblocklist where appropriate + (i.e. not an autoblock) +* Generate link to talk page of the blocker in Special:Ipblocklist, move + contribs. link of the target next to their name +* (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing' +* Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions +* (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions +* (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action +* Add block, block log and general log links to Special:Contributions +* Add contributions link to block log items +* Added optional "hide own edits" feature to Special:Recentchanges +* (bug 5018) Anchors for each message in Special:Allmessages +* Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not + list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1. +* (bug 4319) Don't show a "create account" link on the login form when + account creation is disabled. +* JavaScript filter for Special:Allmessages +* (bug 3047) Don't mention talk pages on Special:Movepage when there isn't one +* Show links to user page, talk page and contributions page on Special:Newpages +* Special:Export can now export a list of all contributors to an article (off by default) +* (bug 5372) Add number of files to Special:Statistics +* (bug 2871) Links to talk pages in watchlist editing view +* (bug 5385) Allow hiding anonymous edits on Special:Recentchanges +* (bug 2544) Illogical error reporting order in Special:Userlogin +* (bug 5409) Hide "show/hide patrolled edits" in Special:Recentchanges if patrolling + is disabled +* (bug 5447) Convert first letter of username to uppercase before searching in Special:Listusers +* (bug 759) Wrap redirects on the watchlist editing page in a span, class "watchlistredir" +* (bug 1862) Namespace filtering in watchlists + +Misc.: +* PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect + if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail +* (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on +* (bug 2323) Remove "last" tabindex from history page +* (bug 3116) Division by zero on [[Image:Foo.png|123x123px|]] +* Fix display of read-only lockfile message +* Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment + as a proxy debugging aid +* (bug 3170) Page Title failed to obey MediaWiki:Pagetitle. + wikititlesuffix was removed +* Add ability to break off certain debug topics into additional log files; + use $wgDebugLogGroups to configure and wfDebugLog() to log. +* Edit conflict on recreation of deleted page +* (bug 3216) Don't show empty warning page when no warnings. +* (bug 3218) Use proper quoting on history Compare Revisions button +* Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage [for rc future] +* Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions +* Remove "info" editing toolbar that was shown in browsers which do not +fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing. +* Don't override edit conflict suppression on section edits; section merging + should provide the expected transparency here and fits usage patterns better. +* (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext +* (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview +* Fix regressions in ChangesList traditional layout +* Fix edit on double-click for move-protected pages in Classic skin +* (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off +* (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads + by default when 'watchdefault' option is on +* Add options to dumpBackup.php for making split/partial dumps by page id +* Added filter options, compression piping, and multiple output streams for + dumpBackup.php +* (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode. +* (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew +* Added separate noarticletext and newarticletext messages for logged in and anon users. +* (bug 3332) Installation now uses Monobook, validates, plus usability improvements. +* (bug 3660) Update diff3 detection to work with Windows/Cygwin +* (bug 2330) Don't do funny thinks with "links" in MediaWiki:Undeletedtext +* Two-pass data dump for friendliness to the DB (--stub, then dumpTextPass.php) +* Data dump 'prefetch' mode to read normalized text from a prior dump + (requires PHP 5, XMLReader extension) +* (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction +* (bug 2938) Update MediaWiki:Exporttext to be more general +* Various fixes +* Fix wfMsg*() replacements; args containing literal $[2-9] were wiped +* Added @import for [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to all skins +* Edit box now remembers scrollbar position on preview +* (bug 3816) Throw edit conflict instead of fatal error when a page is + moved or deleted during section edit +* (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit() +* (bug 3291) 'last' diff link for last history line when not at end +* (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code +* (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin + talk notification on PHP 5.0.5 +* (bug 3852) "Redirected from" link no longer obscured on double-redirects +* changed directory hierarchy in images/math/. System upgrades from old to + new hierarchy on the fly. +* (bug 3487) Fix category edit preview with preview-on-bottom +* (bug 918) Search index incorrectly joined words at == headings == +* (bug 3877) Render math images into temp directory, then move to hashed + subdir so you can render new math images and have them work +* (bug 2392) Fix Atom items content type, upgrade to Atom 1.0 +* Allow $wgFeedCacheTimeout of 0 to disable feed caching +* Fix WebRequest::getRequestURL() to strip off the host bits squid prepends +* Require POST for action=purge, to stop bots from purging the cache +* Added local message cache feature ($wgLocalMessageCache), to reduce bandwidth + requirements to the memcached server. +* (bug 3562) for go search, try Caps-Variants-Broken-At-Non-Whitespace +* (bug 2569) Use PATH_SEPARATOR instead of trying to guess based on + DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (was wrong on NetWare) +* (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE +* (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target +* (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search +* Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works +* (bug 3999) Change atom 1.0 feed id; had been unnecessarily complex due to + unclear language in the spec. Now using the URL, same as the permalink, + which someone else will probably whine about because it's not 'perma' + enough or something. +* (bug 4014) Fix include mode for Allpages on small page sets +* (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed +* (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages +* Changed mail form to have a bigger message entry box (like for editing + a page +* Fix ulimit parameters for wfShellExec when memory_limit is specified in 'm' +* (bug 2111) Collapsable exif metadata table, clean up display +* Reduce fractions in display of exif exposure time +* (bug 4048) Optional footer link to site privacy policy +* Don't die() when update.php reaches the end of the warning count +* (bug 1915) Fix edit links when 'direction' used with 'oldid'; + using revision ID reported via OutputPage; Skin::editUrlOptions() +* Remove obsolete 'redirect=no' on some edit links +* Include oldid for the second revision on edit link on diff view +* (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page +* (bug 4100, 3049) Add 'edittools' message to hold edit tools, put it + on Special:Upload as well as edit, rearrange edit page pieces a bit. + Copyright warning now above the buttons to ensure it's visible, + template list at the bottom so it can grow. +* Optional summary parameter to action=rollback, for user javascript +* (bug 4167) Fix regression caused by patch for bug 153 +* (bug 4169) Use $wgLegalTitleChars in pipe trick conversions +* (bug 4170) Decode HTML character escapes in sort key +* (bug 4201) Fix user-talk mode for Enotif, and general code cleanup +* (bug 4214) Skip redundant action text inserts into the HTML <title> +* (bug 4212) Skip redundant meta-robots tag for default settings +* Fix regression: old version missing from edit links in Nostalgia skin +* (bug 1600) Trigger edit conflict on duplicate section=new submissions +* (bug 4001) Use local variables properly in wikibits.js akeytt() +* Fix regression: old version missing from edit links on CSS/JS pages +* (bug 3211) Include Date, To mail headers when using PEAR::Mail +* (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification + mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of + a raw string to abstract things a level. +* Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php +* Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output + sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension +* (bug 349) Fix for some numeric differences not being highlighted + patch by Andrius Ramanauskas +* (bug 4298) Include rc_id on enhanced RC singleton diff links for patrolling +* Did some refactoring on ChangesList.php merging dupe code +* (bug 1586) Fix interwiki generator for wikimedia obscure domains +* (bug 3493) Mark edits patrolled when they are reverted + patch by Leon Planken +* Removed experimental Amethyst skin from default set +* Upgrade old skin preferences properly at Special:Preferences + (used to spontaneously switch to Classic skin for old numeric pref records) +* (bug 3424) Update page_touched for category members on category page creation +* Log views show message when no matches +* Fix raw sitenotice display on database error +* Fix autoconfirm check for old accounts +* (bug 4368) Don't show useless empty preview on new section creation +* Don't show useless empty preview on new page creation +* (bug 4411) Fix messages diff link for classic skin +* (bug 4385) Separate parser cache entries for non-editing users, so section + edit links don't vanish / appear unwanted on protected pages +* (bug 2726, 3397) Fix [[Special:]] and [[:Image]] links in action=render +* (bug 4419) Remove obsolete magnify.png.old +* Removed $wgUseCategoryMagic option, categories are now enabled unconditionally +* (bug 3318) UI workarounds for disabled items in license selector + MSIE/Win: items now grayed out, JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked + Safari: JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked (but not gray) + MSIE/Mac: indented items now visible (JS hack) +* (bug 714) "plainlinks" class issues in IE, Opera +* (bug 4317) Inconsistent "broken redirects" messages +* Default interface text for "selflinks" tweaked +* (bug 3194) default implementation of translateBlockExpiry + which uses ipboptions +* (bug 4446) $wgExportAllowHistory option to explicitly disable history in + Special:Export form, 'exportnohistory' message to translate live hack. +* Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts +* (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links) +* $wgParserCacheExpireTime added +* Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed +* Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source + size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage. +* Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects +* Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage +* Improve "upload disabled" notice +* Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php + and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object +* (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output + HTML on final output (cached or not) +* Avoid PHP notice on command-line scripts if empty argument is passed ('') +* (bug 4571) Partial fix hack for {{fulllurl:}} in action=render +* (bug 3502) Bowtie symbol for TeX +* (bug 4000) Support for \textstyle et al. in <math> +* (bug 1663) support color in TeX formulas +* (bug 2026) missing glue around \not= (TeX) +* (bug 4576) Missing '>' broke license selector's first option in IE, Opera +* Override $wgLocaltimezone in parser tests for us outside Iceland and UK +* Fix extra whitespace at end of Wiki.php, DESTROYS XML OUTPUT +* Remove redundant 'echo' statements from MonoBook.php +* (bug 1103) Fix up redirect handling for images, categories + Redirects are now followed from the top-level, outside of the Article + content loading and viewing, for clarity and consistency. +* (bug 4104) 'OutputPageBeforeHTML' hook to postprocess article HTML on + page view (comes after parser cache, if used). Patch by ThomasV. +* Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5 + if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy. +* Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers. +* Remove obsolete killthread.php +* Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code + to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error. +* Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin + for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell +* Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs +* Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks. + Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5 +* (bug 4482) Include move comment on the null edit as well as the redirect +* (bug 3990) Use existing session name if session.auto_start is on + Fixes checks for open sessions, such as the cookie warning on login. + Patch by Zbigniew Braniecki. +* Add cache-safe alternate sitenotice for anonymous users. (MediaWiki:Anonnotice) + This is displayed instead of the regular sitenotice, if it exists. If not, the + regular sitenotice shows. If that doesn't exist, the value of $wgSiteNotice is used, + and if that's null, then nothing is shown. +* Spit the generated LocalSettings code out during the installer as an aid + to debugging issues. (Keep this?) +* Use __FILE__ to form path in new LocalSettings.php, so it stays accurate + when the directory is relocated for typical usage. +* Auto-update $wgCacheEpoch when LocalSettings.php changes on new installs. + For typical usage this will be a light burden and should reduce confusion + when the configuration is edited. +* Fix $wgCacheEpoch's effect on client-side caching. +* (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision. +* Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead +* MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with + name attribute) +* (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox. +* (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser +* (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom ) +* Add ".deps.php" include-file preloaders for some dynamically-loaded + language and skin classes. Should help with the broken base-class + problem under PHP 5 with APC as opcode cache. See details: + http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033660.html +* Small changes to tabs in Monobook skin c/o Chris Ware +* (bug 4679) Work around buggy basename() function in PHP5, which breaks + uploads of files starting with multibyte characters on Linux. + wfBaseName() doesn't suffer this bug, and understands backslash on + both Unix and Windows. +* (bug 3603) headscripts variable not hooked up to MonoBook skin +* Allow local cdb-based interwiki cache +* Use the "block", not the "protect" permission, when determining whether to + show a "block user" link in the toolbox +* Fix backup dump text prefetch for XMLReader constant changes in PHP 5.1 +* Suppress useless percentage indicator on output from 7za during dumps +* (bug 4633) Add (previous 200) (next 200) also above catlinks +* (bug 4686) Fix regression where ?diff=0&oldid=0 caused fatal error on + pages with only one revision. Fixes message diff link on first edit. +* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php +* Do not check lag on external storage servers +* Do not tidy interface messages (unless full tidy is set) +* Do not trust equality propagation and give more hints to MySQL + optimizer for revision fetches (avoids index scans) +* Use revision rate for ETA in dump generation; it tends to be more stable + than the per-page count for full-history dumps. +* Include timestamp in wfDebugLog breakouts +* (bug 4469) Namespace-specific notice to be displayed below site-notice + Edit messages like "MediaWiki:Namespacenotice-" plus namespace name + which is blank for main namespace, or like e.g. "User_talk" +* Adjust user login/creation form hooks to work with a captcha plugin +* (bug 1284) Inline styles for diffs in Recent Changes RSS/Atom feeds +* (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds, + and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE + workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above. +* Fix extra namespace for Bulgarian +* (bug 4303) Add $wgFavicon to change the shorticon icon link from + the default /favicon.ico or disable it (if set to false) +* (bug 3347) strip linebreaks in math error source +* (bug 4841) Warning for non-logged-in edits +* (bug 4867) Leave invalid EXIF date fields unformatted instead of + showing a bogus current timestamp +* Reset $wgActionPaths during parser test; corrects some false failures + in the automated test report. +* (bug 4875) Define a div containing the shared image description +* (bug 4860) Expose Title->userCan() as Hooks +* (bug 4828) Fix genitive month-name variable for cs, pl, uk +* (bug 4842) Fix 'show number of watching users' with enhanced RC +* (bug 4889) Fix image talk namespace for Tamil +* (bug 4147) Added cleanupWatchlist.php to clear out bogus watchlist entries +* (partial bug 3456) Disable auto redirect to Main Page after account creation +* (bug 4824) Separate out IE7 CSS compat hacks, fix for RTL pages +* Added support for wikidiff2 and similar external diff engines. +* Allow cookies to be shared between multiple wikis with a shared user database +* Blocking some Unicode whitespace characters in usernames. Should check + if some or all should be blocked from all page titles. +* Unknown log types no longer throw notices everywhere in RecentChanges +* (bug 4502, 5017) Don't render potentially hostile deleted page contents + on Special:Undelete by default; show source, with an optional preview. + The revisions list no longer shows the latest text by default, so it can + still be operated if the text is hostile. +* (bug 5013) Check for existence on "return to" links +* Removed trailing whitespace on a bunch more messages. +* Fix missing bad title check in Special:Booksources +* Remove empty booksources string in fy +* Avoid corrupting <gallery> inside <!-- comment --> +* Remove legacy PHPTal code, hasn't been maintained in ages. +* Tweak Userlogin include order for APC issue +* Don't try to link to current page on protection tab +* More exact checking in Title::equals() to fox moves of numerically similar + page titles. (Odd hex title bug on 64-bit.) +* Fix explicit s-maxage=0 on raw pages; should help with proxy issues in + generated stylesheets... hopefully... +* (bug 4685) More fixes for Slovenian project namespace +* Fixed and enhanced a little the Live Preview, which had been broken for some time +* Added article size limit, $wgMaxArticleSize +* (bug 4974) Don't follow redirected talk page on "new messages" link +* (bug 4970) Make category paging limits configurable +* (bug 4535) Warn user when editing CSS or JS subpage of a skin that doesn't exist +* Make Live Preview an user preference, still controllable by the global variable +* Rename the stub LanguageAls / LanguageGem_alsation to LanguageGsw to follow + updated language code assignments +* (bug 5081) Remove bogus fix for invalid characters in links which simply + broke use of legitimate multiple whitespace characters in bracketed link. +* (bug 4838) Add relative oldids (prev, next, cur) for raw pages + Patch by Lupin +* (bug 5086) Force image resize dimensions on ImageMagick, as for instance + "-resize 100x35!"; some thumbs were off due to differences in rounding and + would be generated smaller than expected. +* (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights +* Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page +* (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment + with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field) +* (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off +* (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector +* (bug 5152) Proper HTML escaping on subpage breadcrumbs +* (bug 4855) Section edit links now have the section name in the title attribute. +* (bug 2115) Support shift-selecting multiple checkboxes with JavaScript. +* (bug 5161) Don't try to load template list for nonexistent pages +* (bug 5228) Workaround for broken LanguageConverter title overrides; avoid + unnecessary hidden UI work when watch/unwatch is performed on edit +* Fixed bogus master fallback in external storage +* (bug 5246) Add speak:none to "hiddenStructure" class in main.css +* Further work on rev_deleted; changed to a bitfield with several data-hiding + options. Not yet ready for production use; Special:Revisiondelete is + incomplete, and the flags are not preserved across page deletion/undeletion. + To try it; add the 'deleterevision' permission to a privileged group. +* (bug 5270) Fix broken linktrail for br, cv, fr, hr, nn, oc, ta, wa +* Add a clickable contribs link in user tool links (rc, watchlist, diff view) + to see how people like it. (There was one in the old hacked-up diff view.) +* (bug 5236) Load wikibits.js before site-customized javascript +* (bug 4119) Workaround for <nowiki> following link in Walloon; remove capitals + from linktrail, as they're not used anywhere else. +* (bug 4781) Output links with the percent-encoding they're supplied with; + save the normalization for internal link storage. The normalization is a bit + buggy and can make incorrect foldings in the query string and such, so isn't + reliable beyond the hostname where it's used for the spam bulk checker. +* Don't URL-decode in the title attribute for URL links; it can produce false + results that don't code back to their original values. +* (bug 4611) Add user preference (default on) to add new pages to creators's watchlist +* (bug 5286) Fix regression in display of missing/bad revision IDs +* (bug 4729) Add user preference that marks a user's edits as patrolled if user is able to +* (bug 4630) Add user preference to prompt users when entering blank edit summaries +* Added optional suggest feature for the search box. Set wgUseAjax to true to + enable it. +* (bug 5277) Use audio/midi rather that audio/mid +* (bug 5410) Use namespace name when a custom namespace's nstab-NS message is nonexistent +* (bug 5432) Fix inconsistencies in cookie names when using table prefixes +* Additional protections against HTML breakage in table parsing +* (bug 5355) Include skin name and style JS settings in page source; + fixes regression where Opera 6/7 and KHTML CSS fixes weren't applied + when wikibits.js was moved up before user JS inclusion. +* Added $wgColorErrors: if set, database error messages will be highlighted + when running command-line scripts in a Unix terminal. +* (bug 5195) rebuildrecentchanges.php works again; Database::insertSelect now + has a parameter for select options. +* Fix updateSearchIndex.php for new schema +* Fix bogus "filename too short" error when uploading files with a period in the base + name, e.g. "Mr. Zee.png" +* (bug 2139) Show page title in subtitle when viewing "read only" page +* (bug 5452) Update language name for Cree + + + +---- + +== MediaWiki 1.5.8 == + +March 26, 2006 + +MediaWiki 1.5.8 is a security and bugfix maintenance release. + +A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw +HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks. + +Some minor UI fixes were also made, see the change log at the bottom of +this file. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5.7 == + +March 2, 2006 + +MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release. + +Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug +affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root +password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the +installer would not only create the new account but also change the root +password to be equal to the password of the new account. + +Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back +manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see: +http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html + +This version includes fixes for compatibility with Internet Explorer 7 +beta 2, and various other bugs; see the full changelog at the end of +the release notes. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5.6 == + +January 19, 2006 + +MediaWiki 1.5.6 is a security and bugfix maintenance release. + +A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop +if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this +would cause the script to fail after PHP's 30-second failsafe timeout. + +Some improvements have been made to the installer which should make +installation possible on a system with a broken MySQL "root" account. + +For several other minor fixes, see the complete changelog at the end +of this file. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5.5 == + +January 5, 2006 + +MediaWiki 1.5.5 is a security and bugfix maintenance release. + +Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added +to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft +Windows operating systems. + +Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types +(such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure +that malicious .wmf files can't be uploaded with a fake extension; +such files could put visitors to the site at risk. + +For more details on this, see: +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability + +Additionally, a maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts.php has been added; +this replaces an older Perl script which had not been updated for the new +schema in 1.5. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5.4 == + +December 21, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5.4 is a security and bugfix maintenance release. + +A hardcoded internal placeholder string has been replaced with a random +one. This closes a hole where security checks in inline style attributes +could be bypassed, injecting JavaScript code that could execute in +Microsoft Internet Explorer. + +Other browsers would not be vulnerable. + +Several minor fixes are included in this release, most notably a fix +to clear the "you have new messages" flag properly for usernames +containing spaces when e-mail notification is enabled. + +See the changelog at the end of the release notes for a full list of +fixes. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5.3 == + +December 4, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5.3 is a security and bugfix maintenance release. + +Validation of the user language option was broken by a code change in +May 2005, opening the possibility of remote code execution as this +parameter is used in forming a class name dynamically created with +eval(). + +The validation has been corrected in this version. All prior 1.5 release +and prelease versions are affected; 1.4 and earlier and not affected. + +Additionally several bugs have been fixed; see the changelog later in +this file for a complete list. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5.2 == + +November 2, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5.2 is a bugfix maintenance release. + +A change in PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC broke handling of extension and +<pre> sections, causing garbage data to be inserted in output and saved +edits. This version works around the change. + +Several other glitches with MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0.5 were also fixed; +see the change log below for a complete list. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5.1 == + +October 26, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a +recommended upgrade for all installations. + +This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style sanitation +which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft Internet Explorer. +Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may be vulnerable to +XSS injections on prior versions; users of standards-compliant browsers +are not vulnerable. + +Major fixes include: +* Image pages work again with resizing disabled +* Works in MySQL 5.0 strict mode + +There is experimental support in this release for explicitly declaring +the UTF-8 charset in the database; this has been tested with MySQL 5.0.15 +but should work on 4.1 as well. + +IMPORTANT: Changing this setting on an existing wiki may produce interesting +data corruption, depending on server configuration. Page contents should, +usually, be unaffected, but page titles and other items may be. Limitations +in MySQL's Unicode support mean that characters outside the BMP cannot be used +in page titles or various other fields when using this mode. + +Table definitions are in maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql, and the runtime +option to send 'SET NAMES utf8' is set by $wgDBmysql5 = true. + +(MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on these +versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is blissfully +unaware of it.) + + + +== MediaWiki 1.5.0 final == + +October 5, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5.0 is the new stable release branch of MediaWiki, and is +recommended for all new installations. + +Any wikis running a 1.5 beta or release candidate are strongly recommended +to upgrade to the final release, which includes a number of bug fixes and +a security fix for CSS bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer. + +IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet? +Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions +prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is +triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild. + + +=== What's new in 1.5? === + +Schema: + The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better + use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up + rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories. + + Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require + some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend + changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily. + +Permalinks: + The current revision of a page now has a permanent 'oldid' number assigned + immediately, and the id numbers are now preserved across deletion/undeletion. + A permanent reference to the current revision of a page is now just a matter + of going to the 'history' tab and copying the first link in the list. + +Page move log: + Renames of pages are now recorded in Special:Log and the page history. + A handy revert link is available from the log for sysops. + +Editing diff: + Ever lost track of what you'd done so far during an edit? A 'Show diff' + button on the edit page now makes it easy to remember. + +Uploads: + It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct + from the original filename on your disk. + + An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page. + + More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure + on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on + the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module. + + If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render + them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several + external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options. + +User accounts: + There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable + groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only + accessible to certain groups. + + For details see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights + +E-mail: + User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation + first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses. + + Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail + notifications. + +External hooks: + A somewhat experimental interface for hooking in an external editor + application is included. + +And... + A bunch of stuff we forgot to mention. + + +=== What's gone? === + +Latin-1: + Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for + some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode. + This is no longer supported. + + You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's + "view source"; look for a line like this: + + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> + + If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1, + you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding + any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.) + +MySQL 3.x: + Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema + clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields). + + MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should + very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support + will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release. + +Special:Maintenance + These tools were, ironically enough, not really maintained. This special + page has been removed; insofar as some of its pieces were useful and haven't + already been supplanted by other special pages they should be rewritten in + an efficient and safe manner in the future. + + +=== Caveats === + +Upgrade: + Wikis in Latin-1 encoding are no longer supported; only Unicode UTF-8. + A new option $wgLegacyEncoding is provided to allow on-the-fly recoding of + old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need + to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate + this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php. + + The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so + it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations. + +Backups: + The text entries of deleted pages are no longer removed from the main + text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases, + you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available + as maintenance/dumpBackup.php. + + For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia, + see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps + +PostgreSQL: + The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date. PostgreSQL + support may return in later releases, pending appropriate patches. + +MySQL 4.1+: + Some users may encounter installation problems with MySQL 4.1 or higher + due to strange charset encoding / collation configurations. Try setting + to 'latin1' or 'utf8' if you encounter problems. + + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 4 == + +August 29, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5rc4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. +It fixes compatibility with PHP 5.1, and corrects two cross-site scripting +security bugs: + +* <math> tags were handled incorrectly when TeX rendering support is off, + as in the default configuration. +* Extension or <nowiki> sections in Wiki table syntax could bypass HTML + style attribute restrictions for cross-site scripting attacks against + Microsoft Internet Explorer + +Wikis where the optional math support has been *enabled* are not vulnerable +to the first, but are vulnerable to the second. + + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 3 == + +August 24, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5rc3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. +It fixes several major problems in 1.5rc2: + +* Fixed a cross-site scripting injection in the search form + (broken since 1.5beta1) + +* Fixed upgrades from 1.4 database schema + (broken since 1.5rc2) + +1.3 and 1.4 releases are not vulnerable to the XSS bug, but anyone +running an earlier 1.5 beta or release candidate should upgrade +immediately. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 2 == + +August 23, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5rc2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. +Numerous bug fixes since last beta, plus a security fix; see change +log below for full details. + +A flaw in the interaction between extensions and HTML attribute +sanitization was discovered which could allow unauthorized use +of offsite resources in style sheets, and possible exploitation +of a JavaScript injection feature on Microsoft Internet Explorer. + +This version expands the returned text and properly checks it +before output. + +A 1.5rc1 release was mistakenly made from the incorrect source code +branch; 1.5rc2 is identical to the actual 1.5rc1 in revision control +except for version number. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 == + +July 30, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. +A number of bugs have been fixed since beta 3; see the full changelist below. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 == + +July 7, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release +series, with a security update over beta 2. + +Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could +be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a +maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are +recommended to upgrade to this release. + +Vulnerable versions: +* 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3 +* 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6 +* 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable + +This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates. +See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list. + + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 == + +July 5, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. +While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point, +third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release +on a public site without closely following additional development. + +Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to +upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including +a couple of HTML and SQL injections. + +This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and +a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks. + +Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades +from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and +configuration file changes. + +Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool, +maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php. +These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able +to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database +and compression format. + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 == + +June 26, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 is a preview release, pretty much feature complete, +of the new 1.5 release series. There are several known and likely a number +of unknown bugs; it is not recommended to use this release in a production +environment but would be recommended for testing in mind of an upcoming +deployment. + +A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases, +including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings. +See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior +configuration settings for the new system. + + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 == + +June 3, 2005 + +MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 includes a lot of bug fixes, feature merges, +and a security update. + +Incorrect handling of page template inclusions made it possible to +inject JavaScript code into HTML attributes, which could lead to +cross-site scripting attacks on a publicly editable wiki. + +Vulnerable releases and fix: +* 1.5 prerelease: fixed in 1.5alpha2 +* 1.4 stable series: fixed in 1.4.5 +* 1.3 legacy series: fixed in 1.3.13 +* 1.2 series no longer supported; upgrade to 1.4.5 strongly recommended + + +== MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 1 == + +May 3, 2005 + +This is a testing preview release, being put out mainly to aid testers in +finding installation bugs and other major problems. It is strongly recommended +NOT to run a live production web site on this alpha release. + +** WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH ** +** TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH, GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE ** +** INNUENDO INTO YOUR C.V. RIGHT BEFORE A JOB INTERVIEW! ** +** DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE. ** + + +=== Smaller changes since 1.4 === + +Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things: + +* 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers +* support for external editors for files and wiki pages: + http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors +* Schema reworking: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004 +* (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit +* (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist +* (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN. +* (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions. +* (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload. +* (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original. +* (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month +* (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see: + http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html +* (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database + revision id, useful for proper citation. +* (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation. +* (bug 2064) Configurable JavaScript mimetype with $wgJsMimeType +* (bug 2084) Fixed a regular expression in includes/Title.php that was accepting invalid syntax like #REDIRECT [[foo] in redirects +* It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions +* No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default. +* What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads. +* Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory +* Language conversion support for category pages +* $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory; +* Special:Movepage can now take paramaters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move + (used to just be able to take paramaters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move) +* (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one has edited the article. +* (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail. +* (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation +* ...and more! + + +=== Changes since 1.5alpha1 === + +* (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category to + file description from upload page (previously it would be set to + "Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging) +* (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable through + the MediaWiki namespace on the MediaWiki:navbar page. +* (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable +* (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded files + including virus checks using external programs. +* (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab +* (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization, update namespaces +* (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs" to "Limburgs +* (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in <div dir='ltr'> in order + to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis. +* (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute +* (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization +* (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message +* (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases +* (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed +* (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for "sharedupload" media +* (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form +* (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for <td> and <th> +* (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now +* (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests +* (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation +* (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install +* Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates, {{msg: is + now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent() +* Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries +* HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up + multiple-revision pulls +* Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of + copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub reference + records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields. Requires + that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields are migrated + into the main text store. +* Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by + default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason) +* dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with current + revisions only or complete histories. +* The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved word in + SQL which caused some inconveniances. +* New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid, mov, o, + ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on the KDE + crystalsvg theme. +* Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0' +* Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Íslenzka" +* The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation +* Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of + admnistrators out of normal users. +* links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce pain + dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages. +* Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater. +* Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits + (somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached) +* (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled +* (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image. +* Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema +* Remove linkscc table code, no longer used. +* (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text + instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation. +* Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once. +* Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single function + that does both numeric and named chars: Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences +* Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions +* Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements +* (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move +* (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save; + leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview. +* (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list +* (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title from the watchlist +* Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces. +* (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments +* (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags +* (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's external + LDAP authentication plugin +* (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging + +=== Changes since 1.5alpha2 === + +* (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching +* (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages +* (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts +* (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set +* (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning +* (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute zone, + with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304) +* Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for <hr> and <br> +* Changed user_groups format quite a bit. +* (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line +* (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move +* (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links +* (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking +* (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a possible + version conflict is detected +* (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes +* (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1 + when the default charset is set to utf8 +* (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if + $wgEmailAuthentication is false. +* (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings + when a template with a gallery was used. +* Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery +* (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!) +* Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact +* Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all groups + when searching for a specific group and can't be split across pages +* (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank link + for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files. +* (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount +* (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser +* (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file +* (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special page + rather than to "". +* (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation +* A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath +* A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName +* A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in the image table +* Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_" +* Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary +* badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages +* Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format +* 'developer' group deprecated by default +* Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check +* Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import +* (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links +* (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke too many + things for the current parser to handle cleanly +* (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file +* Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to + be forgotten between submits +* Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings +* (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to seperate it from + "Show preview" and "Show changes" +* Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to + harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis. +* The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off by default + and can be turned back on by setting $wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value. +* Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail, replacing + the factually inaccurate text that was there. +* (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again +* (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext +* (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php +* (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who don't + realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted printable page. +* Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems +* Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA) +* (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation +* (bug 2506, 2512) Updated the Nynorsk translation +* (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup UPGRADE + documentation about edit and read whitelists. +* (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update +* Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's +* (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page +* Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension + writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension + can be used with. +* Serialized user objects now checked for versioning +* Fix for interwiki link regression +* Printable link shorter in monobook +* Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script +* (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled + +== Changes since 1.5beta1 == + +* (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to + Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski)) +* Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace() +* Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php +* Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave +* (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks +* Fix paging on Special:Contributions +* (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab +* (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page +* Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-' +* Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local +* (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image +* (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage +* Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave +* Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages +* (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit +* Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user + agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was + not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of + PHP ucfirst() ) +* Moved the user name / password validity checking from + LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions, + User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do + these checks without rewriting code. +* Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-' +* Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a + factor of two. +* upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization +* Fix namespaces in category list. +* Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields +* Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now +* (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused + the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off. +* (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size +* Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled +* Don't show old debug messages in watchlist +* (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links +* (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times +* Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert' + status between next/previous buttons. +* Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar +* (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list +* (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages +* (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries + for uploaded files that don't have them +* (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling +* (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last + page in the article history pager. +* Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page +* (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere +* (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list +* (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page +* (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision +* Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets +* Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4 +* (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit +* Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage +* HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first +* (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set + Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view. +* (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as + subpage parent links) on current-diff view. +* (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for + categories only if the page does not exist. +* (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers +* (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection +* Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4 +* (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems. +* (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces. +* (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list +* (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and + recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly. +* (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin. +* (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles. +* (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images +* (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of + rejecting lowercase with a useless error message +* (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs +* Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into +edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead +of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new. +* (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and + Spanish numeric formatting +* Fixed Swedish numeric formatting +* (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again +* Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their + image description pages when viewed on local wikis. +* Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia +* Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link +* (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support + dynamic date conversion. +* FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links +* (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse +* Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it +* (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru: +* (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips +* (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page +* (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used <a></a> instead of [ ] +* (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch) +* Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits +* Removed language conversion support from Icelandic +* (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height +* (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images +* Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs +* (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses +* (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data: + namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version. +* Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export <text> elements +* Make language variant selection work again for zh + +== Changes since 1.5beta2 == + +* Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions +* (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work +* (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt +* (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization +* Fixed number formatting for Dutch +* (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css +* (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia +* Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia +* (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia +* (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database +* (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles +* Fix escaping in page move template. +* (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and <img> height attribute + +== Changes since 1.5beta3 == + +* Fix talk page move handling +* (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation +* (bug 2749)   would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv +* (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash +* Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some + interesting errors with signitures. +* (bug 2764) Number format for Nds +* (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language. +* (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories +* (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian +* Fix nohistory message on empty page history +* Fix fatal error in history when validation on +* Cleaned up email notification message formatting +* Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK +* (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish +* (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion +* Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records +* (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema +* (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format +* (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing +* Nynorsk numeric format fix +* (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off +* (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix +* With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match +* Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]] +* (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]] +* (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements +* Some shared upload fixes +* (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading +* support preload= parameter for section=new +* show comment subject in preview when using section=new +* use comment form when creating a new talk page +* (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block. +* Undo inconsistent editing behavior change +* (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort +* PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing +* (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan +* Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed + inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build +* Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing. +* Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php +* Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost + due to bogus optimization +* (bug 275) Section duplication fix +* Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer +* Fix notice on search index update due to non-array +* (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3 +* (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0 +* (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add + their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an + example of this. +* (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages +* (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections +* (bug 796) Trackback support +* Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC + are now suppressed as before. +* New skin: Simple +* "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when + viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively. +* Skins can now be previewed in preferences +* (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook, + patch from robla +* Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late + edit conflict. +* (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized +* (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's + content language +* Removed useless protectreason message +* Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols +* Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic +* Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention +* (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization +* (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces +* (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output + for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash. +* (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php +* compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken. + + +=== Changes since 1.5beta4 === + +* Fix Special:Allmessages under PHP 5 +* (bug 2911) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time +* (bug 693) Special:Allmessages is excessively wide and redundant +* (bug 3001) Updated and applied live hack for recentchanges-based watchlist +* (bug 145) Finish 'exclude redirect' implementation in search form +* Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination + title and reason input boxes +* (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected +* (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX +* PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect + if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail +* (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on +* (bug 1487) invalid html on empty list in banlist +* (bug 3017) Hotkey conflict for delete and show changes +* made pixel unit translateable and blocklistline now eats infiniteblock + and expiringblock +* (bug 3092) Wrong numerical separator for big numbers in Serbian. +* (bug 2855) Credit for a uniq author showed its realname even with + $wgAllowRealName=false. +* New special page: SpecialMostlinked +* (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom ) +* Fix display of read-only lockfile message +* Added a new hook, 'AddNewAccount', which is run after account creation +* Update all stats fields on recount.sql +* Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment + as a proxy debugging aid +* (bug 3162) Fix 'undefined property page_is_new' error on watchlist +* (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-' +* (bug 3170) wikititlesuffix was removed, use pagetitle instead +* (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action +* (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr +* (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update +* (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately +* (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil) +* (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization +* (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path +* (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges +* (bug 3238): Updated LanguageNn.php for 1_5 branch +* (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions +* (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE +* Fix URL sanitization in HTML attributes, which broke in this branch +* (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages + + +=== Changes since 1.5rc2 === + +* Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage +* Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions +* (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser +* XSS issue : now sanitize search query input + + +=== Changes since 1.5rc3 === + +* (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves +* (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete +* Security fix for <math> +* Security fix for tables + + +=== Changes since 1.5rc4 === + +* (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext +* (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview +* (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset +* Support SVG rendering with rsvg +* Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide +* (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly +* (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete +* (bug 2800) Don't scale up small iamges on |thumb| without explicit size +* Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for + large SVG images on image description page +* Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images +* (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default + format as designed. Documentation comments updated. +* (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update +* (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST: +* (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off +* (bug 2792) Update rebuildrecentchanges.inc for new schema +* Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/> +* (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images +* (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox. +* (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads + by default when 'watchdefault' option is on +* (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak +* (bug 3573) Full Greek Translation +* (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode. +* (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew +* Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks + + +=== Changes since 1.5.0 === + +* (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian +* (bug 3641) Fix handling of unrecognized file uploads with known extensions +* (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled +* Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable + versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms +* (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php +* Backport fix for reference usage notice in Special:Search on PHP 4.4.0 +* Backport database connect error display fix from HEAD +* (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction +* MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with + name attribute) +* Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation +* Fix Special:MovePage invalid HTML attribute for reason textarea +* Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header +* (bug 3734) Swapped out obsolete recount.sql with initStats.php +* (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode +* (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode + NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't + work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations. +* Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix + + +=== Changes since 1.5.1 === + +* Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0 +* (bug 3809) Backport fix for detecting diff3 failure +* MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages +* (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on. + Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics? +* (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages +* (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit() +* (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script +* (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code +* (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import +* (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin + talk notification on PHP 5.0.5 +* (bug 3845) Update attribute.php for 1.5 schema +* Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC4 + + +=== Changes since 1.5.2 === + +* (bug 3612) Remove old broken version of maintenance/compressOld.php + The working version is in maintenance/storage/compressOld.php +* (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE +* (bug 3933) specify XML namespace for Atom 0.3 feeds +* (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target +* (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search +* Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works +* (bug 4013) typo in fr +* (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed +* (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes +* (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages +* Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions +* (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength +* (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page +* (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint) +* Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead + + +=== Changes since 1.5.3 === + +* (bug 3805) Clear 'new messages' flag properly in enotif mode + for usernames containing spaces +* (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing' +* (bug 4249) Typo in entities2literals.pl +* (bug 4233) Update for japanese language +* (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php +* (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL +* (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text +* Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers +* Parser internal placeholder string now fully randomized for safety + +=== Changes since 1.5.4 === + +* Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts +* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this + MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images + which are not of known image types. This is in response to + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability + +=== Changes since 1.5.5 === + +* (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1" + should be set +* (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs +* (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution +* Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of + establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor + changes to installer. +* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work + (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field) +* (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision. +* Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc +* Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script +* Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1 +* Removed read-only check from Database::query() +* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a + different LocalSettings.php. + +=== Changes since 1.5.6 === + +* Default main page content improved per bug 4690 +* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php +* Fixed Special:Unlockdb +* Maintenance script to delete unused text records +* Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions +* Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database +* (bug 4768) Wrong Russian translation (typo) +* Performance bugfix: propagate equality manually for Revision fetches +* (bug 4773) PHP fatal error when invalid title passed to Special:Export +* Added missing table defs. for transcache to installer schemas +* (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds, + and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE + workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above. +* (bug 2532) Image directory structure migration bug +* (bug 4881) Correction to the fix for 1487; Ipblocklist showed 'no blocks' + message at the end of the list even if there were blocks. +* (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from LanguageUk.php +* Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not + list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1. +* Allow customisation of paging limits for items in categories using the + $wgCategoryPagingLimit global, per bug 4970. +* Improve "nogomatch" text to make it more obvious that a page can be created. +* (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file +* Don't change the password of the MySQL root user. + +=== Changes since 1.5.7 === + +* (bug 5180) User login page shows inappropriate email blurb +* Add the "AbortNewAccount" hook on account creation; see hooks.txt for more info. +* Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists +* Add links to useful material to the default main page content +* Fix fragment HTML injection + +=== Changes since 1.5.8 === + +* Fixed obvious mistakes in Finnish (fi) translation +* Fixed obvious mistakes in Kurdish (ku) translation +* Merge two #p-search .pBody statements i monobook/main.css +* (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he) translation +* Add the "UserRights" hook on user group changes; see hooks.txt for more info. +* Translated "listingcontinuesabbrev" for German + +=== Caveats === + +Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not +produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to +set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem +cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for +MathML to display properly in Mozilla.) + +---- + == MediaWiki 1.4.3 == (released 2005-04-28)