X-Git-Url: https://git.heureux-cyclage.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=c58356548f5dbf2a62915330b81cd4d2f8b55697;hb=d138f74c78164c6116f6f55dcade23f848fbce85;hp=0a9f08327528be07f50beba53f037974deb7850a;hpb=e4480a80afb7850b7b6031088c2ea9dc790110f5;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 0a9f083275..c58356548f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,606 +3,85 @@ 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. -== 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. ** - - -=== Big changes === - -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. - -User accounts: - There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable - groups. This is still somewhat in flux; do not rely on the present system - that you see in this alpha to still be there. - -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. This may not be on by default in final release, - depending on support. - -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. - -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 should - still run, but wikis of significant 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 later this year. - -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. - - -=== What's still waiting? === - -These things should be fixed by the time 1.5.0 final is released: - -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 upgrade process does not yet fully automate this. - - In general the upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all - cases, and there may be problems. - -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... but - this hasn't been finished yet. - -PostgreSQL: - The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date, and patches - to support PostgreSQL from the main installer are still pending. - -MySQL 4.1+: - Proper charset encoding / collation configuration for installs on MySQL 4.1 - and higher still needs to be fiddled with. Some bits may fail on the UTF-8 - setting due to some long field keys. - -Authentication plugin fixes: - The AuthPlugin interface needs some improvements to work better with LDAP, - HTTP basic auth, and other such environments. Some patches are pending. - - -=== Smaller changes === - -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 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
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 and -* (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
and
-* 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) 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 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 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 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 
 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 
 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 
 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
+== MediaWiki 1.6 pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha ==
+
+Misc work going on.....
+
+Big things to note:
+* MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported.
+
+
+== Changes since 1.5 ==
+
+* please fill in for the last couple weeks
+* 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 3076) Support MacBinary-encoded uploads from IE/Mac
+* (bug 2323) Remove "last" tabindex from history page
+* (bug 3141) Partial support for Breton language (thanks Fulup).
+* Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
+* (bug 3116) Division by zero on [[Image:Foo.png|123x123px|]]
+* Fix display of read-only lockfile message
+* Update all stats fields on recount.sql
+* 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
+* (bug 3177) Estonian date formats not implemented in LanguageEt.php
+* Add ability to break off certain debug topics into additional log files;
+  use $wgDebugLogGroups to configure and wfDebugLog() to log.
+* Finnish date format was hardcoded, now implemented properly
+* (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
+* Oracle support
+* Edit conflict on recreation of deleted page
+* (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
+* (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
+* (bug 3216) Don't show empty warning page when no warnings.
+* (bug 3218) Use proper quoting on history Compare Revisions button
+* (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
+* (bug 3227) Fix SQL injection introduced in experimental code
+* 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.
+* Fix table prefix usage in Block::enumBlocks
+* (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
+* 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.
+* (bug 2554) Tell users they are uploading too large file
+* (bug 3271) Updated LanguageNn.php for HEAD
+* (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
+* (bug 2613) Clear saved passwords from the form
+* Finally dropped MySQL 3.23.x support
+* Experimental feature to allow translation of block expiry times
+  Implementation only for Finnish currently
+* (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
+* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting 
+  $wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
+* (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
+* Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
+* IP privacy fix for blocklist search on autoblocks
+* Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses
+* Security fix for 
+* Security fix for tables
+* Security fix for Special:Upload license selection list
+* 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
+* (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
+* (bug 3304) Language file for Croatian (LanguageHr.php)
+* (bug 2143) Update Vietnamese interface
 
 
 === Caveats ===
@@ -614,7 +93,7 @@ cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
 
 
-For notes on 1.4.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.5.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 
 
 === Online documentation ===