RELEASE-NOTES-1.24

   1 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals. If you
   2 have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
   3
   4 == MediaWiki 1.24 ==
   5
   6 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   7
   8 MediaWiki 1.24 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   9 production.
  10
  11 === Configuration changes in 1.24 ===
  12 * The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName, which is
  13   exposed in both mw.config and ApiQuerySiteInfo.
  14 * Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch,
  15   for using the old schema of the page_props table, in case the respective
  16   schema update was not applied.
  17
  18 === New features in 1.24 ===
  19 * Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
  20   WhatLinksHere entries.
  21 * Added a new hook, "ContentGetParserOutput", to customize parser output for
  22   a given content object.
  23 * Deprecated the hook "ShowRawCssJs", use "ContentGetParserOutput" instead.
  24 * HTMLForm's HTMLTextField now supports the 'url' type.
  25 * HTMLForm fields may now be dynamically hidden based on the values of other
  26   fields in the form.
  27 * HTMLForm now supports multiple copies of an input field or set of input
  28   fields, e.g. the form may request "one or more usernames" without having to
  29   have the user enter delimited list of names into a text field.
  30 * Added a new hook, "SidebarBeforeOutput", to allow to edit the structure of
  31   the sidebar just before its display.
  32 * (bug 49156) Added the mediawiki.cookie ResourceLoader module, which wraps
  33   jQuery.cookie so that getting/setting a cookie is syntactically and functionally
  34   similar to using the WebRequest#getCookie/WebResponse#setcookie methods.
  35 * (bug 44740) jQuery upgraded from 1.8.3 to 1.11.1.
  36 * Changes to content typography (fonts, etc.). See
  37   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
  38 * WikitextContent will now render redirects with the expected "redirect"
  39   header, rather than as an ordered list. Code calling Article::viewRedirect
  40   can probably be changed to no longer special-case redirects.
  41 * (bug 63903) Thumbnails without an explicit size specification are
  42   now resized to a square bounding box. This gives better results for
  43   non-landscape thumbnails.
  44
  45 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
  46 * (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
  47   rather than content language (same as copyright notice for editing interface).
  48 * (bug 62258) A bug was fixed in File::getUnscaledThumb when a height
  49   restriction was present in the parameters.  Images with both the "frame"
  50   option and a size specification set will now always ignore the provided
  51   size and display an unscaled image, as the documentation has always
  52   claimed it would.
  53 * (bug 39035) Improved Vector skin performance by removing collapsibleNav,
  54   which used to collapse some sidebar elements by default.
  55   This removes -list id suffixes like p-lang-list: instead of using things like
  56   #p-lang-list, you can do #p-lang .body ul.
  57 * (bug 890) Links in Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist no longer
  58   follow redirects to their target pages.
  59 * Parser now dies early if called recursively, instead of producing subtle bugs.
  60 * (bug 14323) Redirect pages, when viewed with redirect=no, no longer hide the
  61   remaining page content.
  62 * (bug 52587) Maintenance script deleteBatch.php no longer follows redirects
  63   in the file namespace and delete the file on the target page. It will still
  64   however delete the redirect page.
  65
  66 === Web API changes in 1.24 ===
  67 * action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
  68   ResourceLoader modules that should be used to enhance the parsed content.
  69 * action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap returns a new "protorel"
  70   field which is true iff protocol-relative urls can be used to access
  71   a particular interwiki map entry.
  72
  73 === Languages updated in 1.24 ===
  74
  75 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  76 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  77 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
  78
  79 === Other changes in 1.24 ===
  80 * The deprecated jquery.delayedBind ResourceLoader module was removed.
  81 * The deprecated function mw.util.toggleToc was removed.
  82 * The Special:Search hooks SpecialSearchGo and SpecialSearchResultsAppend
  83   were removed as they were unused.
  84 * (bug 65477) User::pingLimiter() now has an additional profile point varying
  85   by action being used.
  86 * mediawiki.util.$content no longer supports old versions of the Vector,
  87   Monobook, Modern and CologneBlue skins that don't yet implement the "mw-body"
  88   and/or "mw-body-primary" class name in their html.
  89 * Added pp_sortkey column to page_props table, so pages can be efficiently
  90   queried and sorted by property value (bug 58032).
  91   See $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey if you want to postpone the schema change.
  92
  93 ==== Renamed classes ====
  94 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
  95 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Fragment to CLDRPluralRuleConverterFragment
  96 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Operator to CLDRPluralRuleConverterOperator
  97 * CLDRPluralRuleEvaluator_Range to CLDRPluralRuleEvaluatorRange
  98 * CSSJanus_Tokenizer to CSSJanusTokenizer
  99 * MediaWiki_I18N to MediaWikiI18N
 100 * RevDel_ArchiveItem to RevDelArchiveItem
 101 * RevDel_ArchiveList to RevDelArchiveList
 102 * RevDel_ArchivedFileItem to RevDelArchivedFileItem
 103 * RevDel_ArchivedFileList to RevDelArchivedFileList
 104 * RevDel_ArchivedRevisionItem to RevDelArchivedRevisionItem
 105 * RevDel_FileItem to RevDelFileItem
 106 * RevDel_FileList to RevDelFileList
 107 * RevDel_Item to RevDelItem
 108 * RevDel_List to RevDelList
 109 * RevDel_LogItem to RevDelLogItem
 110 * RevDel_LogList to RevDelLogList
 111 * RevDel_RevisionItem to RevDelRevisionItem
 112 * RevDel_RevisionList to RevDelRevisionList
 113 * WebInstaller_Complete to WebInstallerComplete
 114 * WebInstaller_Copying to WebInstallerCopying
 115 * WebInstaller_DBConnect to WebInstallerDBConnect
 116 * WebInstaller_DBSettings to WebInstallerDBSettings
 117 * WebInstaller_Document to WebInstallerDocument
 118 * WebInstaller_ExistingWiki to WebInstallerExistingWiki
 119 * WebInstaller_Install to WebInstallerInstall
 120 * WebInstaller_Language to WebInstallerLanguage
 121 * WebInstaller_Name to WebInstallerName
 122 * WebInstaller_Options to WebInstallerOptions
 123 * WebInstaller_Readme to WebInstallerReadme
 124 * WebInstaller_ReleaseNotes to WebInstallerReleaseNotes
 125 * WebInstaller_Restart to WebInstallerRestart
 126 * WebInstaller_Upgrade to WebInstallerUpgrade
 127 * WebInstaller_UpgradeDoc to WebInstallerUpgradeDoc
 128 * WebInstaller_Welcome to WebInstallerWelcome
 129
 130 ==== Removed classes ====
 131 * IPBlockForm - Use SpecialBlock directly
 132 * WatchlistEditor - Use SpecialEditWatchlist directly
 133
 134 == Compatibility ==
 135
 136 MediaWiki 1.24 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later.
 137
 138 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 139 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 140 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 141
 142 The supported versions are:
 143
 144 * MySQL 5.0.2 or later
 145 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 146 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 147 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 148 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 149
 150 == Upgrading ==
 151
 152 1.24 has several database changes since 1.23, and will not work without schema
 153 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 154 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 155 many hours on a large site).
 156
 157 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 158 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 159 due to database schema changes.
 160
 161 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 162 new database fields are filled with data.
 163
 164 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to
 165 1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed
 166 with MediaWiki 1.21.
 167
 168 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 169
 170 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 171
 172 For notes on 1.22.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 173
 174 == Online documentation ==
 175
 176 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 177 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 178 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 179
 180         https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 181
 182 == Mailing list ==
 183
 184 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 185
 186         https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 187
 188 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 189
 190         https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 191
 192 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 193 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 194
 195 == IRC help ==
 196
 197 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.