= 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. == MediaWiki 1.18 == THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET MediaWiki 1.18 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in production. === Configuration changes in 1.18 === * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed * $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed * $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed * $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed * LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed * (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated. * $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core, and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCoreRdf as appropriate * (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS * Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature was removed in about 1.5. * LogPageValidTypes, LogPageLogName, LogPageLogHeader and LogPageActionText hooks have been removed. * New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom category collations. * $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions. === New features in 1.18 === * BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token. * (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals. * (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols * (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content namespaces as articles * Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads; furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path * Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory', 'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own class that extends PageArchive. * (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript. Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance. * (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is added to the textarea on the edit form. * mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php) * (bug 29067) Expose user.tokens (like we do user.options) in ResourceLoader. * New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog() * (bug 27655) Require token for watching/unwatching pages) * (bug 28904) (bug 29773) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.2 (the latest version) * (bug 29441) Expose CapitalLinks config in JS to allow modules to properly handle titles on case-sensitive wikis. * (bug 29397) Implement mw.Title module in core. * In MySQL 4.1.9+ with replication enabled, the slave lag should come from SHOW SLAVE STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST. * Language codes in $wgDummyLanguageCodes are now excluded on localization statistics (maintenance/language/transstat.php) * (bug 29586) Make the (next 200) links on categories link directly to the relevant section of the category. * (bug 29109) Allow the automatic edit summary for redirect creation show the first bit of the new redirect page. * (bug 5800) Added $formCallback as a parameter to the hook EditPage::showEditForm:initial. * (bug 29723) mw.util.wikiGetlink() now defaults to wgPageName. * (bug 29680) Add GetDefaultSortkey hook to override the default sortkey. * (bug 16699) {{#language:}} accepts second parameter to specify the language in which the language name is wanted. Coverage depends on the cldr extension. * (bug 15802) An easy way to look up messages: language qqx which returns the message keys. * (bug 29868) Add support for passing parameters to mw.msg in jquery.localize. * (bug 29558) $wgMiserMode now disables update.php by default * AjaxCategories: Easily add, edit or delete categories on article pages. Suggests possible categories when typing, all saves are done via AJAX. Supports editing of multiple categories and then saving them in one batch. === Bug fixes in 1.18 === * (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the file description page for multi-paged documents. * (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly used in Tiff files. * When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters. * (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request. * (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells the user a page named [[:]] already exists. * (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove. * (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all pages. * (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images should not be uploadable as .jpg files. * (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string * (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only. * (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG. * (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on Windows. * (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading. * (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any LTR/RTL screen layout. * (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user language. * (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles marker should be dynamically appended to the document head if it doesn't exist. * (bug 27023) After the document is ready, mw.loader is broken (calls callback before module is parsed). * (bug 4330) External URLs without a custom title should be treated as LTR, even in RTL text. * (bug 29055) Make "don't send email on minor edits" preference apply to changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits. * (bug 28272) Special:AllMessages should have only one "Go" button. * (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch no longer shows silly message. * (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same as lastTabIndex(). * (bug 29332) Warn if user requests mediawiki-announce subscription but does not enter an e-mail address. * (bug 25375) Add canonical namespaces to "wgNamespaceIds" in mw.config. * The class JpegOrTiffHandler was renamed ExifBitmapHandler. * (bug 29443) Special:Undelete should use JavaScript to invert all checkboxes instead of reloading the page. * (bug 29325) Setting $wgStrictFileExtensions to false no longer gives incorrect warning * (bug 29437) Multiple apostrophes in deleted article title cause odd rendering * (bug 29485) RSS feed of Special:RecentChange grouped together multiple consecutive edits by same user in included diff, but then linked to a single ungrouped diff. * Do not try to group together a page creation and edit in the RSS feed of RC. * (bug 29342) Patrol preferences shouldn't be visible to users who don't have patrol permissions * (bug 29471) Exception no longer thrown for files with invalid date in metadata * (bug 29492) Long-running steps in the installer (such as Upgrade and Install) no longer cause timeouts * (bug 29507) Change 'image link' to 'file link' in Special:Whatlinkshere * If the db is really screwed up, and doesn't have a recentchanges table, make the updater throw an exception instead of a fatal. * wfArrayToCGI() and wfCgiToArray() now handle nested and associative arrays correctly. * (bug 29567) mw.util.addPortletLink should only wrap link in for "vectorTabs" portlets. * (bug 8556) Incorrect session failure warning on preview-on-open namespaces (categories) when combined with $wgRawHtml. * Use content language in formatting of dates in revertpage message (rollback revert edit summary) and do not adjust for user timezone. * (bug 29277) MediaWiki:Filepage.css is also shown on the local wiki * Make sure Backlink cache does not retrieve interwiki redirects when looking for redirects to a local page. * (bug 6100) Allow different directionality (LTR/RTL) for user interface and wiki content, along with many other RTL and directionality improvements (such as bugs 28030, 12406, 28349) * (bug 29712) Removed broken defaultUserOptionOverrides in MessagesXx files and unneeded CSS flipping of quickbar. Instead, introduce option 5 which sets left/right according to the directionality of your interface language. * (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit) * (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a