-= MediaWiki release notes =
Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals. If you
have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
instead.
=== New features in 1.21 ===
+* (bug 38110) Schema changes (adding or dropping tables, indicies and
+ fields) can be now be done separately from from other changes that
+ update.php makes. This is useful in environments that use database
+ permissions to restrict schema changes but allow the DB user that
+ MediaWiki normally runs as to perform other changes that update.php
+ makes. Schema changes can be run seperately. See the file UPGRADE
+ for more information.
* (bug 34876) jquery.makeCollapsible has been improved in performance.
-* Added ContentHandler facility to allow extensions to support other content than wikitext.
- See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
+* Added ContentHandler facility to allow extensions to support other content
+ than wikitext. See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
* New feature was developed for showing high-DPI thumbnails for high-DPI mobile
and desktop displays (configurable with $wgResponsiveImages).
* Added new backend to represent and store information about sites and site
specific configuration.
+* jQuery upgraded from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3.
* jQuery UI upgraded from 1.8.23 to 1.8.24.
* Added separate fa_sha1 field to filearchive table. This allows sha1
searches with the api in miser mode for deleted files.
* Add initial and programmatic sorting for tablesorter.
* Add the event "sortEnd.tablesorter", triggered after sorting has completed.
-* The Job system was refactored to allow for different backing stores for queues
- as well as cross-wiki access to queues, among other things. The schema for the
- DB queue was changed to support better concurrency and reduce deadlock errors.
+* The Job system was refactored to allow for different backing stores for
+ queues as well as cross-wiki access to queues, among other things. The schema
+ for the DB queue was changed to support better concurrency and reduce
+ deadlock errors.
* Added ApiQueryORM class to facilitate creation of query API modules based on
tables that have a corresponding ORMTable class.
* (bug 40876) Icon for PSD (Adobe Photoshop) file types.
* (bug 40641) Implemented Special:Version/Credits with a list of contributors.
* (bug 7851) Implemented one-click AJAX patrolling.
+* The <data>, <time>, <meta>, and <link> elements are allowed within WikiText
+ for use with Microdata.
+* The HTML5 <mark> tag has been whitelisted.
+* Added ParserCloned hook for when the Parser object is cloned.
+* Added AlternateEditPreview hook to allow extensions to replace the page
+ preview from the edit page.
+* Added EditPage::showStandardInputs:options hook to allow extensions to add
+ new fields to the "editOptions" area of the edit form.
=== Bug fixes in 1.21 ===
* (bug 40353) SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects.
recentchanges table.
* (bug 32951) Do not register internal externals with absolute protocol,
when server has relative protocol.
-* (bug 39005) When purging proxies listed in $wgSquidServers using HTTP PURGE
- method requests, we now send a Host header by default, for Varnish
- compatibility. This also works with Squid in reverse-proxy mode. If you wish
- to support Squid configured in forward-proxy mode, set
+* (bug 39005) When purging proxies listed in $wgSquidServers using HTTP PURGE
+ method requests, we now send a Host header by default, for Varnish
+ compatibility. This also works with Squid in reverse-proxy mode. If you wish
+ to support Squid configured in forward-proxy mode, set
$wgSquidPurgeUseHostHeader to false.
-* (bug 37020) sql.php with readline eats semicolon
+* (bug 37020) sql.php with readline eats semicolon.
* (bug 11748) Properly handle optionally-closed HTML tags when Tidy is
disabled, and don't wrap HTML-syntax definition lists in paragraphs.
* (bug 41409) Diffs while editing an old revision should again diff against the
current revision.
* (bug 41494) Honor $wgLogExceptionBacktrace when logging non-API exceptions
caught during API execution.
-* (bug 37963) Fixed loading process for user options
+* (bug 37963) Fixed loading process for user options.
* (bug 26995) Update filename field on Upload page after having sanitized it.
-* (bug 41793) Contribution links to users with 0 edits on Special:ListUsers didn't
- show up red.
-* (bug 41899) A PHP notice no longer occurs when using the "rvcontinue" API parameter.
+* (bug 41793) Contribution links to users with 0 edits on Special:ListUsers
+ didn't show up red.
+* (bug 41899) A PHP notice no longer occurs when using the "rvcontinue" API
+ parameter.
* (bug 42036) Account creation emails now contain canonical (not
protocol-relative) URLs.
* (bug 41990) Fix regression: API edit with redirect=true and lacking
starttimestamp and basetimestamp should not cause an edit conflict.
-* (bug 41706) EditPage: Preloaded page should be converted if possible and needed.
+* (bug 41706) EditPage: Preloaded page should be converted if possible and
+ needed.
* (bug 41886) Rowspans are no longer exploded by tablesorter until the table is
actually sorted.
* (bug 2865) User interface HTML elements don't use lang attribute
- (completed the fix by adding the lang attribute to firstHeading)
+ (completed the fix by adding the lang attribute to firstHeading).
+* (bug 42173) Removed namespace prefixes on Special:UncategorizedCategories.
+* (bug 36053) Log in "returnto" feature forgets query parameters if no
+ title parameter was specified.
+* (bug 42410) API action=edit now returns correct timestamp for the new edit.
+* (bug 14901) Email notification mistakes log action for new page creation.
+ Enotif no longer sends "page has been created" notifications for some log
+ actions. The following events now have a correct message: page creation,
+ deletion, move, restore (undeletion), change (edit).
+* (bug 457) In the sidebar of Vector, CologneBlue, Monobook, and Monobook-based
+ skins, the heading levels have been changed from (variously per skin)
+ <h4>, <h5> or <h6> to only <h3>s, with a <h2> hidden heading above them.
+ If you are styling or scripting the headings in a custom way, this change
+ will require updates to your site's CSS or JS.
=== API changes in 1.21 ===
-* prop=revisions can now report the contentmodel and contentformat, see docs/contenthandler.txt
-* action=edit and action=parse now support contentmodel and contentformat parameters to control the interpretation of
- page content; See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
+* prop=revisions can now report the contentmodel and contentformat.
+ See docs/contenthandler.txt.
+* action=edit and action=parse now support contentmodel and contentformat
+ parameters to control the interpretation of page content.
+ See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
* (bug 35693) ApiQueryImageInfo now suppresses errors when unserializing metadata.
-* (bug 40111) Disable minor edit for page/section creation by API
-* (bug 41042) Revert change to action=parse&page=... behavior when the page does not exist.
+* (bug 40111) Disable minor edit for page/section creation by API.
+* (bug 41042) Revert change to action=parse&page=... behavior when the page
+ does not exist.
=== Languages updated in 1.21 ===
MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+
+* South Azerbaijani (azb) added.
+* (bug 30040) Autonym for nds-nl is now 'Nedersaksies' (was 'Nedersaksisch').
+* (bug 34977) Now formatted numbers in Spanish use space as separator
+ for thousands, as mandated by the Real Academia Española.
+* (bug 35031) Kurdish formatted numbers now use period and comma
+ as separators for thousands and decimals respectively.
+
=== Other changes in 1.21 ===
== Compatibility ==
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