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 1.17 ==
+== MediaWiki 1.18 ==
THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
-=== New installer in 1.17 ===
-MediaWiki 1.17 is shipping with a completely redesigned installer to fix
-a lot of outstanding bugs, cleanup the code quality, and make it easier to
-use. Notably, you can now run upgrades from the web without having to move
-LocalSettings.php. The specific bugs are listed below in the general notes.
-
-=== Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
-* DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
- extensions has been removed.
-* $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged
- to new users log.
-* $wgAllowImageTag can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag in wikitext.
-* (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display
- options.
-* $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option allows disabling CSS-based preferences; which can
- improve page loading speed.
-* (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as
- $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is
- on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly.
-* (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable
- which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
- showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
- research into its user experience implications.
-* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
-* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
- or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks)
-* $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has
- been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory.
-* $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted
- uploads in.
-* IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the
- normal $wgDBport.
-* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
- navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
-* $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
- provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
-* Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized,
- $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors,
- $wgUseZhdaemon, $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
-* (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
-* $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use.
-* $wgLoadScript was added to specify alternative locations for ResourceLoader
- requests.
-* $wgResourceLoaderMaxage was added to specify maxage and smaxage times for
- responses from ResourceLoader based on whether the request's URL contained a
- version parameter or not.
-* $wgResourceLoaderDebug was added to specify the default state of debug mode;
- this will still be overridden with the debug URL parameter a la
- $wgLanguageCode.
-* $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules was added to specify whether private
- modules such as user.options should be embedded in the HTML output or
- delivered through a resource loader request, which bypasses server cache (like
- squid) and checks the user parameter against $wgUser. The former adds more
- data to all pages, while the latter adds a request which cannot be cached
- server side.
-* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extension should use
- DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate().
-* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
- available as input for other configuration items, either.
-* Remove $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by
- $wgUploadNavigationUrl.
-* (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades
- without having to move LocalSettings.php
-* The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed
-* $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls.
-* $wgSecureLogin & $wgSecureLoginStickHTTPS to optionaly login using HTTPS
-* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to allow customise the name associed
- with $wgPasswordSender
-* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
-* (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in
- the footers of skins.
-* $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy
- used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior
-* It's no longer necessary for LocalSettings.php to include DefaultSettings.php.
-* It's no longer necessary to set $wgCacheEpoch to the file modification time
- of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done
- automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is
- the default).
-* (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed
-
-=== New features in 1.17 ===
-* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
- User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled).
-* (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights.
-* (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
- apply the names of the individual files within the gallery.
-* Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer
- if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>.
-* Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links.
-* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the
- 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default).
-* (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced
- changes list.
-* (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when
- viewing contributions of a blocked IP address.
-* (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second paramter for type of
- escaping.
-* Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter.
-* Special:Random carries over query string parameters.
-* (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go".
-* When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt
- is provided on the Upload form.
-* (bug 22647) Add category details in search results.
-* (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query.
-* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences.
-* Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode.
-* (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits.
-* ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
- watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on.
-* (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there
- is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages.
-* (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine.
-* (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching.
-* (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be
- notified about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions.
-* (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup.
-* (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages
-* (bug 21312) RevisionMove allows moving individual revisions of a page to
- another page. Introducing 'revisionmove' user right; disabled by default;
- experimental feature.
-* Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
- Special:Preferences
-* Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip.
-* (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
-* (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
- contributions
-* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids
-* (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math>
-* (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math>
-* (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math>
-* texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time.
-* SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB.
-* (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages
-* Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being
- well-formed XML
-* texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto
-* Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos
-* ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set
-* (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign
- client wikis.
-* (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
- page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
- {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
-* (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class
- "mw-ipb-needreblock"
-* Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa.
-* (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user
- input
-* (bug 24563) Entries on Special:WhatLinksHere now have a link to their history
-* (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users
-* (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token
-* A variety of category sort-related fixes, including:
-** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same.
- (This should be expanded to proper sorting for other languages before the
- 1.17 release.)
-** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately.
-** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names
- instead of randomly.
-* (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word.
-* JavaScript-based password complexity checker on account creation and
- password change.
-* The HTML ID's generated for sections are now much prettier when they contain
- punctuation or non-English letters, so a section named "Hello?" will now
- result in a URL ending in "#Hello?" rather than "#Hello.3F".
-* (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements
-* (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages
-* The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
- used in the page.
-* Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
-* (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
- intermediate revisions
-* Added new hook GetIP
-* Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text
- search.
-* TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader
- for versioning
-* Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which
- is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit)
-* (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled
- by default
-* (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails
-* Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly
- when a wiki has multiple variant languages.
-* (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts
-* Now rebuildtextindex.php warns if SQLite doesn't support full-text search.
-* (bug 10541) Front/backend separation of installation/upgrade code
-* (bug 10596) Allow installer to enable extensions already in extensions folder
-* (bug 17394) Make installer check for latest version against MediaWiki.org
-* (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English
-* Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description).
-* Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages
-* Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent
- changes/watchlist entries
-* (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text
- customizable
-* Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets
-* (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign
- file repositories.
-* When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both
- wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection
- arrow can be customized with CSS
-* (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message
- [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead.
- Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw
- number of the textsize in Byte
-* (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width
-* Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions
-* Added Special:Myuploads special page that redirects to Special:Listfiles
-* The footerlinks used in Monobook/Vector/Modern are now part of common skin
- code, SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec can be used to customize the list.
-* Special wrapping setups can now define MW_CONFIG_FILE to load a config file
- other than LocalSettings.php. This is like MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK but works in
- some cases where MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK will not work.
-
-=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
-* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
- without updating database.
-* (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer
- throws an error.
-* (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block
- settings changed.
-* (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different
- when the address changed.
-* (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name.
-* (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and
- redirects.
-* (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when
- the URL contains a colon.
-* (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again.
-* (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is
- now only displayed when relevant.
-* (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages.
-* (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects.
-* (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion.
-* (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language.
-* (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN.
-* (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work.
-* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users.
-* (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not
- correctly set.
-* (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so
- that links with non-NFC character references work correctly.
-* (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for
- anonymous users instead of null.
-* (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited.
-* (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being
- logged in (anonpreviewwarning).
-* (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files.
-* (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly.
-* (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text.
-* (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content
- language.
-* (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page
- when using rebuildFileCache.php
-* (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid".
- parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target.
-* (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend.
-* (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed.
-* (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases.
-* (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces
- rather than only main namespace.
-* (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all
- frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than
- the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images
- exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size.
-* (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first
- item.
-* (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase.
-* Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
- style is not valid for the user's interface language.
-* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
- preference is set.
-* Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
- in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
-* (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
-* (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer
- displays incorrect tabs.
-* (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers.
-* (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display.
-* (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources.
-* (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files
- work.
-* (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery.
-* (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer
- displayed on Special:Listusers.
-* (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences
- to enhance preference grouping.
-* (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the
- correct link.
-* (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
-* (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
-* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create)
- are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
- is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
-* (Bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as ˜ not ∼
-* (Bug 23241) Remove License selector, because it is not used when uploading a
- new version.
-* (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist.
-* The pipe | character in urls is now escaped.
-* (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved.
-* (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of
- MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary.
-* (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
- new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed.
-* Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if
- user did not capitalize first letter of username.
-* (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables.
-* (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
- as Opera 8.
-* (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
- account upload rights.
-* (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
- and correct render results.
-* (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
- consistent and correct render results.
-* (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo.
-* (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for
- multibyte characters.
-* (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser.
-* (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if
- the $noRedir parameter is set to true
-* (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents.
-* (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php
-* (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter
-* (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not
- accidently activated when hitting enter.
-* (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores
-* Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0
-* (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
-* (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
- a fatal error
-* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
- Special:Upload after following a red link
-* (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
-* (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments.
-* (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings
-* (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
-* (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers
-* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect
- Image: --> File: namespace rename.
-* Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
-* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
- disabled
-* (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when special:recentchanges(linked)
- or special:newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the
- page.
-* (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer
- throw fatal errors
-* (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a
- useful error message.
-* Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
- instead of showing an error page
-* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in
- SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
-* (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
-* (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules
-* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages
-* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
- longer pollutes the parser cache.
-* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a
- letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons,
- underscores, hyphens, and/or periods).
-* Save 200 useless queries on each category page view
-* Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec
-* (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian
-* "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between
- revisions" on diffs when appropriate.
-* (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as
- a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages
-* (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also
- make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case
-* (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
- memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
-* Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
- when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
-* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again
-* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file
-* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available
-* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel
-* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff
- instead of alterning focus between the two buttons.
-* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account
-* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output
-* SQLite system table names are now never prefixed.
-* (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second
- parameter
-* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16)
-* (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled
- passthru()
-* (bug 25462) Fix double-escaping for section edit link tooltips
-* action=raw was removed for Special:Statistics. This information is still
- available via the API
-* (bug 23934) Groups defined in $wgRevokePermissions but not in
- $wgGroupPermissions now appear on Special:ListGroupRights
-* (bug 23923) Special:Prefixindex no longer shows results if nothing was
- requested.
-* (bug 22308) Search now finds text in default main page immediately after setup
-* (bug 25697) Make sure empty lines render in diff view.
-* Use an actual minus sign in diff views, instead of a hyphen.
-* (bug 23732) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedFiles
-* (bug 23731) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedTemplates
-* (bug 25642) A exception is now thrown instead of a fatal error when using
- $wgSMTP without PEAR mail package
-* (bug 19633) When possible, Upscale small SVGs when creating thumbnails.
-* (bug 25725) Unwanted linebreaks in diffs.
-* (bug 11013) Database driver detection needs rewriting for robustness
-* (bug 13409) Installer prompts could use clarification--now has help boxes
-* (bug 16902) Installer spews warnings when exec() and dl() are not available
-* (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported
-* (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled
-* Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails
-* (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error
- on discussion pages with vector as default skin
-* (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing
-* (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores
-* (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir
- parameters
-* (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if
- $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set
-* (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3
-* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now
- normalised like normal links to special pages
-* (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect
- $wgExternalLinkTarget
-* (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that
- is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages
-* (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page
-* (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in
- some cases
-* (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only
- "File" and "Media" are allowed now
-* (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict
- with php extension that defines same class.
-* (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when
- $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false.
-* Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database.
-* (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation
-* (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2.
-* Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong
- case.
-* (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available
-* (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated
-* (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow
- absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google)
-* Partial workaround for bug 6220: at least make files on shared repositories
- show up as (struck-out) bluelinks instead of redlinks on Special:WantedFiles
-* rebuildFileCache.php no longer creates inappropriate cache files for redirects
+=== Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
+* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
+ WantedPages::getQueryInfo . This may break older extensions.
+* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined login / create account
+ link in the personal bar, or to output separate login and create account links
+* Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in $wgValidSkinNames but now
+ the value. This means for $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin
+ loader will no longer try loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook.
+* The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the rendering
+ of them so skin and language specific markup does not need to be saved inside the parser cache
+ note that this changes the cache key making all old entries in the parser cache invalid you
+ can set $wgUseEditSectionTokens to false to disable this and keep your old parser cache entries.
+ Note that this feature should reduce parser cache fragmentation when enabled.
+* $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit
+ per upload type.
+* $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set
+ $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0;
+
+=== New features in 1.18 ===
+* Added a special page, disabled by default, that allows users with the
+ 'disableaccount' privilege to permanently deactivate user accounts.
+* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main namespace
+* Search suggestions (other than in the Vector skin) will now use the HTML5
+ datalist feature where supported, currently only Firefox 4.
+* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions
+* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
+ This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
+* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0
+* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be saved.
+* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation
+ to be selectively disabled.
+* Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class.
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated
-* (bug 18372) $wgFileExtensions will now override $wgFileBlacklist
-* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer treated
- as wikitext on preview.
-* (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members.
-
-=== API changes in 1.17 ===
-* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
-* (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse.
-* (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent.
-* (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
-* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment.
- is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
-* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
- module.
-* (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests.
-* (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option.
-* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash.
-* (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions.
-* (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
- using token and username.
-* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
- track inline interwiki link usage).
-* Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
- similar to prop=categories's clcategorie
-* (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when
- thumbnailing larger than original image
-* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query
-* (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages
-* (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups
-* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
- ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help
-* (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied
-* (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules
-* (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but
- forceditsummary
-* (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
- in IE 7.
-* (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result
-* (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the
- hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added
- unconditionally on error
-* (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
- title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved
- to the local alias.
-* (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
- canonical language variant.
-* (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame"
- parameter.
-* (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API
-* (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and
- iwtitle
-* (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
- one of the backlinks generators with limit=max.
-* (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report
-* PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user
- does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
-* (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to
- NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit
-* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks,
- allmessages, allpages, and allusers
-* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to
- meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups
-* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module
-* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit
-* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and
- blockreason if the user is actually blocked.
-* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format
-* For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as
- missing
-* (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1)
-* (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags
-* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
- $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
-* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
- implicit groups rather than showing 0.
-* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules
-* (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually enforce
- validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning. Also add flag
- to enforce (die) if integer out of range (breaking change!)
-* (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a
- POST request was needed due to cache pollution
-* Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions
-* Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is
- used, rvlimit is enforced to 1.
-* (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the
- current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary
-* (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to
- reduce confusion
-* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page
- <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
- ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
- list.
-* The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs,
- empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters
-* (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop
-* (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when
- $wgDisableCounters enabled
-* (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages
-* (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL
-* (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook
-* (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo
-* (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the
- file is a multi-page file
-* (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist
-* (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description
-
-=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===
+* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
+ treated as wikitext on preview.
+* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
+ indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "..."
+* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
+ cannot read the page in question.
+* (bug 19006) {{REVISIONUSER}} no longer acts like {{CURRENTUSER}} in some cases
+* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions
+* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown as
+ "Permitted file types" on the upload form
+* (bug 26379) importImages.php gives more descriptive error message on failure.
+* (bug 26410) + signs are no longer treated as spaces in internal links if
+ link has a % sign in it.
+* (bug 26412) Search results headers no longer show a bogus edit link.
+* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater
+* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
+ pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
+ disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
+* If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse
+* (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages
+* (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary
+* (bug 25506) Exception is thrown if OutputPage::parse is called inside a tag hook,
+ which would reset parser state
+* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links
+* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
+ selected when the action is "purge".
+* (bug 14267) Support a MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab override for the subject namespace
+ tab on the mainpage of a wiki.
+* (bug 10158) Do not mention allowing others to contact you when the feature
+ is disabled ($wgEnableUserEmail=false)
+* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction
+* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
+ members.
+* (bug 2585) Image pages should send 404 if no image, no shared image and no
+ description page.
+* (bug 12974) The behaviour of wikitable and template parsing was altered. Previously,
+ all templates were treated as being at the start of a block context for the purposes
+ of evaluating wikitext elements like #, :, *, and tables (bug 529). Now this
+ behaviour is only applied to wikitable-start {|, but the first line of a wikitable
+ cell is now treated as a linestart.
+* Custom editintro's using the editintro url parameter will no longer show <noinclude>
+ sections on pages they are included on.
+* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
+ adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
+* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
+* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output better.
+* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences
+ and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is going on.
+* Trying to upload a file with no extension or with a disallowed MIME type now gives
+ the right message instead of complaining about a MIME/extension mismatch
+
+=== API changes in 1.18 ===
+* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result
+* (bug 14869) Add API module for accessing QueryPage-based special pages
+* (bug 14020) API for Special:Unwatchedpages
+* (bug 24287) Wrap API Help output at 100 characters
+* Add a realname uiprop option to query=userinfo so a user's realname can be extracted
+* Add a &watchuser option to ApiBlock
+* (bug 26541) Generator-ise ApiQueryRecentChanges
+* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages
+* (bug 25767) Add userrights properties to allusers and users query lists
+* (bug 26558) list=allusers auprop=groups does not list groups a user is automatically a member of
+* (bug 26559) list=allusers auprop=rights does not match list=users usprop=rights
+* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets duplicate
+* (bug 25135) add "normalized" to action=parse
+* (bug 26460) Add support for listing category members by category pageid
+* (bug 26482) add a imimages param to prop=images
+* (bug 26498) allow LinksUpdate with API
+* (bug 26485) add a elextlinks param to prop=extlinks
+* (bug 26483) add a iwtitles param to prop=iwlinks
+* (bug 26484) add a lltitles param to prop=langlinks
+* (bug 26480) add a pppageprops param to prop=pageprops
+* (bug 26650) Remove $wgAPICacheHelp in favour of $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout
+* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===
MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
-* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary) (new)
-* Banjar (bjn) (new)
-* Danish (dk) (removed deprecated language code)
-* Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) (removed)
-* Kabardian (kdb) (new, dummy)
-* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl) (new)
-* Latgalian (ltg) (new)
-* Minangkabau (min) (new)
-* Dutch (informal) (nl-informal) (new)
-* Rusyn (rue) (new)
-
-* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
- (Taraškievica).
-* (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc.
-* (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca.
-* (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script.
-* (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto.
-* (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia.
-* (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated.
-* Esperanto date format corrected.
-
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer
+MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer
supported.
MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
== Upgrading ==
-1.17 has several database changes since 1.16, and will not work without schema
+1.18 has several database changes since 1.17, and will not work without schema
updates.
If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-For notes on 1.16.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.17.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===
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