* (bug 9528) Update Cantonese translations

[mediawiki.git] / RELEASE-NOTES

= 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 1.10 ==

THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET.

MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.

Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments 
will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.

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

== Configuration changes ==

* A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php).
  It lets you specify if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized
  output will be made lighter making things easier to read.
* The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be 
  customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
  the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
* Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
  $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
* Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser
* Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions

== New features since 1.9 ==

* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to 
  Special:Statistics
* (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
* (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
* Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
  starts page output
  (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
* Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded
  into a page protected with this option enabled
* (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown
  out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output.
* (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be
  overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
* Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
  determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
  permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
* (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
* (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
* (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
  the appropriate permission
* (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
* (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
* Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
* Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
* Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
* (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
* (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
* Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
* New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
  and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
  to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
  "semi protected".
* (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same
  format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite,
  as are protections made with the new field left blank. 
* (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
  keywords
* (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
* (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as
  MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are
  disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also
  be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr).
* Sort log types in Special:Log
* Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit
  toolbar buttons
* Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an
  IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.)
* (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages
* (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages.
* (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
* (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the
  confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id.
* (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page
* (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions
* (bug 1723) Article size in history
* (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames
* (bug 6997) Link from Special:log/block to unblock form
* (bug 9117) Link from Special:log/delete to undelete form
* Link from Special:log/protect to change protection form
* (bug 1196) Add IPv6 support added to blocks, more consistancy for IPv6 contribs
* (bug 3984) Searching in logs by title%
* Show thumbnail of existing image if image exists already under this filename
* (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete
* Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols
* (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images
* Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase
  extension exists
* (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere
* Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt
  for more information
* (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon"
  messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target
* (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction')
* (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images
* (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path
  which can lead to broken session storage
* (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links
* Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip
* (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions
* Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
* Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information

== Bugfixes since 1.9 ==

* (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála
* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
* Fixed up the AjaxSearch
* Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
  null to be treated properly with isset.
* Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
* Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
  (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
* (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
* Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
  optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
* PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated
* (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
* Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
* (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
* Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
* Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
* (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
* (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions
* (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins
* (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback
* (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer
* Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on
* (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is
  not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
* Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:")
* use configured cache servers for mctest.php
* bucket details in mcc.php
* fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
* full ID range for moveToExternal
* fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
* maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
* recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
* profile unicode cleanup in Xml
* log slow parses in Article.php
* profile wfMsgReal
* log mkdir failures
* profile AutoLoader
* rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
* security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
* Undelete page list can use plural marker
* (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
* (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
* (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
* (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
* Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag.
* Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>') 
* (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header
* Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment
* (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist
  in a consistent manner
* (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users
* ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files
* (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language
* Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name
* (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the
  message page exists
* ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found
* (bug 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li)
* (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
* (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
* Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
* (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation
* (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11;
  accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows.
* Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link
  red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an
  alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating.
* (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync
* (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies
* (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media
* (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile
* (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page
* (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs
* Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title
  is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as
  a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL
* (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies
* Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles
* Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js
* (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area
* (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note
  in DefaultSettings to make it clear.
* (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression
  affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second
  edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin.
* Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script
* (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key
* (bug 6844) Use <ins> and <del> tags to emphase the differences
* (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration
* (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to
* Add AlphabeticPager abstract class
* Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories
* (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent
  pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images
* Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was
  opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner
  cases.
* (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix
* Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied
  by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence
  of other tables while they work.
* Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758
  for better localisations.
* (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php
* (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history
* (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice.
* (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked
  when using the Postgres database.
* Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php.
  The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older
  LocalSettings.php files.
* Give Content-Length header for HTTP/1.0 clients.
* Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering.
* Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to
  dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES
  and such are used.
* Add 'charset' to Content-Type headers on various HTTP error responses
  to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. PHP sends only
  'text/html' by default when the script didn't specify more details,
  which some inconsiderate browsers consider a license to autodetect
  the deadly, hard-to-escape UTF-7.
    This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when
  $wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant
  on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec:
  http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
* Trackback responses now specify XML content type
* (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode
  to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly,
  particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia
* (bug 8919) Suppress paging links and related messages where there are no
  rows to list for query pages
* (bug 9057) Standardize MediaWiki: namespace for oc
* (bug 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when
  there are none
* (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres)
* (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and
  Special:DoubleRedirects
* (bug 8918) Enable PLURAL option for MediaWiki:showingresults and
  MediaWiki:showingresultsnum
* (bug 9122) Fix minor display issue in RTL with section edit link margin
* (bug 5805) Enable PLURAL option for some messages of watchlist and statistic
* (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other
  languages section of MonoBook skin
* (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges.
* (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages
* (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres
* (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook
* (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect
  loops on some server configurations
* (bug 9097) column "pr_pagetype" does not exist
* (bug 9217) Balance wfProfile calls in Skin::outputPage
* (bug 9222) PostgreSQL updater should not be version-specific
* Fix fallback implementation of mb_strlen so it works and isn't insanely
  slow for large strings, since it's used for page edit lengths
* (bug 8815) Setting password in initUser() breaks LdapAuthentication plugin
* (bug 9256) Add a quick note to index.php header comments
* Make Special:Listusers caseinsensitive for first letter
* Default tidy.conf has been moved from extensions module into includes.
* Ignore lonely '''''
* (bug 9244) When calling edit page for nonexistent section, generate error
  inside of just discarding edits, since edit links sometimes go to the wrong
  place.
* (bug 9019) No warning during upload if image description page exists, but no
  image
* (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space.
* (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to byte for Postgres
* (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language
* (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked
* (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader
* (bug 4777) Separate prev/next messages for Special:Whatlinkshere
* Merge approx 15 missing Wikipedia language codes into wikipedia-interwiki.sql
  based on Jeff Merkey's mediawiki-1.9.3.WG-20070316.tar.gz.bz2 archive.
* (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles
* (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log
  instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension
* (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent
  target page instead of silently redirecting
* (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}}
* (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached
  templates the same as the first transclusion.
* (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment
* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages
* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages
* (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions
* (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere
* (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed
  to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions
* Fixed $wgFeedLimit
* (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
* (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences

== Maintenance ==

* New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
  progress in the extension repository.
* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
  automatically attempt to create the required tables
* --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
* Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
* parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
  it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
* (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php
  exists but is not readable
* dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL
* (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php
  and importTextFile.php scripts
* (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script
* (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org
* (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning

== Languages updated ==

* Arabic (ar)
* Aramaic (arc)
* Aymara (ay)
* Belarusian normative (be)
* Belarusian alternative (be-x-old)
* Bulgarian (bg)
* Bihara (bh)
* Breton (br)
* Catalan (ca)
* Czech (cs)
* Danish (da)
* German (de)
* Greek (el)
* Esperanto (eo)
* Spanish (es)
* Estonian (et)
* Basque (eu)
* Finnish (fi)
* French (fr)
* Hebrew (he)
* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
* Hungarian (hu)
* Indonesian (id)
* Italian (it)
* Japanese (ja)
* Georgian (ka)
* Kazakh (kk)
* Korean (ko)
* Kashmiri (ks)
* Ripuarian (ksh)
* Latin (la)
* Luganda (lg)
* Limburgish (li)
* Lithuanian (lt)
* Marathi (mr)
* Low Saxon (nds)
* Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
* Nepali (ne)
* Nepal Bhasa (new)
* Dutch (nl)
* Occitan (oc)
* Pali (pi)
* Polish (pl)
* Romanian (ro)
* Russian (ru)
* Sanskrit (sa)
* Sicilian (scn)
* Slovak (sk)
* Sundanese (su)
* Swedish (sv)
* Tahitian (ty)
* Ukrainian (uk)
* Urdu (ur)
* Uzbek (uz)
* Zealandic (zea)
* Cantonese (zh-yue)

== Compatibility ==

MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.

PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.

MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.


== Upgrading ==

1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, and will not work without schema
updates.

If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
new database fields are filled with data.

If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!

See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.

=== Caveats ===

Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)


For notes on 1.9.x and older releases, see HISTORY.


=== Online documentation ===

Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
License:

  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation


=== Mailing list ===

A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
wikitech-l list:

  http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:

  http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.


=== IRC help ===

There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net