1 Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.27.
5 === Configuration changes in 1.25 ===
6 * $wgPageShowWatchingUsers was removed.
7 * $wgLocalVirtualHosts has been added to replace $wgConf->localVHosts.
8 * $wgAntiLockFlags was removed.
9 * $wgJavaScriptTestConfig was removed.
10 * Edit tokens returned from User::getEditToken may change on every call. Token
11 validity must be checked by passing the user-supplied token to
12 User::matchEditToken rather than by testing for equality with a
13 newly-generated token.
14 * (T74951) The UserGetLanguageObject hook may be passed any IContextSource
15 for its $context parameter. Formerly it was documented as receiving a
16 RequestContext specifically.
17 * Profiling was restructured and $wgProfiler now requires an 'output' parameter.
18 See StartProfiler.sample for details.
19 * $wgMangleFlashPolicy was added to make MediaWiki's mangling of anything that
20 might be a flash policy directive configurable.
21 * ApiOpenSearch now supports XML output. The OpenSearchXml extension should no
22 longer be used. If extracts and page images are desired, the TextExtracts and
23 PageImages extensions are required.
24 * $wgOpenSearchTemplate is deprecated in favor of $wgOpenSearchTemplates.
25 * Edits are now prepared via AJAX as users type edit summaries. This behavior
26 can be disabled via $wgAjaxEditStash.
27 * (T46740) The temporary option $wgIncludejQueryMigrate was removed, along
28 with the jQuery Migrate library, as indicated when this option was provided in
30 * ProfilerStandard and ProfilerSimpleTrace were removed. Make sure that any
31 StartProfiler.php config is updated to reflect this. Xhprof is available
32 for zend/hhvm. Also, for hhvm, one can consider using its xenon profiler.
33 * Default value of $wgSVGConverters['rsvg'] now uses the 'rsvg-convert' binary
35 * Default value of $wgSVGConverters['ImageMagick'] now uses transparent
36 background with white fallback color, rather than just white background.
37 * MediaWikiBagOStuff class removed, make sure any object cache config
38 uses SqlBagOStuff instead.
39 * The 'daemonized' flag must be set to true in $wgJobTypeConf for any redis
40 job queues. This means that mediawiki/services/jobrunner service has to
41 be installed and running for any such queues to work.
42 * $wgAutopromoteOnce no longer supports the 'view' event. For keeping some
43 compatibility, any 'view' event triggers will still trigger on 'edit'.
44 * $wgExtensionDirectory was added for when your extensions directory is somewhere
45 other than $IP/extensions (as $wgStyleDirectory does with the skins directory).
47 === New features in 1.25 ===
48 * (T64861) Updated plural rules to CLDR 26. Includes incompatible changes
49 for plural forms in Russian, Prussian, Tagalog, Manx and several languages
50 that fall back to Russian.
51 * (T60139) ResourceLoaderFileModule now supports language fallback
52 for 'languageScripts'.
53 * Added a new hook, "ContentAlterParserOutput", to allow extensions to modify the
54 parser output for a content object before links update.
55 * (T37785) Enhanced recent changes and extended watchlist are now default.
56 Documentation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Enhanced_recent_changes
57 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions.
58 * (T69341) SVG images will no longer be base64-encoded when being embedded
59 in CSS. This results in slight size increase before gzip compression (due to
60 percent-encoding), but up to 20% decrease after it.
61 * Update jStorage to v0.4.12.
62 * MediaWiki now natively supports page status indicators: icons (or short text
63 snippets) usually displayed in the top-right corner of the page. They have
64 been in use on Wikipedia for a long time, implemented using templates and CSS
66 - Basic wikitext syntax: <indicator name="foo">[[File:Foo.svg|20px]]</indicator>
67 - Usage instructions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Page_status_indicators
68 - Adjusting custom skins to support indicators:
69 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning#Page_status_indicators
70 * Edit tokens may now be time-limited: passing a maximum age to
71 User::matchEditToken will reject any older tokens.
72 * The debug logging internals have been overhauled, and are now using the
74 * Update CSSJanus to v1.1.1.
75 * Update lessphp to v0.5.0.
76 * Added a hook, "ApiOpenSearchSuggest", to allow extensions to provide extracts
77 and images for ApiOpenSearch output. The semantics are identical to the
78 "OpenSearchXml" hook provided by the OpenSearchXml extension.
79 * PrefixSearchBackend hook now has an $offset parameter. Combined with $limit,
80 this allows for pagination of prefix results. Extensions using this hook
81 should implement supporting behavior. Not doing so can result in undefined
82 behavior from API clients trying to continue through prefix results.
83 * Update jQuery from v1.11.1 to v1.11.3.
84 * External libraries installed via composer will now be displayed
85 on Special:Version in their own section. Extensions or skins that are
86 installed via composer will not be shown in this section as it is assumed
87 they will add the proper credits to the skins or extensions section. They
88 can also be accessed through the API via the new siprop=libraries to
90 * Update QUnit from v1.14.0 to v1.16.0.
91 * Update Moment.js from v2.8.3 to v2.8.4.
92 * Special:Tags now allows for manipulating the list of user-modifiable change
94 * Added 'managetags' user right and 'ChangeTagCanCreate', 'ChangeTagCanDelete',
95 and 'ChangeTagCanCreate' hooks to allow for managing user-modifiable change
97 * Added 'ChangeTagsListActive' hook, to separate the concepts of "defined" and
98 "active" formerly conflated by the 'ListDefinedTags' hook.
99 * Added TemplateParser class that provides a server-side interface to cachable
100 dynamically-compiled Mustache templates (currently uses lightncandy library).
101 * Clickable anchors for each section heading in the content are now generated
102 and appear in the gutter on hovering over the heading.
103 * Added 'CategoryViewer::doCategoryQuery' and 'CategoryViewer::generateLink' hooks
104 to allow extensions to override how links to pages are rendered within NS_CATEGORY
105 * (T19665) Special:WantedPages only lists page which having at least one red link
107 * New hooks 'ApiMain::moduleManager' and 'ApiQuery::moduleManager', can be
108 used for conditional registration of API modules.
109 * New hook 'EnhancedChangesList::getLogText' to alter, remove or add to the
110 links of a group of changes in EnhancedChangesList.
111 * A full interface for StatsD metric reporting has been added to the context
112 interface, reachable via IContextSource::getStats().
113 * Move the jQuery Client library from being mastered in MediaWiki as v0.1.0 to a
114 proper, published library, which is now tagged as v1.0.0.
115 * A new message (defaulting to blank), 'editnotice-notext', can be shown to users
116 when they are editing if no edit notices apply to the page being edited.
117 * (T94536) You can now make the sitenotice appear to logged-in users only by
118 editing MediaWiki:Anonnotice and replacing its content with "". Setting it to
119 "-" (default) will continue disable it and fallback to MediaWiki:Sitenotice.
120 * Modifying the tagging of a revision or log entry is now available via
121 Special:EditTags, generally accessed via the revision-deletion-like interface
122 on history pages and Special:Log is likely to be more useful.
123 * Added 'applychangetags' and 'changetags' user rights.
124 * (T35235) LogFormatter subclasses are now responsible for formatting the
125 parameters for API log event output. Extensions should implement the new
126 getParametersForApi() method in their log formatters.
128 ==== External libraries ====
129 * MediaWiki now requires certain external libraries to be installed. In the past
130 these were bundled inside the Git repository of MediaWiki core, but now they
131 need to be installed separately. For users using the tarball, this will be taken
132 care of and no action will be required. Users using Git will either need to use
133 composer to fetch dependencies or use the mediawiki/vendor repository which includes
134 all dependencies for MediaWiki core and ones used in Wikimedia deployment. Detailed
135 instructions can be found at:
136 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Fetch_external_libraries
137 * The following libraries are now required:
139 This library provides the interfaces set by the PSR-3 standard (http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-3/)
140 which are used by MediaWiki internally via the
141 MediaWiki\Logger\LoggerFactory class.
142 See the structured logging RfC (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Structured_logging)
143 for more background information.
145 This library was formerly bundled with MediaWiki core and has been removed.
146 It automatically flips CSS for RTL support.
148 This library was formerly bundled with MediaWiki core and has been removed.
149 It compiles LESS files into CSS.
151 This library was formerly a part of MediaWiki core, and has been moved into a separate library.
152 It provides CDB functions which are used in the Interwiki and Localization caches.
153 More information about the library can be found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CDB.
154 ** liuggio/statsd-php-client
155 This library provides a StatsD client API for logging application metrics to a remote server.
157 === Bug fixes in 1.25 ===
158 * (T73003) No additional code will be generated to try to load CSS-embedded
159 SVG images in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, as they don't support them anyway.
160 * (T69021) On Special:BookSources, corrected validation of ISBNs (both
161 10- and 13-digit forms) containing "X".
162 * Page moving was refactored into a MovePage class. As part of that:
163 ** The AbortMove hook was removed.
164 ** MovePageIsValidMove is for extensions to specify whether a page
165 cannot be moved for technical reasons, and should not be overridden.
166 ** MovePageCheckPermissions is for checking whether the given user is
167 allowed to make the move.
168 ** Title::moveNoAuth() was deprecated. Use the MovePage class instead.
169 ** Title::moveTo() was deprecated. Use the MovePage class instead.
170 ** Title::isValidMoveOperation() broken down into MovePage::isValidMove()
171 and MovePage::checkPermissions().
172 * (T18530) Multiple autocomments are now formatted in an edit summary.
173 * (T70361) Autocomments containing "/*" are parsed correctly.
174 * The Special:WhatLinksHere page linked from 'Number of redirects to this page'
175 on action=info about a file page does not list file links anymore.
176 * (T78637) Search bar is not autofocused unless it is empty so that proper scrolling using arrow keys is possible.
177 * (T50853) Database::makeList() modified to handle 'NULL' separately when building IN clause
178 * (T85192) Captcha position modified in Usercreate template. As a result:
179 ** extrafields parameter added to Usercreate.php to insert additional data
180 ** 'extend' method added to QuickTemplate to append additional values to any field of data array
181 * (T86974) Several Title methods now load from the database when necessary
182 (instead of returning incorrect results) even when the page ID is known.
183 * (T74070) Duplicate search for archived files on file upload now omits the extension.
184 This requires the fa_sha1 field being populated.
185 * Removed rel="archives" from the "View history" link, as it did not pass
187 * $wgUseTidy is now set when parserTests are run with the tidy option to match
189 * (T37472) update.php will purge ResourceLoader cache unless --nopurge is passed to it.
190 * (T72109) mediawiki.language should respect $wgTranslateNumerals in convertNumber().
192 === Action API changes in 1.25 ===
193 * (T67403) XML tag highlighting is now only performed for formats
194 "xmlfm" and "wddxfm".
195 * action=paraminfo supports generalized submodules (modules=query+value),
196 querymodules and formatmodules are deprecated
197 * action=paraminfo no longer outputs descriptions and other help text by
198 default. If needed, it may be requested using the new 'helpformat' parameter.
199 * action=help has been completely rewritten, and outputs help in HTML
200 rather than plain text.
201 * Hitting api.php without specifying an action now displays only the help for
202 the main module, with links to submodule help.
203 * API help is no longer displayed on errors.
204 * 'uselang' is now a recognized API parameter; "uselang=user" may be used to
205 explicitly select the language from the current user's preferences, and
206 "uselang=content" may be used to select the wiki's content language.
207 * Default output format for the API is now jsonfm.
208 * Simplified continuation will return a "batchcomplete" property in the result
209 when a batch of pages is complete.
210 * Pretty-printed HTML output now has nicer formatting and (if available)
211 better syntax highlighting.
212 * Deprecated list=deletedrevs in favor of newly-added prop=deletedrevisions and
213 list=alldeletedrevisions.
214 * prop=revisions will gracefully continue when given too many revids or titles,
215 rather than just ignoring the extras.
216 * prop=revisions will no longer die if rvcontentformat doesn't match a
217 revision's content model; it will instead warn and omit the content.
218 * If the user has the 'deletedhistory' right, action=query's revids parameter
219 will now recognize deleted revids.
220 * prop=revisions may be used as a generator, generating revids.
221 * (T68776) format=json results will no longer be corrupted when
222 $wgMangleFlashPolicy is in effect. format=php results will cleanly return an
223 error instead of returning invalid serialized data.
224 * Generators may now return data for the generated pages when used with
226 * Query page data for generator=search and generator=prefixsearch will now
227 include an "index" field, which may be used by the client for sorting the
229 * ApiOpenSearch now supports XML output.
230 * ApiOpenSearch will now output descriptions and URLs as array indexes 2 and 3
232 * (T76051) list=tags will now continue correctly.
233 * (T76052) list=tags can now indicate whether a tag is defined.
234 * (T75522) list=prefixsearch now supports continuation
235 * (T78737) action=expandtemplates can now return page properties.
236 * (T78690) list=allimages now accepts multiple pipe-separated values
237 for the 'aimime' parameter.
238 * prop=info with inprop=protections will now return applicable protection types
239 with the 'restrictiontypes' key.
240 * (T85417) When resolving redirects, ApiPageSet will now add the targets of
241 interwiki redirects to the list of interwiki titles.
242 * (T85417) When outputting the list of redirect titles, a 'tointerwiki'
243 property (like the existing 'tofragment' property) will be set.
244 * Added action=managetags to allow for managing the list of
245 user-modifiable change tags. Actually modifying the tagging of a revision or
246 log entry is not implemented yet.
247 * list=tags has additional properties to indicate 'active' status and tag
249 * siprop=libraries was added to ApiQuerySiteInfo to list installed external libraries.
250 * (T88010) Added action=checktoken, to test a CSRF token's validity.
251 * (T88010) Added intestactions to prop=info, to allow querying of
252 Title::userCan() via the API.
253 * Default type param for query list=watchlist and list=recentchanges has
254 been changed from all types (e.g. including 'external') to 'edit|new|log'.
255 * Added formatversion to format=json. Still "experimental" as further changes
256 to the output formatting might still be made.
257 * (T73020) Log event details are now always under a 'params' subkey for
258 list=logevents, and a 'logparams' subkey for list=watchlist and
260 * Log event details are changing formatting:
261 * block events now report flags as an array rather than as a comma-separated
263 * patrol events now report the 'auto' flag as a boolean (absent/empty string
264 for BC formats) rather than as an integer.
265 * rights events now report the old and new group lists as arrays rather than
266 as comma-separated lists.
267 * merge events use new-style formatting.
268 * delete/event and delete/revision events use new-style formatting.
269 * The root node and various other nodes will now always be an object in formats
270 such as json that distinguish between arrays and objects.
271 * Except for action=opensearch where the spec requires an array.
273 === Action API internal changes in 1.25 ===
274 * ApiHelp has been rewritten to support i18n and paginated HTML output.
275 Most existing modules should continue working without changes, but should do
277 * Add an i18n message "apihelp-{$moduleName}-description" to replace getDescription().
278 * Add i18n messages "apihelp-{$moduleName}-param-{$param}" for each parameter
279 to replace getParamDescription(). If necessary, the settings array returned
280 by getParams() can use the new ApiBase::PARAM_HELP_MSG key to override the
282 * Implement getExamplesMessages() to replace getExamples().
283 * Modules with submodules (like action=query) must have their submodules
284 override ApiBase::getParent() to return the correct parent object.
285 * The 'APIGetDescription' and 'APIGetParamDescription' hooks are deprecated,
286 and will have no effect for modules using i18n messages. Use
287 'APIGetDescriptionMessages' and 'APIGetParamDescriptionMessages' instead.
288 * Api formatters will no longer be asked to display the help screen on errors.
289 * ApiMain::getCredits() was removed. The credits are available in the
290 'api-credits' i18n message.
291 * ApiFormatBase has been changed to support i18n and syntax highlighting via
292 extensions with the new 'ApiFormatHighlight' hook. Core syntax highlighting
294 * ApiFormatBase now always buffers. Output is done when
295 ApiFormatBase::closePrinter is called.
296 * Much of the logic in ApiQueryRevisions has been split into ApiQueryRevisionsBase.
297 * The 'revids' parameter supplied by ApiPageSet will now count deleted
298 revisions as "good" if the user has the 'deletedhistory' right. New methods
299 ApiPageSet::getLiveRevisionIDs() and ApiPageSet::getDeletedRevisionIDs() are
300 provided to access just the live or just the deleted revids.
301 * Added ApiPageSet::setGeneratorData() and ApiPageSet::populateGeneratorData()
302 to allow generators to include data in the action=query result.
303 * New hooks 'ApiMain::moduleManager' and 'ApiQuery::moduleManager', can be
304 used for conditional registration of API modules.
305 * Added ApiBase::lacksSameOriginSecurity() to allow modules to easily check if
306 the current request was sent with the 'callback' parameter (or any future
307 method that breaks the same-origin policy).
308 * Profiling methods in ApiBase are deprecated and no longer need to be called.
309 * ApiResult was greatly overhauled. See inline documentation for details.
310 * ApiResult will automatically convert objects to strings or arrays (depending
311 on whether a __toString() method exists on the object), and will refuse to
312 add unsupported value types.
313 * An informal interface, ApiSerializable, exists to override the default
315 * ApiResult/ApiFormatBase "raw mode" is deprecated.
316 * ApiFormatXml now assumes defaults and so on instead of throwing errors when
318 * (T35235) LogFormatter subclasses are now responsible for formatting log event
319 parameters for the API.
320 * Many modules have changed result data formats. While this shouldn't affect
321 clients not using the experimental formatversion=2, code using
322 ApiResult::getResultData() without the transformations for backwards
323 compatibility may need updating, as will code that wasn't following the old
324 conventions for API boolean output.
325 * The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
327 * ApiBase::getDescription
328 * ApiBase::getParamDescription
329 * ApiBase::getExamples
330 * ApiBase::makeHelpMsg
331 * ApiBase::makeHelpArrayToString
332 * ApiBase::makeHelpMsgParameters
333 * ApiBase::getModuleProfileName
335 * ApiBase::profileOut
336 * ApiBase::safeProfileOut
337 * ApiBase::getProfileTime
338 * ApiBase::profileDBIn
339 * ApiBase::profileDBOut
340 * ApiBase::getProfileDBTime
341 * ApiBase::getResultData
342 * ApiFormatBase::setUnescapeAmps
343 * ApiFormatBase::getWantsHelp
344 * ApiFormatBase::setHelp
345 * ApiFormatBase::formatHTML
346 * ApiFormatBase::setBufferResult
347 * ApiFormatBase::getDescription
348 * ApiFormatBase::getNeedsRawData
350 * ApiMain::reallyMakeHelpMsg
351 * ApiMain::makeHelpMsgHeader
352 * ApiResult::setRawMode
353 * ApiResult::getIsRawMode
355 * ApiResult::setElement
356 * ApiResult::setContent
357 * ApiResult::setIndexedTagName_recursive
358 * ApiResult::setIndexedTagName_internal
359 * ApiResult::setParsedLimit
360 * ApiResult::beginContinuation
361 * ApiResult::setContinueParam
362 * ApiResult::setGeneratorContinueParam
363 * ApiResult::endContinuation
365 * ApiResult::convertStatusToArray
366 * ApiQueryImageInfo::getPropertyDescriptions
367 * ApiQueryLogEvents::addLogParams
368 * The following classes have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
370 * ApiQueryDeletedrevs
372 === Languages updated in 1.25 ===
374 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
375 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
376 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
379 ** awa (अवधी / Awadhi), thanks to translator 1AnuraagPandey;
380 ** bgn (بلوچی رخشانی / Western Balochi), thanks to translators
381 Baloch Afghanistan, Ibrahim khashrowdi and Rachitrali;
382 ** ses (Koyraboro Senni), thanks to translator Songhay.
383 * (T66440) Kazakh (kk) wikis should no longer forcefully reset the user's
384 interface language to kk where unexpected.
385 * The Chinese conversion table was substantially updated to fix a lot of
386 bugs and ensure better reading experience for different variants.
388 === Other changes in 1.25 ===
389 * (T45591) Links to MediaWiki.org translatable help were added to indicators,
390 mostly in special pages. Local custom target titles can be placed in the
391 relevant '(namespace-X|action name|special page name)-helppage' system
392 message. Extensions can use the addHelpLink() function to do the same.
393 * The skin autodiscovery mechanism, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.23, has been
394 removed. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery for
395 migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
396 * Javascript variables 'wgFileCanRotate' and 'wgFileExtensions' now only
397 available on Special:Upload.
398 * (T58257) Set site logo from mediawiki.skinning.interface module instead of
399 inline styles in the HTML.
400 * Removed ApiQueryUsers::getAutoGroups(). (deprecated since 1.20)
401 * Removed XmlDumpWriter::schemaVersion(). (deprecated since 1.20)
402 * Removed LogEventsList::getDisplayTitle(). (deprecated since 1.20)
403 * Removed Preferences::trySetUserEmail(). (deprecated since 1.20)
404 * Removed mw.user.name() and mw.user.anonymous() methods. (deprecated since 1.20)
405 * Removed 'ok' and 'err' parameters in the mediawiki.api modules. (deprecated
407 * Removed 'async' parameter from the mw.Api#getCategories() method. (deprecated
409 * Removed 'jquery.json' module. (deprecated since 1.24)
410 Use the 'json' module and global JSON object instead.
411 * Deprecated OutputPage::readOnlyPage() and OutputPage::rateLimited().
412 Also, the former will now throw an MWException if called with one or more
414 * Removed hitcounters and associated code.
415 * The "temp" zone of the upload respository is now considered private. If it
416 already exists (such as under the images/ directory), please make sure that
417 the directory is not web readable (e.g. via a .htaccess file).
418 * BREAKING CHANGE: In the XML dump format used by Special:Export and
419 dumpBackup.php, the <model> and <format> tags now apprear before the <text>
420 tag, instead of after the <text> and <sha1> tags.
421 The new schema version is 0.10, the new schema URI is:
422 https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10.xsd
423 * MWFunction::call() and MWFunction::callArray() were removed, having being
425 * Deprecated the getInternalLinkAttributes, getInternalLinkAttributesObj,
426 and getInternalLinkAttributes methods in Linker, and removed
427 getExternalLinkAttributes method, which was deprecated in MediaWiki 1.18.
428 * Removed Sites class, which was deprecated in 1.21 and replaced by SiteSQLStore.
429 * Added wgRelevantArticleId to the client-side config, for use on special pages.
430 * Deprecated the TitleIsCssOrJsPage hook. Superseded by the
431 ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor hook since MediaWiki 1.21.
432 * Deprecated the TitleIsWikitextPage hook. Superseded by the
433 ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor hook since MediaWiki 1.21.
434 * Changed parsing of variables in schema (.sql) files:
435 ** The substituted values are no longer parsed. (Formerly, several passes
436 were made for each variable, so depending on the order in which variables
437 were defined, variables might have been found inside encoded values. This
438 is no longer the case.)
439 ** Variables are no longer string encoded when the /*$var*/ syntax is used.
440 If string encoding is necessary, use the '{$var}' syntax instead.
441 ** Variable names must only consist of one or more of the characters
443 ** In source text of the form '{$A}'{$B}' or `{$A}`{$B}`, where variable A
444 does not exist yet variable B does, the latter may not be replaced.
445 However, this difference is unlikely to arise in practice.
446 * (T67278) RFC, PMID, and ISBN "magic links" must be surrounded by non-word
447 characters on both sides.
448 * The FormatAutocomments hook will now receive $pre and $post as booleans,
449 rather than as strings that must be prepended or appended to $comment.
450 * (T30950, T31025) RFC, PMID, and ISBN "magic links" can no longer contain
451 newlines; but they can contain and other non-newline whitespace.
452 * The 'mediawiki.action.edit' ResourceLoader module no longer generates the edit
453 toolbar, which has been moved to a separate 'mediawiki.toolbar' module. If you
454 relied on this behavior, update your scripts' dependencies.
455 * HTMLForm's 'vform' display style has been separated to a subclass. Therefore:
456 * HTMLForm::isVForm() is now deprecated.
457 * You can no longer do this:
458 $form = new HTMLForm( … );
459 $form->setDisplayFormat( 'vform' ); // throws exception
461 $form = HTMLForm::factory( 'vform', … );
462 * Deprecated Revision methods getRawUser(), getRawUserText() and getRawComment().
463 * BREAKING CHANGE: mediawiki.user.generateRandomSessionId:
464 The alphabet of the prior string returned was A-Za-z0-9 and now it is 0-9A-F
465 * (T87504) Avoid serving SVG background-images in CSS for Opera 12, which
466 renders them incorrectly when combined with border-radius or background-size.
467 * Removed maintenance script dumpSisterSites.php.
468 * DatabaseBase class constructors must be called using the array argument style.
469 Ideally, DatabaseBase:factory() should be used instead in most cases.
470 * Deprecated ParserOutput::addSecondaryDataUpdate and ParserOutput::getSecondaryDataUpdates.
471 This is a hard deprecation, with getSecondaryDataUpdates returning an empty array and
472 addSecondaryDataUpdate throwing an exception. These functions will be removed in 1.26,
473 since they interfere with caching of ParserOutput objects.
474 * Introduced new hook 'SecondaryDataUpdates' that allows extensions to inject custom updates.
475 * Introduced new hook 'OpportunisticLinksUpdate' that allows extensions to perform
476 updates when a page is re-rendered.
477 * EditPage::attemptSave has been modified not to call handleStatus itself and
478 instead just returns the Status object. Extension calling it should be aware of
480 * Removed class DBObject. (unused since 1.10)
481 * wfDiff() is deprecated.
482 * The -m (maximum replication lag) option of refreshLinks.php was removed.
483 It had no effect since MediaWiki 1.18 and should be removed from any cron
484 jobs or similar scripts you may have set up.
485 * (T85864) The following messages no longer support raw html: redirectto,
486 thisisdeleted, viewdeleted, editlink, retrievedfrom, version-poweredby-others,
487 retrievedfrom, thisisdeleted, viewsourcelink, lastmodifiedat, laggedslavemode,
488 protect-summary-cascade
489 * All BloomCache related code has been removed. This was largely experimental.
490 * $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles no longer supports per-module local or remote paths. They
491 can only be set for the entire skin.
492 * Removed global function swap(). (deprecated since 1.24)
493 * Deprecated the ".php5" file extension entry points and the $wgScriptExtension
494 configuration variable. Refer to the ".php" files instead. If you want
495 ".php5" URLs to continue to work, set up redirects. In Apache, this can be
496 done by enabling mod_rewrite and adding the following rules to your
501 RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php5 $1.php [R=301,L]
503 * The global importScriptURI and importStylesheetURI functions, as well as the
504 loadedScripts object, from wikibits.js (deprecated since 1.17) now emit
505 warnings through mw.log.warn when accessed.
510 MediaWiki 1.25 requires PHP 5.3.3 or later. There is experimental support for
513 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
514 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
515 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
517 The supported versions are:
519 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
520 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
521 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
522 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
523 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
527 1.25 has several database changes since 1.24, and will not work without schema
528 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
529 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
530 many hours on a large site).
532 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
533 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
534 due to database schema changes.
536 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
537 new database fields are filled with data.
539 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to
540 1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed
543 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
545 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
547 For notes on 1.24.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
551 === Configuration changes in 1.24 ===
552 * MediaWiki will no longer run if register_globals is enabled. It has been
553 deprecated for 5 years now, and was removed in PHP 5.4. For more information
554 about why, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/register_globals>.
555 * MediaWiki now requires PHP's iconv extension. openSUSE users may need to
556 install the php5-iconv package. Users of other systems may need to add
557 extension=iconv.so to php.ini or recompile PHP without --without-iconv.
558 * MediaWiki will no longer function if magic quotes are enabled. It has
559 been deprecated for 5 years now, and was removed in PHP 5.4.
560 * The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName, which is
561 exposed in both mw.config and ApiQuerySiteInfo.
562 * Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch,
563 for using the old schema of the page_props table, in case the respective
564 schema update was not applied.
565 * $wgSearchEverythingOnlyLoggedIn was removed as the 'searcheverything'
566 user option was removed. Use $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault instead or
567 if you used to have $wgDefaultUserOptions['searcheverything'] = 1.
568 * $wgMasterWaitTimeout has been deprecated.
569 * $wgDBClusterTimeout has been removed.
570 * $wgProxyKey has been removed. It is no longer used by MediaWiki core.
571 Ensure $wgSecretKey is set in LocalSettings.php.
572 * $wgExtraInterlanguageLinkPrefixes is a new configuration variable that
573 contains an array of interwiki prefixes that should be treated as language
574 prefixes (i.e. turned into interlanguage links when $wgInterwikiMagic is set
576 * $wgParserTestRemote has been removed.
577 * $wgCountTotalSearchHits has been removed. If you're concerned about efficiency
578 of search, you should use something like CirrusSearch instead of built in
580 * Users in the 'sysop' group have access to Special:MergeHistory by default.
581 * $wgFileStore was removed after having been deprecated in 1.17. Alternative
582 configurations are $wgDeletedDirectory and $wgHashedUploadDirectory.
583 * The deprecated $wgUseCommaCount variable has been removed.
584 * $wgEnableSorbs and $wgSorbsUrl have been removed.
585 * The UserCryptPassword and UserComparePassword hooks are no longer called.
586 Any extensions using them must be updated to use the Password Hashing API.
587 * $wgCompiledFiles has been removed.
588 * $wgSortSpecialPages was removed, the listing on Special:SpecialPages is
590 * $wgSpecialPages may now use callback functions as an alternative to plain class names.
591 This allows more control over constructor parameters.
592 * $wgHTCPMulticastAddress, $wgHTCPMulticastRouting and $wgHTCPPort were removed.
593 * $wgRC2UDPAddress, $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix, $wgRC2UDPOmitBots, $wgRC2UDPPort
594 and $wgRC2UDPPrefix have been removed.
595 * The default password type for MediaWiki has been changed from MD5 to PBKDF2.
596 Password hashes will automatically be updated as users log in. If necessary, the
597 old MD5 hashing can be restored by changing $wgPasswordDefault to 'B'. In addition,
598 there is a maintenance script wrapOldPassword.php that can wrap all passwords in
599 PBKDF2 (or the hashing algorithm of your choice) if you don't want to wait for your
601 * $wgImportSources can now either be a regular array, or an associative map
602 specifying subprojects on the interwiki map of the target wiki, or a mix of
603 the two. Existing configurations will still work.
604 * Users must be able to edit through a page's protection to be able to delete it.
605 * The default thumb size ($wgDefaultUserOptions['thumbsize']) is now 300px, up from
606 180px. If you have altered the number of entries in $wgThumbLimits for your wiki, you
607 may need to adjust your default user settings to compensate for the index change.
608 * $wgDeferredUpdateList is now deprecated, you should use DeferredUpdates::addUpdate()
610 * $wgCanonicalLanguageLinks has been removed. Per Google recommendations, we
611 will not send a rel=canonical pointing to a variant-neutral page, however
612 we will send rel=alternate.
613 * $wgResourceLoaderLESSFunctions has been deprecated and will be removed in the future.
614 * $wgGoToEdit has been removed. Use the SpecialSearchNogomatch hook for similar
617 === New features in 1.24 ===
618 * Added new hook WatchlistEditorBeforeFormRender, allowing subscribers to
619 manipulate the list of pages and/or preload lots of data at once.
620 * Added new argument &$link in hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine, allowing the
621 link to the title to be changed.
622 * Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
623 WhatLinksHere entries.
624 * Added a new hook, "ContentGetParserOutput", to customize parser output for
625 a given content object.
626 * Deprecated the hook "ShowRawCssJs", use "ContentGetParserOutput" instead.
627 * HTMLForm's HTMLTextField now supports the 'url' type.
628 * HTMLForm fields may now be dynamically hidden based on the values of other
630 * HTMLForm now supports multiple copies of an input field or set of input
631 fields, e.g. the form may request "one or more usernames" without having to
632 have the user enter delimited list of names into a text field.
633 * Added a new hook, "SidebarBeforeOutput", to allow to edit the structure of
634 the sidebar just before its display.
635 * (bug 49156) Added the mediawiki.cookie ResourceLoader module, which wraps
636 jquery.cookie so that getting/setting a cookie is syntactically and
637 functionally similar to using the WebRequest::getCookie() and
638 WebResponse::setcookie() methods.
639 * (bug 44740) jQuery upgraded from 1.8.3 to 1.11.1. A new configuration option,
640 $wgIncludejQueryMigrate, also loads the jQuery Migrate hack to let extensions
641 and gadgets use the long-deprecated functions that were removed in jQuery 1.9.
642 This option is turned off by default, and will be removed in MediaWiki 1.25.
643 * (bug 47076) jQuery UI upgraded from 1.8.24 to 1.9.2.
644 * Changes to content typography (fonts, etc.). See
645 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
646 * WikitextContent will now render redirects with the expected "redirect"
647 header, rather than as an ordered list. Code calling Article::viewRedirect
648 can probably be changed to no longer special-case redirects.
649 * Header font set to a serif font stack. See
650 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
651 * (bug 65567) Added a new hook, "BeforeHttpsRedirect", to allow cancellation of
652 the HTTP to HTTPS redirect due to forceHTTPS cookie, userRequires, etc. This
653 is only for page views, since this hook doesn't affect UserLogin, OAuth,
654 CentralAuth, etc. ATTENTION: This hook is likely to be removed soon due to
655 overall design of the system.
656 * (bug 17367) It is now possible to add pages to your watchlist from
657 Special:UnwatchedPages without reloading the special page.
658 * New methods setVolatile and isVolatile are added to PPFrame, so that
659 extensions such as Cite.php can mark that their output is volatile and
661 * (bug 52817) Advanced search options are now saved on the search page itself,
662 rather than in a dedicated pane in the preferences panel.
663 * (bug 44591) The dropdown actions menu (little triangle next to page tabs) in
664 the Vector skin has gained a label that should make it more discoverable.
665 * MWCryptHKDF added for fast, cryptographically secure random number generation
666 that won't deplete openssl's entropy pool.
667 * ResourceLoader: File modules can now provide a skip function that uses an
668 inline feature test to bypass loading of the module.
669 * (bug 20210) Special pages may now provide autocompletion of their subpage
670 names in search suggestions. Right now the only useful implementation is in
671 Special:Log, but more are to come.
672 * Special:MostLinkedTemplates is no longer limited to transclusions from the
674 * Skins can now use 'remoteSkinPath' when defining ResourceLoader modules.
675 This works the same as 'remoteExtPath' but is relative to the skins/ folder
676 instead of the extensions/ folder.
677 * Added the json2.js polyfill for the ES5 JSON.stringify and JSON.parse methods.
678 Exposed as module "json" with a skip function to optimise loading.
679 * Extensions and skins may now use 'namemsg' in $wgExtensionCredits in addition
680 to 'name', to allow for the name to be localizable. 'name' should still be
681 specified for backwards-compatibility and to define the path Special:Version
682 uses to find extension license information.
683 * Browser tests are now included to verify basic wiki functionality in developer
684 environments. For details on running tests, see tests/browser/README.mediawiki.
685 * Upgrade jStorage to v0.4.10.
686 * {{!}} is now a magic word that produces the | character. This removes the need
687 for Template:! for purposes such as passing pipes inside of parameters.
688 * (bug 20790) The block log snippet on Special:Contributions and while
689 editing user and user talk pages now works for IP range blocks.
690 * (bug 9360) Added ability to change the page language for MediaWiki pages using
691 Special:PageLanguage. All pages are set to wiki language by default.
692 The feature needs to be enabled with $wgPageLanguageUseDB=true and
693 permission needs to be set for 'pagelang'.
694 * Upgrade Moment.js to v2.8.3.
695 * (bug 67042) Added support for the HTML5 <rtc> tag for East Asian typography.
696 * Upgrade Sinon.JS to 1.10.3.
697 * Added the es5-shim polyfill for older or non-compliant javascript engines.
698 * Upgrade jQuery Cookie to v1.3.1.
699 * (bug 20476) Add a "viewsuppressed" user right to be able to view
700 suppressed content but not suppress it ("suppressrevision" right).
701 * (bug 66440) The MediaWiki web installer will now allow you to choose the skins
702 to enable (from the ones included in download tarball) and decide which one
703 should be the default.
704 * (bug 68085, 68802) Links like [[localInterwikiPrefix:languageCode:pageTitle]],
705 where localInterwikiPrefix is a member of the $wgLocalInterwikis array, will
706 no longer be displayed in the sidebar when $wgInterwikiMagic is true. In a
707 similar way, links like [[localInterwikiPrefix:File:Image.png]] and
708 [[localInterwikiPrefix:Category:Hello]] will now render as regular links, and
709 will not include the file or add the page to the category.
710 * New special page, MyLanguage, to redirect users to subpages with localised
711 versions of a page. (Integrated from Extension:Translate)
712 * MediaWiki now supports multiple password types, including bcrypt and PBKDF2.
713 The default type can be changed with $wgPasswordDefault and the type
714 configurations can be changed with $wgPasswordConfig.
715 * Skins can now define custom styles for default ResourceLoader modules using
716 the $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles global. See the Vector skin for examples.
717 * (bug 4488) There is now a preference to watch pages where the user has
718 rollbacked an edit by default.
719 * (bug 15484) Users will now be redirected to the login page when they need to
720 log in, rather than being shown a page asking them to log in and having to click
721 another link to actually get to the login page.
722 * A JsonContent and JsonContentHandler were added for extensions to extend.
723 * (bug 35045) Redirects to sections will now update the URL in browser's address
724 bar using the HTML5 History API. When [[Dog]] redirects to [[Animals#Dog]],
725 the user will now see "Animals#Dog" in their browser instead of "Dog#Dog".
726 * API token handling has been rewritten. Any API module using tokens will need
727 to be updated. See the entry below under "Action API internal changes".
728 * Added HTMLAutoCompleteSelectField.
729 * Added a new hook, "SkinPreloadExistence", to allow extensions to add titles to
730 link existence cache before the page is rendered.
731 * Config::set() was moved to its own interface, MutableConfig. GlobalVarConfig::set()
732 is now deprecated, does not implement MutableConfig.
733 * A MutableConfig named HashConfig was added, that stores an array of configuration
735 * (bug 69418) A MultiConfig implementation was added that supports fallback
736 to multiple Config instances.
737 * Update CSSJanus to v1.1.0.
738 * Added FormatJson::parse() returning status with result or localized error message
739 * Added DeletedContribsPager::reallyDoQuery hook allowing extensions to data to
740 Special:DeletedContributions
741 * Added DeletedContributionsLineEnding hook allowing extensions to format
742 Special:DeletedContributions lines
743 * (T69525) You can now make MediaWiki speed up its thumbnail rendering by using
744 intermediary thumbnails. $wgThumbnailBuckets must be set to a list of target
745 thumbnail widths; when a new thumbnail needs to be rendered, MediaWiki will
746 find the smallest bucket smaller than the original but larger than the target
747 width + $wgThumbnailMinimumBucketDistance, and it will scale that thumbnail,
748 rather than the original, down to the target size at greater speed in return
749 for minor loss of fidelity.
751 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
752 * (bug 50572) MediaWiki:Blockip should support gender
753 * (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
754 rather than content language (same as copyright notice for editing interface).
755 * (bug 62258) A bug was fixed in File::getUnscaledThumb when a height
756 restriction was present in the parameters. Images with both the "frame"
757 option and a size specification set will now always ignore the provided
758 size and display an unscaled image, as the documentation has always
760 * (bug 39035) Improved Vector skin performance by removing collapsibleNav,
761 which used to collapse some sidebar elements by default.
762 This removes -list id suffixes like p-lang-list: instead of using things like
763 #p-lang-list, you can do #p-lang .body ul.
764 * (bug 890) Links in Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist no longer
765 follow redirects to their target pages.
766 * Parser now dies early if called recursively, instead of producing subtle bugs.
767 * (bug 14323) Redirect pages, when viewed with redirect=no, no longer hide the
768 remaining page content.
769 * (bug 52587) Maintenance script deleteBatch.php no longer follows redirects
770 in the file namespace and delete the file on the target page. It will still
771 however delete the redirect page.
772 * (bug 22683) {{msgnw:}} and other uses of PPFrame::RECOVER_ORIG will correctly
773 recover the original code of extension tags.
774 * (bug 65757) MSSQL: Update script drops unnamed constraints to be prepared
775 for future updates. Because it's doing so heuristically, it may fail or drop
777 * (bug 67870) wfShellExec() cuts off stdout at multiples of 8192 bytes.
778 * $wgRunJobsAsync now works with private wikis (e.g. read requires login).
779 * (bugs 57238, 65206) Blank pages can now be directly created.
780 * (bug 69789) Title::getContentModel() now loads from the database when
781 necessary instead of incorrectly returning the default content model.
782 * (bug 69249) wfBaseConvert() now works around PHP Bug #50175 when using GMP.
783 * (bug 57909) URLs in the externallinks table will no longer have certain
784 characters decoded in the query string.
785 * (bug 67368) LESS mixins like .background-image() correctly flip image
786 references for RTL stylesheets now.
788 === Action API changes in 1.24 ===
789 * action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
790 ResourceLoader modules that should be used to enhance the parsed content.
791 * action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap returns a new "protorel"
792 field which is true if protocol-relative urls can be used to access
793 a particular interwiki map entry.
794 * list=logevents now provides logpage, which is the page ID from the
795 logging table, if ids are requested and the user has the permissions.
796 * action=edit now requires that appendtext, prependtext, or section=new be used
797 when using the 'redirect' parameter, to prevent clients accidentally
798 overwriting the target page with the content of the redirect.
799 * list=logevents will now return an error if both letitle and leprefix are
801 * list=logevents has a new parameter, lenamespace, to allow filtering by
803 * action=expandtemplates has a new parameter, prop, and a new output format.
804 The old format is still used if prop isn't provided, but this is deprecated.
805 * meta=userinfo can now return the count of unread pages on the watchlist.
806 * list=watchlist can now filter by unread status.
807 * The deprecated action=parse&prop=languageshtml has been removed.
808 * (bug 48071) action=setnotificationtimestamp no longer throws PHP or database
809 errors when no pages are given.
810 * (bug 60734) Actions that use ApiPageSet (e.g. purge, watch,
811 setnotificationtimestamp) will now include continuation information when
813 * Removed 'props' and 'errors' from action=paraminfo, as they have extremely
814 limited use and are generally inaccurate, unmaintained, and impossible to
816 * Formats dbg, dump, txt, wddx, and yaml are now deprecated.
817 * action=paraminfo now indicates when a parameter is specifying a submodule.
818 * The iwurl parameter to prop=iwlinks is deprecated in favor of iwprop=url, for
819 parallelism with prop=langlinks.
820 * All tokens should be fetched from action=query&meta=tokens; all other methods
821 of fetching tokens are deprecated. The value needed for meta=tokens's 'type'
822 parameter for each module is documented in the action=help output and is
823 returned from action=paraminfo.
824 * New action ClearHasMsg that can be used to clear HasMsg flag.
825 * The cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to list=categorymembers are
826 deprecated in favor of cmstarthexsortkey and cmendhexsortkey.
827 * (bug 63326) Add blockedtimestamp field to output of blockinfo property for
828 the list=allusers and list=users modules.
829 * prop=imageinfo no longer requires iiurlwidth to be set when using iiurlparam.
830 * Added prop=linkshere, prop=fileusage, and prop=transcludedin, which are
831 roughly equivalent to list=backlinks, list=imageusage, and list=embeddedin
832 but can work on a list of titles (including titles from a generator).
833 * prop=redirects can now filter returned redirects by namespace.
835 === Action API internal changes in 1.24 ===
836 * Methods for handling continuation are added to ApiResult, so actions other
837 than query that use generators can easily support continuation.
838 * $wgAPIModules (and the related $wgAPIFormatModules, $wgAPIMetaModules,
839 $wgAPIPropModules, and $wgAPIListModules settings) now allow API modules
840 to be specified using a "module spec" array instead of a plain class name.
841 A "module spec" is an associative array containing at least the 'class' key
842 for the module's class, and optionally a 'factory' key for the factory function
843 to use for the module. This is intended for extensions that want control over
844 the instantiation of their API modules, to allow for proper dependency
846 * A new param type 'submodule' is available. Parameters of this type will take
847 the list of valid values from the module's ApiModuleManager for the group
848 corresponding to the parameter name.
849 * The 'APIGetPossibleErrors' and 'APIGetResultProperties' hooks are no longer used.
850 * API token handling has been rewritten. Any API module using tokens will need
852 * ApiBase::needsToken now returns a token type instead of boolean true when a
853 token is needed. Returning true will throw an exception. See documentation
854 of that method for details.
855 * Information for the 'token' parameter is automatically set by ApiBase
856 getFinalParams and getFinalParamDescription.
857 * ApiBase::getTokenSalt has been removed.
858 * The hooks APIQueryInfoTokens, APIQueryRevisionsTokens,
859 APIQueryRecentChangesTokens, APIQueryUsersTokens, and
860 ApiTokensGetTokenTypes are deprecated, but are still called to support
861 backwards-compatible token access.
862 * ApiBase::validateLimit and ApiBase::validateTimestamp are now protected.
863 * ApiQueryRedirects was removed; prop=redirects is now implemented by
864 ApiQueryBacklinksProp along with the newly-added prop modules.
865 * The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
867 * ApiBase::getResultProperties
868 * ApiBase::getFinalResultProperties
869 * ApiBase::addTokenProperties
870 * ApiBase::getRequireOnlyOneParameterErrorMessages
871 * ApiBase::getRequireMaxOneParameterErrorMessages
872 * ApiBase::getRequireAtLeastOneParameterErrorMessages
873 * ApiBase::getTitleOrPageIdErrorMessage
874 * ApiBase::getPossibleErrors
875 * ApiBase::getFinalPossibleErrors
876 * ApiBase::parseErrors
877 * ApiQuery::setGeneratorContinue
878 * ApiQueryBase::checkRowCount
879 * ApiQueryBase::titleToKey
880 * ApiQueryBase::keyToTitle
881 * ApiQueryBase::keyPartToTitle
882 * ApiQueryInfo::getTokenFunctions
883 * ApiQueryInfo::resetTokenCache
884 * ApiQueryInfo::getEditToken
885 * ApiQueryInfo::getDeleteToken
886 * ApiQueryInfo::getProtectToken
887 * ApiQueryInfo::getMoveToken
888 * ApiQueryInfo::getBlockToken
889 * ApiQueryInfo::getUnblockToken
890 * ApiQueryInfo::getEmailToken
891 * ApiQueryInfo::getImportToken
892 * ApiQueryInfo::getWatchToken
893 * ApiQueryInfo::getOptionsToken
894 * ApiQueryRecentChanges::getTokenFunctions
895 * ApiQueryRecentChanges::getPatrolToken
896 * ApiQueryRevisions::getTokenFunctions
897 * ApiQueryRevisions::getRollbackToken
898 * ApiQueryUsers::getTokenFunctions
899 * ApiQueryUsers::getUserrightsToken
900 * The following classes have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
908 * The following class constants have been deprecated and may be removed in a
913 * ApiBase::PROP_NULLABLE
915 === Languages updated in 1.24 ===
917 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
918 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
919 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
921 === Other changes in 1.24 ===
922 * The deprecated jquery.delayedBind ResourceLoader module was removed.
923 * The deprecated function mw.util.toggleToc was removed.
924 * The Special:Search hooks SpecialSearchGo and SpecialSearchResultsAppend
925 were removed as they were unused.
926 * (bug 65477) User::pingLimiter() now has an additional profile point varying
927 by action being used.
928 * mediawiki.util.$content no longer supports old versions of the Vector,
929 Monobook, Modern and CologneBlue skins that don't yet implement the "mw-body"
930 and/or "mw-body-primary" class name in their html.
931 * Added pp_sortkey column to page_props table, so pages can be efficiently
932 queried and sorted by property value (bug 58032).
933 See $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey if you want to postpone the schema change.
934 * BREAKING CHANGE: All four built-in MediaWiki skins (Vector, MonoBook, Modern
935 and Cologne Blue) were moved out of MediaWiki core to their own respective
936 repositories. They will be installed with the release tarball, but you must
937 install them separately if installing MediaWiki from source code. A warning
938 message displayed until you do it should guide you through the process. See
939 also <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_configuration>.
940 * BREAKING CHANGE: Skins built for MediaWiki 1.15 and earlier that do not use
941 the "headelement" template key are no longer supported. Setting
942 $useHeadElement = false; is no longer supported and will not cause old keys
943 like "headlinks", "skinnameclass", etc. to be defined.
944 * BREAKING CHANGE: The files commonElements.css, commonContent.css and
945 commonInterface.css (in skins/common/) have been removed. Skins may no longer
946 rely on their presence and include them in their style modules. ResourceLoader
947 modules introduced in MediaWiki 1.23 should be loaded instead:
948 - skins/common/commonElements.css → 'mediawiki.skinning.elements' module
949 - skins/common/commonContent.css → 'mediawiki.skinning.content' module
950 - skins/common/commonInterface.css → 'mediawiki.skinning.interface' module
951 * The deprecated 'SpecialVersionExtensionTypes' hook was removed.
952 * (bug 63891) Add 'X-Robots-Tag: noindex' header in action=render pages.
953 * SpecialPage no longer supports the syntax for invoking wfSpecial*() functions.
954 Special pages should subclass SpecialPage and implement the execute() method.
955 * (bug 63755) The deprecated constants RC_MOVE and RC_MOVE_OVER_REDIRECT were
957 * Special:MostLinkedTemplates has been renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages.
958 * The skin autodiscovery mechanism has been deprecated and will be removed in
959 MediaWiki 1.25. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery
960 for migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
961 * ResourceLoaderFileModule#getAllStyleFiles now returns all style files and all
962 skin style files used by the module.
963 * Removed getLang() from IContextSource and subclasses. (deprecated since 1.19)
964 * Removed setLang() from subclasses of IContextSource. (deprecated since 1.19)
965 * Removed WebRequest::escapeAppendQuery(). (deprecated since 1.20)
966 * Removed info(), purge(), revert() and rollback() from the Article class; they
967 have since become subclasses of the Action class. (deprecated since 1.19)
968 * SearchEngineReplacePrefixesComplete hook was removed.
969 * The "jquery.json" module has been deprecated. Use the "json" module instead.
970 * Removed HTMLForm::addJS(). (deprecated since 1.18)
971 * Removed LogEventsList::showHeader(). (deprecated since 1.19)
972 * Removed ImageGalleryBase::useSkin(). (deprecated since 1.18)
973 * Removed DatabaseMysqlBase::getLagFromProcesslist(). (deprecated since 1.19)
974 * Removed LoadBalancer::closeConnecton(). (deprecated since 1.18)
975 * Removed ApiBase::createContext(). (deprecated since 1.19)
976 * BREAKING CHANGE: The undocumented Special{$this->getName()}BeforeFormDisplay
977 set of hooks has been removed and replaced by a single new hook
978 SpecialPageBeforeFormDisplay.
979 * (bug 65781) Removed block warning on included {{Special:Contributions}}
980 * Removed Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript(). (deprecated since 1.19)
981 * Removed MWNamespace::isMain(). (deprecated since 1.19)
982 * Removed Preferences::loadOldSearchNs(). (deprecated since 1.19)
983 * Removed OutputPage::getStatusMessage(). (deprecated since 1.18)
984 * Removed OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed(). (deprecated since 1.18)
985 * Removed Title::updateTitleProtection(). (deprecated since 1.19)
986 * Removed ParserOptions::setSkin(). (deprecated since 1.19)
987 * Removed Title::escapeCanonicalURL(). (deprecated since 1.19)
988 * Removed Title::escapeLocalURL(). (deprecated since 1.19)
989 * Removed Title::escapeFullURL(). (deprecated since 1.19)
990 * Removed User::isValidEmailAddr(). (deprecated since 1.18)
991 * Removed Title::getEscapedText(). (deprecated since 1.19)
992 * Removed Language::getFallbackLanguageCode(). (deprecated since 1.19)
993 * Removed WikiPage::isBigDeletion(). (deprecated since 1.19)
994 * Removed MWInit class which contained functions related to a now discontinued
995 PHP compiler called hphpc. (deprecated since 1.22)
996 * ApiResult::enableSizeCheck() and disableSizeCheck() are now obsolete.
997 * Removed ResourceLoaderGetStartupModules hook. (deprecated since 1.23)
998 * Removed getFormFields(), onSubmit() and onSuccess() from FormlessAction, as
999 these were meant specifically for FormAction instead.
1000 * Removed Action::execute().
1001 * Removed AjaxAddScript which has been obsolete since ResourceLoader and
1002 is unused by any modern extension.
1003 * Removed maintenance/nextJobDB.php; no longer in use.
1004 * Removed global function wfViewPrevNext(). (deprecated since 1.19)
1005 * Removed global function xmlsafe() from Export.php. (moved to OAIRepo extension)
1006 * Removed Title::userCanRead(). (deprecated since 1.19)
1007 * Removed maintenance script importTextFile.php. Use edit.php script instead.
1008 * A _from_namespace field has been added to the templatelinks, pagelinks,
1009 and filelinks tables. Run update.php to apply this change to the schema.
1010 * Removed File::sha1Base36(). (deprecated since 1.19)
1011 * Removed File::getPropsFromPath(). (deprecated since 1.19)
1012 * Removed functions blockedPage(), noCreatePermission(), readOnlyPage() and
1013 userNotLoggedInPage() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.19)
1014 * Removed functions getContent(), getPreloadedText(), mergeChangesInto() and
1015 setPreloadedText() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.21)
1016 * Removed global functions wfArrayLookup(), wfArrayMerge(), wfDebugDieBacktrace()
1017 and wfTime(). (deprecated since 1.22)
1018 * Browser support for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 lowered from Grade A to Grade C,
1019 meaning that JavaScript is no longer executed in these browser versions.
1020 * Browser support for Opera 11 lowered from Grade A to Grade C.
1021 * Removed IEFixes module which existed purely to provide support for MSIE versions
1022 below 7 (conditionally loaded only for those browsers).
1023 * Deprecated SpecialPageFactory::getList() in favor of
1024 SpecialPageFactory::getNames()
1025 * Action::checkCanExecute() no longer has a return value.
1026 * Removed cleanupForIRC(), loadFromCurRow(), newFromCurRow(), notifyRC2UDP()
1027 and sendToUDP() from RecentChange.php. (deprecated since 1.22)
1028 * Removed EnhancedChangesList::arrow(), sideArrow(), downArrow(), spacerArrow().
1029 * Removed Xml::namespaceSelector(). (deprecated since 1.19)
1030 * Removed WikiPage::estimateRevisionCount(). (deprecated since 1.19)
1031 * MYSQL: Enum item added to "major MIME type" columns.
1032 Running update.php on MySQL < v5.1 may result in heavy processing.
1033 * RSS and Atom feeds generated by MediaWiki no longer include a fallback
1034 stylesheet. It was ignored by most browsers these days anyway.
1035 * SpecialSearchNoResults hook has been removed. SpecialSearchResults is now
1036 called unconditionally.
1037 * TablePager::getBody() is now 'final' and can't be overridden in subclasses.
1038 * TablePager::getBody() is deprecated, use getBodyOutput() or getFullOutput().
1039 * Added $outputPage parameter to the SkinTemplateGetLanguageLink hook.
1040 * log_page for move log entries store the original page ID, rather than that
1041 of the new redirect page. This is not retroactive.
1042 * LCStoreAccel was removed. $wgLocalisationCacheConf can no longer be set to
1043 use this store class.
1044 * Html::infoBox() no longer accepts paths relative to skins/common/images/.
1045 * Deprecated defunct Skin::getCommonStylePath().
1046 * Some extensions had their ResourceLoader modules depend on the "mediawiki"
1047 and "jquery" modules. In the past, this behavior was undefined, now it will
1049 * Removed BagOStuff::replace(). (deprecated since 1.23)
1050 * In Linker.php, link(), linkText() and makeBrokenImageLinkObj() now display
1051 warnings if their first parameter is not a Title object. Also makeImageLink()
1052 now requires a Parser as its first parameter.
1053 * (bug 67368) LESS functions embed() and embeddable(), added in MediaWiki 1.23
1054 and broken by design, have been removed. Use appropriate LESS mixins instead.
1055 * Removed cssjanus.py from maintenance directory as it was unused.
1056 * Removed maintenance/purgeOldText.inc and the PurgeRedundantText() function
1057 it contained (superseded by Maintenance::purgeRedundantText() in 1.16).
1058 The purgeOldText.php maintenance script has been retained.
1059 * PHPUnit tests can be found by directory discovery, by adding the directory
1060 path from your UnitTestsList callback. Older versions of MediaWiki core will
1063 ==== Renamed classes ====
1064 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
1065 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Fragment to CLDRPluralRuleConverterFragment
1066 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Operator to CLDRPluralRuleConverterOperator
1067 * CLDRPluralRuleEvaluator_Range to CLDRPluralRuleEvaluatorRange
1068 * CSSJanus_Tokenizer to CSSJanusTokenizer
1069 * MediaWiki_I18N to MediaWikiI18N
1070 * Parser_DiffTest to ParserDiffTest
1071 * RevDel_ArchiveItem to RevDelArchiveItem
1072 * RevDel_ArchiveList to RevDelArchiveList
1073 * RevDel_ArchivedFileItem to RevDelArchivedFileItem
1074 * RevDel_ArchivedFileList to RevDelArchivedFileList
1075 * RevDel_ArchivedRevisionItem to RevDelArchivedRevisionItem
1076 * RevDel_FileItem to RevDelFileItem
1077 * RevDel_FileList to RevDelFileList
1078 * RevDel_Item to RevDelItem
1079 * RevDel_List to RevDelList
1080 * RevDel_LogItem to RevDelLogItem
1081 * RevDel_LogList to RevDelLogList
1082 * RevDel_RevisionItem to RevDelRevisionItem
1083 * RevDel_RevisionList to RevDelRevisionList
1084 * WebInstaller_Complete to WebInstallerComplete
1085 * WebInstaller_Copying to WebInstallerCopying
1086 * WebInstaller_DBConnect to WebInstallerDBConnect
1087 * WebInstaller_DBSettings to WebInstallerDBSettings
1088 * WebInstaller_Document to WebInstallerDocument
1089 * WebInstaller_ExistingWiki to WebInstallerExistingWiki
1090 * WebInstaller_Install to WebInstallerInstall
1091 * WebInstaller_Language to WebInstallerLanguage
1092 * WebInstaller_Name to WebInstallerName
1093 * WebInstaller_Options to WebInstallerOptions
1094 * WebInstaller_Readme to WebInstallerReadme
1095 * WebInstaller_ReleaseNotes to WebInstallerReleaseNotes
1096 * WebInstaller_Restart to WebInstallerRestart
1097 * WebInstaller_Upgrade to WebInstallerUpgrade
1098 * WebInstaller_UpgradeDoc to WebInstallerUpgradeDoc
1099 * WebInstaller_Welcome to WebInstallerWelcome
1101 ==== Removed classes ====
1102 * IPBlockForm - Use SpecialBlock directly
1103 * WatchlistEditor - Use SpecialEditWatchlist directly
1104 * FormatExif - Use FormatMetadata directly
1105 * RevertFileAction - Use RevertAction directly
1106 * HistoryPage - Use HistoryAction directly
1107 * RawPage - Use RawAction directly
1108 * StubContLang - Use Language::factory() instead
1109 * XMLReader2 - Use XMLReader directly
1110 * ResourceLoaderLESSFunctions - No longer in use, not intended for public usage
1112 ==== Removed files ====
1113 The skins/common/ directory, previously containing some assets intended to be
1114 used by skins and a number of legacy styles and scripts, has been removed. Its
1115 contents have been deleted or relocated into the resources/ directory. Full list
1116 of files that are no longer available follows.
1118 * skins/common/ajax.js
1119 * skins/common/commonContent.css
1120 * skins/common/commonElements.css
1121 * skins/common/commonInterface.css
1122 * skins/common/commonPrint.css
1123 * skins/common/config-cc.css
1124 * skins/common/config.css
1125 * skins/common/config.js
1126 * skins/common/feed.css
1127 * skins/common/IEFixes.js
1128 * skins/common/oldshared.css
1129 * skins/common/protect.js
1130 * skins/common/shared.css
1131 * skins/common/upload.js
1132 * skins/common/wikibits.js
1133 * skins/common/images/add.png
1134 * skins/common/images/ajax-loader.gif
1135 * skins/common/images/arrow_disabled_first_25.png
1136 * skins/common/images/arrow_disabled_last_25.png
1137 * skins/common/images/arrow_disabled_left_25.png
1138 * skins/common/images/arrow_disabled_right_25.png
1139 * skins/common/images/arrow_first_25.png
1140 * skins/common/images/arrow_last_25.png
1141 * skins/common/images/arrow_left_25.png
1142 * skins/common/images/arrow_right_25.png
1143 * skins/common/images/Arr_.png
1144 * skins/common/images/Arr_d.png
1145 * skins/common/images/Arr_l.png
1146 * skins/common/images/Arr_r.png
1147 * skins/common/images/Arr_u.png
1148 * skins/common/images/bullet.gif
1149 * skins/common/images/button_bold.png
1150 * skins/common/images/button_extlink.png
1151 * skins/common/images/button_headline.png
1152 * skins/common/images/button_hr.png
1153 * skins/common/images/button_image.png
1154 * skins/common/images/button_italic.png
1155 * skins/common/images/button_link.png
1156 * skins/common/images/button_media.png
1157 * skins/common/images/button_nowiki.png
1158 * skins/common/images/button_sig.png
1159 * skins/common/images/button_template.png
1160 * skins/common/images/cc-0.png
1161 * skins/common/images/cc-by-nc-sa.png
1162 * skins/common/images/cc-by-sa.png
1163 * skins/common/images/cc-by.png
1164 * skins/common/images/Checker-16x16.png
1165 * skins/common/images/closewindow.png
1166 * skins/common/images/closewindow19x19.png
1167 * skins/common/images/critical-32.png
1168 * skins/common/images/diffunderline.gif
1169 * skins/common/images/download-32.png
1170 * skins/common/images/feed-icon.png
1171 * skins/common/images/feed-icon.svg
1172 * skins/common/images/gnu-fdl.png
1173 * skins/common/images/help-question-hover.gif
1174 * skins/common/images/help-question.gif
1175 * skins/common/images/info-32.png
1176 * skins/common/images/link_icon.gif
1177 * skins/common/images/magnify-clip-rtl.png
1178 * skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png
1179 * skins/common/images/mediawiki.png
1180 * skins/common/images/nextredirectltr.png
1181 * skins/common/images/nextredirectrtl.png
1182 * skins/common/images/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png
1183 * skins/common/images/public-domain.png
1184 * skins/common/images/question-small.png
1185 * skins/common/images/question.svg
1186 * skins/common/images/redirectltr.png
1187 * skins/common/images/redirectrtl.png
1188 * skins/common/images/remove.png
1189 * skins/common/images/spinner.gif
1190 * skins/common/images/tick-32.png
1191 * skins/common/images/tipsy-arrow.gif
1192 * skins/common/images/tooltip_icon.png
1193 * skins/common/images/warning-32.png
1194 * skins/common/images/wiki.png
1195 * skins/common/images/Zoom_sans.gif
1196 * skins/common/images/ar/button_bold.png
1197 * skins/common/images/ar/button_headline.png
1198 * skins/common/images/ar/button_italic.png
1199 * skins/common/images/ar/button_link.png
1200 * skins/common/images/ar/button_nowiki.png
1201 * skins/common/images/be-tarask/button_bold.png
1202 * skins/common/images/be-tarask/button_italic.png
1203 * skins/common/images/be-tarask/button_link.png
1204 * skins/common/images/cyrl/button_bold.png
1205 * skins/common/images/cyrl/button_italic.png
1206 * skins/common/images/cyrl/button_link.png
1207 * skins/common/images/de/button_bold.png
1208 * skins/common/images/de/button_italic.png
1209 * skins/common/images/fa/button_bold.png
1210 * skins/common/images/fa/button_headline.png
1211 * skins/common/images/fa/button_italic.png
1212 * skins/common/images/fa/button_link.png
1213 * skins/common/images/fa/button_nowiki.png
1214 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-c.png
1215 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-cpp.png
1216 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-deb.png
1217 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-djvu.png
1218 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-djvu.xcf
1219 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-dvi.png
1220 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-exe.png
1221 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-h.png
1222 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-html.png
1223 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-iso.png
1224 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-java.png
1225 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-mid.png
1226 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-mov.png
1227 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-o.png
1228 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-ogg.png
1229 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-ogg.xcf
1230 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-pdf.png
1231 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-ps.png
1232 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-psd.png
1233 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-rm.png
1234 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-rpm.png
1235 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-svg.png
1236 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-tar.png
1237 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-tex.png
1238 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-ttf.png
1239 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon-txt.png
1240 * skins/common/images/icons/fileicon.png
1241 * skins/common/images/ksh/button_S_italic.png
1244 == MediaWiki 1.23 ==
1246 === Configuration changes in 1.23 ===
1247 * (bug 13250) Restored method for clearing a watchlist in web UI
1248 so that users with large watchlists don't have to perform
1249 contortions to clear them.
1250 * When $wgJobRunRate is higher than zero, jobs are now executed via an
1251 asynchronous HTTP request to a MediaWiki entry point. This may require
1252 increasing the number of server worker threads. $wgRunJobsAsync has been
1253 added to disable this feature if needed, falling back to executing the job
1254 on the same process but making the execution synchronously.
1255 * $wgDebugLogGroups values may be set to an associative array with a
1256 'destination' key specifying the log destination. The array may also contain
1257 a 'sample' key with a positive integer value N indicating that the log group
1258 should be sampled by dispatching one in every N messages on average. The
1260 * In addition to the current exception log format, MediaWiki now serializes
1261 exception metadata to JSON and logs it to the 'exception-json' log group.
1262 This makes MediaWiki easier to integrate with log aggregation and analysis
1264 * $wgSquidServersNoPurge now supports the use of Classless Inter-Domain
1265 Routing (CIDR) notation to specify contiguous blocks of IPv4 and/or IPv6
1266 addresses that should be trusted to provide X-Forwarded-For headers.
1267 * Preferences 'watchcreations', 'watchdefault', 'enotifwatchlistpages' ("Add
1268 pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist", "Add pages and files I
1269 edit to my watchlist", "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is
1270 changed") are now enabled by default. In addition new user accounts' personal
1271 and talk pages are now watched by them by default.
1272 * $wgLBFactoryConf: Class names have had underscores removed. The configuration
1273 should be updated if LBFactory_Simple or LBFactory_Multi is configured.
1274 * $wgPasswordSenderName has been removed and is no longer functional. To set a
1275 custom mailer name, the system message 'emailsender' should be modified
1276 (default: "{{SITENAME}}").
1277 * (bug 63269) Email notifications were not correctly handling the
1278 [[MediaWiki:Helppage]] message being set to a full URL (the default).
1279 If you customized [[MediaWiki:Enotif body]] (the text of email notifications),
1280 you'll need to edit it locally to include the URL via the new variable
1281 $HELPPAGE instead of the parser functions fullurl and canonicalurl; otherwise
1282 you don't have to do anything.
1283 * $wgDBAhandler was removed as the only class using it was also removed
1284 * The 'max threads' setting was removed from $wgDBservers.
1285 * Support for AdminSettings.php has been completely removed. All configuration
1286 belongs in LocalSettings.php.
1287 * $wgSkipSkin, which has been replaceable by $wgSkipSkins since 2005 (r9249), is
1288 now formally deprecated.
1289 * Removed deprecated $wgDisabledActions as it is hardly used anywhere.
1290 * $wgRateLimitLog has been deprecated and replaced by
1291 $wgDebugLogGroup['ratelimit'].
1292 * $wgLocalInterwikis is an array containing multiple local interwiki prefixes
1293 (interwiki prefixes that point back to the current wiki). This effectively
1294 allows more than one value of $wgLocalInterwiki to be specified and
1295 understood by the parser. The value of $wgLocalInterwiki is automatically
1296 prepended to the start of this array.
1297 * $wgQueryPages has been removed. Query Pages should be added to by using the
1299 * $wgHttpOnlyBlacklist has been removed.
1300 * $wgLicenseTerms has been removed as it was unused.
1301 * $wgProfileOnly is now deprecated; set the log file in
1302 $wgDebugLogGroups['profileoutput'] to replace it.
1303 * $wgMaxBacklinksInvalidate was removed; use $wgJobBackoffThrottling instead
1304 * Deprecated ResourceLoaderGetStartupModules hook.
1306 === New features in 1.23 ===
1307 * ResourceLoader can utilize the Web Storage API to cache modules client-side.
1308 Compared to the browser cache, caching in Web Storage allows ResourceLoader
1309 to be more granular about evicting stale modules from the cache while
1310 retaining the ability to retrieve multiple modules in a single HTTP request.
1311 This capability can be enabled by setting $wgResourceLoaderStorageEnabled to
1312 true. This feature is currently considered experimental and should only be
1314 * (bug 6092) Add expensive parser functions {{REVISIONID:}}, {{REVISIONUSER:}}
1315 and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP:}} (with friends).
1316 * Add "wgRelevantUserName" to mw.config containing the current
1317 Skin::getRelevantUser value.
1318 * (bug 56033) Add content model to the page information.
1319 * Added Article::MissingArticleConditions hook to give extensions a chance to
1320 hide their (unrelated) log entries.
1321 * Added LonelyPagesQuery hook to let extensions modify the query used to
1322 generate Special:LonelyPages.
1323 * Added $wgOpenSearchDefaultLimit defining the default number of entries to show
1324 on action=opensearch API call.
1325 * For namespaces with $wgNamespaceProtection (including the MediaWiki
1326 namespace), the "protect" tab will be shown only if there are restriction
1327 levels available that would restrict editing beyond what
1328 $wgNamespaceProtection already applies. The protection form will offer only
1329 those protection levels.
1330 * Added $wgAPIFormatModules, allowing extensions to add additional output
1331 formatting modules for the API.
1332 * (bug 47812) The MediaWiki:Group-user.{css,js} pages can now be used to add
1333 custom CSS or JavaScript enabled only for registered users.
1334 * (bug 52005) Special pages RecentChanges, RecentChangesLinked and Watchlist
1335 now include a legend describing the symbols used in lists of changes.
1336 * Improved the accessibility of the tabs in Special:Preferences.
1337 * Added ApiBeforeMain hook, roughly equivalent to the BeforeInitialize hook:
1338 it's called after everything is set up but before any major processing
1340 * The jquery.client module now performs a component-wise version comparison in
1341 its #test method when strings are used in the browser map: version '1.10' is
1342 now correctly considered larger than '1.2'. Using numbers in the version map
1344 * All API modules now support an assert parameter, which can either be
1345 'user' or 'bot'. The API will throw an error if the user is not logged
1346 in (user) or does not have the 'bot' userright (bot). Based off of the
1347 AssertEdit extension by Steve Sanbeg.
1348 * [[Special:Diff]] was added, allowing users to create internal links to
1349 revision comparison pages using syntax such as [[Special:Diff/12345]],
1350 [[Special:Diff/12345/prev]] or [[Special:Diff/12345/98765]].
1351 * New user accounts' personal and talk pages are now watched by them by default.
1352 * Added SkinTemplateGetLanguageLink hook to allow changing the html of language
1354 * Added MessageCache::get hook as a new way to customize messages across
1356 * Added jquery.throttle-debounce ResourceLoader module to limit the number of
1357 callbacks for frequently occurring events.
1358 * Special:ProtectedPages shows now a table. The timestamp, the reason and
1359 the protecting user are also shown.
1360 * Added experimental support for using Microsoft SQL Server as the database
1362 ** Added new Microsoft SQL Server-specific configuration variable
1363 $wgDBWindowsAuthentication, which makes the web server authenticate against
1364 the database server using Integrated Windows Authentication instead of
1365 $wgDBuser/$wgDBpassword.
1366 * HTMLForm 'select', 'selectandother', 'selectorother', 'multiselect', and
1367 'radio' fields can now use message keys as labels via the 'options-messages'
1368 parameter, which overrides the 'options' parameter.
1369 * Admins can expire users passwords manually, or on a schedule using the
1370 $wgPasswordExpirationDays configuration setting.
1371 * Add new hook SendWatchlistEmailNotification, this will be used to determine
1372 whether to send a watchlist email notification.
1373 * (bug 42026) Special:Contributions now includes an option to filter page
1374 creations, similar to the topOnly option.
1375 * Add mediawiki.ui.button styling to all pages so wiki content can use styled
1377 * Special:UserLogin/signup now does AJAX checks for invalid and taken usernames,
1378 displaying the error live.
1379 * Added BaseTemplateAfterPortlet hook to allow injecting html after portlets in skins.
1380 * Support has been added for a JSON based localisation file format. The
1381 installer has been updated to use it.
1382 * Changes to content typography (colors, line-height etc.). See
1383 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
1384 * The Vector skin's visual treatment of external links has been simplified to a
1385 single icon (from nine). This should not affect local rules unless they were
1386 re-using these icons, which have now been deleted.
1387 * ResourceLoader: mw.loader.using() now implements a Promise interface.
1388 * Add new hook ChangesListInitRows accessed via ChangesList::initChangesListRows.
1389 If called by the ChangesList consumer this gives extensions a chance to batch
1390 process the result set prior to rendering.
1391 * A PoolCounterRedis class was added which can be make use of in $wgPoolCounterConf.
1392 This requires at least one Redis 2.6+ server.
1393 * $wgProfileToDatabase was removed. Set $wgProfiler to ProfilerSimpleDB
1394 in StartProfiler.php instead of using this.
1395 * (bug 63444) Made it possible to change the indent string (default: 4 spaces)
1396 used by FormatJson::encode().
1398 === Bug fixes in 1.23 ===
1399 * (bug 41759) The "updated since last visit" markers (on history pages, recent
1400 changes and watchlist) and the talk page message indicator are now correctly
1401 updated when the user is viewing old revisions of pages, instead of always
1402 acting as if the latest revision was being viewed.
1403 * (bug 56443) Special:ConfirmEmail no longer shows a "Mail a confirmation code"
1404 when the email address is already confirmed. Also, consistently use
1405 "confirmed", rather than "authenticated", when messaging whether or not the
1406 user has confirmed an email address.
1407 * (bug 19415) action=render no longer shows section edit links. This affects
1408 behavior of several other features where (bogus) section edit links will
1409 disappear, such as file description pages loaded via $wgUseInstantCommons or
1410 pages transcluded cross-wiki via $wgEnableScaryTranscluding.
1411 * (bug 56912) Show correct link color on cached result of Special:DeadendPages.
1412 * Classes TitleListDependency and TitleDependency have been removed, as they
1413 have been found unused in core and extensions for a long time.
1414 * (bug 57098) SpecialPasswordReset now obeys returnto parameter
1415 * (bug 37812) ResourceLoader will notice when a module's definition changes and
1416 recompile it accordingly.
1417 * (bug 57201) SpecialRecentChangesFilters hook is now executed for feeds.
1418 * (bug 58640) Fixed a compatibility issue with PCRE 8.34 that caused pages
1419 to appear blank or with missing text.
1420 * (bug 56931) Updated the plural rules to CLDR 24. They are in new format
1421 which is detailed in UTS 35 Rev 33. The PHP parser and evaluator as well as
1422 the JavaScript evaluator were updated to support the new format. Plural rules
1423 for some languages have changed, most notably Russian. Affected software
1424 messages have been updated and marked for review at translatewiki.net.
1425 * (bug 23542) imagelinks now stores both the redirect and target (as
1426 templatelinks does).
1427 * (bug 58167) The web installer no longer throws an exception when PHP is
1428 compiled without support for MySQL yet with support for another DBMS.
1429 * (bug 56199) Raw option of parser functions must now match complete word,
1431 * (bug 60543) Special:PrefixIndex forgot stripprefix=1 for "Next page" link
1432 * (bug 29762) Undoing an already-undone edit will now display an appropriate
1433 message instead of leading the user to make a null edit.
1434 * (bug 52659) mediawiki.notification: Notification area remained visible when
1435 empty and thus was stealing pointer events from links on the page.
1436 * (bug 26811) When a DBUnexpectedError occurs, DB server hostnames are now
1437 hidden unless $wgShowExceptionDetails is true, and $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace
1438 no longer applies in such cases.
1439 * (bug 60960) Avoid doing file_exist() checks on data: URIs, as they cause
1440 warnings to be printed on Windows due to large path length.
1441 * (bug 48084) Fixed a bug in the installer that could cause $wgLogo to hold
1442 the wrong path to the placeholder logo (skins/common/images/wiki.png).
1443 * (bug 64289) jquery.textSelection: Don't throw errors on empty collections.
1445 === Web API changes in 1.23 ===
1446 * (bug 54884) action=parse&prop=categories now indicates hidden and missing
1448 * action=query&meta=filerepoinfo now returns additional information for each
1450 * action=parse&prop=languageshtml was deprecated in 1.18 and will be removed in
1452 * action=parse now has disabletoc flag to disable table of contents in output.
1453 * (bug 25702) list=allcategories, list=allimages, list=alllinks, list=allpages,
1454 list=deletedrevs and list=filearchive did not handle case-sensitivity
1455 properly for all parameters.
1456 * ApiQueryBase::titlePartToKey allows an extra parameter that indicates the
1457 namespace in order to properly capitalize the title part.
1458 * (bug 57874) action=feedcontributions no longer has one item more than limit.
1459 * All API modules now support an assert parameter. See the new features section
1461 * Added prop=contributors to fetch the list of contributors to the page.
1462 * The following API modules will now return entries where fields have been
1463 revision-deleted: list=deletedrevs, list=filearchive, list=recentchanges,
1464 list=watchlist. "hidden" indicators will be included, in the same style as is
1465 already done for prop=revisions.
1466 * The following API modules will now return the content of revision-deleted
1467 fields, in addition to the "hidden" indicators, if the querying user has the
1468 necessary rights: list=logevents, list=usercontribs, prop=imageinfo,
1470 * The above modules, where applicable, will now return entries filtered by
1471 revision-deleted fields if the querying user has the necessary rights. For
1472 example, prop=revisions with rvuser or rvexcludeuser will no longer skip
1473 revisions where the user was revision-deleted if the current user has the
1474 deletedhistory right.
1475 * The 'hideuser' right, used when blocking, is no longer necessary or
1476 sufficient for seeing contributions with revision-deleted in
1478 * list=watchlist now uses the querying user's rights rather than the wlowner's
1479 rights when checking whether wlprop=patrol is allowed.
1480 * (bug 32151) ApiWatch now has pageset capabilities (titles/pageids/generators).
1481 Title parameter is now deprecated.
1482 * (bug 23005) Added action=revisiondelete.
1483 * Added siprop=restrictions to API action=query&meta=siteinfo for querying
1484 possible page restriction (protection) levels and types.
1485 * Added prop 'limitreportdata' and 'limitreporthtml' to action=parse.
1486 * (bug 58627) Provide language names on action=parse&prop=langlinks.
1487 * Deprecated llurl= in favour of llprop=url for action=query&prop=langlinks.
1488 * Added llprop=langname and llprop=autonym for action=query&prop=langlinks.
1489 * prop=redirects is added, to return redirects to the pages in the query.
1490 * list=allredirects is added, to list all redirects pointing to a namespace.
1491 * (bug 42026) Added ucshow={new,!new,top,!top} to list=usercontribs.
1492 Also added newonly to action=feedcontributions.
1493 * (bug 42026) Deprecated uctoponly in favor of ucshow=top.
1494 * list=search no longer has a "srredirects" parameter. Redirects are now
1495 included in all searches.
1496 * Added list=prefixsearch that works like action=opensearch but can be used as
1498 * (bug 24782) Various modules will now use unique continuation parameters.
1499 * (bug 63249) Cache RecentChanges Atom feed in varnish for 15 seconds.
1501 === Languages updated in 1.23 ===
1503 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
1504 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
1505 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
1507 * Support was added for Algerian Spoken Arabic (arq).
1508 * Support was added for Riograndenser Hunsrückisch (hrx).
1509 * Support was added for Northern Luri (lrc).
1511 === Other changes in 1.23 ===
1512 * The rc_type field in the recentchanges table has been superseded by a new
1513 rc_source field. The rc_source field is a string representation of the
1514 change type where rc_type was a numeric constant. This field is not yet
1515 queried but will be in a future release.
1516 ** Utilize update.php to create and populate this new field. On larger wikis
1517 which do not wish to update recentchanges table in one large update please
1518 review the SQL and comments in maintenance/archives/patch-rc_source.sql.
1519 ** The rc_type field of recentchanges will be deprecated in a future release.
1520 * The global variable $wgArticle has been removed after a lengthy deprecation.
1521 * The global functions addButton and insertTags (for mw.toolbar.addButton and
1522 mw.toolbar.insertTags) now emits mw.log.warn when accessed.
1523 * The ExpandTemplates extension has been moved into MediaWiki core.
1524 * (bug 52812) Removed "Disable search suggestions" from Preference.
1525 * (bug 52809) Removed "Disable browser page caching" from Preference.
1526 * Three new modules intended for use by custom skins were added:
1527 'mediawiki.skinning.elements', 'mediawiki.skinning.content', and
1528 'mediawiki.skinning.interface', representing three levels of standard
1529 MediaWiki styling. Previously skin creators wishing to use them had to refer
1530 to the file names of appropriate files directly, which is now discouraged.
1531 * The modules 'skins.vector' and 'skins.monobook' have been renamed to
1532 'skins.vector.styles' and 'skins.monobook.styles', respectively,
1533 and their definition was changed not to include the common*.css files;
1534 the two skins now load the 'mediawiki.skinning.interface' module instead.
1535 * A page_links_updated field has been added to the page table.
1536 * SpecialPage::getTitle has been deprecated in favor of
1537 SpecialPage::getPageTitle.
1538 * BREAKING CHANGE: Two potentially backwards-incompatible changes have been made
1539 to the 'SpecialWatchlistQuery' hook's last parameter (array $values) to make
1540 the hook more consistent with the 'SpecialRecentChangesQuery' one:
1541 ** Several array keys have been renamed: hideMinor → hideminor,
1542 hideBots → hidebots, hideAnons → hideanons, hideLiu → hideliu,
1543 hidePatrolled → hidepatrolled, hideOwn → hidemyself.
1544 ** The parameter value is now a FormOptions object, not a plain array (array
1545 access operators should continue to work, as it implements the ArrayAccess
1547 * Option to mark hooks as deprecated has been added.
1548 * (bug 52811) Preference "Enable section editing via [edit] links" was removed.
1549 * (bug 52813) Preference "Show table of contents (for pages with more than
1550 3 headings)" was removed.
1551 * (bug 52810) Preference "Justify paragraphs" was removed.
1552 * OutputPage::showErrorPage raises a notice if arguments are incoherent.
1553 * Thumbnails that keep failing to render in thumb.php will be rate-limited
1554 against further render attempts for 1 hour. $wgAttemptFailureEpoch can be
1555 altered to reset all rate-limited thumbnails at once.
1556 * (bug 56572) Builds of the OOjs and OOjs UI libraries are now available.
1557 * mw.loader.go and mw.loader.version have been removed.
1558 * (bug 52815) Preference "Enable simplified search bar (Vector skin only)"
1560 * A user_password_expires column has been added to the user table. The User
1561 object expects this column to exist. Use update.php to create this new field.
1562 * The jquery.delayedBind ResourceLoader module was deprecated in favor of the
1563 jquery.throttle-debounce module. It will be removed in MediaWiki 1.24.
1564 * mw.user.bucket has been deprecated.
1565 * On Special:PrefixIndex, a table#mw-prefixindex-list-table was changed to
1566 table.mw-prefixindex-list-table to avoid duplicate ids when the special page
1568 * (bug 62198) window.$j has been deprecated.
1569 * Preference "Disable link title conversion" was removed.
1570 * SpecialRecentChanges no longer includes any functionality for generating feeds
1571 - it has been factored out to ApiFeedRecentChanges. Old URLs redirect to new
1573 * RecentChange::mExtra['lang'] is no longer set and should no longer be used.
1574 Extensions should read from other configuration variables, including
1575 $wgLocalInterwikis, to identify the current wiki.
1576 * Sections in the parser test framework have been renamed and the old
1577 section names are deprecated. Please use "!!wikitext" and "!!html"
1578 (or "!!html/php") instead of "!!input" and "!!result". This allows
1579 us to extend parser tests to accommodate additional input/output
1580 pairs, such as "!!html/parsoid" (for the output of the Parsoid
1581 parser, where it differs from the PHP parser).
1582 * Special:Search no longer has an "include redirects" option on the advanced
1583 tab. Redirects are now included in all searches.
1584 * mediawiki.api.category's getCategories() 'async' parameter was deprecated.
1585 * The locations of resources have been split between upstream libraries, now in
1586 resources/lib/, local libaries in resources/src/, and local forks of upstream
1587 libraries, also in resources/src/.
1588 * BREAKING CHANGE: The automatically-generated function closure with which
1589 ResourceLoader wraps all modules' JavaScript code now binds the identifier
1590 names 'jQuery' and '$' to the jQuery object of the version of jQuery that is
1591 bundled with MediaWiki. If you bind these names to other objects in global
1592 scope (like Zepto.js or document.querySelectorAll, for example) you will need
1593 to use different names to or re-bind them at the top of each
1594 ResourceLoader-loaded module.
1595 * (bug 52342) Preference "Remember my login" was removed.
1596 * The skin autodiscovery mechanism has been deprecated and will be removed in
1597 MediaWiki 1.25. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery
1598 for migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
1600 ==== Removed classes ====
1601 * FakeMemCachedClient (deprecated in 1.18)
1602 * RdfMetaData (unused)
1603 * TitleDependency (unused)
1604 * TitleListDependency (unused)
1605 * WikiError (deprecated in 1.17)
1606 * WikiXmlError (deprecated in 1.17)
1607 * WikiErrorMsg (deprecated in 1.17)
1609 ==== Renamed classes ====
1610 * CdbReader_DBA to CdbReaderDBA
1611 * CdbReader_PHP to CdbReaderPHP
1612 * CdbWriter_DBA to CdbWriterDBA
1613 * CdbWriter_PHP to CdbWriterPHP
1614 * DiffOp_Add to DiffOpAdd
1615 * DiffOp_Change to DiffOpChange
1616 * DiffOp_Copy to DiffOpCopy
1617 * DiffOp_Delete to DiffOpDelete
1618 * HWLDF_WordAccumulator to HWLDFWordAccumulator
1619 * LBFactory_Fake to LBFactoryFake
1620 * LBFactory_Multi to LBFactoryMulti
1621 * LBFactory_Simple to LBFactorySimple
1622 * LBFactory_Single to LBFactorySingle
1623 * LCStore_Accel to LCStoreAccel
1624 * LCStore_CDB to LCStoreCDB
1625 * LCStore_DB to LCStoreDB
1626 * LCStore_Null to LCStoreNull
1627 * LoadBalancer_Single to LoadBalancerSingle
1628 * LoadMonitor_MySQL to LoadMonitorMySQL
1629 * LoadMonitor_Null to LoadMonitorNull
1630 * LocalisationCache_BulkLoad to LocalisationCacheBulkLoad
1631 * csvStatsOutput to CsvStatsOutput
1632 * extensionLanguages to ExtensionLanguages
1633 * languages to Languages
1634 * statsOutput to StatsOutput
1635 * textStatsOutput to TextStatsOutput
1636 * wikiStatsOutput to WikiStatsOutput
1638 ==== Removed methods ====
1639 * ApiBase::getValidNamespaces() (deprecated in 1.17)
1640 * ApiMain::setCachePrivate() (deprecated in 1.17)
1641 * ApiMain::setVaryCookie (deprecated in 1.17)
1642 * Article::doRedirect() (deprecated in 1.18)
1643 * Article::doUnwatch() (deprecated in 1.18)
1644 * Article::doWatch() (deprecated in 1.18)
1645 * Article::forUpdate() (deprecated in 1.18)
1646 * Article::markpatrolled() (deprecated in 1.18)
1647 * Article::unwatch() (deprecated in 1.18)
1648 * Article::watch() (deprecated in 1.18)
1649 * Block::clear() (deprecated in 1.18)
1650 * Block::decodeExpiry() (deprecated in 1.18)
1651 * Block::encodeExpiry() (deprecated in 1.18)
1652 * Block::forUpdate() (deprecated in 1.18)
1653 * Block::infinity() (deprecated in 1.18)
1654 * Block::load() (deprecated in 1.18)
1655 * Block::newFromDB() (deprecated in 1.18)
1656 * Block::normaliseRange() (deprecated in 1.18)
1657 * Block::parseExpiryInput() (deprecated in 1.18)
1658 * CategoryViewer::addSubcategory() (deprecated in 1.17)
1659 * EditPage::spamPage() (deprecated since 1.17)
1660 * Exif::getFormattedData() (deprecated in 1.18)
1661 * Exif::makeFormattedData() (deprecated in 1.18)
1662 * in_string (deprecated in 1.21)
1663 * Language::convertLinkToAllVariants() (deprecated in 1.17)
1664 * LanguageConverter::convertLinkToAllVariants() (deprecated in 1.17)
1665 * Linker::makeBrokenLink() (deprecated in 1.16)
1666 * Linker::makeBrokenLinkObj() (deprecated in 1.16)
1667 * Linker::makeColouredLinkObj() (deprecated in 1.16)
1668 * Linker::makeSizeLinkObj() (deprecated in 1.17)
1669 * MediaWiki::articleFromTitle() (deprecated in 1.18)
1670 * ParserOptions::getkin() (deprecated 1.18)
1671 * ProfilerSimple::getCpuTime (deprecated in 1.20)
1672 * Revision::revText() (deprecated in 1.17)
1673 * SkinTemplate::jstext() (deprecated in 1.21)
1674 * SpecialPage::__call() (deprecated in 1.17)
1675 * SpecialPage::executePath() (deprecated in 1.18)
1676 * SpecialPage::exists() (deprecated in 1.18)
1677 * SpecialPage::file() (deprecated in 1.18)
1678 * SpecialPage::func() (deprecated in 1.18)
1679 * SpecialPage::getGroup() (deprecated in 1.18)
1680 * SpecialPage::getPage() (deprecated in 1.18)
1681 * SpecialPage::getPageByAlias() (deprecated in 1.18)
1682 * SpecialPage::getLocalNameFor() (deprecated in 1.18)
1683 * SpecialPage::getRegularPages() (deprecated in 1.18)
1684 * SpecialPage::getRestrictedPages() (deprecated in 1.18)
1685 * SpecialPage::getTitleForAlias() (deprecated in 1.18)
1686 * SpecialPage::getUsablePages() (deprecated in 1.18)
1687 * SpecialPage::includable() (deprecated in 1.18)
1688 * SpecialPage::init()
1689 * SpecialPage::initAliasList() (deprecated in 1.18)
1690 * SpecialPage::initList() (deprecated in 1.18)
1691 * SpecialPage::name() (deprecated in 1.18)
1692 * SpecialPage::removePage() (deprecated in 1.18)
1693 * SpecialPage::resolveAlias() (deprecated in 1.18)
1694 * SpecialPage::resolveAliasWithSubpage() (deprecated in 1.18)
1695 * SpecialPage::restriction() (deprecated in 1.18)
1696 * SpecialPage::setGroup() (deprecated in 1.18)
1697 * SpecialRecentChanges::feedSetup()
1698 * SpecialRevisionDelete::extractBitField() (deprecated in 1.22)
1699 * User::getPageRenderingHash() (deprecated in 1.17)
1700 * WebRequest::getFileSize() (deprecated in 1.17)
1701 * WebRequest::isPathInfoBad() (deprecated in 1.17)
1702 * wfGenerateToken (deprecated in 1.20)
1703 * wfStreamFile (deprecated in 1.19)
1704 * wfUILang (deprecated in 1.18)
1705 * WikiPage::createUpdates() (deprecated in 1.18)
1706 * WikiPage::quickEdit() (deprecated in 1.18)
1707 * WikiPage::useParserCache() (deprecated in 1.18)
1708 * WikiPage::viewUpdates() (deprecated in 1.18)
1710 ==== Removed globals ====
1711 * $wgBetterDirectionality (deprecated in 1.18)
1713 == MediaWiki 1.22 ==
1716 == MediaWiki 1.22.13 ==
1717 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1719 === Changes since 1.22.12 ===
1720 * (bug 67440) Allow classes to be registered properly from installer
1722 == MediaWiki 1.22.12 ==
1723 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1725 === Changes since 1.22.11 ===
1726 * (bug 70672) SECURITY: OutputPage: Remove separation of css and js module allowance.
1728 == MediaWiki 1.22.11 ==
1729 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1731 === Changes since 1.22.10 ===
1732 * (bug 69008) SECURITY: Enhance CSS filtering in SVG files. Filter <style> elements; normalize style elements and attributes before filtering; add checks for attributes that contain css; add unit tests for html5sec and reported bugs.
1734 == MediaWiki 1.22.10 ==
1735 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1737 === Changes since 1.22.9 ===
1738 * (bug 64970) Fix support for blobs on DatabaseOracle::update
1739 * (bug 60719) In MediaWiki 1.22, the job queue execution on each page request was changed (Gerrit change 59797) so, instead of executing the job inside the same PHP process that's rendering the page, a new PHP cli command is spawned to execute runJobs.php in the background. It will only work if $wgPhpCli is set to an actual path or safe mode is off, otherwise, the old method will be used. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Job_queue#Changes_introduced_in_MediaWiki_1.22 for more infomation. This change was in earlier releases of 1.22 but was not noted here until now.
1741 == MediaWiki 1.22.9 ==
1742 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1744 === Changes since 1.22.8 ===
1745 * (bug 68187) SECURITY: Prepend jsonp callback with comment.
1746 * (bug 66608) SECURITY: Fix for XSS issue in bug 66608: Generate the URL used for loading a new page in Javascript,instead of relying on the URL in the link that has been clicked.
1747 * (bug 65778) SECURITY: Copy prevent-clickjacking between OutputPage and ParserOutput.
1748 * (bug 59147) The img_metadata field was not being decoded from bytea into text.
1750 == MediaWiki 1.22.8 ==
1751 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1753 === Changes since 1.22.7 ===
1754 * (bug 65839) SECURITY: Prevent external resources in SVG files.
1755 * (bug 66428) MimeMagic: Don't seek before BOF. This has weird side effects like only extracting the tail of the file partially or not at all.
1757 == MediaWiki 1.22.7 ==
1758 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1760 === Changes since 1.22.6 ===
1761 * (bug 65501) SECURITY: Don't parse usernames as wikitext on Special:PasswordReset.
1762 * (bug 36356) Add space between two feed links.
1763 * (bug 63269) Email notifications were not correctly handling the MediaWiki:Helppage message being set to a full URL. This is a regression from the 1.22.5 point release, which made the default value for it a URL. If you customized MediaWiki:Enotif body (the text of email notifications), you'll need to edit it locally to include the URL via the new variable $HELPPAGE instead of the parser functions fullurl and canonicalurl; otherwise you don't have to do anything.
1764 Add missing uploadstash.us_props for PostgreSQL.
1765 * (bug 56047) Fixed stream wrapper in PhpHttpRequest.
1767 == MediaWiki 1.22.6 ==
1768 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1770 === Changes since 1.22.5 ===
1771 * (bug 63251) SECURITY: Escape sortKey in pageInfo.
1773 == MediaWiki 1.22.5 ==
1774 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1776 === Changes since 1.22.4 ===
1777 * (bug 62497) SECURITY: Add CSRF token on Special:ChangePassword.
1778 * (bug 62467) Set a title for the context during import on the cli.
1779 * Fix custom local MediaWiki:Helppage values.
1780 * mediawiki.js: Fix documentation breakage.
1781 * (bug 58153) Make MySQLi work with non standard port.
1782 * (bug 53887) Reintroduced a link to help pages in the default sidebar, that any sysop can customize by editing MediaWiki:Sidebar locally. The link now points to a mediawiki.org page which is guaranteed to exist. Nothing needs to be done on your end, but remember to adjust MediaWiki:Sidebar for the needs of your wikis. Everyone can help with the shared documentation by translating: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Translate/agg-Help_pages .
1783 * (bug 53888) Corrected a regression in 1.22 which introduced red links on the login page. If you previously installed 1.22.x and have created a local page to make the red link blue, write its title as in MediaWiki:helplogin-url if you didn't already. Otherwise, you don't need to do anything, but you can translate the help page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Logging_in .
1785 == MediaWiki 1.22.4 ==
1786 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1788 === Changes since 1.22.3 ===
1789 * Use the correct branch of the extensions' git repositories.
1791 == MediaWiki 1.22.3 ==
1792 This is a security and bugfix release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1794 === Changes since 1.22.2 ===
1795 * (bug 60771) SECURITY: Disallow uploading SVG files using non-whitelisted namespaces. Also disallow iframe elements. * User will get an error including the namespace name if they use a non- whitelisted namespace.
1796 * (bug 61346) SECURITY: Make token comparison use constant time. It seems like our token comparison would be vulnerable to timing attacks. This will take constant time.
1797 * (bug 61362) SECURITY: API: Don't find links in the middle of api.php links.
1798 * (bug 53710) Add sequence support for upsert in DatabaseOracle in the same way as in selectInsert
1799 * (bug 60231, bug 58719) Various fixes to job running code in Wiki.php: Make it async on Windows. Fixed possible "invalid filename" errors on Windows. Redirect output to dev/null to avoid hanging PHP.
1800 * (bug 60083) Correct sequence name for fresh Postgres installation. Spotted by gebhkla
1801 * (bug 60531) Avoid variable naming conflicts in DatabasePostgres::selectSQLText. Spotted by gebhkla
1802 * (bug 60094) Fix rebuildall.php fatal error with PostgreSQL.
1803 * (bug 43817) Add error handling if descriptionmsg isn't defined for extension.
1804 * (bug 60543) Special:PrefixIndex omits stripprefix=1 for "Next page" link.
1806 == MediaWiki 1.22.2 ==
1807 This is a security and bugfix release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1809 === Changes since 1.22.1 ===
1810 * (bug 60339) SECURITY: Sanitize shell arguments to DjVu files, and other media formats
1811 * (bug 58253) Check for very old PCRE versions in installer and updater
1812 * (bug 60054) Make WikiPage::$mPreparedEdit public
1814 == MediaWiki 1.22.1 ==
1815 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.22 branch.
1817 === Changes since 1.22.0 ===
1818 * (bug 57550) SECURITY: Disallow stylesheets in SVG Uploads
1819 * (bug 58088) SECURITY: Don't normalize U+FF3C to \ in CSS Checks
1820 * (bug 58472) SECURITY: Disallow -o-link in styles
1821 * (bug 58553) SECURITY: Return error on invalid XML for SVG Uploads
1822 * (bug 58699) SECURITY: Fix RevDel log entry information leaks
1823 * (bug 58178) Restore compatibility with curl < 7.16.2.
1824 * (bug 56931) Updated the plural rules to CLDR 24. They are in new format which is detailed in UTS 35 Rev 33. The PHP parser and evaluator as well as the JavaScript evaluator were updated to support the new format. Plural rules for some languages have changed, most notably Russian. Affected software messages have been updated and marked for review at translatewiki.net. This change is backported from the development branch of MediaWiki 1.23.
1825 * (bug 58434) The broken installer for database backend Oracle was fixed.
1826 * (bug 58167) The web installer no longer throws an exception when PHP is compiled without support for MySQL yet with support for another DBMS.
1827 * (bug 58640) Fixed a compatibility issue with PCRE 8.34 that caused pages to appear blank or with missing text.
1828 * (bug 47055) Changed FOR UPDATE handling in Postgresql
1829 * (bug 57026) Avoid extra parsing in prepareContentForEdit()
1831 === Configuration changes in 1.22 ===
1832 * $wgRedirectScript was removed. It was unused.
1833 * Removed $wgLocalMessageCacheSerialized, it is now always true.
1834 * $wgVectorUseIconWatch is now enabled by default.
1835 * $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels was added.
1836 * ftps, ssh, sftp, xmpp, sip, sips, tel, sms, bitcoin, magnet, urn, and geo
1837 have been whitelisted inside of $wgUrlProtocols.
1838 * $wgDocType and $wgDTD have been removed and are no longer used for the DOCTYPE.
1839 * $wgHtml5 is no longer used by core. Setting it to false will no longer disable HTML5.
1840 It is still set to true for extension compatibility but doing so in extensions is deprecated.
1841 * $wgXhtmlDefaultNamespace is no longer used by core. Setting it will no longer change the
1842 xmlns used by MediaWiki. Reliance on this variable by extensions is deprecated.
1843 * $wgHandheldStyle was removed.
1844 * $wgHandheldForIPhone was removed.
1845 * $wgJsMimeType is no longer used by core. Most usage has been removed since
1846 HTML output is now exclusively HTML5.
1847 * $wgDBOracleDRCP added. True enables persistent connection with DRCP on Oracle.
1848 * $wgLogAutopatrol added to allow disabling logging of autopatrol edits in the logging table.
1849 Default for $wgLogAutopatrol is true.
1850 * The 'edit' right no longer allows for editing a user's own CSS and JS.
1851 * New rights 'editmyusercss', 'editmyuserjs', 'viewmywatchlist',
1852 'editmywatchlist', 'viewmyprivateinfo', 'editmyprivateinfo', and
1853 'editmyoptions' restrict actions that were formerly allowed by default. They
1854 have been added to the default for $wgGroupPermissions['*'].
1855 * The 'editprotected' right no longer allows bypassing of all page protection
1856 restrictions. Any group using it for this purpose will now need to have all
1857 the individual rights listed in $wgRestrictionTypes for the same effect.
1858 * The 'protect' and 'autoconfirmed' rights are no longer used for the default
1859 page protection levels. The rights 'editprotected' and 'editsemiprotected'
1860 are now used for this purpose instead.
1861 * (bug 40866) wgOldChangeTagsIndex removed.
1862 * $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions now only matches entire domains. For example,
1863 an entry for 'bar.com' will still match 'foo.bar.com' but not 'foobar.com'.
1864 * $wgCopyUploadTimeout and $wgCopyUploadAsyncTimeout added to change the timeout times for
1865 fetching the file during upload by url.
1866 * New key added to $wgGalleryOptions - $wgGalleryOptions['mode'] to set
1867 default gallery mode.
1868 * New hook 'GalleryGetModes' to allow extensions to make new gallery modes.
1869 * The checkbox for staying in HTTPS displayed on the login form when $wgSecureLogin is
1870 enabled has been removed. Instead, whether the user stays in HTTPS will be determined
1871 based on the user's preferences, and whether they came from HTTPS or not.
1872 * $wgRC2UDPAddress, $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix, $wgRC2UDPOmitBots, $wgRC2UDPPort,
1873 and $wgRC2UDPPrefix configuration options have been deprecated in favor of a
1874 $wgRCFeeds configuration array. $wgRCFeeds makes both the format and
1875 destination of recent change notifications customizable, and allows for
1876 multiple destinations to be specified.
1877 * (bug 53862) portal-url, currentevents-url and helppage have been removed from the
1879 * The 'vector-simplesearch' preference is now enabled by default. Previously
1880 it was only enabled if the Vector extension was installed.
1881 * The precise format of metric datagrams produced by the UDP profiler and stats counter
1882 may now be specified as $wgUDPProfilerFormatString and $wgStatsFormatString,
1884 * (bug 54597) $wgBlockOpenProxies, $wgProxyPorts, $wgProxyScriptPath, and
1885 $wgProxyMemcExpiry have been removed, along with the open proxy scanner
1886 script they were added for.
1887 * Default value of $wgMaxShellMemory has been tripled (it's now 300 MB).
1889 === New features in 1.22 ===
1890 * You can now install extensions using Composer.
1891 See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Composer
1892 * (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
1893 * (bug 33454) Language::sprintfDate now has a timezone parameter, and supports
1894 the "eIOPTZ" formatting characters.
1895 * EditWarning: A warning is shown when an editor leaves the edit form without
1896 saving (enabled by default, users can opt-out via the 'useeditwarning'
1897 preference). This feature was moved from the Vector extension, and is now part
1898 of core for all skins. Take care when upgrading that you don't use an older
1899 version of the Vector extension as this feature may conflict.
1900 * New 'mediawiki.ui' CSS module providing mw-ui-* styles for buttons and a
1901 compact vertical form layout.
1902 * HTMLForm supports a new display format 'vform' which applies this compact vertical
1903 layout and button styling. Special:PasswordReset uses this format.
1904 * New versions of login (Special:UserLogin) and create account
1905 (Special:UserLogin/signup) forms using the "vform" compact vertical form layout.
1906 These forms use new messages that assume a "Help logging in" link, see
1907 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_customizations;
1908 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Strings lists the
1909 message key changes.
1910 * (bug 23343) Implemented ability to apply IP blocks to the contents of X-Forwarded-For headers
1911 by adding a new configuration variable $wgApplyIpBlocksToXff (disabled by default).
1912 * The new hook 'APIGetPossibleErrors' to modify the list of possible errors was
1914 * (bug 25592) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() will now ignore various
1915 Pager-related WebRequest parameters by default, as this is overwhelmingly
1916 likely to be what was intended by users of the method. If any caller wishes
1917 to use these parameters, the new param 'useRequestParams' may be set to true.
1918 * mw.util.addPortletLink: Tooltip is no longer required to be plain (without
1919 an accesskey in it already). As such it now rountrips. Creating a link with a
1920 message as tooltip, grabbing the title attribute and using it to create
1921 another portlet will work as expected.
1922 * (bug 6747) {{ROOTPAGENAME}} introduced, contains the name of the topmost
1923 page without namespace.
1924 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 41729) Display editsection links next to headings. Also
1925 change their class name from .editsection to .mw-editsection and place them at
1926 the end of the heading element instead of the beginning. Client-side code and
1927 screen-scrapers will have to be adjusted to handle both cases (old HTML will
1928 still be visible on cached page renders until they are purged); extensions
1929 using the DoEditSectionLink or EditSectionLink hooks might need adjustments as
1931 * (bug 45535) introduced the new 'LanguageLinks' hook for manipulating the
1932 language links associated with a page before display.
1933 * Chosen (http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/) was added as module 'jquery.chosen'
1934 * HTMLForm will turn multiselect checkboxes into a Chosen interface when setting cssclass 'mw-chosen'
1935 * rebuildLocalisationCache learned --lang option. Let you rebuild l10n caches
1936 of the specified languages instead of all of them.
1937 * New GetNewMessagesAlert hook allowing extensions to disable or modify the new
1939 * New wgUserNewMsgRevisionId JS global for logged in users. This will be null
1940 if the user has no new talk page messages. Otherwise it will be set to the
1941 revision ID of the oldest new talk page message. This will allow gadgets and
1942 extensions to create their own new message alerts on the client side.
1943 * mediawiki.log: Added log.warn wrapper (uses console.warn and console.trace).
1944 * mediawiki.log: Implemented log.deprecate. This method defines a property and
1945 uses ES5 getter/setter to emit a warning when they are used.
1946 * $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels was added, allowing one to specify restriction levels
1947 which can be cascading (previously 'sysop' was hard-coded as the only one).
1948 * XHTML5 support has been improved. If you set $wgMimeType = 'application/xhtml+xml'
1949 MediaWiki will try outputting markup according to XHTML5 rules.
1950 * Altered hook 'ProtectionForm::save', adding the reason page protection is
1951 changed as third parameter.
1952 * New hook 'TitleSquidURLs' for manipulating the list of URLs to be purged from
1953 HTTP caches when a page is changed.
1954 * Changed the patrolling system to always show the link for patrolling in case the
1955 current revision is patrollable. This also removed the usage of the rcid URI parameters.
1956 * Oracle DB backend now supports Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP).
1957 Can be enabled by setting $wgDBOracleDRCP=true.
1958 Requires Oracle DB 11gR1 or above, enabled DRCP inside the DB itself and a
1959 propper connect string.
1960 More about DRCP can be found at:
1961 http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/database-resident-connection-pool-11gr1.php
1962 * Add a new parameter $patrolFooterShown to hook ArticleViewFooter so the hook
1963 handlers can take further action based on the status of the patrol footer
1964 * A new hook TitleQuickPermissions was added to allow overriding of quick
1965 permissions in the Title class.
1966 * LinkCache singleton can now be altered or cleared, letting one to specify
1967 another instance that does not rely on a database backend.
1968 * MediaWiki's PHPUnit tests can now use PHPUnit installed using composer --dev.
1969 * (bug 43689) The lists of templates used on the page and hidden categories it
1970 is a member of, shown below the edit form, are now collapsible (and collapsed
1972 * Parser profiling data, formerly only available in the "NewPP limit report"
1973 HTML comment, is now also displayed at the bottom of page previews.
1974 * Added ParserLimitReportPrepare and ParserLimitReportFormat hooks, deprecated
1975 ParserLimitReport hook.
1976 * New user rights have been added to increase granularity in rights management
1977 for extensions such as OAuth:
1978 ** editmyusercss controls whether a user may edit their own CSS subpages.
1979 ** editmyuserjs controls whether a user may edit their own JS subpages.
1980 ** viewmywatchlist controls whether a user may view their watchlist.
1981 ** editmywatchlist controls whether a user may edit their watchlist.
1982 ** viewmyprivateinfo controls whether a user may access their private
1983 information (e.g. registered email address, real name).
1984 ** editmyprivateinfo controls whether a user may change their private
1986 ** editmyoptions controls whether a user may change their preferences.
1987 * Add new hook AbortTalkPageEmailNotification, this will be used to determine
1988 whether to send the regular talk page email notification
1989 * Action classes registered in $wgActions are now also supported in the form of
1990 a callback (which returns an instance of Action) instead of providing the name
1991 of a subclass of Action.
1992 * (bug 46513) Vector: Add the collapsibleTabs script from the Vector extension.
1993 * Added $wgRecentChangesFlags for defining new flags for RecentChanges and
1995 * (bug 40518) mw.toolbar: Implemented mw.toolbar.addButtons for adding multiple
1996 button objects in one call.
1997 * Rights used for the default protection levels ('sysop' and 'autoconfirmed')
1998 are now used just for that purpose, instead of overloading other rights. This
1999 allows easy granting of the ability to edit sysop-protected pages without
2000 also granting the ability to protect and unprotect.
2001 * (bug 48256) Make brackets in section edit links accessible to CSS.
2002 They are now wrapped in <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" />.
2003 * (bug 8480) Allow handler specific parameters in galleries (like page number)
2004 * jquery.client: Add detection for Opera 15 and Internet Explorer 11.
2005 * Change tags (used by the AbuseFilter extension) are now shown on diff pages.
2006 * Change tag lists (shown on recent changes, watchlist, user contributions,
2007 history pages, diff pages) now include a link to Special:Tags to distinguish
2008 them from edit summaries.
2009 * Added a new method and hook, User::isEveryoneAllowed() and
2010 UserIsEveryoneAllowed, for use in situations where a "does everyone have this
2011 right?" check is used to avoid more expensive checks.
2012 * (bug 14431) Display "(No difference)" instead of an empty diff (when comparing
2013 revisions in the history or when previewing changes while editing).
2014 * New hook 'IsUploadAllowedFromUrl' is added which can be used to intercept uploads by
2015 URL, useful for blacklisting specific URLs
2016 * (bug 21912) Watchlist token implementation has been refactored and
2017 Special:ResetTokens was added to allow users to reset their tokens
2018 instead of presenting them in Preferences.
2019 * Special:PrefixIndex now lets you strip the searched prefix from the displayed
2020 titles. Given a list of articles named Bug1, Bug2, you can now transclude the
2021 list of bug numbers using: {{Special:PrefixIndex/Bug|stripprefix=1}}.
2022 The special page form received a new checkbox matching that option.
2023 * (bug 23580) Implement javascript callback interface "mw.hook".
2024 * (bug 30713) New mw.hook "wikipage.content".
2025 * (bug 40430) jquery.placeholder gets a new parameter to set the attribute value
2027 * $wgHTCPMulticastRouting renamed $wgHTCPRouting since it accepts unicast.
2028 * $wgHTCPRouting rules can now be passed an array of hosts/ports to send purge
2029 too. Can be used whenever several multicast group could be interested by a
2031 * (bug 25931) Add Special:RandomInCategory.
2032 * mediawiki.util: addPortletLink now supports passing a jQuery object as nextnode.
2033 * <wbr> can now be used inside WikiText.
2034 * WebResponse::setcookie is much more featureful. Callers using PHP's
2035 setcookie() or setrawcookie() should begin using this instead.
2036 * New hook WebResponseSetCookie, called from WebResponse::setcookie().
2037 * New hook ResetSessionID, called when the session id is reset.
2038 * Add a mode parameter to <gallery> tag with potential options of "traditional",
2039 "nolines", "packed", "packed-overlay", or "packed-hover".
2040 * (bug 47399) A success message is now displayed after changing the password.
2041 * Make thumb.php give HTTP redirects for file redirects
2042 * (bug 30607) Special:ListFiles can now show old versions of files. Additionally
2043 Special:AllMyUploads was introduced so the user can get a list of all things
2044 they have ever uploaded, even if it was subsequently overridden.
2045 * Introduced Special:MyFiles and Special:AllMyFiles as an alias for Special:MyUploads
2046 and Special:AllMyUploads respectively.
2047 * IPv6 addresses in X-Forwarded-For headers are now normalised before checking
2048 against allowed proxy lists.
2049 * Add deferrable update support for callback/closure.
2050 * Add TitleMove hook before page renames.
2051 * Revision deletion backend code is moved out of SpecialRevisiondelete
2052 * Added {{REVISIONSIZE}} variable to get the current size of a revision.
2053 * Add support for the LESS stylesheet language to ResourceLoader. LESS is a
2054 stylesheet language that compiles into CSS. ResourceLoader file modules may
2055 include LESS style files; ResourceLoader will compile these files into CSS
2056 before sending them to the client.
2057 ** The $wgResourceLoaderLESSVars configuration variable is an associative array
2058 mapping variable names to string CSS values. These variables are considered
2059 declared for all LESS files. Additional variables may be registered by
2060 adding keys to the array.
2061 ** $wgResourceLoaderLESSFunctions is an associative array of custom LESS
2062 function names to PHP callables. See <http://leafo.net/lessphp/docs/#custom_functions>
2063 for more details regarding custom functions.
2064 ** $wgResourceLoaderLESSImportPaths is an array of file system paths. Files
2065 referenced in LESS '@import' statements are looked up here first.
2066 * ResourceLoader supports hashes as module cache invalidation trigger (instead
2067 of or in addition to timestamps).
2068 * Added $wgExtensionEntryPointListFiles for use in mergeMessageFileList.php.
2069 * Added a hook, APIQuerySiteInfoStatisticsInfo, to allow extensions to modify
2070 the output of the API query meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
2071 * Primary keys have been added to both the archive table and the externallinks
2073 * Added $wgEnableParserLimitReporting to control whether the NewPP limit report is
2074 output in a HTML comment.
2075 * The 'UnwatchArticle' and 'WatchArticle' hooks now support a Status object
2076 instead of just a boolean return value to abort the hook.
2077 * Added a hook, SpecialWatchlistGetNonRevisionTypes, to allow extensions
2078 with custom recentchanges entries to hook into the Watchlist without
2079 clobbering each other.
2080 * A hidden, empty input field was added to the edit form, and any edit that fills
2081 it in will be rejected. This prevents against the simplest form of spambots.
2082 Previously in the "SimpleAntiSpam" extension by Ryan Schmidt.
2083 * populateRevisionLength.php maintenance script updated to also populate
2084 archive.ar_len field.
2085 * (bug 43571) DatabaseMySQLBase learned to list views, optionally filtered by a
2086 prefix. Also fixed PHPUnit test suite when using a MySQL backend containing
2089 === Bug fixes in 1.22 ===
2090 * (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the upgrade
2091 * Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail is false. Previously one
2092 could still navigate to the page by entering the URL directly.
2093 * (bug 47138) Fixed a fatal error when a blocked user tries to automatically
2094 create an account on login due external authentication in some circumstances.
2095 * (bug 23393) HTML <hN> headings containing line breaks are now handled
2097 * (bug 45803) Whitespace within == Headline == syntax and within <hN> headings
2098 is now non-significant and not preserved in the HTML output.
2099 * (bug 47218) Special:BlockList now handles correctly user names with spaces
2100 when passed as subpage.
2101 * Pager's properly validate which fields are allowed to be sorted on.
2102 * mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp: The regex now matches "option-" as well.
2103 Support for Mac "option" was added in 1.16, but the regex was never updated.
2104 * (bug 46768) Usernames of blocking users now display correctly, even if numeric.
2105 * (bug 39590) Self-transclusions now show the most up to date result always
2106 after save instead of being a revision behind.
2107 * A bias in wfRandomString() toward digits 1-7 has been corrected. Generated
2108 strings will now start with digits 0 and 8-f as often as they should.
2109 * (bug 45371) Removed Parser_LinkHooks and CoreLinkFunctions classes.
2110 * (bug 41545) Allow <kbd>, <samp>, and <var> to be nested like allowed in html.
2111 * PLURAL magic word no longer causes a PHP notice when no matching form exists.
2112 * (bug 36641) Patrol page links no longer show on non-existent revisions.
2113 * (bug 35810) Pages not linked from Special:RecentChanges or Special:NewPages
2114 are patrollable now.
2115 * (bug 30213) JavaScript for search suggestions is now disabled when the API
2116 is disabled, and AJAX patrolling and watching are now disabled when use of
2117 the write API is not allowed.
2118 * (bug 48294) API: Fix chunk upload async mode.
2119 * (bug 46749) Broken files tracking category removed from pages if an image
2120 with that name is uploaded.
2121 * (bug 14176) System messages that are empty were previously incorrectly treated
2122 as non-existent, causing a fallback to the default. This stopped users from
2123 overriding system messages to make them blank.
2124 * (bug 48319) action=parse no longer returns an error if passed none of 'oldid',
2125 'pageid', 'page', 'title', and 'text' (e.g. if only passed 'summary'). A
2126 warning will instead be issued if 'title' is non-default, unless no props are
2128 * Special:Recentchangeslinked will now include upload log entries
2129 * (bug 41281) Fixed ugly output if file size could not be extracted for multi-page media.
2130 * (bug 50315) list=logevents API module will now output log entries by anonymous users.
2131 * (bug 38911) Handle headers with rowspan in jquery.tablesorter
2132 * (bug 658) Converted the table of contents on wiki pages from <table> to <div>
2133 and adjusted skin CSS accordingly. The CSS was carefully crafted to be
2134 backwards-compatible in all reasonable cases (uses of the __TOC__ magic word,
2135 the #toc CSS id and the .toc CSS class). However, particularly bad abuse of
2136 the id or the class can possibly break.
2137 * CSSJanus now supports rgb, hsl, rgba, and hsla color syntaxes.
2138 * Special:Listfiles can no longer be sorted by image name when filtering
2139 by user in miser mode.
2140 * (bug 49074) CSSJanus: Handle values of border-radius correctly.
2141 * Handle relative inclusions ({{../name}}) in main namespace with subpages
2142 enabled correctly (previously MediaWiki tried to include Template:Parent/name
2143 instead of just Parent/name).
2144 * Added $wgAPIUselessQueryPages to allow extensions to flag their query pages
2145 for non-inclusion in ApiQueryQueryPages.
2146 * (bug 50870) mediawiki.notification: Notification area should remain visible
2148 * (bug 13438) Special:MIMESearch no longer an expensive special page.
2149 * (bug 48342) Fixed a fatal error when $wgValidateAllHtml is set to true and
2150 the function apache_request_headers() function is not available.
2151 * (bug 33399) LivePreview: Re-run wikipage content handlers
2152 (jquery.makeCollapsible, jquery.tablesorter) after preview content is loaded.
2153 * (bug 51891) Fixed PHP notice on Special:PagesWithProp when no properties
2155 * (bug 52006) Corrected documentation of $wgTranscludeCacheExpiry.
2156 * (bug 52077) The APIEditBeforeSave hook is giving the content of the whole
2157 revision as second argument now, rather than just the current section.
2158 * (bug 49694) $wgSpamRegex is now also applied on the new section headline text
2159 adding a new topic on a page
2160 * (bug 41756) Improve treatment of multiple comments on a blank line.
2161 * (bug 51064) Purge upstream caches when deleting file assets.
2162 * (bug 39012) File types with a mime that we do not know the extension for
2163 can no longer be uploaded as an extension that we do know the mime type
2165 * (bug 51742) Add data-sort-value for better sorting of hitcounts Special:Tags
2166 * (bug 26811) On DB error pages, server hostnames are now hidden when both
2167 $wgShowHostnames and $wgShowSQLErrors are false.
2168 * (bug 6200) line breaks in <blockquote> are handled like they are in <div>
2169 * (bug 14931) Default character set now set to 'utf8' when a new MySQL
2170 database is created.
2171 * (bug 47191) Fixed "Column 'si_title' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index"
2172 MySQL error when installing using the binary character set option.
2173 * (bug 45288) Support mysqli PHP extension
2174 * (bug 55818) BREAKING CHANGE: Removed undocumented 'Debug' hook in wfDebug.
2175 This resolves an infinite loop when using $wgDebugFunctionEntry = true.
2176 * (bug 56707) Correct tooltip of "Next n results" on query special pages.
2177 * (bug 56770) mw.util.addPortletLink: Check length before access array index.
2179 === API changes in 1.22 ===
2180 * (bug 25553) The JSON output formatter now leaves forward slashes unescaped
2181 to improve human readability of URLs and similar strings. Also, a "utf8"
2182 option is now provided to use UTF-8 encoding instead of hex escape codes
2183 for most non-ASCII characters.
2184 * (bug 46626) xmldoublequote parameter was removed. Because of a bug, the
2185 parameter has had no effect since MediaWiki 1.16, and so its removal is
2186 unlikely to impact existing clients.
2187 * (bug 47216) action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=skins will now indicate which
2188 skin is the default and which are unusable (e.g. listed in $wgSkipSkins).
2189 * (bug 25325) Added support for wlshow filtering (bots/anon/minor/patrolled)
2190 to action=feedwatchlist.
2191 * WDDX formatted output will actually be formatted (and normal output will no
2192 longer be), and will no longer choke on booleans.
2193 * action=opensearch no longer silently ignores the format parameter.
2194 * action=opensearch now supports format=jsonfm.
2195 * list=usercontribs&ucprop=ids will now include the parent revision id.
2196 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=parse no longer returns all langlinks for the page
2197 with prop=langlinks by default. The new effectivelanglinks parameter will
2198 request that the LanguageLinks hook be called to determine the effective
2200 * BREAKING CHANGE: list=allpages, list=langbacklinks, and prop=langlinks do not
2201 apply the new LanguageLinks hook, and thus only consider language links
2202 stored in the database.
2203 * (bug 47219) Allow specifying change type of Wikipedia feed items
2204 * prop=imageinfo now allows setting iiurlheight without setting iiurlwidth
2205 * prop=info now adds the content model and page language of the title.
2206 * New upload log entries will now contain information on the relevant
2207 image (sha1 and timestamp).
2208 * (bug 49239) action=parse now can parse in preview and section preview modes.
2209 * (bug 49259) action=patrol now accepts revision ids.
2210 * (bug 48129) list=blocks&bkip= now correctly handles IPv6 CIDR ranges and
2211 honors $wgBlockCIDRLimit. Note any clients passing invalid values to bkip
2212 will now receive an error, rather than the previous behavior listing all
2214 * (bug 48201) action=parse&text=foo now assumes wikitext if no title is given,
2215 rather than using the content model of the page "API".
2216 * action=watch no longer silently ignores hook abort.
2217 * (bug 50785) action=purge with forcelinkupdate=1 no longer queues refreshLinks
2218 jobs in the job queue for link table updates of pages that use the given page
2219 as a template. Instead, forcerecursivelinkupdate=1 is introduced and should
2220 be used if that behaviour is desirable.
2221 * The 'debugLog' property (enabled by $wgDebugToolbar) no longer sets the log
2222 entry values through ApiResult::content but directly. This changes the JSON
2223 output from an array of objects with content in '*' to an array of strings
2225 * (bug 51342) prop=imageinfo iicontinue now contains the dbkey, not the text
2226 version of the title.
2227 * (bug 52538) action=edit will now use empty text instead of the contents
2228 of section 0 when passed prependtext or appendtext with section=new.
2229 * Support for the 'gettoken' parameter to action=block and action=unblock,
2230 deprecated since 1.20, has been removed.
2231 * (bug 49090) Token-getting functions will fail when using jsonp callbacks.
2232 * (bug 52699) action=upload returns normalized file name on warning
2233 "exists-normalized" instead of filename to be uploaded to.
2234 * (bug 53884) action=edit will now return an error when the specified section
2235 does not exist in the page.
2236 * Added meta=filerepoinfo API module for getting information about foreign
2237 file repositories, and related ForeignAPIRepo methods getInfo and getApiUrl.
2238 * The new query module list=allfileusages to enumerate file usages was added.
2240 === Languages updated in 1.22===
2242 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
2243 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
2244 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
2246 * Batak Toba (bbc-latn) added.
2247 * (bug 46751) Made Buryat (Russia) (буряад) (bxr) fallback to Russian.
2249 === Other changes in 1.22 ===
2250 * BREAKING CHANGE: Implementation of MediaWiki's JS and JSON value encoding
2252 ** MediaWiki no longer supports PHP installations in which the native JSON
2253 extension is missing or disabled.
2254 ** XmlJsCode objects can no longer be nested inside objects or arrays.
2255 (For Xml::encodeJsCall(), this individually applies to each argument.)
2256 ** The sets of characters escaped by default, along with the precise escape
2257 sequences used, have changed (except for the Xml::escapeJsString()
2258 function, which is now deprecated).
2259 * BREAKING CHANGE: The Services_JSON class has been removed. If necessary,
2260 be sure to upgrade affected extensions at the same time (e.g. Collection).
2261 * redirect.php was removed. It was unused.
2262 * ClickTracking integration was dropped from the mediaWiki.user.bucket
2263 JavaScript function. The 'tracked' option is now ignored.
2264 * BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy skins Simple, MySkin, Chick, Standard and Nostalgia
2265 were all removed. (Nostalgia was moved to an extension.) The SkinLegacy and
2266 LegacyTemplate classes that supported them were removed as well and are now a
2267 part of the Nostalgia extension.
2268 * Event namespace used by jquery.makeCollapsible has been changed from
2269 'mw-collapse' to 'mw-collapsible' for consistency with the module name.
2270 * BREAKING CHANGE: The "ExternalAuth" authentication subsystem was removed, along
2271 with its associated globals of $wgExternalAuthType, $wgExternalAuthConf,
2272 $wgAutocreatePolicy and $wgAllowPrefChange. Affected users are encouraged to
2273 use AuthPlugin for external authentication/authorization needs.
2274 * The Quickbar feature of the legacy skin model and the last remnants of it
2275 throughout the code base have been removed.
2276 * Externaledit/externaldiff preference was removed. Very few users used this
2277 feature, and improper configuration can actually prevent a user from editing
2278 * Calling Linker methods using a skin will now output deprecation warnings.
2279 * (bug 46680) "Return to" links are no longer tagged with rel="next".
2280 * BREAKING CHANGE: mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp: The match group for the
2281 accesskey character is now $6 instead of $5.
2282 * HipHop compiler (hphpc) support was removed. HipHop VM support (hhvm) was
2284 * A new Special:Redirect page was added, providing lookup by revision ID,
2285 user ID, or file name. The old Special:Filepath page was reimplemented
2286 to redirect through Special:Redirect.
2287 * Monobook: Removed the old conditional stylesheets for Opera 6, 7 and 9.
2288 * Support for XHTML 1.0 has been removed. MediaWiki now only outputs (X)HTML5.
2289 * wikibits: User-agent related globals have been deprecated. The following
2290 properties now default to false and emit mw.log.warn: is_gecko, is_chrome_mac,
2291 is_chrome, webkit_version, is_safari_win, is_safari, webkit_match, is_ff2,
2292 ff2_bugs, is_ff2_win, is_ff2_x11, opera95_bugs, opera7_bugs, opera6_bugs,
2293 is_opera_95, is_opera_preseven, is_opera, and ie6_bugs.
2294 * (bug 48276) MediaWiki will now flash a confirmation message upon successfully
2296 * (bug 40785) mediawiki.legacy.ajax has been marked as deprecated. The following
2297 properties now emit mw.log.warn when accessed: sajax_debug, sajax_init_object,
2298 sajax_do_call and wfSupportsAjax.
2299 * BREAKING CHANGE: meta keywords are no longer supported. A <meta name="keywords"
2300 will no longer be output and OutputPage::addKeyword no longer exists.
2301 * Methods Title::userCanEditCssSubpage and Title::userCanEditJsSubpage,
2302 deprecated since 1.19, have been removed.
2303 * (bug 50134) Hook functions are no longer required to return a value. When a
2304 hook function does not return a value (or when it returns an explicit null),
2305 processing continues. To abort the hook, a hook function must return an
2306 explicit, boolean false or a string error message. Other falsey values are
2307 tantamount to a 'return true' in earlier versions of MediaWiki.
2308 * BREAKING CHANGE: The EditSectionLink hook was removed after being
2309 deprecated since MediaWiki 1.14. Use DoEditSectionLink instead.
2310 * (bug 48256) The 'editsection-brackets' optional message was removed.
2311 Section edit links' brackets can now be customized using CSS by
2312 styling span.mw-editsection-bracket.
2313 * The usePatrol function in ChangesList has been marked as deprecated.
2314 * (bug 50785) A "null edit", that is, a save action in which no changes to the
2315 page text are made and no revision recorded, will no longer send refreshLinks
2316 jobs to the job table to update pages which use the edited page as a template.
2317 * The LivePreviewPrepare and LivePreviewDone events triggered on "jQuery( mw )"
2318 have been deprecated in favour of using mw.hook.
2319 * The 'showjumplinks' user preference has been removed, jump links are now
2321 * Methods RecentChange::notifyRC2UDP, RecentChange::sendToUDP, and
2322 RecentChange::cleanupForIRC have been deprecated, as it is now the
2323 responsibility of classes implementing the RCFeedFormatter and RCFeedEngine
2324 interfaces to implement the formatting and delivery for recent change
2326 * SpecialPrefixindex methods namespacePrefixForm() and showPrefixChunk() have
2327 been made protected. They were accepting form variance arguments, this is now
2328 using properties in the SpecialPrefixindex class.
2329 * (bug 50310) BREAKING CHANGE: wikibits: Drop support for mwCustomEditButtons.
2330 It defaults to an empty array and emits mw.log.warn when accessed.
2331 * BREAKING CHANGE: Special:Disambiguations has been removed from MediaWiki core.
2332 Functions related to disambiguation pages are now handled by the Disambiguator
2333 extension (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Disambiguator) (bug
2335 * BREAKING CHANGE: The 'mediawiki.legacy.wikiprintable' module has been removed.
2336 The skins/common/wikiprintable.css file no longer exists. Return value of
2337 Skin#commonPrintStylesheet is ignored. Please use the 'mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint'
2338 module instead or base your skin on SkinTemplate.
2339 * (bug 49629) The hook ExtractThumbParameters has been deprecated in favour
2340 of media handler overriding MediaHandler::parseParamString.
2341 * (bug 46512) The collapsibleNav feature from the Vector extension has been moved
2342 to the Vector skin in core.
2343 * SpecialRecentChanges::addRecentChangesJS() function has been renamed
2344 to addModules() and made protected.
2345 * Methods WatchAction::doWatch and WatchAction::doUnwatch now return a Status
2346 object instead of a boolean.
2347 * Information boxes (CSS classes errorbox, warningbox, successbox) have been
2349 * BREAKING CHANGE: The module 'mediawiki.legacy.IEFixes' has been removed as it was
2350 unused. The file skins/common/IEFixes.js remains but is only used by wikibits.
2351 The file never contained any re-usable components. To use it in a skin, load
2352 'mediawiki.legacy.wikibits' (which IEFixes depends on) and that will import
2353 IEFixes automatically if user agent conditions are met.
2354 * Code specific to the Math extension was marked as deprecated.
2355 * mediawiki.util: mw.util.wikiGetlink has been renamed to getUrl. (The old name
2356 still works, but is deprecated.)
2358 == MediaWiki 1.21 ==
2360 == MediaWiki 1.21.11 ==
2361 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2363 === Changes since 1.21.10 ===
2364 * (bug 65839) SECURITY: Prevent external resources in SVG files.
2365 * (bug 66428) MimeMagic: Don't seek before BOF. This has weird side effects like only extracting the tail of the file partially or not at all.
2367 == MediaWiki 1.21.10 ==
2368 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2370 === Changes since 1.21.9 ===
2371 * (bug 65501) SECURITY: Don't parse usernames as wikitext on Special:PasswordReset.
2372 * (bug 36356) Add space between two feed links.
2374 == MediaWiki 1.21.9 ==
2375 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2377 === Changes since 1.21.8 ===
2378 * (bug 63251) SECURITY: Escape sortKey in pageInfo.
2379 * (bug 58640) Fixed a compatibility issue with PCRE 8.34 that caused pages to appear blank or with missing text.
2381 == MediaWiki 1.21.8 ==
2382 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2384 === Changes since 1.21.7 ===
2385 * (bug 62497) SECURITY: Add CSRF token on Special:ChangePassword.
2386 * (bug 62467) Set a title for the context during import on the cli.
2388 == MediaWiki 1.21.7 ==
2389 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2391 === Changes since 1.21.6 ===
2392 * Use the correct branch of the extensions' git repositories.
2394 == MediaWiki 1.21.6 ==
2395 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2397 === Changes since 1.21.5 ===
2398 * (bug 60771) SECURITY: Disallow uploading SVG files using non-whitelisted namespaces. Also disallow iframe elements. * User will get an error including the namespace name if they use a non- whitelisted namespace.
2399 * (bug 61346) SECURITY: Make token comparison use constant time. It seems like our token comparison would be vulnerable to timing attacks. This will take constant time.
2400 * (bug 61362) SECURITY: API: Don't find links in the middle of api.php links.
2402 == MediaWiki 1.21.5 ==
2403 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2405 === Changes since 1.21.4 ===
2406 * (bug 60339) SECURITY: Sanitize shell arguments to DjVu files, and other media formats
2408 == MediaWiki 1.21.4 ==
2409 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2411 === Changes since 1.21.3 ===
2412 * (bug 57550) SECURITY: Disallow stylesheets in SVG Uploads
2413 * (bug 58088) SECURITY: Don't normalize U+FF3C to \ in CSS Checks
2414 * (bug 58472) SECURITY: Disallow -o-link in styles
2415 * (bug 58553) SECURITY: Return error on invalid XML for SVG Uploads
2416 * (bug 58699) SECURITY: Fix RevDel log entry information leaks
2418 == MediaWiki 1.21.3 ==
2419 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2421 === Changes since 1.21.2 ===
2422 * (bug 53032) SECURITY: Don't cache when a call could autocreate
2423 * (bug 55332) SECURITY: Improve css javascript detection
2424 * (bug 49717) Fix behaviour $wgVerifyMimeType = false; in Upload
2425 * Fix comma errors in various js files
2428 == MediaWiki 1.21.2 ==
2429 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2431 === Changes since 1.21.1 ===
2432 * SECURITY: Fix extension detection with 2 .'s
2433 * SECURITY: Support for the 'gettoken' parameter to action=block and action=unblock, deprecated since 1.20, has been removed.
2434 * SECURITY: Sanitize ResourceLoader exception messages
2435 * Purge upstream caches when deleting file assets.
2436 * Unit test suite now runs the AutoLoader tests. Also fixed the autoloading entry for the PageORMTableForTesting class though it had no impact.
2438 == MediaWiki 1.21.1 ==
2439 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch.
2441 === Changes since 1.21.0 ===
2442 * An incorrect version number was used for 1.21.0. 1.21.1 has the correct number.
2443 * A problem with the Oracle SQL table creation was fixed.
2444 * (PdfHandler extension) Fix warning if pdfinfo fails but pdftext succeeds.
2446 === Configuration changes in 1.21 ===
2447 * (bug 29374) $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch is now enabled by default.
2448 * Deprecated $wgAllowRealName is removed. Use $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname'
2450 * (bug 39957) Added $wgUnwatchedPageThreshold, specifying minimum count
2451 of page watchers required for the number to be accessible to users
2452 without the unwatchedpages permission.
2453 * $wgBug34832TransitionalRollback has been removed.
2454 * (bug 29472) $wgUseDynamicDates has been removed and its functionality
2457 === New features in 1.21 ===
2458 * (bug 38110) Schema changes (adding or dropping tables, indices and
2459 fields) can be now be done separately from other changes that
2460 update.php makes. This is useful in environments that use database
2461 permissions to restrict schema changes but allow the DB user that
2462 MediaWiki normally runs as to perform other changes that update.php
2463 makes. Schema changes can be run separately. See the file UPGRADE
2464 for more information.
2465 * (bug 34876) jquery.makeCollapsible has been improved in performance.
2466 * Added ContentHandler facility to allow extensions to support other content
2467 than wikitext. See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
2468 * New feature was developed for showing high-DPI thumbnails for high-DPI mobile
2469 and desktop displays (configurable with $wgResponsiveImages).
2470 * Added new backend to represent and store information about sites and site
2471 specific configuration.
2472 * jQuery upgraded from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3.
2473 * jQuery UI upgraded from 1.8.23 to 1.8.24.
2474 * Added separate fa_sha1 field to filearchive table. This allows sha1
2475 searches with the api in miser mode for deleted files.
2476 * Add initial and programmatic sorting for tablesorter.
2477 * Add the event "sortEnd.tablesorter", triggered after sorting has completed.
2478 * The Job system was refactored to allow for different backing stores for
2479 queues as well as cross-wiki access to queues, among other things. The schema
2480 for the DB queue was changed to support better concurrency and reduce
2482 * Added ApiQueryORM class to facilitate creation of query API modules based on
2483 tables that have a corresponding ORMTable class.
2484 * (bug 40876) Icon for PSD (Adobe Photoshop) file types.
2485 * (bug 40641) Implemented Special:Version/Credits with a list of contributors.
2486 * (bug 7851) Implemented one-click AJAX patrolling.
2487 * The <data>, <time>, <meta>, and <link> elements are allowed within WikiText
2488 for use with Microdata.
2489 * The HTML5 <mark> tag has been whitelisted.
2490 * Added ParserCloned hook for when the Parser object is cloned.
2491 * Added AlternateEditPreview hook to allow extensions to replace the page
2492 preview from the edit page.
2493 * Added EditPage::showStandardInputs:options hook to allow extensions to add
2494 new fields to the "editOptions" area of the edit form.
2495 * Upload stash DB schema altered to improve upload performance.
2496 * The following global functions are now reporting deprecated warnings in
2497 debug mode: wfMsg, wfMsgNoTrans, wfMsgForContent, wfMsgForContentNoTrans,
2498 wfMsgReal, wfMsgGetKey, wfMsgHtml, wfMsgWikiHtml, wfMsgExt, wfEmptyMsg. Use
2499 the Message class, or the global method wfMessage.
2500 * Added $wgEnableCanonicalServerLink, off by default. If enabled, a
2501 <link rel=canonical> tag is added to every page indicating the correct server
2503 * Debug message emitted by wfDebugLog() will now be prefixed with the group
2504 name when its logged to the default log file. That is the case whenever the
2505 group has no key in wgDebugLogGroups, that will help triage the default log.
2506 * (bug 24620) Add types to LogFormatter.
2507 * jQuery JSON upgraded from 2.3 to 2.4.0.
2508 * Added GetDoubleUnderscoreIDs hook, for modifying the list of magic words.
2509 * DatabaseUpdater class has two new methods to ease extensions schema changes:
2510 dropExtensionIndex and renameExtensionIndex.
2511 * New preference type - 'api'. Preferences of this type are not shown on
2512 Special:Preferences, but are still available via the action=options API.
2513 * (bug 39397) Hide rollback link if a user is the only contributor of the page.
2514 * $wgPageInfoTransclusionLimit limits the list size of transcluded articles
2515 on the info action. Default is 50.
2516 * Added action=createaccount to allow user account creation.
2517 * (bug 40124) action=options API also allows for setting of arbitrary
2518 preferences, provided that their names are prefixed with 'userjs-'. This
2519 officially reenables the feature that was undocumented and defective
2520 in MW 1.20 (saving preferences using Special:Preferences cleared any
2521 additional fields) and which has been disabled in 1.20.1 as a part of
2522 a security fix (bug 42202).
2523 * Added option to specify "others" as author in extension credits using
2524 "..." as author name.
2525 * Added the ability to limit the wall clock time used by shell processes,
2526 as well as the CPU time. Configurable with $wgMaxShellWallClockTime.
2527 * Allow memory of shell subprocesses to be limited using Linux cgroups
2528 instead of ulimit -v, which tends to cause deadlocks in recent versions
2529 of ImageMagick. Configurable with $wgShellCgroup.
2530 * Added $wgWhitelistReadRegexp for regex whitelisting.
2531 * (bug 5346) Categories that are redirects will be displayed italic in
2532 the category links section at the bottom of a page.
2533 * (bug 43915) New maintenance script deleteEqualMessages.php.
2534 * You can now create checkbox option matrices through the HTMLCheckMatrix
2535 subclass in HTMLForm.
2536 * WikiText now permits the use of WAI-ARIA's role="presentation" inside of
2537 html elements and tables. This allows presentational markup, especially
2538 tables. To be marked up as such.
2539 * maintenance/sql.php learned the --cluster option. Let you run the script
2540 on some external cluster instead of the primary cluster for a given wiki.
2541 * (bug 20281) test the parsing of inline URLs.
2542 * Added Special:PagesWithProp, which lists pages using a particular page property.
2543 * Implemented language-specific collations for category sorting for 67 languages
2544 based in latin, greek and cyrillic alphabets. This allows one to *finally* get
2545 articles to be correctly sorted on category pages. They are named
2546 'uca-<langcode>', where <langcode> is one of: af, ast, az, be, bg, br, bs, ca,
2547 co, cs, cy, da, de, dsb, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fi, fo, fr, fur, fy, ga, gd,
2548 gl, hr, hsb, hu, is, it, kk, kl, ku, ky, la, lb, lt, lv, mk, mo, mt, nl, no,
2549 oc, pl, pt, rm, ro, ru, rup, sco, sk, sl, smn, sq, sr, sv, tk, tl, tr, tt, uk,
2551 * Added 'CategoryAfterPageAdded' and 'CategoryAfterPageRemoved' hooks.
2552 * Added 'HistoryRevisionTools' and 'DiffRevisionTools' hooks.
2553 * Added 'SpecialSearchResultsPrepend' and 'SpecialSearchResultsAppend' hooks.
2554 * (bug 33186) Add image rotation api "imagerotate"
2555 * (bug 34040) Add "User rights management" link on user page toolbox.
2556 * (bug 45526) Add QUnit assertion helper "QUnit.assert.htmlEqual" for asserting
2557 structual equality of HTML (ignoring insignificant differences like
2558 quotmarks, order and whitespace in the attribute list).
2559 * (bug 23393) HTML <hN> headings containing line breaks are now handled
2561 * (bug 45803) Whitespace within == Headline == syntax and within <hN> headings
2562 is now non-significant and not preserved in the HTML output.
2564 === Bug fixes in 1.21 ===
2565 * (bug 40353) SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects.
2566 * (bug 40352) fixDoubleRedirects.php should support interwiki redirects.
2567 * (bug 9237) SpecialBrokenRedirect should not list interwiki redirects.
2568 * (bug 34960) Drop unused fields rc_moved_to_ns and rc_moved_to_title from
2569 recentchanges table.
2570 * (bug 32951) Do not register internal externals with absolute protocol,
2571 when server has relative protocol.
2572 * (bug 39005) When purging proxies listed in $wgSquidServers using HTTP PURGE
2573 method requests, we now send a Host header by default, for Varnish
2574 compatibility. This also works with Squid in reverse-proxy mode. If you wish
2575 to support Squid configured in forward-proxy mode, set
2576 $wgSquidPurgeUseHostHeader to false.
2577 * (bug 37020) sql.php with readline eats semicolon.
2578 * (bug 11748) Properly handle optionally-closed HTML tags when Tidy is
2579 disabled, and don't wrap HTML-syntax definition lists in paragraphs.
2580 * (bug 41409) Diffs while editing an old revision should again diff against the
2582 * (bug 41494) Honor $wgLogExceptionBacktrace when logging non-API exceptions
2583 caught during API execution.
2584 * (bug 37963) Fixed loading process for user options.
2585 * (bug 26995) Update filename field on Upload page after having sanitized it.
2586 * (bug 41793) Contribution links to users with 0 edits on Special:ListUsers
2588 * (bug 41899) A PHP notice no longer occurs when using the "rvcontinue" API
2590 * (bug 42036) Account creation emails now contain canonical (not
2591 protocol-relative) URLs.
2592 * (bug 41990) Fix regression: API edit with redirect=true and lacking
2593 starttimestamp and basetimestamp should not cause an edit conflict.
2594 * (bug 41706) EditPage: Preloaded page should be converted if possible and
2596 * (bug 41886) Rowspans are no longer exploded by tablesorter until the table is
2598 * (bug 2865) User interface HTML elements don't use lang attribute.
2599 (completed the fix by adding the lang attribute to firstHeading).
2600 * (bug 42173) Removed namespace prefixes on Special:UncategorizedCategories.
2601 * (bug 36053) Log in "returnto" feature forgets query parameters if no
2602 title parameter was specified.
2603 * (bug 42410) API action=edit now returns correct timestamp for the new edit.
2604 * (bug 14901) Email notification mistakes log action for new page creation.
2605 Enotif no longer sends "page has been created" notifications for some log
2606 actions. The following events now have a correct message: page creation,
2607 deletion, move, restore (undeletion), change (edit). Parameter
2608 $CHANGEDORCREATED is deprecated in 'enotif_body' and scheduled for removal in
2610 * (bug 457) In the sidebar of Vector, CologneBlue, Monobook, and Monobook-based
2611 skins, the heading levels have been changed from (variously per skin)
2612 <h4>, <h5> or <h6> to only <h3>s, with a <h2> hidden heading above them.
2613 If you are styling or scripting the headings in a custom way, this change
2614 will require updates to your site's CSS or JS.
2615 * (bug 41342) jquery.suggestions should cancel any active (async) fetches
2616 before it triggers another fetch.
2617 * (bug 42184) $wgUploadSizeWarning missing second variable.
2618 * (bug 34581) removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script now ignores newuser
2619 log when determining whether an account is used.
2620 * (bug 43379) Gracefully fail if rev_len is unavailable for a revision on the
2622 * (bug 42949) API no longer assumes all exceptions are MWException.
2623 * (bug 41733) Hide "New user message" (.usermessage) element from printable view.
2624 * (bug 39062) Special:Contributions will display changes that don't have
2625 a parent id instead of just an empty bullet item.
2626 * (bug 37209) "LinkCache doesn't currently know about this title" error fixed.
2627 * wfMerge() now works if $wgDiff3 contains spaces
2628 * (bug 43052) mediawiki.action.view.dblClickEdit.dblClickEdit should trigger
2629 ca-edit click instead opening URL directly.
2630 * (bug 43964) Invalid value of "link" parameter in <gallery> no longer produces
2632 * (bug 44775) The username field is not pre-filled when creating an account.
2633 * (bug 45069) wfParseUrl() no longer produces a PHP notice if passed a "mailto:"
2635 * (bug 45012) Creating an account by e-mail can no longer show a
2636 "password mismatch" error.
2637 * (bug 44599) On Special:Version, HEADs for submodule checkouts (e.g. for
2638 extensions) performed using Git 1.7.8+ should now appear.
2639 * (bug 42184) $wgUploadSizeWarning missing second variable
2640 * (bug 40326) Check if files exist with a different extension during uploading
2641 * (bug 34798) Updated CSS for Atom/RSS recent changes feeds to match on-wiki diffs.
2642 * (bug 42430) Calling numRows on MySQL no longer propagates unrelated errors.
2643 * (bug 44719) Removed mention of non-existing maintenance/migrateCurStubs.php
2644 script in includes/DefaultSettings.php
2645 * (bug 45143) jquery.badge: Treat non-Latin variants of zero as zero as well.
2646 * (bug 46151) mwdocgen.php should not ignore exit code of doxygen command.
2647 * (bug 41889) Fix $.tablesorter rowspan exploding for complex cases.
2649 === API changes in 1.21 ===
2650 * prop=revisions can now report the contentmodel and contentformat.
2651 See docs/contenthandler.txt.
2652 * action=edit and action=parse now support contentmodel and contentformat
2653 parameters to control the interpretation of page content.
2654 See docs/contenthandler.txt for details.
2655 * (bug 35693) ApiQueryImageInfo now suppresses errors when unserializing metadata.
2656 * (bug 40111) Disable minor edit for page/section creation by API.
2657 * (bug 41042) Revert change to action=parse&page=... behavior when the page
2659 * (bug 27202) Add timestamp sort to list=allimages.
2660 * (bug 43137) Don't return the sha1 of revisions through the API if the content is
2662 * ApiQueryImageInfo now also returns imageinfo for redirects.
2663 * list=alltransclusions added to enumerate every instance of page embedding
2664 * list=alllinks & alltransclusions now allow both 'from' and 'continue' in
2665 the same query. When both are present, 'from' is simply ignored.
2666 * list=alllinks & alltransclusions now allow 'unique' in generators, to yield
2667 a list of all link/template target pages instead of source pages.
2668 * BREAKING CHANGE: list=logevents output format changed for details of some log
2669 types. Specifically, details that were formerly reported under a key like
2670 "4::foo" will now be reported under a key of simply "foo".
2671 * BREAKING CHANGE: '??_badcontinue' error code was changed to '??badcontinue'
2672 for all query modules.
2673 * ApiQueryBase adds 'badcontinue' error code if module has 'continue' parameter.
2674 * (bug 35885) Removed version parameter and all getVersion() methods.
2675 * action=options now takes a "resetkinds" option, which allows only resetting
2676 certain types of preferences when the "reset" option is set.
2677 * (bug 36751) ApiQueryImageInfo now returns imageinfo for the redirect target
2678 when queried with &redirects=.
2679 * (bug 31849) ApiQueryImageInfo no longer gets confused when asked for info on
2680 a redirect and its target.
2681 * (bug 43849) ApiQueryImageInfo no longer throws exceptions with ForeignDBRepo
2683 * On error, any warnings generated before that error will be shown in the result.
2684 * action=help supports generalized submodules (modules=query+value), querymodules obsolete
2685 * ApiQueryImageInfo continuation is more reliable. The only major change is
2686 that the imagerepository property will no longer be set on page objects not
2687 processed in the current query (i.e. non-images or those skipped due to
2689 * Add supports for all pageset capabilities - generators, redirects, converttitles to
2690 action=purge and action=setnotificationtimestamp.
2691 * (bug 43251) prop=pageprops&ppprop= now accepts multiple props to query.
2692 * ApiQueryImageInfo will now limit the number of calls to File::transform made
2693 in any one query. If there are too many, iicontinue will be returned.
2694 * action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general will now return the regexes used for
2695 link trails and link prefixes. Added for Parsoid support.
2696 * Added an API query module list=pageswithprop, which lists pages using a
2697 particular page property.
2698 * Added an API query module list=pagepropnames, which lists all page prop names
2699 currently in use on the wiki.
2700 * (bug 44921) ApiMain::execute() will now return after the CORS check for an
2701 HTTP OPTIONS request.
2702 * (bug 44923) action=upload works correctly if the entire file is uploaded in
2704 * Added 'continue=' parameter to streamline client iteration over complex query results
2705 * (bug 44909) API parameters may now be marked as type "upload", which is now
2706 used for action=upload's 'file' and 'chunk' parameters. This type will raise
2707 an error during parameter validation if the parameter is given but not
2708 recognized as an uploaded file.
2709 * (bug 44244) prop=info may now return the number of people watching each page.
2710 * (bug 33304) list=allpages will no longer return duplicate entries when
2711 querying protection.
2712 * (bug 33304) list=allpages will now find really old indefinite protections.
2713 * (bug 45937) meta=allmessages will report a syntactically invalid lang as a
2714 proper error instead of as an uncaught exception.
2715 * (bug 25325) added support for wlshow filtering (bots/anon/minor/patrolled)
2716 to action=feedwatchlist
2717 * WDDX formatted output will actually be formatted (and normal output will no
2718 longer be), and will no longer choke on booleans.
2720 === API internal changes in 1.21 ===
2721 * For debugging only, a new global $wgDebugAPI removes many API restrictions when true.
2722 Never use on the production servers, as this flag introduces security holes.
2723 Whenever enabled, a warning will also be added to all output.
2724 * ApiModuleManager now handles all submodules (actions,props,lists) and instantiation
2725 * Query stores prop/list/meta as submodules
2726 * ApiPageSet can now be used in any action to process titles/pageids/revids or any generator.
2727 * BREAKING CHANGE: ApiPageSet constructor now has two params instead of three, with only the
2728 first one keeping its meaning. ApiPageSet is now derived from ApiBase.
2729 * BREAKING CHANGE: ApiQuery::newGenerator() and executeGeneratorModule() were deleted.
2730 * ApiQueryGeneratorBase::setGeneratorMode() now requires a pageset param.
2731 * $wgAPIGeneratorModules is now obsolete and will be ignored.
2732 * Added flags ApiResult::OVERRIDE and ADD_ON_TOP to setElement() and addValue()
2733 * Internal API calls will now include <warnings> in case of unused parameters
2735 === Languages updated in 1.21 ===
2737 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
2738 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
2739 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
2741 * South Azerbaijani (azb) added.
2742 * (bug 30040) Autonym for nds-nl is now 'Nedersaksies' (was 'Nedersaksisch').
2743 * (bug 45436) Autonym for pi (Pali) is now 'पालि' (was ''पाळि').
2744 * (bug 34977) Now formatted numbers in Spanish use space as separator
2745 for thousands, as mandated by the Real Academia Española.
2746 * (bug 35031) Kurdish formatted numbers now use period and comma
2747 as separators for thousands and decimals respectively.
2749 === Other changes in 1.21 ===
2750 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 44385) Removed the jquery.collapsibleTabs module and
2751 moved it to the Vector extension. It was entirely Vector-extension-specific,
2752 deeply interconnected with the extension, and this functionality really
2753 belongs to the extension instead of the skin anyway. In the unlikely case you
2754 were using it, you have to either copy it to your extension, or install the
2755 Vector extension (and possibly disable its features using config settings if
2756 you don't want them).
2757 * Experimental IBM DB2 support was removed due to lack of interest and maintainership
2758 * BREAKING CHANGE: Filenames of maintenance scripts were standardized into
2759 lowerCamelCase format, and made more explicit:
2760 - clear_stats.php -> clearCacheStats.php
2761 - clear_interwiki_cache.php -> clearInterwikiCache.php
2762 - initStats.php -> initSiteStats.php
2763 - proxy_check.php -> proxyCheck.php
2764 - stats.php -> showCacheStats.php
2765 - showStats.php -> showSiteStats.php.
2766 Class names were renamed accordingly:
2767 - clear_stats -> ClearCacheStats
2768 - InitStats -> InitSiteStats
2769 - CacheStats -> ShowCacheStats
2770 - ShowStats -> ShowSiteStats.
2771 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 38244) Removed the mediawiki.api.titleblacklist module
2772 and moved it to the TitleBlacklist extension.
2774 == MediaWiki 1.20 ==
2776 == MediaWiki 1.20.8 ==
2777 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch.
2779 === Changes since 1.20.7 ===
2780 * (bug 53032) SECURITY: Don't cache when a call could autocreate
2781 * (bug 55332) SECURITY: Improve css javascript detection
2782 * (bug 49717) Fix behaviour $wgVerifyMimeType = false; in Upload
2783 * Fix comma errors in various js files
2786 == MediaWiki 1.20.7 ==
2787 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch.
2789 === Changes since 1.20.6 ===
2790 * SECURITY: Fix extension detection with 2 .'s
2791 * SECURITY: Token-getting functions will fail when using jsonp callbacks.
2792 * SECURITY: Sanitize ResourceLoader exception messages
2793 * Purge upstream caches when deleting file assets.
2795 == MediaWiki 1.20.6 ==
2796 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch.
2798 === Changes since 1.20.5 ===
2799 * (bug 48306) SECURITY: Run file validation checks on chunked uploads, and chunks of upload, during the upload process.
2800 * (bug 44327) mediawiki.user: Use session ID instead of 1-year cross-session cookies
2801 * (bug 47202) wikibits: FF2Fixes.css should not be loaded in Firefox 20.
2802 * (bug 31044) Make ResourceLoader behave in read-only mode
2804 == MediaWiki 1.20.5 ==
2805 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch.
2807 === Changes since 1.20.4 ===
2808 * (bug 46590) Add hook AbortChangePassword to Special:ChangePassword
2809 * (bug 47304) SECURITY: Check SVG xml encoding against whitelist
2810 * Localisation updates from http://translatewiki.net.
2811 * mwdocgen.php: Implement --version option.
2812 * Remove svnstat stuff used in Doxygen generation
2813 * (bug 43594) Correctly supress warnings that were missed after the upstream
2814 * PHP change to E_STRICT being included in E_ALL.
2816 == MediaWiki 1.20.4 ==
2817 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch.
2819 === Changes since 1.20.3 ===
2820 * (bug 47251) SECURITY: Disable external entities in Import
2821 * (bug 46859) SECURITY: Disable external entities in XMLReader
2822 * (bug 46084) SECURITY: Sanitize $limitReport before outputting
2824 == MediaWiki 1.20.3 ==
2825 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch.
2827 == MediaWiki 1.20.2 ==
2828 * New preference type - 'api'. Preferences of this type are not shown on Special:Preferences, but are still available via the action=options API. (Unbreaks MLEB.)
2829 * (bug 44010) Context is passed to UserGetLanguageObject.
2830 * The recursion guard on RequestContext::getLanguage() was weakened.
2831 * (bug 40585) Don't drop 'step="any"' in HTML input fields.
2832 * (bug 44024) Fixed problems in ObjectCache when using XCache.
2833 * (bug 44010) FauxRequest leaked cookie data from primary request.
2834 * (bug 44135/bug 42441) Pass '2' instead of 'true' to CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST
2835 * (bug 43518) API action=unblock should return the user name, not the full user object
2836 * (bug 45355) Prevent read of arbitrary files through mwdoc-filter.php
2838 == MediaWiki 1.20.2 ==
2839 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch
2841 == MediaWiki 1.20.1 ==
2842 * (bug 42638) Fix API action=options&reset=1 & unit tests.
2843 * (bug 42370) Fixed backport of 60cc060 to use mDoneWrites — caused * (bug 42592) User rights, preferences and other things are not saving in 1.20.1.
2845 == MediaWiki 1.20.1 ==
2846 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch
2849 * (bug 42202) Validate options to prevent html injection
2850 * (bug 40995) Prevent session fixation in Special:UserLogin (CVE-2012-5391)
2851 * (bug 41400) Prevent linker regex from exceeding PCRE backtrack limit
2852 * Javscript Lint fixes
2853 * (bug 40632) Remove CleanupPresentationalAttributes feature
2854 * [Database] Fixed case where trx idle callbacks might be lost.
2858 == MediaWiki 1.20 ==
2860 === PHP 5.3 now required ===
2861 Since 1.20, the lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.3.2. Please
2862 upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
2864 === Configuration changes in 1.20 ===
2865 * $wgGitRepositoryViewers defines a mapping from Git remote repository to the
2866 Gitweb instance URL used in Special:Version.
2867 * `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers
2868 using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts
2869 path info from REQUEST_URI if it's available.
2870 * The user right 'upload_by_url' is no longer given to sysops by default.
2871 This only affects installations which have $wgAllowCopyUploads set to true.
2872 * Removed f-prot support from $wgAntivirusSetup.
2873 * New variable $wgDBerrorLogTZ to provide dates in the error log in a
2874 different timezone than the wiki timezone set by $wgLocaltimezone.
2875 * New variables $wgDBssl and $wgDBcompress to enable SSL and compression for database
2876 connections, if either are available for the selected DB type.
2877 * $wgUseCombinedLoginLink now defaults to false, making MediaWiki output separate
2878 login and create account links by default.
2880 === New features in 1.20 ===
2881 * Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists.
2882 * Added NamespaceIsMovable hook which gets called when determining if pages in a
2883 certain namespace can be moved.
2884 * Added SpecialPageBeforeExecute hook which gets called before SpecialPage::execute.
2885 * Added SpecialPageAfterExecute hook which gets called after SpecialPage::execute.
2886 * Added ORMTable, ORMRow and ORMResult classes for additional abstraction of
2887 database interaction.
2888 * Added CacheHelper and associated SpecialCachedPage and CachedAction helper classes.
2889 * (bug 32341) Add upload by URL domain limitation.
2890 * &useskin=default will now always display the default skin. Useful for users with a
2891 preference for the non-default skin to look at something using the default skin.
2892 * (bug 27619) Remove preference option to display broken links as link?
2893 * (bug 34896) jQuery JSON plugin upgraded to v2.3 (2011-09-17).
2894 * (bug 34302) Add CSS classes to email fields in user preferences.
2895 * Introduced $wgDebugDBTransactions to trace transaction status (currently PostgreSQL only).
2896 * (bug 23795) Add parser itself to ParserMakeImageParams hook.
2897 * Introduce a cryptographic random number generator source api for use when
2898 generating various tokens.
2899 * (bug 30963) Option on Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages to not show redirects.
2900 * (bug 18062) New message when edit or create the local page of a shared file.
2901 * (bug 22870) Separate interface message when creating a page.
2902 * (bug 17615) nosummary option should be reassigned on preview/captcha.
2903 * (bug 34355) Add a variable and parser function for the namespace number.
2904 * (bug 35649) Special:Version now shows hashes of extensions checked out from git.
2905 * (bug 35728) Git revisions are now linked on Special:Version.
2906 * "Show Changes" on default messages shows now diff against default message text
2907 * (bug 23006) create #speciale parser function.
2908 * generateSitemap can now optionally skip redirect pages.
2909 * (bug 27757) New API command just for retrieving tokens (not page-based).
2910 * Added GitViewers hook for extensions using external git repositories to have a web-based
2911 repository viewer linked to from Special:Version.
2912 * Memcached debug logs can now be sent to their own file logs by setting
2913 $wgDebugLogFile['memcached'] to some filepath.
2914 * (bug 35685) api.php URL and other entry point URLs are now listed on
2916 * Edit notices can now be translated.
2917 * jQuery upgraded to 1.8.2.
2918 * jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.23.
2919 * QUnit upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.10.0.
2920 * (bug 37604) jquery.cookie upgraded to 2011 version.
2921 * (bug 22887) Add warning and tracking category for preprocessor errors
2922 * (bug 31704) Allow selection of associated namespace on the watchlist
2923 * (bug 5445) Now remove autoblocks when a user is unblocked.
2924 * Added $wgLogExceptionBacktrace, on by default, to allow logging of exception
2926 * Added device detection for determining device capabilities.
2927 * QUnit.newMwEnvironment now supports passing a custom setup and/or teardown function.
2928 Arguments signature has changed. First arguments is now an options object of which
2929 'config' can be a property. Previously 'config' itself was the first and only argument.
2930 * New getCreator and getOldestRevision methods added to WikiPage class
2931 * (bug 4220) the XML dump format schema now have unique identity constraints
2932 for page and revision identifiers. Patch by Elvis Stansvik.
2933 * cleanupSpam.php now can delete spam pages if --delete was specified instead of blanking
2935 * Added new hook ChangePasswordForm to allow adding of additional fields in Special:ChangePassword
2936 * Added new function getDomain to AuthPlugin for getting a user's domain
2937 * (bug 23427) New magic word {{PAGEID}} which gives the current page ID.
2938 Will be null on previewing a page being created.
2939 * (bug 37627) UserNotLoggedIn() exception to show a generic error page whenever
2940 a user is not logged in.
2941 * Watched status in changes lists are no longer indicated by <strong></strong>
2942 tags with class "mw-watched". Instead, each line now has a class
2943 "mw-changeslist-line-watched" or "mw-changeslist-line-not-watched", and the
2944 title itself is surrounded by <span></span> tags with class "mw-title".
2945 * Added ContribsPager::reallyDoQuery hook allowing extensions to data to MyContribs
2946 * Added new hook ParserAfterParse to allow extensions to affect parsed output
2947 after the parse is complete but before block level processing, link holder
2948 replacement, and so on.
2949 * (bug 34678) Added InternalParseBeforeSanitize hook which gets called during Parser's
2950 internalParse method just before the parser removes unwanted/dangerous HTML tags.
2951 * Added new hook AfterFinalPageOutput to allow modifications to buffered page output before sent
2953 * (bug 36783) Implement jQuery Promise interface in mediawiki.api module.
2954 * Make dates in sortable tables sort according to the page content language
2955 instead of the site content language
2956 * (bug 37926) Deleterevision will no longer allow users to delete log entries,
2957 the new deletelogentry permission is required for this.
2958 * (bug 14237) Allow PAGESINCATEGORY to distinguish between 'all', 'pages', 'files'
2960 * (bug 38362) Make Special:Listuser includeable on wiki pages.
2961 * Added support in jquery.localize for placeholder attributes.
2962 * (bug 38151) Implemented mw.user.getRights for getting and caching the current
2964 * Session storage can now configured independently of general object cache
2965 storage, by using $wgSessionCacheType. $wgSessionsInMemcached has been
2966 renamed to $wgSessionsInObjectCache, with the old name retained for backwards
2967 compatibility. When this feature is enabled, the expiry time can now be
2968 configured with $wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry.
2969 * Added a Redis client for object caching.
2970 * Implemented mw.user.getGroups for getting and caching user groups.
2971 * (bug 37830) Added $wgRequirePasswordforEmailChange to control whether password
2972 confirmation is required for changing an email address or not.
2973 * HTMLForm mutators can now be chained (they return $this)
2974 * A new message, "api-error-filetype-banned-type", is available for formatting
2975 API upload errors due to the file extension blacklist.
2976 * New hook 'ParserTestGlobals' allows to set globals before running parser tests.
2977 * Allow importing pages as subpage.
2978 * Add lang and hreflang attributes to language links on Login page.
2979 * (bug 22749) Create Special:MostInterwikis.
2980 * Show change tags when transclude Special:Recentchanges(linked) or Special:Newpages.
2981 * (bug 23226) Add |class= parameter to image links in order to add class(es) to HTML img tag.
2982 * (bug 39431) SVG animated status is now shown in long description.
2983 * (bug 39376) jquery.form upgraded to 3.14.
2984 * SVG files will now show the actual width in the SVG's specified units
2985 in the metadata box.
2986 * Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.jStorage" (v0.3.0, http://jStorage.info/).
2987 * (bug 39273) Added AJAX support for "Show changes" (diff) in LivePreview.
2988 * Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.badge".
2989 * mw.util.$content now points to the overall content area in the skin rather than just
2990 page text content area. If you need the old behavior please use $( '#mw-content-text').
2991 * jsMessage has been replaced with a floating bubble notification system complete
2992 with auto-hide, multi-message support, and message replacement tags.
2993 * jquery.messageBox which appears to be unused by both core and extensions has
2995 * (bug 34939) Made link parsing insensitive ([HttP://]).
2996 * (bug 40072) Add CSS classes to items in output of ChangesList pages.
2997 * Added $wgCopyUploadProxy global to define which proxy to use for copy
2999 * (bug 40448) mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest has been replaced with a new module,
3000 mediawiki.searchSuggest, based on SimpleSearch from Extension:Vector.
3002 === Known issues in 1.20.0 ===
3003 These are issues that we're targeting to be fixed in a later release
3004 in the 1.20 series. Issues may be added or removed from this list as
3005 we see fit. For now, it is comprised of those bugs on the 1.20.0
3006 milestone in Bugzilla.
3008 * (bug 35894): Reports of secret key generation "hanging" on windows
3009 This is probably a bug that has been fixed in PHP. If you run
3010 into this, try upgrading your PHP.
3011 * (bug 38334): PHP Notice: Undefined index: href in /www/w/skins/Vector.php on line 416
3012 We think this is a problem in some extension. If you see this,
3013 try disabling your extensions and check out the logging patch on
3014 this bug. Or try this patch:
3015 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27937/1/skins/Vector.php>
3016 * (bug 39268): [Regression] Toolbar inserts in main textarea only (instead of the focussed textarea)
3017 This should only be an issue if you are using the ProofreadPage
3019 * (bug 40641): Clicking "others" in Special:Version asks to download a file
3020 If you encounter this, you can tell your webserver to serve the
3021 CREDITS file with text/plain MIME type to fix it.
3023 === Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
3024 * (bug 40939): [Regression] InfoAction: Call to a member function getUserText() on a non-object
3025 * (bug 40780): searchsuggest-containing line ("containing...") doesn't include the entered text
3026 * (bug 37714): [Regression] Incomplete log entries
3027 * (bug 27202): API: Add timestamp sort to list=allimages
3028 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
3029 * (bug 34237) Regenerate an empty user_token and save to the database
3030 when we try to set the user's cookies for login.
3031 * (bug 32210) New edit emails for watched pages always provide a link to the
3032 edit which triggered the mail.
3033 * (bug 12021) Added user talk link on Special:Listusers.
3034 * (bug 34445) section edit and TOC hide/show links are excluded from selection and
3035 copy/paste on supporting browsers.
3036 * (bug 34428) Fixed incorrect hash mismatch errors in the DiffHistoryBlob
3037 history compression method.
3038 * (bug 34702) Localised parentheses are now used in more special pages.
3039 * (bug 34723) When editing a script page on a RTL wiki the textbox should be LTR.
3040 * (bug 34762) Calling close() on a DatabaseBase object now clears the connection.
3041 * (bug 34863) Show deletion log extract on non-existent file pages if applicable.
3042 * (bug 28019) Let ?preloadtitle=foo be passed on to target of
3043 Special:MyPage and Special:MyTalk.
3044 * (bug 34929) Show the correct diff when a section edit is rejected by the spam
3046 * (bug 15816) Add a switch for SETting the search_path (Postgres).
3047 * (bug 34521) Returning to the previous page after logging in loses any array-
3048 valued parameters in the query string.
3049 * (bug 34735) Updated compressOld.php documentation to mention the different
3050 usages of -s and -n parameters depending on compression type.
3051 * (bug 13896) Rendering of devanagari numbers in automatic '#' number lists.
3052 * (bug 33689) Upgrade to 1.19 on Postgres fails due to incomplete query when
3053 trying to defer foreign key for externallinks.
3054 * (bug 32748) Printer friendly version of article decode Unicode chars as a
3055 pretty IRI in footer.
3056 * Removed white border around thumbnails in galleries.
3057 * (bug 31236) "Next" and "Previous" buttons are shown incorrectly in
3059 * (bug 35749) Updated maintenance/checkSyntax.php to use Git instead of
3060 Subversion when invoked with the --modified option.
3061 * (bug 35069) On history pages, the " . . " separator after the number of
3062 characters changed in a revision is now suppressed if no text would follow.
3063 * (bug 18704) Add a unique CSS class or ID to the tagfilter table row at RecentChanges
3064 * (bug 33564) transwiki import sometimes result in invalid title.
3065 * (bug 35572) Blocks appear to succeed even if query fails due to wrong DB structure
3066 * (bug 31757) Add a word-separator between help-messages in HTMLForm
3067 * (bug 30410) Removed deprecated $wgFilterCallback and the 'filtered' API error.
3068 * (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username.
3069 * (bug 36537) Rename wfArrayToCGI to wfArrayToCgi for consistency with wfCgiToArray.
3070 * (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed
3071 in user language instead of content language.
3072 * (bug 35264) Wrong type used for <ns> in export.xsd
3073 * (bug 24985) Use $wgTmpDirectory as the default temp directory so that people
3074 who don't have access to /tmp can specify an alternative.
3075 * (bug 27283) SqlBagOStuff breaks PostgreSQL transactions.
3076 * (bug 35727) mw.Api ajax() should put token parameter last.
3077 * (bug 37708) mw.Uri.clone() should make a deep copy.
3078 * (bug 38024) ResourceLoader should not create empty stylesheets for modules
3079 that don't have stylesheets.
3080 * (bug 36812) Special:ActiveUsers "Hide bots" should hide users from any group
3081 having the "bot" user right, instead of just the default "bot" user group.
3082 * (bug 35082) mw.util.addPortletLink incorrectly adds link to mutiple <ul> tags.
3083 * (bug 36991) jquery.tablesorter should extract date sort format from date
3084 string instead of global config. Dates like "April 1 2012" and "1 April 2012"
3085 now sort correctly regardless of the content language's DefaultDateFormat.
3086 * (bug 31895) mw.loader mode now correct when triggered from a $.fn.ready
3087 handler that is bound before mediawiki.js's handler (e.g. browser-userscripts
3089 * (bug 38152) jquery.tablesorter: Use .data() instead of .attr(), so that live
3090 values are used instead of just the fixed values from when the tablesorter
3092 * (bug 38093) Gender of changed user groups missing in Special:Log/rights
3093 * (bug 35893) Special:Block needs to load mediawiki.special.block.js.
3094 * (bug 37331) ResourceLoader modules sometimes execute twice in Firefox
3095 * (bug 31644) GlobalUsage, CentralAuth and AbuseLog extensions should not use
3096 insecure links to foreign wikis in the WikiMap.
3097 * (bug 36073) Avoid duplicate element IDs on File pages.
3098 * (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
3099 when "from" is filled.
3100 * (bug 35526) jquery.tablesorter now uses a stable sort.
3101 * (bug 38953) --memory-limit switch not working for runJobs.php.
3102 * (bug 33037) Make subpage of Special:newfiles control how many files
3103 are returned, like in previous versions.
3104 * (bug 36524) "Show" options on Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked
3105 are now remembered between successive clicks.
3106 * (bug 26069) Page title is no longer "Error" for all error pages.
3107 * (bug 39297) Show warning if thumbnail of animated image will not be animated.
3108 * (bug 38249) Parser will throw an exception instead of outputting gibberish if
3109 PCRE is compiled without support for unicode properties.
3110 * (bug 30390) Suggested file name on Special:Upload should not contain
3112 * EXIF below sea level GPS altitude data is now shown correctly.
3113 * (bug 39284) jquery.tablesorter should not consider "."" or "?"" to be a currency.
3114 * (bug 39273) "Show changes" should not be incorrectly displayed in the Live Preview state.
3115 * Made body-content lang attribute honor the variant language when it is set.
3116 * (bug 36761) "Mark pages as visited" now submits previously established filter options.
3117 * (bug 39635) PostgreSQL LOCK IN SHARE MODE option is a syntax error.
3118 * (bug 36329) Accesskey tooltips for Firefox 14 on Mac should use "ctrl-option-" prefix.
3119 * (bug 32552) Drop unused database field cat_hidden from table category.
3120 * (bug 24502) Do not allow multiple language links to the same language.
3121 * (bug 40214) Category pages no longer use deprecated "width" HTML attribute.
3122 * (bug 39941) Add missing stylesheets to the installer pages
3123 * In HTML5 mode, allow new input element types values (such as color, range..)
3124 * (bug 36151) mw.Title: Don't limit extension in title parsing.
3125 * (bug 38158) jquery.byteLimit sometimes causes an unexpected 0 maxLength being enforced.
3126 * (bug 38163) jquery.byteLimit incorrectly limits input when using methods other than
3127 basic per-char typing.
3128 * (bug 34495) patrol log now credit the user patrolling (instead of patrolled
3130 * (bug 31676) ResourceLoader should work around IE stylesheet limit.
3131 * (bug 40498) ResourceLoader should not output an empty "@media print { }" block.
3132 * (bug 40500) ResourceLoader should not ignore media-type for urls in debug mode.
3133 * (bug 40660) ResourceLoaderWikiModule should not convert " " to a space
3134 for pages from the MediaWiki-namespace.
3135 * (bug 40329) (bug 40632) Removed CleanupPresentationalAttributes feature.
3137 === API changes in 1.20 ===
3138 * (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
3139 * (bug 34313) MediaWiki API intro message about "HTML format" should mention
3140 the format parameter.
3141 * (bug 32384) Allow descending order for list=watchlistraw.
3142 * (bug 31883) Limit of bkusers of list=blocks and titles of action=query is
3143 not documented in API help.
3144 * (bug 32492) API now allows editing using pageid.
3145 * (bug 32497) API now allows changing of protection level using pageid.
3146 * (bug 32498) API now allows comparing pages using pageids.
3147 * (bug 30975) API import of pages with invalid characters in this wiki leads to Fatal Error.
3148 * (bug 30488) API now allows listing of backlinks/embeddedin/imageusage per pageid.
3149 * (bug 34927) Output media_type for list=filearchive.
3150 * (bug 28814) add properties to output of action=parse.
3151 * (bug 33224) add variants of content language to meta=siteinfo.
3152 * (bug 32643) action=purge with forcelinkupdate no longer crashes when ratelimit is reached.
3153 * The paraminfo module now also contains result properties for most modules.
3154 * (bug 32348) Allow descending order for list=alllinks.
3155 * (bug 31777) Upload unknown error ``fileexists-forbidden''.
3156 * (bug 32382) Allow descending order for list=iwbacklinks.
3157 * (bug 32381) Allow descending order for list=backlinks, list=embeddedin and list=imageusage.
3158 * (bug 32383) Allow descending order for list=langbacklinks.
3159 * API meta=siteinfo can now return the list of known variable IDs.
3160 * (bug 35980) list=deletedrevs now honors drdir correctly in "all" mode (mode #3).
3161 * (bug 29290) API avoids mangling fields in continuation parameters
3162 * (bug 36987) API avoids mangling fields in continuation parameters
3163 * (bug 30836) siteinfo prop=specialpagealiases will no longer return nonexistent special pages
3164 * (bug 38190) Add "required" flag to some token params for hint in api docs.
3165 * (bug 27567) Add file repo support to prop=duplicatefiles.
3166 * (bug 27610) Add archivename for non-latest image version to list=filearchive
3167 * (bug 38231) Add xml parse tree to action=parse.
3168 * Watchlist notification timestamp may be queried by page and may be updated via the API.
3169 * (bug 38904) prop=revisions&rvstart=... no longer blows up when continuing.
3170 * (bug 39032) ApiQuery generates help in constructor.
3171 * (bug 11142) Improve file extension blacklist error reporting in API upload.
3172 * (bug 39665) List of query generators is now not built using reflection, instead it is
3174 * (bug 35993) Deprecated gettoken parameter - support will be removed in 1.22.
3176 === Languages updated in 1.20 ===
3178 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
3179 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
3180 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
3182 * Emilian (egl) added.
3183 * Tornedalen Finnish (fit) added.
3185 * Santali (sat) added.
3186 * (bug 34192) Namespace gender aliases for Albanian languages (sq & aln).
3187 * (bug 35541) Namespace gender aliases for Croatian (hr).
3188 * (bug 36012) Space in $separatorTransformTable should be non-breaking in
3189 Portuguese, Esperanto and Udmurt.
3190 * Turoyo (tru) added.
3191 * Cyrillic-Latin language converter added for Uzbek (uz).
3193 === Other changes in 1.20 ===
3194 * The user_token field is now left empty until a user attempts to login and
3195 cookies need to be set. It is also now possible to reset every user's
3196 user_token simply by clearing the values in the user_token column.
3197 * Removed ./tests/qunit/index.html from core. It wasn't actively maintained and
3198 has been made obsolete when [[Special:JavaScriptTest/qunit]] was introduced,
3199 which actually uses ResourceLoader, LocalSettings and the Skin.
3200 * Removed $wgDBtransactions global. This was only checked in one class
3201 and only applies to MyISAM or similar DBs. Those should only be used
3202 for archived sites anyway. We can't get edit conflicts on such sites,
3203 so the WikiPage code wasn't useful there either.
3204 * Deprecated mw.user.name in favour of mw.user.getName.
3205 * Deprecated mw.user.anonymous in favour of mw.user.isAnon.
3206 * Deprecated DatabaseBase functions newFromParams(), newFromType(), set(),
3207 quote_ident(), and escapeLike() were removed.
3208 * Use of __DIR__ instead of dirname( __FILE__ ).
3209 * OutputPage::wrapWikiMsg() no longer supports the 'options' parameter. It was
3210 not used and complicated migration to Message class.
3211 * Live preview functionality has been improved and moved into the
3212 'mediawiki.action.edit.preview' module. The old 'mediawiki.legacy.preview' module
3214 * (bug 40448) Removed mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest module, and removed the
3215 following that has become obsolete:
3216 - globals $wgEnableMWSuggest and $wgMWSuggestTemplate.
3217 - mw.config.values wgMWSuggestTemplate and wgSearchNamespaces.
3218 - method SearchEngine::getMWSuggestTemplate().
3220 == MediaWiki 1.19 ==
3222 == MediaWiki 1.19.21 ==
3223 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3225 === Changes since 1.19.20===
3226 * (bug 67440) Allow classes to be registered properly from installer.
3227 * (bug 47281) Fixed a dumpBackup.php error with --uploads --include-filesoptions: Unable to find the wrapper "mwstore". * System administrators are encouraged to upgrade to this release or 1.22+ and produce a full data dump. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki
3228 * (bug 63049) Removed anonymous functions from ApiFormatBase, added in1.19.13 as part of the fix for bug 61362, for PHP 5.2 compatibility.
3230 == MediaWiki 1.19.20 ==
3231 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3233 === Changes since 1.19.19===
3234 * (bug 70672) SECURITY: OutputPage: Remove separation of css and js module allowance.
3236 == MediaWiki 1.19.19 ==
3237 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3239 === Changes since 1.19.18===
3240 * (bug 69008) SECURITY: Enhance CSS filtering in SVG files. Filter <style> elements; normalize style elements and attributes before filtering; add checks for attributes that contain css; add unit tests for html5sec and reported bugs.
3242 == MediaWiki 1.19.18 ==
3243 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3245 === Changes since 1.19.17===
3246 * (bug 68187) SECURITY: Prepend jsonp callback with comment.
3247 * (bug 65778) SECURITY: Copy prevent-clickjacking between OutputPage and ParserOutput.
3249 == MediaWiki 1.19.17 ==
3250 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3252 === Changes since 1.19.16===
3253 * (bug 65839) SECURITY: Prevent external resources in SVG files.
3254 * (bug 66428) MimeMagic: Don't seek before BOF. This has weird side effects like only extracting the tail of the file partially or not at all.
3256 == MediaWiki 1.19.16 ==
3257 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3259 === Changes since 1.19.15===
3260 * (bug 65501) SECURITY: Don't parse usernames as wikitext on Special:PasswordReset.
3262 == MediaWiki 1.19.15 ==
3263 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3265 === Changes since 1.19.14===
3266 Fixed resetting passwords.
3267 * (bug 58640) Fixed a compatibility issue with PCRE 8.34 that caused pages to appear blank or with missing text.
3269 == MediaWiki 1.19.14 ==
3270 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3272 === Changes since 1.19.13===
3273 * (bug 62497) SECURITY: Add CSRF token on Special:ChangePassword.
3274 * (bug 62467) Set a title for the context during import on the cli.
3276 == MediaWiki 1.19.13 ==
3277 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3279 === Changes since 1.19.12===
3280 * (bug 61362) SECURITY: API: Don't find links in the middle of api.php links.
3281 * Use the correct branch of the extensions' git repositories.
3283 == MediaWiki 1.19.12 ==
3284 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3286 === Changes since 1.19.11===
3287 * (bug 60771) SECURITY: Disallow uploading SVG files using non-whitelisted namespaces. Also disallow iframe elements. * User will get an error including the namespace name if they use a non- whitelisted namespace.
3288 * (bug 61346) SECURITY: Make token comparison use constant time. It seems like our token comparison would be vulnerable to timing attacks. This will take constant time.
3290 == MediaWiki 1.19.11 ==
3291 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3293 === Changes since 1.19.10===
3294 * (bug 60339) SECURITY: Sanitize shell arguments to DjVu files, and other media formats
3296 == MediaWiki 1.19.10 ==
3297 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3299 === Changes since 1.19.9===
3300 * (bug 57550) SECURITY: Disallow stylesheets in SVG Uploads
3301 * (bug 58088) SECURITY: Don't normalize U+FF3C to \ in CSS Checks
3302 * (bug 58472) SECURITY: Disallow -o-link in styles
3303 * (bug 58553) SECURITY: Return error on invalid XML for SVG Uploads
3304 * (bug 58699) SECURITY: Fix RevDel log entry information leaks
3306 == MediaWiki 1.19.9 ==
3307 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3309 === Changes since 1.19.8===
3310 * (bug 53032) SECURITY: Don't cache when a call could autocreate
3311 * (bug 55332) SECURITY: Improve css javascript detection
3312 * (bug 49717) Fix behaviour $wgVerifyMimeType = false; in Upload
3315 == MediaWiki 1.19.8 ==
3318 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.
3320 === Changes since 1.19.7===
3321 * SECURITY: Sanitize ResourceLoader exception messages
3322 * SECURITY: Token-getting functions will fail when using jsonp callbacks.
3323 * SECURITY: Fix extension detection with 2 .'s
3324 * Allow a string other than '*' as condition for DatabaseBase::delete()
3325 * Purge upstream caches when deleting file assets.
3326 * jquery.tablesorter: Add missing dependency on jquery.mwExtension
3328 == MediaWiki 1.19.7 ==
3331 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch
3333 === Changes since 1.19.6===
3334 * (bug 48306) SECURITY: Run file validation checks on chunked uploads, and chunks of upload, during the upload process.
3336 == MediaWiki 1.19.6 ==
3339 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch
3341 === Changes since 1.19.5===
3342 * (bug 47304) SECURITY: Check SVG xml encoding against whitelist
3343 * (bug 46590) Added AbortChangePassword hook to allow extensions to abort password changes from Special:ChangePassword
3344 * Localisation updates from http://translatewiki.net.
3345 * mwdocgen.php: Implement --version option.
3346 * Remove svnstat stuff used in Doxygen generation
3347 * E_USER_DEPRECATED undefined prior to php 5.3
3349 == MediaWiki 1.19.5 ==
3352 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch
3354 === Changes since 1.19.4===
3355 * (bug 47251) SECURITY: Disable external entities in Import
3356 * (bug 46859) SECURITY: Disable external entities in XMLReader
3357 * (bug 46084) SECURITY: Sanitize $limitReport before outputting
3358 * (bug 43594) Fix notices displayed on PHP 5.4
3359 * (bug 40585) Don't drop 'step="any"' in HTML input fields.
3361 == MediaWiki 1.19.4 ==
3364 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch
3366 === Changes since 1.19.3===
3367 * New preference type - 'api'. Preferences of this type are not shown on Special:Preferences, but are still available via the action=options API.
3368 * (bug 44010) Context is passed to UserGetLanguageObject.
3369 * The recursion guard on RequestContext::getLanguage() was weakened.
3370 * (bug 44135/bug 42441) Pass '2' instead of 'true' to CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST
3371 * (bug 43518) API action=unblock should return the user name, not the full user object
3373 == MediaWiki 1.19.3 ==
3376 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch
3378 === Changes since 1.19.2===
3379 * (bug 40995) Prevent session fixation in Special:UserLogin (CVE-2012-5391)
3380 * (bug 41400) Prevent linker regex from exceeding PCRE backtrack limit
3381 * Increase permitted runtime for testParserTest (only used for continuous integration).
3382 * Updated messages translations from http://translatewiki.net/
3384 == MediaWiki 1.19.2 ==
3386 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch
3388 === Changes since 1.19.1 ===
3389 * (bug 39700) File: link to non-existing file can inject html
3390 * (bug 39823) Hidden block text leaking to admins
3391 * (bug 39184) LDAP password leakage
3392 * (bug 39180) Disallow framing of api results
3393 * (bug 37587) Enforce language codes to be html safe
3394 * (bug 39824) Check global blocks on account creation
3396 == MediaWiki 1.19 ==
3398 MediaWiki 1.19 is a large release that contains many new features and bug
3399 fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users.
3400 You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 file for the full list of changes in
3403 Our thanks go to everyone who helped to improve MediaWiki by testing the beta
3404 release and submitting bug reports.
3406 === Changes since 1.19.1 ===
3407 * (bug 38406) Properly quote table names in DatabaseBase::tableName()
3408 * (bug 38249) Parser will throw an exception instead of outputting gibberish if
3409 PCRE is compiled without support for unicode properties.
3411 === Changes since 1.19.0 ===
3412 * (bug 36568) Fixed "Illegal string offset 'LIMIT'" warnings in updater
3413 * (bug 36938) Correctly escape uselang attribute to prevent xss
3414 * Expanded Blacklist for SVG Files
3416 === Changes since 1.19 beta 2 ===
3417 * Special:Watchlist no longer sets links to feed when the user is anonymous.
3418 * (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict.
3419 * Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes.
3420 * (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php
3422 * (bug 36042) 'show' causes a fatal in blocks API.
3424 === Changes since 1.19 beta 1 ===
3425 * (bug 35014) Including a special page no longer sets the page's title to the
3427 * (bug 35019) Edit summaries are no longer transformed in notification e-mails
3428 * (bug 35152) Help message for e-mail is shown again in user preferences
3429 * (bug 34887) $3 and $4 parameters are now substituted correctly in message
3431 * (bug 34841) Edit links are no longer displayed when display old page versions
3432 * (bug 34889) User name should be normalized on Special:Contributions
3433 * (bug 35051) If heading has a trailing space after == then its name is not
3434 preloaded into edit summary on section edit
3435 * (bug 31417) New ID mw-content-text around the actual page text, without categories,
3436 contentSub, ... The same div often also contains the class mw-content-ltr/rtl.
3437 * (bug 35303) Proxy and DNS blacklist blocking works again
3438 * (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like <nowiki> in
3439 core parser functions which operate on strings, such as padleft.
3440 * (bug 18295) Don't expose strip markers when a tag appears inside a link
3442 * (bug 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token
3444 * (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated
3446 * (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload.
3448 === Configuration changes in 1.19 ===
3449 * Removed SkinTemplateSetupPageCss hook; use BeforePageDisplay instead.
3450 * (bug 27132) movefile right granted by default to registered users.
3451 * Default cookie lifetime ($wgCookieExpiration) is increased to 180 days.
3452 * (bug 31204) Removed old user.user_options.
3453 * $wgMaxImageArea now applies to jpeg files if they are not scaled with
3455 * Introduced $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit (defaults to 50) for the number of
3456 items to show by default on query pages (special pages such as Whatlinkshere).
3457 * (bug 32470) Increase the length of ug_group.
3458 * (bug 32239) Removed $wgEnableTooltipsAndAccesskeys.
3459 * Removed $wgVectorShowVariantName.
3460 * Removed $wgExtensionAliasesFiles. Use $wgExtensionMessagesFiles.
3461 * Removed $wgResourceLoaderInlinePrivateModules , now always enabled.
3463 === New features in 1.19 ===
3464 * (bug 19838) Add ability to get all interwiki prefixes also if the interwiki
3466 * $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now accepts an array with url and key as the
3467 elements to work with DNSBLs that require keys, such as
3469 * (bug 30022) Add support for custom loadScript sources to ResourceLoader.
3470 * (bug 19052) Unicode space separator characters (Zs) now terminates external
3471 links and images links.
3472 * (bug 30160) Add public method to mw.loader to get module names from registry.
3473 * (bug 15558) Parameters to special pages included in wikitext can now be passed
3475 * Installer now issues a warning if mod_security is present.
3476 * (bug 29455) Add support for a filter callback function in jQuery byteLimit
3478 * Added two new GetLocalURL hooks to better serve extensions working on a
3479 limited type of titles.
3480 * Added a --no-updates flag to importDump.php that skips updating the links
3482 * Most presentational html attributes like valign are now converted to inline
3483 css style rules. These attributes were removed from html5 and so we clean
3484 them up when $wgHtml5 is enabled. This can be disabled using
3485 $wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes.
3486 * Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not
3487 NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site
3488 language. In theory this sets the right magic words in system messages,
3489 although they are not used there.
3490 * (bug 30451) Add page_props to RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent.
3491 * (bug 30450) Clear page_props table on page deletion.
3492 * Hook added to check for exempt from account creation throttle.
3493 * (bug 30344) Add configuration variable for setting custom priorities when
3494 generating sitemaps.
3495 * (bug 96170) Add array support for space-separated list attributes (like
3496 'class') in the Html helper class.
3497 * (bug 26470) Add checkered background image on hover on files pages.
3498 * (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
3499 attribute values and element contents.
3500 * Conversion script between Tifinagh and Latin for the Tachelhit language.
3501 * (bug 16755) Add options 'noreplace' and 'noerror' to {{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
3502 to stop it from replace an already existing default sort, and suppress error.
3503 * (bug 18578) Rewrote revision delete related messages to allow better
3505 * (bug 30364) LanguageConverter now depends on the page content language
3506 instead of the wiki content language.
3507 * Jump links will now be usable in CSS-capable browsers instead of only
3508 in outdated text browsers.
3509 * New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles
3510 of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
3511 * Some deprecated presentational html attributes will now be automatically
3513 * (bug 31297) Add support for namespaces in Special:RecentChanges subpage filter
3515 * The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
3516 * (bug 25306) Add link of old page title to MediaWiki:Delete_and_move_reason.
3517 * Added hook BitmapHandlerCheckImageArea.
3518 * (bug 30062) Add $wgDBprefix option to cli installer.
3519 * getUserPermissionsErrors and getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive hooks are now
3520 also called when checking for 'read' permission.
3521 * Introduce $wgEnableSearchContributorsByIP which controls whether searching
3522 for an IP address redirects to the contributions list for that IP.
3523 * (bug 8859) Database::update should take array of tables too.
3524 * (bug 19698) Add "Inverse namespaces" option to Special:Contributions.
3525 * (bug 24037) Add byte length of revision to Special:Contributions.
3526 * (bug 1672) Added $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks to allow uploading of files
3527 containing HTML or JS. DISABLING THESE CHECKS IS VERY DANGEROUS.
3528 * New path mappings can be added using the WebRequestPathInfoRouter hook
3529 and adding paths to the PathRouter.
3530 * (bug 32666) Special:ActiveUsers now allows a subpage to be used as value for the
3531 "target" query parameter (eg. Special:ActiveUsers/Username).
3532 * New JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage.
3533 * Added new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar.
3534 * Differences in the history page now uses slightly better colors for people
3535 perceiving colors differently.
3536 * (bug 32879) Upgrade jQuery to 1.7.1.
3537 * jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.17.
3538 * Extensions can use the 'Language::getMessagesFileName' hook to define new
3539 languages using messages files outside of core.
3540 * (bug 32512) Add 'Associated namespace' checkbox to Special:Contributions.
3541 * Added $wgSend404Code, true by default, which can be set to false to send a
3542 200 status code instead of 404 for nonexistent articles.
3543 * (bug 33447) Link to the broken image tracking category from Special:Wantedfiles.
3544 * (bug 27724) Add timestamp to job queue.
3545 * (bug 30339) Implement SpecialPage for running javascript tests. Disabled by default, due to
3546 tests potentially being harmful, not to be run on a production wiki.
3547 Enable by setting $wgEnableJavaScriptTest to true.
3548 * Extensions can use the RequestContextCreateSkin hook to override what skin is
3549 loaded in some contexts.
3550 * (bug 33456) Show $wgQueryCacheLimit on cached query pages.
3551 * (bug 10574) Add an option to allow all pages to be exported by Special:Export.
3552 * mediawiki.js Message object constructor is now publicly available as mw.Message.
3553 * (bug 29309) Allow CSS class per tooltip (tipsy).
3554 * (bug 33565) Add accesskey/tooltip to submit buttons on Special:EditWatchlist.
3555 * (bug 17959) Inline rendering/thumbnailing for Gimp XCF images.
3556 * (bug 27775) Namespace has it's own XML tag in the XML dump file.
3557 * (bug 30513) Redirect tag is now resolved in XML dump file.
3558 * sha1 xml tag added to XML dump file.
3559 * (bug 33646) Badtitle error page now emits a 400 HTTP status.
3560 * Special:MovePage now has a dropdown menu for namespaces.
3561 * (bug 34420) Special:Version now shows git HEAD sha1 when available.
3562 * (bug 33952) Refactor mw.toolbar to allow dynamic additions at any time.
3564 === Bug fixes in 1.19 ===
3565 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl should be used for file redlinks if.
3566 $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The first was used for this
3567 until the second was introduced in 1.17.
3568 * BREAKING CHANGE: Style rules for wikitable are now more specific and prevent
3569 inheritance to nested tables which caused various issues (bug 30485 and bug
3570 33434). If your wiki has overridden rules for ".wikitable", please revise them and
3571 adjust where necessary. For comparison, use the "table.wikitable" section in
3572 skins/common/shared.css as base.
3573 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl is now used for file redlinks if
3574 $wgUploadMissingFileUrl is not set. The former was used for this until the
3575 second was introduced in 1.17.
3576 * (bug 27894) Move 'editondblclick' event listener down from body to
3578 * (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
3579 when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced
3580 Maintenance::posix_isatty().
3581 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use
3582 require_once() instead require() for included extensions.
3583 * Do not convert text in the user interface language to another script.
3584 * (bug 26283) Previewing user JS/CSS pages didn't load other user JS/CSS pages.
3585 * (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
3586 warnings/notices to be thrown.
3587 * (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET that were breaking when non-friendly
3589 * (bug 28649) Preventing half truncated multi-byte unicode characters when
3590 truncating log comments.
3591 * Show --batch-size option in help of maintenance scripts that support it.
3592 * (bug 4381) Magic quotes cleaning was not comprehensive, key strings were not
3594 * (bug 23057) Importers no longer can 'edit' or 'create' a fully-protected page by
3595 importing a new revision into it.
3596 * Allow moving the associated talk pages of subpages even if the base page
3598 * Per page edit-notices now work in namespaces without subpages enabled.
3599 * (bug 31081) $wgEnotifUseJobQ is no longer unconditionally enqueueing jobs.
3600 * (bug 30202) File names are now restricted on upload to 240 bytes, because of
3601 restrictions on some of the database fields.
3602 * Timezones are now recognised in user preferences when offset is different
3604 * (bug 31692) "summary" parameter now also works when undoing revisions.
3605 * (bug 18823) "move succeeded" text displayed bluelinks even when redirect was
3607 * (bug 19186) Special:UserLogin's title on Special:SpecialPages now says
3608 "create account" when the user cannot create an account.
3609 * (bug 31818) 'usercreated' message now supports GENDER.
3610 * (bug 32022) Our phpunit.php script can now be executed from another directory.
3611 * (bug 26020) Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit to true no longer removes diffs
3612 from recent changes feeds.
3613 * (bug 30232) add current time to message wlnote on Special:Watchlist.
3614 * (bug 29110) $wgFeedDiffCutoff did not affect new pages.
3615 * (bug 32168) Add wfRemoveDotSegments for use in wfExpandUrl.
3616 * (bug 32358) Do not display "No higher resolution available" for dimensionless
3617 files (like audio files).
3618 * (bug 32168) Add wfAssembleUrl for use in wfExpandUrl.
3619 * (bug 32168) fixed - wfExpandUrl expands dot segments now.
3620 * (bug 31535) Upload comments now truncated properly, and don't have brackets.
3621 * (bug 32086) Special:PermanentLink now shows an error message when no subpage
3623 * (bug 30368) Special:Newpages now shows the new page name for moved pages.
3624 * (bug 1697) The way to search blocked usernames in block log should be clearer.
3625 * (bug 29747) eAccelerator shared memory caching has been removed since it is
3626 now disabled by default and is buggy. APC, XCache and WinCache are not affected.
3627 * Installer now refuses to install if php was not compiled with Ctype support.
3628 * (bug 29475) Remove "trackback" feature entirely from core.
3629 * (bug 32665) Special:BlockList prefills the username in the input field if
3630 using the Special:BlockList/username URL.
3631 * (bug 27721) Make JavaScript variables wgSeparatorTransformTable and
3632 wgDigitTransformTable depend on page content language so the sort script
3633 sorts correctly more often.
3634 * (bug 32230) Expose wgRedirectedFrom in JavaScript.
3635 * (bug 31212) History tab not collapsed when the screen is narrow.
3636 * (bug 15521) Use new section summary when the action of adding a new section
3637 also happens to create the page.
3638 * (bug 32960) Remove EmailAuthenticationTimestamp from database when a
3639 email address is removed.
3640 * (bug 32414) Empty page get a empty bytes attribute in Export/Dump.
3641 * (bug 33101) Viewing a User or User talk of username resembling IP ending
3642 with .xxx causes Internal error.
3643 * Warning about undefined index in certain situations when $wgLogRestrictions
3644 causes the first log type requested to be removed but not the others.
3645 * Use separate message ('prefixindex-namespace') for title of
3646 Special:PrefixIndex rather then re-using Special:AllPages's allinnamespace.
3647 * (bug 33156) Special:Block now allows you to confirm you want to block yourself
3648 when using non-normalized username.
3649 * (bug 33246) News icon shown for news:// URLs but not for news: URLs.
3650 * (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting
3651 cssText after DOM insertion.
3652 * (bug 30711) When adding a new section to a page with section=new, the text is
3653 now always added to the current version of the page.
3654 * (bug 31719) Fix uploads of SVGs exported by Adobe Illustrator by expanding
3655 XML entities correctly.
3656 * (bug 30914) Embeddable ResourceLoader modules (user.options, user.tokens)
3657 should be loaded in <head> for proper dependency resolution.
3658 * (bug 32702) Removed method Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript() has been readded
3659 for backward compatibility.
3660 * (bug 31469) Make sure tracking category messages expand variables like
3661 {{NAMESPACE}} relative to correct title.
3662 * (bug 33454) ISO-8601 week-based year number (format character 'o') is now
3663 calculated correctly with respect to timezone.
3664 * (bug 32219) InstantCommons now fetches content from Wikimedia Commons using
3665 HTTPS when the local wiki is served over HTTPS.
3666 * (bug 33525) clearTagHooks doesn't clear function hooks.
3667 * (bug 33523) Function tag hooks don't appear on Special:Version.
3668 * Files with IPTC blocks we can't read no longer prevent extraction of exif
3670 * (bug 33587) Remove action "historysubmit" from history pages.
3671 * (bug 25800) mw.config wgAction should contain the actually performed action instead
3672 of whatever the query value contains.
3673 * (bug 4438) Add CSS hook for current WikiPage action.
3674 * (bug 33703) Common border-bottom color for <abbr> should inherit default (text) color.
3675 * (bug 33819) Display file sizes in appropriate units.
3676 * (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after doing
3678 * (bug 33880) $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges should not send e-mail to user who made
3680 * (bug 33902) Decoding %2B with mw.Uri.decode results in ' ' instead of +.
3681 * (bug 33762) QueryPage-based special pages no longer misses *-summary message.
3682 * Other sizes links are no longer generated for wikis without a 404 thumbnail handler.
3683 * (bug 29454) Enforce byteLimit for page title input on Special:MovePage.
3684 * (bug 34114) CSSMin::remap() doesn't respect its $embed parameter.
3685 * Special:Contributions/newbies now shows the contributions for the user "newbies".
3686 New user contributions are obtained using the form or using ?contribs=newbie in URL.
3687 * It is now possible to delete images that have no corresponding description pages.
3688 * (bug 33165) GlobalFunctions.php line 1312: Call to a member function
3689 getText() on a non-object.
3690 * (bug 31676) Group dynamically inserted CSS into a single <style> tag, to work
3691 around a bug where not all styles were applied in Internet Explorer.
3692 * (bug 28936, bug 5280) Broken or invalid titles can't be removed from watchlist.
3693 * (bug 34600) Older skins using useHeadElement=false were broken in 1.18.
3694 * (bug 34604) [mw.config] wgActionPaths should be an object instead of a numeral
3696 * (bug 12262) Indents and lists are now aligned
3697 * (bug 29753) mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyPrefix should be alt-shift for Chrome
3699 * (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
3700 when "from" is filled.
3701 * (bug 34972) An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings for
3702 [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Example]]
3704 === API changes in 1.19 ===
3705 * Made action=edit less likely to return "unknownerror", by returning the actual error
3706 message (which may have come from a hook call or similar).
3707 * (bug 19838) siprop=interwikimap can now use the interwiki cache.
3708 * (bug 29748) Add API search prefix support.
3709 * (bug 29684) Set forgotten parameter types in ApiQueryIWLinks.
3710 * (bug 29685) do not output NULL parentid with list=deletedrevs&drprop=parentid.
3711 * siprop=interwikimap and siprop=languages can use silanguagecode to have
3712 a best effort language name translation. Use CLDR extension for best result.
3713 * (bug 30230) action=expandtemplates should not silently override invalid title
3715 * (bug 18634) Create API to fetch MediaWiki's language fallback tree structure.
3716 * (bug 26885) Allow show/hide of account blocks, temporary blocks and single IP
3717 address blocks for list=blocks.
3718 * (bug 30591) Add support to only return keys in ApiAllMessages.
3719 * The API now respects $wgShowHostnames and won't share the hostname in
3720 servedby if it's set to false.
3721 * wlexcludeuser parameter added to ApiFeedWatchlist.
3722 * (bug 7304) Links on redirect pages no longer cause the redirect page to show
3723 up as a redirect to the linked page on Special:Whatlinkshere.
3724 * (bug 32609) API: Move captchaid/captchaword of action=edit from core
3725 to Captcha extension(s).
3726 * Added 'APIGetDescription' hook.
3727 * (bug 32688) Paraminfo for parameter "generator" of the query module shows too
3729 * (bug 32415) Empty page get no size attribute in API output.
3730 * (bug 31759) Undefined property notice in querypages API.
3731 * (bug 32495) API should allow purge by pageids.
3732 * (bug 33147) API examples should explain what they do.
3733 * (bug 33482) Api incorrectly calls ApiBase::parseMultiValue if allowed
3734 values is given as an array.
3735 * (bug 32948) {{REVISIONID}} and related variables are no longer blank after
3736 calling action=purge&forcelinkupdate.
3737 * (bug 34377) action=watch now parses messages using the correct title instead
3739 * (bug 35036) WikiLove messages were not automatically updated in JavaScript
3740 after having been changed on-wiki due to a bug in core
3742 === Languages updated in 1.19 ===
3744 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
3745 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
3746 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
3748 * Canadian English (en-ca) (new).
3749 * Norwegian (bokmål) (nb) (renamed from no).
3750 * Uighur (Latin) (ug-latn) was incorrectly marked as right-to-left language.
3751 * (bug 30217) Make pt-br a fallback of pt.
3752 * (bug 31193) Set fallback language of Assamese from Bengali to English.
3753 * Update date format for dsb and hsb: month names need the genitive.
3754 * (bug 28643) Serbian variant conversion improvements (Nikola Smolenski).
3755 * (bug 29405, bug 30809) Lower diacritics are invisible in titles in Indic
3756 languages Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Malyalam and Odiya.
3757 * (bug 32826) Titles in indic languages are partially cut.
3758 * (bug 33367) Gendered namespaces for Czech.
3759 * (bug 33014) Language::formatSize()/formatBitrate() should be able to deal
3760 with larger numbers (tera-yotta).
3762 === Other changes in 1.19 ===
3763 * BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy global array 'ta' and global function 'akeytt' have
3764 been removed from wikibits.js.
3765 * jquery.mwPrototypes module was renamed to jquery.mwExtension.
3766 * The maintenance script populateSha1.php was renamed to the more concise
3767 populateImageSha1.php.
3768 * The Client-IP header is no longer checked for when trying to resolve a client's
3770 * (bug 22096) Although IE5.x and below was already unsupported officially, stylesheets
3771 existing exclusively for IE5.0 and IE5.5 have now been removed (which were in skins
3772 'chick' and 'monobook').
3773 * The constructor for CategoryView has changed, the second parameter is now a
3774 Context source and is required.
3775 * The Title::escape{Local,Full,Canonical}URL methods are deprecated, please use
3776 proper html building methods to escape the normal get{...}URL methods instead.
3777 * The $variant arguments in the Title::get{Local,Full,Link,Canonical}URL methods
3778 have been replaced with a secondary query argument.
3779 * The $variant argument in the hooks for the Title::get{Local,Full,Link,Canonical}URL
3780 methods have been removed, the variant is now part of the $query argument.
3781 * Removed Title::isValidCssJsSubpage(), deprecated since 1.17 in favor of
3782 using Title::isCssJsSubpage() or checking Title::isWrongCaseCssJsPage().
3783 * Support for the deprecated hook MagicWordMagicWords was removed.
3784 * The Xml::namespaceSelector method has been deprecated, please use
3785 Html::namespaceSelector instead (note that the parameters have changed also).
3786 * (bug 33746) Preload popular ResourceLoader modules (mediawiki.util) as stop-gap
3787 for scripts missing dependencies.
3788 New configuration variable $wgPreloadJavaScriptMwUtil has been introduced for this
3789 (set to false by default for new installations). Set to true if your wiki has a large
3790 amount of user/site scripts that are lacking dependency information. In the short to
3791 medium term these user/site scripts should be fixed by adding the used modules to the
3792 dependencies in the module registry and/or wrapping them in a callback to mw.loader.using.
3794 == MediaWiki 1.18 ==
3796 == MediaWiki 1.18.5 ==
3799 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch
3801 === Changes since 1.18.4 ===
3802 * (bug 39700) File: link to non-existing file can inject html
3803 * (bug 39823) Hidden block text leaking to admins
3804 * (bug 39184) LDAP password leakage
3805 * (bug 39180) Disallow framing of api results
3806 * (bug 37587) Enforce language codes to be html safe
3807 * (bug 39824) Check global blocks on account creation
3809 == MediaWiki 1.18.4 ==
3812 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
3814 === Changes since 1.18.3 ===
3815 * (bug 36938) Correctly escape uselang attribute to prevent xss
3816 * Expanded Blacklist for SVG Files
3818 == MediaWiki 1.18.3 ==
3821 This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
3823 === Changes since 1.18.2 ===
3824 * (bug 35446) Using "{{nse:}}" with an invalid namespace name no longer throws
3826 * (bug 35567) The whole password reminder e-mail is now sent in the same language.
3827 * (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict.
3828 * (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php
3830 * Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes.
3832 == MediaWiki 1.18.2 ==
3835 This is a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
3837 === Changes since 1.18.1 ===
3838 * (bug 33686) could not get a list of contributors for an article when using
3840 * (Bug 33865) Exception thrown in action=parse when attempting to use the title
3841 parameter without setting the text parameter.
3842 * UserMailer could potentially throw a fatal error when a MailAddress object had
3843 an empty email address.
3844 * (Bug 33087) Exchange server rejected mail sent by MediaWiki
3845 * (bug 34528) Edit section tooltips show correction section name again
3846 * (bug 34246) MediaWiki:Whatlinkshere-summary message is displayed again in
3847 Special:Whatlinkshere
3848 * (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like <nowiki> in
3849 core parser functions which operate on strings, such as formatnum.
3850 * (bug 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token
3852 * (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated
3854 * (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload.
3856 == MediaWiki 1.18.1 ==
3859 This a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
3861 === Changes since 1.18.0 ===
3862 * (bug 32712) Fix for search indexing of pages with certain unicode chars following URL.
3863 * (bug 3901) Lang, hreflang attribs added to sidebar interlanguage links for screen readers.
3864 * (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the
3865 attribute values and element contents.
3866 * (bug 32473) [[Special:PasswordReset]] can not be used on private wiki.
3867 * (bug 32853) Fixed CACHE_DBA object cache type.
3868 * (bug 32786) Backward compatibility for extension using 1.17's Database::newFromType().
3869 * Fixed exception when using Special:WhatLinksHere on a Media: file.
3870 * (bug 32709) Private Wiki users were always taken to Special:Badtitle on login.
3871 * (bug 33240) Sort images are missing but referenced in css.
3872 * (bug 31921) Magic words REVISIONDAY, REVISIONMONTH and REVISIONYEAR were
3873 not showing their values on preview.
3874 * (bug 32702) Removed method Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript() has been readded
3875 for backward compatibility.
3876 * (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect
3877 when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced Maintenance::posix_isatty().
3878 * (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting
3879 cssText after DOM insertion.
3880 * (bug 29102) Upgrades no longer fail with the error "Unknown character set: 'mysql4'.
3881 * (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages.
3882 * (bug 33321) Adding a line to MediaWiki:Sidebar that contains a pipe, but doesn't
3883 have any pipes after being transformed by MessageCache, causes exception on
3885 * Fixed recentchanges FK violation on page delete and cache purge error in updater
3887 * (bug 33117) prop=revisions allows deleted text to be exposed through cache pollution.
3889 == MediaWiki 1.18.0 ==
3892 This is the first stable release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch.
3894 === Summary of selected changes in 1.18 ===
3896 Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.17 that may be of interest:
3898 * Some of the more commonly used MediaWiki extensions are now included in the
3899 release tarball. These extensions are ConfirmEdit, Gadgets, Nuke, ParserFunctions,
3900 Renameuser, Vector and WikiEditor.
3902 * Gender support has been improved, meaning user pages can display the correct gender
3903 variant of "User" can now be used.
3905 * MediaWiki can now detect the camera orientation of an image from the Exif metadata, and
3906 can rotate the image thumbnail appropriately. Metadata support has been generally
3907 improved, and can now extract IPTC and XMP metadata.
3909 * Improved directionality support in 1.18 means that MediaWiki is better to use for
3912 * MediaWiki now supports protocol - relative URLs in links, interwiki targets and $wgServer
3914 * Math support has been removed from core
3916 === Changes since 1.18.0rc1 ===
3917 * (bug 32228) regression in Special:Search which did not conserve profile on new search
3918 * (bug 32460) Categories were improperly aligned in Simple and CologneBlue
3919 * (bug 32412) TOC links on [[Special:EditWatchlist]] points to the fieldsets
3920 * (bug 32582) Fix TOC show/hide link regression on IE 8
3922 === Changes since 1.18 beta 1 ===
3923 * (bug 31886) Wrong titles redirecting to Special:Badtitle in the 1.18 deployment.
3924 * (bug 32051) Fix description for wlprop=sizes.
3925 * (bug 31913) Special:MostLinkedTemplates had an incorrect GROUP BY clause
3926 under Microsoft SQL.
3927 * (bug 32100) installer complains about suhosin GET limit.
3928 * (bug 31933) fix 1.18 regression in Monobook sidebar: huge spacing between portlets
3929 on IE 7 and IE 8/9 in compatibility view.
3930 * (bug 32126) Fix 1.18 regression in watchlist editor when items already removed
3932 * (bug 32183) remove the client-* classes added from user-agent-sniffing onto
3934 * (bug 29912) Unit tests break if parsertest tables are still present.
3935 * (bug 31694) During installation, tabbing order (cursor focus) goes to logo
3936 instead of 'continue'.
3937 * (bug 29102) Upgrade fails "Unknown character set: 'mysql4".
3938 * (bug 31990) justify paragraphs pref adds extra space to category listing.
3939 * (bug 20148) Better title for [[Special:Disambiguations]] page.
3940 * (bug 31502) TOC is missing on Special:EditWatchlist.
3941 * (bug 32256) API list=search stops at first invalid result.
3942 * (bug 32047) jquery.tablesorter.js: thead is before caption.
3943 * (bug 29854) Store protocol-relative links twice in the externallinks table,
3944 one with http: in el_index and once with https.
3945 * (bug 31822) Error during upgrade due to output buffer reset in stdout.
3947 === Configuration changes in 1.18 ===
3948 * The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with
3949 WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions.
3950 * The SkinTemplateBuildContentActionUrlsAfterSpecialPage,
3951 SkinTemplateContentActions and SkinTemplateTabs hooks have been removed in
3952 favor of SkinTemplateNavigation and SkinTemplateNavigation::SpecialPage.
3953 * $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined
3954 login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login
3955 and create account links.
3956 * Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in
3957 $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for
3958 $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try
3959 loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook.
3960 * $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit
3962 * $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set
3963 $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0;
3964 * OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed
3965 by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false.
3966 * Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins
3967 should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate.
3968 * The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old
3969 Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with
3970 $wgLegacyEncoding set.
3971 * (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we
3972 look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
3973 * $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed.
3974 Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the
3975 same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to
3976 replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality.
3977 * The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box
3978 makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation"
3979 and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk
3980 edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block
3981 anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings
3983 * Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which
3984 will probably break screen-scraping bots.
3985 * (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default.
3986 $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default.
3987 * (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least
3988 *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the
3989 ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the
3991 * (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable
3992 math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from
3993 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php:
3994 require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php";
3995 * $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for
3997 * $wgProfiling has been removed.
3998 * The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3.
3999 * (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed
4000 * $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead.
4001 * $wgProto has been removed. You now only need to set $wgServer to change the
4003 * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed.
4004 * $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed.
4005 * $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed.
4006 * $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed.
4007 * LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed.
4008 * (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say
4009 whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated.
4010 * $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core,
4011 and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See
4012 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and
4013 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCommonsRdf as appropriate.
4014 * (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS
4015 * Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature
4016 was removed in about 1.5.
4017 * LogPageValidTypes, LogPageLogName, LogPageLogHeader and LogPageActionText
4018 hooks have been removed.
4019 * New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom
4020 category collations.
4021 * $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions.
4022 * $wgEnableAutoRotation enables or disables auto-rotation. Leaving it set to
4023 null will cause MediaWiki to determine if auto-rotation is available.
4025 === New features in 1.18 ===
4026 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token.
4027 * BREAKING CHANGE: Article class hierarchy split into WikiPage (backend)
4028 and Article (frontend) hierarchies. Several hooks now pass a WikiPage object instead
4029 of an Article object. These hooks all use an $article parameter as documented in hooks.txt.
4030 Extensions should be updated to account for this, though most won't require any changes.
4031 * (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab
4032 Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you
4033 create a page or new section.
4034 * (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main
4036 * Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions.
4037 * (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation.
4038 This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated.
4039 * (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0.
4040 * New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be
4042 * New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation
4043 to be selectively disabled.
4044 * Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class.
4045 * Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a
4047 * (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}.
4048 * Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file.
4049 * Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the
4050 upload form instead of edittools if available.
4051 * (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user
4052 specified a filename without extension.
4053 * (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field
4054 * New maintenance script to fix double redirects
4055 (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php).
4056 * (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages.
4057 * (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable.
4058 * (bug 29047) CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js,
4059 MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css, etc.
4060 * (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be
4061 safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for
4062 potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
4063 specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked.
4064 * (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes.
4065 * (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers.
4066 * CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript
4067 disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag).
4068 * Added UserGetLanguageObject hook to change the language used in $wgLang.
4069 * (bug 14645) When $wgMiserMode is on, expensive special pages are styled
4070 differently (italicized by default) on Special:SpecialPages.
4071 * Added $wgAggregateStatsID, which allows UDP stats to be aggregated over
4073 * When $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes is true, all itemtypes are allowed, not just
4074 the three that were defined in the original specification.
4075 * (bug 14706) Added support for the Imagick PHP extension.
4076 * (bug 18691) Added support for SVG rasterization using the Imagick PHP
4078 * (bug 2581, bug 6834) Added links to thumbnail in several resolutions to the
4079 file description page. The sizes are set by $wgImageLimits.
4080 * (bug 28031) Add pageCount support to ArchivedFile.
4081 * (bug 27924) PhpHttpRequest doesn't return response body if HTTP != 200.
4082 * Added hook BitmapHandlerTransform to allow extension to transform a file
4083 without overriding the entire handler.
4084 * The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the
4085 rendering of them post-cache to reduce parser cache fragmentation and ensure
4086 skin customizability of edit section links.
4087 * (bug 24755) AuthPlugin auto-creation of local accounts can now be aborted by
4088 other extensions by handling the 'AbortAutoAccount' hook, similar to the
4089 'AbortNewAccount' triggered by explicit account creations. (They are separate
4090 to avoid loops and confusion; auth plugins like CentralAuth need to handle
4091 AbortNewAccount separately.
4092 * Special:ListFiles is now transcludable.
4093 * (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without.
4094 * (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images.
4095 * (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images.
4096 * (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users.
4097 * (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from
4098 LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals.
4099 * (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols.
4100 * (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content
4101 namespaces as articles.
4102 * Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php
4103 --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads;
4104 furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path.
4105 * Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory',
4106 'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions
4107 may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own
4108 class that extends PageArchive.
4109 * (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript.
4110 Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance.
4111 * (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is
4112 added to the textarea on the edit form.
4113 * mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php)
4114 * (bug 29067) Expose user.tokens (like we do user.options) in ResourceLoader.
4115 * New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog().
4116 * (bug 27655) Require token for watching/unwatching pages)
4117 * (bug 28904) (bug 29773) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.2 (the latest version)
4118 * (bug 29441) Expose CapitalLinks config in JS to allow modules to properly
4119 handle titles on case-sensitive wikis.
4120 * (bug 29397) Implement mw.Title module in core.
4121 * In MySQL 4.1.9+ with replication enabled, fetch the slave lag from SHOW SLAVE
4122 STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST. This ensures that lag is reported
4123 correctly in the case where there are no write events occurring. Note that
4124 the DB user now needs to have the REPLICATION CLIENT privilege if you are
4126 * Language codes in $wgDummyLanguageCodes are now excluded on localization
4127 statistics (maintenance/language/transstat.php).
4128 * (bug 29586) Make the (next 200) links on categories link directly to
4129 the relevant section of the category.
4130 * (bug 29109) Allow the automatic edit summary for redirect creation
4131 show the first bit of the new redirect page.
4132 * (bug 29723) mw.util.wikiGetlink() now defaults to wgPageName.
4133 * (bug 29680) Add GetDefaultSortkey hook to override the default sortkey.
4134 * (bug 16699) {{#language:}} accepts second parameter to specify the language in
4135 which the language name is wanted. Coverage depends on the cldr extension.
4136 * (bug 15802) An easy way to look up messages: language qqx which returns
4138 * (bug 29868) Add support for passing parameters to mw.msg in jquery.localize.
4139 * (bug 29558) $wgMiserMode now disables update.php by default.
4140 * AjaxCategories: Easily add, edit or delete categories on article pages.
4141 Suggests possible categories when typing, all saves are done via AJAX.
4142 Supports editing of multiple categories and then saving them in one batch.
4143 * $wgAutopromoteOnce was added, allowing for users to be automatically promoted
4144 to explicit usergroups. If a group is removed from a user via Special:UserRights,
4145 it will not automatically be re-added. Configuration is similar to
4146 $wgAutopromote (see DefaultSettings.php).
4147 * The PerformRetroactiveAutoblock hook was added to allow overriding or complementing
4148 retroactive autoblock handling. This runs when blocking a user with the 'autoblock' option.
4149 * MediaWiki now supports using protocol-relative URLs in links, interwiki
4150 targets and $wgServer.
4151 * Introduced $wgVaryOnXFPForAPI which will cause the API to send
4152 Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto headers.
4153 * New maintenance script to refresh image metadata (maintenance/refreshImageMetadata.php).
4154 * (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version.
4155 * (bug 30722) Add an identity collation that sorts things based on what the
4156 unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behavior).
4157 * (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions.
4158 To give extensions a better and more flexible way of providing default
4159 values for preferences a hook has been introduced in User:getDefaultOptions().
4160 Setting preferences in $wgDefaultUserOptions still work fine, but when reading
4161 them (i.e. with array_keys) to get a list of all preferences, then
4162 $wgDefaultUserOptions should no longer be used as it will contain those set via
4163 User:getDefaultOptions().
4164 * (bug 30497) Add client-nojs and client-js classes on document element
4165 to let styles easily hide or show things based on general JS availability.
4166 * (bug 31293) If Special:Userlogin is loaded over HTTPS, display
4167 MediaWiki:loginend-https instead of MediaWiki:loginend, if it's not empty.
4168 Same for signupend on the account creation page.
4169 * (bug 31233) New OutputPage::addJsConfigVars() method to make the output page specific
4170 mw.config map extendable.
4171 * mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php).
4173 === Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
4174 * (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab.
4175 * (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated.
4176 * (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
4177 treated as wikitext on preview.
4178 * (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
4179 indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "...".
4180 * Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
4181 cannot read the page in question.
4182 * (bug 19006) {{REVISIONUSER}} no longer acts like {{CURRENTUSER}} in some
4184 * (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
4185 * (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown
4186 as "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
4187 * (bug 26379) importImages.php gives more descriptive error message on failure.
4188 * (bug 26410) + signs are no longer treated as spaces in internal links if
4189 link has a % sign in it.
4190 * (bug 26412) Search results headers no longer show a bogus edit link.
4191 * (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
4192 * (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
4193 pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
4194 disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
4195 * If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse.
4196 * (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages.
4197 * (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary.
4198 * (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
4199 * (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
4200 selected when the action is "purge".
4201 * (bug 14267) Support a MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab override for the subject
4202 namespace tab on the mainpage of a wiki.
4203 * (bug 10158) Do not mention allowing others to contact you when the feature
4204 is disabled ($wgEnableUserEmail=false).
4205 * (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
4206 * (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
4208 * (bug 2585) Image pages should send 404 if no image, no shared image and no
4210 * Custom editintro's using the editintro url parameter will no longer show
4211 <noinclude> sections on pages they are included on.
4212 * (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
4213 adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
4214 * (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
4215 * (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
4216 to table.wikitable instead.
4217 * (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output
4219 * (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related
4220 preferences and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is
4222 * Trying to upload a file with no extension or with a disallowed MIME type now
4223 gives the right message instead of complaining about a MIME/extension
4225 * (bug 26809) Uploading files with multiple extensions where one of the
4226 extensions is blacklisted now gives the proper extension in the error message.
4227 * (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
4228 * (bug 19751) Filesystem is now checked during image undeletion.
4229 * Send last modified headers for Special:Recentchanges when RC patrol is
4230 enabled, but user cannot see rc patrol links.
4231 * (bug 26548) ForeignAPIRepo (InstantCommons) now works with PDF files
4232 and other multi-paged file formats.
4233 * Files with a mime type that does not match the extension are now properly
4235 * (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
4236 * (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk:
4237 link at the top of the page.
4238 * (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in Walloon language.
4239 * (bug 27679) Broken embedded files with special characters are no longer
4240 double HTML escaped.
4241 * (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
4243 * (bug 27763) Article::getParserOutput() no longer throws a fatal given when an
4244 incorrect revision ID is passed.
4245 * Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could
4246 cause confusing error messages.
4247 * (bug 27854) Http::isValidURI is way too lax.
4248 * Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits.
4249 * AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled. Also allows message identifier
4250 for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user.
4251 * (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
4252 (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
4253 * Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
4254 * (bug 14005) editing section 0 of an existing but empty page gives no such
4256 * (bug 26939) Installer does not set $wgMetaNamespace.
4257 * (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
4259 * Make truncate function automatically consider length of '...' string,
4260 since length can vary by localization.
4261 * (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
4262 prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
4263 * (bug 15641) blocked administrators are now prevented from deleting or
4264 protecting their own talk page; and all blocked users are more
4265 comprehensively prevented from performing other actions.
4266 * (bug 27893) Edit-on-doubleclick now applies only on view and purge actions;
4267 no longer triggers unexpectedly on delete, history etc.
4268 * (bug 28417) Fix PHP notice when importing revision without a listed id.
4269 * (bug 28430) Make html and TeX output of <math> always be left-to-right.
4270 * (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
4271 * (bug 28372) Fix bogus link to suppressed file versions in ForeignDBRepo.
4272 * (bug 27473) Fix regression: bold, italic no longer interfere with linktrail
4274 * (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
4275 * ' character entity is now allowed in wikitext.
4276 * UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
4278 * (bug 28561) The css class small will no longer make nested elements even
4280 * (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from
4282 * (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse().
4283 * (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output
4285 * (bug 27249) "Installed software" table in Special:Version should always be
4287 * (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly.
4288 * (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL.
4289 * (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode.
4290 * (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles.
4291 * (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries.
4292 * (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough.
4293 * (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS.
4294 * (bug 29263) Add LTR class to the shared CSS to be used for left-to-right text
4295 such as SQL queries shown in dberrortext and similar messages in RTL
4297 * (bug 14977) Fixed $wgServer detection in cases where an IPv6 address is used
4299 * The View X deleted revisions is now shown again on Special:Upload.
4300 * (bug 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API.
4301 * (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the
4302 file description page for multi-paged documents.
4303 * (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly
4305 * When transcluding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters.
4306 * (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request.
4307 * (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells
4308 the user a page named [[:]] already exists.
4309 * (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove.
4310 * (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all
4312 * (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images should not be uploadable as .jpg files.
4313 * (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based
4314 on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string.
4315 * (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only.
4316 * (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height
4317 make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG.
4318 * (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on
4320 * (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading.
4321 * (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any
4322 LTR/RTL screen layout.
4323 * (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user
4325 * (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles marker should be dynamically appended to
4326 the document head if it doesn't exist.
4327 * (bug 27023) After the document is ready, mw.loader is broken (calls callback
4328 before module is parsed).
4329 * (bug 4330) External URLs without a custom title should be treated as LTR,
4331 * (bug 29055) Make "don't send email on minor edits" preference apply to
4332 changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits.
4333 * (bug 28272) Special:AllMessages should have only one "Go" button.
4334 * (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch no longer shows silly message.
4335 * (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same
4337 * (bug 29332) Warn if user requests mediawiki-announce subscription but does not
4338 enter an e-mail address.
4339 * (bug 25375) Add canonical namespaces to "wgNamespaceIds" in mw.config.
4340 * The class JpegOrTiffHandler was renamed ExifBitmapHandler.
4341 * (bug 29443) Special:Undelete should use JavaScript to invert all checkboxes
4342 instead of reloading the page.
4343 * (bug 29325) Setting $wgStrictFileExtensions to false no longer gives incorrect warning.
4344 * (bug 29437) Multiple apostrophes in deleted article title cause odd rendering.
4345 * (bug 29485) RSS feed of Special:RecentChange grouped together multiple
4346 consecutive edits by same user in included diff, but then linked to
4347 a single ungrouped diff.
4348 * Do not try to group together a page creation and edit in the RSS feed of RC.
4349 * (bug 29342) Patrol preferences shouldn't be visible to users who don't have
4351 * (bug 29471) Exception no longer thrown for files with invalid date in metadata.
4352 * (bug 29492) Long-running steps in the installer (such as Upgrade and Install)
4353 no longer cause timeouts.
4354 * (bug 29507) Change 'image link' to 'file link' in Special:Whatlinkshere.
4355 * If the db is really screwed up, and doesn't have a recentchanges table,
4356 make the updater throw an exception instead of a fatal.
4357 * wfArrayToCGI() and wfCgiToArray() now handle nested and associative arrays
4359 * (bug 29567) mw.util.addPortletLink should only wrap link in <span> for
4360 "vectorTabs" portlets.
4361 * (bug 8556) Incorrect session failure warning on preview-on-open
4362 namespaces (categories) when combined with $wgRawHtml.
4363 * Use content language in formatting of dates in revertpage message
4364 (rollback revert edit summary) and do not adjust for user timezone.
4365 * (bug 29277) MediaWiki:Filepage.css is also shown on the local wiki
4366 * Make sure Backlink cache does not retrieve interwiki redirects when looking for
4367 redirects to a local page.
4368 * (bug 6100) Allow different directionality (LTR/RTL) for user interface
4369 and wiki content, along with many other RTL and directionality improvements
4370 (such as bugs 28030, 12406, 28349).
4371 * (bug 29712) Removed broken defaultUserOptionOverrides in MessagesXx files and
4372 unneeded CSS flipping of quickbar. Instead, introduce option 5 which sets
4373 left/right according to the directionality of your interface language.
4374 * (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit).
4375 * (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a <label> element.
4376 * (bug 29779) DairikiDiff/WikiDiff <ins> and <del> should undo browser default
4377 styling (strike/underline).
4378 * (bug 28630) Add iwlinks, langlinks, redirect to
4379 RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent.
4380 * (bug 29797) Error: "Tried to load block with invalid type" when subpages
4381 are disabled for user pages.
4382 * (bug 12205) Bidirectional names in action=credits are split and displayed
4383 incorrectly when wrapped to the next line.
4384 * (bug 20781) Move 'mainpagetext' messages to installer's .i18n file.
4385 * (bug 29737) "MediaWiki:Qbsettings-directionality" should refer to script,
4387 * (bug 26360) $wgSessionHandler was overriding system settings unconditionally.
4388 * Removed AjaxFunctions.php. The last remaining function js_unescape() was moved
4389 to the FCKEditor extension.
4390 * (bug 28762) Resizing to specified height broken for very thin images.
4391 * (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
4392 tries to subscribe to mediawiki-announce.
4393 * (bug 27427) mw.util.getParamValue shouldn't return value from hash even if
4394 param is only present in hash.
4395 * Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
4396 * (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
4397 caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
4398 * $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very wide
4399 pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
4400 * (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on
4402 * (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because
4403 #REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS.
4404 * (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs
4406 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
4407 instead of require() for included extensions.
4408 * Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages.
4409 * (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>).
4410 * $wgOverrideSiteFeed no longer double escapes urls.
4411 * The preprocessor no longer fails with a PHP warning about XML_PARSE_HUGE when
4412 processing complex pages using newer versions of libxml2.
4413 * (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
4414 * (bug 28545) When using the uca-default collation, sortkey's starting with a
4415 space (U+20) will sort under an invisible header like in 1.16 rather than a U+6DE.
4416 * (bug 30192) Thumbnails of archived files are now deleted.
4417 * (bug 30843) mediawiki.Title should not convert extensions (anything after the
4418 last full stop) to lower case).
4419 * (bug 31213) Exception thrown when trying to move file cross-namespace.
4420 * (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are
4421 really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other.
4422 * (bug 30466) Entries in iwlinks table are now cleared when moving a page over
4424 * (bug 31674) Can't edit watchlist if it contains special pages.
4425 * (bug 32100) Installer complains about Suhosin GET limit even if it is
4426 already set above 1024 bytes.
4428 === API changes in 1.18 ===
4429 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
4430 * (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result.
4431 * (bug 14869) Add API module for accessing QueryPage-based special pages.
4432 * (bug 14020) API for Special:Unwatchedpages.
4433 * (bug 24287) Wrap API Help output at 100 characters.
4434 * Add a realname uiprop option to query=userinfo so a user's realname can be
4436 * Add a &watchuser option to ApiBlock.
4437 * (bug 26541) Generator-ise ApiQueryRecentChanges.
4438 * action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
4439 * (bug 25767) Add userrights properties to allusers and users query lists.
4440 * (bug 26558) list=allusers auprop=groups does not list groups a user is
4441 automatically a member of.
4442 * (bug 26559) list=allusers auprop=rights does not match
4443 list=users usprop=rights.
4444 * (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
4446 * (bug 25135) add "normalized" to action=parse.
4447 * (bug 26460) Add support for listing category members by category pageid.
4448 * (bug 26482) add a imimages param to prop=images.
4449 * (bug 26498) allow LinksUpdate with API.
4450 * (bug 26485) add a elextlinks param to prop=extlinks.
4451 * (bug 26483) add a iwtitles param to prop=iwlinks.
4452 * (bug 26484) add a lltitles param to prop=langlinks.
4453 * (bug 26480) add a pppageprops param to prop=pageprops.
4454 * (bug 26650) Remove $wgAPICacheHelp in favour of $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout.
4455 * (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
4456 * Expose list of skins in meta=siteinfo.
4457 * (bug 26548) Add iiurlparam param to query=imageinfo and query=stashimageinfo.
4458 * (bug 27205) aiprop=metadata and aiprop=parsedcomment need help text.
4459 * Add a amtitle param to meta=allmessages.
4460 * (bug 25832) query=allimages now outputs ns/title as well.
4461 * (bug 27199) Thumbnail urls can be fetched for old files as well.
4462 * (bug 27376) when using ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'integer' without a min or
4463 max value, API doesn't validate the input is actually an integer.
4464 * (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
4465 prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
4466 * (bug 27554) Update API information text to reflect change in bug 26125.
4467 * (bug 27611) list=blocks: Use ipb_by_text instead of join with user table.
4468 * (bug 27616) Add userid of blocked user and blocker to list=blocks.
4469 * (bug 27688) Simplify queries to list user block information.
4470 * (bug 27708) list=users does not have a property to return user id.
4471 * (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
4472 * (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
4473 * (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
4474 * (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
4475 * (bug 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version.
4476 * (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
4477 * (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode.
4478 * (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute.
4479 * (bug 28010) Passing a non existent user to list=users gives internal error.
4480 * (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit
4481 groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups.
4482 * (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear
4483 in auto generated document, as it is on mediawiki.org.
4484 * (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages.
4485 * (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages.
4486 * (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories.
4487 * (bug 27342) Add audir param to list=allusers.
4488 * (bug 27203) add fato param to list=filearchive.
4489 * (bug 27341) Add drto param to list=deletedrevs.
4490 * (bug 26630) Add API for Special:ActiveUsers.
4491 * (bug 27020) API: Allow title prefix search of logevents (only when not in
4493 * (bug 26629) add Special:MIMESearch to API.
4494 * (bug 27585) add pagecount to list=filearchive.
4495 * (bug 28104) Namespace for local pages in interwiki backlinks (iwbacklinks)
4497 * (bug 27343) Add parseddescription to list=filearchive.
4498 * (bug 27469) label implicit groups in list=allusers&auprop=groups/
4499 list=users&usprop=groups.
4500 * Addition of APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo hook to add extra information to
4501 the general site info results.
4502 * (bug 16288) API: consider making closure status of wikis more clear
4504 * (bug 27589) list=allimages&aiprop=archivename is useless.
4505 * (bug 27586) Remove duplication of props in ApiQueryStashImageInfo
4506 by using ApiQueryImageInfo.
4507 * (bug 28226) prop=extlinks&eloffset should be an integer.
4508 * (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
4509 real timestamp field.
4510 * API upload errors may now return the parameter that needs to be changed and
4511 a sessionkey to fix the error.
4512 * (bug 28249) allow dupes in meta=allmessages&amargs.
4513 * (bug 28263) cannot import xml with the API, when have not "import" user
4514 right, but "importupload".
4515 * (bug 28365) Added description for uiprop=preferencestoken in meta=userinfo.
4516 * (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock.
4517 * (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse.
4518 * (bug 28368) add hint for multipart/form-data to API information of
4520 * (bug 28391) action=feedwatchlist&allrev should be a bool.
4521 * (bug 28364) add registration date to meta=userinfo.
4522 * (bug 28254) action=paraminfo: Extract type from PARAM_DFLT if
4523 PARAM_TYPE is not set.
4524 * (bug 27712) add parent_id to list=deletedrevs.
4525 * (bug 28455) Add 'toponly' to recentchanges API module.
4526 * (bug 26873) API: Add 'toponly' filter in usercontribs module.
4527 * (bug 28586) YAML: strings that are the same as boolean literals.
4528 * (bug 28591) Update/replace/supplement spyc (YAML parsing library).
4529 * YAML API output is now 1.2 compliant, using JSON as the formatter.
4530 * (bug 28672) give information about misermode on API.
4531 * (bug 28558) Add iw_api and iw_wikiid to meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap
4532 * (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the API.
4533 * (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs.
4534 * (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid.
4535 * (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param.
4536 * (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo.
4537 * Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo.
4538 * Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers.
4539 * (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers.
4540 * (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages.
4541 * (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates.
4542 * (bug 27790) Add query type for querymodules to output of ApiParamInfo.
4543 * (bug 28963) Add langbacklinks query module to the api.
4544 * (bug 27593) API should return error message when sha1/sha1base36 is invalid.
4545 * (bug 28578) API's parse module should not silently override invalid
4547 * (bug 20699) Watchlist API should list log-events.
4548 * (bug 29070) Require a token in API action=watch.
4549 * (bug 29221) Expose oldrevid in ApiQueryWatchlist output.
4550 * (bug 29267) Always give the servername for meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag.
4551 * (bug 28897) rvparse now respects rvsection for action=query&prop=revisions.
4552 * (bug 25734) API: Possible issue with revids validation.
4553 * (bug 28002) Internal error in ApiFormatRaw::getMimeType.
4554 * (bug 29237) ApiQuery now has an option to output the "iwurl" attribute.
4555 * (bug 28392) Mark action=undelete×tamps as type "timestamp".
4556 * (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash (disabled in Miser Mode).
4557 * (bug 27595) sha1 search of list=filearchive does not work.
4558 * (bug 26763) Make RSS/Atom of user contributions more visible.
4559 * (bug 25133) Allow redirects also for action=parse&pageid.
4560 * (bug 29745) Fatal error in API search.
4561 * (bug 29476) API returns page title instead of sectiontitle for
4562 srprop=sectiontitle.
4563 * Correct the documentation of srprop properties.
4564 * (bug 28817) Add reference help page link to API Modules.
4565 * (bug 29935) Improve formatting of examples in ApiParamInfo.
4566 * (bug 29938) list=users&usprop=rights shows rights the user doesn't have.
4567 * (bug 24781) The API will include an XML namespace if the includexmlnamespace
4569 * (bug 29392) Setting the start or end parameter now works with lists blocks,
4570 categorymembers, deletedrevs, logevents, protectedtitles, usercontributions
4571 and watchlist in Postgres.
4573 === Languages updated in 1.18 ===
4575 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
4576 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
4577 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
4579 * Angika (anp) (new).
4580 * Brahui (brh) (new).
4581 * Central Dusun (dtp) (new).
4582 * Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new).
4583 * Khowar (khw) (new).
4585 * Kichwa (qug) (new).
4586 * Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still valid.
4587 * (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace.
4588 * Link trail added for sl and sh.
4589 * (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
4590 * (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar).
4591 * (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases.
4592 * (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
4593 * (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now.
4594 * (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers.
4595 * (bug 28040) Turkish: properly lower case 'I' to 'i' (dotless i) and
4596 uppercase 'i' to 'I' (dotted i).
4597 * Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language.
4598 * Date formats for Indonesian (id) updated.
4599 * Bhojpuri (bho) (renamed from "bh").
4600 * (bug 29031) When translating block log entries, indefinite, infinite, and
4601 infinity are now considered the same.
4602 * Aromanian (rup) (renamed from "rua-rup").
4603 * Kashmiri (ks) split into Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic) (ks-arab) and Kashmiri
4604 (Devanagari) (ks-deva). Defaults to ks-arab.
4605 * (bug 30864) Use bengali numerals for <ol> for Assamese.
4606 * (bug 30817) Restored linktrail for kk (Kazakh).
4607 * (bug 27398) Add $wgExtraGenderNamespaces for configured gendered namespaces.
4608 * (bug 30846) New LanguageOs class.
4610 === Other changes in 1.18 ===
4611 * Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use.
4612 * (bug 28556) Upload support for MacBinary files has been removed (Used by
4613 Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9).
4614 * On wiki farm setups using $wgConf, 'wgCanonicalServer' is now expected to be
4615 set for all wikis. This was already the case for 'wgServer'.
4617 == MediaWiki 1.17 ==
4619 == MediaWiki 1.17.5 ==
4622 This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.17 branch.
4624 === Summary of selected changes in 1.17 ===
4626 Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.16 that may be of interest:
4628 * A new installer has been introduced. It has a wizard-style interface which is
4629 translated into many languages. Many shortcomings in the old installer were
4630 addressed with this rewrite. Note that it is no longer required for the config
4631 directory to be made writable by the webserver. Instead the generated
4632 LocalSettings.php file is offered as a download, which you must then upload
4633 to the wiki's base directory.
4635 * ResourceLoader, a new framework for delivering client-side resources such as
4636 JavaScript and CSS, has been introduced. These resources are now delivered
4637 through the new entry point script "load.php", instead of as static files
4638 served directly by the web server. This allows minification, compression and
4639 client-side caching to be used more effectively, which should provide a net
4640 performance improvement for most users.
4642 * Category sorting has been improved.
4643 ** Sorting is now case insensitive.
4644 ** Sub-categories, pages and files can now be paged separately.
4645 ** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their
4646 names instead of randomly.
4648 * The lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.2.3. If necessary, please
4649 upgrade PHP prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
4651 === Changes since 1.17.4 ===
4653 * (bug 36938) Correctly escape uselang attribute to prevent xss
4654 * Expanded Blacklist for SVG Files
4656 === Changes since 1.17.3 ===
4658 * (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict.
4659 * Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes.
4660 * (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php
4663 === Changes since 1.17.2 ===
4665 * (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like <nowiki> in
4666 core parser functions which operate on strings, such as padleft.
4667 * (bug 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token
4669 * (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated
4671 * (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload.
4673 === Changes since 1.17.1 ===
4674 * (bug 33117) prop=revisions allows deleted text to be exposed through cache pollution.
4675 * (bug 32709) Private Wiki users were always taken to Special:Badtitle on login.
4677 === Changes since 1.17.0 ===
4679 * (bug 29535) Added missing Creative Commons CC0 icon.
4680 * (bug 29726) Fixed failure to load internationalization messages in
4681 client-side scripts on WebKit-based browsers.
4682 * Fixed a bug in message transformation where the previous language could leak
4683 into later transformations in the UI language.
4684 * (bug 29091) Fixed form of native name for Ossetic language (Иронау -> Ирон)
4685 * Fixed maintenance scripts upgrade1_5.php and rebuildImages.php, they did not
4686 work at all since 1.17 beta 1.
4687 * (bug 29531) Fixed img_auth.php for thumbnails and other filenames with
4688 multiple dots, was broken by the fix for bug 28840.
4689 * In the maintenance script purgeList.php, fixed a fatal error when a page
4690 title is given, instead of a URL.
4691 * (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit).
4692 * Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
4693 * $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very
4694 wide pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
4695 * (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
4696 tries to subscribe to mediawiki-announce.
4697 * Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals
4698 * (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
4699 caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
4700 * (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
4701 instead require() for included extensions.
4702 * (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
4703 warnings/notices to be thrown
4704 * (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
4705 * (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on
4707 * Hardcoded NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS for Oracle DB to prevent type conversion errors.
4708 * Fixed recentchanges FK violation on page delete and cache purge error in updater
4710 * (bug 32276) Skins were generating output using the internal page title which
4711 would allow anonymous users to determine whether a page exists, potentially
4712 leaking private data. In fact, the curid and oldid request parameters would
4713 allow page titles to be enumerated even when they are not guessable.
4714 * (bug 32616) action=ajax requests were dispatched to the relevant internal
4715 functions without any read permission checks being done. This could lead to
4716 data leakage on private wikis.
4718 === Changes since 1.17.0rc1 ===
4720 * Fixed syntax error in generated LocalSettings.php when a non-default user
4721 rights profile is chosen.
4722 * (bug 29399) Fixed PostgreSQL installation when the DB user for installation
4723 is the same as the one for web access.
4724 * (bug 29233) Fixed failover for DB slave servers. When a DB slave went down,
4725 an error was immediately shown to the user, instead of trying another slave.
4726 Was broken since 1.17 beta 1.
4727 * (bug 29278) Fixed PHP fatal error when attempting to add text to a page via a
4729 * (bug 29408) Fixed uploads of files with MIME types that aren't detected by
4731 * Removed DEFAULT '' NOT NULL field definitions from Oracle DB schema because
4732 using the DEFAULT value ('') in DML broke Oracle backend as it treats an
4733 empty VARCHAR2 value as NULL. Indexes on Oracle do not require NOT NULL
4736 === Changes since 1.17 beta 1 ===
4738 * Fixed warning about missing file "password.js".
4739 * When installing on MySQL, don't attempt to create a new database user if the
4740 same user is used for installation and web access.
4741 * Fixed SQL query errors in queries with table aliases.
4742 * (bug 27891) Fixed the "chronology protector", broken since 1.17beta1, which
4743 ensures that when database replication is used, the new version is seen by
4744 the user immediately after they create or edit an article.
4745 * (bug 28845) Allow PostgreSQL installation using a non-root user account which
4746 has role creation abilities.
4747 * When installing on PostgreSQL and the install account is the same as the web
4748 account, check to make sure that the account has suitable privileges in the
4750 * (bug 28172) Fixed error in PostgreSQL installation when creating the wiki
4752 * Fixed an issue with the Oracle installer in cases where the user is different
4753 to the database name.
4754 * Added "unblockself" to the list of available rights.
4755 * In the installer, fixed the "user rights profile" option, it never worked.
4756 * (bug 29117) Fixed Hebrew localisation of the installer.
4757 * (bug 28840) Reduce the collateral damage caused by the fix for bug 28235 (XSS
4758 on Internet Explorer 6 due to a file extension in the query string) by
4759 reducing the number of URLs that are blocked, and by redirecting the request
4760 to a safer URL where possible instead of blocking it.
4761 * (bug 28812) Fixed documentation of API action=parse.
4762 * (bug 28979) Fixed styling of <abbr> and <acronym>.
4763 * Fixed the error message displayed when you try to create an account by email,
4764 but an email address is not given.
4765 * Fixed JS error due to missing dependency for jquery.suggestions.
4766 * Exposed $wgExtensionAssetsPath in JavaScript.
4767 * (bug 28738) Made ResourceLoader support environments with small URL length
4768 limits. The length limit can be configured via $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength,
4769 and this is set automatically in the generated LocalSettings.php when the
4770 php.ini variable "suhosin.get.max_value_length" is set. When a URL exceeds
4771 this limit, the request is split up. Also, reduced the average length of
4772 load.php URLs by using a more compact parameter format.
4773 * (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS.
4774 * (bug 25124) Respect $wgStyleDirectory in ResourceLoader.
4775 * Allow installation when no HTTP client is available, don't throw an exception.
4776 * (bug 27465) Fix metadata extraction for SVG files using unusual namespace
4778 * (bug 29174) Fix regression in upload-by-URL: uploading files larger than the
4779 PHP memory limit should work again.
4780 * Fixed the display of comments in the new user log.
4781 * (bug 28237) When installing extensions using the web-based installer, create
4782 any necessary database tables.
4783 * (bug 28983) Fixed automated installation of extensions that overwrite $path.
4784 * Fixed error caused by missing magic words.
4785 * Fixed breakage of article editing in PostgreSQL due to text search
4786 configuration errors.
4787 * Fixed the HTTPS client used when Curl is not available. This avoids an error
4788 during install about failure of the mediawiki-announce subscription.
4789 * (bug 28162) When installing to PostgreSQL, respect the "database port" input,
4792 === Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
4794 * $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged
4796 * (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as
4797 $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is
4798 on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly.
4799 * $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has
4800 been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory.
4801 * $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted
4803 * IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the
4805 * $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
4806 provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
4807 * Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized,
4808 $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors, $wgUseZhdaemon,
4809 $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
4810 * (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
4811 * $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use.
4812 * Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extensions should use
4813 DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate() via the LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates hook.
4814 * Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
4815 available as input for other configuration items, either.
4816 * It's no longer necessary for LocalSettings.php to include DefaultSettings.php.
4817 * It's no longer necessary to set $wgCacheEpoch to the file modification time
4818 of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done
4819 automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is
4821 * $wgCopyrightIcon is deprecated and $wgFooterIcons['copyright']['copyright']
4822 should be used instead.
4823 * $wgSysopUserBans is deprecated, and will be made permanently true in 1.18.
4824 If you need this functionality, you should use the BlockIp hook to filter and
4826 * $wgSysopRangeBans is deprecated, you should set $wgBlockCIDRLimit to maximum
4827 (32 for IPv4, 128 for IPv6), equivalent to allowing rangeblocks of only 1
4830 === New features in 1.17 ===
4832 * (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
4833 User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled).
4834 * (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights.
4835 * (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
4836 apply the names of the individual files within the gallery.
4837 * Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer
4838 if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>.
4839 * Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links.
4840 * (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the
4841 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default).
4842 * (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced
4844 * (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when
4845 viewing contributions of a blocked IP address.
4846 * (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second parameter for type of
4848 * Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter.
4849 * Special:Random carries over query string parameters.
4850 * (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go".
4851 * When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt
4852 is provided on the Upload form.
4853 * (bug 22647) Add category details in search results.
4854 * (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query.
4855 * Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences.
4856 * Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode.
4857 * (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits.
4858 * ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
4859 watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on.
4860 * (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when there
4861 is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages.
4862 * (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine.
4863 * (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching (for IIS).
4864 * (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be notified
4865 about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions.
4866 * (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup.
4867 * (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages.
4868 * Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
4869 Special:Preferences.
4870 * Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip.
4871 * (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
4872 * (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
4874 * (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids
4875 * (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math>
4876 * (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math>
4877 * (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math>
4878 * texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time.
4879 * SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB.
4880 * (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages.
4881 * Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being
4883 * texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto
4884 * Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos.
4885 * ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set.
4886 * (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign
4888 * (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
4889 page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
4891 * (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class
4892 "mw-ipb-needreblock"
4893 * Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa.
4894 * (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user
4896 * (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users.
4897 * (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token.
4898 * A variety of category sort-related fixes, including:
4899 ** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same.
4900 ** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately.
4901 ** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names
4902 instead of randomly.
4903 * (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word.
4904 * (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements.
4905 * (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages.
4906 * The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
4908 * Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
4909 * (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
4910 intermediate revisions.
4911 * Added new hook GetIP.
4912 * Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text
4914 * TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader
4916 * Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which
4917 is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit).
4918 * (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled
4920 * (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails.
4921 * Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly
4922 when a wiki has multiple variant languages.
4923 * (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts.
4924 * Now rebuildtextindex.php warns if SQLite doesn't support full-text search.
4925 * (bug 10541) Front/backend separation of installation/upgrade code.
4926 * (bug 10596) Allow installer to enable extensions already in extensions folder.
4927 * (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English.
4928 * Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description).
4929 * Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages.
4930 * Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent
4931 changes/watchlist entries.
4932 * (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text
4934 * Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets.
4935 * (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign
4937 * When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both
4938 wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection
4939 arrow can be customized with CSS.
4940 * (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message
4941 [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead.
4942 Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw
4943 number of the textsize in Byte.
4944 * (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width.
4945 * Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions.
4946 * Added Special:Myuploads special page that redirects to Special:Listfiles.
4947 * The footerlinks used in Monobook/Vector/Modern are now part of common skin
4948 code, SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec can be used to customize the list.
4949 * Special wrapping setups can now define MW_CONFIG_FILE to load a config file
4950 other than LocalSettings.php. This is like MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK but works in
4951 some cases where MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK will not work.
4952 * (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
4953 pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
4954 disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
4955 * The name attribute of HTMLForm fields can now be overridden by passing a
4956 'name' key in the descriptor array. Hidden field names are now treated
4957 consistently with other fields and, by default, prefixed with 'wp'.
4958 * (bug 27402) Add support for disabling MWSuggest.
4959 * (bug 26563) Add bytes changed per revision for stub and full article dumps.
4960 * (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an svg we
4961 look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
4962 * (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades
4963 without having to move LocalSettings.php
4964 * Added $wgAllowImageTag, which can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag
4966 * (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display
4968 * Added the $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option which allows disabling CSS-based
4969 preferences; which can improve page loading speed.
4970 * Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
4971 or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks).
4972 * (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable
4973 which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
4974 showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
4975 research into its user experience implications.
4976 * The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
4977 navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
4978 * $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls.
4979 * Added $wgSecureLogin to optionally login using HTTPS.
4980 * (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to make the name associated
4981 with $wgPasswordSender configurable.
4982 * (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in
4983 the footers of skins.
4984 * $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy
4985 used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior.
4987 === Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
4989 * (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
4990 without updating database.
4991 * (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer
4993 * (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block
4995 * (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different
4996 when the address changed.
4997 * (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name.
4998 * (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and
5000 * (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when
5001 the URL contains a colon.
5002 * (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again.
5003 * (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is
5004 now only displayed when relevant.
5005 * (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages.
5006 * (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects.
5007 * (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion.
5008 * (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language.
5009 * (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN.
5010 * (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work.
5011 * (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users.
5012 * (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not
5014 * (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so
5015 that links with non-NFC character references work correctly.
5016 * (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for
5017 anonymous users instead of null.
5018 * (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited.
5019 * (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being
5020 logged in (anonpreviewwarning).
5021 * (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files.
5022 * (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly.
5023 * (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text.
5024 * (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content
5026 * (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page
5027 when using rebuildFileCache.php
5028 * (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid"
5029 parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target.
5030 * (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend.
5031 * (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed.
5032 * (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases.
5033 * (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces
5034 rather than only main namespace.
5035 * (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all
5036 frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than
5037 the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images
5038 exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size.
5039 * (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first
5041 * (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase.
5042 * Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
5043 style is not valid for the user's interface language.
5044 * (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
5046 * Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
5047 in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
5048 * (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
5049 * (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer
5050 displays incorrect tabs.
5051 * (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers.
5052 * (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display.
5053 * (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources.
5054 * (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files
5056 * (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery.
5057 * (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer
5058 displayed on Special:Listusers.
5059 * (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences
5060 to enhance preference grouping.
5061 * (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the
5063 * (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
5064 * (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
5065 * (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create)
5066 are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
5067 is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
5068 * (bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as ˜ not ∼
5069 * (bug 23241) License selector should be disabled during upload of a new
5071 * (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist.
5072 * The pipe | character in urls is now escaped.
5073 * (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved.
5074 * (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of
5075 MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary.
5076 * (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
5077 new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed.
5078 * Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if
5079 user did not capitalize first letter of username.
5080 * (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables.
5081 * (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
5083 * (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
5084 account upload rights.
5085 * (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
5086 and correct render results.
5087 * (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
5088 consistent and correct render results.
5089 * (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo.
5090 * (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for multibyte
5092 * (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser.
5093 * (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if
5094 the $noRedir parameter is set to true.
5095 * (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents.
5096 * (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php.
5097 * (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter.
5098 * (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not
5099 accidentally activated when hitting enter.
5100 * (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores.
5101 * Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0.
5102 * (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
5103 * (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
5105 * (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
5106 Special:Upload after following a red link.
5107 * (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
5108 * (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments.
5109 * (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings.
5110 * (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
5111 * (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers.
5112 * (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect
5113 Image: --> File: namespace rename.
5114 * Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
5115 * (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
5117 * (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when Special:RecentChanges(linked) or
5118 Special:Newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the page.
5119 * (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer
5121 * (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a
5122 useful error message.
5123 * Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
5124 instead of showing an error page.
5125 * (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in
5126 SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
5127 * (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
5128 * (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules.
5129 * (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages.
5130 * (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
5131 longer pollutes the parser cache.
5132 * (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a
5133 letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons,
5134 underscores, hyphens, and/or periods).
5135 * Save 200 useless queries on each category page view.
5136 * Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec.
5137 * (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian.
5138 * "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between
5139 revisions" on diffs when appropriate.
5140 * (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as
5141 a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages.
5142 * (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also
5143 make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case.
5144 * (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
5145 memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
5146 * Disable multithreaded behavior in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
5147 when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
5148 * (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again.
5149 * (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file.
5150 * (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available.
5151 * (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel.
5152 * (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff
5153 instead of alternating focus between the two buttons.
5154 * (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account.
5155 * (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output.
5156 * SQLite system table names are now never prefixed.
5157 * (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second
5159 * (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16).
5160 * (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled
5162 * (bug 25462) Fix double-escaping for section edit link tooltips.
5163 * action=raw was removed for Special:Statistics. This information is still
5164 available via the API.
5165 * (bug 23934) Groups defined in $wgRevokePermissions but not in
5166 $wgGroupPermissions now appear on Special:ListGroupRights.
5167 * (bug 23923) Special:Prefixindex no longer shows results if nothing was
5169 * (bug 22308) Search now finds text in default main page immediately after setup.
5170 * (bug 25697) Make sure empty lines render in diff view.
5171 * Use an actual minus sign in diff views, instead of a hyphen.
5172 * (bug 23732) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedFiles.
5173 * (bug 23731) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedTemplates.
5174 * (bug 25642) A exception is now thrown instead of a fatal error when using
5175 $wgSMTP without PEAR mail package.
5176 * (bug 19633) When possible, Upscale small SVGs when creating thumbnails.
5177 * (bug 11013) Database driver detection needs rewriting for robustness.
5178 * (bug 13409) Installer prompts could use clarification--now has help boxes.
5179 * (bug 16902) Installer spews warnings when exec() and dl() are not available.
5180 * (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported.
5181 * (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled.
5182 * Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails.
5183 * (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error
5184 on discussion pages with vector as default skin.
5185 * (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing.
5186 * (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores.
5187 * (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir
5189 * (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if
5190 $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set.
5191 * (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3.
5192 * (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now
5193 normalised like normal links to special pages.
5194 * (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect
5195 $wgExternalLinkTarget.
5196 * (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that
5197 is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages.
5198 * (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page.
5199 * (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in
5201 * (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only
5202 "File" and "Media" are allowed now.
5203 * (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict
5204 with php extension that defines same class.
5205 * (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when
5206 $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false.
5207 * Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database.
5208 * (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation.
5209 * (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2.
5210 * Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong
5212 * (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available.
5213 * (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated.
5214 * (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow
5215 absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google).
5216 * Partial workaround for bug 6220: at least make files on shared repositories
5217 show up as (struck-out) bluelinks instead of redlinks on Special:WantedFiles.
5218 * rebuildFileCache.php no longer creates inappropriate cache files for redirects.
5219 * (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members.
5220 * (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
5221 treated as wikitext on preview.
5222 * Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
5223 cannot read the page in question.
5224 * (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
5225 indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "..."
5226 * (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
5227 * (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown as
5228 "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
5229 * (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
5230 * (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
5231 selected when the action is "purge".
5232 * (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
5233 * (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
5234 * (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences.
5235 * (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
5236 * (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel.
5237 * (bug 27781) Installer does not warn about 5.1.x. Added a compatibility function
5238 for array_key_exists().
5239 * Fix XML well-formedness on a few pages when $wgHtml5 is true (the default).
5240 * (bug 28069) MediaWiki fails streaming files when mod_deflate and ob_gzhandler
5242 * (bug 26223) Concurrently moving an article to different titles leaks a
5243 redirect revision with no page.
5244 * (bug 15641) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users
5245 without the 'import' permission to import pages from configured import sources.
5246 * (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
5247 adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
5248 * (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
5249 * (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output better.
5250 * (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences
5251 and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is going on.
5252 * (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
5253 to table.wikitable instead.
5254 * (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language.
5255 * (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
5257 * (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
5258 (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
5259 * Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
5260 * (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
5262 * (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
5263 prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
5264 * (bug 28568) Entries in the iwlinks table are now removed on page deletion.
5265 * (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
5266 * (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
5267 * UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
5269 * (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
5271 * (bug 28214) When page not found, sends malformed HTTP/1.x instead of HTTP/1.1
5272 in header of response.
5273 * (bug 27634) TOC title appears in wrong language.
5274 * (bug 27761) Fix regression: pages with Esperanto titles containing convertible
5275 character sequences became unreachable.
5276 * (bug 27508) SVGMetadataExtractor takes too much resources on huge svgs.
5277 * (bug 27465) SVG thumbnail generation.
5278 * (bug 27467) preload can leave UNIQ.
5279 * (bug 27539) Allow attributes beginning with a digit in wikitext tag parameters.
5280 * (bug 27328) using relative paths in CSS imports in MediaWiki:Common.css broken
5282 * (bug 27333) Fix repetitive last-seen time queries on page history.
5283 * (bug 26250, bug 23817) Fix wfObjectToArray() to descend into arrays; fixes
5284 processing of JSON return values for ForeignAPIRepo when native json module
5286 * (bug 25675) Fix search suggestions for Special: pages with spaces.
5287 * (bug 25571) Xml::encodeJsVar now passes floats natively instead of converting
5289 * (bug 27338) Gallery in 1.17 breaks for audio/video + ogghandler.
5290 * (bug 27302) Don't append the current timestamp for user/site modules when no
5291 user/site JS/CSS is present.
5292 * (bug 27016) dumpTextPass.php now consider the "output" parameter.
5293 * (bug 22606) don't send the "someone registred an account" message when setting
5294 email address (i.e. old one empty) in user preferences.
5295 * (bug 26458) Section edit links appear on pages that user does not have right
5297 * (bug 28611) Don't die in SqlBagOStuff::incr() if there's a race condition.
5298 * (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
5300 * (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame"
5303 === API changes in 1.17 ===
5305 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=patrol now requires POST.
5306 * BREAKING CHANGE: patrol token is no longer the same as edit token.
5307 * BREAKING CHANGE: Session keys returned by ApiUpload are now strings instead
5309 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually
5310 enforce validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning.
5311 Also add flag to enforce (die) if integer out of range.
5312 * (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
5313 * action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
5314 * (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
5315 * (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
5317 * (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
5318 * (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
5319 prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
5320 * (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
5321 * (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
5322 * (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
5323 * (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
5324 * (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
5325 * (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse.
5326 * (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent.
5327 * (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
5328 * (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment
5329 is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
5330 * (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
5332 * (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests.
5333 * (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option.
5334 * (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash.
5335 * (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions.
5336 * (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
5337 using token and username.
5338 * (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
5339 track inline interwiki link usage).
5340 * Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
5341 similar to prop=categories's clcategories.
5342 * (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when
5343 thumbnailing larger than original image.
5344 * (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query.
5345 * (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages.
5346 * (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups.
5347 * (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
5348 ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help.
5349 * (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied.
5350 * (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules.
5351 * (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but
5353 * (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result.
5354 * (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the
5355 hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added
5356 unconditionally on error.
5357 * (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
5358 title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved
5360 * (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
5361 canonical language variant.
5362 * (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API.
5363 * (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and
5365 * (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
5366 one of the backlinks generators with limit=max.
5367 * (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report.
5368 * PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user
5369 does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
5370 * (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to
5371 NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit.
5372 * (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks,
5373 allmessages, allpages, and allusers.
5374 * (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to
5375 meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups.
5376 * (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module.
5377 * (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit.
5378 * (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and
5379 blockreason if the user is actually blocked.
5380 * Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format.
5381 * For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as
5383 * (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1).
5384 * (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags.
5385 * Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
5386 $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
5387 * sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
5388 implicit groups rather than showing 0.
5389 * (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules.
5390 * (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a
5391 POST request was needed due to cache pollution.
5392 * Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions.
5393 * Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is
5394 used, rvlimit is enforced to 1.
5395 * (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the
5396 current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary.
5397 * (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to
5399 * (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page
5400 <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
5401 ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
5403 * The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs,
5404 empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters.
5405 * (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop.
5406 * (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when
5407 $wgDisableCounters enabled.
5408 * (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages.
5409 * (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL.
5410 * (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook.
5411 * (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo.
5412 * (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the
5413 file is a multi-page file.
5414 * (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist.
5415 * (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description.
5416 * (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
5417 real timestamp field.
5418 * (bug 27722) list=filearchive now supports revdel.
5420 === Language support changes in 1.17 ===
5422 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localizations are updated regularly.
5424 The following languages were added:
5426 * Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary)
5429 * Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl)
5432 * Dutch (informal) (nl-informal)
5435 Other significant changes to MediaWiki's language support:
5437 * Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) was removed.
5438 * Removed deprecated language code "dk" (Danish), use "da" instead.
5439 * Link trail added for sl and sh.
5440 * (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
5441 * (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
5443 * (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc.
5444 * (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca.
5445 * (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script.
5446 * (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto.
5447 * (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia.
5448 * (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated.
5449 * Esperanto date format corrected.
5450 * (bug 28159) Change interwiki name of language kbd to Къэбэрдеибзэ /
5452 * (bug 28184) Namespaces for the Latgalian Wikipedia.
5453 * (bug 25010) Bashkir-language interwikis: linktext change from Башҡорт
5455 * (bug 26395) Change name of Cornish language to Kernowek.
5457 === Other changes in 1.17 ===
5459 * DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
5460 extensions has been removed.
5461 * XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
5462 * The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed
5463 * Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
5464 * Removed $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by
5465 $wgUploadNavigationUrl.
5466 * (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed
5467 * The PHPUnit test suite has been removed from this release due to serious issues
5468 which should be resolved by the 1.18 release.
5469 * Oracle DB now uses the __destruct function to commit/close connection as it
5470 doesn't commit on close if transation is triggered in OCI.
5472 == MediaWiki 1.16 ==
5474 === Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
5476 * (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
5477 * $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
5478 * $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
5479 be used when uploading/moving files
5480 * (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
5481 to be shown to users
5482 * $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
5483 $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
5484 for backwards-compatibility
5485 * (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
5486 * $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
5487 functions and other potential errors when developing.
5488 * Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
5489 mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
5490 which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
5491 * Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
5492 appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
5493 oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
5494 * Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
5495 * Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
5496 $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
5498 * $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
5499 needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
5500 * $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
5502 * Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
5503 functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
5504 * $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
5505 interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
5506 * $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
5508 * (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
5509 to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
5510 * $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
5511 * $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
5512 * $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
5513 should be used instead
5514 * (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
5515 characters in file names.
5516 * (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
5517 was denied to users(img_auth only)
5518 * (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
5519 correctly (img_auth only)
5520 * $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
5522 * $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
5523 * (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
5524 to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
5525 * $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
5526 * (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
5527 CIDR ranges for blocking
5528 * $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
5530 * $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
5531 * $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
5532 similarly to the category namespace.
5533 * $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
5534 backward compatibility)
5535 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects inline images that do not
5536 exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
5538 * If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
5539 signatures. This was always the behavior documented in DefaultSettings.php
5540 but has not been the actual behavior for some time: instead, UTC was used
5542 * Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
5543 If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
5544 * Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
5545 with some search engines.
5546 * Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
5547 neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
5548 longer advertised by default (but it still works).
5549 * Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
5551 * New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
5552 for controlling debug output.
5553 * New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
5555 * (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
5556 extension "MetadataEdit".
5558 === New features in 1.16 ===
5560 * Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
5561 * (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
5563 * Superfluous border="0" removed from images
5564 * Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
5565 to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
5566 a cached MonoBook sidebar
5567 * Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
5568 * (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
5570 * Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
5571 type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
5572 * (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
5573 * (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
5575 * (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
5576 * (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
5577 * (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
5578 * (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
5579 * (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
5580 * Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
5582 * Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
5583 * Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
5584 it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
5585 * (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
5586 * (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
5587 month number without the leading zero
5588 * (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
5589 * (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
5590 * (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
5591 * (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
5592 * (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
5593 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
5594 customisation of the user interface
5595 * DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
5597 * Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
5598 wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
5599 * Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
5600 various user groups.
5601 * Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
5602 syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
5603 have these rights stripped from them.
5604 * Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
5605 the DBA extension is not available.
5606 * Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
5607 fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
5608 time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
5609 set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
5610 * Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
5612 * Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
5613 task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
5614 invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
5615 * (bug 19576) Moved the id attributes from the anchors accompanying section
5616 headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
5617 removing the redundant anchor elements.
5618 * Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
5620 * Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
5621 display for old versions of images.
5622 * In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
5623 appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
5624 * Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
5625 thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
5626 * If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
5627 now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
5628 * Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
5629 * (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
5630 will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
5631 * (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
5632 class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
5633 * (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
5634 * (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
5635 message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
5636 * (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
5637 AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
5638 * (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
5640 * (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
5642 * Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
5643 * (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
5644 extension version in Special:Version
5645 * (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
5646 right name in Special:ListGroupRights
5647 * (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
5649 * (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
5651 * (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
5652 * (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
5653 * RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
5654 flags have tooltips.
5655 * (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
5656 but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
5657 * wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
5658 page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
5659 * (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
5661 * The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
5662 This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
5664 ** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers.
5665 ** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
5666 obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
5667 ** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
5668 ** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
5669 output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
5670 ** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
5671 * The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
5672 * New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
5673 criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
5674 deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
5675 * (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
5676 * (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
5677 detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
5678 * MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
5679 * IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
5680 display-in-limit-form.
5681 * (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
5682 and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
5683 * Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
5684 database connection and query errors.
5685 * Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
5686 * Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
5687 excerpt from the block log.
5688 * (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
5689 file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
5690 * Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
5691 * New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
5693 * Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
5694 on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
5695 * (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
5696 of anonymous users that edited the page
5697 * New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
5698 for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
5699 * (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
5700 * Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
5701 called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
5702 * (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
5703 a smaller subversion checkout.
5704 * (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
5705 * (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
5707 * (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
5708 function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
5709 setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
5711 * Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
5712 * Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
5713 * Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
5715 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
5717 * (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
5718 the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
5719 * (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
5720 an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
5721 * New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
5722 or ExtUser-driven requests.
5723 * (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
5724 contains the number of revisions in the history
5725 * $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
5726 * (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
5727 * New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
5728 to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
5729 * Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
5730 * rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
5732 * upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
5733 * (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
5734 respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
5735 * Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
5736 and common coding mistakes
5737 * Updated Unicode normalization tables
5738 * (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
5739 * New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
5740 * (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
5741 membership in SpecialActiveusers
5742 * Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
5743 * $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
5744 * (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
5745 * EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
5746 * (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
5747 * (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
5748 * (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
5749 * (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
5750 * Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
5751 Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
5752 convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
5754 * (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
5756 * Send new password e-mail in users preference language
5757 * LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
5759 * Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
5760 * (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
5761 * (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
5763 * (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
5765 * (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
5767 * Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
5769 * importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
5770 comment from another wiki.
5771 * Support for Turck MMCache was removed
5772 * (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
5773 account will not be renamed
5774 * Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
5776 === Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
5778 * (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
5780 * The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
5781 * (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
5782 * (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
5783 * (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
5784 * (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
5785 * Improved error handling for image moving
5786 * (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
5787 with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
5788 * (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
5789 MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
5790 * Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
5791 * (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
5792 * (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
5793 * (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
5794 * (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
5795 * "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
5797 * (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
5798 * (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
5799 * The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
5801 * (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
5802 * (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
5803 * (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
5804 * (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
5805 * (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
5806 * (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
5807 * (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
5808 * (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
5809 * (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
5810 * (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
5811 * Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
5812 after some parsed math syntax.
5813 * (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
5814 * (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
5815 <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
5816 * (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
5818 * (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
5819 revisions when --delete is not passed
5820 * (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
5821 * Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
5822 ** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
5823 ** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
5824 ** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
5825 ** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
5827 ** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
5829 * (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
5830 languages while the text is typed as URLs.
5831 * (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
5832 * (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
5833 * Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
5835 * (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
5836 * (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
5837 * (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
5838 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
5839 * (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
5840 * (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
5841 * (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
5843 * (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
5844 * (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
5846 * (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
5847 * (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
5848 * (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
5849 * (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
5850 * (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
5851 * Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
5852 tags that were redundantly defined.
5853 * (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
5854 * (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
5856 * Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
5857 Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
5858 * Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
5860 * Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
5861 uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
5862 * (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
5863 * (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
5864 * (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
5865 variable instead of using this to overrule the user language preference.
5866 * (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
5867 show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
5868 * (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
5869 * (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
5870 * (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
5871 * Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
5872 link from the edit comment
5873 * (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
5874 * (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
5875 * (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
5876 * (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
5877 * Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
5878 * Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only
5879 * (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they
5880 can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
5881 * (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
5882 * Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
5883 via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
5885 * (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
5887 * (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
5888 * (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
5889 whether the engines are actually available
5890 * (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version
5891 * (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan
5892 * (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input
5893 and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an
5894 extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid)
5895 * (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on
5896 * (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once
5897 * (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url
5898 * (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self
5899 * Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6
5900 * Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore
5901 and was causing problems.
5902 * Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links.
5903 * (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on
5905 * (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite.
5906 * Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from
5907 history view, edit page, or something similar
5908 * (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
5909 * (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
5910 * (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
5911 * (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
5913 * (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
5914 standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
5915 * (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]])
5916 are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table
5917 * (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id
5918 * (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data.
5919 Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anyway.
5920 * (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file
5921 * (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist
5922 * (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5
5923 * (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
5924 * (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
5925 * (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
5926 * (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
5928 * (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
5929 * (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
5930 * (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
5931 users who can't edit them
5932 * (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
5933 * (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
5934 "enhanced recent changes"
5935 * (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
5936 the recentchanges table
5937 * (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
5938 when using long urls
5939 * The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
5941 * (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
5942 * (bug 19301) Duplicate entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
5943 $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on
5944 Special:ListGroupRights
5945 * (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
5946 to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as
5948 * (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL
5949 database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup
5950 * (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
5951 if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
5952 * (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
5953 * (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
5954 option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
5955 * (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
5956 * (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
5957 "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
5958 * (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
5959 "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and "edituserjs" respectively.
5960 * (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
5961 (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
5962 * (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
5963 language ($wgContLang)
5964 * (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php
5965 * (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count
5966 * (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have
5967 not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their
5969 * (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
5971 * (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
5972 * (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
5973 * (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
5974 * (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
5975 * (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip
5976 * (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on
5977 Special:RecentChangesLinked
5978 * Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
5980 * (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
5981 * (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
5982 * (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
5984 * (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
5985 * Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
5986 versions of MediaWiki were affected).
5987 * (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
5988 * (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
5989 * (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
5990 are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
5991 titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
5992 * (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
5993 cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
5994 * (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
5995 * (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
5996 * (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
5997 * (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
5999 * (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
6001 * (bug 20365) Page name with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
6002 Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
6003 * (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
6004 * (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
6006 * (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
6007 DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
6008 * (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
6009 the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
6010 * (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
6011 Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when doing log suppression
6012 * (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
6013 if they contain non-ASCII characters
6014 * (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
6015 Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
6016 * The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
6017 * (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
6018 execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
6019 at script execution, it now throws an exception
6020 * Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
6021 (analogous to EditFilter hook)
6022 * (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
6023 by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
6024 * (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
6025 $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
6026 * (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
6027 * (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
6028 the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
6029 * (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
6031 * (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
6032 any change, in addition to onkeyup.
6033 * Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
6034 allowed to create page. Done via new message
6035 MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
6036 * Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
6037 wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
6039 * (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
6040 be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
6041 * (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
6042 * (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
6043 correct type="text" parameter
6044 * (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
6045 * Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
6046 * (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
6047 * (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
6048 the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
6049 * (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
6050 * User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
6051 assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
6052 * (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
6053 editing an old version
6054 * (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
6055 by disable_functions
6056 * (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
6057 returns false if the page doesn't exist
6058 * (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
6059 * (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
6060 * (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
6061 command line scripts to fail
6062 * (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
6063 MediaWiki:Missing-article
6064 * (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
6065 * (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
6067 * (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
6068 * (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
6069 now links to the file rather than the file description page
6070 * Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
6071 attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
6072 * (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
6073 * (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
6074 * (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
6075 searching for special pages
6076 * (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
6078 * (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
6079 * (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
6080 field names per driver.
6081 * (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
6082 false on non-special pages
6083 * (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
6084 displayed when there isn't any entry in it
6085 * (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
6087 * (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
6088 MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
6089 * (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
6091 * (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
6092 Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
6093 * (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
6094 * (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
6095 * (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
6097 * (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
6098 * (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
6100 * (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
6101 * (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
6102 * (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
6103 * (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
6104 * (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
6105 * (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
6106 * (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
6107 * (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
6108 shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
6110 * (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
6111 * User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results,
6112 User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string
6113 * The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
6114 * (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
6115 * Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
6116 * Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
6117 * (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
6118 * (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
6119 * (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
6120 * (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
6121 * (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
6122 * (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
6123 id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
6124 * (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
6125 * (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
6126 * (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
6127 even to non-logged in users
6128 * (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and
6129 general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as
6131 * Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
6132 instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
6133 * (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
6134 of the displayed page
6135 * (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with
6136 PHP's memcached extension
6137 * (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible
6138 * (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
6139 * (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
6140 only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
6141 * (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
6143 * (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
6144 redirects-only switch is not present
6145 * (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older than $wgThumbnailEpoch
6146 * Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
6147 due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
6148 * (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
6149 the page selector when they have only one page
6150 * (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
6151 "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
6152 * (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
6153 * (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
6154 a redirect instead of a baderror.
6155 * (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
6156 * Redirecting special pages now keep query string parameters set to "0" (e.g.
6158 * (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
6159 groups if there are duplicate entries
6160 * (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username
6161 now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links
6162 * (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID
6163 * (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
6164 previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
6165 * (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
6166 * refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
6167 * (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
6168 consistency with RC/WL
6169 * (bug 21986) Special page names are now capitalized by content language
6170 * If two log types have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
6171 type selector on Special:Log
6172 * (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
6173 user can't create an account
6174 * (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
6175 * (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
6176 user's page if possible
6177 * (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
6178 * (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
6180 * (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
6181 * (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
6182 skin-specific JS pages
6183 * (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
6185 * (bug 22096) IE50Fixes.css and IE55Fixes.css have been dropped from the Monobook
6187 * Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
6188 * (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
6189 * (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
6190 * (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
6191 * (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
6192 not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
6193 * (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
6194 that can only change their rights
6195 * (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
6196 * (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload
6197 link from file pages
6198 * Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in
6199 $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used
6200 as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it
6201 was unintentionally sorted along with other fields.
6202 * (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8
6203 * Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken
6204 multibyte characters
6205 * (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist
6206 * (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to
6207 the page set in the &returnto parameter.
6208 * (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome
6209 * (bug 17790) Users instantly logged off on HughesNet
6210 * (bug 21549) Make foreign key constraints DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED
6211 when using Postgres as the database backend.
6213 == API changes in 1.16 ==
6215 * Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
6216 * Added usprop=gender to list=users
6217 * (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
6218 * Add parentid to prop=revisions output
6219 * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
6220 when the user is blocked
6221 * (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
6222 * (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
6224 * (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
6225 * (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
6226 * Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output
6227 * (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output
6228 * (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories
6229 * (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo
6230 * (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo
6232 * (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version
6233 * (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output
6234 * (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs
6235 * (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output
6236 * Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans
6237 * Made deleting file description pages without files possible
6238 * (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output
6239 * (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo
6240 * (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and
6242 * Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections
6244 * (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups
6245 * (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite
6247 * (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output
6248 * (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang
6250 * (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
6251 * (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
6252 * (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
6253 * (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
6254 parameter in action=edit
6255 * (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
6256 parameter in action=edit
6257 * Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
6258 * Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
6259 optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
6260 * (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
6261 external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
6262 Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
6263 * (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
6265 * (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
6267 * Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
6268 * (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
6269 * (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
6270 drcontinue param is passed
6271 * (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
6272 * (bug 19004) Added support for tags
6273 * (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
6274 without registration date
6275 * (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
6276 * (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
6277 * (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
6278 * (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
6279 * (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
6280 for logged-in users under certain circumstances
6281 * (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
6282 * Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
6284 * (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
6285 * (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
6286 * (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
6287 * (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
6288 * (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
6289 * (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
6290 * Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
6291 * (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
6292 * (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
6293 * (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
6294 * (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
6295 * (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
6296 * (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output
6297 * (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo
6299 === Languages updated in 1.16 ===
6301 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
6302 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
6303 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
6305 * Capiznon (cps) (new)
6306 * North Frisian (frr) (new)
6307 * Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
6308 * Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
6309 * Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
6310 * Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
6311 * Prussian (prg) (new)
6312 * Romagnol (rgn) (new)
6313 * Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
6314 * Picard (pcd) (new)
6315 * Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
6316 * Upper Franconian (vmf) (new)
6318 * Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
6319 * Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
6320 * Ladin (lld) (removed)
6321 * Laz (lzz) (removed)
6322 * Palembang (plm) (removed)
6323 * Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
6324 * Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
6327 * (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
6328 * Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
6329 * Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et)
6330 * (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my)
6331 * (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash
6333 * (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language
6334 * (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc)
6335 * (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail
6336 * (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl)
6337 * (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian
6338 * (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail
6339 * (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
6340 * (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
6341 * (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
6342 * (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
6343 * (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku)
6344 * (bug 23767) PHP warning/error when REQUEST_URI returns blank (IIS issue).
6346 == MediaWiki 1.15 ==
6348 === Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
6350 * Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
6352 * Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
6353 * Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
6354 from rel="nofollow" on external links
6355 * (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
6356 * Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specific page to redirect users
6357 to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
6358 * Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
6359 namespace" option (disabled by default)
6361 === New features in 1.15 ===
6363 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
6364 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
6365 for the current page for a given action
6366 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
6367 to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
6368 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
6369 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
6370 Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
6371 hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
6372 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
6374 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
6375 existing block when modifying an existing block.
6376 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
6377 rather than hardcoded HTML tags
6378 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
6379 extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
6381 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
6383 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
6384 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
6385 recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
6386 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
6388 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
6389 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
6390 link instead of Go button & Search button
6391 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
6392 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
6393 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
6394 * (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
6395 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
6396 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
6398 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
6400 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
6401 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
6402 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
6403 can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
6404 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
6405 "mw-confirmemail-pending"
6406 * (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
6407 parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
6408 part for a given title.
6409 * (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
6411 * (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
6412 * (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
6413 * (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
6414 * Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
6415 class "mw-searchresult"
6416 * (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
6417 * Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
6418 * New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
6419 LanguageConverter class)
6420 * (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
6421 * Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
6422 * (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
6423 "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
6424 * (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
6425 this information will be public
6426 * Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
6427 * Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
6428 the active users data from site_stats.
6429 * Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
6430 * Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
6432 * Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
6433 'mw-editinginterface'
6434 * (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
6435 * Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
6436 of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
6437 next section anyway.
6438 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
6440 * (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
6441 Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
6443 * Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
6444 * (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
6445 * (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
6446 * Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
6447 * (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
6449 * Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
6450 with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
6451 * $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
6452 of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
6453 * New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
6454 LanguageConverter class)
6455 * (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
6457 * Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
6458 * (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
6459 of the displayed revision
6460 * LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
6461 a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
6462 * (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with
6464 * (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the dateformat
6466 * (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited to 5000 pages)
6467 * (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
6468 enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,
6469 optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting
6470 $wgTiffThumbnailType
6471 * Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and
6472 'mw-log-user', respectively
6473 * Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
6474 usernames during registration (such as "@")
6475 * Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
6476 used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
6477 on a different database
6478 * Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
6480 * Title attributes are now always blank on framed and thumbnailed images, and default to blank
6481 on inline images instead of defaulting to the image's filename. Additionally, the alt
6482 attribute now defaults to the filename on framed and thumbnailed images if no caption or alt
6483 attribute is specified.
6485 === Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
6486 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
6487 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
6488 before trying to delete the edit.
6489 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
6490 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
6491 the destination page exists
6492 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
6494 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
6495 LanguageConverter class)
6496 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
6497 LanguageConverter class)
6498 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
6499 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
6500 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
6501 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
6502 allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
6503 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
6504 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
6505 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
6507 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
6508 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
6509 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
6510 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
6511 "user contributions"
6512 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
6513 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
6514 comment label uses better message
6515 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
6516 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
6518 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
6519 error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
6520 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
6521 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
6522 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
6523 for identical files at different titles are still given.
6524 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
6525 certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
6526 and the entries can be styled with CSS.
6527 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
6528 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
6529 results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
6530 * (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
6531 * (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
6533 * (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
6534 * (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
6535 * (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
6536 * (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
6538 * (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
6539 and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
6540 * (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
6541 * (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
6542 longer affects the page title
6543 * (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
6544 * (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
6545 * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
6546 * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
6547 * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
6548 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
6550 * (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
6551 * (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
6552 maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
6553 * (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
6554 * (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
6555 * Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
6556 use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
6558 * (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
6559 * Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
6560 * File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
6561 * (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
6562 used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
6563 * (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
6564 * (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
6565 now point to the actual contributors' feed.
6566 * ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
6567 * Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
6568 $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
6569 * (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
6570 redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
6571 * (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
6572 * (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
6573 changed to rc_timestamp_bot
6574 * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
6575 * (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
6576 * (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
6577 on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
6578 * (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
6579 it unreadable in RTL
6580 * Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
6581 * (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
6583 * (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
6584 * (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
6585 * (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
6586 * (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
6588 * (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
6589 * (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
6590 * (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
6592 * (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
6593 displayed revision if it's not the current one
6594 * (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
6595 * (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
6596 namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
6597 * (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
6598 * (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
6599 no longer corrupts the message cache
6600 * (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
6601 * (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
6602 * (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
6603 * (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
6604 * Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
6605 * (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages no longer have
6606 two "page" parameters
6607 * (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
6608 don't use PathInfo or short urls
6609 * (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
6611 * (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
6612 * (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
6614 * (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
6615 * (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
6616 * (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when you cut-and-paste article text
6617 * (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
6618 * (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
6619 * (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and "Previous edit" diff links
6620 * (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as target'
6621 * (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
6622 * Fixed a CSS validation issue which allowed external images to be included
6623 into wikis where that is disallowed by configuration.
6624 * Fixed a data leakage vulnerability for private wikis using img_auth.php or
6625 similar image access authentication schemes. Check user permissions before
6626 streaming out scaled images from thumb.php.
6628 == API changes in 1.15 ==
6629 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
6630 and listing all deleted pages possible
6631 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
6632 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
6633 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
6634 created the page, even if it's not the top revision
6635 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
6636 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
6637 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
6638 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
6639 Building query properly now using makeList()
6640 * (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
6641 autolinked correctly
6642 * (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
6643 * (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
6644 * (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
6645 * (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
6646 * (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
6647 * (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
6648 * (bug 17007) Added action=import
6649 * BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
6650 of performance concerns
6651 * Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
6653 * (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
6654 limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
6655 * (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
6656 * (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
6657 * (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
6658 * Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
6659 * (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
6660 aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
6661 * (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
6662 * (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
6663 * (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
6664 * Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
6666 * (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
6668 * (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
6669 without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
6670 * Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
6671 when someone tries to use them
6672 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
6674 * (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
6675 message to be included in the page text
6676 * Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop
6677 involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is
6679 * (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter
6680 * (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter
6681 * (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output
6682 * (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data
6685 === Languages updated in 1.15 ===
6687 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
6688 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
6689 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
6691 * Austrian German (de-at) (new)
6692 * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
6693 * Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
6694 * Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
6695 * Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
6696 * Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
6698 * Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
6699 * (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
6700 * (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
6701 * (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
6702 * (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
6703 * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when
6705 * Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
6707 == MediaWiki 1.14 ==
6709 === Configuration changes in 1.14 ===
6711 * $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
6712 the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words. (Default: null, ex-
6713 empt all content namespaces.)
6714 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
6715 has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
6716 * (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
6717 $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent
6718 Changes feed that appears on all pages.
6719 * $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
6720 SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from
6721 $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki.
6722 * $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
6723 $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
6724 group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
6725 Backwards compatibility is maintained.
6726 * $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
6727 word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
6728 is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
6729 * $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
6730 * $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
6731 * Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
6732 with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
6734 * $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
6735 * Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
6736 whitelist on or off.
6737 * Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
6738 sitenotice cache keys.
6739 * $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
6740 * (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
6741 write actions using the API.
6742 * Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
6743 ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
6744 * Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
6745 on the wiki. If it's set to false, then the skin used will *always* be
6747 * Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
6748 on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
6749 * Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
6751 * (bug 44) Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File.
6752 For backward compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may
6754 * The constants NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK can now be used instead of NS_IMAGE and
6755 NS_IMAGE_TALK. The old constants are retained as aliases for compatibility,
6756 and should still be used in code meant to be compatible with v1.13 or older.
6757 * MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by
6758 using $wgUsePrivateIPs.
6759 * The 'BeforeWatchlist' hook has been removed due to internal changes in
6760 Special:Watchlist. 'SpecialWatchlistQuery' should now be used by extensions
6761 to customize the watchlist database query.
6763 === Migrated extensions ===
6764 The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
6766 * Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was
6767 extension DeletedContributions)
6768 * Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
6769 * Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
6772 * UniversalEditButton
6774 === New features in 1.14 ===
6776 * New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
6777 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
6778 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
6779 * Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
6780 respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
6781 MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
6782 PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
6783 * (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
6784 search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
6785 * Handheld stylesheet options
6786 * Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
6787 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks. Note that the
6788 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
6789 run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
6790 if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
6791 * Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
6792 $wgCleanSignatures=false
6793 * Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
6794 sidebar and add custom portlets to it
6795 * Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
6796 ables into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
6797 * (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
6798 Special:ListGroupRights
6799 * (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
6800 * (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
6801 the main page to be customized
6802 * Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
6804 * Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
6805 added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
6806 being converted or not
6807 * (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
6809 * Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
6810 * Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
6811 after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
6812 templates to work with that hook.
6813 * (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
6814 'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
6815 * (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
6816 * By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
6817 so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
6818 * (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
6819 option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
6820 * (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
6821 Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
6822 * Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
6823 groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
6824 * HTML entities like now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
6825 * (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
6826 instead of a hardcoded colon.
6827 * Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
6828 * Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
6829 * BMP images are now displayed as PNG
6830 * (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
6831 * (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
6832 * Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
6833 * Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
6834 * Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
6835 treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
6836 displaying an external image inline.
6837 * (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
6838 * (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
6839 * (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
6840 * Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
6842 * After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
6843 * (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
6844 * (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
6846 * (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
6847 plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
6848 * (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
6849 deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
6850 * Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
6852 * (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for
6853 different restriction types on the protection form.
6854 * (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
6855 * Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
6856 * Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
6857 $wgExternalLinkTarget
6858 * api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the
6859 maxlag check fails, just like index.php does
6860 * Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
6861 arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
6862 solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
6863 * (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
6864 using new "alt=" parameter for images
6865 * (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized
6866 namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of
6867 underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
6868 * Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
6869 default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
6870 marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
6871 * Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
6872 several uses of the same image.
6873 * (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
6874 wiki is set to read-only mode.
6875 * Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.
6876 This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page
6877 from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only
6878 called from within Article.php
6879 * Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
6880 $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
6881 * (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
6882 is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
6883 * Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
6884 linked from articles
6885 * Make search matches bold only, not red as well
6886 * (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
6887 * (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is
6888 already directly blocked
6889 * (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter
6891 * (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by
6893 * Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
6894 * (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
6895 * (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
6896 * (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
6897 * Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
6898 image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
6899 $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
6900 * New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
6901 * (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
6902 * (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the
6904 * Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that
6905 admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS
6906 * Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
6907 * Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
6908 * Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
6909 * Added complementary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
6910 * Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered
6911 algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm.
6912 * Cascading protection no longer requires that both edit and move are restricted
6913 to sysop, just edit=sysop is enough
6914 * (bug 2391) A warning is now shown for invalid ISBN numbers on Special:Booksources.
6915 * Installer has been updated to reflect the release of the GFDL 1.3. The URL for 1.2
6916 has been updated, and the 1.3 URL has been given. 1.2 is still Wikipedia-compatible.
6917 RightsCode was changed from 'gfdl' to 'gfdl1_2', so we can now support 1.2 as well
6919 * (bug 16293) PD URL was changed to the CreativeCommons site on PD (which auto-detects
6920 your language) instead of Wikipedia.
6921 * (bug 16635) The "view and edit watchlist" page (Special:Watchlist/edit) now
6922 includes a table of contents
6923 * File objects returned by wfFindFile() are now cached by default
6924 * (bug 7492) Rights can now be assigned to specific IP addresses and ranges by
6925 using $wgAutopromote (new defines: APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE)
6926 * Add a 'change block' link to Special:IPBlockList and Special:Log
6927 * (bug 16459) Use native getElementsByClassName where possible, for better
6928 performance in modern browsers
6929 * Enable \cancel and \cancelto in texvc (recompile required)
6930 * Added 'UserCryptPassword' and 'UserComparePasswords' hooks to allow extensions to implement
6931 their own password hashing methods.
6932 * (bug 16760) Add CSS-class to action links of Special:Log
6933 * (bug 505) Time zones can now be specified by location in user preferences,
6934 avoiding the need to manually update for DST. Patch by Brad Jorsch.
6935 * (bug 2585) HTTP 404 return code is now given for a page view if the page
6936 does not exist, allowing spiders and link checkers to detect broken links.
6937 * Special:Log: Add 'change protection' link for unprotected pages too
6938 * Special:Log: Add log type specific CSS classes 'mw-logline-$logtype' to
6940 * (bug 16754) Making arbitrary rows of sortable tables sticky:
6941 |- class="unsortable"
6942 * Show subversion too even if a "normal" version number is available
6943 * (bug 16121) Add a note that a page move was without creating a redirect in the
6945 * Image moving is now enabled for sysops by default
6946 * Make "Did you mean" search feature more noticeable
6947 * (bug 16720) Transcluded Special:NewPages processes "/username="
6949 === Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
6951 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
6952 * (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
6953 falls back to the user option
6954 * (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
6955 * Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
6956 * Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
6957 * Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
6958 * (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
6959 * (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
6960 * (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
6961 * Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
6962 * (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
6963 no longer redirect to the second link
6964 * (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
6965 a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
6966 Patch by Max Semenik.
6967 * (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
6968 user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
6969 * (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in
6971 * (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
6972 wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
6973 * (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the
6974 diff entirely, not just the display of it.
6975 * (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
6976 allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
6977 * (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
6978 ns-special to special pages.
6979 * (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
6980 * (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
6981 for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
6982 WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
6983 * (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
6985 * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
6986 * (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
6988 * Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
6989 contain '/*' in the title
6990 * Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
6991 * $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
6992 addition to body text.
6993 * Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
6994 from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
6995 * Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
6997 * (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
6998 * (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
6999 literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
7000 * (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
7001 namespace in Special:Watchlist
7002 * (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
7003 last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
7004 * (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
7005 * Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
7006 Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
7007 long-lasting locks on that table.
7008 * Respect file restrictions in the file history list
7009 * (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
7010 tables, and have been disabled by default.
7011 * (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
7012 * (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
7013 * (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
7014 * (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
7015 * (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
7016 * (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
7017 Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned.
7018 * Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
7019 LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
7020 * Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent
7021 pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the
7023 * (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for
7024 recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50.
7025 * (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
7026 instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
7027 * (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
7028 has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
7029 * (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
7030 * Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST.
7031 * (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users
7032 * Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL
7033 * (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview
7034 * (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner
7035 * (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex
7036 * Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page
7037 * (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button
7038 * (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous
7039 * (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode
7040 * (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the
7041 user can only change his rights
7042 * (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
7043 * (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
7044 * (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
7045 * (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now
7046 bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
7047 * Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the
7048 Konqueror browser correctly use the latter
7049 * (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
7050 * (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
7052 * (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
7053 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
7055 * (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding
7057 * Purge form uses valid XHTML
7058 * (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
7059 * (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback
7060 if JavaScript is disabled
7061 * (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
7062 * Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
7063 * (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
7064 * (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
7065 * (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
7066 of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
7067 * Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now
7069 * (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case
7071 * (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
7072 * (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
7074 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
7076 * (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
7077 revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
7078 * (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
7079 filename as the remote site.
7080 * (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
7081 * Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb
7082 path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
7083 * (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
7084 {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
7085 * Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for
7086 formatting and path exposure.
7087 * Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured
7088 * Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use.
7089 * Improved input validation on Special:Import form
7090 * Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection
7091 against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default
7093 * Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection.
7094 * Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads.
7095 * (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes
7096 * (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script
7097 * (bug 7726) Searches for words less than 4 characters now work without
7098 requiring customization of MySQL server settings
7099 * Honour unchecked "Leave a redirect behind" for moved subpages
7100 * (bug 16440) Broken 0-byte math renderings are now deleted and re-rendered
7101 when page is re-parsed.
7102 * (bug 6100) Unicode BiDi embedding/override characters (U+202A - U+202E) are
7103 now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end
7104 up in copy-and-pasted titles, and, by overriding normal bidirectional text
7105 handling, can lead to annoying behavior such as text rendering backwards
7106 * Fixed minor bug where the memcached value for how many accounts an IP had
7107 created that day would be increased even if $wgAccountCreationThrottle was
7108 hit. This meant if an IP hit the throttle and then the throttle was raised
7109 later that day, the IP still couldn't create another account, because it
7110 had marked them as having created another account, when their last account
7111 creation had actually failed.
7112 * (bug 12647) Allow autogenerated edit summary messages to be blanked with '-'
7113 * (bug 16026) 'Revision-info' and 'revision-info-current' both accept wiki
7115 * (bug 16529) Fix for search suggestions with some third-party JS libraries
7116 * (bug 13342) importScript() generates more consistent URI encoding
7117 * (bug 16577) When a blocked user tries to rollback a page, the block message
7118 is now only displayed once
7119 * (bug 14268) SVG image sizes now extracted with proper XML parser
7120 * (bug 14365) RepoGroup::findFiles() no longer crashes if passed an invalid
7122 * (bug 4253, bug 16586) Revision ID is now given instead of title in URLs for
7123 new pages in the recent changes IRC feed
7124 * Ugly tooltips in Special:Statistics were phased out in favor of more direct
7125 information. Went ahead and rewrote SpecialStatistics to subclass SpecialPage
7126 * (bug 5506) Links to files on foreign repositories are now shown consistently
7127 as bluelinks e.g. in logs and edit summaries
7128 * (bug 16623) Add missing </p> tag in Special:LockDB
7129 * (bug 15849) Special:Movepage now throws a more specific error when trying to
7130 move a title to an interwiki target
7131 * (bug 16638) 8-bit URL fallback encoding now set on additional languages using
7132 Arabic script (Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi)
7133 * (bug 16656) cleanupTitles and friends should now work in load-balanced
7134 DB environments when $wgDBserver isn't set.
7135 * (bug 3691) Aspect ratio from viewBox attribute is now preserved for SVG
7136 images which do not specify width and height attributes.
7137 * (bug 15027) Internet domain names and IP addresses can now be indexed and
7138 searched sensibly with the default MySQL search backend.
7139 * (bug 11733) Fixed parameter validation in importTextFile.php
7140 * (bug 16712) Special:NewFiles updated to use "newer"/"older" paging messages
7141 for clarity over "previous/next"
7142 * (bug 16612) Fixed "noprint" class for Modern skin print style
7143 * Section anchors now have an "id" attribute as well as a "name" attribute,
7144 even when Tidy is not used
7145 * (bug 16026) revision-info, revision-info-current, cannotdelete,
7146 redirectedfrom, historywarning and difference messages now use Wiki text
7147 rather than raw HTML markup
7148 * (bug 13835) Fix rendering of {{filepath:Wiki.png|nowiki}}
7149 * (bug 16772) Special:Upload now correctly rejects files with spaces in the
7150 file extension (e.g. Foo. jpg).
7151 * Image moving over an existing file no longer throws a database error
7152 * (bug 16786) Restored "redundant" links recently removed from Classic sidebar
7153 * (bug 16850) $wgActionPaths can have query strings now, previously, this broke
7155 * (bug 16376) Mention in deleteBatch.php and moveBatch.php maintenance scripts
7156 that STDIN can be used for page list
7157 * (bug 16560) Special:Random returns a page from ContentNamespaces, and no
7160 === API changes in 1.14 ===
7162 * Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
7163 shown as empty instead of the current time.
7164 * API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
7165 or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
7166 This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
7167 &srwhat=text to the query.
7168 * Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
7169 * (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
7170 are now listed on action=help
7171 * (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
7173 * (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
7175 * When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
7176 * list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
7177 * (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
7178 non-hidden categories
7179 * (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of
7180 an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
7181 * list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
7182 etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
7183 for consistency with other list modules.
7184 * Added action=watch
7185 * (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
7186 * action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an
7187 empty section with section=new
7188 * Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
7189 nochange flag any more
7190 * (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
7191 * (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
7192 return just "Unknown error"
7193 * (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
7194 * (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
7195 * (bug 15466) Added action=purge
7196 * (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
7197 * (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
7198 * (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
7199 * (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
7200 if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
7201 * list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
7202 * Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
7203 hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
7204 * action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
7205 * (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
7206 WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
7207 * (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
7208 rather than causing an exception
7209 * Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo
7210 * (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info
7211 * Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can
7212 be disabled in LocalSettings.php
7213 * (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles
7214 * (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw
7215 * (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted
7216 and undeleted since the last edit
7217 * (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in
7219 * Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output
7220 * (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
7221 * (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
7222 manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
7223 * (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
7224 * The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
7225 * (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
7226 and patrolmarks right
7227 * (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
7229 * (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
7230 list=categorymembers
7231 * (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
7232 sortkeys containing pipes
7233 * (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
7234 works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
7235 * (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
7237 * Added redirect resolution to action=parse
7238 * (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
7240 * (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
7241 * (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
7242 * (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
7243 * (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
7244 * meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty
7246 * (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate
7248 * (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases
7249 * (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions
7250 * (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores
7252 * (bug 16516) Made rvsection=T-2 work
7253 * (bug 16526) Added usprop=emailable to list=users
7254 * (bug 16548) list=search threw errors with an invalid error code
7255 * (bug 16515) Added pst and onlypst parameters to action=parse
7256 * (bug 16541) Added block expiry timestamp to list=logevents output
7257 * (bug 16613) action=protect doesn't tell when &cascade was set but cascading
7258 protection wasn't allowed
7259 * (bug 16626) action=delete now correctly handles empty "reason" param
7260 * (bug 15579) clshow considers all categories !hidden
7261 * (bug 16647) list=allcategories, prop=categories don't return "hidden"
7262 property for hidden categories
7263 * New siprop parameter of 'extensions' to list all installed extensions
7264 * (bug 16672) Include canonical namespace name in
7265 meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces.
7266 * (bug 16726) siprop=namespacealiases should also list localized aliases
7267 * (bug 16730) Added apprfiltercascade parameter to list=allpages to filter
7268 cascade-protected pages
7270 === Languages updated in 1.14 ===
7272 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
7273 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
7275 * Bakhtiari (bqi) (new)
7276 * Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new)
7278 * Lezghian (lez) (new)
7280 * Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
7281 * Niuean (niu) (new)
7283 * Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
7284 * Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
7285 * Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
7286 * Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
7290 == MediaWiki 1.13 ==
7292 == Changes since 1.13.2 ==
7294 David Remahl of Apple's Product Security team has identified a number of
7295 security issues in previous releases of MediaWiki. Subsequent analysis by the
7296 MediaWiki development team expanded the scope of these vulnerabilities. The
7297 issues with a significant impact are as follows:
7299 * An XSS vulnerability affecting all MediaWiki installations between 1.13.0 and
7300 1.13.2. [CVE-2008-5249]
7301 * A local script injection vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer clients for
7302 all MediaWiki installations with uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
7303 * A local script injection vulnerability affecting clients with SVG scripting
7304 capability (such as Firefox 1.5+), for all MediaWiki installations with SVG
7305 uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
7306 * A CSRF vulnerability affecting the Special:Import feature, for all MediaWiki
7307 installations since the feature was introduced in 1.3.0. [CVE-2008-5252]
7309 XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities allow an attacker to steal an
7310 authorised user's login session, and to act as that user on the wiki. The
7311 authorised user must visit a web page controlled by the attacker in order to
7312 activate the attack. Intranet wikis are vulnerable if the attacker can
7313 determine the intranet URL.
7315 Local script injection vulnerabilities are like XSS vulnerabilities, except
7316 that the attacker must have an account on the local wiki, and there is no
7317 external site involved. The attacker uploads a script to the wiki, which another
7318 user is tricked into executing, with the effect that the attacker is able to act
7319 as the privileged user.
7321 CSRF vulnerabilities allow an attacker to act as an authorised user on the wiki,
7322 but unlike an XSS vulnerability, the attacker can only act as the user in a
7323 specific and restricted way. The present CSRF vulnerability allows pages to be
7324 edited, with forged revision histories. Like an XSS vulnerability, the
7325 authorised user must visit the malicious web page to activate the attack.
7327 These four vulnerabilities are all fixed in this release.
7329 David Remahl also reminded us of some security-related configuration issues:
7331 * By default, MediaWiki stores a backup of deleted images in the images/deleted
7332 directory. If you do not want these images to be publically accessible, make
7333 sure this directory is not accessible from the web. MediaWiki takes some steps
7334 to avoid leaking these images, but these measures are not perfect.
7335 * Set display_errors=off in your php.ini to avoid path disclosure via PHP fatal
7336 errors. This is the default on most shared web hosts.
7337 * Enabling MediaWiki's debugging features, such as $wgShowExceptionDetails, may
7338 lead to path disclosure.
7340 Other changes in this release:
7342 * Avoid fatal error in profileinfo.php when not configured.
7343 * Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection against
7344 exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default installations.
7345 * Avoid streaming uploaded files to the user via index.php. This allows
7346 security-conscious users to serve uploaded files via a different domain, and
7347 thus client-side scripts executed from that domain cannot access the login
7348 cookies. Affects Special:Undelete, img_auth.php and thumb.php.
7349 * When streaming files via index.php, use the MIME type detected from the
7350 file extension, not from the data. This reduces the XSS attack surface.
7351 * Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath. Such redirects exacerbate any
7352 XSS vulnerabilities involving uploads of files containing scripts.
7353 * Internationalisation updates.
7355 == Changes since 1.13.1 ==
7357 * Security: Work around misconfiguration by requiring strict comparisons for
7358 in_array in User::isAllowed().
7359 * (bug 14944) Added $wgShellLocale for configuration of an appropriate locale
7360 to use for LC_CTYPE during shell invocation. For servers that don't have
7361 en_US.utf8. Also added locale detection during install.
7362 * Localisation updates
7363 * Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability in useskin parameter.
7365 == Changes since 1.13.0 ==
7367 * (bug 15460) Fixed intermittent deadlock errors and poor concurrent
7368 performance for installations without memcached.
7369 * (bug 13770) Fixed DOM module detection for installations with both dom
7371 * (bug 15148) Fixed Special:BlockIP for PostgreSQL
7372 * Fixed SQLite support for non-memcached installations
7373 * Localisation updates, Achinese (ace) added.
7375 == Changes since 1.13.0rc2 ==
7377 * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
7378 * Fix regression from r37834: accesskey tooltip hint should be given for the
7379 minor edit and watch labels on the edit page.
7380 * Updated Chinese simplified/traditional conversion tables
7382 == Changes since 1.13.0rc1 ==
7384 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
7385 has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
7386 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
7387 * (bug 14966) Fix SearchEngineDummy class for silently non-functional search
7388 on Sqlite instead of horribly fatal error breaky one.
7389 * (bug 14987) Only fix double redirects on page move when the checkbox is
7391 * (bug 13376) Use $wgPasswordSender, not $wgEmergencyContact, as return
7392 address for page update notification mails.
7393 * API: Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
7394 shown as empty instead of the current time.
7395 * (bug 14904): fragments were lost when redirects were fixed.
7396 * Added magic word __STATICREDIRECT__ to suppress the redirect fixer
7397 * (bug 15035) Revert English linkTrail to /^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD, as it was before
7398 r36253. Multiple reports of breakage due to old (pre-5.0) PCRE libraries,
7399 both bundled with PHP and packaged with distros such as RHEL.
7400 * (bug 14944) Shell invocation of external programs such as ImageMagick convert
7401 was broken in PHP 5.2.6, if the server had a non-UTF-8 locale.
7404 === Configuration changes in 1.13 ===
7406 * New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
7407 * (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved
7408 links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
7409 * Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
7410 * Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
7411 * Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
7412 * (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to
7413 $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
7414 * (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated
7415 for only some namespaces
7416 * Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use:
7417 $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
7418 in your LocalSettings.php.
7419 * (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows
7420 you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local
7421 database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new
7422 $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share.
7423 * Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries
7424 * Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page
7425 * $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to
7426 be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge
7427 * $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits
7428 displayed on the recent changes special pages
7429 * The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target
7430 image page already exists
7431 * $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once
7432 (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
7433 * Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use
7434 $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
7435 * $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over
7436 a certain number of days to be considered active
7437 * $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
7438 * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
7439 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
7440 * New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving
7441 subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
7442 * New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output.
7444 * Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection
7445 is no longer possible.
7446 * $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class,
7447 previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType
7448 * $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages
7449 provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
7450 * Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for
7452 * Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when
7453 creating new directories.
7454 * (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults
7457 === New features in 1.13 ===
7459 * __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
7461 * Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
7462 article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not
7463 confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
7464 * Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
7466 * (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit§ion=new that
7467 pre-fills the section title field
7468 * (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
7469 * (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
7470 reduce broken form submissions
7471 * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
7472 redirects to the redirect table
7473 * Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
7474 * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
7475 * (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
7476 * When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
7477 * (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled"
7479 * Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
7480 * Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
7481 * Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
7482 ** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
7483 ** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
7484 * (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
7485 * (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
7486 * Image redirects are now enabled by default
7487 * (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
7488 * (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
7489 * Redesign of Special:UserRights
7490 * Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
7491 * (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
7492 * (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
7493 * (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of
7494 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
7495 * Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
7496 * (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or
7497 off on Special:WhatLinksHere
7498 * Cache image redirects
7499 * (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
7500 * Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
7501 to modify the output for edit conflicts
7502 * Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
7503 a slightly less huge margin and padding
7504 * (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
7505 * Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
7506 * On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove
7507 one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
7508 * (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
7509 * Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different
7510 text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
7511 * Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account,
7512 otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
7513 * Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content
7514 namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
7515 * (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository
7517 * Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
7518 * (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
7519 * (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
7520 * Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
7521 * (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
7522 * Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
7523 * More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
7524 * (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
7525 * (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
7526 * Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
7527 * Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
7528 * Add support for SQLite
7529 * AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
7530 * (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
7531 * (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
7532 * Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
7533 * (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
7534 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
7535 * Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
7536 * (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
7537 * New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
7538 from other pages in their group.
7539 * (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
7540 * (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
7541 * Sidebar is now cached for all languages
7542 * The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
7543 out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
7544 edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
7545 * SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
7546 changed by extensions.
7547 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
7549 * (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
7550 * (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
7551 * (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of
7552 e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
7553 * Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
7554 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output
7555 of external (hotlinked) images.
7556 * (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter:
7557 Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single
7558 page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
7559 * Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
7560 * (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that
7561 are in Special:Recentchanges
7562 * Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
7563 * Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
7564 * Add meta generator tag to HTML output
7565 * MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
7566 * Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
7567 * Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
7568 * (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
7569 * Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
7570 moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
7571 SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
7572 * Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
7573 the database is potentially queried
7574 * (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
7575 * New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ČSN and PČP.
7576 * Special:Recentchangeslinked now includes changes to transcluded pages and
7577 displayed images; also, the "Show changes to pages linked" checkbox now works on
7578 category pages too, showing all links that are not categorizations
7579 * (bug 4578) Automatically fix redirects broken by a page move
7581 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
7583 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
7584 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
7585 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
7586 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
7587 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
7588 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
7589 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
7590 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
7591 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
7592 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
7593 to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
7594 'opensearch-desc' message.
7595 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
7596 to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
7597 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
7598 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
7599 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
7600 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
7601 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
7602 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
7603 maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
7604 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
7605 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
7606 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
7607 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
7608 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
7609 back when using rollback
7610 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
7612 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
7613 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
7615 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
7616 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
7617 case-insensitive names.
7618 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
7619 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
7620 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
7621 for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
7622 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
7623 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
7624 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
7625 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
7626 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
7627 overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
7628 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
7629 'generated-sidebar'.
7630 * (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
7631 * (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
7632 * (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
7633 * (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
7634 * (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
7635 * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
7636 * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
7637 * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
7638 * (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
7639 so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
7640 * Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
7641 using the "delete and move" option.
7642 * (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
7643 * (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
7644 * (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
7645 * PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
7646 * (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
7647 * (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
7648 * (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
7649 * Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
7650 * (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
7651 * (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
7652 * (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
7653 * (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
7654 * (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
7655 * (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
7656 (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
7657 * Trackback display formatting fixed
7658 * Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
7659 that have an array index other than 0
7660 * (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
7661 * (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
7662 * (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
7663 * (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
7664 * (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
7665 * (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
7666 * (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
7667 * (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
7668 * (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
7669 * (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
7670 * (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
7671 Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
7672 * (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
7673 * (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
7674 * (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
7675 * (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
7676 * (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
7677 * (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
7678 * (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
7679 * (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
7680 * Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
7681 * Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
7682 * (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
7683 * (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
7685 * (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existent IP addresses
7686 * (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
7687 * (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
7688 * (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
7689 * (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
7690 * (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
7691 the page is included
7692 * When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
7693 * Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
7695 * (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
7696 * Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are
7697 changeable or all unchangeable
7698 * Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
7699 * (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
7700 * (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
7701 * (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
7702 * (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
7703 * (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
7704 * Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
7705 * (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
7706 * Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
7707 * (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
7708 * (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
7709 * (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
7710 * (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
7711 * (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
7712 * (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
7713 * (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has
7714 "show hidden categories" option on
7715 * (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
7716 * (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
7717 * (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
7718 * (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
7719 * (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
7720 * (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
7721 * (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
7722 * (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
7723 * Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
7724 * (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
7725 * (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
7726 * (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
7727 * (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0
7728 Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
7729 * (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
7730 * (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
7731 * (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options
7732 Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
7733 * (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
7734 * (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
7735 * (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
7736 * Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
7737 * (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behavior on image pages
7738 * (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
7739 * (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check
7740 * (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
7741 * (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
7742 * (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
7743 * (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists
7744 even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
7745 * (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are
7746 loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
7747 * (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
7748 * (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also
7749 disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
7750 * (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
7751 * (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
7752 * (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
7753 * (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name
7754 for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
7755 with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
7756 * (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
7757 * (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
7759 * (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
7760 * (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
7762 * (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
7763 * (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
7764 * (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
7765 ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
7766 not the main namespace page.
7767 * (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
7768 * (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
7769 * (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
7770 * (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
7771 * (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
7772 * (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
7773 * (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
7774 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
7775 * (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
7776 and $2 (=revision numbers)
7777 * (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
7778 * (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
7779 * (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
7780 * (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
7781 * (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
7782 extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
7783 * (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
7784 * (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
7785 * We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
7786 created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
7787 * (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
7788 * (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files
7789 fail due to database permission or other error
7790 * (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual
7791 recent changes page.
7792 * (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
7793 * Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
7794 * (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
7795 * (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
7796 * (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
7797 * (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges
7798 and multiple servers
7799 * (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
7800 * (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
7801 * (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
7802 * (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
7803 * (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
7804 * (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
7805 * OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty
7806 searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
7807 * (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title
7808 on Special:Newpages.
7809 * (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer
7810 generates a log entry.
7811 * (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid,
7812 keeps the log page from being distorted.
7813 * (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
7814 * (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
7815 * (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
7816 * (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
7817 * (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
7818 * (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using
7819 application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
7820 * (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
7821 on non-mySQL schemas.
7822 * (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
7823 had strict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
7824 * (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
7825 * (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
7826 * (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
7827 * (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as
7829 * (bug 14845) Bug in prefs javascript: Calling an array item without checking
7831 * Accesskeys for minor edit/watch checkboxes on edit now work in Firefox 3
7832 * (bug 12384) Comments in maintenance/*php
7833 * (bug 12441) ./maintenance/generateSitemap.php fix -fspath requiring
7835 * (bug 12568) configuration script now produce valid XHTML.
7836 * The accesskey to edit a page is now disabled when editing the page, to pre-
7837 vent conflicts with Safari shortcuts.
7839 === API changes in 1.13 ===
7841 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
7842 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
7843 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
7844 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
7845 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontribs
7846 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
7848 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
7849 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
7851 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
7852 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
7853 a certain section only
7854 * Introduced list=allimages
7855 * (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
7856 * Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
7857 * (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
7858 * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
7859 * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
7860 * (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
7861 * (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
7863 * (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
7864 * (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
7865 * Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
7866 * Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
7867 * Added createonly parameter to action=edit
7868 * Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
7869 * (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
7870 * (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
7871 * Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to
7872 meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
7873 * (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
7874 * (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
7875 * Cleaned up redirect resolution
7876 * Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
7877 * (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
7878 * (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
7879 very weak typing on array keys.
7880 * (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
7881 * (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
7882 * (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
7883 * (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old
7885 * (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
7886 * action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
7887 * (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
7888 * (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
7889 * Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
7890 * (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with
7892 * (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
7893 * (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
7894 * (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
7895 * (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
7896 * (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
7897 * (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
7898 * (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
7899 * (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
7900 * (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete
7902 * (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
7903 * (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
7904 * Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
7905 * Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
7906 * Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
7907 * (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
7908 * (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
7909 * action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
7910 * Added md5 parameter to action=edit
7911 * (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
7912 * Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
7913 * (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
7914 * (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
7915 * (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
7916 * Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
7917 * Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
7918 * (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
7919 * Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
7920 * (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
7921 * Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
7922 * (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and
7924 * (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
7925 * Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions
7926 can add their own tokens
7927 * Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
7928 * Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to
7929 prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
7930 * Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to
7932 * list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol
7936 == MediaWiki 1.12 ==
7938 This is the Winter 2007 quarterly release.
7940 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
7941 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
7942 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
7944 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
7945 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
7946 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
7948 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
7949 it from source control: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
7951 === Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
7952 * Marking edits as bot edits with Special:Contributions?bot=1 now requires the
7953 markbotedit permission, rather than the rollback permission previously used.
7954 This permission is assigned by default to the sysop group.
7955 * MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
7956 variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
7957 to not check and assume they are always up to date)
7958 * The rollback permission can now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
7959 * New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
7960 * Behavior of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behavior:
7961 * * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights.
7962 * * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or
7963 remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for
7964 any groups they are in.
7965 * New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
7966 * $wgImplicitGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc.
7967 * $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria
7968 * $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove
7969 themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
7970 * When $wgUseTidy has been enabled, PHP's Tidy module is now used if it is
7971 present, in preference to an external Tidy executable which may or may not
7972 be present. To force use of external Tidy even when the PHP module is
7973 available, set $wgTidyInternal to false.
7976 === New features in 1.12 ===
7977 * (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
7978 * Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
7979 complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
7980 * (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
7981 is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
7982 * (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
7983 * (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
7984 * (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
7985 * (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
7987 * On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view
7988 source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to
7990 * Clarify instructions given when an exception is thrown
7991 * AuthPlugin added strictUserAuth() method to allow per-user override
7992 of the strict() authentication behavior.
7993 * (bug 7872) Deleted revisions can now be viewed as diffs showing changes
7994 against the previous revision, whether currently deleted or live.
7995 * Added tooltips for the "Go" and "Search" buttons
7996 * (bug 11649) Show input form when Special:Whatlinkshere has no parameters
7997 * isValidEmailAddr hook added to User method of that name, to allow, e.g., re-
7998 stricting e-mail addresses to a specific domain
7999 * Removed "Clear" link in watchlist editor tools, as people were afraid to
8000 click it. Existing clear links will fall back to the raw editor, which is
8001 very easy to clear your watchlist with.
8002 * (bug 1405) Add wgUseNPPatrol option to control patroling for new articles
8004 * LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
8005 * Support for Iranian calendar
8006 * (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
8008 * ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
8009 * MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
8010 globals have been set up but before any actions have been taken.
8011 * BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
8012 * SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
8013 * OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
8014 * (bug 11848, 12506) Allow URL parameters 'section', 'editintro' and 'preload'
8015 in Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk
8016 * Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
8017 * Support for Hebrew calendar
8018 * Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
8019 * (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
8020 [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
8021 * Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
8023 * Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
8024 * Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
8026 because it is part of a blocked range.
8027 * (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
8028 created by another user
8029 * dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart
8030 cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
8031 * (bug 12028) Add Special:Listbots as shortcut for Special:Listusers/bot
8032 * (bug 9633) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the deletion form
8033 * Show a warning message when creating/editing a user (talk) page but the user
8035 * (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches
8036 * (bug 12195) Undeleting pages now requires 'undelete' permission
8037 * (bug 11810) Localize displayed semicolons
8038 * (bug 11657) Support for Thai solar calendar
8039 * (bug 943) RSS feed for Recentchangeslinked
8040 * Introduced AbortMove hook
8041 * (bug 2919) Protection of nonexistent pages with regular protection interface.
8042 * Special:Upload now lists permitted/prohibited file extensions.
8043 * Split ambiguous filetype-badtype message into two new messages,
8044 filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type.
8045 * Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage
8046 * On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable.
8047 * It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop
8049 * Add HTML ID's mw-read-only-warning and mw-anon-edit-warning to warnings when
8050 editing to allow CSS styling.
8051 * Parser now returns list of sections
8052 * When a user is prohibited from creating a page, a title of "View source"
8053 makes no sense, and there should be no "Return to [[Page]]" link.
8054 * (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors.
8055 * (bug 9939) Special:Search now sets focus to search input box when no existing
8057 * For Special:Userrights, use GET instead of POST to search for users.
8058 * Allow subpage syntax for Special:Userrights, i.e., Special:Userrights/Name.
8059 * When submitting changes on Special:Userrights, show the full form again, not
8060 just the search box.
8061 * Added exception hooks
8062 * (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot
8063 edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1')
8064 * (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page
8065 * (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
8066 * Add caching to the AJAX search
8067 * Add APCOND_INGROUPS
8068 * Add DBA caching to installer
8069 * (bug 12585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
8070 * Support redirects in image namespace
8071 * (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
8072 * (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon
8073 * Add option to include templates in Special:Export.
8074 * (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender
8075 address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails.
8076 This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages
8077 when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value.
8078 * (bug 11897) Add alias [[Special:CreateAccount]] & [[Special:Userlogin/signup]]
8079 for Special:Userlogin?type=signup
8080 * (bug 12214) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the file deletion form
8081 * Merged backends for OpenSearch suggestions and AJAX search.
8082 Both now accept namespace prefixes, handle 'Media:' and 'Special:' pages,
8083 and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code,
8084 and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook.
8085 * (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version
8086 * When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for
8087 and installed when at the superuser level.
8088 * The default robot policy for the entire wiki is now configurable via the
8089 $wgDefaultRobotPolicy setting.
8090 * (bug 12239) Use different separators for autocomments
8091 * (bug 12857) Patrol link on new pages should clear floats
8092 * (bug 12968) Render redirect wikilinks in a redirect class for customization
8094 * EditPageBeforeEditButtons hook added for altering the edit buttons below the edit box
8096 === Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
8098 * Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
8099 * (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
8100 ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
8101 * (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
8102 getUserPermissionsErrors.
8103 * Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
8104 * (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
8106 * (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
8107 message, the level of protection.
8108 * (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
8110 * (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
8111 where rollback is given to non-sysops.
8112 * (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
8113 editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
8114 * (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
8115 * (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
8116 * Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
8118 * (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
8119 * (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
8120 * (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
8121 * (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
8122 * (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
8124 * Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
8125 * (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
8126 linked to the main page instead of targetted page
8127 * Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
8128 Special:Listredirects
8129 * (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
8130 when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
8131 * (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
8133 * (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
8134 * (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
8135 oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
8137 * (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
8138 * Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
8139 * (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade
8140 * Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages
8141 * Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis
8142 * (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name
8143 * (bug 11474) Fix unintentional fall-through in math error handling
8144 * (bug 11478) Fix undefined method call in file deletion interface
8145 * (bug 278) Search results no longer highlight incorrect partial word matches
8146 * Compatibility with incorrectly detected old-style DJVU mime types
8147 * (bug 11560) Fix broken HTML output from weird link nesting in edit comments.
8148 Nested links (as in image caption text) still don't work _right_ but they're
8150 * (bug 9718) Remove unnecessary css from main.css causing spacing issues on
8152 * (bug 11574) Add an interface message loginstart, which, similarly to loginend,
8153 appears just before the login form. Patch by MinuteElectron.
8154 * Do not cache category pages if using 'from' or 'until'
8155 * Created new hook getUserPermissionsErrors, to go with userCan changes.
8156 * Diff pages did not properly display css/js pages.
8157 * (bug 11620) Add call to User::isValidEmailAddr during accout creation.
8158 * (bug 11629) If $wgEmailConfirmToEdit is true, require people to supply an
8159 email address when registering.
8160 * (bug 11612) Days to show in recent changes cannot be larger than 7
8161 * (bug 11131) Change filearchive width/height columns to int for Postgres
8162 * Support plural in undeleted{revisions,revisions-files,files}
8163 * (bug 11343) If the database is read-only, ensure that undelete fails.
8164 * (bug 11690) Show revert link for page moves in Special:Log to allowed users
8166 * Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
8167 * Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
8168 * (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
8169 words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
8170 * (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
8171 * (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
8172 * (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
8173 * (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
8174 * (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
8176 * (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
8177 * (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
8178 * Remove all commas when parsing float numbers in sorted tables
8179 * Limit text field of deletion, protection and user rights changes reasons to
8180 255 characters (already restricted in the database)
8181 * In the deletion default reasons, calculate how much text to get from the
8182 article text, rather than getting 150 characters (which may be too much)
8183 * Add two messages for Special:Blockme which were used but undefined
8184 * (bug 11921) Support plural in message number_of_watching_users_pageview
8185 * If an IP address is blocked as part of a rangeblock, attempting to unblock
8186 the single IP should not unblock the entire range.
8187 * (bug 6695) Fix native language name of Southern Sotho (Sesotho) (st)
8188 * Make action=render follow redirects by default
8189 * If restricted read access was enabled, whitelist didn't work with special
8190 pages which had spaces in theirs names
8191 * If restricted read access was enabled, requests for non-existing special pages
8193 * Feeds for recent changes now provide correct URLs for the change, not just
8195 * Check for if IP is blocked as part of a range when unblocking (see above bug-
8196 fix) was faulty. Now fixed.
8197 * Fixed wpReason URL parameter to action=delete.
8198 * Do not force a password for account creation by email
8199 * Ensure that rate-limiting is applied to rollbacks.
8200 * Make a better rate-limiting error message (i.e. a normal MW error,
8201 rather than an "Internal Server Error").
8202 * Do not present an image bigger than the source when 'frameless' option is used
8203 (to be consistent with the 'thumb' option now)
8204 * Support {{PLURAL}} for import log
8205 * Make sure that the correct log entries are shown on Special:Userrights even
8206 for users with special characters in their names
8207 * The number of watching users in watchlists was always reported as 1
8208 * namespaceDupes.php no longer dies when coming across an illegal title
8209 * (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
8210 * (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
8211 * (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
8212 * (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
8213 instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
8214 conversion with China variant.
8215 * (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
8216 * Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
8217 in the page_restrictions matching its old page_restrictions field.
8218 May help with odd upgrade issues or race condition.
8219 * (bug 11993) Remove contentsub "revision history"
8220 * (bug 11952) Ensure we quote_ident() all schema names as needed
8221 inside of the DatabasePostgres.php file.
8222 * (bug 12184) Exceptions now sent to stderr instead of stdout for command-line
8223 scripts, making for cleaner reporting during batch jobs. PHP errors will also
8224 be redirected in most cases on PHP 5.2.4 and later, switching 'display_errors'
8225 to 'stderr' at runtime.
8226 * (bug 12148) Text highlight wasn't applied to cleanly deleted and added
8227 lines in diff output
8228 * (bug 10166) Fix a PHP warning in Language::getMagic
8229 * Only mark rollback edits as minor if the user can normally mark edits minor
8230 * Escape page names in the move successful page (e.g. for pages with two
8232 * (bug 12145) Add localized names of kk-variants
8233 * (bug 12259) Localize the numbers in deleted pages on the sysop view
8234 * Set proper page title for successful file deletion
8235 * (bug 11221) Do not show 'Compare selected versions' button for a history page
8236 with one revision only
8237 * (bug 12267) Set the default date format to Thai solar calender for the Thai
8239 * (bug 10184) Extensions' stylesheets and scripts should be loaded before
8240 user-customized ones (like Common.css, Common.js)
8241 * (bug 12283) Special:Newpages forgets parameters
8242 * (bug 12031) All namespaces doesn't work in Special:Newpages
8243 * (bug 585) Only create searchindex replica table for parser tests if db is
8245 * Allow --record option if parserTests.php to work when using Postgres
8246 * (bug 12296) Simplify cache epoch in default LocalSettings.php
8247 * (bug 12346) XML fix when body double-click and click handlers are present
8248 * Fix regression -- missing feed links in sidebar on Special:Recentchanges
8249 * (bug 12371) Handle more namespace case variants in namespaceDupes.php
8250 * (bug 12380) Bot-friendly EditPage::spamPage
8251 * (bug 8066) Spaces can't be entered in special page aliases
8252 * Hide undo link if user can't edit article
8253 * (bug 12416) Fix password setting for createAndPromote.php
8254 * (bug 3097) Inconsistently usable titles containing HTML character entities
8255 are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up existing pages.
8256 * (bug 12446) Permissions check fix for undelete link
8257 * (bug 12451) AJAX title normalization tweaks
8258 * When a user creating a page is not allowed to either create the page nor edit
8259 it, all applicable reasons are now shown.
8260 * (bug 11428) Allow $wgScript inside $wgArticlePath when emulating PATH_INFO
8261 Fixes 'root'-style rewrite configurations
8262 * (bug 12493) Removed hardcoded MAX_FILE_SIZE from Special:Import upload form
8263 * (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again
8264 * (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen
8265 * (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw
8266 * (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
8267 * (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move
8268 * (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages
8269 * Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links.
8270 This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow,
8271 and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner.
8272 * (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code.
8273 * (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes
8274 * (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian
8275 * (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect.
8276 Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages.
8277 Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework.
8278 * Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the
8279 name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set).
8280 * (bug 12695) Suppress dvips verbiage from web server error log
8281 * (bug 12716) Unprotecting a non-protected page leaves a log entry
8282 * Log username blocks with canonical form of name instead of input form
8283 * (bug 11593, 12719) Fixes for overzealous invocation of thumb.php.
8284 Non-image handlers and full-size images may now decline it, fixing
8285 mystery failures when using $wgThumbnailScriptPath.
8286 * (bug 12327) Comma in username no longer disrupts mail headers
8287 * (bug 6436) Localization of Special:Import XML parser Error message(s).
8288 * Security fix for API on MSIE
8289 * (bug 12768) Database query syntax error in maintenance/storage/compressOld.inc
8290 * (bug 12753) Empty captions in MediaWiki:Sidebar result in PHP errors
8291 * (bug 12790) Page protection is not logged when edit-protection is used
8292 and move-protection is not
8293 * (bug 12793) Fix for restricted namespaces/pages in Special:Export
8294 * Fix for Special:Export so it doesn't ignore the page named '0'
8295 * Don't display rollback link if the user doesn't have all required permissions
8296 * The comment of a time-limited protection now contains the date in the default
8298 * (bug 12880) wfLoadExtensionMessages does not use $fallback from MessagesXx.php
8299 * (bug 12885) Correction for Russian convertPlural function
8300 * (bug 12768) Make DatabasePostgres->hasContraint() schema aware.
8301 * (bug 12735) Truncate usernames in comments using mb_ functions.
8302 * (bug 12892) Poor tab indexing on "delete file" form
8303 * (bug 12660) When creating an account by e-mail, do not send the creator's IP
8305 * (bug 12931) Fix wrong global variable in SpecialVersion
8306 * (bug 12919) Use 'deletedrevision' message as content when deleting an old file
8308 * (bug 12952) Using Nosuchusershort instead of Nosuchuser when account creation
8310 * (bug 12869) Magnify icon alignment should be adjusted using linked CSS
8311 * Fixing message cache updates for MediaWiki messages moves
8312 * (bug 12815) Signature timestamps were always in UTC, even if the timezone code
8313 in parentheses after them claimed otherwise
8314 * (bug 12732) Fix installer and searching to handle built-in tsearch2 for Postgres.
8315 * (bug 12784) Change "bool" types to smallint to handle Postgres 8.3 strictness.
8316 * (bug 12301) Allow maintenance/findhooks.php to search hooks in multiple directories.
8317 * (bug 7681, 11559) Cookie values no longer override GET and POST variables.
8318 * (bug 5262) Fully-qualified $wgStylePath no longer corrupted on XML feeds
8319 * (bug 3269) Inaccessible titles ending in '/.' or '/..' now forbidden.
8320 * (bug 12935, 12981) Fully-qualify archive URLs in delete, revert messages
8321 * (bug 12938) Fix template expansion and 404 returns for action=raw with section
8322 * (bug 11567) Fix error checking for PEAR::Mail. UserMailer::send() now returns
8323 true-or-WikiError, which seems to be the calling convention expected by half
8325 * (bug 12846) IE rtl.css issue in RTL wikis special:Preferences when selecting an
8327 * (bug 13005) DISPLAYTITLE does not work on preview
8328 * (bug 13004) Fix error on Postgres searches that return too many results.
8330 == Parser changes in 1.12 ==
8332 For help with migration to the MediaWiki 1.12 parser, please visit:
8334 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor
8336 The parser pass order has changed from
8338 * Extension tag strip and render
8339 * HTML normalisation and security
8340 * Template expansion
8345 * Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation
8346 * Template expansion and extension rendering
8347 * HTML normalisation and security
8350 The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
8353 Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas
8354 previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in
8355 one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a
8356 valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>".
8358 Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you
8359 have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be
8360 converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This
8361 was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
8362 the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion
8363 will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template
8364 expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
8367 Bug 5678 has been fixed. This has a number of user-visible effects related to
8368 the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples.
8370 Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess"
8371 mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated,
8372 especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behavior
8373 of the former message mode.
8375 The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section
8376 edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a
8377 whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by
8378 template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an
8379 entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings
8380 will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the
8381 template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major
8382 break from previous behavior, but I believe the effects are almost entirely
8385 The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass
8386 preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed
8387 #switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a
8388 significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
8389 Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement
8390 by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration.
8392 The pre-expand include size limit has been removed, since there's no efficient
8393 way to calculate such a figure, and it would now be meaningless for performance
8394 anyway. The "preprocessor node count" takes its place, with a generous default
8397 The context in which XML-style extension tags are called has changed, so
8398 extensions which make use of the parser state may need compatibility changes.
8400 The new preprocessor syntax has been documented in Backus-Naur Form at:
8402 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF
8404 The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse
8405 tree from wikitext source. This parse tree corresponds closely to the grammar
8406 documented on that page.
8408 === API changes in 1.12 ===
8410 Full API documentation is available at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
8412 * (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
8413 * (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
8414 * (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
8417 * (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
8418 * (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each
8420 * (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
8422 * (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work
8423 * Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if
8424 revision content is requested.
8425 * Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
8427 * (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php
8428 * (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates
8429 * (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
8430 * (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges
8431 list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively.
8432 * Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x.
8433 * Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type
8434 * Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
8436 * Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A
8437 * (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page.
8438 * (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
8440 * (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query.
8441 * Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
8443 * (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag
8444 * Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
8445 * Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots
8446 * Add limit=max to use maximal limit
8447 * Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render
8448 which has been removed
8449 * Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
8450 * Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
8451 * Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
8452 * Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and
8453 list={blocks,deletedrevs}
8454 * Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login
8455 * Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using
8456 200 / 10000, now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules.
8457 * Added list=allcategories module
8458 * (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data
8459 * Fix output of wfSajaxSearch
8460 * (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag
8461 * Add list of sections to action=parse output
8462 * Added action=logout
8463 * Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections
8464 * Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow
8465 (list=recentchanges)
8466 * Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo
8467 * action={login,block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} now must be
8469 * prop=imageinfo interface changed: iihistory replaced by iilimit, iistart and
8471 * Added amlang parameter to meta=allmessages
8472 * Added apfilterlanglinks parameter to list=allpages, replacing
8473 query.php?what=nolanglinks
8474 * (bug 12718) Added action=paraminfo module that provides information about API
8475 modules and their parameters
8476 * Added iiurlwidth and iiurlheight parameters to prop=imageinfo
8477 * Added format=txt and format=dbg, imported from query.php
8478 * Added uiprop=editcount to meta=userinfo
8479 * Added list=users which fetches user information
8480 * Added list=random which fetches a list of random pages
8481 * Added page parameter to action=parse to facilitate parsing of existing pages
8482 * Added uiprop=ratelimits to meta=userinfo
8483 * Added siprop=namespacealiases to meta=siteinfo
8484 * Made multiple values for ucuser possible in list=usercontribs
8485 * (bug 12944) Added cmstart and cmend parameters to list=categorymembers
8486 * Allow queries to have a where range that does not match the range field
8488 == MediaWiki 1.11 ==
8490 This is the Summer 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
8492 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
8493 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
8494 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
8496 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
8497 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
8498 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
8500 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
8501 it from source control: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
8503 == Configuration changes since 1.10 ==
8505 * $wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is
8507 * $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups - Finer control over who can assign which
8509 * $wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ - Bulk mail options for large sites
8510 * $wgShowHostnames - Expose server host names through the API and HTML comments
8511 * $wgSaveDeletedFiles has been removed, the feature is now enabled unconditionally
8513 == New features since 1.10 ==
8515 * (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks
8516 * Adding expiry of block to block messages
8517 * Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in
8518 <span class="redirect-in-category"></span>
8519 * Introduced 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
8521 * (bug 9628) Show warnings about slave lag on Special:Contributions,
8523 * (bug 8818) Expose "wpDestFile" as parameter $1 to "uploaddisabledtext"
8524 * Introducing new image keyword 'upright' and corresponding variable
8525 $wgThumbUpright. This allows better proportional view of upright images
8526 related to landscape images on a page without nailing the width of upright
8527 images to a fix value which makes views for anon unproportional and user
8529 * (bug 6072) Introducing 'border' keyword to the [[Image:]] syntax
8530 * Introducing 'frameless' keyword to [[Image:]] syntax which respects the
8531 user preferences for image width like 'thumb' but without a frame.
8532 * (bug 7960) Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry
8533 * Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style
8535 * Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output
8536 * Improved thumb.php error handling
8537 * Display file history on local image description pages of shared images
8538 * Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies
8539 * (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext
8540 containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the
8541 * (bug 7691) Show relevant lines from the deletion log when re-creating a
8542 previously deleted article
8543 * Added variables 'wgRestrictionEdit' and 'wgRestrictionMove' for JS to header
8544 * (bug 9898) Allow viewing all namespaces in Special:Newpages
8545 * (bug 10139) Introduce 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks;
8546 see docs/hooks.txt for details
8547 * (bug 9769) Provide "watch this page" toggle on protection form
8548 * (bug 9886) Provide clear example "stub link" in Special:Preferences
8549 * (bug 10055) Populate email address and real name properties of User objects
8550 passed to the 'AbortNewAccount' hook
8551 * Show result of Special:Booksources in wiki content language always, it's
8552 normally better maintained than the generic list from the standard message
8554 * (bug 7997) Allow users to be blocked from using Special:Emailuser
8555 * (bug 8989) Blacklist 'mhtml' and 'mht' files from upload
8556 * (bug 8760) Allow wiki links in "protectexpiry" message
8557 * (bug 5908) Add "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases for
8558 "DEFAULTSORT" magic word
8559 * (bug 10181) Support the XCache object caching mechanism
8560 * (bug 9058) Introduce '--aconf' option for all maintenance scripts, to provide
8561 a path to the AdminSettings.php file
8562 * (bug 8781) Remind users to check file permissions for LocalSettings.php
8564 * Use shared.css for all skins and oldshared.css in place of common.css for
8565 pre-Monobook skins. As always, modifications should go in-wiki to MediaWiki:
8566 Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css.
8567 * (bug 8869) Introduce Special:Uncategorizedtemplates
8568 * (bug 8734) Different log message when article protection level is changed
8569 * (bug 8458, 10338) Limit custom signature length to $wgMaxSigChars Unicode
8571 * (bug 10096) Added an ability to query interwiki map table
8572 * On reupload, add a null revision to the image description page
8573 * Group log output by date
8574 * Kurdish interface latin/arabic writing system with transliteration
8575 * Support wiki text in all query page headers
8576 * Add 'Orphanedpages' as an alias to Special:Lonelypages
8577 * (bug 9328) Use "revision-info-current" message in place of "revision-info"
8578 when viewing the current revision of a page, if available
8579 * (bug 8890) Enable wiki text for "license" message
8580 * Throw a showstopper exception when a hook function fails to return a value.
8581 Forgetting to give a 'true' return value is a very common error which tends
8582 to cause hard-to-track-down interactions between extensions.
8583 * Use $wgJobClasses to determine the correct Job to instantiate for a particular
8584 queued task; allows extensions to introduce custom jobs
8585 * (bug 10326) AJAX-based page watching and unwatching has been cleaned up and
8587 * Added option to install to MyISAM
8588 * (bug 9250) Remove hardcoded minimum image name length of three characters
8589 * Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behavior to reject titles which don't normalise to the
8590 same title as the current page, and enabled per default
8591 * Wrap site CSS and JavaScript in a <pre> tag, like user JS/CSS
8592 * (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the <pre>s on CSS and JS pages (new
8593 classes: mw-code, mw-css, mw-js)
8594 * (bug 6711) Add $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups to allow finer control over
8595 usergroup assignment.
8596 * Introduce 'UserEffectiveGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
8597 * (bug 10387) Detect and handle '.php5' extension environments at install time
8598 * Introduce 'ShowRawCssJs' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
8599 * (bug 10404) Show rights log for the selected user in Special:Userrights
8600 * New javascript for upload page that will show a warning if a file with the
8601 "destination filename" already exists.
8602 * Add 'editsection-brackets' message to allow localization (or removal) of the
8603 brackets in the "[edit]" link for sections
8604 * (bug 10437) Move texvc styling to shared.css
8605 * Introduce "raw editing" mode for the watchlist, to allow bulk additions,
8606 removals, and convenient exporting of watchlist contents
8607 * Show "undo" links in page histories
8608 * Option to jump to specified time period in user contributions
8609 * Improved feedback on "rollback success" page
8610 * Show distinct 'namespaceprotected' message to users when namespace protection
8611 prevents page editing
8612 * (bug 9936) Per-edit suppression of preview-on-first edit with "preview=no"
8613 * Allow showing a one-off preview on first edit with "preview=yes"
8614 * (bug 9151) Remove timed redirects on "Return to X" pages for accessibility.
8615 * Link to user logs in toolbox when viewing a user page
8616 * (bug 10508) Allow HTML attributes on <gallery>
8617 * (bug 1962) Allow HTML attributes on <math>
8618 * (bug 10530) Introduce optional "sp-contributions-explain" message for
8619 additional explanation in Special:Contributions
8620 * (bug 10520) Preview licences during upload via AJAX (toggle with
8621 $wgAjaxLicensePreview)
8622 * New Parser::setTransparentTagHook for parser extension and template
8624 * Introduced 'ContributionsToolLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
8626 * Add a message if category is empty
8627 * Add CSS compatibility for Opera 9.5
8628 * Remove largely untested handheld stylesheet, which was causing more trouble
8629 than good. Proper handheld support will be added at a future date. For now,
8630 display should be acceptable either with CSS turned off or when using a so-
8631 phisticated handheld browser.
8632 * (bug 3173) Option to offer exported pages as a download, rather than displaying
8633 inline, as in most browsers
8634 * Pass the user as an argument to 'isValidPassword' hook callbacks; see
8635 docs/hooks.txt for more information
8636 * Introduce 'UserGetRights' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
8637 * (bug 9595) Pass new Revision to the 'ArticleInsertComplete' and
8638 'ArticleSaveComplete' hooks; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
8639 * (bug 9575) Accept upload description from GET parameters
8640 * Skip the difference engine cache when 'action=purge' is used while requesting
8641 a difference page, to allow refreshing the cache in case of errors
8642 * (bug 10701) Link to Special:Listusers in default Special:Statistics messages
8643 * Improved file history presentation
8644 * (bug 10739) Users can now enter comments when reverting files
8645 * Improved handling of permissions errors
8646 * (bug 10793) "Mark patrolled" links will now be shown for users with
8647 patrol permissions on all eligible diff pages
8648 * (bug 10655) Show standard tool links for blocked users in block log messages
8649 * Show standard tool links for blocked users in Special:Ipblocklist
8650 * Miscellaneous aesthetic improvements to Special:Ipblocklist
8651 * (bug 10826) Added link trail with Cyrillic characters for Mongolian language
8652 * (bug 10859) Introduce 'UserGetImplicitGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
8654 * (bug 10832) Include user information when viewing a deleted revision
8655 * (bug 10872) Fall back to sane defaults when generating protection selector
8656 labels for custom restriction levels
8657 * Show edit count in user preferences
8658 * Improved support for audio/video extensions
8659 * (bug 10937) Distinguish overwritten files in upload log
8660 * Introduce 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
8662 * Confirmation is now required when deleting old versions of files
8663 * (bug 7535) Users can now enter comments when deleting old versions of files
8664 * (bug 11001) Submit Special:Newpages as a GET, rather than a POST request
8665 * The <strong></strong> around links to watched pages in change lists now
8666 has a class - "mw-watched"
8667 * (bug 9002) Provide a "view/restore deleted edits" link on Special:Upload
8668 when a destination filename is provided that corresponds with previous
8670 * Make the "invalid special page" message clearer
8671 * Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'upload file' button at Special:Upload
8672 * Introduced 'SkinAfterBottomScripts' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
8674 * (bug 11095) Honour "preview on first edit" preference when preloading
8675 text for a non-existent page
8676 * (bug 11022) Use a more accurate page title for Special:Whatlinkshere and
8677 Special:Recentchangeslinked
8678 * Add link to user contributions in normal watchlist edit mode
8679 * (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow
8680 modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new
8681 argument is supplied
8682 * (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the
8683 text that prefixes a new section link in Recent Changes
8685 == Bugfixes since 1.10 ==
8687 * (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi
8688 * (bug 9670) Follow redirects when render edit section links to transcluded
8690 * (bug 6204) Fix incorrect unindentation with $wgMaxTocLevel
8691 * (bug 3431) Suppress "next page" link in Special:Search at end of results
8692 * Don't show unblock form if the user doesn't have permission to use it
8693 (cosmetic change, no vulnerabilities existed)
8694 * Subtitle success message when unblocking a block ID instead of a pseudo link
8695 like [[User:#123|#123]]
8696 * Use the standard HTTP fetch functions when retrieving remote wiki pages
8697 through transwiki, so we can take advantage of cURL goodies if available
8698 * Disable user JavaScript on Special:Userlogin, Special:Resetpass and
8699 Special:Preferences, to avoid a compromised script sniffing passwords, etc.
8700 * (bug 9854, 3770) Clip overflow text in gallery boxes for visual cleanliness
8701 instead of letting it flow outside the box or trigger ugly scroll bars.
8702 * Tooltips for print version and permalink
8703 * Links to the MediaWiki namespace for system messages having their default
8704 values are no longer shown as nonexistent (e.g., in red)
8705 * Special:Ipblocklist differentiates between empty list and no search results.
8706 * (bug 5375) profiling does not respect read-only mode.
8707 * (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts
8708 * (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset
8709 * (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR
8710 * (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer
8712 * (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error.
8713 * (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines.
8714 Diff style rules have been broken out to common/diff.css,
8715 and the dupes removed from the default skin files.
8716 Skins can still override the default rules.
8717 * (bug 1229) Balance columns in diff display evenly
8718 * Right-align diff line numbers in RTL language display
8719 * (bug 9332) Fix instructions in tests/README
8720 * (bug 9813) Reject usernames containing '#' to avoid silent truncation
8721 of fragments during the normalisation process
8722 * (bug 7989) RSS feeds content now use black text when using white background.
8723 * (bug 9971) Typo in a french language message.
8724 * (bug 9973) Changed size was shown in advanced recentchanges collapsible items
8725 with $wgRCShowChangedSized = false.
8726 * Fix PHP strict standards warning in enhanced recent changes.
8727 * (bug 5850) Added hexadecimal html entities comments for $digitTransformTable
8729 * (bug 7432) Change language name for Aromanian (roa-rup)
8730 * (bug 908) Unexistent special pages now generate a red link.
8731 * (bug 7899) Added \hline and \vline to the list of allowed TeX commands
8732 * (bug 7993) support mathematical symbol classes
8733 * (bug 10007) Allow Block IP to work with Postgrs again.
8734 * Add Google Wireless Transcoder to the Unicode editing blacklist
8735 * (bug 10083) Fix for Special:Version breakage on PHP 5.2 with some hooks
8736 * (bug 3624) TeX: \ker, \hom, \arg, \dim treated like \sin & \cos
8737 * (bug 10132, 10134) Restore back-compatibility Image::imageUrl() function
8738 * (bug 10113) Fix double-click for view source on protected pages
8739 * (bug 10117) Special:Wantedpages doesn't handle invalid titles in result
8740 set [now prints out a warning]
8741 * (bug 10118) Introduced Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, report which lists
8742 templates with a high number of inclusion links
8743 * (bug 10104) Fixed Database::getLag() for PostgreSQL and Oracle
8744 * (bug 9820) session.save_path check no longer halts installation, but
8745 warns of possible bad values
8746 * (bug 9978) Fixed session.save_path validation when using extended
8747 configuration format, e.g. "5;/tmp"
8748 * Don't generate a diff link in the patrol log if the page doesn't exist
8749 * (bug 10067) Translations for former skins removed from message files
8750 * (bug 9993) Force $wgShowExceptionDetails on during installation
8751 * (bug 9980) Validate administrator username and password during
8753 * (bug 9383) Don't set a default value for BLOB column in rc-deleted
8755 * (bug 10149) Don't show full template list on section-0 edit
8756 * (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob()
8758 * (bug 6743) Don't link broken image links to the upload form when uploads
8760 * (bug 9679) Improve documentation for $wgSiteNotice
8761 * (bug 10215) Show custom editing introduction when editing existing pages
8762 * (bug 10223) Fix edit link in noarticletext localizations for fr, oc
8763 * (bug 10247) Fix IP address regex to avoid false positive IPv6 matches
8764 * (bug 9948) Workaround for diff regression with old Mozilla versions
8765 * (bug 10265) Fix regression in category image gallery paging
8766 * (bug 8577) Fix some weird misapplications of time zones.
8767 {{CURRENT*}} functions now consistently use UTC as intended, while
8768 {{LOCAL*}} functions return local time per server config or $wgLocaltimezone.
8769 Signature dates for Japanese and other languages including weekday now show
8770 the correct day to match the rest of the time in local time.
8771 * Escape the output of magic variables that return page name or part of it
8772 * (bug 10309) Initialise parser state properly in extractSections(), fixes
8773 some cases where section edits broke because tags were improperly stripped
8774 * Avoid PHP notice errors when doing HTTP proxy purges for an empty list
8775 * As intended, *skip* the HTTP proxy purges when doing HTCP purges
8776 * (bug 9696) Fix handling of brace transformations in "pagemovedtext"
8777 * (bug 10325) Fix regression in form action on Special:Listusers
8778 * Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving
8779 overlong key errors.
8780 * Fixed zero-padding issues with MySQL 5 binary schema
8781 * (bug 10344) Don't follow a redirect after changing its protection level
8782 * (bug 10333) Correct date format in Slovenian
8783 * (bug 10160) Show error message for unknown namespace on Special:Allpages and
8784 Special:Prefixindex; making forms prettier for RTL wikis.
8785 * (bug 10334) Replace normal spaces before percent (%) signs with non-breaking
8787 * (bug 10372) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores namespace aliases
8788 * (bug 10198) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores interwiki prefixes
8789 * namespaceDupes.php should work better for initial-lowercase wikis
8790 * (bug 10377) "Permanent links" to revisions still work if the page is moved
8791 and the redirect deleted
8792 * (bug 7071) Properly handle an 'oldid' passed to view or edit that doesn't
8793 match the given title. Fixes inconsistencies with talk, history, edit links.
8794 * (bug 10397) Fix AJAX watch error fallback when we receive a bogus result
8795 * (bug 10396) Fix AJAX error when $wgScriptPath/index.php is not valid;
8796 using $wgScript now included in JS info
8797 * Use native XMLHttpRequest class in preference to ActiveX on IE 7; this
8798 avoids the "ActiveX "Do you want to allow ActiveX?" prompt when something
8799 security settings are cranked this way and AJAX-y gets used.
8800 * Delay AJAX watch initialization until click so IE 6 with ugly security
8801 settings doesn't prompt you until you use the link.
8802 * (bug 10401) Provide non-redirecting link to original title in Special:Movepage
8803 * Fix broken handling of log views for page titles consisting of one
8804 or more zeros, e.g. "0", "00" etc.
8805 * Fix read permission check for special pages with subpage parameters, e.g.
8806 Special:Confirmemail
8807 * Fix read permission check for unreadable page titles which are numerically
8808 equivalent to a whitelisted title
8809 * '?>' closing tag removed from all files to help avoid problems with extraneous
8810 whitespace (broken XML feeds, etc.)
8811 * Don't use garbled parser cache output when viewing custom CSS or JavaScript
8813 * (bug 10406) Fix Special:Listusers filter form for non-ASCII localizations
8814 * Fix empty message checks for message names containing &
8815 This corrects some odd behavior with sidebar items and custom namespaces
8816 containing ampersands.
8817 * (bug 10375) Change thousands separator character to for Latin (la)
8818 * (bug 10477) Fix AJAX watch for Farsi on Firefox: JavaScript encoding tweak
8819 * (bug 10496) Fix broken DISTINCT option logic in database backend
8820 * Fix CSS media declaration for "screen, projection"; was causing some
8822 * (bug 10495) $wgMemcachedDebug set twice in includes/DefaultSettings.php
8823 * (bug 10316) Prevent inconsistent cached skin settings in gen=js by setting
8824 the intended skin directly in the URL.
8825 * (bug 9903) Don't mark redirects in categories as stubs
8826 * (bug 6965) Cannot include "Template:R" with {{R}} (magic word conflict)
8827 * Padding parser functions now work with strings like '0' that evaluate to false
8828 * (bug 10332) Title->userCan( 'edit' ) may return false positive
8829 * Fix bug with <nowiki> in front of links for wikis where linkPrefixExtension is true
8830 * (bug 10552) Suppress rollback link in history for single-revision pages
8831 * (bug 10538) Gracefully handle invalid input on move success page
8832 * Fix for Esperanto double-x-encoding in move success page
8833 * (bug 10526) Fix toolbar/insertTags behavior for IE 6/7 and Opera (8+)
8834 Now matches the selection behavior on Mozilla / Safari.
8835 Patch by Alex Smotrov.
8836 * Don't show non-functional toolbar buttons on Opera 7 anymore
8837 * (bug 9151) Fix relative subpage links with section fragments
8838 * (bug 10560) Adding a space between category letter heading and "continues"
8839 * (bug 4650) Keep impossibly large/small counts off Special:Statistics
8840 * (bug 10608) PHP notice when installing with PostgreSQL
8841 * (bug 10615) Fix for transwiki import when CURL not available
8842 * (bug 8054) Return search page for empty search requests with ugly URLs
8843 * (bug 10572) Force refresh after clearing visitation timestamps on watchlist
8844 * (bug 10631) Warn when illegal characters are removed from filename at upload
8845 * Fix several JavaScript bugs under MSIE 5/Macintosh
8846 * (bug 10591) Use Arabic numerals (0,1,2...) for the Malayam language
8847 * (bug 10642) Fix shift-click checkbox behavior for Opera 9.0+ and 6.0
8848 * Work around Safari bug with pages ending in ".gz" or ".tgz"
8849 * Removed obsolete maintenance/changeuser.sql script; use RenameUser extension
8850 * (bug 2735) "Preview" shown in title bar for action=submit on special pages
8851 * Removed "restore" links from the deletion log embedded in Special:Undelete
8852 * Improved error reporting and robustness for file delete/undelete.
8853 * Improved speed of file delete by storing the SHA-1 hash in image/oldimage
8854 * Fixed leading zero in base 36 SHA-1 hash
8855 * Protection form no longer produces JavaScript errors
8856 * (bug 10741) File histories show "delete" links for non-sysops
8857 * (bug 10744) Treat "noarticletext" and "noarticletextanon" as wiki text when
8858 used on a non-existent page with "action=info"
8859 * Fix escaping of raw message text when used on a non-existent page with
8861 * (bug 10683) Fix inconsistent handling of URL-encoded titles in links
8862 used in redirects (i.e. they now work)
8863 * (bug 8878) Changes to $dateFormats in German localization (removing unused,
8864 nonexistent formats, putting time after date)
8865 * (bug 10769) Database::update() should return boolean result
8866 * Fix preference checkbox display for right-to-left languages which caused
8867 them to be hidden in IE in some cases
8868 * Fix upload form display in right-to-left languages
8869 * Fixed regression in blocking of username '0'
8870 * (bug 9437) Don't overwrite edit form submission handler when setting up
8871 edit box scroll position preserve/restore behavior
8872 * (bug 10805) Fix "undo" link when viewing the diff of the most recent
8873 change to a page using "diff=0"
8874 * (bug 10765) img_auth.php will now refuse logged-out requests where
8875 $wgWhitelistRead is undefined, instead of (incorrectly) honouring them
8876 * Fixed img_auth.php file name extraction for whitelist checking
8877 * Tweak spacing of email preference display
8878 * Table sorting JavaScript prefers textContent over innerText to allow hidden
8879 sort keys to work on Safari
8880 * (bug 4530) Fix local name of Kurdish language
8881 * (bug 10830) Fix local name of Haitian Creole language
8882 * Fix invalid XHTML in Special:Protectedpages
8883 * Fix comments in contributions and log pages for right-to-left languages
8884 * Make installer include_path-independent, so it should work on hosts which
8885 disable user setting of PHP include_path setting
8886 * glob() is horribly unreliable and doesn't work on some systems, including
8887 free.fr shared hosting. No longer using it in Language::getLanguageNames()
8888 * (bug 10763) Fix multi-insert logic for PostgreSQL
8889 * Fix invalid XHTML when viewing a deleted revision
8890 * Fix syntax error in translations of magic words in Romanian language
8891 * (bug 8737) Fix warnings caused by incorrect use of `/dev/null` when piping
8892 process error output under Windows
8893 * (bug 7890) Don't list redirects to special pages in Special:BrokenRedirects
8894 * (bug 10783) Resizing PNG-24 images with GD no longer causes all alpha
8895 channel transparency to be lost and transparent pixels to be turned black
8896 * (bug 9339) General error pages were transforming messages and their parameters
8898 * (bug 9026) Incorrect heading numbering when viewing Special:Statistics with
8899 "auto-numbered headings" enabled
8900 * Fixed invalid XHTML in Special:Upload
8901 * (bug 11013) Make sure dl() is available before attempting to use it to check
8902 available databases in installer
8903 * Resizing transparent GIF images with GD now retains transparency by skipping
8905 * (bug 11065) Fix regression in handling of wiki-formatted EXIF metadata
8906 * Double encoding broke Special:Newpages for some languages
8907 * Adding a newline before the statistics footer, to prevent parsing problems
8908 * Preventing the TOC from appearing in Special:Statistics
8909 * (bug 11082) Fix check for fully-specced table names in Database::tableName
8910 * (bug 11067) Fix regression in upload conflict thumbnail display
8911 * (bug 10985) Resolved cached entries on Special:DoubleRedirects were being
8912 supressed, breaking paging - now strikes out "fixed" results
8913 * (bug 8393) <sup> and <sub> need to be preserved (without attributes) for
8914 entries in the table of contents
8915 * (bug 11114) Fix regression in read-only mode error display during editing
8916 * Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure
8917 that the first page_title is truly the first page title.
8918 * (bug 10836) Change the summary on creating of new section
8919 * Inclusion of Special:Wantedpages now works again
8921 == API changes since 1.10 ==
8923 Full API documentation is available at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
8925 * New properties: links, templates, images, langlinks, categories, external
8927 * Breaking Change: imagelinks renamed into imageusage (il->iu)
8928 * Bug fix: incorrect generator behavior in some cases
8929 * JSON format allows an optional callback function to wrap the result.
8930 * Login module disabled until a more secure solution can be implemented
8931 * (bug 9938) Querying by revision identifier returns the most recent revision
8932 for the corresponding page, rather than the requested revision
8933 * (bug 8772) Filter page revision queries by user
8934 * (bug 9927) User contributions queries do not accept IP addresses
8935 * Watchlist feed now reports a proper feed item when the user is not logged in
8936 * Watchlist feed date bug fixed - automatically shows one last day
8937 * Watchlist feed now allows to specify number of hours to monitor
8938 * list=allpages now returns a list instead of a map in JSON format
8939 * Breaking Change: in json, revisions are now returned as a list, not as a map.
8940 * Add: prop=info can show page is new flag, current page length, and visit
8942 * Change: Query watchlist now shows flags only when explicitly requested with
8944 * rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible from query watchlist
8945 * action=usercontribs: additional filtering by ucshow=; selection of needed
8946 fields with ucprop=; the textid (rev_text_id) is no longer being exposed
8947 * (bug 9970) Breaking Change: backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage now return
8948 lists in JSON instead of a map, and do not return anything when titles do
8950 * (bug 9121) Introduced indexpageids query parameter to list the page_id
8951 values of all returned page items
8952 * (bug 10147) Now interwiki titles are not processed but added to a separate
8953 "interwiki" section of the output.
8954 * Added categorymembers list to query for pages in a category.
8955 * (bug 10260) Show page protection status
8956 * (bug 10392) Include MediaWiki version details in version output
8957 * (bug 10411) Site language in meta=siteinfo
8958 * (bug 10391) action=help doesn't return help if format is fancy markup
8959 * backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage lists should use (bl|ei|iu)title parameter
8960 instead of titles. Titles for these lists is obsolete and might stop working soon.
8961 * Added prop=imageinfo - gets image properties and upload history
8962 * (bug 10211) Added db server replication lag information in meta=siteinfo
8963 * Added external url search within wiki pages (list=exturlusage)
8964 * Added link enumeration (list=alllinks)
8965 * Added registered users enumeration (list=allusers)
8966 * Added full text search in titles and content (list=search)
8967 * (bug 10684) Expanded list=allusers functionality
8968 * Possible breaking change: prop=revisions no longer includes pageid for rvprop=ids
8969 * Added rvprop=size to prop=revisions (The size will not be shown if it is NULL in the database)
8970 * list=allpages now allows to filter by article min/max size and protection status
8971 * Added site statistics (siprop=statistics for meta=siteinfo)
8972 * (bug 10902) Unable to fetch user contributions from IP addresses
8973 * `list=usercontribs` no longer requires that the user exist
8974 * (bug 10971) `aufrom` parameter doesn't work with spaces
8975 * Fix username handling issue with `auprefix` parameter
8976 * Treat underscores as spaces for `aufrom` and `auprefix` parameters
8977 * Added edit/delete/... token retrieval to prop=info
8978 * Added meta=userinfo - logged-in user information, group membership, rights
8979 * (bug 11072) Fix regression in API image history query
8980 * (bug 11115) Adding SHA1 hash to imageinfo query
8981 * (bug 10898) API does not return an edit token for non-existent pages
8982 * (bug 10890) Timestamp support for categorymembers query
8983 * (bug 10980) Add exclude redirects on backlinks
8984 * IPv6 titles in User namespace are normalized (run cleanupTitles.php to fix any old stray pages)
8986 == Maintenance script changes since 1.10 ==
8988 * Add support for wgMaxTocLevel option in parserTests
8989 * (bug 6823) Disable article view counter in maintenance/dumpHTML.php
8990 * Fix maintenance/importImages.php so it doesn't barf PHP errors when no
8991 suitable files are found, and make the list of extensions an option (defaults
8992 to $wgFileExtensions)
8993 * Add option to maintenance/createAndPromote.php to give the user bureaucrat
8994 permissions (--bureaucrat)
8995 * Allow overwriting existing files with a conflicting name using
8996 maintenance/importImages.php
8997 * (bug 10266) Use native newlines when rebuilding a messages file.
8999 == Languages updated since 1.10 ==
9012 * Extremaduran (ext)
9017 * Français Cadien (frc) (new)
9018 * Franco-Provençal/Arpetan (frp)
9022 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
9032 * Kinaray-a (krj) (new)
9039 * Bahasa Melayu (ms)
9045 * Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (pa)
9051 * Aromanian (roa-rup)
9069 * Winaray (war) (new)
9071 * Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
9072 * Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
9073 * Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
9074 * Cantonese (zh-yue)
9076 == MediaWiki 1.10 ==
9078 This is the Spring 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
9080 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
9081 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
9082 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
9084 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
9085 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
9086 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
9088 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
9089 it from source control: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
9091 == Configuration changes ==
9093 * A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php).
9094 It lets you specify if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized
9095 output will be made lighter making things easier to read.
9096 * The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be
9097 customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
9098 the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
9099 * Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
9100 $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
9101 * Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser
9102 * Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions
9103 * (Bug 8590) limited HTML is now always enabled ($wgUserHtml = true).
9104 * Deprecated $wgUseImageResize, thumbnailing will be enabled unconditionally.
9106 == New features since 1.9 ==
9108 * (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to
9110 * (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
9111 * (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
9112 * Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
9114 (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
9115 * Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded
9116 into a page protected with this option enabled
9117 * (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown
9118 out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output.
9119 * (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be
9120 overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
9121 * Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
9122 determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
9123 permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
9124 * (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
9125 * (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
9126 * (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
9127 the appropriate permission
9128 * (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
9129 * (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
9130 * Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
9131 * Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
9132 * Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
9133 * (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
9134 * (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
9135 * Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
9136 * New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
9137 and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
9138 to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
9140 * (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same
9141 format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite,
9142 as are protections made with the new field left blank.
9143 * (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
9145 * (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
9146 * (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as
9147 MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are
9148 disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also
9149 be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr).
9150 * Sort log types in Special:Log
9151 * Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit
9153 * Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an
9154 IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.)
9155 * (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages
9156 * (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages.
9157 * (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
9158 * (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the
9159 confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id.
9160 * (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page
9161 * (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions
9162 * (bug 1723) Article size in history
9163 * (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames
9164 * (bug 6997) Link from Special:log/block to unblock form
9165 * (bug 9117) Link from Special:log/delete to undelete form
9166 * Link from Special:log/protect to change protection form
9167 * (bug 1196) Add IPv6 support added to blocks, more consistancy for IPv6 contribs
9168 * (bug 3984) Searching in logs by title%
9169 * Show thumbnail of existing image if image exists already under this filename
9170 * (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete
9171 * Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols
9172 * (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images
9173 * Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase
9175 * (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere
9176 * Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt
9177 for more information
9178 * (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon"
9179 messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target
9180 * (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction')
9181 * (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images
9182 * (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path
9183 which can lead to broken session storage
9184 * (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links
9185 * (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions
9186 * Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
9187 * Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
9188 * Introduce 'mywatchlist' message; used on personal menu to link to watchlist page
9189 * Introduce magic word {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
9190 * Introduced media handlers for file-type specific operations.
9191 * Improved error reporting for image thumbnailing
9192 * Added sharpening option for ImageMagick thumbnailing
9193 * (bug 9656) Autosummaries will be generated for deletion of pages longer than
9195 * Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip
9196 * (bug 9196) Installer now check that zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is off
9197 * (bug 9697) Introduce 'InternalParseBeforeLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
9198 * 'contribsub' message changed to 'contribsub2' with two parameters to permit
9199 better localization. Change is reverse-compatible and can be ignored for
9201 * Adding a 'reason' field to Special:Userrights
9203 == Bugfixes since 1.9 ==
9205 * (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
9206 * (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála
9207 * Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
9208 * Fixed up the AjaxSearch
9209 * Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
9210 null to be treated properly with isset.
9211 * Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
9212 * Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
9213 (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
9214 * (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
9215 * Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
9216 optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
9217 * PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated
9218 * (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
9219 * Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
9220 * (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
9221 * Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
9222 * Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
9223 * (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
9224 * (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions
9225 * (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins
9226 * (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback
9227 * (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer
9228 * Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on
9229 * (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is
9230 not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
9231 * Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:")
9232 * use configured cache servers for mctest.php
9233 * bucket details in mcc.php
9234 * fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
9235 * full ID range for moveToExternal
9236 * fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
9237 * maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
9238 * recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
9239 * profile unicode cleanup in Xml
9240 * log slow parses in Article.php
9242 * log mkdir failures
9243 * profile AutoLoader
9244 * rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
9245 * security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
9246 * Undelete page list can use plural marker
9247 * (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
9248 * (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
9249 * (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
9250 * (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
9251 * Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag.
9252 * Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>')
9253 * (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header
9254 * Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment
9255 * (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist
9256 in a consistent manner
9257 * (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users
9258 * ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files
9259 * (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language
9260 * Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name
9261 * (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the
9263 * ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found
9264 * (bug 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li)
9265 * (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
9266 * (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
9267 * Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
9268 * (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation
9269 * (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11;
9270 accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows.
9271 * Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link
9272 red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an
9273 alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating.
9274 * (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync
9275 * (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies
9276 * (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media
9277 * (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile
9278 * (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page
9279 * (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs
9280 * Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title
9281 is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as
9282 a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL
9283 * (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies
9284 * Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles
9285 * Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js
9286 * (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area
9287 * (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note
9288 in DefaultSettings to make it clear.
9289 * (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression
9290 affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second
9291 edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin.
9292 * Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script
9293 * (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key
9294 * (bug 6844) Use <ins> and <del> tags to emphase the differences
9295 * (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration
9296 * (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to
9297 * Add AlphabeticPager abstract class
9298 * Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories
9299 * (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent
9300 pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images
9301 * Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was
9302 opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner
9304 * (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix
9305 * Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied
9306 by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence
9307 of other tables while they work.
9308 * Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758
9309 for better localisations.
9310 * (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php
9311 * (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history
9312 * (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice.
9313 * (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked
9314 when using the Postgres database.
9315 * Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php.
9316 The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older
9317 LocalSettings.php files.
9318 * Give Content-Length header for HTTP/1.0 clients.
9319 * Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering.
9320 * Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to
9321 dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES
9323 * Add 'charset' to Content-Type headers on various HTTP error responses
9324 to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. PHP sends only
9325 'text/html' by default when the script didn't specify more details,
9326 which some inconsiderate browsers consider a license to autodetect
9327 the deadly, hard-to-escape UTF-7.
9328 This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when
9329 $wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant
9330 on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec:
9331 http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
9332 * Trackback responses now specify XML content type
9333 * (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode
9334 to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly,
9335 particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia
9336 * (bug 8919) Suppress paging links and related messages where there are no
9337 rows to list for query pages
9338 * (bug 9057) Standardize MediaWiki: namespace for oc
9339 * (bug 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when
9341 * (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres)
9342 * (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and
9343 Special:DoubleRedirects
9344 * (bug 8918) Enable PLURAL option for MediaWiki:showingresults and
9345 MediaWiki:showingresultsnum
9346 * (bug 9122) Fix minor display issue in RTL with section edit link margin
9347 * (bug 5805) Enable PLURAL option for some messages of watchlist and statistic
9348 * (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other
9349 languages section of MonoBook skin
9350 * (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges.
9351 * (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype split into 3 messages
9352 * (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres
9353 * (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook
9354 * (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect
9355 loops on some server configurations
9356 * (bug 9097) column "pr_pagetype" does not exist
9357 * (bug 9217) Balance wfProfile calls in Skin::outputPage
9358 * (bug 9222) PostgreSQL updater should not be version-specific
9359 * Fix fallback implementation of mb_strlen so it works and isn't insanely
9360 slow for large strings, since it's used for page edit lengths
9361 * (bug 8815) Setting password in initUser() breaks LdapAuthentication plugin
9362 * (bug 9256) Add a quick note to index.php header comments
9363 * Make Special:Listusers caseinsensitive for first letter
9364 * Default tidy.conf has been moved from extensions module into includes.
9365 * Ignore lonely '''''
9366 * (bug 9244) When calling edit page for nonexistent section, generate error
9367 inside of just discarding edits, since edit links sometimes go to the wrong
9369 * (bug 9019) No warning during upload if image description page exists, but no
9371 * (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space.
9372 * (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to bytea for Postgres
9373 * (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language
9374 * (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked
9375 * (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader
9376 * (bug 4777) Separate prev/next messages for Special:Whatlinkshere
9377 * Merge approx 15 missing Wikipedia language codes into wikipedia-interwiki.sql
9378 based on Jeff Merkey's mediawiki-1.9.3.WG-20070316.tar.gz.bz2 archive.
9379 * (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles
9380 * (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log
9381 instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension
9382 * (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent
9383 target page instead of silently redirecting
9384 * (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}}
9385 * (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached
9386 templates the same as the first transclusion.
9387 * (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment
9388 * (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages
9389 * (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages
9390 * (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions
9391 * (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere
9392 * (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed
9393 to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions
9394 * Fixed $wgFeedLimit
9395 * (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
9396 * (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences
9397 * (bug 9554) Extension-provided group name messages not used
9398 * (bug 9565) Translate template namespace name for Hindi (hi)
9399 * (bug 8599) Correct localized names of zh-variants
9400 * (bug 3366) Require skins based on SkinTemplate to override the skinname
9402 * (bug 9220) Removed obsoletes functions in install-utils.inc.
9403 * Removed obsoletes Title::getRelatedCache and Title:touchArray
9404 * (bug 7285) Check MySQL username length during install
9405 * (bug 6910) Correct date/time formats in Vietnamese (vi)
9406 * (bug 9608) Correctly use ORDER BY in dumpLinks.php
9407 * (bug 9609) Correctly use ORDER BY in SpecialWhatlinkshere.php
9408 * Special:Random and Special:Randomredirect now try harder to send the user to
9409 a random page, and will give an error message if none really can be found
9410 instead of sending the user to the main page like they used to
9411 * Fix object variable used for displaying "not-patrolled" CSS class on list
9412 * Fixed interaction of page parameter to ImagePage with the HTML file cache
9413 * Fixed MIME type for SVG files, will be silently changed from image/svg
9414 to image/svg+xml after loading from the database.
9415 * Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump
9417 * Fixed odd behavior in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors
9418 * (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and
9419 MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited.
9420 * (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter
9421 * Fixed upgrade for the non-standard MySQL schemas
9422 * Disable MySQL's strict mode at session start for MySQL 4.1+, to avoid the
9423 various problems that occur when it is on.
9424 * (bug 9585) Fix regression in tidy usage in Special:Undelete previews
9425 * (bug 3826) Normalize some invalid cookie name characters when setting
9426 up $wgCookiePrefix. Completes application of patch by Anders Kaseorg.
9427 * (bug 9649) Fix RTL form alignment for Special:Movepage
9428 * (bug 9582) Members of bot group now mark edits patrolled by default
9429 * (bug 9669) Fix limit ordering for rebuildrecentchanges; broken since
9430 converted from 1.4 to 1.5 schema
9431 * (bug 9682) Revert PHP 5.1 dependency on warning suppression for SVN info
9432 * (bug 5959) Anchors dropped from stub links
9433 * (bug 3348) Some additional weak password checks: password which is same
9434 as username will now be rejected.
9435 * (bug 8602) Converted Special:Contributions to use an IndexPager. The
9436 interpretation of the offset parameter has changed, and the go parameter
9438 * (bug 6204) Fixes for indentation with $wgMaxTocLevel:
9439 - don't emit too many list close tags after an invisible header
9440 - don't emit too many final list close tags if last header is invisible
9441 - don't emit TOC when there are no visible headers
9442 * (bug 7629) Fix $wgBrowserBlackList to avoid false positive on MSIE
9443 when certain plugins are present which alter the user agent
9448 * New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
9449 progress in the extension repository.
9450 * Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
9451 automatically attempt to create the required tables
9452 * --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
9453 * Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
9454 * parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
9455 it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
9456 * (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php
9457 exists but is not readable
9458 * dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL
9459 * (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php
9460 and importTextFile.php scripts
9461 * (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script
9462 * (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org
9463 * (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning
9464 * Restore '--norc' option for maintenance/importTextFile.php
9465 * Help information for maintenance/importTextFile.php now easier to read on
9467 * Doxygen documentation now show the revision number of each file, generate
9468 graphs using dot and include a search engine.
9471 == Languages updated ==
9476 * Belarusian normative (be)
9477 * Belarusian alternative (be-x-old)
9495 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
9515 * Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
9535 * Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
9536 * Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
9537 * Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
9538 * Cantonese (zh-yue)
9542 MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
9544 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
9545 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
9546 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
9548 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
9549 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
9554 1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, and will not work without schema
9557 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
9558 new database fields are filled with data.
9560 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
9561 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
9562 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
9564 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
9566 = MediaWiki release notes =
9568 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
9569 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
9572 == Changes since 1.8 ==
9574 * (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres.
9575 * (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist
9577 * (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function,
9578 because it seems to be unused.
9579 * (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger
9580 screen sizes, for the default monobook skin.
9581 * Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends
9582 * Improved register_globals paranoia checks
9583 * (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install
9584 * Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails
9585 is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call
9587 * (bug 6164) Avoid smashing Cite state if message transformation triggers
9588 during bad image list check, by skipping message transformation.
9589 This isn't a good permanent fix.
9590 * (bug 6918) Stopped borders and backgrounds from showing through floated
9592 * (bug 6868) Un-hardcode section edit link style
9593 * (bug 3205) Stop right floats from stacking horizontally in non-Monobook skins
9594 * Added global $wgStyleVersion to centralize bumping CSS and JS file versions
9595 for cache-friendly style and script updating
9596 * (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers
9597 * Friendlier check for PHP 5 in command-line scripts; it's common for parallel
9598 PHP 4 and 5 installations to interfere on the command-line.
9599 * Fix regression in autoconfirm permission check
9600 * (bug 3015) Add CSS ids to subcategory and page sections on category pages
9601 * (bug 7587) Fix erroneous id for specialpage tab, enabling informative popup
9602 * (bug 7599) Fix thumbnail purging, PHP notices on HTCP image page purge
9603 * (bug 7581) Update language name for cbk-zam
9604 * (bug 7444) Update namespace translations for Telugu (te), kept old values as
9605 alias for compatibility
9606 * (bug 4525) Move section links down visually to same level as headings
9607 (editsection links are now inside the heading elements)
9608 * Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 , PATH_INFO and hence
9609 URLs of the style /index.php/Main_Page were broken on some CGI installations.
9610 * (bug 7623) Validate custom HTML id's correctly in Monobook interface
9611 * (bug 2241) Fix collision of 'w' and 'd' accesskeys
9612 * (bug 5795) CSS class added to body based on page name for page-specific
9614 * (bug 6276) Stopped search field from getting too large in Cologne Blue
9615 * (bug 7644) User creations that are aborted by hooks shouldn't be counted
9616 against account creations per day limit
9617 * (bug 7636) Show Firefox 2 users correct accesskey prefix
9618 * (bug 6427) Block blocked IPs from using the mail password function
9619 to allow blocking of flooders
9620 * Include common.css from classic-style skins in main HTML with the bump URL
9621 * (bug 7607) Add Karakalpak (kaa) to Names.php and stub message file for linktrail
9622 * (bug 7582) Add 'tog-nolangconversion' to MessagesEn.php.
9623 This key is need for languages with variants (zh, sr, kk)
9624 * (bug 7606) MediaWiki messages for "rss" and "atom" missing
9625 * (bug 7609) Add some more '*-summary' messages to MessagesEn.php with empty
9626 strings to allow better localisation via Special:Allmessages. Mark this new
9627 messages as optional for localisation.
9628 * Fix user_newpass upgrade for prefixed tables (reported by Fyren)
9629 * (bug 7663) Include language variant switcher links on Nostalgia skin
9630 * (bug 6531) Fix PHP fatal error on installation page with bad username input.
9631 * (bug 6977) Remove 404 link for autogenerated database documentation.
9632 * (bug 7369) Allow "Show Changes" without requiring edit token.
9633 * (bug 7687) Fix movetalk box checks itself when confirming a delete and move.
9634 * (bug 7684) Obey watchcreated preference for Special:Upload watch checkbox
9635 * (bug 7686) Include id attribute on delete form confirmation button
9636 * Allow compound interwiki prefixes in $wgImportSources
9637 * (bug 7304) Added redirect table to store redirect targets.
9638 * Added querycachetwo table (similar to querycache but has two titles)
9639 * PageArchive can now return a Revision object for more convenient processing
9640 of deleted revision data
9641 * Added 'UndeleteShowRevision' hook in Special:Undelete
9642 * Error message on attempt to view invalid or missing deleted revisions
9643 * Remove unsightly "_" from namespace in Special:Allpages, Special:Prefixindex
9644 * (bug 3224) Allow minor edits by bots to skip new message notification on
9645 user talk pages. This can be disabled by adjusting the 'nominornewtalk'
9646 permission. Patch by Werdna.
9647 * (bug 7741) MATH: fixed broken syntax of underbrace etc. Fixed arrays
9648 * Fix purging for updated SVG files
9649 * (bug 7745) Add id attribute to search button in Monobook
9650 * (bug 7749) MATH: added some more LaTeX symbols, e.g. parallel, diamond, ast, ...
9651 * (bug 7304) Added code in Article.php to keep redirect table up to date.
9652 * Made special page names case-insensitive and localisable. Care has been taken
9653 to maintain backwards compatibility.
9654 * Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters.
9655 * (bug 7758) Added wrapper span to "templates used" explanation to allow CSS
9656 styling (class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation").
9657 * Added {{#special:}} parser function, to give the local default title for
9659 * (bug 7766) Remove redundant / from AJAX requests, can break some servers
9660 * Add tab links from extensions to classic-based skins (SkinTemplateTab hook)
9661 Provides better cross-skin compatibility for extensions using the modern
9662 skin hooks, such as Oversight
9663 * Moved variant language links on Cologne Blue and Nostalgia to before the
9665 * Fix for parser tests with MySQL 5 in strict mode
9666 * Added block option "enable autoblocks"
9667 * Amend Special:Ipblocklist to note when a block has autoblock DISABLED.
9668 * (bug 7780) Fix regression in editing redirects
9669 * Add whitespace above "templates included on this page" using CSS, not
9670 hardcoded line break.
9671 * Remove entries from redirect table on article deletion
9672 * (bug 7788) Force section headers in new section links for users who have
9673 'prompt for blank edit summaries' on.
9674 * (bug 1133) Special:Emailuser: add an option to send yourself a copy of your mail.
9675 * (bug 461) Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via
9676 pagecategorieslink message.
9677 * Sort the list of skins in "My Preferences" -> Skins by alphabetical order.
9678 * (bug 7785) Postgres compatibility for timestamps in RC feeds
9679 * (bug 7550) Normalize user parameter normally on Special:Log
9680 * (bug 7294) Fix PATH search for diff3 on install
9681 * Various fixes related to the blocking change re: autoblocks. On inserting
9682 an IP block, the ipb_enable_autoblock field is now automagically blanked,
9683 because it doesn't make any sense for an IP. Additionally, IP blocks
9684 without the ipb_enable_autoblock option no longer show up as "autoblock
9685 disabled" on Special:Ipblocklist.
9686 * (bug 7774) MATH: aded more amstex functions
9687 * (bug 1182) MATH: fixed inconsistent rendering of upper case Greek letters in TeX
9688 * Fix regression in streaming page dump generation
9689 * (bug 7801) Add support for parser function hooks in parser tests
9690 * checkUsernames.php now uses wfDebugLog instead of hardcoded path to log
9691 * (bug 7810) Update talk namespaces for Occitan
9692 * Allow case-sensitive URLs to be used for uploading from URLs.
9693 * (bug 1109) Correct fix for compressed 304 responses when additional output
9694 buffers have been installed within the compression handler
9695 * (bug 7819) Move automatic redirect edit summary after pre-save transform
9696 to work properly with subst: fun
9697 * (bug 7826) Fix typos in two English messages.
9698 * (bug 5365) Stop users being prompted to enter an edit summary for null edits,
9699 if they have selected that option in preferences.
9700 * (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits.
9701 * (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL.
9702 * (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most
9703 recently used IP of a user when they are blocked.
9704 * Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will
9705 make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster.
9706 * Fix regression in Special:Undelete for revisions deleted under MediaWiki 1.4
9707 with compression or legacy encoding
9708 * (bug 6737) Fixes for MySQL 5 schema in strict mode
9709 * Approximate height for client-side scaling fallback instead of passing -1
9710 into the HTML output.
9711 * Make the DNSBL to check for proxy blocking configurable via $wgSorbsUrl
9712 * Add experimental recording/reporting mode to parser tests runner, to
9713 compare changes against the previous run.
9714 Additional tables 'testrun' and 'testitem' are in maintenance/testRunner.sql,
9715 source this and pass --record option to parserTests.php
9716 * Make the set of default parser test input files extensible via
9717 $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local
9718 configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically
9719 run along with the main batch.
9720 * Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see
9721 new version requirements
9722 * Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive
9723 as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a
9724 warning and a request to upgrade.
9725 * (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images)
9726 * Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks
9727 * (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display,
9729 * (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in
9731 * Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled.
9732 * Add auto-summaries to blankings and large removals without summaries.
9733 * (bug 7811) Allow preview of edit summaries.
9734 * (bug 6839) Wikibits.js minor changes to make JS-lint happier.
9735 * (bug 7932) Make sure that edit toolbar clears floats so it appears correctly.
9736 * (bug 6873) When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version.
9737 * (bug 3315) Provide rollback link directly on history page.
9738 * Replace 'old-revision-navigation' message with 'revision-info' and
9739 'revision-nav' messages, wrapped in divs with appropriate id's.
9740 * (bug 4178) MediaWiki:Common.js will now be included for all users if
9741 $wgUseSiteJs is enabled, in addition to (if applicable) MediaWiki:Monobook.js
9742 and user JS subpages.
9743 * (bug 7918) "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect
9744 any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits.
9745 * (bug 7919) "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages.
9746 * (bug 7688) When viewing diff, section anchors in autosummary jump to section
9747 on current page instead of loading the latest version.
9748 * (bug 7970) Use current connection explicitly on Database::getServerVersion
9749 * (bug 2001) Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via
9751 * Added autosummary for new pages with 500 or less characters, and refactor
9752 the autosummary code so it's all done in one function. doEdit is getting too
9754 * (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the
9755 image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg).
9756 * (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges
9757 can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format,
9758 in the autoblock_whitelist system message.
9759 * Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php
9760 * (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages
9761 * Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema
9762 * Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like
9763 behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...)
9764 * Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two
9765 member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks.
9766 * (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone
9767 (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3).
9768 This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL
9769 that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages.
9770 The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the
9772 * Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages
9773 * (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned
9774 images, not horizontally.
9775 * Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php
9776 * Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration
9777 * Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login
9778 * (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs
9779 * (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference
9780 * Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved.
9781 * (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation
9782 * Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain
9783 broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions
9784 * (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php
9785 * (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform
9786 * (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set;
9787 now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB
9788 * {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone
9789 to ensure consistent behavior
9790 * {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends
9791 * (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment
9792 * Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output
9793 * (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht
9794 * (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit
9795 instead of hardcoding to 1000
9796 * Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting
9797 * (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view
9798 * (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization
9799 * Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely.
9800 * Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature
9801 to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default.
9802 * Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute
9803 * DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store
9804 the text lengths before and after the edit
9805 * (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions
9806 * Removed a redundant <strong> tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users
9807 * (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it
9808 when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview".
9809 * (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning
9810 buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export.
9811 Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers()
9812 * Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next
9813 chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk.
9814 * (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage')
9815 * (bug 8121) wfRandom() was not between 0 and 1
9816 * Add static method Parser::createAssocArgs($args), so parser functions can
9817 use the same code to parse arguments as the templates do.
9818 * Change behavior of logins using the temporary e-mailed password (as stored
9819 in user_newpassword hash field). Instead of just logging in silently and
9820 leaving the previous user_password field in place indefinitely, the user
9821 is now prompted to set a new password.
9823 The password-changing form is at Special:Resetpass; currently it's only
9824 usable for changing from the temporary password during login, but it
9825 could perhaps be generalized, replacing the subform in preferences.
9827 Once the new password is set successfully, the temporary password is wiped
9828 so it cannot be used to login a second time, and the login process
9830 * Suppress 'mail new password' button on login form if $wgAuth forbids
9831 changing user passwords; it wouldn't work very well...
9832 * Consolidate password length checks and $wgAuth manipulation into
9833 User::setPassword() to avoid duplicate code in different places
9835 * User::setPassword() now throws PasswordError exceptions if the password
9836 is illegal or cannot be set via $wgAuth. These can be caught and a human-
9837 readable error message displayed by UI code.
9838 * Added Title::isSubpage()
9839 * (bug 8241) Don't consider user pages of User:Foo.css to be CSS subpages
9840 * Set an explicit class on framed thumbnail inner divs and images, changed some
9841 CSS to use these instead of using descendent selectors.
9842 * Accept null parameter to User::setPassword() as indicating the password
9843 field should be cleared to an unusable state. Login will only be possible
9844 after the password is reset, for instance by e-mail.
9845 * (bug 6394) Invalidate the password set for "by e-mail" account creations
9846 to avoid accidental empty password creations.
9847 * Made the show change size function work on page moves, page creations, and
9848 log entries. Also fixed it in the javascript recentchanges.
9849 * (bug 8239) correctly get 50 new contributions when clicking '(50 next)'
9850 * (bug 2259) Fix old regression where e-mail addresses were no longer
9851 confirmed on login with mailed password.
9852 * Add a notification about the confirmation mail sent during account
9853 creation, so people don't immediately go off to request a second one.
9854 * Add a warning on Special:Confirmemail if a code was already sent and has
9856 * Add user_editcount field to provide data for heuristics on account use.
9857 Incremented on edit, with lazy initialization from past revision data.
9858 Can batch-initialize with maintenance/initEditCount.php (not yet friendly
9859 to replication environments, this will do all accounts in one query).
9860 * Allow raw SQL subsections in Database::update() SET portion as well as
9861 for WHERE portion. Handy for increments and such.
9862 * User::getOption now accept a default value to override default user values
9863 this makes it consistent with WebRequest::get* methods. Corrected code in
9864 various places accordingly.
9865 * (bug 8264) Fix JavaScript global vars for XHTML mode
9866 * Make $wgSiteNotice value wikitext again, for consistency with editable
9867 MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice.
9868 * (bug 8044) When redirecting from the canonical name of the special page
9869 to the localised one, parameters/subpages are omitted
9870 * (bug 8164) Special:Booksources should use GET for form submission
9871 * Rewrite Special:Booksources to clean up interface and remove redundant code
9872 * (bug 7925) Change Special:Allmessages message name filter javascript to be
9873 a bit more responsive and easier on the CPU
9874 * (bug 4488) Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference
9875 * Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch
9876 pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options
9877 * (bug 8153) <nowiki> doesn't work in site notice
9878 * (bug 6690) wfMsgNoTrans() transforms messages
9879 * (bug 8274) Wrap edit tools in a <div> with a specified class
9880 * Detect PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug and abort in WebStart.php; too many things break
9881 mysteriously otherwise (detection code copied from install-utils.inc)
9882 * (bug 8295) Change handling of <center> tags in doBlockLevels() to match that
9884 * (bug 8110) Make magic ISBN linking stricter: only match ten-digit sequences
9885 (plus optional ISBN-13 prefix) with no immediately following alphanumeric
9886 character, disallow multiple consecutive internal redirects
9887 * (bug 2785) Accept optional colon prefix in links when formatting comments
9888 * Don't show "you can view and copy the source of this page" message for
9889 pages which don't exist
9890 * (bug 8310) Blank line added to top of 'post' when page is blank
9891 * (bug 8109) Template parameters ignored in "recentchangestext"
9892 * Gracefully skip redirect-to-fragment on WebKit versions less than 420;
9893 it messes up on current versions of Safari but is ok in the latest
9894 nightlies. Checking the version number will allow it to automatically
9895 work when new releases of Safari appear.
9896 * Fix regression in thumb styles; size and padding didn't match with
9898 * (bug 8333) Fix quick user data update on login password change on
9899 replication database setups. User data is now pulled from master
9900 instead of slave in User::loadFromDatabase, ensuring that it is
9901 fresh and accurate when read and then saved back into cache.
9902 This was breaking with the Special:Rename operation which
9903 automatically logs the user in with the new password after changing
9904 it; pulling from slave meant the record was often not the updated
9906 * (bug 8335) Set image width to the first valid parameter found.
9907 * (bug 8350) Fix watchlist viewing bug when using Postgres.
9908 * (bug 6603) When warning about invalid file extensions, output the bit
9909 of the extension we actually checked
9910 * (bug 7669) Drop defaults on BLOB/TEXT columns for better compatibility
9911 with MySQL's strict mode, often enabled by the Windows installer.
9912 The defaults are ignored anyway when strict mode is off...
9913 * (bug 7685) Use explicit values for ar_text and ar_flags when deleting,
9914 for better compatibility with MySQL's strict mode
9915 * Update default interwiki values to reflect changed location of ursine:
9916 * (bug 5411) Remove autopatrol preference
9917 * Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as
9918 patrolled automatically
9919 * Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able
9920 to mark their own edits as patrolled
9921 * Introduce 'PingLimiter' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
9922 * (bug 532) Tweaked alt text for some interface messages
9923 * (bug 8231) Gave useful alt text to the main <img> on image pages
9924 * (bug 371) Remove alt text for "Enlarge" icon on thumbnails
9925 * Initialize user_editcount to 0 instead of NULL for newly created accounts
9926 * (bug 3696) Strip LRM and RLM characters from titles to work around the
9927 problem some people have where titles cut-and-pasted from lists include
9928 the bidi override characters appended to the lists.
9929 A more thorough blacklist for forbidden and translatable characters would
9930 be wise, though, as might a cleaner method for the lists in the first place.
9931 * Fix regression in email password resets on read-restricted sites
9932 * Set tabindex on fields in deletion form so you don't have to tab through
9933 the links in the sitenotice
9934 * (bug 8271) Show full time and date on viewer for individual deleted
9936 * (bug 8214) Output file size limit and actual file size in appropriate units
9938 * (bug 8016) Purge objectcache table during upgrade processes - use the --nopurge
9939 option to prevent this when running maintenance/update.php
9940 * (bug 7612) Remove superfluous link to Special:Categories from result items
9941 on Special:Mostcategories
9942 * {{PLURAL:}} now handles formatted numbers correctly
9943 * (bug 8331) Added the change size value to watchlists; therefore made
9944 watchlists use RecentChange::newFromRow() instead of newFromCurRow()
9945 * (bug 8351) Fix undo for simple reverts
9946 * (bug 6856) User::clearNotification() does not respect read-only mode
9947 * (bug 6853) Use a checkbox on the installer form to indicate that a superuser
9948 account should be used; this is clearer than the old check which relied on
9949 the password never being an obscure value
9950 * Remove old unused watchlist cache, which was a leftover from the old schema
9951 where watchlists were more expensive to generate
9952 * Minor cosmetic changes to Special:Userrights
9953 * Added wgCanonicalSpecialPageName to JavaScript variables
9954 * Fix image deleting when using Postgres.
9955 * Output both source and destination titles in maintenance/moveBatch.php
9956 * Added basic parser tests for language variants
9957 * Enable selflinks and categories to be written in some of the language variants
9958 * Prevent conversion of JavaScript code in language variants
9959 * Output software version number in maintenance/parserTests.php
9960 * (bug 7169) Use Ajax to watch/unwatch articles if enabled
9961 * Make variant table caching a little more robust, using main language code
9962 in cache key. Probably this is still a bit wonky, though. Was breaking
9963 parser tests when Chinese tables were getting loaded into Serbian code.
9964 * (bug 8380) Be nicer about blank lines in deleteBatch.php
9965 * (bug 8401) Fix regression in SORBS lookup for some DNS setups
9966 * Use raw file descriptor in posix_isatty() check to avoid warning on
9967 Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP
9968 * (bug 5908) Allow overriding the default category sort key for all items on
9969 a page using {{DEFAULTSORT}}
9970 * (bug 6449) Throw a more definitive error message when installation fails
9971 due to an invalid database name
9972 * (bug 5827) Use full text for option link labels on Special:Watchlist
9973 * (bug 8018) Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist
9974 * (bug 8427) MonoBook RTL IE 7.0 tweaks failed when sidebar's navigation
9975 section is renamed; no longer relies on first section name
9976 * Stabilize client-side table sorting even if the underlying Javascript sort()
9977 implementation is unstable
9978 * Add hook for extensions to add user information to the panel in preferences,
9979 next to the user name and ID.
9980 * (bug 8392) Display protection status of transcluded pages in the edit page
9981 template list. Patch by Fyren, with i18n naming tweak.
9982 * Fix for interwiki transclusion where target wiki uses query string for title
9983 * Resolve namespaces on interwiki Title objects using canonical namespace names
9984 if possible (should not happen, though, outside interwiki transclusion... and
9985 maybe not even then, but it does)
9986 * (bug 8447) Fix SQL typo breaking non-default $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq
9987 * Do not allow previews of deleted images to be cached
9988 * Add global variable $wgDefaultLanguageVariant used to set the default language
9989 variant of a wiki to something different than the main language code
9990 * Add 'variant' option to parserTests - runs test with the given variant as
9991 preferred, utilize it for more parser tests of language variants code
9992 * (bug 6503) Fix bug that stopped certain irrelevant links from being hidden
9994 * Avoid PHP warning in Creative Commons metadata when a creative commons
9995 license is not actually set up
9996 * (bug 8463) Don't print external link icons for Monobook
9997 * (bug 8461) Support watching pages on move
9998 * (bug 8041) Work around bug with debug_backtrace when Zend Optimizer is
9999 loaded by skipping the function. Use wfDebugBacktrace() wrapper function.
10000 * Reduce config file clutter by setting various script and upload paths
10001 based on $IP or $wgScriptPath in Setup.php. They can still be explicitly
10002 overridden in LocalSettings.php if desired...
10003 * Attempt to detect redirect loops for the canonical title redirect, and
10004 give some hints to the poor confused administrator.
10005 * Introduce new flag 'R' - raw output for language variant escape tags
10006 * Advise users when updates for a query page have been disabled using
10007 $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate
10008 * (bug 8413) Improve comments for $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies
10009 * (bug 8330) Show "bytes" suffix on recent changes diff counter
10010 optionally... if set in rc-changes-size message (default empty for now)
10011 * (bug 8489) Support basic links in <gallery> caption attribute
10012 * (bug 8485) Correct Lingala number formatting
10013 * The MediaWiki namespace is no longer pre-filled with default messages on
10014 install. All default messages will be removed from the MediaWiki namespace
10016 * Recentchanges RSS/Atom feeds now use a separate message for the description
10017 to avoid cluttering it with useless wiki formatting
10018 * (bug 8417) Handle EXIF unknown dates
10019 * (bug 8372) Return nothing on empty <math> tags.
10020 * New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php.
10021 * Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php
10022 * (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission
10023 key has been added to enable this behavior, by default assigned to sysops.
10024 * (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild.
10025 * (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization
10026 * (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond)
10027 * Fix regression with default lock file and cache directories; threw visible
10028 warning with open_basedir
10031 == 1.8 Compatibility changes ==
10033 === Zend Optimizer ===
10035 A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under
10036 MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging
10037 features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common
10038 "blank page" problems.
10040 === PHP 5.0 64-bit ===
10042 MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data
10043 on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This
10044 bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8
10045 and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions.
10047 The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you
10048 probably should do anyway for security reasons!
10052 MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when
10053 MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows
10054 installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.)
10056 This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields".
10058 === ImageMagick ===
10060 Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing
10061 due to use of the -thumbnail option.
10064 == 1.8 Behavior changes ==
10066 === Localized special pages ===
10068 The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them
10069 are more legible in languages that aren't English.
10071 Not all languages have included localized names yet.
10073 === E-mail password ===
10075 Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first
10076 log in with a newly generated e-mailed password.
10078 Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing.
10080 === Undo revision ===
10082 An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits.
10083 When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much
10084 easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding
10085 changes elsewhere in the page.
10087 The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional
10088 full-revision reverts.
10092 User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the
10093 account logs in with.
10096 == 1.8 Database changes ==
10098 * new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects
10099 * new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages
10100 * 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock'
10101 * 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking
10102 * 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields
10103 * some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges'
10105 == 1.8 Configuration changes ==
10107 Several configuration options have changed since 1.8:
10109 === $wgEnableAPI ===
10111 The experimental machine API interface is now enabled by default, read-only.
10112 You can disable it by setting $wgEnableAPI = false; in LocalSettings.php.
10114 === $wgPathInfo ===
10116 The use of PATH_INFO (the text after the script name in 'index.php/Blah')
10117 is controlled by the $wgUsePathInfo setting. This is now explicitly disabled
10118 for CGI, apache2filter, and ISAPI configurations of PHP, for more consistency
10119 with the autodetection from the installer.
10121 In some rarer configurations you may have to switch $wgUsePathInfo from false
10122 to true or, perhaps, from true to false to make things work properly if bad
10123 PATH_INFO data comes through the server.
10125 The wiki now tries to detect this condition and should show you an error
10126 message describing what to change instead of sending the browser into an
10127 infinite redirect loop.
10129 === $wgScript and other path settings ===
10131 The following configuration variables are now automatically set in Setup.php
10132 if they are not overridden in LocalSettings.php:
10134 from $wgScriptPath:
10136 | \- $wgArticlePath
10137 + $wgRedirectScript
10144 - $wgStyleDirectory
10145 + $wgUploadDirectory
10146 \- $wgMathDirectory
10149 Newly generated configuration files will by default include only $wgScriptPath
10150 (hardcoded from the installer) and $IP (detected at runtime).
10152 Old configuration files which specify all these values explicitly should
10153 continue to work just fine, but if you use the defaults you can remove them
10156 === $wgGroupPermissions ===
10158 The sysop group now holds the "autopatrol" and "ipblock-exempt" rights by
10161 "autopatrol" replaces the preference for marking ones own edits patrolled
10162 by default; users holding this permission will automatically have their
10163 edits patrolled, while others cannot mark their own edits as patrolled
10164 even if they have patrolling rights.
10166 "ipblock-exempt" excludes the user from IP blocks; accounts which are blocked
10167 explicitly by name will still be blocked, however. This is given to sysops
10168 to minimize annoyance from accidental "collateral damage"; remember that a
10169 sysop will be able to lift the block if they desire.
10171 The bot group now holds the "nominornewtalk" right. A user with this right
10172 will not trigger new message notifications when making minor edits to user
10173 talk pages. This is meant to minimize annoyance from maintenance bot
10176 === $wgUseWatchlistCache ===
10178 Watchlist caching has been removed. The feature was not maintained, and has
10179 been unnecessary since switching to the 'recentchanges' database table
10180 reduced server pressure for Wikipedia's watchlists.
10182 === $wgBreakFrames ===
10184 MediaWiki in the past attempted to detect when it was embedded in a frameset
10185 and "break out" of it, assuming it to be hostile.
10187 This behavior is now disabled by default, but can be reenabled by setting
10188 $wgBreakFrames to true in LocalSettings.php.
10191 == 1.8 New settings ==
10193 === $wgVariantArticlePath ===
10195 For languages with script variant support (Chinese, Serbian, and others),
10196 it's possible to use alternate URL paths to select the variant for article
10197 display, setting $wgVariantArticlePath.
10199 Documentation for this setting would be useful.
10201 === $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize ===
10203 The message cache can now skip items larger than a given size; this allows
10204 it to better handle the primary caching case when large CSS and JS blobs are
10207 === $wgStyleVersion ===
10209 When making significant changes to skin stylesheets and JavaScript files,
10210 you can append a string to this variable to tweak the generated URLs,
10211 forcing newly rendered pages to bring in a fresh version despite server-
10212 or browser-side caching.
10214 Normally this will be set in the course of MediaWiki development, but
10215 if doing development on a custom skin you may wish to poke it as well.
10217 === $wgRCShowChangedSize ===
10219 Special:Recentchanges and Special:Watchlist now show the number of bytes
10220 added or removed to an article to give an idea of the size of the edit.
10221 This information was previously available only in the IRC update feeds.
10223 To disable this site-wide, set $wgRCShowChangedSize to false.
10224 (Individual users can suppress the data in custom CSS.)
10226 Adjust $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold to trigger highlighting of particularly
10229 The formatting of the size figure can be adjusted through the
10230 [[MediaWiki:Rc-change-size]] message.
10232 === $wgQueryCacheLimit ===
10234 The number of rows stored for "expensive" special pages in miser mode
10235 can now be adjusted up or down from the default 1000.
10237 === $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate ===
10239 Individual "expensive" special pages can be skipped in processing by
10240 updateSpecialPages if added to this list.
10242 === $wgSorbsUrl ===
10244 The base hostname for the DNS-based proxy blacklist can now be overridden
10245 when $wgEnableSorbs is set, to use a different blacklist instead of SORBS.
10246 The blacklist would need to respond the same was as SORBS; any positive
10247 response will be taken as a proxy.
10249 === $wgAjaxWatch ===
10251 Experimental AJAX mode for the watch/unwatch tabs to execute inline.
10252 Does not include the UI messages describing how to reach the watchlist,
10253 so you may not want it on a general-audience site just yet.
10255 === $wgParserTestFiles ===
10257 MediaWiki's parser test suite can now be expanded with additional test
10258 files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and
10259 they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php
10262 == Changes since 1.7 ==
10264 * Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy
10265 * Changes to sajax_do_call: optionally accept an element to fill instead of a
10266 callback function; take the target function or element as a third parameter;
10267 pass the full XMLHttpRequest object to the handler function, instead of just
10268 the resultText value; use HTTP response codes to report errors.
10269 * (bug 6562) Removed unmaintained ParserXml.php for now
10270 * History paging overlap bug fixed
10271 * (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle
10272 * Don't put empty-page message into view-source when page text is blank
10273 * (bug 6587) Remove redundant "allnonarticles" message
10274 * Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow
10275 or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses. Prevent duplicate
10276 blocks. Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting
10277 multiple blocks. Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user
10278 attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in
10279 the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an
10281 * (bug 6448) Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username
10282 * (bug 6618) Improve permissions/error detection in Special:Lockdb
10283 * Quick hack for extension testing: parser test doesn't create new message
10285 * (bug 6299) Maintain parser's revision ID across recursive calls to fix
10286 {{REVISIONID}} when Cite extension is used
10287 * (bug 6622) Removed deprecated function Image::newFromTitle
10288 * (bug 6627) Fix regression in Special:Ipblocklist with table prefix
10289 * Removed forced dereferencements (new() returns a reference in PHP5)
10290 * Note about $wgUploadSizeWarning using byte
10291 * (bug 6592) Add most viewed pages summary to Special:Statistics
10292 * Pre-strip characters ignored in IDNs from URLs so they can't be used
10293 to break the blacklists for regular URLs
10294 * Fix regression in blocking of user accounts
10295 * (bug 6635) Fix regression searching for range blocks on Ipblocklist
10296 * Fix regression searching Ipblocklist with ugly URLs
10297 * (bug 6639) Use a consistent default for upload directories
10298 * Preserve entered reason when reporting unconfirmed lock on Special:Lockdb
10299 * (bug 6642) Don't offer to unlock the database when it isn't locked
10300 * cleanupTitles.php changed from --dry-run option to --fix, so default
10301 behavior is now a non-invasive check as with namespaceDupes.php
10302 * (bug 6660) Fix behavior of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does
10303 not exist; now doesn't show the source box if the user hasn't provided it
10304 (blocked mid-edit) and the page doesn't exist
10305 * Improve default value of "blockedtext"
10306 * (bug 6680) Added localisation for Dutch bookstore list (nl)
10307 * Renamed maintainace script redundanttrans.php to unusedMessages.php - clearer usage
10308 * Fix regression which allowed some blocked users to create additional accounts
10309 * (bug 6657) Fix Hungarian linktrail
10310 * (bug 6751) Fix preview of blanked section with edit on first preview option
10311 * (bug 5456) Separate MediaWiki:Search into messages for both noun and verb,
10312 introduced 'MediaWiki:Searchbutton'
10313 * Made lines from initialiseMessages() appear as list items during installation
10314 * Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the
10315 Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files.
10316 * Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core
10318 * Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will
10319 now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php
10320 or another entry point.
10321 * Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches.
10322 * Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in
10323 the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer
10324 identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should
10325 be transparent in most cases.
10326 * Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects.
10327 * Removed the broken altencoding feature.
10328 * Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects
10329 are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles,
10330 via a slightly different interface.
10331 * Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless
10332 $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled.
10333 * Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php.
10334 * Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is
10335 now consistently done from Language::factory().
10336 * Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the
10337 profiler during maintenance scripts.
10338 * Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form.
10339 * Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace
10340 * Fix regression in ordering of namespaces
10341 * (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name,
10343 * hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body
10345 * Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the
10346 framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box.
10347 * Added experimental installer for extensions.
10348 See maintenance/installExtension.php
10349 * Added Tajic (tg) language file.
10350 * (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue)
10351 * Fix regression in Korean and Japanese date formatting (day of week)
10352 * (bug 6919) Add English alias magic words for Tatar (tt) language file.
10353 * (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk)
10354 * (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php
10355 * (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch
10356 * Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and
10357 OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead.
10358 * Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper -
10359 use User::isAllowed instead.
10360 * (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission
10361 * (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view
10362 * Revamped Special:Imagelist
10363 * (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php
10364 * (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export
10365 * (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting
10366 point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit.
10367 * Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip
10368 * (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms
10369 * (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly
10370 * (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order
10371 * (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success
10372 * (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user
10373 has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page
10374 * Added {{CURRENTHOUR}}
10375 * Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table
10376 * Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import
10377 * (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message
10378 * (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages
10379 * (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions
10380 * Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update
10381 default message text
10382 * Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php
10383 Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate
10384 * (bug 832) Return to user page after emailing a user
10385 * (bug 366) Add local-system-timezone equivalents for date/time variables
10386 * (bug 7109) Fix Atom feed version number in header links
10387 * (bug 7075) List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version
10388 * (bug 7059) Introduce "anchorencode" colon function
10389 * Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable
10390 * Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list
10391 * (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows
10392 * (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip
10393 * [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number
10394 of disambiguation templates.
10395 * [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed
10396 any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]].
10397 * Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete
10398 * (bug 7026) Fix action=raw&templates=expand
10399 * (bug 6976) Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins
10400 * (bug 7144) Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the user can't
10401 read the main page in the first place
10402 * (bug 7188) Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm
10403 * (bug 6675) Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload in Special:Upload
10404 * Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the
10405 format for WSR-1 SisterSites support
10406 * (bug 7223) Monobook.js is used for site content, should not be localized
10407 * Set default disabled values for DjVu render options
10408 * Added Xml::option() for generating <option>s easily
10409 * Localized page numbers in drop-down for DjVu page selection
10410 * Fixed linktrail for vi
10411 * (bug 6893) "Call to a member function exists() on a non-object" on trackback.php with bad input
10412 * (bug 6886) PHP undefined offset on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
10413 * (bug 6887) PHP error for call to getId() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
10414 * (bug 6888) PHP error for call to getTimestamp() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
10415 * (bug 7252) Use dvipng support in texvc math rastrization. dvipng is required if texvc is rebuilt.
10416 * (bug 7279) Use wfBaseName in place of basename() in more places
10417 * Clear newtalk marker on diff links with explicit current revision number
10418 * (bug 7064) Replace hard-coded empty message checks with wfEmptyMsg calls
10419 * (bug 6777) Remove some PHP 4 compat cruft
10420 * Add --user, --comment, and --license options to importImages.php
10421 * (bug 6216) The immobile namespace message does not mention the source page
10422 * (bug 7299) Normalize username filter on Special:Newpages
10423 * (bug 7306) RTL text in an LTR wiki breaks appearance of Special:Recentchanges
10424 * (bug 7312) Don't emit SET NAMES utf8 if connection failed
10425 * (bug 7305) Proper compare for bot check on RC notify, should fix overrides
10426 that force edits by non-bot users to bot mode
10427 * Set Vary: Cookie on action=raw generated CSS and JS, to ensure that user
10428 preferences don't get stuck in proxy caches for other people
10429 * (bug 7324) Fix error message for failure of Database::sourceFile()
10430 * (bug 7309) Plurals: use singular form for zero in French and Brazilian Portuguese
10431 * Add page_no_title_convert field to support language variant conversion
10432 for page titles which shouldn't be converted on display/linking
10433 * Lazy extraction of text chunks in Revision objects, may reduce hits to
10434 external storage when actual text content is not used
10435 * Added experimental $wgRevisionCacheExpiry to cache extracted revision text
10436 in $wgMemc, to further reduce hits to external storage.
10437 Set to 0 (disabled) by default.
10438 * Minor changes to the installer.
10439 * Remove ":" for 'youremail' and 'yourrealname' in includes/templates/Userlogin.php
10440 so that ":" could be used in i18n for Special:Preferences (like 'username' and 'uid').
10441 * Fix layout for Special:Preferences->Date and Time (position for 'timezonetext').
10442 * Updates to language variant code for Serbian et al
10443 * (bug 6756) Enabling RTL direction for kk-cn
10444 * (bug 6701) Kazakh language variants in MessagesEn.php
10445 * (bug 7335) SVN revision check in Special:Version fails on SVN 1.4 working copy
10446 * (bug 6518) Replaced 'lastmodified' with 'lastmodifiedat' and 'lastmodifiedby' with 'lastmodifiedatby'
10447 with separated parameters for date and time to allow better localisation. Updated all message files
10448 to display the old format for compatibility.
10449 * (bug 7357) Make supposedly static methods of Skin actually static
10450 * Added info text to Special:Deadendpages and Special:Lonelypages
10451 * Fix regression in cachability of generated CSS and JS for MonoBook skin,
10452 while avoiding clobbering of different users' cached data
10453 * (bug 6849) Block @ from usernames; interferes with multi-database tools and
10454 was meant to be banned years ago... For now existing accounts will not be
10455 prevented fromm login.
10456 * (bug 6092) Introduce magic words {{REVISIONDAY}}, {{REVISIONDAY2}, {{REVISIONMONTH}},
10457 {{REVISIONYEAR}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
10458 * (bug 7425) Preceeding whitespace in [[...]] breaks subpages
10459 * Try to reconnect after transitory database errors in dumpTextPass.php
10460 * (bug 6023) Fixed mismatch of 0/NULL for wl_notificationtimestamp; now notification
10461 mails are working after 'Mark all pages visited' button on Special:Watchlist is clicked
10462 * Made {{INT:}} a core parser function instead of a special case. The syntax
10463 and behavior is largely unchanged.
10464 * (bug 7448) Fixing the native name for Ewe (ee)
10465 * (bug 6864) Replace message 'editing' with new message 'editinguser' in Special:Userrights
10466 to allow better localisation
10467 * Add '*-summary' for special pages to MessagesEn.php to allow customizing/translation
10468 directly through Special:Allmessages
10469 * (bug 6130, bug 5818) Replaced message 'go' with the new message 'searcharticle' in skins
10470 to allow better localisation
10471 * Add + to $wgLegalTitleChars by default. Some sites may have occasional
10472 problems with hard-to-reach pages, but it should be less trouble than
10473 "I can't import dumps from Wikipedia" complaints
10474 * (bug 7460) Revert broken patch for bug 7226 which slows down
10475 Special:Allmessages by a factor of 16
10476 * Committed a bunch of live hacks from Wikimedia servers
10477 * (bug 6889) PHP notices in thumb.php with missing params
10478 * Cleaner error behavior on thumb.php with invalid page selection
10479 * (bug 6617) Validate timestamps on Special:Undelete
10480 * Do fewer unnecessary full writes of user rows; only update user_touched
10481 for watch/unwatch, group membership change, and login operations
10482 * Restructured the languages directory, to avoid problems when people
10483 untar MW 1.8 over the top of a 1.7 installation.
10484 * (bug 6890) SQL query error on bad input to Pager lists
10485 due to negative LIMIT clause, caused by integer wraparound.
10486 * Fixed various bugs related to table prefixes, especially the interaction
10487 between table prefixes and memcached, which was formerly completely broken.
10488 * (bug 7004) PHP iconv() notice on bad password input to Special:Userlogin.
10489 * (bug 6826) Extend pre-save transform context link ("pipe trick")
10490 syntax to pages with commas in title
10491 * Use ImageMagick -thumbnail option instead of -resize to avoid including
10492 excessive metadata in thumbs (requires ImageMagick 6.0.0 or newer).
10493 * (bug 7499) Corrections to Swedish talk namespace names
10494 * (bug 7508) Added option to compress HTML pages by dumpHTML.php
10495 * (bug 7519) Add plural in SpecialWatchlist
10496 * (bug 7459) Magic word variables are always case sensitive
10497 * Replaced {{SERVER}}{{localurl:xxx}} with {{fullurl:xxx}} in localisation files
10498 * Fix regression in Special:Watchlist text header
10499 * (bug 7510) Update article counts etc on undelete
10500 * (bug 7520) Update article counts on XML import
10501 * (bug 7526) Make $wgDefaultUserOptions work again
10502 * (bug 7472) Localize Help namespace for Basque
10503 * (bug 7529) Including a non-existent category in an article places that article in the category
10504 * (bug 4528) Lack of important LaTeX functions stackrel, rightleftharpoon
10505 * (bug 6721) missing symbols ulcorner, urcorner, llcorner, lrcorner, twoheadrightarrow, twoheadleftarrow
10506 * (bug 7367) Hyphens sometimes erroneously appended to equations when not converted to PNG
10507 * Add "title" to the opensearch link to allow automatic adding of the search engine in Firefox 2
10508 * (bug 7537) Add php5 to $wgFileBlacklist
10509 * (bug 6929) Restore AutoAuthenticate hook
10512 == Changes since 1.6 ==
10514 * (bug 5458) Fix double-URL encoding in block log link in contribs and contribs
10516 * (bug 5462) Bogus missing patch warning in updater
10517 * (bug 5461) Use of deprecated "showhideminor" in Special:Recentchangeslinked
10518 * PHP warning when allow_call_time_pass_reference is off
10519 * Update to Finnish localization
10520 * (bug 5467) Link to page histories in watchlist edit mode
10521 * Further additions to Hebrew localisation
10522 * (bug 5476) Invalid xhtml in German localization
10523 * (bug 5479) Id translation for preferences tabs caption
10524 * (bug 5493) Id translation for special pages
10525 * Added skinname and style path parameters to CBT version of MonoBook
10526 * Include subversion revision number in Special:Version if available
10527 * (bug 5344) Fix regression that broke slashes in extension tag parameters
10528 * Improve Special:Log performance on big log sets
10529 * (bug 5507) Changed mediawiki:logouttext from plain to wikitext
10530 * (bug 4760) Prevent creation of entries in protection log when protection
10531 levels haven't changed
10532 * (bug 861) Show page protection/unprotection events in histories
10533 * (bug 5499) Don't clear the tag strip state when asked not to clear state.
10534 Fixes regression with use of <ref> in a template breaking <nowiki> etc.
10535 * Minor improvements to English language files
10536 * Display the anon talk page info message on anon talk pages again
10537 (moved outside the parser cache)
10538 * Optional {{DISPLAYTITLE|title with markup}} magic word
10539 Deactivated by default, set "$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true" in LocalSettings.php
10541 * Cleaned SpecialContributions a bit
10542 * Added a table to track interlanguage links
10543 * (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left
10545 * Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the
10547 * (bug 5537) Add stub language file for Samogitian (bat-smg); inherits
10549 * Don't force edit summaries when a user is editing their own user/talk page
10550 * (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces
10551 * (bug 385) Installer support for PostgreSQL, fixes for PG compatibility
10552 * PersistentObject removed; it doesn't do anything and was broken besides.
10553 All extensions using it have been corrected.
10554 * Propagate ISBN number for Booksources in LanguageNo.php
10555 * (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin]
10556 * Add TALKSPACE, SUBJECTSPACE, TALKPAGENAME, SUBJECTPAGENAME (and encoded forms
10557 for all) magic words
10558 * (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds
10559 * Reject malformed addresses in X-Forwarded-For entries
10560 * (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload
10561 * (bug 5559) Improve detection of ImageMagick [patch: Greg Turnquist]
10562 * (bug 5475) New pages feeds ignore "limit" argument
10563 * (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to
10564 conflicting anchor identifiers
10565 * (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default.
10566 * Maintenance script to import the contents of a text file into a wiki page
10567 * Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use
10568 * (bug 5576) Remove debugging hack in session check
10569 * (bug 5426) Lowercase treatment of titles in rights log leads to broken links
10571 * Minor improvements to French localisation files
10572 * (bug 5181) Update "nogomatch" for Slovak
10573 * (bug 5594) Id translation up to # Login and logout pages section
10574 * (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link
10575 * Improvements to German localisation files
10576 * (bug 5570) Problems using <special page>/parameter link form for long titles
10577 * (bug 3884) Add $user parameter to AddNewUser hook, call it for by-email
10578 registrations as well as self-registrations.
10579 * (bug 4327) Report age of cached data sets in query pages
10580 * (bug 4662) Fix Safari check in wikibits.js
10581 * (bug 4663) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Safari
10582 * (bug 5572) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Konqueror (3.5+)
10583 * (bug 5235) Edit toolbar tooltips no longer show JavaScript junk in Opera
10584 * Edit toolbar now works in pure XHTML mode (application/xhtml+xml)
10585 * Add watchlist clear function to allow quick purging of all items
10586 * (bug 5625) Additional namespace translations for Welsh
10587 * Add meta tag and JavaScript variables to cached special pages which provides
10588 the timestamp of the last update, in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.
10589 * (bug 5628) More translations for MessagesHr.php
10590 * (bug 5595) Localisation for Bosnian language (bs)
10591 * (bug 2910) Default view preferences for watchlists
10592 * Add "hide bot edits from the watchlist" user preference
10593 * (bug 5250) Introduce Special:Unusedtemplates
10594 * Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent
10595 edits up to a certain edit, and not just the latest edit..
10596 * Made MessageRo.php more general
10597 * (bug 5640) Indonesian localisation improvements
10598 * (bug 5592) Actions are logged with the default language for the
10599 wiki, not the language of the user performing the operation.
10600 * (bug 5644) Error in LanguageBs.php file
10601 * (bug 5646) Compare for identical types in wfElement()
10602 * (bug 5472) Language::userAdjust()->minDiff not initialized on else condition
10603 * (bug 5386) LanguageMk.php: updated namespaces translations
10604 * (bug 5422) Stub for Romani (rmy) language which extends ro
10605 * Fix linktrail for LanguageSr
10606 * (bug 5664) Fix Bosnian linktrail
10607 * (bug 3825) Namespace filtering on Special:Newpages
10608 * (bug 1922) When Special:Wantedpages is cached, mark links to pages
10609 which have since been created
10610 * (bug 5659) Change grammar hacks for Bosnian Wikimedia namespaces.
10611 This sort of special casing should be removed and fixed properly.
10612 * Remove useless whitespace from Special:Brokenredirects header
10613 * Treat "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" as wikitext when echoing; change default
10615 * (bug 5497) Regression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>)
10616 * (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories
10617 * (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect
10618 * (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in
10620 * Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface")
10621 * (bug 4259) Indicate when a protected page being edited is an interface message
10622 ("editinginterface")
10623 * (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel
10624 * Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter
10625 * (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache
10627 * Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages
10628 * Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser
10629 credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if
10630 the connection fails
10631 * (bug 5005) Fix XHTML <gallery> output.
10632 * (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date).
10633 * (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation
10634 * Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories
10635 * (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals
10636 * (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files
10637 * (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word
10638 * (bug 93) <nowiki> tags and tildes in templates
10639 * The returnto parameter is now actually used by SpecialUserlogin.php
10640 * Parser can now know that it is parsing an interface message
10641 * (bug 4737) MediaWiki:Viewcount supports {{PLURAL}} now
10642 * Fix bug in wfMsgExt under PHP 5.1.2
10643 * (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv
10644 * Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to
10645 recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes
10646 * Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles
10647 * (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously
10649 * (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages
10650 * "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language
10651 * (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated
10652 * (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers
10653 * (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page
10654 * (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user
10655 * (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters
10656 * Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup
10657 * (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title
10658 * (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags
10659 * Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}}
10660 will produce a count minus formatting
10661 * Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an
10662 appropriate output format given the scope of the clean
10663 * (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log"
10664 * Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for
10666 * (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL
10667 * (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted"
10668 * (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time
10669 formatted according to the current user's settings
10670 * (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian
10671 * Updated initStats maintenance script
10672 * (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale
10673 * (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are.
10674 * (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to
10675 show up on specific pages on demand
10676 * Bidi-aid on list pages
10677 * (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names
10678 * (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext
10679 * Sanitizer: now handles nested <li> in <ul> or <ol>
10680 * (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14
10681 * Add 'EmailConfirmed' hook
10682 * New findhooks.php script to find undocumented hooks.
10683 * Silently ignore errors on profiling table update.
10684 * (bug 5801) Correct handling of underscores in Special:Listusers
10685 * Clean up Special:Listusers; add an "(all)" label to the group selection box
10686 * (bug 5812) Use appropriate link colour in Special:Mostlinked
10687 * (bug 5802) {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} variable broken in Vietnamese locale
10688 * (bug 5817) Appropriate handling for Special:Recentchangeslinked where the target
10690 * Special:Randompage now additionally accepts English namespace name as parameter
10691 * (bug 2981) Really fixed linktrail for Tamil (ta)
10692 * Disallow substituting Special pages when included into a page
10693 * (bug 5587) Clean up the languages from references to the Groups special page
10694 * Added new group-X and group-X-member messages
10695 * Rewritten removeUnusedAccounts to be more efficient, print names of inactive
10697 * Redirect Special:Userlist to Special:Listusers
10698 * Introduce $wgAllowTitlesInSVG, which allows the <title> attribute in uploaded files
10699 bearing the image/svg MIME type. Disabled by default due to the vast majority of
10700 web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details.
10701 * Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it
10702 * (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories,
10703 Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories.
10704 * (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages
10705 * Clean up Special:Undelete a bit
10706 * (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}}
10707 * Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit
10708 * (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL
10709 * (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files
10710 * (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show
10711 * (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users
10712 * (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
10713 * (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name
10714 * (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message
10715 * (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers
10716 * (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de)
10717 * (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru)
10718 * (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id)
10719 * (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs)
10720 * Added many missing formatNum calls
10721 * Added grammar function to Belarusian (be)
10722 * (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook
10723 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be)
10724 * (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
10725 * (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links
10726 * (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id)
10727 * (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms)
10728 * (bug 5890) Update for German language (de)
10729 * (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي
10730 * --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension
10731 * (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl)
10732 * (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl)
10733 * User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in
10734 v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8
10735 * dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the
10736 previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump.
10737 * dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched
10738 * dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch
10739 * (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
10740 * (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de)
10741 * (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs)
10742 * Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with
10743 $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups
10744 * (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages
10745 * (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl)
10746 * Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages
10747 * Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word
10748 * (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word
10749 * (bug 5370) Allow throttling of password reminder requests with the rate limiter
10750 * (bug 5683) Respect parser output marked as uncacheable when saving
10751 * (bug 5918) Links autonumbering now work for all defined protocols
10752 * (bug 5935) Improvement to German localisation (de)
10753 * (bug 5937) Register links from gallery captions with the parent parser output
10754 object so that link tables receive those updates too
10755 * (bug 5845) Introduce BASEPAGENAME and BASEPAGENAMEE magic words
10756 * (bug 5941) Use content language when getting the administrator page title for
10758 * (bug 5949) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
10759 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian translation (be)
10760 * (bug 5950) Improvements to French localisation
10761 * (bug 5805) {{plural:}} support for counters in some special pages
10762 * (bug 5952) Improvement to German localisation (de)
10763 * Rename conflicting metadata help message to "metadata_help" (was "metadata")
10764 and treat it as wiki text
10765 * Improve preferences input filtering
10766 * Maintenance script to import multiple files into the wiki
10767 * (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he)
10768 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
10769 * (bug 5961) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
10770 * (bug 5849) Remove some hard-coded references to "Wikipedia" in messages
10771 * (bug 5967) Improvement to German localisation (de)
10772 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
10773 * Suppress images in galleries which appear on the bad image list (when rendering
10774 for a wiki page; galleries in special pages and categories are unaffected)
10775 * Maintenance script to remove orphaned revisions from the database
10776 * (bug 5991) Update for Russian language (ru)
10777 * (bug 6001) PAGENAMEE and FULLPAGENAMEE don't work in FULLURL and LOCALURL magic
10779 * (bug 5958) Switch Uzbek language name to use latin script
10780 * (bug 839) Add URLENCODE magic word
10781 * (bug 6004) Update for Polish language (pl)
10782 * (bug 5971) Improvement to German localisation (de)
10783 * (bug 4873) Don't overwrite the subtitle navigation when viewing a redirect page
10785 * (bug 2203) Namespace updates for Thai
10786 * Fix breakage in parser test suite which caused incorrect reporting of the failure of
10787 {{NUMBEROFFILES}}. Now initialises the site_stats table with some dumb data. Updated
10788 the expected output for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to reflect this.
10789 * (bug 6009) Use {{ns:project}} in messages where appropriate
10790 * (bug 6012) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
10791 * (bug 6017) Update list of bookstores in German localisation files
10792 * (bug 5187) Allow programmatically bypassing username validation, for scripts
10793 * (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected
10794 * (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this"
10795 * (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified')
10796 * (bug 2015) Add "\sim" to ~ conversion for HTML rendering
10797 * (bug 6029) Improvement to German localisation (de)
10798 * (bug 5015) Update be: magic words
10799 * (bug 3974) Add parameter for site URL to "passwordremindertext"
10800 * (bug 6039) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
10801 * (bug 764) Add CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES to default database permissions
10802 * Big update to Swedish localisation (sv)
10803 * Use appropriate HTML functions to create the tool links on image pages, so they don't
10804 look garbled when tidy isn't on
10805 * (bug 5511) Fix URL-encoding of usernames in links on Special:Ipblocklist
10806 * (bug 6046) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #15
10807 * (bug 5523) $wgNoFollowNsExceptions to allow disabling rel="nofollow" in
10808 specially-selected namespaces.
10809 * (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick Jenkins)
10810 * Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better
10811 handle some overlapping tag cases.
10812 * Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC
10813 * (bug 4610) Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark
10814 changes as patrolled using the diff links there
10815 * Add 'DiffViewHeader' hook called before diff page output
10816 * (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de)
10817 * (bug 6054) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #16
10818 * Add {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} magic word
10819 * (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms
10820 * (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics.
10821 * (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs
10822 * To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays
10823 can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is
10824 no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a
10826 * (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages)
10827 * Added $wgGrammarForms global
10828 * Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries.
10829 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
10830 * (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate()
10831 * wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages
10832 * Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group
10833 * wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code
10834 * Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed.
10835 Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways.
10836 * (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language
10837 * Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when
10838 adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs.
10839 * Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory.
10840 * (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an)
10841 * (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru)
10842 * Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering
10843 problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages
10844 making it into cached display.
10845 * (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink")
10846 * (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded
10847 character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg
10848 = when making URLs for template parameters.
10849 * Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness
10850 under HTML-compatible browsers.
10851 * (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage
10852 * Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext'
10853 * (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history
10854 * Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed
10855 * Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs
10856 * (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization
10857 * (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs.
10858 * Add APC as object caching option
10859 * Update to Albanian localization (sq)
10860 * (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias)
10861 * Use optimized php5-only microtime()
10862 * Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script
10863 * Fix profiling table definition
10864 * (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a
10865 "show changes" operation in the editor
10866 * (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins
10867 * Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php
10868 * Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer
10869 * (bug 6133) Update strip state as we work. This mostly fixes extensions
10870 used in Cite.php <ref> tags when Tidy is on.
10871 * (bug 6139) Workaround for transclusion oddities in Vietnamese upload text
10872 * (bug 6136) Update to Catalan language (ca)
10873 * Update to Japanese localization (ja)
10874 * Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer
10875 * (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17
10876 * (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views
10877 * (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page
10878 * (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word
10879 * Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles
10880 * (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language
10881 message contains '-'; fixes licenses selector on Commons configuration after
10882 recent addition of the message to Messages.php
10883 * (bug 5527) Batch up job queue insertions for, hopefully, better survivability
10884 of lock contention etc. Duplicates are now removed at pop time instead of
10886 * When showing the "blah has been undeleted" page, make sure it's a blue link
10887 * parserTests.php accepts a --file parameter to run an alternate test sutie
10888 * parser tests can now test extensions using !!hooks sections
10889 * Fix oddity with open tag parameters getting stuck on </li>
10890 * (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension
10891 * Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more
10892 consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the
10893 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to
10894 further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise
10895 expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences
10896 in behavior based on the order tags are loaded.
10897 * (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags
10898 * Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags
10899 * (bug 6164) Fix regression with <gallery> resetting <ref> state
10900 * Hackaround for IE 7 wrapping bug in MonoBook footer
10901 * New message sp-newimages-showfrom replaces rclistfrom on special:newimages
10902 * Improve handling of ;: definition list construct with overlapping or
10904 * (bug 6171) Fix sanitizing of HTML-elements with an optional closing
10905 tag. The sanitizer still needs to learn how to make well-formed XML
10907 * Fix fatal error when specifying illegal name for manual thumbnail
10908 * (bug 6184) Use shinier Linker::userLink() to make user links in
10910 * (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb)
10911 * (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18
10912 * (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa)
10913 * Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a
10914 per-namespace basis.
10915 * Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being
10916 interspersed into your ordered lists.
10917 * (bug 5021) Transcluding the same special page twice now works
10918 * Add 'SiteNoticeBefore' and 'SiteNoticeAfter' hooks
10919 * (bug 6182) Date passed in "sp-newimages-showfrom" not adjusted to user time
10921 * (bug 2587) Fix for section editing with comment prefix
10922 * (bug 2607) Fix for section editing with mix of wiki and HTML headings
10923 * (bug 3342) Fix for section editing with headings wrapped in <noinclude>
10924 * (bug 3476) Fix for section editing with faux headings in extensions
10925 * (bug 5272) Fix for section editing with HTML-heading subsections
10926 * Fix for bogus wiki headings improperly detected with following text
10927 * Fix for HTML headings improperly not detected with preceding/following text
10928 * Section extraction and replacement functions merged into one implementation
10929 on the Parser object, so they can't get out of sync with each other.
10930 * Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc
10931 * (bug 6197) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #19
10932 * (bug 6175) Improvement to German translation (de)
10933 * Redirect Special:Logs to Special:Log
10934 * (bug 6206) Linktrail for Swedish localization (se)
10935 * (bug 3202) Attributes now allowed on <pre> tags
10936 * Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes now available to discard illegal/unsafe
10937 attribute values from an array.
10938 * (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement
10939 to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype
10940 (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and
10941 could even result in invalid output from valid input.
10942 * (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default
10943 meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of
10944 robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt
10945 doesn't forbid access.
10946 * Regression fix: suppress warning about session failure when clicking to
10947 edit with 'preview on first edit' enabled.
10948 * (bug 6230) Regression fix: <nowiki> in [URL link text]
10949 * Added AutoLoader.php, which loads classes without need of require_once()
10950 * (bug 5981) Add plural function Slovenian (sl)
10951 * (bug 5945) Introduce {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word
10952 * {{PLURAL}} can now take up to five forms
10953 * (bug 6243) Fix email for usernames containing dots when using PEAR::Mail
10954 * Remove a number of needless {{ns:project}}-type transforms from messages files. These
10955 usages already have separate label text. Such transforms are wasteful on each page view.
10956 * Update to Yiddish localization (yi)
10957 * (bug 6254) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #20
10958 * (bug 6255) Fix transclusions starting with "#" or "*" in HTML attributes
10959 * Whitespace now normalized more or less properly in HTML attributes
10960 * Fix regression(?) in behavior of initial-whitespace-pre in <center>
10961 * (bug 6260) Update to Interlingua localization (ia)
10962 * Update to Vlax Romany localization (rmy)
10963 * Update to Latin translation (la)
10964 * Update to Dutch translation (nl)
10965 * Avoid some notices in page history with bad input
10966 * Use double quoted consistently on attributes in linker output; preparing
10967 for new normalization code when tidy not in use
10968 * Replace "nogomatch" with "noexactmatch" and place the magic colon in the messages
10969 themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content.
10970 * Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other
10971 than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics.
10972 * (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word
10973 * Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default.
10974 * (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags.
10975 * Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this
10976 could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong.
10977 * Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile;
10978 it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html".
10979 * (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl)
10980 * (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
10981 * (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21
10982 * Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information
10983 * (bug 4054) Add "boteditletter" to recent changes flags
10984 * Update to Catalan localization (ca)
10985 * (bug 2099) Deleted image files can now be archived and undeleted.
10986 Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in
10987 $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory']
10988 * (bug 6324) Fix regression in enhanced RC alignment
10989 * Introduce {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} magic word
10990 * Update to Slovak translation (sk)
10991 * Update to Alemannic localization (gsw)
10992 * (bug 6300) Bug fixes for sr: variants
10993 * namespaceDupes.php can now accept an arbitrary prefix, for checking rogue
10994 interwikis and such. Not yet fully automated.
10995 * (bug 6344) Add Special:Uncategorizedimages page
10996 * (bug 6357) Update to Russian translation (ru)
10997 * Workaround possible bug in Firefox nightlies by properly removing the
10998 Content-Encoding header instead of sending explicit 'identity' value
11000 * (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages
11001 * Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display
11002 * (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message
11003 * (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivileged user trying to create account
11004 * (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links
11005 * Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
11006 * (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22
11007 * (bug 6279) Add genitive month names to Slovenian localisation
11008 * (bug 6351) Update to German translation (de)
11009 * Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects
11010 * Remove unused "validation" table definitions from the schema files
11011 * (bug 6398) Work around apparent PCRE bug breaking section editing when
11012 massively-indented preformatted text immediately followed a header
11013 * (bug 6392) Fix misbehaving <br /> in preferences form
11014 * Add translated magic words to Hebrew localization
11015 * (bug 6396) Change name for Chuvash language
11016 * Introduce optional (off by default) language selector bar for user login
11017 and registration. Customisable via the "loginlanguagelinks" message, the
11018 links will preserve "returnto" values. If the user creates an account while
11019 using such a link, then the language in use will be saved as their language
11021 * Make sure '~~~' '~~~~' '~~~~~' are removed in Nickname preference.
11022 * Rename "ipusuccess" to "unblocked", change the format (now wiki text)
11023 * (bug 2316) Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag
11024 * Allow setting the skin object that ImageGallery will use; needed during parse
11025 operations (the skin must come from the ParserOptions, not $wgUser)
11026 * Fix notice in MacBinary detection debug data for files of certain lengths
11027 * (bug 6131) Add type detection for DjVu files, allowing them to be uploaded
11028 with validity checking and size detection. No inline thumbnailing yet,
11029 but could be added in the future.
11030 * (bug 6423) Don't update newtalk flag if page content didn't change (null edits
11031 were causing the newtalk flag to trigger inappropriately)
11032 * Parser functions are now set using magic words.
11033 * (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set
11034 * (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version
11035 if blocked during an edit
11036 * (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page,
11037 return blank content (as opposed to the message key)
11038 * Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css
11039 * (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export
11040 * (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories
11041 * Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off
11042 * (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23
11043 * Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow
11044 localizble extensions magic words.
11045 * Update to Romanian translation (ro)
11046 * Update to Esperanto translation (eo)
11047 * Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE
11048 if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error
11049 * (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook
11050 * Update to Piedmontese localization (pms)
11051 * dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2
11052 * (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import
11053 * (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import
11054 * (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events
11055 * Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import
11056 * Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request
11057 * Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming
11058 large numbers of history items.
11059 * Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export;
11060 pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from
11061 export when history is requested.
11062 * Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name
11063 * Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import
11064 * Update to Korean translation (ko)
11065 * Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist
11066 * (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex
11067 * Added Latvian localization (lv)
11068 * (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages
11069 * Update to Macedonian translation (mk)
11070 * Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created
11071 as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if
11072 we can move over them.
11073 * Show some error results in moveBatch.php
11074 * (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps
11075 * (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages
11076 * (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing
11077 * (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}}
11078 * (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin
11079 * (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages
11080 * Added formatnum magic word
11081 * Added Javanese localization (jv)
11082 * (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries
11083 * (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage
11084 * Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true
11085 * Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in
11086 the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields.
11087 Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a
11088 "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe
11089 in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes
11091 * (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set
11092 * (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete
11093 * (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24
11094 * Extension messages translation is now possible.
11095 * Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports.
11096 $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for
11097 Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc.
11098 * (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de)
11099 * (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page
11100 * (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar
11101 * (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation'
11102 * Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms
11103 * (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex
11104 more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input
11105 with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does.
11106 * (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation
11107 * New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'.
11108 * Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it
11109 * Introduce updateArticleCount maintenance script which uses a better check that
11110 reflects what Article::isCountable() tests for
11111 * Introduce 'BadImage' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
11112 * Add "searchsubtitleinvalid" message for searches that are not valid titles.
11113 * (bug 5962) Update to Italian localisation
11114 * (bug 6530) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #25
11115 * (bug 6523) Fix SVG issue in rebuildImages.php
11116 * (bug 6512) Link to page-specific logs on page histories
11117 * (bug 6504) Allow configuring session name with $wgSessionName
11118 * (bug 6185) Add standard user tool links to log page views
11119 * Update to Venetian translation (vec)
11120 * Update to Slovenian translation (sl)
11121 * Add standard user tool links to deleted revision list
11122 * Separate out EditPage's getContent bits from regular Article getContent.
11123 Cleans up read-only-mode warning on empty pages and neats up some code.
11124 * (bug 6565) Strict JavaScript writing
11125 * (bug 6570) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #26
11126 * Added Telugu translation (te)
11127 * Update to Catalan translation (ca)
11128 * (bug 6560) Avoid PHP notice when trimming ISBN whitespace
11129 * Added namespace translation to Kannada (ka)
11130 * (bug 6566) Improve input validation on timestamp conversion
11131 * Implicit group "emailconfirmed" for all users whose email addresses are confirmed
11132 * (bug 6577) Avoid multiline parser breakage on <pre> with newline in attribute
11133 * (bug 6771) Make old revisions of MediaWiki pages available with action=raw
11135 == Changes since 1.5 ==
11137 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
11140 * Use strval() to make sure we don't accidentally get null on bad revision
11141 text loads or other fields mucking up XML export output
11142 * Clean up duplicate code for selection of changeslist style
11143 * Correct blob caching to reduce redundant blob loads on backups
11144 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
11145 * Fixed possible infinite loop in formatComment
11146 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
11147 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
11148 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
11149 * Avoid numerous redundant latest-revision lookups in history
11150 * Require PHP 4.3.2 or higher strictly now.
11151 * Tweak infinite-template-handling loop for PHP 5.1.1 string handling change
11152 * Remove unused OutputPage::addCookie()
11153 * Fix for short_open_tag off again; please don't break this, guys
11154 * (bug 4507) Adjust FULLPAGENAMEE escaping to standard form
11155 * (bug 5302) Merge the two #p-search .pBody statements in monobook css.
11158 * Finally dropped MySQL 3.23.x support
11160 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
11161 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
11162 * (bug 3227) Fix SQL injection introduced in experimental code
11163 * Fix table prefix usage in Block::enumBlocks
11164 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
11165 * (bug 3506) Avoid MySQL error when Listusers returns no results
11166 * Skip update of disused 'rc_cur_time' field (todo: discard the field)
11167 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
11168 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
11169 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
11170 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
11171 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
11172 * Ability to set the table name for external storage servers
11173 * Update ipblocks table in MySQL 5 table defs
11174 * Removed FulltextStoplist.php, no longer used (was for MySQL 3.x workaround)
11175 * Added templatelinks table, to track template inclusions. User-visible effects
11177 * (inclusion) tag for inclusions in Special:Whatlinkshere
11178 * More accurate list of used templates on the edit page
11179 * More reliable cache invalidation when templates outside the template
11180 namespace are changed
11181 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
11182 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
11183 * Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs
11184 * Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is
11185 to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed.
11186 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
11189 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
11192 (list not complete)
11193 * Move ArticleSave hook execution into Article insert/update functions,
11194 so they get called on non-EditPage actions that use these functions
11195 to create or update pages.
11196 * Added EditFilter hook, and output callback on EditPage::showEditForm()
11197 for a place to add in captcha-type extensions in the edit flow
11198 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
11199 * Fix for hook callbacks on objects containing no fields
11200 * Add a hook for additional user creation throttle / limiter extensions
11201 * Use $wgOut->parse() in wfGetSiteNotice() instead of creating a new parser
11202 instance. This allows use of extension hooks if required.
11203 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
11204 * Added 'PageRenderingHash' hook for changing the parser cache hash key
11205 from an extension that changes rendering based on nonstandard options.
11206 * Add 'GetInternalURL' hook to match the GetFullURL and GetLocalURL ones
11207 * (bug 4456) Add hook for marking article patrolled
11208 * Add UserRights hook, fires after a user's group memberships are changed
11211 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
11212 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
11213 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
11214 * Fix scaling of non-integer SVG unit sizes
11215 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small images on |thumb| without explicit size
11216 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
11217 large SVG images on image description page
11218 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
11219 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
11220 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
11221 * Added a limit to the size of image files which can be thumbnailed
11222 * (bug 3806) Gracefully fall back to client-side scaling on |thumb| image
11223 that passes $wgMaxImageArea
11224 * (bug 153) Adjust thumbnail size calculations to match consistently;
11225 patch by David Benbennick
11226 * (bug 4162) Add $wgThumbnailEpoch timestamp to force old thumbs to
11227 be rerendered on demand, sitewide
11228 * (bug 1850) Additional fixes so existing local and remote images
11229 get a blue link even if there's no local description page
11230 * Avoid FATAL ERROR when creating thumbnail of non-existing image
11231 * (bug 4207) Wrong image size when using 100x200px syntax to scale image up
11232 patch by David Benbennick
11233 * Don't delete thumbnails when refreshing exif metadata. This caused thumbs
11234 to vanish mysteriously from time to time for files that didn't have metadata.
11235 * (bug 4426) Add link to user_talk page on image pages
11236 * Support a custom convert command for thumbnailing. See DefaultSettings.php
11237 and the comments for $wgCustomConvertCommand, for more information.
11238 * UserCan hook now allows advisory return values, rather than mandatory ones.
11241 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
11242 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
11243 * Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
11244 * (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
11245 patch by Rob Church
11246 * Improve installer
11247 * Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
11248 * Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
11249 permissions, if said user exists
11250 * Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields
11251 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
11252 * Add basic check for session support in PHP and die if not present
11255 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert
11256 duplicate rows with the same id field)
11257 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
11258 different LocalSettings.php.
11259 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
11260 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
11261 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
11262 * Maintenance script to reassign edits from one user to another
11263 * Maintenance script to find and remove links to a given domain (cleanupSpam.php)
11264 * Fix --report interval option for dumpTextPass
11267 * Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
11268 * (bug 3141) Partial support for Breton language (thanks Fulup).
11269 * Support for venitian language
11270 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
11271 * Finnish date format was hardcoded, now implemented properly
11272 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
11273 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
11274 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
11275 * (bug 3177) Estonian date formats not implemented in LanguageEt.php
11276 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
11277 * (bug 3271) Updated LanguageNn.php for HEAD
11278 * Experimental feature to allow translation of block expiry times
11279 Implementation only for Finnish currently
11280 * (bug 3304) Language file for Croatian (LanguageHr.php)
11281 * (bug 2143) Update Vietnamese interface
11282 * (bug 3063) Remove some hardcodings from Hebrew localisation
11283 * (bug 3408) Bulgarian formatNum corrected
11284 * (bug 1512) Disable x-code interp on Esperanto URLs for now, it does more
11285 harm than good under current system by breaking incoming URLs with "ux".
11286 (Editing is not affected, just URLs.)
11287 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
11288 * Fix language name for dv
11289 * (bug 3503) Update LanguageSq.php from sq.wikipedia.org messages
11290 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
11291 * (bug 3334) Namespace changes for Polish
11292 * (bug 3580) Change default Dutch language file to more neutral
11293 * (bug 3656) LanguageHr.php - added convertPlural
11294 * (bug 3414) LanguageBe.php - added convertPlural
11295 * (bug 3163) Full translation of LanguageBr
11296 * (bug 3617) Update for portuguese language (pt)
11297 * Namespaces hacks on LanguagePl
11298 * (bug 3682) LanguageSr.php - added convertPlural
11299 * (bug 3694) LanguageTr.php update
11300 * (bug 3711) Removed invisible unicode characters from LanguageHu
11301 * (bug 2981) Linktrail for Tamil (ta)
11302 * (bug 3722) Update of Arabic language (ar) Namespace changes
11303 * Removed hardcoded Norwegian (no) project namespaces
11304 * (bug 2324) image for redirects should be without text and oriented according to content language
11305 * (bug 3666) Don't spew PHP warnings in prefs on unrecognized site language
11306 * (bug 3817) Use localized date formats in preferences; 'no preference' option
11307 localizable as 'datedefault' message. Tweaked lots of languages files...
11308 * (bug 2721) Regression: Use European number separators for vi: wikis
11309 * (bug 3961) minor languageDe changes
11310 * (bug 1984) LanguageKo.php (Korean) update
11311 * (bug 3804) update of LanguageWa.php file
11312 * (bug 3886) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
11313 * (bug 4020) Update namespaces for ms
11314 * (bug 3922) bidi embedding overrides on category links
11315 * (bug 4061) Update of Slovene namespace names (LanguageSl.php)
11316 * (bug 4064) LanguageDe comma changes
11317 * (bug 3922) Further tweaks to bidi overrides in category list for old
11318 versions of Safari and Konqueror
11319 * Fix custom namespaces on wikis set for Portuguese
11320 * (bug 4153) Fix block length localizations in Greek
11321 * (bug 3844) ab: av: ba: ce: & kv: now inherit from LanguageRu.php
11322 ii: & za: now inherit from LanguageZn_cn.php
11323 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
11324 * (bug 4192) Remove silly 'The Free Encyclopedia' default sitesubtitle
11325 * Use content-lang for sitenotice
11326 * (bug 4233) Update LanguageJa.php
11327 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
11328 * (bug 4108, 4336) Remove trailing whitespace from various messages, which
11329 mucks up message updating to create dupe entries
11330 * (bug 4389) Fix math options on zh-hk and zh-tw (but not localized)
11331 * (bug 4392) Update of LanguageSr.php
11332 * (bug 4382) Frisian numeric format
11333 * (bug 4424) Update for Spanish language (es) 100% messages translated
11334 * (bug 4425) Typos in Polish translation
11335 * (bug 4436) Update for Turkish language (tr)
11336 * (bug 4413) Update of Farsi language file (LanguageFa.php)
11337 * Update for LanguageSr (Serbian): magic words
11338 * (bug 137) MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning hardcoding
11339 * (bug 4457) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
11340 * convertPlural breakage fixed a little
11341 * (bug 4144) Support for Sudanese language (Basa Sunda)
11343 - Removed obsolote, badly or untranslated messages
11344 - Removed references to wikipedia/wikimedia etc in messages
11345 - Other cleanup, like removing html and javascript and extension calls
11346 - Removed hardcoded namespaces: Tt, Ms, Ia, Ga, Fo, Bn, Csb, He, Nv, Oc, Tlh
11347 - Removed some useless backwards compatibility hacks
11348 - Fixed formatnum on many languages
11349 * wgAmericanDates check produced incorrect results in languages that don't have
11351 * (bug 4548) Update for Portuguese language (pt): time format
11352 * (bug 4530) Use consistent name for Kurdish
11353 * Tweak default "upload disabled" text
11354 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
11355 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
11356 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
11357 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
11358 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
11359 * (bug 4615) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
11360 * Separated MessagesSl.php as the other languages.
11361 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yiddish for compatibility
11362 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from MessagesUk.php
11363 * (bug 5015) Update magic words translation in LanguageBe.php
11364 * (bug 4859) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
11365 * (bug 4788) One string for MessagesPl
11366 * Restriction types now use restriction-* messages instead of ui messages
11367 * (bug 4685) Slovenian LanguageSl.php hardcodes project namespace
11368 * (bug 5097) Fix Hungarian language (hu): thousands separator
11369 * (bug 5098) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
11370 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
11371 * (bug 5105) Magic words for LanguageAr.php
11372 * (bug 3993) Variants for Serbian language
11373 * Typo in English messages file
11374 * (bug 4114) Spacing in watchlist rows (in editing mode)
11375 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
11376 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yi projects: Yiddish Wikinews fix
11377 * (bug 5357) Add the icon near the user name also in RTL interfaces
11378 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he)
11379 * (bug 4497,4704,5010) Added some new language codes.
11380 * (bug 5362) Piedmontese added
11381 * (bug 5349) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
11382 * (bug 3573) Finished full Greek translation: namespaces
11383 * (bug 5288) Initial localisation for Az
11384 * (bug 4361) Fix "allmessagesnotsupportedui" so it doesn't refer to nonexisting
11386 * Tweak wording of "allmessagesnotsupporteddb"
11389 * (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits
11390 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
11391 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
11392 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
11393 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
11394 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 5.1.0RC4
11395 * (bug 3797) Don't expand variables and sigs in comments
11396 * Allow parser cache on redirect targets
11397 * Run wikitext-escaping on plaintext sigs (no wiki markup, just name)
11398 * Check for unbalanced HTML tags on raw sigs (markup allowed, but show
11399 a warning in prefs and use default sig if not balanced)
11400 * Respect <noinclude> and <includeonly> during {{subst:}} expansion as well as
11401 ordinary templates.
11402 * Support <includeonly> in templates loaded through preload= parameter
11403 * (bug 3979) Save correct {{REVISIONID}} into parser cache on edit
11404 * Substitute {{REVISIONID}} correctly in diff display
11405 * (bug 1850) Allow red-links on image pages linked with [[:image:foo]]
11406 * Fix XML validity checks in parser tests on PHP 5.1
11407 * (bug 4377) "[" is not valid in URLs
11408 * (bug 4453) fix for __TOC__ dollar-number breakage
11409 * Convert unnecessary URL escape codes in external links to their equivalent
11410 character before doing anything with them. This prevents certain kinds of
11411 spam filter evasion.
11412 * (bug 4783) : Fix for "{{ns:0}} does not render"
11413 * Improved support for interwiki transclusion
11414 * (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed.
11415 * (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables
11416 * (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish
11417 * Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}}
11418 etc. Registered via an interface similar to tag hooks.
11421 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
11422 * (bug 3076) Support MacBinary-encoded uploads from IE/Mac
11423 * (bug 2554) Tell users they are uploading too large file
11424 * Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses
11425 * Add 'reupload' and 'reupload-shared' permission keys to restrict new uploads
11426 overwriting existing files; default is the old behavior (allowed).
11429 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
11430 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
11431 * (bug 2613) Clear saved passwords from the form
11432 * IP privacy fix for blocklist search on autoblocks
11433 * Security fix for <math>
11434 * Security fix for tables
11435 * Security fix for Special:Upload license selection list
11436 * Add UploadVerification hook for custom file upload validation/security checks
11437 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
11438 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
11439 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
11440 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
11441 * Forbid usernames that can be interpreted as titles with namespaces, as that
11442 leads to hard-to-manage names.
11443 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
11444 * Add createpage and createtalk permission keys, allowing a quick
11445 switch to disable page creation for anonymous users.
11446 * (bug 675) Add page protection level for unregistered/new accounts
11447 * User::isNewbie now uses the registration date and $wgAutoconfirmAge
11448 * Add 'deletedhistory' permission key for ability to view deleted history
11449 list via Special:Undelete. Default is off, replicating the 1.5 behavior,
11450 but it can be turned back on for random users to replicate the previous
11452 * Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure
11453 * (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures
11454 * Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit
11455 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
11456 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
11457 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
11458 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
11459 * Blocked users can no longer roll back, change the protection of, or delete/undelete pages
11460 * Protect against spoofing of X-Forwarded-For header
11461 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input (fixed in 1.5rc3)
11462 * Remove deprecated $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol references; use User::isAllowed( 'patrol' )
11463 per bug 5282. Patch by Alan Harder.
11464 * Prevent registration/login with the username "MediaWiki default"
11467 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
11468 title and reason input boxes
11469 * (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
11470 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
11471 * (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
11472 * Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by setting
11473 $wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
11474 * Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
11475 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
11476 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
11477 * (bug 2369) Add separate message for input box on Special:Prefixindex
11478 * (bug 3798) DoubleRedirects no longer has hard coded arrows
11479 * (bug 3803) Fix links on Special:Wantedcategories with miser mode off
11480 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
11481 * (bug 3807) Fix 'all' in namespaces drop-down on contribs, rc
11482 * Fail gracefully on invalid namespace in Special:Newpages
11483 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
11484 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
11485 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
11486 * (bug 4059) fix 'hide minor edits' on Recentchangeslinked
11487 * (bug 146) List number of category members in Special:Categories
11488 (patch by Joel Nothman)
11489 * (bug 4090) Fix diff links in Special:Recentchangeslinked
11490 * (bug 4093) '&bot=1' in Special:Contributions now propagate to other links
11491 * Fix display of old recentchanges records for page moves
11492 * (bug 360) Let Whatlinkshere track [[:image:foo]] links
11493 * (bug 3073) Keep search parameter on paging in Special:Newimages
11494 * Removed Special:Validate, it's been superseded by the Review extension
11495 * (bug 4359) red [[user:#id]] links generated in [[special:Log]]
11496 * (bug 1996) Special page to list redirects
11497 * (bug 4334) Add "watch" links to Special:Unwatchedpages
11498 * Generate target user page links in Special:Ipblocklist where appropriate
11499 (i.e. not an autoblock)
11500 * Generate link to talk page of the blocker in Special:Ipblocklist, move
11501 contribs. link of the target next to their name
11502 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
11503 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
11504 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
11505 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
11506 * Add block, block log and general log links to Special:Contributions
11507 * Add contributions link to block log items
11508 * Added optional "hide own edits" feature to Special:Recentchanges
11509 * (bug 5018) Anchors for each message in Special:Allmessages
11510 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
11511 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
11512 * (bug 4319) Don't show a "create account" link on the login form when
11513 account creation is disabled.
11514 * JavaScript filter for Special:Allmessages
11515 * (bug 3047) Don't mention talk pages on Special:Movepage when there isn't one
11516 * Show links to user page, talk page and contributions page on Special:Newpages
11517 * Special:Export can now export a list of all contributors to an article (off by default)
11518 * (bug 5372) Add number of files to Special:Statistics
11519 * (bug 2871) Links to talk pages in watchlist editing view
11520 * (bug 5385) Allow hiding anonymous edits on Special:Recentchanges
11521 * (bug 2544) Illogical error reporting order in Special:Userlogin
11522 * (bug 5409) Hide "show/hide patrolled edits" in Special:Recentchanges if patrolling
11524 * (bug 5447) Convert first letter of username to uppercase before searching in Special:Listusers
11525 * (bug 759) Wrap redirects on the watchlist editing page in a span, class "watchlistredir"
11526 * (bug 1862) Namespace filtering in watchlists
11529 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
11530 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
11531 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
11532 * (bug 2323) Remove "last" tabindex from history page
11533 * (bug 3116) Division by zero on [[Image:Foo.png|123x123px|]]
11534 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
11535 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
11536 as a proxy debugging aid
11537 * (bug 3170) Page Title failed to obey MediaWiki:Pagetitle.
11538 wikititlesuffix was removed
11539 * Add ability to break off certain debug topics into additional log files;
11540 use $wgDebugLogGroups to configure and wfDebugLog() to log.
11541 * Edit conflict on recreation of deleted page
11542 * (bug 3216) Don't show empty warning page when no warnings.
11543 * (bug 3218) Use proper quoting on history Compare Revisions button
11544 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage [for rc future]
11545 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
11546 * Remove "info" editing toolbar that was shown in browsers which do not
11547 fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
11548 * Don't override edit conflict suppression on section edits; section merging
11549 should provide the expected transparency here and fits usage patterns better.
11550 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
11551 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
11552 * Fix regressions in ChangesList traditional layout
11553 * Fix edit on double-click for move-protected pages in Classic skin
11554 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
11555 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
11556 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
11557 * Add options to dumpBackup.php for making split/partial dumps by page id
11558 * Added filter options, compression piping, and multiple output streams for
11560 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
11561 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
11562 * Added separate noarticletext and newarticletext messages for logged in and anon users.
11563 * (bug 3332) Installation now uses Monobook, validates, plus usability improvements.
11564 * (bug 3660) Update diff3 detection to work with Windows/Cygwin
11565 * (bug 2330) Don't do funny thinks with "links" in MediaWiki:Undeletedtext
11566 * Two-pass data dump for friendliness to the DB (--stub, then dumpTextPass.php)
11567 * Data dump 'prefetch' mode to read normalized text from a prior dump
11568 (requires PHP 5, XMLReader extension)
11569 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
11570 * (bug 2938) Update MediaWiki:Exporttext to be more general
11572 * Fix wfMsg*() replacements; args containing literal $[2-9] were wiped
11573 * Added @import for [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to all skins
11574 * Edit box now remembers scrollbar position on preview
11575 * (bug 3816) Throw edit conflict instead of fatal error when a page is
11576 moved or deleted during section edit
11577 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
11578 * (bug 3291) 'last' diff link for last history line when not at end
11579 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
11580 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
11581 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
11582 * (bug 3852) "Redirected from" link no longer obscured on double-redirects
11583 * changed directory hierarchy in images/math/. System upgrades from old to
11584 new hierarchy on the fly.
11585 * (bug 3487) Fix category edit preview with preview-on-bottom
11586 * (bug 918) Search index incorrectly joined words at == headings ==
11587 * (bug 3877) Render math images into temp directory, then move to hashed
11588 subdir so you can render new math images and have them work
11589 * (bug 2392) Fix Atom items content type, upgrade to Atom 1.0
11590 * Allow $wgFeedCacheTimeout of 0 to disable feed caching
11591 * Fix WebRequest::getRequestURL() to strip off the host bits squid prepends
11592 * Require POST for action=purge, to stop bots from purging the cache
11593 * Added local message cache feature ($wgLocalMessageCache), to reduce bandwidth
11594 requirements to the memcached server.
11595 * (bug 3562) for go search, try Caps-Variants-Broken-At-Non-Whitespace
11596 * (bug 2569) Use PATH_SEPARATOR instead of trying to guess based on
11597 DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (was wrong on NetWare)
11598 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
11599 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
11600 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
11601 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
11602 * (bug 3999) Change atom 1.0 feed id; had been unnecessarily complex due to
11603 unclear language in the spec. Now using the URL, same as the permalink,
11604 which someone else will probably whine about because it's not 'perma'
11605 enough or something.
11606 * (bug 4014) Fix include mode for Allpages on small page sets
11607 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
11608 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
11609 * Changed mail form to have a bigger message entry box (like for editing
11611 * Fix ulimit parameters for wfShellExec when memory_limit is specified in 'm'
11612 * (bug 2111) Collapsable exif metadata table, clean up display
11613 * Reduce fractions in display of exif exposure time
11614 * (bug 4048) Optional footer link to site privacy policy
11615 * Don't die() when update.php reaches the end of the warning count
11616 * (bug 1915) Fix edit links when 'direction' used with 'oldid';
11617 using revision ID reported via OutputPage; Skin::editUrlOptions()
11618 * Remove obsolete 'redirect=no' on some edit links
11619 * Include oldid for the second revision on edit link on diff view
11620 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
11621 * (bug 4100, 3049) Add 'edittools' message to hold edit tools, put it
11622 on Special:Upload as well as edit, rearrange edit page pieces a bit.
11623 Copyright warning now above the buttons to ensure it's visible,
11624 template list at the bottom so it can grow.
11625 * Optional summary parameter to action=rollback, for user javascript
11626 * (bug 4167) Fix regression caused by patch for bug 153
11627 * (bug 4169) Use $wgLegalTitleChars in pipe trick conversions
11628 * (bug 4170) Decode HTML character escapes in sort key
11629 * (bug 4201) Fix user-talk mode for Enotif, and general code cleanup
11630 * (bug 4214) Skip redundant action text inserts into the HTML <title>
11631 * (bug 4212) Skip redundant meta-robots tag for default settings
11632 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links in Nostalgia skin
11633 * (bug 1600) Trigger edit conflict on duplicate section=new submissions
11634 * (bug 4001) Use local variables properly in wikibits.js akeytt()
11635 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links on CSS/JS pages
11636 * (bug 3211) Include Date, To mail headers when using PEAR::Mail
11637 * (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification
11638 mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of
11639 a raw string to abstract things a level.
11640 * Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php
11641 * Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output
11642 sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension
11643 * (bug 349) Fix for some numeric differences not being highlighted
11644 patch by Andrius Ramanauskas
11645 * (bug 4298) Include rc_id on enhanced RC singleton diff links for patrolling
11646 * Did some refactoring on ChangesList.php merging dupe code
11647 * (bug 1586) Fix interwiki generator for wikimedia obscure domains
11648 * (bug 3493) Mark edits patrolled when they are reverted
11649 patch by Leon Planken
11650 * Removed experimental Amethyst skin from default set
11651 * Upgrade old skin preferences properly at Special:Preferences
11652 (used to spontaneously switch to Classic skin for old numeric pref records)
11653 * (bug 3424) Update page_touched for category members on category page creation
11654 * Log views show message when no matches
11655 * Fix raw sitenotice display on database error
11656 * Fix autoconfirm check for old accounts
11657 * (bug 4368) Don't show useless empty preview on new section creation
11658 * Don't show useless empty preview on new page creation
11659 * (bug 4411) Fix messages diff link for classic skin
11660 * (bug 4385) Separate parser cache entries for non-editing users, so section
11661 edit links don't vanish / appear unwanted on protected pages
11662 * (bug 2726, 3397) Fix [[Special:]] and [[:Image]] links in action=render
11663 * (bug 4419) Remove obsolete magnify.png.old
11664 * Removed $wgUseCategoryMagic option, categories are now enabled unconditionally
11665 * (bug 3318) UI workarounds for disabled items in license selector
11666 MSIE/Win: items now grayed out, JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked
11667 Safari: JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked (but not gray)
11668 MSIE/Mac: indented items now visible (JS hack)
11669 * (bug 714) "plainlinks" class issues in IE, Opera
11670 * (bug 4317) Inconsistent "broken redirects" messages
11671 * Default interface text for "selflinks" tweaked
11672 * (bug 3194) default implementation of translateBlockExpiry
11673 which uses ipboptions
11674 * (bug 4446) $wgExportAllowHistory option to explicitly disable history in
11675 Special:Export form, 'exportnohistory' message to translate live hack.
11676 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
11677 * (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links)
11678 * $wgParserCacheExpireTime added
11679 * Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed
11680 * Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source
11681 size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage.
11682 * Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects
11683 * Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage
11684 * Improve "upload disabled" notice
11685 * Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php
11686 and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object
11687 * (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output
11688 HTML on final output (cached or not)
11689 * Avoid PHP notice on command-line scripts if empty argument is passed ('')
11690 * (bug 4571) Partial fix hack for {{fulllurl:}} in action=render
11691 * (bug 3502) Bowtie symbol for TeX
11692 * (bug 4000) Support for \textstyle et al. in <math>
11693 * (bug 1663) support color in TeX formulas
11694 * (bug 2026) missing glue around \not= (TeX)
11695 * (bug 4576) Missing '>' broke license selector's first option in IE, Opera
11696 * Override $wgLocaltimezone in parser tests for us outside Iceland and UK
11697 * Fix extra whitespace at end of Wiki.php, DESTROYS XML OUTPUT
11698 * Remove redundant 'echo' statements from MonoBook.php
11699 * (bug 1103) Fix up redirect handling for images, categories
11700 Redirects are now followed from the top-level, outside of the Article
11701 content loading and viewing, for clarity and consistency.
11702 * (bug 4104) 'OutputPageBeforeHTML' hook to postprocess article HTML on
11703 page view (comes after parser cache, if used). Patch by ThomasV.
11704 * Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5
11705 if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy.
11706 * Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers.
11707 * Remove obsolete killthread.php
11708 * Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code
11709 to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error.
11710 * Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin
11711 for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell
11712 * Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs
11713 * Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks.
11714 Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5
11715 * (bug 4482) Include move comment on the null edit as well as the redirect
11716 * (bug 3990) Use existing session name if session.auto_start is on
11717 Fixes checks for open sessions, such as the cookie warning on login.
11718 Patch by Zbigniew Braniecki.
11719 * Add cache-safe alternate sitenotice for anonymous users. (MediaWiki:Anonnotice)
11720 This is displayed instead of the regular sitenotice, if it exists. If not, the
11721 regular sitenotice shows. If that doesn't exist, the value of $wgSiteNotice is used,
11722 and if that's null, then nothing is shown.
11723 * Spit the generated LocalSettings code out during the installer as an aid
11724 to debugging issues. (Keep this?)
11725 * Use __FILE__ to form path in new LocalSettings.php, so it stays accurate
11726 when the directory is relocated for typical usage.
11727 * Auto-update $wgCacheEpoch when LocalSettings.php changes on new installs.
11728 For typical usage this will be a light burden and should reduce confusion
11729 when the configuration is edited.
11730 * Fix $wgCacheEpoch's effect on client-side caching.
11731 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
11732 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
11733 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
11735 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
11736 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
11737 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
11738 * Add ".deps.php" include-file preloaders for some dynamically-loaded
11739 language and skin classes. Should help with the broken base-class
11740 problem under PHP 5 with APC as opcode cache. See details:
11741 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033660.html
11742 * Small changes to tabs in Monobook skin c/o Chris Ware
11743 * (bug 4679) Work around buggy basename() function in PHP5, which breaks
11744 uploads of files starting with multibyte characters on Linux.
11745 wfBaseName() doesn't suffer this bug, and understands backslash on
11746 both Unix and Windows.
11747 * (bug 3603) headscripts variable not hooked up to MonoBook skin
11748 * Allow local cdb-based interwiki cache
11749 * Use the "block", not the "protect" permission, when determining whether to
11750 show a "block user" link in the toolbox
11751 * Fix backup dump text prefetch for XMLReader constant changes in PHP 5.1
11752 * Suppress useless percentage indicator on output from 7za during dumps
11753 * (bug 4633) Add (previous 200) (next 200) also above catlinks
11754 * (bug 4686) Fix regression where ?diff=0&oldid=0 caused fatal error on
11755 pages with only one revision. Fixes message diff link on first edit.
11756 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
11757 * Do not check lag on external storage servers
11758 * Do not tidy interface messages (unless full tidy is set)
11759 * Do not trust equality propagation and give more hints to MySQL
11760 optimizer for revision fetches (avoids index scans)
11761 * Use revision rate for ETA in dump generation; it tends to be more stable
11762 than the per-page count for full-history dumps.
11763 * Include timestamp in wfDebugLog breakouts
11764 * (bug 4469) Namespace-specific notice to be displayed below site-notice
11765 Edit messages like "MediaWiki:Namespacenotice-" plus namespace name
11766 which is blank for main namespace, or like e.g. "User_talk"
11767 * Adjust user login/creation form hooks to work with a captcha plugin
11768 * (bug 1284) Inline styles for diffs in Recent Changes RSS/Atom feeds
11769 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
11770 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
11771 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
11772 * Fix extra namespace for Bulgarian
11773 * (bug 4303) Add $wgFavicon to change the shorticon icon link from
11774 the default /favicon.ico or disable it (if set to false)
11775 * (bug 3347) strip linebreaks in math error source
11776 * (bug 4841) Warning for non-logged-in edits
11777 * (bug 4867) Leave invalid EXIF date fields unformatted instead of
11778 showing a bogus current timestamp
11779 * Reset $wgActionPaths during parser test; corrects some false failures
11780 in the automated test report.
11781 * (bug 4875) Define a div containing the shared image description
11782 * (bug 4860) Expose Title->userCan() as Hooks
11783 * (bug 4828) Fix genitive month-name variable for cs, pl, uk
11784 * (bug 4842) Fix 'show number of watching users' with enhanced RC
11785 * (bug 4889) Fix image talk namespace for Tamil
11786 * (bug 4147) Added cleanupWatchlist.php to clear out bogus watchlist entries
11787 * (partial bug 3456) Disable auto redirect to Main Page after account creation
11788 * (bug 4824) Separate out IE7 CSS compat hacks, fix for RTL pages
11789 * Added support for wikidiff2 and similar external diff engines.
11790 * Allow cookies to be shared between multiple wikis with a shared user database
11791 * Blocking some Unicode whitespace characters in usernames. Should check
11792 if some or all should be blocked from all page titles.
11793 * Unknown log types no longer throw notices everywhere in RecentChanges
11794 * (bug 4502, 5017) Don't render potentially hostile deleted page contents
11795 on Special:Undelete by default; show source, with an optional preview.
11796 The revisions list no longer shows the latest text by default, so it can
11797 still be operated if the text is hostile.
11798 * (bug 5013) Check for existence on "return to" links
11799 * Removed trailing whitespace on a bunch more messages.
11800 * Fix missing bad title check in Special:Booksources
11801 * Remove empty booksources string in fy
11802 * Avoid corrupting <gallery> inside <!-- comment -->
11803 * Remove legacy PHPTal code, hasn't been maintained in ages.
11804 * Tweak Userlogin include order for APC issue
11805 * Don't try to link to current page on protection tab
11806 * More exact checking in Title::equals() to fox moves of numerically similar
11807 page titles. (Odd hex title bug on 64-bit.)
11808 * Fix explicit s-maxage=0 on raw pages; should help with proxy issues in
11809 generated stylesheets... hopefully...
11810 * (bug 4685) More fixes for Slovenian project namespace
11811 * Fixed and enhanced a little the Live Preview, which had been broken for some time
11812 * Added article size limit, $wgMaxArticleSize
11813 * (bug 4974) Don't follow redirected talk page on "new messages" link
11814 * (bug 4970) Make category paging limits configurable
11815 * (bug 4535) Warn user when editing CSS or JS subpage of a skin that doesn't exist
11816 * Make Live Preview an user preference, still controllable by the global variable
11817 * Rename the stub LanguageAls / LanguageGem_alsation to LanguageGsw to follow
11818 updated language code assignments
11819 * (bug 5081) Remove bogus fix for invalid characters in links which simply
11820 broke use of legitimate multiple whitespace characters in bracketed link.
11821 * (bug 4838) Add relative oldids (prev, next, cur) for raw pages
11823 * (bug 5086) Force image resize dimensions on ImageMagick, as for instance
11824 "-resize 100x35!"; some thumbs were off due to differences in rounding and
11825 would be generated smaller than expected.
11826 * (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights
11827 * Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page
11828 * (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment
11829 with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field)
11830 * (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off
11831 * (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector
11832 * (bug 5152) Proper HTML escaping on subpage breadcrumbs
11833 * (bug 4855) Section edit links now have the section name in the title attribute.
11834 * (bug 2115) Support shift-selecting multiple checkboxes with JavaScript.
11835 * (bug 5161) Don't try to load template list for nonexistent pages
11836 * (bug 5228) Workaround for broken LanguageConverter title overrides; avoid
11837 unnecessary hidden UI work when watch/unwatch is performed on edit
11838 * Fixed bogus master fallback in external storage
11839 * (bug 5246) Add speak:none to "hiddenStructure" class in main.css
11840 * Further work on rev_deleted; changed to a bitfield with several data-hiding
11841 options. Not yet ready for production use; Special:Revisiondelete is
11842 incomplete, and the flags are not preserved across page deletion/undeletion.
11843 To try it; add the 'deleterevision' permission to a privileged group.
11844 * (bug 5270) Fix broken linktrail for br, cv, fr, hr, nn, oc, ta, wa
11845 * Add a clickable contribs link in user tool links (rc, watchlist, diff view)
11846 to see how people like it. (There was one in the old hacked-up diff view.)
11847 * (bug 5236) Load wikibits.js before site-customized javascript
11848 * (bug 4119) Workaround for <nowiki> following link in Walloon; remove capitals
11849 from linktrail, as they're not used anywhere else.
11850 * (bug 4781) Output links with the percent-encoding they're supplied with;
11851 save the normalization for internal link storage. The normalization is a bit
11852 buggy and can make incorrect foldings in the query string and such, so isn't
11853 reliable beyond the hostname where it's used for the spam bulk checker.
11854 * Don't URL-decode in the title attribute for URL links; it can produce false
11855 results that don't code back to their original values.
11856 * (bug 4611) Add user preference (default on) to add new pages to creators's watchlist
11857 * (bug 5286) Fix regression in display of missing/bad revision IDs
11858 * (bug 4729) Add user preference that marks a user's edits as patrolled if user is able to
11859 * (bug 4630) Add user preference to prompt users when entering blank edit summaries
11860 * Added optional suggest feature for the search box. Set wgUseAjax to true to
11862 * (bug 5277) Use audio/midi rather that audio/mid
11863 * (bug 5410) Use namespace name when a custom namespace's nstab-NS message is nonexistent
11864 * (bug 5432) Fix inconsistencies in cookie names when using table prefixes
11865 * Additional protections against HTML breakage in table parsing
11866 * (bug 5355) Include skin name and style JS settings in page source;
11867 fixes regression where Opera 6/7 and KHTML CSS fixes weren't applied
11868 when wikibits.js was moved up before user JS inclusion.
11869 * Added $wgColorErrors: if set, database error messages will be highlighted
11870 when running command-line scripts in a Unix terminal.
11871 * (bug 5195) rebuildrecentchanges.php works again; Database::insertSelect now
11872 has a parameter for select options.
11873 * Fix updateSearchIndex.php for new schema
11874 * Fix bogus "filename too short" error when uploading files with a period in the base
11875 name, e.g. "Mr. Zee.png"
11876 * (bug 2139) Show page title in subtitle when viewing "read only" page
11877 * (bug 5452) Update language name for Cree
11883 == MediaWiki 1.5.8 ==
11887 MediaWiki 1.5.8 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
11889 A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw
11890 HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks.
11892 Some minor UI fixes were also made, see the change log at the bottom of
11896 == MediaWiki 1.5.7 ==
11900 MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release.
11902 Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug
11903 affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root
11904 password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the
11905 installer would not only create the new account but also change the root
11906 password to be equal to the password of the new account.
11908 Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back
11909 manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see:
11910 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html
11912 This version includes fixes for compatibility with Internet Explorer 7
11913 beta 2, and various other bugs; see the full changelog at the end of
11917 == MediaWiki 1.5.6 ==
11921 MediaWiki 1.5.6 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
11923 A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop
11924 if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this
11925 would cause the script to fail after PHP's 30-second failsafe timeout.
11927 Some improvements have been made to the installer which should make
11928 installation possible on a system with a broken MySQL "root" account.
11930 For several other minor fixes, see the complete changelog at the end
11934 == MediaWiki 1.5.5 ==
11938 MediaWiki 1.5.5 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
11940 Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added
11941 to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft
11942 Windows operating systems.
11944 Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types
11945 (such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure
11946 that malicious .wmf files can't be uploaded with a fake extension;
11947 such files could put visitors to the site at risk.
11949 For more details on this, see:
11950 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
11952 Additionally, a maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts.php has been added;
11953 this replaces an older Perl script which had not been updated for the new
11957 == MediaWiki 1.5.4 ==
11961 MediaWiki 1.5.4 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
11963 A hardcoded internal placeholder string has been replaced with a random
11964 one. This closes a hole where security checks in inline style attributes
11965 could be bypassed, injecting JavaScript code that could execute in
11966 Microsoft Internet Explorer.
11968 Other browsers would not be vulnerable.
11970 Several minor fixes are included in this release, most notably a fix
11971 to clear the "you have new messages" flag properly for usernames
11972 containing spaces when e-mail notification is enabled.
11974 See the changelog at the end of the release notes for a full list of
11978 == MediaWiki 1.5.3 ==
11982 MediaWiki 1.5.3 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
11984 Validation of the user language option was broken by a code change in
11985 May 2005, opening the possibility of remote code execution as this
11986 parameter is used in forming a class name dynamically created with
11989 The validation has been corrected in this version. All prior 1.5 release
11990 and prelease versions are affected; 1.4 and earlier and not affected.
11992 Additionally several bugs have been fixed; see the changelog later in
11993 this file for a complete list.
11996 == MediaWiki 1.5.2 ==
12000 MediaWiki 1.5.2 is a bugfix maintenance release.
12002 A change in PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC broke handling of extension and
12003 <pre> sections, causing garbage data to be inserted in output and saved
12004 edits. This version works around the change.
12006 Several other glitches with MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0.5 were also fixed;
12007 see the change log below for a complete list.
12010 == MediaWiki 1.5.1 ==
12014 MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a
12015 recommended upgrade for all installations.
12017 This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style sanitation
12018 which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
12019 Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may be vulnerable to
12020 XSS injections on prior versions; users of standards-compliant browsers
12021 are not vulnerable.
12023 Major fixes include:
12024 * Image pages work again with resizing disabled
12025 * Works in MySQL 5.0 strict mode
12027 There is experimental support in this release for explicitly declaring
12028 the UTF-8 charset in the database; this has been tested with MySQL 5.0.15
12029 but should work on 4.1 as well.
12031 IMPORTANT: Changing this setting on an existing wiki may produce interesting
12032 data corruption, depending on server configuration. Page contents should,
12033 usually, be unaffected, but page titles and other items may be. Limitations
12034 in MySQL's Unicode support mean that characters outside the BMP cannot be used
12035 in page titles or various other fields when using this mode.
12037 Table definitions are in maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql, and the runtime
12038 option to send 'SET NAMES utf8' is set by $wgDBmysql5 = true.
12040 (MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on these
12041 versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is blissfully
12046 == MediaWiki 1.5.0 final ==
12050 MediaWiki 1.5.0 is the new stable release branch of MediaWiki, and is
12051 recommended for all new installations.
12053 Any wikis running a 1.5 beta or release candidate are strongly recommended
12054 to upgrade to the final release, which includes a number of bug fixes and
12055 a security fix for CSS bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
12057 IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet?
12058 Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions
12059 prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is
12060 triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.
12063 === What's new in 1.5? ===
12066 The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better
12067 use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up
12068 rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories.
12070 Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require
12071 some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend
12072 changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily.
12075 The current revision of a page now has a permanent 'oldid' number assigned
12076 immediately, and the id numbers are now preserved across deletion/undeletion.
12077 A permanent reference to the current revision of a page is now just a matter
12078 of going to the 'history' tab and copying the first link in the list.
12081 Renames of pages are now recorded in Special:Log and the page history.
12082 A handy revert link is available from the log for sysops.
12085 Ever lost track of what you'd done so far during an edit? A 'Show diff'
12086 button on the edit page now makes it easy to remember.
12089 It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct
12090 from the original filename on your disk.
12092 An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page.
12094 More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure
12095 on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on
12096 the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module.
12098 If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render
12099 them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several
12100 external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options.
12103 There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable
12104 groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only
12105 accessible to certain groups.
12107 For details see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights
12110 User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation
12111 first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses.
12113 Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail
12117 A somewhat experimental interface for hooking in an external editor
12118 application is included.
12121 A bunch of stuff we forgot to mention.
12124 === What's gone? ===
12127 Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for
12128 some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode.
12129 This is no longer supported.
12131 You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's
12132 "view source"; look for a line like this:
12134 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
12136 If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1,
12137 you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding
12138 any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.)
12141 Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema
12142 clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields).
12144 MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should
12145 very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support
12146 will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release.
12148 Special:Maintenance
12149 These tools were, ironically enough, not really maintained. This special
12150 page has been removed; insofar as some of its pieces were useful and haven't
12151 already been supplanted by other special pages they should be rewritten in
12152 an efficient and safe manner in the future.
12158 Wikis in Latin-1 encoding are no longer supported; only Unicode UTF-8.
12159 A new option $wgLegacyEncoding is provided to allow on-the-fly recoding of
12160 old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need
12161 to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate
12162 this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php.
12164 The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so
12165 it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations.
12168 The text entries of deleted pages are no longer removed from the main
12169 text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases,
12170 you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available
12171 as maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
12173 For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia,
12174 see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
12177 The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date. PostgreSQL
12178 support may return in later releases, pending appropriate patches.
12181 Some users may encounter installation problems with MySQL 4.1 or higher
12182 due to strange charset encoding / collation configurations. Try setting
12183 to 'latin1' or 'utf8' if you encounter problems.
12187 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 4 ==
12191 MediaWiki 1.5rc4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
12192 It fixes compatibility with PHP 5.1, and corrects two cross-site scripting
12195 * <math> tags were handled incorrectly when TeX rendering support is off,
12196 as in the default configuration.
12197 * Extension or <nowiki> sections in Wiki table syntax could bypass HTML
12198 style attribute restrictions for cross-site scripting attacks against
12199 Microsoft Internet Explorer
12201 Wikis where the optional math support has been *enabled* are not vulnerable
12202 to the first, but are vulnerable to the second.
12206 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 3 ==
12210 MediaWiki 1.5rc3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
12211 It fixes several major problems in 1.5rc2:
12213 * Fixed a cross-site scripting injection in the search form
12214 (broken since 1.5beta1)
12216 * Fixed upgrades from 1.4 database schema
12217 (broken since 1.5rc2)
12219 1.3 and 1.4 releases are not vulnerable to the XSS bug, but anyone
12220 running an earlier 1.5 beta or release candidate should upgrade
12224 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 2 ==
12228 MediaWiki 1.5rc2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
12229 Numerous bug fixes since last beta, plus a security fix; see change
12230 log below for full details.
12232 A flaw in the interaction between extensions and HTML attribute
12233 sanitization was discovered which could allow unauthorized use
12234 of offsite resources in style sheets, and possible exploitation
12235 of a JavaScript injection feature on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
12237 This version expands the returned text and properly checks it
12240 A 1.5rc1 release was mistakenly made from the incorrect source code
12241 branch; 1.5rc2 is identical to the actual 1.5rc1 in revision control
12242 except for version number.
12245 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 ==
12249 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
12250 A number of bugs have been fixed since beta 3; see the full changelist below.
12253 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 ==
12257 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release
12258 series, with a security update over beta 2.
12260 Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could
12261 be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a
12262 maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are
12263 recommended to upgrade to this release.
12265 Vulnerable versions:
12266 * 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3
12267 * 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6
12268 * 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable
12270 This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates.
12271 See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list.
12275 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 ==
12279 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
12280 While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point,
12281 third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release
12282 on a public site without closely following additional development.
12284 Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to
12285 upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including
12286 a couple of HTML and SQL injections.
12288 This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and
12289 a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks.
12291 Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades
12292 from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and
12293 configuration file changes.
12295 Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool,
12296 maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
12297 These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able
12298 to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database
12299 and compression format.
12302 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 ==
12306 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 is a preview release, pretty much feature complete,
12307 of the new 1.5 release series. There are several known and likely a number
12308 of unknown bugs; it is not recommended to use this release in a production
12309 environment but would be recommended for testing in mind of an upcoming
12312 A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases,
12313 including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings.
12314 See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior
12315 configuration settings for the new system.
12319 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 ==
12323 MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 includes a lot of bug fixes, feature merges,
12324 and a security update.
12326 Incorrect handling of page template inclusions made it possible to
12327 inject JavaScript code into HTML attributes, which could lead to
12328 cross-site scripting attacks on a publicly editable wiki.
12330 Vulnerable releases and fix:
12331 * 1.5 prerelease: fixed in 1.5alpha2
12332 * 1.4 stable series: fixed in 1.4.5
12333 * 1.3 legacy series: fixed in 1.3.13
12334 * 1.2 series no longer supported; upgrade to 1.4.5 strongly recommended
12337 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 1 ==
12341 This is a testing preview release, being put out mainly to aid testers in
12342 finding installation bugs and other major problems. It is strongly recommended
12343 NOT to run a live production web site on this alpha release.
12345 ** WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH **
12346 ** TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH, GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE **
12347 ** INNUENDO INTO YOUR C.V. RIGHT BEFORE A JOB INTERVIEW! **
12348 ** DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE. **
12351 === Smaller changes since 1.4 ===
12353 Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things:
12355 * 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
12356 * support for external editors for files and wiki pages:
12357 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors
12358 * Schema reworking: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
12359 * (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit
12360 * (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
12361 * (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
12362 * (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
12363 * (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
12364 * (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
12365 * (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month
12366 * (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see:
12367 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
12368 * (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database
12369 revision id, useful for proper citation.
12370 * (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
12371 * (bug 2064) Configurable JavaScript mimetype with $wgJsMimeType
12372 * (bug 2084) Fixed a regular expression in includes/Title.php that was accepting invalid syntax like #REDIRECT [[foo] in redirects
12373 * It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
12374 * No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
12375 * What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
12376 * Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
12377 * Language conversion support for category pages
12378 * $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
12379 * Special:Movepage can now take parameters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move
12380 (used to just be able to take parameters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
12381 * (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one has edited the article.
12382 * (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail.
12383 * (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation
12387 === Changes since 1.5alpha1 ===
12389 * (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category to
12390 file description from upload page (previously it would be set to
12391 "Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging)
12392 * (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable through
12393 the MediaWiki namespace on the MediaWiki:navbar page.
12394 * (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable
12395 * (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded files
12396 including virus checks using external programs.
12397 * (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab
12398 * (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization, update namespaces
12399 * (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs" to "Limburgs
12400 * (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in <div dir='ltr'> in order
12401 to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis.
12402 * (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute
12403 * (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization
12404 * (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message
12405 * (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases
12406 * (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed
12407 * (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for "sharedupload" media
12408 * (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form
12409 * (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for <td> and <th>
12410 * (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now
12411 * (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests
12412 * (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation
12413 * (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install
12414 * Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates, {{msg: is
12415 now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent()
12416 * Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries
12417 * HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up
12418 multiple-revision pulls
12419 * Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of
12420 copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub reference
12421 records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields. Requires
12422 that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields are migrated
12423 into the main text store.
12424 * Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by
12425 default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason)
12426 * dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with current
12427 revisions only or complete histories.
12428 * The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved word in
12429 SQL which caused some inconveniances.
12430 * New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid, mov, o,
12431 ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on the KDE
12433 * Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0'
12434 * Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Íslenzka"
12435 * The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation
12436 * Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of
12437 admnistrators out of normal users.
12438 * links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce pain
12439 dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages.
12440 * Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater.
12441 * Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits
12442 (somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached)
12443 * (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled
12444 * (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image.
12445 * Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema
12446 * Remove linkscc table code, no longer used.
12447 * (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text
12448 instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation.
12449 * Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once.
12450 * Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single function
12451 that does both numeric and named chars: Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences
12452 * Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions
12453 * Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements
12454 * (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move
12455 * (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save;
12456 leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview.
12457 * (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list
12458 * (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title from the watchlist
12459 * Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces.
12460 * (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments
12461 * (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags
12462 * (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's external
12463 LDAP authentication plugin
12464 * (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging
12466 === Changes since 1.5alpha2 ===
12468 * (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching
12469 * (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages
12470 * (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts
12471 * (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set
12472 * (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning
12473 * (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute zone,
12474 with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304)
12475 * Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for <hr> and <br>
12476 * Changed user_groups format quite a bit.
12477 * (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line
12478 * (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move
12479 * (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links
12480 * (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking
12481 * (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a possible
12482 version conflict is detected
12483 * (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes
12484 * (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1
12485 when the default charset is set to utf8
12486 * (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if
12487 $wgEmailAuthentication is false.
12488 * (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings
12489 when a template with a gallery was used.
12490 * Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery
12491 * (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!)
12492 * Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact
12493 * Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all groups
12494 when searching for a specific group and can't be split across pages
12495 * (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank link
12496 for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files.
12497 * (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount
12498 * (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser
12499 * (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file
12500 * (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special page
12502 * (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation
12503 * A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath
12504 * A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName
12505 * A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in the image table
12506 * Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_"
12507 * Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary
12508 * badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages
12509 * Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format
12510 * 'developer' group deprecated by default
12511 * Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check
12512 * Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import
12513 * (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links
12514 * (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke too many
12515 things for the current parser to handle cleanly
12516 * (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file
12517 * Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to
12518 be forgotten between submits
12519 * Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
12520 * (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to separate it from
12521 "Show preview" and "Show changes"
12522 * Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to
12523 harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
12524 * The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off by default
12525 and can be turned back on by setting $wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value.
12526 * Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail, replacing
12527 the factually inaccurate text that was there.
12528 * (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again
12529 * (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext
12530 * (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php
12531 * (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who don't
12532 realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted printable page.
12533 * Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems
12534 * Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA)
12535 * (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation
12536 * (bug 2506, 2512) Updated the Nynorsk translation
12537 * (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup UPGRADE
12538 documentation about edit and read whitelists.
12539 * (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update
12540 * Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's
12541 * (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page
12542 * Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension
12543 writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension
12545 * Serialized user objects now checked for versioning
12546 * Fix for interwiki link regression
12547 * Printable link shorter in monobook
12548 * Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script
12549 * (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled
12551 == Changes since 1.5beta1 ==
12553 * (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to
12554 Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski))
12555 * Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace()
12556 * Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php
12557 * Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave
12558 * (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks
12559 * Fix paging on Special:Contributions
12560 * (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab
12561 * (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page
12562 * Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
12563 * Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
12564 * (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image
12565 * (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface language
12566 * Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave
12567 * Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
12568 * (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit
12569 * Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user
12570 agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was
12571 not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of
12573 * Moved the user name / password validity checking from
12574 LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions,
12575 User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do
12576 these checks without rewriting code.
12577 * Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-'
12578 * Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a
12580 * upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization
12581 * Fix namespaces in category list.
12582 * Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields
12583 * Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now
12584 * (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused
12585 the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off.
12586 * (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size
12587 * Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled
12588 * Don't show old debug messages in watchlist
12589 * (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links
12590 * (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times
12591 * Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert'
12592 status between next/previous buttons.
12593 * Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar
12594 * (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list
12595 * (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages
12596 * (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries
12597 for uploaded files that don't have them
12598 * (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling
12599 * (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last
12600 page in the article history pager.
12601 * Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page
12602 * (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere
12603 * (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list
12604 * (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page
12605 * (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision
12606 * Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets
12607 * Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4
12608 * (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit
12609 * Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage
12610 * HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first
12611 * (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set
12612 Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view.
12613 * (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as
12614 subpage parent links) on current-diff view.
12615 * (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for
12616 categories only if the page does not exist.
12617 * (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers
12618 * (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection
12619 * Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4
12620 * (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems.
12621 * (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces.
12622 * (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list
12623 * (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and
12624 recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly.
12625 * (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin.
12626 * (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles.
12627 * (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images
12628 * (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of
12629 rejecting lowercase with a useless error message
12630 * (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs
12631 * Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into
12632 edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead
12633 of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
12634 * (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and
12635 Spanish numeric formatting
12636 * Fixed Swedish numeric formatting
12637 * (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again
12638 * Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their
12639 image description pages when viewed on local wikis.
12640 * Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia
12641 * Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link
12642 * (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support
12643 dynamic date conversion.
12644 * FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links
12645 * (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse
12646 * Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it
12647 * (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru:
12648 * (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips
12649 * (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page
12650 * (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used <a></a> instead of [ ]
12651 * (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch)
12652 * Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits
12653 * Removed language conversion support from Icelandic
12654 * (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height
12655 * (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images
12656 * Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs
12657 * (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses
12658 * (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data:
12659 namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version.
12660 * Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export <text> elements
12661 * Make language variant selection work again for zh
12663 == Changes since 1.5beta2 ==
12665 * Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions
12666 * (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work
12667 * (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt
12668 * (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization
12669 * Fixed number formatting for Dutch
12670 * (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css
12671 * (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia
12672 * Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia
12673 * (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia
12674 * (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database
12675 * (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles
12676 * Fix escaping in page move template.
12677 * (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and <img> height attribute
12679 == Changes since 1.5beta3 ==
12681 * Fix talk page move handling
12682 * (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation
12683 * (bug 2749) would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv
12684 * (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash
12685 * Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some
12686 interesting errors with signitures.
12687 * (bug 2764) Number format for Nds
12688 * (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language.
12689 * (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories
12690 * (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian
12691 * Fix nohistory message on empty page history
12692 * Fix fatal error in history when validation on
12693 * Cleaned up email notification message formatting
12694 * Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK
12695 * (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish
12696 * (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion
12697 * Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records
12698 * (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema
12699 * (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format
12700 * (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing
12701 * Nynorsk numeric format fix
12702 * (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off
12703 * (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix
12704 * With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match
12705 * Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]]
12706 * (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]]
12707 * (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements
12708 * Some shared upload fixes
12709 * (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
12710 * support preload= parameter for section=new
12711 * show comment subject in preview when using section=new
12712 * use comment form when creating a new talk page
12713 * (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block.
12714 * Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
12715 * (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
12716 * PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing
12717 * (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan
12718 * Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed
12719 inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
12720 * Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
12721 * Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php
12722 * Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost
12723 due to bogus optimization
12724 * (bug 275) Section duplication fix
12725 * Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
12726 * Fix notice on search index update due to non-array
12727 * (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3
12728 * (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0
12729 * (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add
12730 their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an
12732 * (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages
12733 * (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections
12734 * (bug 796) Trackback support
12735 * Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC
12736 are now suppressed as before.
12738 * "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
12739 viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively.
12740 * Skins can now be previewed in preferences
12741 * (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
12743 * Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
12745 * (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
12746 * (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
12748 * Removed useless protectreason message
12749 * Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
12750 * Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
12751 * Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
12752 * (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization
12753 * (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces
12754 * (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output
12755 for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash.
12756 * (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
12757 * compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.
12760 === Changes since 1.5beta4 ===
12762 * Fix Special:Allmessages under PHP 5
12763 * (bug 2911) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time
12764 * (bug 693) Special:Allmessages is excessively wide and redundant
12765 * (bug 3001) Updated and applied live hack for recentchanges-based watchlist
12766 * (bug 145) Finish 'exclude redirect' implementation in search form
12767 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
12768 title and reason input boxes
12769 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
12770 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
12771 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
12772 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
12773 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
12774 * (bug 1487) invalid html on empty list in banlist
12775 * (bug 3017) Hotkey conflict for delete and show changes
12776 * made pixel unit translateable and blocklistline now eats infiniteblock
12778 * (bug 3092) Wrong numerical separator for big numbers in Serbian.
12779 * (bug 2855) Credit for a uniq author showed its realname even with
12780 $wgAllowRealName=false.
12781 * New special page: SpecialMostlinked
12782 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
12783 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
12784 * Added a new hook, 'AddNewAccount', which is run after account creation
12785 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
12786 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
12787 as a proxy debugging aid
12788 * (bug 3162) Fix 'undefined property page_is_new' error on watchlist
12789 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
12790 * (bug 3170) wikititlesuffix was removed, use pagetitle instead
12791 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
12792 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
12793 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
12794 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
12795 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
12796 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
12797 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
12798 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
12799 * (bug 3238): Updated LanguageNn.php for 1_5 branch
12800 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
12801 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
12802 * Fix URL sanitization in HTML attributes, which broke in this branch
12803 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
12806 === Changes since 1.5rc2 ===
12808 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage
12809 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
12810 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
12811 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input
12814 === Changes since 1.5rc3 ===
12816 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
12817 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
12818 * Security fix for <math>
12819 * Security fix for tables
12822 === Changes since 1.5rc4 ===
12824 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
12825 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
12826 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
12827 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
12828 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
12829 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
12830 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
12831 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small iamges on |thumb| without explicit size
12832 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
12833 large SVG images on image description page
12834 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
12835 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
12836 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
12837 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
12838 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
12839 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
12840 * (bug 2792) Update rebuildrecentchanges.inc for new schema
12841 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
12842 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
12843 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
12844 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
12845 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
12846 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
12847 * (bug 3573) Full Greek Translation
12848 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
12849 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
12850 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
12853 === Changes since 1.5.0 ===
12855 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
12856 * (bug 3641) Fix handling of unrecognized file uploads with known extensions
12857 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
12858 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
12859 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
12860 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
12861 * Backport fix for reference usage notice in Special:Search on PHP 4.4.0
12862 * Backport database connect error display fix from HEAD
12863 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
12864 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
12866 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
12867 * Fix Special:MovePage invalid HTML attribute for reason textarea
12868 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
12869 * (bug 3734) Swapped out obsolete recount.sql with initStats.php
12870 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
12871 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
12872 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
12873 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
12874 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
12877 === Changes since 1.5.1 ===
12879 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
12880 * (bug 3809) Backport fix for detecting diff3 failure
12881 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
12882 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
12883 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
12884 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
12885 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
12886 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
12887 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
12888 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
12889 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
12890 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
12891 * (bug 3845) Update attribute.php for 1.5 schema
12892 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC4
12895 === Changes since 1.5.2 ===
12897 * (bug 3612) Remove old broken version of maintenance/compressOld.php
12898 The working version is in maintenance/storage/compressOld.php
12899 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
12900 * (bug 3933) specify XML namespace for Atom 0.3 feeds
12901 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
12902 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
12903 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
12904 * (bug 4013) typo in fr
12905 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
12906 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
12907 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
12908 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
12909 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
12910 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
12911 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
12912 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
12915 === Changes since 1.5.3 ===
12917 * (bug 3805) Clear 'new messages' flag properly in enotif mode
12918 for usernames containing spaces
12919 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
12920 * (bug 4249) Typo in entities2literals.pl
12921 * (bug 4233) Update for japanese language
12922 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
12923 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
12924 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
12925 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
12926 * Parser internal placeholder string now fully randomized for safety
12928 === Changes since 1.5.4 ===
12930 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
12931 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
12932 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
12933 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
12934 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
12936 === Changes since 1.5.5 ===
12938 * (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1"
12940 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
12941 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
12942 * Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of
12943 establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor
12944 changes to installer.
12945 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work
12946 (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field)
12947 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
12948 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
12949 * Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script
12950 * Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1
12951 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
12952 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
12953 different LocalSettings.php.
12955 === Changes since 1.5.6 ===
12957 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
12958 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
12959 * Fixed Special:Unlockdb
12960 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
12961 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
12962 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
12963 * (bug 4768) Wrong Russian translation (typo)
12964 * Performance bugfix: propagate equality manually for Revision fetches
12965 * (bug 4773) PHP fatal error when invalid title passed to Special:Export
12966 * Added missing table defs. for transcache to installer schemas
12967 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
12968 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
12969 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
12970 * (bug 2532) Image directory structure migration bug
12971 * (bug 4881) Correction to the fix for 1487; Ipblocklist showed 'no blocks'
12972 message at the end of the list even if there were blocks.
12973 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from LanguageUk.php
12974 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
12975 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
12976 * Allow customisation of paging limits for items in categories using the
12977 $wgCategoryPagingLimit global, per bug 4970.
12978 * Improve "nogomatch" text to make it more obvious that a page can be created.
12979 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
12980 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
12982 === Changes since 1.5.7 ===
12984 * (bug 5180) User login page shows inappropriate email blurb
12985 * Add the "AbortNewAccount" hook on account creation; see hooks.txt for more info.
12986 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
12987 * Add links to useful material to the default main page content
12988 * Fix fragment HTML injection
12990 === Changes since 1.5.8 ===
12992 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Finnish (fi) translation
12993 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Kurdish (ku) translation
12994 * Merge two #p-search .pBody statements i monobook/main.css
12995 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he) translation
12996 * Add the "UserRights" hook on user group changes; see hooks.txt for more info.
12997 * Translated "listingcontinuesabbrev" for German
13001 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
13002 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
13003 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
13004 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
13005 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
13009 == MediaWiki 1.4.3 ==
13011 (released 2005-04-28)
13013 MediaWiki 1.4.3 is a bugfix release for the 1.4 stable release series.
13015 Chiefly, this fixes a compatibility problem with PHP 5 and a minor link
13016 table corruption bug on initial page save.
13019 == MediaWiki 1.4.2 ==
13021 (released 2005-04-20)
13023 MediaWiki 1.4.2 is a security and bug fix release for the 1.4 stable release
13026 A cross-site scripting injection vulnerability was discovered, which
13027 affects only MSIE clients and is only open if MediaWiki has been
13028 manually configured to run output through HTML Tidy ($wgUseTidy).
13030 Several other bugs are fixed in this release, see the changelog below.
13032 All new installations are highly recommended to use 1.4.2 instead of
13033 1.3.x; 1.3.x users should consider upgrading for bug fixes and new
13034 features. Ealier 1.4.x release and beta users should upgrade to this
13035 release for relevant bug fixes; see the changelog later in this file.
13038 If you have trouble, remember to read this whole file and the online FAQ page
13039 before asking for help:
13041 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
13044 === READ THIS FIRST: Upgrading ===
13046 If upgrading from an older release, see the notes in the file UPGRADE.
13047 There are a couple of minor database changes from the beta releases,
13048 and somewhat larger changes from 1.3.x.
13050 Upgrading from a previous 1.4.x stable release installation should
13051 generally only require copying the new files over the old ones.
13054 ==== READ THIS FIRST, TOO: MySQL 4.1 AND 5.0 ====
13056 MySQL 5.0 is a beta release, not yet ready for production use. If you
13057 are using it, the notes below about 4.1 apply to you too.
13059 If you have the choice of MySQL 4.0 or MySQL 4.1 and don't need 4.1 for
13060 some other application, you should consider sticking with 4.0 for the
13061 moment. 4.1 may require you to do extra fiddling to get things to work
13062 due to changes that aren't fully backwards-compatible.
13064 MySQL 4.1 has changed the authentication protocol in an incompatible
13065 way; many PHP installations still use the older client libraries and
13066 CANNOT CONNECT TO THE SERVER WITH A PASSWORD without some changes.
13068 See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html
13070 If MySQL is set with utf-8 as the default character set, installation
13071 may fail with "key too long" errors. Set the default charset to 'latin1'
13072 for installation and it should work.
13074 The mysqldump backup generator now applies an automatic conversion to
13075 UTF-8, which may irretrivably corrupt your data. Pass the -charset option
13076 with the original default charset (eg 'latin1') to skip the conversion.
13079 ==== READ THIS FIRST IF RUNNING ON A WINDOWS SERVER ====
13081 MediaWiki is tested and deployed primarily under the Apache web server
13082 on Linux Unix systems. There are known to be problems running on
13083 Microsoft's IIS which are not fully resolved. If you have a choice,
13084 try running under Apache on Windows, or on a Unix/Linux box instead.
13086 If you're having trouble with blank pages on IIS and can't switch,
13087 try the workaround suggested in this bug report:
13088 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1763
13091 === New features ===
13093 * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
13094 * New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs
13095 * Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and <gallery> tag)
13096 * SVG rasterization support (requires external support tools)
13097 * Users can select from the available localizations to override the
13098 default user interface language.
13099 * Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support
13100 * rel="nofollow" support to combat linkspam
13102 The current implementation adds this attribute to _all_ external URL
13103 links in wiki text (but not internal [[wiki links]] or interwiki links).
13104 To disable the attribute for _all_ external links, add this line to your
13107 $wgNoFollowLinks = false
13109 For background information on nofollow see:
13111 http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
13114 === Installation and compatibility ===
13116 * The default MonoBook theme now works with PHP 5.0
13117 * Installation on systems with PHP's safe mode or other oddities
13118 should work more reliably, as MonoBook no longer needs to
13119 create a compiled template file for the wiki to run.
13120 * A table prefix may be specified, to avoid conflicts with other
13121 web applications forced to share a database.
13122 * More thorough UTF-8 input validation; fixes non-ASCII uploaded
13123 filenames from Safari.
13124 * Command-line database upgrade script.
13127 === Customizability ===
13129 * Default user options can now be overridden in LocalSettings.
13130 * Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/
13131 New skins can be dropped into this directory and used immediately.
13132 * More extension hooks have been added.
13133 * Authentication plugin hook.
13134 * More internal code documentation, generated with phpdoc:
13135 https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/
13138 === Optimization ===
13140 * For many operations, MediaWiki 1.4 should run faster and use
13141 less memory than MediaWiki 1.3. Page rendering is up to twice
13142 as fast. (Use a PHP accelerator such as Turck MMCache for best
13143 results with any PHP application, though!)
13144 * The parser cache no longer requires memcached, and is enabled
13145 by default. This avoids a lot of re-rendering of pages that
13146 have been shown recently, greatly speeding longer page views.
13147 * Support for compiled PHP modules to speed up page diff and
13148 Unicode validation/normalization. (Requires ability to compile
13149 and load PHP extensions).
13152 === What isn't ready yet ===
13154 * A new user/groups permissions scheme has been held back to 1.5.
13155 * An experimental SOAP interface will be made available as an extension
13156 * PostgreSQL support is largely working, minus search and the installer.
13157 You can perform a manual installation.
13158 * E-mail notification of watched page changes and verification of
13159 user-submitted e-mail addresses is not yet included.
13160 * Log pages are not automatically imported into the new log table
13161 at upgrade time. A script to import old text log entries is
13162 incomplete, but may be available in later point releases.
13163 * Some localizations are still incomplete.
13169 === Important security updates ===
13171 A security audit found and fixed a number of problems. Users of MediaWiki
13172 1.3.10 and earlier should upgrade to 1.3.11; users of 1.4 beta releases
13173 prior to 1.4rc1 should upgrade immediately.
13175 ==== Cross-site scripting vulnerability ====
13177 XSS injection points can be used to hijack session and authentication
13178 cookies as well as more serious attacks.
13180 * Media: links output raw text into an attribute value, potentially
13181 abusable for JavaScript injection. This has been corrected.
13182 * Additional checks added to file upload to protect against MSIE and
13183 Safari MIME-type autodetection bugs.
13185 As of 1.3.10/1.4beta6, per-user customized CSS and JavaScript is disabled
13186 by default as a general precaution. Sites which want this ability may set
13187 $wgAllowUserCss and $wgAllowUserJs in LocalSettings.php.
13190 ==== Cross-site request forgery ====
13192 An attacker could use JavaScript-submitted forms to perform various
13193 restricted actions by tricking an authenticated user into visiting
13194 a malicious web page. A fix for page editing in 1.3.10/1.4beta6 has
13195 been expanded in this release to other forms and functions.
13197 Authors of bot tools may need to update their code to include the
13201 ==== Directory traversal ====
13203 An unchecked parameter in image deletion could allow an authenticated
13204 administrator to delete arbitary files in directories writable by the
13205 web server, and confirm existence of files not deletable.
13208 ==== Older issues ====
13210 Note that 1.4 beta releases prior to beta 5 include an input validation
13211 error which could lead to execution of arbitrary PHP code on the server.
13212 Users of older betas should upgrade immediately to the current version.
13215 Beta 6 also introduces the use of rel="nofollow" attributes on external
13216 links in wiki pages to reduce the effectiveness of wiki spam. This will
13217 cause participating search engines to ignore external URL links from wiki
13218 pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
13221 === Misc bugs fixed in beta 1 ===
13223 * (bug 95) Templates no longer limited to 5 inclusions per page
13224 * New user preference for limiting the image size for images on image description
13226 * (bug 530) Allow user to preview article on first edit
13227 * (bug 479) [[RFC 1234]] will now make an internal link
13228 * (bug 511) PhpTal skins shown bogus 'What links here' etc on special pages
13229 * (bug 770) Adding filter and username exact search match for Special:Listusers
13230 * (bug 733) Installer die if it can not write LocalSettings.php
13231 * (bug 705) Various special pages no more show the rss/atom feed links
13232 * (bug 114) use category backlinks in Special:Recentchangeslinked
13234 === Beta 2 fixes ===
13236 * (bug 987) Reverted bogus fix for bug 502
13237 * (bug 992) Fix enhanced recent changes in PHP5
13238 * (bug 1009) Fix Special:Makesysop when using table prefixes
13239 * (bug 1010) fix broken Commons image link on Classic & Cologne Blue
13240 * (bug 985) Fix auto-summary for section edits
13241 * (bug 995) Close <a> tag
13242 * (bug 1004) renamed norsk language links (twice)
13243 * Login works again when using an old-style default skin
13244 * Fix for load balancing mode, notify if using old settings format
13245 * (bug 1014) Missing image size option on old accounts handled gracefully
13246 * (bug 1027) Fix page moves with table prefix
13247 * (bug 1018) Some pages fail with stub threshold enabled
13248 * (bug 1024) Fix link to high-res image version on Image: pages
13249 * (bug 1016) Fix handling of lines omitting Image: in a <gallery> tag
13250 * security fix for image galleries
13251 * (bug 1039) Avoid error message in certain message cache failure modes
13252 * Fix string escaping with PostgreSQL
13253 * (bug 1015) [partial] -- use comment formatter on image gallery text
13254 * Allow customization of all UI languages
13255 * use $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg to make regular UI messages act as content
13256 * new user option for zh users to disable language conversion
13257 * Defer message cache initialization, shaving a few ms off file cache hits
13258 * Fixed Special:Allmessages when using table prefixes
13259 * (bug 996) Fix $wgWhitelistRead to work again
13260 * (bug 1028) fix page move over redirect to not fail on the unique index
13262 === Beta 3 fixes ===
13264 * Hide RC patrol markers when patrol is disabled or not allowed to patrol.
13265 * Fix language selection for upgraded accounts
13266 * (bug 1076) navigation links in QueryPage should be translated by wgContLang.
13267 * (bug 922) bogus DOS line endings in LanguageEl.php
13268 * Fix index usage in contribs
13269 * Caching and load limiting options for Recentchanges RSS/Atom feed
13270 * (bug 1074) Add stock icons for non-image files in gallery/Newimages
13271 * Add width and height attributes on thumbs in gallery/Newimages
13272 * Enhance upload extension blacklist to protect against vulnerable
13273 Apache configurations
13275 === Beta 4 fixes ===
13277 * (bug 1090) Fix sitesupport links in CB/classic skins
13278 * Gracefully ignore non-legal titles in a <gallery>
13279 * Fix message page caching behavior when $wgCapitalLinks is turned off
13280 after installation and the wiki is subsequently upgraded
13281 * Database error messages include the database server name/address
13282 * Paging support for large categories
13283 * Fix image page scaling when thumbnail generation is disabled
13284 * Select the content language in prefs when bogus interface language is set
13285 * Fix interwiki links in edit comments
13286 * Fix crash on banned user visit
13287 * Avoid PHP warning messages when thumbnail not generated
13288 * (bug 1157) List unblocks correctly in Special:Log
13289 * Fix fatal errors in LanguageLi.php
13290 * Undo overly bright, difficult to read colors in Cologne Blue
13291 * (bug 1162) fix five-tilde date inserter
13292 * Add raw signatures option for those who simply must have cute sigs
13293 * (bug 1164) Let wikitext be used in Loginprompt and Loginend messages
13294 * Add the dreaded <span> to the HTML whitelist
13295 * (bug 1170) Fix Russian linktrail
13296 * (bug 1168) Missing text on the bureaucrat log
13297 * (bug 1180) Fix Makesysop on shared-user-table sites
13298 * (bug 1178) Fix previous diff link when using 'oldid=0'
13299 * (bug 1173) Stop blocked accounts from reverting/deleting images
13300 * Keep generated stylesheets cache-separated for each user
13301 * (bug 1175) Fix "preview on first edit" mode
13302 * Fix revert bug caused by bug 1175 fix
13303 * Fix CSS classes on minor, new, unpatrolled markers in enhanced RC
13304 * Set MySQL 4 boolean search back to 'and' mode by default
13305 * (bug 1193) Fix move-only page protection mode
13306 * Fix zhtable Makefile to include the traditional manual table
13307 * Add memcache timeout for the zh conversion tables
13308 * Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through
13309 Mediawiki:zhconversiontable
13310 * Add zh-min-man (back) to language names list
13311 * Ported $wgCopyrightIcon setting from REL1_3A
13312 * (bug 1218) Show the original image on image pages if the thumbnail would be
13313 bigger than the original image
13314 * (bug 1213) i18n of Special:Log labels
13315 * (bug 1013) Fix jbo, minnan in language names list
13316 * Added magic word MAG_NOTITLECONVERT to indicate that the title of the page
13317 do not need to be converted. Useful in zh:
13318 * (bug 1224) Use proper date messages for date reformatter
13319 * (bug 1241) Don't show 'cont.' for first entry of the category list
13320 * (bug 1240) Special:Preferences was broken in Slovenian locale when
13321 $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled
13322 * Added magic word MAG_NOCONTENTCONVERT to supress the conversion of the
13323 content of an article. Useful in zh:
13324 * write-lock for updating the zh conversion tables in memcache
13325 * recursively parse subpages of MediaWiki:Zhconversiontable
13326 * (bug 1144) Fix export for fy language
13327 * make removal of an entry from zhconversiontable work
13328 * (bug 752) Don't insert newline in link title for url with %0a
13329 * Fix missing search box contents in MonoBook skin
13330 * Add option to forward search directly to an external URL (eg google)
13331 * Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected
13332 variant is disabled. Used in zh: only for now.
13334 === Beta 5 fixes ===
13336 * (bug 1124) Fix ImageGallery XHTML compliance
13337 * (bug 1186) news: in the middle of a word
13338 * (bug 1283) Use underlining and borders to highlight additions/deletions
13340 * Use user's local timezone in Special:Log display
13341 * Show filename for images in gallery by default (restore beta 3 behavior)
13342 * (bug 1201) Double-escaping in brokenlinks, imagelinks, categorylinks, searchindex
13343 * When using squid reverse proxy, cache the redirect to the Main_Page
13344 * (bug 1302) Fix Norwegian language file
13345 * (bug 1205) Fix broken article saving in PHP 5.1
13346 * (bug 1206) Implement CURRENTWEEK and CURRENTDOW magic keyword (will give
13347 number of the week and number of the day).
13348 * (bug 1204) Blocks do not expire automatically
13349 * (bug 1184) expiry time of indefinite blocks shown as the current time
13350 * (bug 1317) Fix external links in image captions
13351 * (bug 1084) Fix logo not rendering centrally in IE
13352 * (bug 288) Fix tabs wrapping in IE6
13353 * (bug 119) Fix full-width tabs with RTL text in IE
13354 * (bug 1323) Fix logo rendering off-screen in IE with RTL language
13355 * Show "block" link in Special:Recentchanges for logged in users, too, if
13356 wgUserSysopBans is true.
13357 * (bug 1326) Use content language for '1movedto2' in edit history
13358 * zh: Fix warning when HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is not set
13359 * zh: Fix double conversion for zh-sg and zh-hk
13360 * (bug 1132) Fix concatenation of link lists in refreshLinks
13361 * (bug 1101) Fix memory leak in refreshLinks
13362 * (bug 1339) Fix order of @imports in Cologne Blue CSS
13363 * Don't try to create links without namespaces ([[Category:]] link bug)
13364 * Memcached data compression fixes
13365 * Several valid XHTML fixes
13366 * (bug 624) Fix IE freezing rendering whilst waiting for CSS with MonoBook
13367 * (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type
13368 * Fix for script execution vulnerability.
13370 === Beta 6 fixes ===
13372 * (bug 1335) implement 'tooltip-watch' in Language.php
13373 * Fix linktrail for nn: language
13374 * (bug 1214) Fix prev/next links in Special:Log
13375 * (bug 1354) Fix linktrail for fo: language
13376 * (bug 512) Reload generated CSS on preference change
13377 * (bug 63) Fix displaying as if logged in after logout
13378 * Set default MediaWiki:Sitenotice to '-', avoiding extra database hits
13379 * Skip message cache initialization on raw page view (quick hack)
13380 * Fix notice errors in wfDebugDieBacktrace() in XML callbacks
13381 * Suppress notice error on bogus timestamp input (returns epoch as before)
13382 * Remove unnecessary initialization and double-caching of parser variables
13383 * Call-tree output mode for profiling
13384 * (bug 730) configurable $wgRCMaxAge; don't try to update purged RC entries
13385 * Add $wgNoFollowLinks option to add rel="nofollow" on external links
13387 * (bug 1130) Show actual title when moving page instead of encoded one.
13388 * (bug 925) Fix headings containing <math>
13389 * (bug 1131) Fix headings containing interwiki links
13390 * (bug 1380) Update Nynorsk language file
13391 * (bug 1232) Fix sorting of cached Special:Wantedpages in miser mode
13392 * (bug 1217) Image within an image caption broke rendering
13393 * (bug 1384) Make patrol signs have the same width for page moves as for edits
13394 * (bug 1364) fix "clean up whitespace" in Title:SecureAndSplit
13395 * (bug 1389) i18n for proxyblocker message
13396 * Add fur/Furlan/Friulian to language names list
13397 * Add TitleMoveComplete hook on page renames
13398 * Allow simple comments for each translation rules in MW:Zhconversiontable
13399 * (bug 1402) Make link color of tab subject page link on talk page indicate whether article exists
13400 * (bug 1368) Fix SQL error on stopword/short word search w/ MySQL 3.x
13401 * Translated Hebrew namespace names
13402 * (bug 1429) Stop double-escaping of block comments; fix formatting
13403 * (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success
13404 * (bug 1228) Fix double-escaping on & sequences in [enclosed] URLs
13405 * (bug 1435) Fixed many CSS errors
13406 * (bug 1457) Fix XHTML validation on category column list
13407 * (bug 1458) Don't save if edit form submission is incomplete
13408 * Logged-in edits and preview of user CSS/JS are now locked to a session token.
13409 * Per-user CSS and JavaScript subpage customizations now disabled by default.
13410 They can be re-enabled via $wgAllowUserJs and $wgAllowUserCss.
13411 * Removed .ogg from the default uploads whitelist as an extra precaution.
13412 If your web server is configured to serve Ogg files with the correct
13413 Content-Type header, you can re-add it in LocalSettings.php:
13414 $wgFileExtensions[] = 'ogg';
13418 * Fix notice error on nonexistent template in wikitext system message
13419 * (bug 1469) add missing <ul> tags on Special:Log
13420 * (bug 1470) remove extra <ul> tags from Danish log messages
13421 * Fix notice on purge w/ squid mode off
13422 * (bug 1477) hide details of SQL error messages by default
13423 Set $wgShowSQLErrors = true for debugging.
13424 * (bug 1430) Don't check for template data when editing page that doesn't exist
13425 * Recentchanges table purging fixed when using table prefix
13426 * (bug 1431) Avoid redundant objectcache garbage collection
13427 * (bug 1474) Switch to better-cached index for statistics page count
13428 * Run Unicode normalization on all input fields
13429 * Fix translation for allpagesformtext2 in LanguageZh_cn and LanguageZh_tw
13430 * Block image revert without valid login
13431 * (bug 1446) stub Bambara (bm) language file using French messages
13432 * (bug 1432) Update Estonian localization
13433 * (bug 1471) unclosed <p> tag in Danish messages
13434 * convertLinks script fixes
13435 * Corrections to template loop detection
13436 * XHTML encoding fix for usernames containing & in Special:Emailuser
13437 * (for zh) Search for variant links even when conversion is turned off,
13438 to help prevent duplicate articles.
13439 * Disallow ISO 8859-1 C1 characters and "no-break space" in user names
13441 * Correct the name of the main page it LanguageIt
13442 * Allow Special:Makesysop to work for usernames containing SQL special
13444 * Fix annoying blue line in Safari on scaled-down images on description page
13445 * Increase upload sanity checks
13446 * Fix XSS bug in Media: links
13447 * Add cross-site form submission protection to various actions
13448 * Fix fatal error on some dubious page titles
13449 * Stub threshold displays correctly again
13452 === 1.4.0 final fixes ===
13454 * (bug 65) Fix broken interwiki link encoding on Latin-1 wikis; force to UTF-8
13455 * (bug 563) Fix UTF-8 interwiki URL redirects via Latin-1 wikis
13456 * (bug 1536) Fix page info
13457 * Support os (Ossetic) as language code, using Russian localization base
13458 * (bug 1610) Support non (Old Norse) as language code, using Icelandic localization base
13459 * (bug 1618) Properly list custom namespaces in Special:Allpages
13460 * (bug 1622) Remove trailing' >' when using category browser
13461 * (bug 1570) Fix php 4.2.x error on conflict merging
13462 * (bug 1585) Fix page title on post-login redirection page
13463 * Run UTF-8 validation on old text in Recentchanges RSS diffs
13464 * (bug 1642) fix a mime type typo in img_auth.php
13465 * Automated interwiki redirects only for local interwikis
13466 * Respect read-only mode on block removals
13467 * Trim old illegal characters from syndication feeds
13468 * Reduce message cache outage recovery delay from 1 day to 5 minutes
13469 * (bug 1403) Update Finnish localization
13470 * (bug 1478) Punjabi localization
13471 * (bug 1667) Update script 5 second countdown.
13472 * (bug 1057) Fix logging table encoding (error on MySQL 4.1)
13473 * (bug 1680) Fix linktrail for fo
13474 * (bug 1653) Removing hardcoded messages in Special:Allmessages
13475 * (bug 1594) Render a hyphen in a formula as − in HTML
13476 * (bug 1495) Fall back to default language MediaWiki: for custom messages
13477 * (bug 1617) Show different error messages for "user does not
13478 exist" and "wrong password" when using AuthPlugin
13479 * (bug 1532), (bug 1544) Changed language names for
13480 'bn', 'bo', 'dv', 'dz', 'ht', 'ii', 'li', 'lo', 'ng', 'or', 'pa', 'si',
13482 * Fix editing on non-Esperanto wiki with user language pref set to Esperanto
13483 * Make conversion table for zh-sg default to zh-cn, and zh-hk default to zh-tw
13484 * Fix PHP notice in MonoBook when counters disabled
13485 * (bug 1696) Update namespaces, dates in uk localization
13486 * (bug 551) Installer warns about magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase
13487 instead of trying to install with corrupt table files
13488 * Installer no longer tries to move non-default MediaWiki: pages into Template:
13489 * User-to-user email disabled by default ($wgEnableUserEmail)
13492 === 1.4.1 fixes ===
13494 * (bug 1720) fix genitive month names for uk
13495 * (bug 1704) fixed untranslateable string in Special:Log
13496 * (bug 1638) Added Belrusian language file
13497 * (bug 1736) typo in SpecialValidate.php
13498 * (bug 73) Upload doesn't run edit updates on description page (links,
13499 search index and categories)
13500 * (bug 646) <math> fails to recognize \ll and \gg
13501 * (bug 926) \div element from TeX not supported in <math> element
13502 * (bug 1147) add \checkmark to whitelist in texutil.ml
13503 * (bug 937) \limits function from LaTeX not supported in <math> element
13504 * Support for manually converting article title to different Chinese
13506 * (bug 1488, bug 1744) Fix encoding for preferences, dates in Latin-1 mode
13507 * (bug 1042) Fix UTF-8 case conversion for PHP <4.3 with mbstring extension
13508 * Fix code typo that broke article credits display
13509 * Installation fixes for running under IIS
13510 * (bug 1556) login page tab order. "remember" checkbox now come after password.
13511 * SQL debug log fixlets
13512 * (bug 1815) Fix namespace in old revision display with mismatched title
13513 * (bug 1788) Fix link duplication when edit/upload comment includes newlines
13514 * Change default on $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans to true
13515 * Fix link conversion for URL request
13516 * (bug 1851) Updated download URL for the SCIM packages used by zhtable
13517 * (bug 1853) Try stripping quotes from term for 'go' title match
13518 * Fix missing function in Latin1 mode
13519 * (bug 1860) Anchors of interwiki links did not get normalized
13520 * (bug 1847) accept lowercase x in ISBN, do not accept invalid A-W,Y,Z
13521 * Fix link conversion for URL request, hopefully without breaking the wiki
13522 * (bug 1849) New option allows to consider categorized images as used on
13523 Special:Unusedimages
13524 * Localized category namespace for ka (Georgian)
13525 * (bug 1107) Work around includes problem in installer when parent dir is not
13526 readable by the web server
13527 * (bug 1927) Incorrect escaping on wikitext message in Blockip
13530 === 1.4.2 fixes ===
13532 * Fix math options in Finnish localization
13533 * Use in-process Tidy extension if available when $wgUseTidy is on
13534 * (bug 1933) Fix PATH_INFO usage under IIS with PHP ISAPI module
13535 * (bug 1188) <nowiki> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
13536 * (bug 1936) <!-- comments --> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
13537 * Fix a potential MSIE JavaScript injection vector in Tidy mode
13540 === 1.4.3 fixes ===
13542 * (bug 1636) Refs like ţ were misinterpreted as octal in some places
13543 * (bug 1163) Special:Undelete showed oldest revision instead of newest
13544 * (bug 1938) Fix escaping of illegal character references in link text
13545 * (bug 1997) Fix for error on display of renamed items in Recentchanges on PHP5
13546 * (bug 1949) Profiling typo in rare error case
13547 * (bug 1963) Fix deletion log link when $wgCapitalLinks is off
13548 * (bug 1970) Don't show move tab for immobile pages
13549 * (bug 1770) Page creation recorded links from the 'newarticletext' message
13550 * Optional change to the site_stats table. When applied, this removes the need
13551 for expensive queries in Special:Statistics.
13554 === 1.4.4 fixes ===
13556 * (bug 725) Let dir="ltr" attribute work again in MonoBook on RTL languages
13557 * (bug 2024) Skip JavaScript error for custom skins where .js message not set
13558 * (bug 2025) Updated Indonesian localization
13559 * (bug 2039) Updated Lithuanian localization
13564 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
13565 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
13566 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
13567 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
13568 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
13571 For notes on 1.3.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
13574 === Online documentation ===
13576 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
13577 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
13580 https://www.mediawiki.org/
13583 === Mailing list ===
13585 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
13588 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
13590 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
13591 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
13593 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
13594 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
13599 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net