1 = MediaWiki release notes =
3 == Version 1.3.0pre-alpha ==
6 * New default layout 'MonoBook'
7 * Print stylesheet now built-in to every page
8 * More or less correct XHTML 1.0 (served as text/html by default)
11 * Image captions can now include links and other basic formatting
12 * Templates have been expanded with parameters, and separated from
13 the MediaWiki: localization scheme.
14 * Categories more or less work
17 * Automatic merging of edit conflicts that don't directly interfere
18 * Edit summaries can now include basic formatting and links
21 * Linked Creative Commons copyright metadata (optional)
22 * RSS 2.0 feeds for Recent Changes, New Pages
25 * WikiHiero hieroglyphic module can be added (separate download)
26 * TeX now has an experimental MathML output mode (incomplete)
28 Installation and upgrading:
29 * The old install.php and update.php have been removed. In-place
30 installation introduced in 1.2 is now the standard installation
31 and upgrade method, see INSTALL for directions.
34 * The links table has been changed to use a cur_id for l_from.
35 The link tables must be converted on upgrade, which may entail
38 Code and compatibility:
39 * Should now run clean with error reporting set to E_ALL.
40 * register_globals hack from 1.2 has been replaced with safer code
41 * Bundled PHPTAL 0.7.0 from http://phptal.sourceforge.net/
45 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
46 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
47 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
48 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
49 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
52 == Version 1.2.4, 2004-04-13 ==
54 * Fixed edit toolbar in Mozilla
55 * Diff links in Contributions for 'top' edits
56 * Fixed Nostalgia skin drop-down for register_globals off
57 * Backported optional open proxy blocker
58 * Backported $wgWhitelistRead
59 * $wgCapitalLinks option to force full case sensitivity in titles
60 * Cleaned up error handling when can't talk to database
61 * Disabled unsafe command-line installer (remove the "die()" call to use)
63 == Version 1.2.3, 2004-04-02 ==
65 * Fixed an in-place install bug with non-root MySQL user
66 * Fixed history diff checkboxes bug on titles with ampersands
67 * Fixed printable link bug on special pages with parameters
68 * Fixed bug that broke IP blocking w/o memcached
69 * Turns off E_NOTICE warnings if PHP settings have them on
70 (you can grope in and turn this off if you like to debug)
72 == Version 1.2.2, 2004-03-28 ==
74 * Fixed an upgrade bug introduced in 1.2.1.
75 * Disabled $wgUseCategoryMagic, which feature is incomplete broken
77 == Version 1.2.1, 2004-03-27 ==
79 Installation, compatibility, security fixlets:
80 * Detect use of PHP as CGI and disable index.php/Title URLs
81 * Try to auto-create math tmp & output directories if not present
82 * Disable Asksql in default install ($wgAllowSysopQueries)
83 * Better handling of get_magic_quotes_gpc (apostrophe problems)
84 * French localisation no longer hard-codes "Wikipedia" name
89 * Image resizing/thumbnail generation
90 * Stricter upload file extension blacklist and whitelist options
91 * More flexible blocking system; time period may be set
92 * Handier sysop account management. An account marked "bureaucrat"
93 may assign sysop access to other accounts via Special:Makesysop.
94 (The exact details of this may change in the future)
95 * Support for a squid cache with explicit purging of cached anon pages
96 * Optional compression of old revision text (requires zlib support)
97 * Fuzzy title search (experimental, requires memcached)
98 * Page rendering cache (experimental)
99 * Editing toolbar to demonstrate wiki syntax to newbies
100 (off by default in user preferences)
101 * Support for authenticated SMTP outgoing e-mail (experimental)
102 * It's now possible to assign sysop accounts from within the wiki.
103 An account with this ability must be labeled with the "bureaucrat"
104 privilege, such as the 'Developer' account created by the install.
107 * Now works with register_globals off!
108 * Works with short tags disabled.
109 * Should work out of the box on MySQL 3.2.x again. On 4.x set
110 $wgEnablePersistentLC = true; to turn on the link cache table
111 for a slight rendering speed boost.
112 * rebuildMessages.php can now selectively update new messages, or
113 overwrite everything.
115 * Other stuff we forgot.
116 * Documentation more out of date than ever before!
118 === Behavior changes ===
120 * wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml are now renamed to index.php and redirect.php
121 The old names are provided too for compatibility, but make sure they don't
122 conflict if you've been putting other files in your wiki.
123 * Uploaded filenames are more strictly checked than before. See bits in
124 DefaultSettings.php to tweak this behavior to your needs.
125 * Database messages are now enabled by default, so the interface messages can
126 be tweaked through the wiki with a sysop account. Disable this if you
127 don't want the performance hit.
129 === Database changes ===
131 An index was added to recentchanges table to speed up Newpages
132 (patch-rc-newindex.sql for manual updaters).
134 Expiration date field has been added to ipblocks table
135 (patch-ipb_expiry.sql for manual updaters).
138 == Version 1.1.0, 2003-12-08 ==
140 This is the new production release. Any following 1.1.x releases are expected
141 to contain only bug fixes; developments of new features will go towards a 1.2.0
145 * New wiki table syntax:
146 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_tables
147 * User-editable interface messages:
148 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
149 * XML-wrapped page source export with optional history:
150 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_import_and_export
151 (There is not yet an import function!)
155 * linkscc table caches link data for rendering; faster rebuildlinks.php
156 * Numerous bugs in Cologne Blue skin fixed
157 * Login gives warning about missing cookies
158 * Block log, protection log added; deletion log now includes undeletions
159 * Deletion & upload logs now escape comment text properly
160 * Problems with <nowiki> segments in section titles etc mitigated
161 * Contributions offset and minor edit bugs fixed
162 * Whatlinkshere now sorted alphabetically
163 * Various exciting new profiling options.
164 * Debug log is off by default.
165 * Various small bugs fixed.
168 * wfQuery has had a second parameter inserted, DB_READ or DB_WRITE. This value
169 is not actually used so far.
170 * Partial code for categories and Smarty template-based skins is in the tree
172 * Parts of Article.php have been moved to EditPage.php and ImagePage.php.
181 === Database changes ===
183 "linkscc" table added. If upgrading manually (rather than with update.php),
184 run maintenance/archives/patch-linkscc.sql to create the table.
186 Older releases were dated snapshots from the old 'stable' branch:
188 == mediawiki-20031118 ==
190 * Image deletion fixed.
191 * Deletion of image old revisions now restricted to sysops
192 (this is an irreversible action and not well logged)
193 * Fixed maintenance scripts broken by last release's security fix
194 * Many errors in rebuildlinks script fixed.
196 == mediawiki-20031117 ==
198 * SECURITY FIX: stricter checking of include path
199 * Fixed user contributions next/prev bug
200 * Login cookies now have the database name prefixed to allow wikis
201 to coexist in the same domain. This will invalidate any old saved
203 * Update cache timestamp when talk pages are created
204 * Saving the login form in Mozilla no longer blanks password in prefs.
205 * Check existence of source page before performing a move.
206 * Detect invalid titles in Special:Allpages
207 * Q-encode headers on outgoing inter-user e-mail
208 * Updates to some translations.
209 * Added table of contents border/bg to Cologne Blue, Nostalgia skins
210 * Protected pages no longer appear unprotected when visited via redirect
211 * Swapped old Wikipedia logo for the MediaWiki sunflower logo
212 * install.php, update.php print warning on old PHP versions,
213 added compatibility functions that might or might not help
215 No database changes since 20031107; upgrading should be clean.
218 == mediawiki-20031107 ==
220 * Fixed various bugs!
221 * Some speed improvements from tweaks to the table indexes
222 * Limited support for memcached (see below)
223 * New translations (see below)
224 * Interwiki link data now kept in database for flexibility
225 * Friendlier read-only source view if asked to edit a page when
226 the db is locked or the page is protected.
227 * Normal IP blocks auto-expire after 24 hours
228 * Optional support for blocking usernames
229 * Uploads disabled by default (see below)
232 === Security note ===
234 Uploads are now disabled by default. If you've set up a secure configuration
235 you can reenable uploads by putting:
237 $wgDisableUploads = false;
239 into LocalSettings.php.
241 Earlier versions of MediaWiki included a bug that potentially allows logged-
242 in users to delete arbitrary files in directories writable by the web server
243 user by manually feeding false form data; this is now fixed.
245 As a reminder, disable PHP script execution in the upload directory!
246 You may also wish to serve HTML pages as plaintext to prevent cookie-
247 stealing JavaScript attacks. Example Apache config fragment:
249 <Directory "/Library/MediaWiki/web/upload">
250 # Ignore .htaccess files
253 # Serve HTML as plaintext
254 AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml
256 # Don't run arbitrary PHP code.
257 php_admin_flag engine off
259 # If you've other scripting languages, disable them too.
263 === Database updates ===
265 If you're using update.php, the necessary database changes should
266 be made automatically.
268 To manually upgrade your database from the 2003-08-29 release, run the
269 following SQL scripts from the maintenance subdirectory:
271 archives/patch-ipblocks.sql
272 archives/patch-interwiki.sql
273 archives/patch-indexes.sql
276 To copy in the Wikipedia language-prefix interwikis as well, add:
278 wikipedia-interwiki.sql
283 New interface localization files are included for:
293 Memcached is a distributed cache system. See http://www.danga.com/memcached/
294 MediaWiki can optionally use memcached to store some data between calls
295 to reduce load on the database. Currently this is limited to user and
296 talk page notification data, interwiki prefix/URL matches, and the
297 UTF-8 conversion tables.
299 MediaWiki includes version 1.0.10 of the (GPL'd) PHP memcached client by
300 Ryan Gilfether; if memcached is disabled it acts as a dummy object with
303 To use memcached you'll need PHP installed with sockets support (this is not
304 in the default configure options). See docs/memcached for some more details.
306 Additionally, you can store login session data in memcached instead of the
307 local filesystem, which can help to enable load-balancing by letting login
308 sessions transparently work on multiple front-end web servers. (The primary
309 other issue is with uploads, which requires some care in handling.)
311 To enable this, set $wgSessionsInMemcached = true; and set $wgCookieDomain
312 appropriately if exposing multiple hostnames. This system is new and may be
313 volatile; login sessions will fail dramatically if memcached is unavailable
314 when this option is turned on.
317 === Online documentation ===
319 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
320 built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
323 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide
328 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
331 http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
334 === UseModWiki import script ===
336 A stripped-down UseModWiki import script is available in the maintenance
337 subdirectory. It is incomplete and requires a lot of manual clean-up, but
338 does function for the brave and pure of heart.
341 === Test suite removed ===
343 The unmaintained Java-based test suite has been removed from the tarball
344 release. If you really want it you can check it out from CVS.
347 == mediawiki-20030829 ==
349 First release under MediaWiki name.