1 = MediaWiki release notes =
7 This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.16 branch.
9 === Summary of selected changes in 1.16 ===
11 Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.15 that may be of interest:
13 * A new skin called Vector was added
15 * Watchlists now have RSS/Atom feeds. RSS feeds generally are now hidden,
16 since Atom is a better protocol and is supported by virtually all clients.
18 * It's now possible to block users from sending email via Special:Emailuser.
20 * The maintenance script system was overhauled. Most maintenance scripts now
21 have a useful help page when you run them with --help.
23 * AdminSettings.php is no longer required in order to run maintenance scripts.
24 You can just set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your
25 LocalSettings.php instead.
27 * The preferences system was overhauled. Preferences are stored in a more
28 compact format. Changes to site default preferences will automatically
29 affect all users who have not chosen a different preference.
31 * Support for SQLite was improved. Some broken features were fixed, and it
32 now has an efficient full-text search.
34 * The user groups ACL system was improved by allowing rights to be revoked,
35 instead of just granted.
37 * A new localisation caching system was introduced, which will make MediaWiki
38 faster for almost everyone, especially when lots of extensions are enabled.
40 By default, this new system makes a lot of database queries. If your database
41 is particularly slow, or if your system administrator limits your query count,
42 or if you want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of Mediawiki,
43 set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable path on the local filesystem. Make sure
44 you have the DBA extension for PHP installed, this will improve performance
47 == Changes since 1.16.0 ==
49 * (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again
50 * (bug 24724) list=allusers was out by 1 (shows total users - 1)
51 * (bug 24166) Fixed API error when using rvprop=tags
52 * For wikis using French as a content language, Special:Téléchargement works
53 again as an alias for Special:Upload.
54 * (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16.0)
55 * (bug 25248) Fixed paraminfo errors in certain API modules.
56 * The installer now has improved handling for situations where safe_mode is
57 active or exec() and similar functions are disabled.
58 * (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts.
59 * Fixed $wgLicenseTerms register globals.
60 * (bug 26561) Fixed clickjacking vulnerabilities by introducing support for
61 X-Frame-Options. The header value can be configured using $wgBreakFrames and
62 $wgEditPageFrameOptions.
64 == Changes since 1.16 beta 3 ==
66 * (bug 23769) Disabled HTML 5 client-side form validation. Was introduced in
67 1.16 beta 1, but is currently poorly supported by browsers.
68 * (bug 23175) Re-added window.ta variable for backwards compatibility.
69 * (bug 23264) Fixed breakage of various command line scripts due to extra line
70 endings being inserted by Maintenance::output().
71 * Fixed HTTP client functionality with safe_mode=On.
72 * Fixed parser tests broken in 1.16 beta 3.
73 * For Oracle DB backend: fixed parser tests and table prefix feature.
74 * (bug 23767) Fixed PHP warning when REQUEST_URI is blank (IIS issue).
75 * Fixed plural function for Northern Sami (se)
76 * (bug 23597) Fixed conflicts between ID attributes in the Vector skin and
77 parser-generated heading IDs. Renamed head, panel, head-base and page-base.
78 * Disabled $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq>1 feature on SQLite, does not work yet.
79 * (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
80 Special:Upload after following a red link to a file.
81 * In SQLite full-text search feature: fixed "move page" feature, was non-
83 * (bug 24565) Fixed Cache-Control headers sent from API modules, to protect
84 user privacy in the case where an attacker can access the wiki through the
85 same HTTP proxy as a logged-in user.
86 * Fixed an XSS vulnerability in profileinfo.php for installations with
87 $wgEnableProfileInfo = true (false by default)
88 * Fixed a case where an X-Vary-Options header was sent despite $wgUseXVO being
89 false. Fixed a minor header parsing issue when $wgUseXVO = true.
90 * Fixed a register_globals arbitrary inclusion vulnerability in
91 MediaWikiParserTest.php, introduced in 1.16 beta 1.
93 == Changes since 1.16 beta 2 ==
95 * Fixed bugs in the [[Special:Userlogin]] and [[Special:Emailuser]] handling of
97 * Fixed sorting in [[Special:Allmessages]]
98 * (bug 23113) Fixed title in the show/hide links on diff pages
99 * (bug 23117) Fixed API rollback, was returning "badtoken" for valid requests
100 * (bug 23127) Re-added missing $1 parameter to the uploadtext message
101 * Fixed a bug in the Vector skin where personal tools display behind the logo
102 * (bug 23139) Fixed a bug in edit conflict resolution, where both textboxes
103 showed the same text.
104 * (bug 23115, bug 23124) Fixed various problems with <title> and <h1> elements
105 in page views and previews when the language converter is enabled.
106 * (bug 23148) Fixed a local path disclosure vulnerability in ImageMagick image
107 scaling, which was introduced in 1.16 beta 1.
108 * Improved error checking on installer.
109 * (bug 22970) Fixed a JavaScript error in the upload destination conflict
111 * (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
113 * (bug 23171) Improve IE6 version check to avoid false positives.
114 * (bug 23176) Fixed upload warning override feature "upload new version",
115 broken in 1.16 beta 1.
116 * Fixed regression in unwatch links sent out in notification emails. When the
117 mailing job was deferred via the job queue, the title was incorrect.
118 * (bug 23534) Fixed SQL query error in API list=allusers.
119 * Fixed a bug in uploads for non-JavaScript clients. An empty string was used
120 as the default destination filename, instead of the source filename as
122 * (bug 23371) Fixed CSRF vulnerability in "e-mail me my password", "create
123 account" and "create by e-mail" features of [[Special:Userlogin]]
124 * (bug 23687) Fixed XSS vulnerability affecting IE clients only, due to a CSS
126 * Fixed a DoS vulnerability in ImageMagick image scaling. ImageMagick
127 expanded wildcard characters "?" and "*" in image filenames, potentially
128 causing large numbers of images to be scaled in response to a single request.
129 The fix for this involves breaking the scaling of such image filenames until
130 ImageMagick 6.6.1-5 or later is deployed, see bug 23361 for more details.
131 * (bug 23608) Fixed invalid HTML in diff pages.
133 === Changes since 1.16 beta 1 ===
135 * Fixed errors in maintenance/patchSql.php
136 * (bug 19627) Fix regression from r57867 where HTMLForm would output
137 <element classes="foo bar"> rather than <element class="foo bar">
138 * Fixed broken "-r" option to maintenance/lag.php
139 * (bug 23076) Fixed login CSRF vulnerability. Logins now require a token to
140 be submitted along with the user name and password.
142 === Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
144 * (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
145 * $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
146 * $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
147 be used when uploading/moving files
148 * (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
150 * $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
151 $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
152 for backwards-compatibility
153 * (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
154 * $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
155 functions and other potential errors when developing.
156 * Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
157 mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
158 which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
159 * Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
160 appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
161 oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
162 * Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
163 * Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
164 $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
166 * $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
167 needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
168 * $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
170 * Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
171 functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
172 * $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
173 interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
174 * $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
176 * (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
177 to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
178 * $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
179 * $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
180 * $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
181 should be used instead
182 * (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
183 characters in file names.
184 * (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
185 was denied to users(img_auth only)
186 * (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
187 correctly (img_auth only)
188 * $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
190 * $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
191 * (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
192 to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
193 * $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
194 * (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
195 CIDR ranges for blocking
196 * $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
198 * $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
199 * $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
200 similarly to the category namespace.
201 * $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
202 backward compatibility)
203 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
204 exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
206 * If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
207 signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
208 but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
210 * Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
211 If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
212 * Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
213 with some search engines.
214 * Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
215 neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
216 longer advertised by default (but it still works).
217 * Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
219 * New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
220 for controlling debug output.
221 * New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
223 * (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
224 extension "MetadataEdit".
226 === New features in 1.16 ===
228 * A new skin called Vector was added
229 * Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
230 * (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
232 * Superfluous border="0" removed from images
233 * Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
234 to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
235 a cached MonoBook sidebar
236 * Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
237 * (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
239 * Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
240 type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
241 * (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
242 * (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
244 * (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
245 * (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
246 * (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
247 * (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
248 * (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
249 * Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
251 * Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
252 * Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
253 it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
254 * (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
255 * (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
256 month number without the leading zero
257 * (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
258 * (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
259 * (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
260 * (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
261 * (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
262 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
263 customisation of the user interface
264 * DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
266 * Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
267 wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
268 * Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
270 * Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
271 syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
272 have these rights stripped from them.
273 * Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
274 the DBA extension is not available.
275 * Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
276 fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
277 time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
278 set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
279 * Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
281 * Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
282 task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
283 invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
284 * (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
285 headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
286 removing the redundant anchor elements.
287 * Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
289 * Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
290 display for old versions of images.
291 * In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
292 appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
293 * Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
294 thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
295 * If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
296 now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
297 * Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
298 * (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
299 will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
300 * (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
301 class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
302 * (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
303 * (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
304 message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
305 * (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
306 AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
307 * (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
309 * (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
311 * Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
312 * (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
313 extension version in Special:Version
314 * (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
315 right name in Special:ListGroupRights
316 * (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
318 * (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
320 * (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
321 * (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
322 * RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
324 * (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
325 but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
326 * wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
327 page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
328 * (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
330 * The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
331 This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
333 ** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers.
334 ** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
335 obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
336 ** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
337 ** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
338 output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
339 ** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
340 * The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
341 * New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
342 criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
343 deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
344 * (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
345 * (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
346 detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
347 * MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
348 * IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
349 display-in-limit-form.
350 * (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
351 and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
352 * Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
353 database connection and query errors.
354 * Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
355 * Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
356 excerpt from the block log.
357 * (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
358 file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
359 * Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
360 * New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
362 * Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
363 on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
364 * (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
365 of anonymous users that edited the page
366 * New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
367 for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
368 * (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
369 * Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
370 called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
371 * (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
372 a smaller subversion checkout.
373 * (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
374 * (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
376 * (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
377 function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
378 setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
380 * Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
381 * Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
382 * Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
384 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
386 * (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
387 the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
388 * (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
389 an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
390 * New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
391 or ExtUser-driven requests.
392 * (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
393 contains the number of revisions in the history
394 * $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
395 * (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
396 * New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
397 to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
398 * Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
399 * rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
401 * upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
402 * (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
403 respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
404 * Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
405 and common coding mistakes
406 * Updated Unicode normalization tables
407 * (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
408 * New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
409 * (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
410 membership in SpecialActiveusers
411 * Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
412 * $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
413 * (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
414 * EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
415 * (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
416 * (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
417 * (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
418 * (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
419 * Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
420 Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
421 convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
423 * (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
425 * Send new password e-mail in users preference language
426 * LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
428 * Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
429 * (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
430 * (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
432 * (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
434 * (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
436 * Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
438 * importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
439 comment from another wiki.
440 * Support for Turck MMCache was removed
441 * (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
442 account will not be renamed
443 * Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
445 === Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
447 * (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
449 * The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
450 * (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
451 * (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
452 * (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
453 * (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
454 * Improved error handling for image moving
455 * (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
456 with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
457 * (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
458 MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
459 * Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
460 * (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
461 * (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
462 * (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
463 * (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
464 * "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
466 * (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
467 * (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
468 * The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
470 * (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
471 * (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
472 * (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
473 * (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
474 * (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
475 * (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
476 * (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
477 * (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
478 * (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
479 * (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
480 * Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
481 after some parsed math syntax.
482 * (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
483 * (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
484 <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
485 * (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
487 * (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
488 revisions when --delete is not passed
489 * (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
490 * Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
491 ** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
492 ** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
493 ** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
494 ** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
496 ** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
498 * (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
499 languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
500 * (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
501 * (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
502 * Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
504 * (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
505 * (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
506 * (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
507 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
508 * (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
509 * (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
510 * (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
512 * (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
513 * (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
515 * (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
516 * (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
517 * (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
518 * (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
519 * (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
520 * Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
521 tags that were redundantly defined.
522 * (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
523 * (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
525 * Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
526 Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
527 * Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
529 * Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
530 uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
531 * (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
532 * (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
533 * (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
534 variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
535 * (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
536 show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
537 * (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
538 * (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
539 * (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
540 * Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
541 link from the edit comment
542 * (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
543 * (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
544 * (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
545 * (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
546 * Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
547 * Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only
548 * (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they
549 can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
550 * (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
551 * Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
552 via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
554 * (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
556 * (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
557 * (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
558 whether the engines are actually available
559 * (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version
560 * (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan
561 * (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input
562 and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an
563 extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid)
564 * (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on
565 * (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once
566 * (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url
567 * (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self
568 * Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6
569 * Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore
570 and was causing problems.
571 * Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links.
572 * (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on
574 * (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite.
575 * Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from
576 history view, edit page, or something similar
577 * (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
578 * (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
579 * (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
580 * (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
582 * (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
583 standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
584 * (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]])
585 are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table
586 * (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id
587 * (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data.
588 Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway.
589 * (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file
590 * (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist
591 * (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5
592 * (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
593 * (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
594 * (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
595 * (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
597 * (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
598 * (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
599 * (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
600 users who can't edit them
601 * (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
602 * (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
603 "enhanced recent changes"
604 * (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
605 the recentchanges table
606 * (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
608 * The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
610 * (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
611 * (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
612 $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on
613 Special:ListGroupRights
614 * (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
615 to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as
617 * (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL
618 database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup
619 * (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
620 if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
621 * (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
622 * (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
623 option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
624 * (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
625 * (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
626 "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
627 * (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
628 "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
629 * (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
630 (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
631 * (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
632 language ($wgContLang)
633 * (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php
634 * (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count
635 * (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have
636 not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their
638 * (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
640 * (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
641 * (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
642 * (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
643 * (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
644 * (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip
645 * (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on
646 Special:RecentChangesLinked
647 * Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
649 * (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
650 * (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
651 * (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
653 * (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
654 * Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
655 versions of MediaWiki were affected).
656 * (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
657 * (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
658 * (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
659 are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
660 titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
661 * (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
662 cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
663 * (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
664 * (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
665 * (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
666 * (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
668 * (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
670 * (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
671 Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
672 * (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
673 * (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
675 * (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
676 DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
677 * (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
678 the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
679 * (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
680 Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
681 * (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
682 if they contain non-ASCII characters
683 * (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
684 Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
685 * The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
686 * (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
687 execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
688 at script execution, it now throws an exception
689 * Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
690 (analogous to EditFilter hook)
691 * (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
692 by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
693 * (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
694 $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
695 * (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
696 * (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
697 the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
698 * (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
700 * (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
701 any change, in addition to onkeyup.
702 * Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
703 allowed to create page. Done via new message
704 MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
705 * Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
706 wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
708 * (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
709 be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
710 * (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
711 * (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
712 correct type="text" parameter
713 * (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
714 * Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
715 * (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
716 * (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
717 the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
718 * (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
719 * User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
720 assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
721 * (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
722 editing an old version
723 * (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
725 * (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
726 returns false if the page doesn't exist
727 * (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
728 * (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
729 * (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
730 command line scripts to fail
731 * (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
732 MediaWiki:Missing-article
733 * (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
734 * (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
736 * (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
737 * (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
738 now links to the file rather than the file description page
739 * Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
740 attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
741 * (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
742 * (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
743 * (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
744 searching for special pages
745 * (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
747 * (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
748 * (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
749 field names per driver.
750 * (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
751 false on non-special pages
752 * (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
753 displayed when there isn't any entry in it
754 * (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
756 * (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
757 MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
758 * (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
760 * (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
761 Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
762 * (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
763 * (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
764 * (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
766 * (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
767 * (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
769 * (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
770 * (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
771 * (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
772 * (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
773 * (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
774 * (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
775 * (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
776 * (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
777 shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
779 * (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
780 * User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results,
781 User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string
782 * The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
783 * (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
784 * Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
785 * Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
786 * (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
787 * (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
788 * (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
789 * (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
790 * (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
791 * (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
792 id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
793 * (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
794 * (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
795 * (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
796 even to non-logged in users
797 * (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and
798 general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as
800 * Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
801 instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
802 * (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
803 of the displayed page
804 * (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with
805 PHP's memcached extension
806 * (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible
807 * (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
808 * (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
809 only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
810 * (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
812 * (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
813 redirects-only switch is not present
814 * (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
815 * Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
816 due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
817 * (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
818 the page selector when they have only one page
819 * (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
820 "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
821 * (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
822 * (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
823 a redirect instead of a baderror.
824 * (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
825 * Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g.
827 * (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
828 groups if there are duplicate entries
829 * (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username
830 now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links
831 * (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID
832 * (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
833 previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
834 * (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
835 * refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
836 * (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
837 consistency with RC/WL
838 * (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language
839 * If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
840 type selector on Special:Log
841 * (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
842 user can't create an account
843 * (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
844 * (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
845 user's page if possible
846 * (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
847 * (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
849 * (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
850 * (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
851 skin-specific JS pages
852 * (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
854 * Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
855 * (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
856 * (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
857 * (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
858 * (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
859 not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
860 * (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
861 that can only change their rights
862 * (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
863 * (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload
865 * Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in
866 $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used
867 as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it
868 was unintentionally sorted along with other fields.
869 * (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8
870 * Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken
872 * (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist
873 * (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to
874 the page set in the &returnto parameter.
875 * (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome
876 * (bug 17790) Users instantly logged off on HughesNet
878 == API changes in 1.16 ==
879 * Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
880 * Added usprop=gender to list=users
881 * (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
882 * Add parentid to prop=revisions output
883 * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
884 when the user is blocked
885 * (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
886 * (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
888 * (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
889 * (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
890 * Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output
891 * (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output
892 * (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories
893 * (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo
894 * (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo
896 * (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version
897 * (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output
898 * (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs
899 * (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output
900 * Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans
901 * Made deleting file description pages without files possible
902 * (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output
903 * (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo
904 * (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and
906 * Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections
908 * (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups
909 * (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite
911 * (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output
912 * (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang
914 * (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
915 * (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
916 * (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
917 * (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
918 parameter in action=edit
919 * (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
920 parameter in action=edit
921 * Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
922 * Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
923 optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
924 * (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
925 external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
926 Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
927 * (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
929 * (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
931 * Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
932 * (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
933 * (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
934 drcontinue param is passed
935 * (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
936 * (bug 19004) Added support for tags
937 * (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
938 without registration date
939 * (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
940 * (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
941 * (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
942 * (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
943 * (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
944 for logged-in users under certain circumstances
945 * (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
946 * Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
948 * (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
949 * (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
950 * (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
951 * (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
952 * (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
953 * (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
954 * Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
955 * (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
956 * (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
957 * (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
958 * (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
959 * (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
960 * (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output
961 * (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo
963 === Languages updated in 1.16 ===
965 MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
966 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
967 changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
969 * Capiznon (cps) (new)
970 * North Frisian (frr) (new)
971 * Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
972 * Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
973 * Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
974 * Latgalian (ltg) (new)
975 * Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
976 * Prussian (prg) (new)
977 * Romagnol (rgn) (new)
979 * Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
981 * Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
982 * Upper Franconian (vmf) (new)
984 * Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
985 * Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
986 * Ladin (lld) (removed)
987 * Palembang (plm) (removed)
988 * Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
989 * Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
991 * (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
992 * Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
993 * Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et)
994 * (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my)
995 * (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash
997 * (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language
998 * (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc)
999 * (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail
1000 * (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl)
1001 * (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian
1002 * (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail
1003 * (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
1004 * (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
1005 * (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
1006 * (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
1007 * (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku)
1011 MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
1013 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
1014 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
1019 1.16 has several database changes since 1.15, and will not work without schema
1022 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
1023 ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
1024 database schema changes.
1026 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
1027 new database fields are filled with data.
1029 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
1030 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
1031 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
1033 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
1038 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
1039 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
1040 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
1041 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
1042 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
1044 For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
1047 === Online documentation ===
1049 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
1050 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
1051 License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
1052 the public domain) :
1054 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
1057 === Mailing list ===
1059 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
1062 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
1064 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
1066 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
1068 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
1069 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
1074 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net