1 Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
5 === Changes since 1.15.1 ===
7 * The installer now includes a check for a data corruption issue with certain
8 versions of libxml2 2.7 and PHP earlier than 5.2.9, and also for a PHP bug
9 present in the official release of PHP 5.3.1.
10 * (bug 20239) MediaWiki:Imagemaxsize does not contain anymore a <br /> tag which
11 was displayed to the user
12 * (bug 21150) SQLite no longer raise an error when deleting files
13 * (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
14 * upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
15 * Fixed a CSS validation issue which allowed external images to be included
16 into wikis where that is disallowed by configuration.
17 * Fixed a data leakage vulnerability for private wikis using img_auth.php or
18 similar image access authentication schemes. Check user permissions before
19 streaming out scaled images from thumb.php.
21 === Changes since 1.15.0 ===
23 * Fixed fatal errors for unusual file repository configurations, such as
25 * Fixed the "change password" link on Special:Preferences to have the correct
27 * (bug 19693) Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability in Special:Block
29 === Changes since 1.15.0rc1 ===
31 * Removed category redirect feature, implementation was incomplete.
32 * (bug 18846) Remove update_password_format(), unnecessary, destroys all
33 passwords if a wiki with $wgPasswordSalt=false is upgraded with the web
35 * (bug 19127) Documentation warning for PostgreSQL users who run update.php:
36 use the same user in AdminSettings.php as in LocalSettings.php.
37 * Fixed possible web invocation of some maintenance scripts, due to the use of
38 include() instead of require(). A full exploit would require a very strange
39 web server configuration.
40 * Localisation updates.
42 === Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
44 * Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
46 * Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
47 * Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
48 from rel="nofollow" on external links
49 * (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
50 * Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
51 to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
52 * Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
53 namespace" option (disabled by default)
55 === New features in 1.15 ===
57 * (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
58 * (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
59 for the current page for a given action
60 * (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
61 to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
62 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
63 * When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
64 Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
65 hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
66 * Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
68 * (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
69 existing block when modifying an existing block.
70 * (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
71 rather than hardcoded HTML tags
72 * Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
73 extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
75 * (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
77 * (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
78 * (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
79 recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
80 * Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
82 * Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
83 * Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
84 link instead of Go button & Search button
85 * (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
86 * More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
87 * (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
88 * (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
89 * (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
90 * Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
92 * (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
94 * (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
95 * (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
96 * (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
97 can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
98 * Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
99 "mw-confirmemail-pending"
100 * (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
101 parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
102 part for a given title.
103 * (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
105 * (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
106 * (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
107 * (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
108 * Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
109 class "mw-searchresult"
110 * (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
111 * Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
112 * New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
113 LanguageConverter class)
114 * (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
115 * Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
116 * (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
117 "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
118 * (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
119 this information will be public
120 * Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
121 * Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
122 the active users data from site_stats.
123 * Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
124 * Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
126 * Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
127 'mw-editinginterface'
128 * (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
129 * Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
130 of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
132 * Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
134 * (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
135 Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
137 * Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
138 * (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
139 * (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
140 * Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
141 * (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
143 * Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
144 with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
145 * $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
146 of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
147 * New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
148 LanguageConverter class)
149 * (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
151 * Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
152 * (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
153 of the displayed revision's author user name
154 * LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
155 a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
156 * (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with
158 * (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the dateformat
160 * (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited to 5000 pages)
161 * (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
162 enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,
163 optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting
165 * Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and
166 'mw-log-user', respectively
167 * Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
168 usernames during registration (such as "@")
169 * Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
170 used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
171 on a different database
172 * Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
174 * Title attributes are now always blank on framed and thumbnailed images, and default to blank
175 on inline images instead of defaulting to the image's filename. Additionally, the alt
176 attribute now defaults to the filename on framed and thumbnailed images if no caption or alt
177 attribute is specified.
179 === Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
180 * (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
181 * (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
182 before trying to delete the edit.
183 * (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
184 * (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
185 the destination page exists
186 * (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
188 * Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
189 LanguageConverter class)
190 * Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
191 LanguageConverter class)
192 * (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
193 * (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
194 * (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
195 * (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
196 allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
197 * (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
198 * (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
199 * Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
201 * (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
202 * DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
203 * (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
204 * (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
206 * Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
207 * (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
208 comment label uses better message
209 * Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
210 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
212 * (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
213 error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
214 * (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
215 * Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
216 * Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
217 for identical files at different titles are still given.
218 * Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
219 certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
220 and the entries can be styled with CSS.
221 * (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
222 * Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
223 results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
224 * (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
225 * (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
227 * (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
228 * (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
229 * (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
230 * (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
232 * (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
233 and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
234 * (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
235 * (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
236 longer affects the page title
237 * (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
238 * (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
239 * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
240 * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
241 * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
242 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
244 * (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
245 * (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
246 maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
247 * (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
248 * (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
249 * Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
250 use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
252 * (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
253 * Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
254 * File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
255 * (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
256 used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
257 * (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
258 * (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
259 now point to the actual contributors' feed.
260 * ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
261 * Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
262 $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
263 * (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
264 redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
265 * (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
266 * (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
267 changed to rc_timestamp_bot
268 * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
269 * (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
270 * (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
271 on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
272 * (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
274 * Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
275 * (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
277 * (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
278 * (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
279 * (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
280 * (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
282 * (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
283 * (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
284 * (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
286 * (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
287 displayed revision if it's not the current one
288 * (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
289 * (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
290 namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
291 * (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
292 * (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
293 no longer corrupts the message cache
294 * (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
295 * (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
296 * (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
297 * (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
298 * Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
299 * (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
300 two "page" parameters
301 * (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
302 don't use PathInfo or short urls
303 * (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
305 * (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
306 * (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
308 * (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
309 * (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
310 * (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when you cut-and-paste article text
311 * (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
312 * (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
313 * (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and "Previous edit" diff links
314 * (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as target'
315 * (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
316 * Fixed a CSS validation issue which allowed external images to be included
317 into wikis where that is disallowed by configuration.
318 * Fixed a data leakage vulnerability for private wikis using img_auth.php or
319 similar image access authentication schemes. Check user permissions before
320 streaming out scaled images from thumb.php.
322 == API changes in 1.15 ==
323 * (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
324 and listing all deleted pages possible
325 * (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
326 * (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
327 * (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
328 created the page, even if it's not the top revision
329 * (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
330 * action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
331 * (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
332 * (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
333 Building query properly now using makeList()
334 * (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
336 * (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
337 * (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
338 * (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
339 * (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
340 * (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
341 * (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
342 * (bug 17007) Added action=import
343 * BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
344 of performance concerns
345 * Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
347 * (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
348 limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
349 * (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
350 * (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
351 * (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
352 * Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
353 * (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
354 aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
355 * (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
356 * (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
357 * (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
358 * Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
360 * (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
362 * (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
363 without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
364 * Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
365 when someone tries to use them
366 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
368 * (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
369 message to be included in the page text
370 * Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop
371 involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is
373 * (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter
374 * (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter
375 * (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output
376 * (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data
379 === Languages updated in 1.15 ===
381 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
382 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
383 changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
385 * Austrian German (de-at) (new)
386 * Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
387 * Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
388 * Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
389 * Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
390 * Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
392 * Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
393 * (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
394 * (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
395 * (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
396 * (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
397 * (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when
399 * Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
403 === Configuration changes in 1.14 ===
405 * $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
406 the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words. (Default: null, ex-
407 empt all content namespaces.)
408 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
409 has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
410 * (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
411 $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent
412 Changes feed that appears on all pages.
413 * $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
414 SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from
415 $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki.
416 * $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
417 $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
418 group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
419 Backwards compatibility is maintained.
420 * $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
421 word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
422 is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
423 * $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
424 * $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
425 * Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
426 with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
428 * $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
429 * Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
431 * Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
432 sitenotice cache keys.
433 * $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
434 * (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
435 write actions using the API.
436 * Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
437 ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
438 * Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
439 on the wiki. If it's set to false, then the skin used will *always* be
441 * Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
442 on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
443 * Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
445 * (bug 44) Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File.
446 For backward compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may
448 * The constants NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK can now be used instead of NS_IMAGE and
449 NS_IMAGE_TALK. The old constants are retained as aliases for compatibility,
450 and should still be used in code meant to be compatible with v1.13 or older.
451 * MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by
452 using $wgUsePrivateIPs.
453 * The 'BeforeWatchlist' hook has been removed due to internal changes in
454 Special:Watchlist. 'SpecialWatchlistQuery' should now be used by extensions
455 to customize the watchlist database query.
457 === Migrated extensions ===
458 The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
460 * Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was
461 extension DeletedContributions)
462 * Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
463 * Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
466 * UniversalEditButton
468 === New features in 1.14 ===
470 * New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
471 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
472 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
473 * Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
474 respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
475 MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
476 PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
477 * (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
478 search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
479 * Handheld stylesheet options
480 * Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
481 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks. Note that the
482 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
483 run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
484 if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
485 * Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
486 $wgCleanSignatures=false
487 * Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
488 sidebar and add custom portlets to it
489 * Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
490 ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
491 * (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
492 Special:ListGroupRights
493 * (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
494 * (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
495 the main page to be customized
496 * Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
498 * Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
499 added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
500 being converted or not
501 * (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
503 * Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
504 * Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
505 after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
506 templates to work with that hook.
507 * (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
508 'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
509 * (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
510 * By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
511 so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
512 * (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
513 option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
514 * (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
515 Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
516 * Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
517 groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
518 * HTML entities like now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
519 * (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
520 instead of a hardcoded colon.
521 * Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
522 * Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
523 * BMP images are now displayed as PNG
524 * (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
525 * (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
526 * Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
527 * Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
528 * Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
529 treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
530 displaying an external image inline.
531 * (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
532 * (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
533 * (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
534 * Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
536 * After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
537 * (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
538 * (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
540 * (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
541 plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
542 * (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
543 deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
544 * Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
546 * (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for
547 different restriction types on the protection form.
548 * (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
549 * Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
550 * Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
551 $wgExternalLinkTarget
552 * api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the
553 maxlag check fails, just like index.php does
554 * Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
555 arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
556 solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
557 * (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
558 using new "alt=" parameter for images
559 * (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized
560 namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of
561 underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
562 * Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
563 default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
564 marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
565 * Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
566 several uses of the same image.
567 * (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
568 wiki is set to read-only mode.
569 * Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.
570 This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page
571 from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only
572 called from within Article.php
573 * Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
574 $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
575 * (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
576 is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
577 * Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
579 * Make search matches bold only, not red as well
580 * (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
581 * (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is
582 already directly blocked
583 * (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter
585 * (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by
587 * Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
588 * (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
589 * (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
590 * (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
591 * Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
592 image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
593 $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
594 * New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
595 * (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
596 * (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the
598 * Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that
599 admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS
600 * Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
601 * Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
602 * Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
603 * Added complimentary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
604 * Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered
605 algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm.
606 * Cascading protection no longer requires that both edit and move are restricted
607 to sysop, just edit=sysop is enough
608 * (bug 2391) A warning is now shown for invalid ISBN numbers on Special:Booksources.
609 * Installer has been updated to reflect the release of the GFDL 1.3. The URL for 1.2
610 has been updated, and the 1.3 URL has been given. 1.2 is still Wikipedia-compatible.
611 RightsCode was changed from 'gfdl' to 'gfdl1_2', so we can now support 1.2 as well
613 * (bug 16293) PD URL was changed to the CreativeCommons site on PD (which auto-detects
614 your language) instead of Wikipedia.
615 * (bug 16635) The "view and edit watchlist" page (Special:Watchlist/edit) now
616 includes a table of contents
617 * File objects returned by wfFindFile() are now cached by default
618 * (bug 7492) Rights can now be assigned to specific IP addresses and ranges by
619 using $wgAutopromote (new defines: APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE)
620 * Add a 'change block' link to Special:IPBlockList and Special:Log
621 * (bug 16459) Use native getElementsByClassName where possible, for better
622 performance in modern browsers
623 * Enable \cancel and \cancelto in texvc (recompile required)
624 * Added 'UserCryptPassword' and 'UserComparePasswords' hooks to allow extensions to implement
625 their own password hashing methods.
626 * (bug 16760) Add CSS-class to action links of Special:Log
627 * (bug 505) Time zones can now be specified by location in user preferences,
628 avoiding the need to manually update for DST. Patch by Brad Jorsch.
629 * (bug 2585) HTTP 404 return code is now given for a page view if the page
630 does not exist, allowing spiders and link checkers to detect broken links.
631 * Special:Log: Add 'change protection' link for unprotected pages too
632 * Special:Log: Add log type specific CSS classes 'mw-logline-$logtype' to
634 * (bug 16754) Making arbitrary rows of sortable tables sticky:
635 |- class="unsortable"
636 * Show subversion too even if a "normal" version number is available
637 * (bug 16121) Add a note that a page move was without creating a redirect in the
639 * Image moving is now enabled for sysops by default
640 * Make "Did you mean" search feature more noticeable
641 * (bug 16720) Transcluded Special:NewPages processes "/username="
643 === Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
645 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
646 * (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
647 falls back to the user option
648 * (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
649 * Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
650 * Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
651 * Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
652 * (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
653 * (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
654 * (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
655 * Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
656 * (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
657 no longer redirect to the second link
658 * (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
659 a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
660 Patch by Max Semenik.
661 * (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
662 user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
663 * (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in
665 * (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
666 wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
667 * (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the
668 diff entirely, not just the display of it.
669 * (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
670 allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
671 * (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
672 ns-special to special pages.
673 * (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
674 * (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
675 for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
676 WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
677 * (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
679 * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
680 * (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
682 * Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
683 contain '/*' in the title
684 * Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
685 * $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
686 addition to body text.
687 * Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
688 from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
689 * Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
691 * (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
692 * (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
693 literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
694 * (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
695 namespace in Special:Watchlist
696 * (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
697 last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
698 * (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
699 * Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
700 Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
701 long-lasting locks on that table.
702 * Respect file restrictions in the file history list
703 * (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
704 tables, and have been disabled by default.
705 * (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
706 * (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
707 * (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
708 * (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
709 * (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
710 * (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
711 Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned.
712 * Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
713 LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
714 * Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent
715 pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the
717 * (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for
718 recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50.
719 * (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
720 instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
721 * (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
722 has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
723 * (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
724 * Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST.
725 * (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users
726 * Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL
727 * (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview
728 * (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner
729 * (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex
730 * Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page
731 * (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button
732 * (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous
733 * (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode
734 * (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the
735 user can only change his rights
736 * (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
737 * (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
738 * (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
739 * (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now
740 bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
741 * Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the
742 Konqueror browser correctly use the latter
743 * (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
744 * (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
746 * (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
747 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
749 * (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding
751 * Purge form uses valid XHTML
752 * (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
753 * (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback
754 if JavaScript is disabled
755 * (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
756 * Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
757 * (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
758 * (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
759 * (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
760 of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
761 * Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now
763 * (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case
765 * (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
766 * (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
768 * (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
770 * (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
771 revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
772 * (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
773 filename as the remote site.
774 * (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
775 * Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb
776 path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
777 * (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
778 {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
779 * Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for
780 formatting and path exposure.
781 * Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured
782 * Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use.
783 * Improved input validation on Special:Import form
784 * Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection
785 against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default
787 * Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection.
788 * Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads.
789 * (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes
790 * (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script
791 * (bug 7726) Searches for words less than 4 characters now work without
792 requiring customization of MySQL server settings
793 * Honour unchecked "Leave a redirect behind" for moved subpages
794 * (bug 16440) Broken 0-byte math renderings are now deleted and re-rendered
795 when page is re-parsed.
796 * (bug 6100) Unicode BiDi embedding/override characters (U+202A - U+202E) are
797 now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end
798 up in copy-and-pasted titles, and, by overriding normal bidirectional text
799 handling, can lead to annoying behavior such as text rendering backwards
800 * Fixed minor bug where the memcached value for how many accounts an IP had
801 created that day would be increased even if $wgAccountCreationThrottle was
802 hit. This meant if an IP hit the throttle and then the throttle was raised
803 later that day, the IP still couldn't create another account, because it
804 had marked them as having created another account, when their last account
805 creation had actually failed.
806 * (bug 12647) Allow autogenerated edit summary messages to be blanked with '-'
807 * (bug 16026) 'Revision-info' and 'revision-info-current' both accept wiki
809 * (bug 16529) Fix for search suggestions with some third-party JS libraries
810 * (bug 13342) importScript() generates more consistent URI encoding
811 * (bug 16577) When a blocked user tries to rollback a page, the block message
812 is now only displayed once
813 * (bug 14268) SVG image sizes now extracted with proper XML parser
814 * (bug 14365) RepoGroup::findFiles() no longer crashes if passed an invalid
816 * (bug 4253, bug 16586) Revision ID is now given instead of title in URLs for
817 new pages in the recent changes IRC feed
818 * Ugly tooltips in Special:Statistics were phased out in favor of more direct
819 information. Went ahead and rewrote SpecialStatistics to subclass SpecialPage
820 * (bug 5506) Links to files on foreign repositories are now shown consistently
821 as bluelinks e.g. in logs and edit summaries
822 * (bug 16623) Add missing </p> tag in Special:LockDB
823 * (bug 15849) Special:Movepage now throws a more specific error when trying to
824 move a title to an interwiki target
825 * (bug 16638) 8-bit URL fallback encoding now set on additional languages using
826 Arabic script (Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi)
827 * (bug 16656) cleanupTitles and friends should now work in load-balanced
828 DB environments when $wgDBserver isn't set.
829 * (bug 3691) Aspect ratio from viewBox attribute is now preserved for SVG
830 images which do not specify width and height attributes.
831 * (bug 15027) Internet domain names and IP addresses can now be indexed and
832 searched sensibly with the default MySQL search backend.
833 * (bug 11733) Fixed parameter validation in importTextFile.php
834 * (bug 16712) Special:NewFiles updated to use "newer"/"older" paging messages
835 for clarity over "previous/next"
836 * (bug 16612) Fixed "noprint" class for Modern skin print style
837 * Section anchors now have an "id" attribute as well as a "name" attribute,
838 even when Tidy is not used
839 * (bug 16026) revision-info, revision-info-current, cannotdelete,
840 redirectedfrom, historywarning and difference messages now use Wiki text
841 rather than raw HTML markup
842 * (bug 13835) Fix rendering of {{filepath:Wiki.png|nowiki}}
843 * (bug 16772) Special:Upload now correctly rejects files with spaces in the
844 file extension (e.g. Foo. jpg).
845 * Image moving over an existing file no longer throws a database error
846 * (bug 16786) Restored "redundant" links recently removed from Classic sidebar
847 * (bug 16850) $wgActionPaths can have query strings now, previously, this broke
849 * (bug 16376) Mention in deleteBatch.php and moveBatch.php maintenance scripts
850 that STDIN can be used for page list
851 * (bug 16560) Special:Random returns a page from ContentNamespaces, and no
854 === API changes in 1.14 ===
856 * Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
857 shown as empty instead of the current time.
858 * API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
859 or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
860 This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
861 &srwhat=text to the query.
862 * Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
863 * (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
864 are now listed on action=help
865 * (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
867 * (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
869 * When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
870 * list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
871 * (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
872 non-hidden categories
873 * (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of
874 an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
875 * list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
876 etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
877 for consistency with other list modules.
879 * (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
880 * action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an
881 empty section with section=new
882 * Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
883 nochange flag any more
884 * (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
885 * (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
886 return just "Unknown error"
887 * (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
888 * (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
889 * (bug 15466) Added action=purge
890 * (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
891 * (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
892 * (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
893 * (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
894 if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
895 * list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
896 * Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
897 hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
898 * action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
899 * (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
900 WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
901 * (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
902 rather than causing an exception
903 * Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo
904 * (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info
905 * Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can
906 be disabled in LocalSettings.php
907 * (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles
908 * (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw
909 * (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted
910 and undeleted since the last edit
911 * (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in
913 * Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output
914 * (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
915 * (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
916 manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
917 * (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
918 * The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
919 * (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
920 and patrolmarks right
921 * (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
923 * (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
925 * (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
926 sortkeys containing pipes
927 * (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
928 works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
929 * (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
931 * Added redirect resolution to action=parse
932 * (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
934 * (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
935 * (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
936 * (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
937 * (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
938 * meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty
940 * (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate
942 * (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases
943 * (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions
944 * (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores
946 * (bug 16516) Made rvsection=T-2 work
947 * (bug 16526) Added usprop=emailable to list=users
948 * (bug 16548) list=search threw errors with an invalid error code
949 * (bug 16515) Added pst and onlypst parameters to action=parse
950 * (bug 16541) Added block expiry timestamp to list=logevents output
951 * (bug 16613) action=protect doesn't tell when &cascade was set but cascading
952 protection wasn't allowed
953 * (bug 16626) action=delete now correctly handles empty "reason" param
954 * (bug 15579) clshow considers all categories !hidden
955 * (bug 16647) list=allcategories, prop=categories don't return "hidden"
956 property for hidden categories
957 * New siprop parameter of 'extensions' to list all installed extensions
958 * (bug 16672) Include canonical namespace name in
959 meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces.
960 * (bug 16726) siprop=namespacealiases should also list localized aliases
961 * (bug 16730) Added apprfiltercascade parameter to list=allpages to filter
962 cascade-protected pages
964 === Languages updated in 1.14 ===
966 MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
967 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
969 * Bakhtiari (bqi) (new)
970 * Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new)
972 * Lezghian (lez) (new)
974 * Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
977 * Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
978 * Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
979 * Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
980 * Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
986 == Changes since 1.13.2 ==
988 David Remahl of Apple's Product Security team has identified a number of
989 security issues in previous releases of MediaWiki. Subsequent analysis by the
990 MediaWiki development team expanded the scope of these vulnerabilities. The
991 issues with a significant impact are as follows:
993 * An XSS vulnerability affecting all MediaWiki installations between 1.13.0 and
994 1.13.2. [CVE-2008-5249]
995 * A local script injection vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer clients for
996 all MediaWiki installations with uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
997 * A local script injection vulnerability affecting clients with SVG scripting
998 capability (such as Firefox 1.5+), for all MediaWiki installations with SVG
999 uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
1000 * A CSRF vulnerability affecting the Special:Import feature, for all MediaWiki
1001 installations since the feature was introduced in 1.3.0. [CVE-2008-5252]
1003 XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities allow an attacker to steal an
1004 authorised user's login session, and to act as that user on the wiki. The
1005 authorised user must visit a web page controlled by the attacker in order to
1006 activate the attack. Intranet wikis are vulnerable if the attacker can
1007 determine the intranet URL.
1009 Local script injection vulnerabilities are like XSS vulnerabilities, except
1010 that the attacker must have an account on the local wiki, and there is no
1011 external site involved. The attacker uploads a script to the wiki, which another
1012 user is tricked into executing, with the effect that the attacker is able to act
1013 as the privileged user.
1015 CSRF vulnerabilities allow an attacker to act as an authorised user on the wiki,
1016 but unlike an XSS vulnerability, the attacker can only act as the user in a
1017 specific and restricted way. The present CSRF vulnerability allows pages to be
1018 edited, with forged revision histories. Like an XSS vulnerability, the
1019 authorised user must visit the malicious web page to activate the attack.
1021 These four vulnerabilities are all fixed in this release.
1023 David Remahl also reminded us of some security-related configuration issues:
1025 * By default, MediaWiki stores a backup of deleted images in the images/deleted
1026 directory. If you do not want these images to be publically accessible, make
1027 sure this directory is not accessible from the web. MediaWiki takes some steps
1028 to avoid leaking these images, but these measures are not perfect.
1029 * Set display_errors=off in your php.ini to avoid path disclosure via PHP fatal
1030 errors. This is the default on most shared web hosts.
1031 * Enabling MediaWiki's debugging features, such as $wgShowExceptionDetails, may
1032 lead to path disclosure.
1034 Other changes in this release:
1036 * Avoid fatal error in profileinfo.php when not configured.
1037 * Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection against
1038 exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default installations.
1039 * Avoid streaming uploaded files to the user via index.php. This allows
1040 security-conscious users to serve uploaded files via a different domain, and
1041 thus client-side scripts executed from that domain cannot access the login
1042 cookies. Affects Special:Undelete, img_auth.php and thumb.php.
1043 * When streaming files via index.php, use the MIME type detected from the
1044 file extension, not from the data. This reduces the XSS attack surface.
1045 * Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath. Such redirects exacerbate any
1046 XSS vulnerabilities involving uploads of files containing scripts.
1047 * Internationalisation updates.
1049 == Changes since 1.13.1 ==
1051 * Security: Work around misconfiguration by requiring strict comparisons for
1052 in_array in User::isAllowed().
1053 * (bug 14944) Added $wgShellLocale for configuration of an appropriate locale
1054 to use for LC_CTYPE during shell invocation. For servers that don't have
1055 en_US.utf8. Also added locale detection during install.
1056 * Localisation updates
1057 * Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability in useskin parameter.
1059 == Changes since 1.13.0 ==
1061 * (bug 15460) Fixed intermittent deadlock errors and poor concurrent
1062 performance for installations without memcached.
1063 * (bug 13770) Fixed DOM module detection for installations with both dom
1065 * (bug 15148) Fixed Special:BlockIP for PostgreSQL
1066 * Fixed SQLite support for non-memcached installations
1067 * Localisation updates, Achinese (ace) added.
1069 == Changes since 1.13.0rc2 ==
1071 * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
1072 * Fix regression from r37834: accesskey tooltip hint should be given for the
1073 minor edit and watch labels on the edit page.
1074 * Updated Chinese simplified/traditional conversion tables
1076 == Changes since 1.13.0rc1 ==
1078 * $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
1079 has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
1080 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
1081 * (bug 14966) Fix SearchEngineDummy class for silently non-functional search
1082 on Sqlite instead of horribly fatal error breaky one.
1083 * (bug 14987) Only fix double redirects on page move when the checkbox is
1085 * (bug 13376) Use $wgPasswordSender, not $wgEmergencyContact, as return
1086 address for page update notification mails.
1087 * API: Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
1088 shown as empty instead of the current time.
1089 * (bug 14904): fragments were lost when redirects were fixed.
1090 * Added magic word __STATICREDIRECT__ to suppress the redirect fixer
1091 * (bug 15035) Revert English linkTrail to /^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD, as it was before
1092 r36253. Multiple reports of breakage due to old (pre-5.0) PCRE libraries,
1093 both bundled with PHP and packaged with distros such as RHEL.
1094 * (bug 14944) Shell invocation of external programs such as ImageMagick convert
1095 was broken in PHP 5.2.6, if the server had a non-UTF-8 locale.
1098 === Configuration changes in 1.13 ===
1100 * New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
1101 * (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved
1102 links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
1103 * Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
1104 * Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
1105 * Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
1106 * (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to
1107 $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
1108 * (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated
1109 for only some namespaces
1110 * Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use:
1111 $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
1112 in your LocalSettings.php.
1113 * (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows
1114 you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local
1115 database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new
1116 $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share.
1117 * Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries
1118 * Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page
1119 * $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to
1120 be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge
1121 * $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits
1122 displayed on the recent changes special pages
1123 * The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target
1124 image page already exists
1125 * $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once
1126 (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
1127 * Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use
1128 $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
1129 * $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over
1130 a certain number of days to be considered active
1131 * $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
1132 * $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
1133 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
1134 * New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving
1135 subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
1136 * New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output.
1138 * Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection
1139 is no longer possible.
1140 * $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class,
1141 previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType
1142 * $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages
1143 provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
1144 * Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for
1146 * Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when
1147 creating new directories.
1148 * (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults
1151 === New features in 1.13 ===
1153 * __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
1155 * Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
1156 article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not
1157 confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
1158 * Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
1160 * (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit§ion=new that
1161 pre-fills the section title field
1162 * (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
1163 * (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
1164 reduce broken form submissions
1165 * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
1166 redirects to the redirect table
1167 * Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
1168 * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
1169 * (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
1170 * When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
1171 * (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled"
1173 * Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
1174 * Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
1175 * Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
1176 ** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
1177 ** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
1178 * (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
1179 * (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
1180 * Image redirects are now enabled by default
1181 * (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
1182 * (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
1183 * Redesign of Special:UserRights
1184 * Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
1185 * (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
1186 * (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
1187 * (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of
1188 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
1189 * Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
1190 * (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or
1191 off on Special:WhatLinksHere
1192 * Cache image redirects
1193 * (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
1194 * Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
1195 to modify the output for edit conflicts
1196 * Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
1197 a slightly less huge margin and padding
1198 * (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
1199 * Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
1200 * On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove
1201 one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
1202 * (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
1203 * Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different
1204 text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
1205 * Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account,
1206 otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
1207 * Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content
1208 namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
1209 * (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository
1211 * Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
1212 * (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
1213 * (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
1214 * Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
1215 * (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
1216 * Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
1217 * More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
1218 * (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
1219 * (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
1220 * Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
1221 * Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
1222 * Add support for SQLite
1223 * AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
1224 * (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
1225 * (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
1226 * Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
1227 * (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
1228 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
1229 * Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
1230 * (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
1231 * New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
1232 from other pages in their group.
1233 * (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
1234 * (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
1235 * Sidebar is now cached for all languages
1236 * The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
1237 out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
1238 edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
1239 * SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
1240 changed by extensions.
1241 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
1243 * (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
1244 * (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
1245 * (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of
1246 e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
1247 * Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
1248 * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output
1249 of external (hotlinked) images.
1250 * (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter:
1251 Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single
1252 page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
1253 * Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
1254 * (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that
1255 are in Special:Recentchanges
1256 * Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
1257 * Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
1258 * Add meta generator tag to HTML output
1259 * MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
1260 * Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
1261 * Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
1262 * (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
1263 * Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
1264 moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
1265 SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
1266 * Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
1267 the database is potentially queried
1268 * (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
1269 * New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ČSN and PČP.
1270 * Special:Recentchangeslinked now includes changes to transcluded pages and
1271 displayed images; also, the "Show changes to pages linked" checkbox now works on
1272 category pages too, showing all links that are not categorizations
1273 * (bug 4578) Automatically fix redirects broken by a page move
1275 === Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
1277 * (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
1278 * (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
1279 * (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
1280 * (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
1281 * (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
1282 * Make the default filepageexists message accurate
1283 * (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
1284 * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
1285 * (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
1286 * (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
1287 to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
1288 'opensearch-desc' message.
1289 * (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
1290 to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
1291 * (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
1292 * (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
1293 * (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
1294 * (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
1295 * (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
1296 * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
1297 maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
1298 * All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
1299 * (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
1300 * (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
1301 * maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
1302 * (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
1303 back when using rollback
1304 * (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
1306 * (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
1307 * (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
1309 * Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
1310 * (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
1311 case-insensitive names.
1312 * Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
1313 * (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
1314 * (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
1315 for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
1316 * (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
1317 * Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
1318 * (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
1319 * (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
1320 * (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
1321 overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
1322 * (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
1323 'generated-sidebar'.
1324 * (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
1325 * (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
1326 * (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
1327 * (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
1328 * (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
1329 * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
1330 * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
1331 * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
1332 * (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
1333 so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
1334 * Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
1335 using the "delete and move" option.
1336 * (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
1337 * (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
1338 * (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
1339 * PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
1340 * (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
1341 * (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
1342 * (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
1343 * Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
1344 * (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
1345 * (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
1346 * (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
1347 * (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
1348 * (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
1349 * (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
1350 (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
1351 * Trackback display formatting fixed
1352 * Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
1353 that have an array index other than 0
1354 * (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
1355 * (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
1356 * (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
1357 * (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
1358 * (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
1359 * (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
1360 * (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
1361 * (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
1362 * (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
1363 * (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
1364 * (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
1365 Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
1366 * (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
1367 * (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
1368 * (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
1369 * (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
1370 * (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
1371 * (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
1372 * (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
1373 * (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
1374 * Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
1375 * Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
1376 * (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
1377 * (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
1379 * (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
1380 * (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
1381 * (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
1382 * (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
1383 * (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
1384 * (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
1385 the page is included
1386 * When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
1387 * Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
1389 * (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
1390 * Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are
1391 changeable or all unchangeable
1392 * Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
1393 * (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
1394 * (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
1395 * (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
1396 * (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
1397 * (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
1398 * Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
1399 * (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
1400 * Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
1401 * (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
1402 * (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
1403 * (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
1404 * (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
1405 * (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
1406 * (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
1407 * (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has
1408 "show hidden categories" option on
1409 * (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
1410 * (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
1411 * (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
1412 * (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
1413 * (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
1414 * (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
1415 * (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
1416 * (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
1417 * Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
1418 * (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
1419 * (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
1420 * (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
1421 * (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0
1422 Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
1423 * (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
1424 * (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
1425 * (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options
1426 Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
1427 * (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
1428 * (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
1429 * (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
1430 * Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
1431 * (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behaviour on image pages
1432 * (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
1433 * (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check
1434 * (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
1435 * (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
1436 * (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
1437 * (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists
1438 even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
1439 * (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are
1440 loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
1441 * (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
1442 * (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also
1443 disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
1444 * (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
1445 * (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
1446 * (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
1447 * (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name
1448 for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
1449 with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
1450 * (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
1451 * (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
1453 * (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
1454 * (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
1456 * (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
1457 * (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
1458 * (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
1459 ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
1460 not the main namespace page.
1461 * (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
1462 * (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
1463 * (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
1464 * (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
1465 * (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
1466 * (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
1467 * (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
1468 $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
1469 * (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
1470 and $2 (=revision numbers)
1471 * (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
1472 * (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
1473 * (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
1474 * (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
1475 * (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
1476 extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
1477 * (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
1478 * (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
1479 * We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
1480 created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
1481 * (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
1482 * (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files
1483 fail due to database permission or other error
1484 * (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual
1485 recent changes page.
1486 * (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
1487 * Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
1488 * (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
1489 * (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
1490 * (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
1491 * (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges
1492 and multiple servers
1493 * (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
1494 * (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
1495 * (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
1496 * (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
1497 * (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
1498 * (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
1499 * OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty
1500 searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
1501 * (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title
1502 on Special:Newpages.
1503 * (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer
1504 generates a log entry.
1505 * (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid,
1506 keeps the log page from being distorted.
1507 * (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
1508 * (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
1509 * (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
1510 * (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
1511 * (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
1512 * (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using
1513 application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
1514 * (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
1515 on non-mySQL schemas.
1516 * (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
1517 had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
1518 * (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
1519 * (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
1520 * (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
1521 * (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as
1523 * (bug 14845) Bug in prefs javascript: Calling an array item without checking
1525 * Accesskeys for minor edit/watch checkboxes on edit now work in Firefox 3
1526 * (bug 12384) Comments in maintenance/*php
1527 * (bug 12441) ./maintenance/generateSitemap.php fix -fspath requiring
1529 * (bug 12568) configuration script now produce valid XHTML.
1530 * The accesskey to edit a page is now disabled when editing the page, to pre-
1531 vent conflicts with Safari shortcuts.
1533 === API changes in 1.13 ===
1535 * Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
1536 * (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
1537 * Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
1538 * (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
1539 * (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
1540 * (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
1542 * (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
1543 * Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
1545 * (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
1546 * Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
1547 a certain section only
1548 * Introduced list=allimages
1549 * (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
1550 * Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
1551 * (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
1552 * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
1553 * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
1554 * (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
1555 * (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
1557 * (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
1558 * (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
1559 * Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
1560 * Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
1561 * Added createonly parameter to action=edit
1562 * Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
1563 * (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
1564 * (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
1565 * Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to
1566 meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
1567 * (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
1568 * (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
1569 * Cleaned up redirect resolution
1570 * Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
1571 * (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
1572 * (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
1573 very weak typing on array keys.
1574 * (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
1575 * (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
1576 * (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
1577 * (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old
1579 * (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
1580 * action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
1581 * (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
1582 * (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
1583 * Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
1584 * (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with
1586 * (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
1587 * (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
1588 * (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
1589 * (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
1590 * (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
1591 * (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
1592 * (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
1593 * (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
1594 * (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete
1596 * (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
1597 * (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
1598 * Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
1599 * Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
1600 * Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
1601 * (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
1602 * (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
1603 * action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
1604 * Added md5 parameter to action=edit
1605 * (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
1606 * Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
1607 * (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
1608 * (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
1609 * (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
1610 * Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
1611 * Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
1612 * (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
1613 * Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
1614 * (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
1615 * Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
1616 * (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and
1618 * (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
1619 * Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions
1620 can add their own tokens
1621 * Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
1622 * Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to
1623 prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
1624 * Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to
1626 * list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol
1630 == MediaWiki 1.12 ==
1632 This is the Winter 2007 quarterly release.
1634 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
1635 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
1636 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
1638 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
1639 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
1640 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
1642 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
1643 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
1645 === Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
1646 * Marking edits as bot edits with Special:Contributions?bot=1 now requires the
1647 markbotedit permission, rather than the rollback permission previously used.
1648 This permission is assigned by default to the sysop group.
1649 * MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
1650 variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
1651 to not check and assume they are always up to date)
1652 * The rollback permission can now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
1653 * New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
1654 * Behaviour of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behaviour:
1655 * * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights.
1656 * * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or
1657 remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for
1658 any groups they are in.
1659 * New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
1660 * $wgImplicitGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc.
1661 * $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria
1662 * $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove
1663 themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
1664 * When $wgUseTidy has been enabled, PHP's Tidy module is now used if it is
1665 present, in preference to an external Tidy executable which may or may not
1666 be present. To force use of external Tidy even when the PHP module is
1667 available, set $wgTidyInternal to false.
1670 === New features in 1.12 ===
1671 * (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
1672 * Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
1673 complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
1674 * (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
1675 is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
1676 * (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
1677 * (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
1678 * (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
1679 * (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
1681 * On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view
1682 source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to
1684 * Clarify instructions given when an exception is thrown
1685 * AuthPlugin added strictUserAuth() method to allow per-user override
1686 of the strict() authentication behavior.
1687 * (bug 7872) Deleted revisions can now be viewed as diffs showing changes
1688 against the previous revision, whether currently deleted or live.
1689 * Added tooltips for the "Go" and "Search" buttons
1690 * (bug 11649) Show input form when Special:Whatlinkshere has no parameters
1691 * isValidEmailAddr hook added to User method of that name, to allow, e.g., re-
1692 stricting e-mail addresses to a specific domain
1693 * Removed "Clear" link in watchlist editor tools, as people were afraid to
1694 click it. Existing clear links will fall back to the raw editor, which is
1695 very easy to clear your watchlist with.
1696 * (bug 1405) Add wgUseNPPatrol option to control patroling for new articles
1698 * LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
1699 * Support for Iranian calendar
1700 * (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
1702 * ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
1703 * MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
1704 globals have been set up but before any actions have been taken.
1705 * BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
1706 * SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
1707 * OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
1708 * (bug 11848, 12506) Allow URL parameters 'section', 'editintro' and 'preload'
1709 in Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk
1710 * Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
1711 * Support for Hebrew calendar
1712 * Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
1713 * (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
1714 [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
1715 * Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
1717 * Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
1718 * Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
1720 because it is part of a blocked range.
1721 * (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
1722 created by another user
1723 * dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart
1724 cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
1725 * (bug 12028) Add Special:Listbots as shortcut for Special:Listusers/bot
1726 * (bug 9633) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the deletion form
1727 * Show a warning message when creating/editing a user (talk) page but the user
1729 * (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches
1730 * (bug 12195) Undeleting pages now requires 'undelete' permission
1731 * (bug 11810) Localize displayed semicolons
1732 * (bug 11657) Support for Thai solar calendar
1733 * (bug 943) RSS feed for Recentchangeslinked
1734 * Introduced AbortMove hook
1735 * (bug 2919) Protection of nonexistent pages with regular protection interface.
1736 * Special:Upload now lists permitted/prohibited file extensions.
1737 * Split ambiguous filetype-badtype message into two new messages,
1738 filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type.
1739 * Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage
1740 * On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable.
1741 * It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop
1743 * Add HTML ID's mw-read-only-warning and mw-anon-edit-warning to warnings when
1744 editing to allow CSS styling.
1745 * Parser now returns list of sections
1746 * When a user is prohibited from creating a page, a title of "View source"
1747 makes no sense, and there should be no "Return to [[Page]]" link.
1748 * (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors.
1749 * (bug 9939) Special:Search now sets focus to search input box when no existing
1751 * For Special:Userrights, use GET instead of POST to search for users.
1752 * Allow subpage syntax for Special:Userrights, i.e., Special:Userrights/Name.
1753 * When submitting changes on Special:Userrights, show the full form again, not
1754 just the search box.
1755 * Added exception hooks
1756 * (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot
1757 edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1')
1758 * (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page
1759 * (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
1760 * Add caching to the AJAX search
1761 * Add APCOND_INGROUPS
1762 * Add DBA caching to installer
1763 * (bug 12585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
1764 * Support redirects in image namespace
1765 * (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
1766 * (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon
1767 * Add option to include templates in Special:Export.
1768 * (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender
1769 address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails.
1770 This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages
1771 when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value.
1772 * (bug 11897) Add alias [[Special:CreateAccount]] & [[Special:Userlogin/signup]]
1773 for Special:Userlogin?type=signup
1774 * (bug 12214) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the file deletion form
1775 * Merged backends for OpenSearch suggestions and AJAX search.
1776 Both now accept namespace prefixes, handle 'Media:' and 'Special:' pages,
1777 and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code,
1778 and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook.
1779 * (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version
1780 * When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for
1781 and installed when at the superuser level.
1782 * The default robot policy for the entire wiki is now configurable via the
1783 $wgDefaultRobotPolicy setting.
1784 * (bug 12239) Use different separators for autocomments
1785 * (bug 12857) Patrol link on new pages should clear floats
1786 * (bug 12968) Render redirect wikilinks in a redirect class for customization
1788 * EditPageBeforeEditButtons hook added for altering the edit buttons below the edit box
1790 === Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
1792 * Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
1793 * (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
1794 ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
1795 * (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
1796 getUserPermissionsErrors.
1797 * Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
1798 * (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
1800 * (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
1801 message, the level of protection.
1802 * (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
1804 * (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
1805 where rollback is given to non-sysops.
1806 * (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
1807 editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
1808 * (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
1809 * (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
1810 * Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
1812 * (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
1813 * (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
1814 * (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
1815 * (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
1816 * (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
1818 * Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
1819 * (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
1820 linked to the main page instead of targetted page
1821 * Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
1822 Special:Listredirects
1823 * (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
1824 when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
1825 * (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
1827 * (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
1828 * (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
1829 oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
1831 * (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
1832 * Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
1833 * (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade
1834 * Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages
1835 * Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis
1836 * (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name
1837 * (bug 11474) Fix unintentional fall-through in math error handling
1838 * (bug 11478) Fix undefined method call in file deletion interface
1839 * (bug 278) Search results no longer highlight incorrect partial word matches
1840 * Compatibility with incorrectly detected old-style DJVU mime types
1841 * (bug 11560) Fix broken HTML output from weird link nesting in edit comments.
1842 Nested links (as in image caption text) still don't work _right_ but they're
1844 * (bug 9718) Remove unnecessary css from main.css causing spacing issues on
1846 * (bug 11574) Add an interface message loginstart, which, similarly to loginend,
1847 appears just before the login form. Patch by MinuteElectron.
1848 * Do not cache category pages if using 'from' or 'until'
1849 * Created new hook getUserPermissionsErrors, to go with userCan changes.
1850 * Diff pages did not properly display css/js pages.
1851 * (bug 11620) Add call to User::isValidEmailAddr during accout creation.
1852 * (bug 11629) If $wgEmailConfirmToEdit is true, require people to supply an
1853 email address when registering.
1854 * (bug 11612) Days to show in recent changes cannot be larger than 7
1855 * (bug 11131) Change filearchive width/height columns to int for Postgres
1856 * Support plural in undeleted{revisions,revisions-files,files}
1857 * (bug 11343) If the database is read-only, ensure that undelete fails.
1858 * (bug 11690) Show revert link for page moves in Special:Log to allowed users
1860 * Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
1861 * Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
1862 * (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
1863 words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
1864 * (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
1865 * (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
1866 * (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
1867 * (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
1868 * (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
1870 * (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
1871 * (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
1872 * Remove all commas when parsing float numbers in sorted tables
1873 * Limit text field of deletion, protection and user rights changes reasons to
1874 255 characters (already restricted in the database)
1875 * In the deletion default reasons, calculate how much text to get from the
1876 article text, rather than getting 150 characters (which may be too much)
1877 * Add two messages for Special:Blockme which were used but undefined
1878 * (bug 11921) Support plural in message number_of_watching_users_pageview
1879 * If an IP address is blocked as part of a rangeblock, attempting to unblock
1880 the single IP should not unblock the entire range.
1881 * (bug 6695) Fix native language name of Southern Sotho (Sesotho) (st)
1882 * Make action=render follow redirects by default
1883 * If restricted read access was enabled, whitelist didn't work with special
1884 pages which had spaces in theirs names
1885 * If restricted read access was enabled, requests for non-existing special pages
1887 * Feeds for recent changes now provide correct URLs for the change, not just
1889 * Check for if IP is blocked as part of a range when unblocking (see above bug-
1890 fix) was faulty. Now fixed.
1891 * Fixed wpReason URL parameter to action=delete.
1892 * Do not force a password for account creation by email
1893 * Ensure that rate-limiting is applied to rollbacks.
1894 * Make a better rate-limiting error message (i.e. a normal MW error,
1895 rather than an "Internal Server Error").
1896 * Do not present an image bigger than the source when 'frameless' option is used
1897 (to be consistent with the 'thumb' option now)
1898 * Support {{PLURAL}} for import log
1899 * Make sure that the correct log entries are shown on Special:Userrights even
1900 for users with special characters in their names
1901 * The number of watching users in watchlists was always reported as 1
1902 * namespaceDupes.php no longer dies when coming across an illegal title
1903 * (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
1904 * (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
1905 * (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
1906 * (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
1907 instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
1908 conversion with China variant.
1909 * (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
1910 * Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
1911 in the page_restrictions matching its old page_restrictions field.
1912 May help with odd upgrade issues or race condition.
1913 * (bug 11993) Remove contentsub "revision history"
1914 * (bug 11952) Ensure we quote_ident() all schema names as needed
1915 inside of the DatabasePostgres.php file.
1916 * (bug 12184) Exceptions now sent to stderr instead of stdout for command-line
1917 scripts, making for cleaner reporting during batch jobs. PHP errors will also
1918 be redirected in most cases on PHP 5.2.4 and later, switching 'display_errors'
1919 to 'stderr' at runtime.
1920 * (bug 12148) Text highlight wasn't applied to cleanly deleted and added
1921 lines in diff output
1922 * (bug 10166) Fix a PHP warning in Language::getMagic
1923 * Only mark rollback edits as minor if the user can normally mark edits minor
1924 * Escape page names in the move successful page (e.g. for pages with two
1926 * (bug 12145) Add localized names of kk-variants
1927 * (bug 12259) Localize the numbers in deleted pages on the sysop view
1928 * Set proper page title for successful file deletion
1929 * (bug 11221) Do not show 'Compare selected versions' button for a history page
1930 with one revision only
1931 * (bug 12267) Set the default date format to Thai solar calender for the Thai
1933 * (bug 10184) Extensions' stylesheets and scripts should be loaded before
1934 user-customized ones (like Common.css, Common.js)
1935 * (bug 12283) Special:Newpages forgets parameters
1936 * (bug 12031) All namespaces doesn't work in Special:Newpages
1937 * (bug 585) Only create searchindex replica table for parser tests if db is
1939 * Allow --record option if parserTests.php to work when using Postgres
1940 * (bug 12296) Simplify cache epoch in default LocalSettings.php
1941 * (bug 12346) XML fix when body double-click and click handlers are present
1942 * Fix regression -- missing feed links in sidebar on Special:Recentchanges
1943 * (bug 12371) Handle more namespace case variants in namespaceDupes.php
1944 * (bug 12380) Bot-friendly EditPage::spamPage
1945 * (bug 8066) Spaces can't be entered in special page aliases
1946 * Hide undo link if user can't edit article
1947 * (bug 12416) Fix password setting for createAndPromote.php
1948 * (bug 3097) Inconsistently usable titles containing HTML character entities
1949 are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up existing pages.
1950 * (bug 12446) Permissions check fix for undelete link
1951 * (bug 12451) AJAX title normalization tweaks
1952 * When a user creating a page is not allowed to either create the page nor edit
1953 it, all applicable reasons are now shown.
1954 * (bug 11428) Allow $wgScript inside $wgArticlePath when emulating PATH_INFO
1955 Fixes 'root'-style rewrite configurations
1956 * (bug 12493) Removed hardcoded MAX_FILE_SIZE from Special:Import upload form
1957 * (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again
1958 * (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen
1959 * (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw
1960 * (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
1961 * (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move
1962 * (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages
1963 * Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links.
1964 This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow,
1965 and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner.
1966 * (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code.
1967 * (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes
1968 * (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian
1969 * (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect.
1970 Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages.
1971 Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework.
1972 * Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the
1973 name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set).
1974 * (bug 12695) Suppress dvips verbiage from web server error log
1975 * (bug 12716) Unprotecting a non-protected page leaves a log entry
1976 * Log username blocks with canonical form of name instead of input form
1977 * (bug 11593, 12719) Fixes for overzealous invocation of thumb.php.
1978 Non-image handlers and full-size images may now decline it, fixing
1979 mystery failures when using $wgThumbnailScriptPath.
1980 * (bug 12327) Comma in username no longer disrupts mail headers
1981 * (bug 6436) Localization of Special:Import XML parser Error message(s).
1982 * Security fix for API on MSIE
1983 * (bug 12768) Database query syntax error in maintenance/storage/compressOld.inc
1984 * (bug 12753) Empty captions in MediaWiki:Sidebar result in PHP errors
1985 * (bug 12790) Page protection is not logged when edit-protection is used
1986 and move-protection is not
1987 * (bug 12793) Fix for restricted namespaces/pages in Special:Export
1988 * Fix for Special:Export so it doesn't ignore the page named '0'
1989 * Don't display rollback link if the user doesn't have all required permissions
1990 * The comment of a time-limited protection now contains the date in the default
1992 * (bug 12880) wfLoadExtensionMessages does not use $fallback from MessagesXx.php
1993 * (bug 12885) Correction for Russian convertPlural function
1994 * (bug 12768) Make DatabasePostgres->hasContraint() schema aware.
1995 * (bug 12735) Truncate usernames in comments using mb_ functions.
1996 * (bug 12892) Poor tab indexing on "delete file" form
1997 * (bug 12660) When creating an account by e-mail, do not send the creator's IP
1999 * (bug 12931) Fix wrong global variable in SpecialVersion
2000 * (bug 12919) Use 'deletedrevision' message as content when deleting an old file
2002 * (bug 12952) Using Nosuchusershort instead of Nosuchuser when account creation
2004 * (bug 12869) Magnify icon alignment should be adjusted using linked CSS
2005 * Fixing message cache updates for MediaWiki messages moves
2006 * (bug 12815) Signature timestamps were always in UTC, even if the timezone code
2007 in parentheses after them claimed otherwise
2008 * (bug 12732) Fix installer and searching to handle built-in tsearch2 for Postgres.
2009 * (bug 12784) Change "bool" types to smallint to handle Postgres 8.3 strictness.
2010 * (bug 12301) Allow maintenance/findhooks.php to search hooks in multiple directories.
2011 * (bug 7681, 11559) Cookie values no longer override GET and POST variables.
2012 * (bug 5262) Fully-qualified $wgStylePath no longer corrupted on XML feeds
2013 * (bug 3269) Inaccessible titles ending in '/.' or '/..' now forbidden.
2014 * (bug 12935, 12981) Fully-qualify archive URLs in delete, revert messages
2015 * (bug 12938) Fix template expansion and 404 returns for action=raw with section
2016 * (bug 11567) Fix error checking for PEAR::Mail. UserMailer::send() now returns
2017 true-or-WikiError, which seems to be the calling convention expected by half
2019 * (bug 12846) IE rtl.css issue in RTL wikis special:Preferences when selecting an
2021 * (bug 13005) DISPLAYTITLE does not work on preview
2022 * (bug 13004) Fix error on Postgres searches that return too many results.
2024 == Parser changes in 1.12 ==
2026 For help with migration to the MediaWiki 1.12 parser, please visit:
2028 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor
2030 The parser pass order has changed from
2032 * Extension tag strip and render
2033 * HTML normalisation and security
2034 * Template expansion
2039 * Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation
2040 * Template expansion and extension rendering
2041 * HTML normalisation and security
2044 The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
2047 Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas
2048 previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in
2049 one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a
2050 valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>".
2052 Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you
2053 have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be
2054 converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This
2055 was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
2056 the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion
2057 will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template
2058 expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
2061 Bug 5678 has been fixed. This has a number of user-visible effects related to
2062 the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples.
2064 Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess"
2065 mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated,
2066 especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behaviour
2067 of the former message mode.
2069 The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section
2070 edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a
2071 whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by
2072 template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an
2073 entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings
2074 will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the
2075 template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major
2076 break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects are almost entirely
2079 The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass
2080 preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed
2081 #switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a
2082 significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
2083 Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement
2084 by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration.
2086 The pre-expand include size limit has been removed, since there's no efficient
2087 way to calculate such a figure, and it would now be meaningless for performance
2088 anyway. The "preprocessor node count" takes its place, with a generous default
2091 The context in which XML-style extension tags are called has changed, so
2092 extensions which make use of the parser state may need compatibility changes.
2094 The new preprocessor syntax has been documented in Backus-Naur Form at:
2096 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF
2098 The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse
2099 tree from wikitext source. This parse tree corresponds closely to the grammar
2100 documented on that page.
2102 === API changes in 1.12 ===
2104 Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
2106 * (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
2107 * (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
2108 * (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
2111 * (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
2112 * (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each
2114 * (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
2116 * (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work
2117 * Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if
2118 revision content is requested.
2119 * Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
2121 * (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php
2122 * (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates
2123 * (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
2124 * (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges
2125 list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively.
2126 * Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x.
2127 * Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type
2128 * Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
2130 * Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A
2131 * (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page.
2132 * (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
2134 * (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query.
2135 * Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
2137 * (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag
2138 * Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
2139 * Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots
2140 * Add limit=max to use maximal limit
2141 * Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render
2142 which has been removed
2143 * Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
2144 * Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
2145 * Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
2146 * Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and
2147 list={blocks,deletedrevs}
2148 * Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login
2149 * Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using
2150 200 / 10000, now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules.
2151 * Added list=allcategories module
2152 * (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data
2153 * Fix output of wfSajaxSearch
2154 * (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag
2155 * Add list of sections to action=parse output
2156 * Added action=logout
2157 * Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections
2158 * Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow
2159 (list=recentchanges)
2160 * Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo
2161 * action={login,block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} now must be
2163 * prop=imageinfo interface changed: iihistory replaced by iilimit, iistart and
2165 * Added amlang parameter to meta=allmessages
2166 * Added apfilterlanglinks parameter to list=allpages, replacing
2167 query.php?what=nolanglinks
2168 * (bug 12718) Added action=paraminfo module that provides information about API
2169 modules and their parameters
2170 * Added iiurlwidth and iiurlheight parameters to prop=imageinfo
2171 * Added format=txt and format=dbg, imported from query.php
2172 * Added uiprop=editcount to meta=userinfo
2173 * Added list=users which fetches user information
2174 * Added list=random which fetches a list of random pages
2175 * Added page parameter to action=parse to facilitate parsing of existing pages
2176 * Added uiprop=ratelimits to meta=userinfo
2177 * Added siprop=namespacealiases to meta=siteinfo
2178 * Made multiple values for ucuser possible in list=usercontribs
2179 * (bug 12944) Added cmstart and cmend parameters to list=categorymembers
2180 * Allow queries to have a where range that does not match the range field
2182 == MediaWiki 1.11 ==
2184 This is the Summer 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
2186 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
2187 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
2188 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
2190 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
2191 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
2192 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
2194 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
2195 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
2197 == Configuration changes since 1.10 ==
2199 * $wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is
2201 * $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups - Finer control over who can assign which
2203 * $wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ - Bulk mail options for large sites
2204 * $wgShowHostnames - Expose server host names through the API and HTML comments
2205 * $wgSaveDeletedFiles has been removed, the feature is now enabled unconditionally
2207 == New features since 1.10 ==
2209 * (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks
2210 * Adding expiry of block to block messages
2211 * Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in
2212 <span class="redirect-in-category"></span>
2213 * Introduced 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
2215 * (bug 9628) Show warnings about slave lag on Special:Contributions,
2217 * (bug 8818) Expose "wpDestFile" as parameter $1 to "uploaddisabledtext"
2218 * Introducing new image keyword 'upright' and corresponding variable
2219 $wgThumbUpright. This allows better proportional view of upright images
2220 related to landscape images on a page without nailing the width of upright
2221 images to a fix value which makes views for anon unproportional and user
2223 * (bug 6072) Introducing 'border' keyword to the [[Image:]] syntax
2224 * Introducing 'frameless' keyword to [[Image:]] syntax which respects the
2225 user preferences for image width like 'thumb' but without a frame.
2226 * (bug 7960) Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry
2227 * Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style
2229 * Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output
2230 * Improved thumb.php error handling
2231 * Display file history on local image description pages of shared images
2232 * Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies
2233 * (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext
2234 containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the
2235 * (bug 7691) Show relevant lines from the deletion log when re-creating a
2236 previously deleted article
2237 * Added variables 'wgRestrictionEdit' and 'wgRestrictionMove' for JS to header
2238 * (bug 9898) Allow viewing all namespaces in Special:Newpages
2239 * (bug 10139) Introduce 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks;
2240 see docs/hooks.txt for details
2241 * (bug 9769) Provide "watch this page" toggle on protection form
2242 * (bug 9886) Provide clear example "stub link" in Special:Preferences
2243 * (bug 10055) Populate email address and real name properties of User objects
2244 passed to the 'AbortNewAccount' hook
2245 * Show result of Special:Booksources in wiki content language always, it's
2246 normally better maintained than the generic list from the standard message
2248 * (bug 7997) Allow users to be blocked from using Special:Emailuser
2249 * (bug 8989) Blacklist 'mhtml' and 'mht' files from upload
2250 * (bug 8760) Allow wiki links in "protectexpiry" message
2251 * (bug 5908) Add "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases for
2252 "DEFAULTSORT" magic word
2253 * (bug 10181) Support the XCache object caching mechanism
2254 * (bug 9058) Introduce '--aconf' option for all maintenance scripts, to provide
2255 a path to the AdminSettings.php file
2256 * (bug 8781) Remind users to check file permissions for LocalSettings.php
2258 * Use shared.css for all skins and oldshared.css in place of common.css for
2259 pre-Monobook skins. As always, modifications should go in-wiki to MediaWiki:
2260 Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css.
2261 * (bug 8869) Introduce Special:Uncategorizedtemplates
2262 * (bug 8734) Different log message when article protection level is changed
2263 * (bug 8458, 10338) Limit custom signature length to $wgMaxSigChars Unicode
2265 * (bug 10096) Added an ability to query interwiki map table
2266 * On reupload, add a null revision to the image description page
2267 * Group log output by date
2268 * Kurdish interface latin/arabic writing system with transliteration
2269 * Support wiki text in all query page headers
2270 * Add 'Orphanedpages' as an alias to Special:Lonelypages
2271 * (bug 9328) Use "revision-info-current" message in place of "revision-info"
2272 when viewing the current revision of a page, if available
2273 * (bug 8890) Enable wiki text for "license" message
2274 * Throw a showstopper exception when a hook function fails to return a value.
2275 Forgetting to give a 'true' return value is a very common error which tends
2276 to cause hard-to-track-down interactions between extensions.
2277 * Use $wgJobClasses to determine the correct Job to instantiate for a particular
2278 queued task; allows extensions to introduce custom jobs
2279 * (bug 10326) AJAX-based page watching and unwatching has been cleaned up and
2281 * Added option to install to MyISAM
2282 * (bug 9250) Remove hardcoded minimum image name length of three characters
2283 * Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behaviour to reject titles which don't normalise to the
2284 same title as the current page, and enabled per default
2285 * Wrap site CSS and JavaScript in a <pre> tag, like user JS/CSS
2286 * (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the <pre>s on CSS and JS pages (new
2287 classes: mw-code, mw-css, mw-js)
2288 * (bug 6711) Add $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups to allow finer control over
2289 usergroup assignment.
2290 * Introduce 'UserEffectiveGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
2291 * (bug 10387) Detect and handle '.php5' extension environments at install time
2292 * Introduce 'ShowRawCssJs' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
2293 * (bug 10404) Show rights log for the selected user in Special:Userrights
2294 * New javascript for upload page that will show a warning if a file with the
2295 "destination filename" already exists.
2296 * Add 'editsection-brackets' message to allow localization (or removal) of the
2297 brackets in the "[edit]" link for sections
2298 * (bug 10437) Move texvc styling to shared.css
2299 * Introduce "raw editing" mode for the watchlist, to allow bulk additions,
2300 removals, and convenient exporting of watchlist contents
2301 * Show "undo" links in page histories
2302 * Option to jump to specified time period in user contributions
2303 * Improved feedback on "rollback success" page
2304 * Show distinct 'namespaceprotected' message to users when namespace protection
2305 prevents page editing
2306 * (bug 9936) Per-edit suppression of preview-on-first edit with "preview=no"
2307 * Allow showing a one-off preview on first edit with "preview=yes"
2308 * (bug 9151) Remove timed redirects on "Return to X" pages for accessibility.
2309 * Link to user logs in toolbox when viewing a user page
2310 * (bug 10508) Allow HTML attributes on <gallery>
2311 * (bug 1962) Allow HTML attributes on <math>
2312 * (bug 10530) Introduce optional "sp-contributions-explain" message for
2313 additional explanation in Special:Contributions
2314 * (bug 10520) Preview licences during upload via AJAX (toggle with
2315 $wgAjaxLicensePreview)
2316 * New Parser::setTransparentTagHook for parser extension and template
2318 * Introduced 'ContributionsToolLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
2320 * Add a message if category is empty
2321 * Add CSS compatibility for Opera 9.5
2322 * Remove largely untested handheld stylesheet, which was causing more trouble
2323 than good. Proper handheld support will be added at a future date. For now,
2324 display should be acceptable either with CSS turned off or when using a so-
2325 phisticated handheld browser.
2326 * (bug 3173) Option to offer exported pages as a download, rather than displaying
2327 inline, as in most browsers
2328 * Pass the user as an argument to 'isValidPassword' hook callbacks; see
2329 docs/hooks.txt for more information
2330 * Introduce 'UserGetRights' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
2331 * (bug 9595) Pass new Revision to the 'ArticleInsertComplete' and
2332 'ArticleSaveComplete' hooks; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
2333 * (bug 9575) Accept upload description from GET parameters
2334 * Skip the difference engine cache when 'action=purge' is used while requesting
2335 a difference page, to allow refreshing the cache in case of errors
2336 * (bug 10701) Link to Special:Listusers in default Special:Statistics messages
2337 * Improved file history presentation
2338 * (bug 10739) Users can now enter comments when reverting files
2339 * Improved handling of permissions errors
2340 * (bug 10793) "Mark patrolled" links will now be shown for users with
2341 patrol permissions on all eligible diff pages
2342 * (bug 10655) Show standard tool links for blocked users in block log messages
2343 * Show standard tool links for blocked users in Special:Ipblocklist
2344 * Miscellaneous aesthetic improvements to Special:Ipblocklist
2345 * (bug 10826) Added link trail with Cyrillic characters for Mongolian language
2346 * (bug 10859) Introduce 'UserGetImplicitGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
2348 * (bug 10832) Include user information when viewing a deleted revision
2349 * (bug 10872) Fall back to sane defaults when generating protection selector
2350 labels for custom restriction levels
2351 * Show edit count in user preferences
2352 * Improved support for audio/video extensions
2353 * (bug 10937) Distinguish overwritten files in upload log
2354 * Introduce 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
2356 * Confirmation is now required when deleting old versions of files
2357 * (bug 7535) Users can now enter comments when deleting old versions of files
2358 * (bug 11001) Submit Special:Newpages as a GET, rather than a POST request
2359 * The <strong></strong> around links to watched pages in change lists now
2360 has a class - "mw-watched"
2361 * (bug 9002) Provide a "view/restore deleted edits" link on Special:Upload
2362 when a destination filename is provided that corresponds with previous
2364 * Make the "invalid special page" message clearer
2365 * Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'upload file' button at Special:Upload
2366 * Introduced 'SkinAfterBottomScripts' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
2368 * (bug 11095) Honour "preview on first edit" preference when preloading
2369 text for a non-existent page
2370 * (bug 11022) Use a more accurate page title for Special:Whatlinkshere and
2371 Special:Recentchangeslinked
2372 * Add link to user contributions in normal watchlist edit mode
2373 * (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow
2374 modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new
2375 argument is supplied
2376 * (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the
2377 text that prefixes a new section link in Recent Changes
2379 == Bugfixes since 1.10 ==
2381 * (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi
2382 * (bug 9670) Follow redirects when render edit section links to transcluded
2384 * (bug 6204) Fix incorrect unindentation with $wgMaxTocLevel
2385 * (bug 3431) Suppress "next page" link in Special:Search at end of results
2386 * Don't show unblock form if the user doesn't have permission to use it
2387 (cosmetic change, no vulnerabilities existed)
2388 * Subtitle success message when unblocking a block ID instead of a pseudo link
2389 like [[User:#123|#123]]
2390 * Use the standard HTTP fetch functions when retrieving remote wiki pages
2391 through transwiki, so we can take advantage of cURL goodies if available
2392 * Disable user JavaScript on Special:Userlogin, Special:Resetpass and
2393 Special:Preferences, to avoid a compromised script sniffing passwords, etc.
2394 * (bug 9854, 3770) Clip overflow text in gallery boxes for visual cleanliness
2395 instead of letting it flow outside the box or trigger ugly scroll bars.
2396 * Tooltips for print version and permalink
2397 * Links to the MediaWiki namespace for system messages having their default
2398 values are no longer shown as nonexistent (e.g., in red)
2399 * Special:Ipblocklist differentiates between empty list and no search results.
2400 * (bug 5375) profiling does not respect read-only mode.
2401 * (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts
2402 * (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset
2403 * (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR
2404 * (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer
2406 * (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error.
2407 * (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines.
2408 Diff style rules have been broken out to common/diff.css,
2409 and the dupes removed from the default skin files.
2410 Skins can still override the default rules.
2411 * (bug 1229) Balance columns in diff display evenly
2412 * Right-align diff line numbers in RTL language display
2413 * (bug 9332) Fix instructions in tests/README
2414 * (bug 9813) Reject usernames containing '#' to avoid silent truncation
2415 of fragments during the normalisation process
2416 * (bug 7989) RSS feeds content now use black text when using white background.
2417 * (bug 9971) Typo in a french language message.
2418 * (bug 9973) Changed size was shown in advanced recentchanges collapsible items
2419 with $wgRCShowChangedSized = false.
2420 * Fix PHP strict standards warning in enhanced recent changes.
2421 * (bug 5850) Added hexadecimal html entities comments for $digitTransformTable
2423 * (bug 7432) Change language name for Aromanian (roa-rup)
2424 * (bug 908) Unexistent special pages now generate a red link.
2425 * (bug 7899) Added \hline and \vline to the list of allowed TeX commands
2426 * (bug 7993) support mathematical symbol classes
2427 * (bug 10007) Allow Block IP to work with Postgrs again.
2428 * Add Google Wireless Transcoder to the Unicode editing blacklist
2429 * (bug 10083) Fix for Special:Version breakage on PHP 5.2 with some hooks
2430 * (bug 3624) TeX: \ker, \hom, \arg, \dim treated like \sin & \cos
2431 * (bug 10132, 10134) Restore back-compatibility Image::imageUrl() function
2432 * (bug 10113) Fix double-click for view source on protected pages
2433 * (bug 10117) Special:Wantedpages doesn't handle invalid titles in result
2434 set [now prints out a warning]
2435 * (bug 10118) Introduced Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, report which lists
2436 templates with a high number of inclusion links
2437 * (bug 10104) Fixed Database::getLag() for PostgreSQL and Oracle
2438 * (bug 9820) session.save_path check no longer halts installation, but
2439 warns of possible bad values
2440 * (bug 9978) Fixed session.save_path validation when using extended
2441 configuration format, e.g. "5;/tmp"
2442 * Don't generate a diff link in the patrol log if the page doesn't exist
2443 * (bug 10067) Translations for former skins removed from message files
2444 * (bug 9993) Force $wgShowExceptionDetails on during installation
2445 * (bug 9980) Validate administrator username and password during
2447 * (bug 9383) Don't set a default value for BLOB column in rc-deleted
2449 * (bug 10149) Don't show full template list on section-0 edit
2450 * (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob()
2452 * (bug 6743) Don't link broken image links to the upload form when uploads
2454 * (bug 9679) Improve documentation for $wgSiteNotice
2455 * (bug 10215) Show custom editing introduction when editing existing pages
2456 * (bug 10223) Fix edit link in noarticletext localizations for fr, oc
2457 * (bug 10247) Fix IP address regex to avoid false positive IPv6 matches
2458 * (bug 9948) Workaround for diff regression with old Mozilla versions
2459 * (bug 10265) Fix regression in category image gallery paging
2460 * (bug 8577) Fix some weird misapplications of time zones.
2461 {{CURRENT*}} functions now consistently use UTC as intended, while
2462 {{LOCAL*}} functions return local time per server config or $wgLocaltimezone.
2463 Signature dates for Japanese and other languages including weekday now show
2464 the correct day to match the rest of the time in local time.
2465 * Escape the output of magic variables that return page name or part of it
2466 * (bug 10309) Initialise parser state properly in extractSections(), fixes
2467 some cases where section edits broke because tags were improperly stripped
2468 * Avoid PHP notice errors when doing HTTP proxy purges for an empty list
2469 * As intended, *skip* the HTTP proxy purges when doing HTCP purges
2470 * (bug 9696) Fix handling of brace transformations in "pagemovedtext"
2471 * (bug 10325) Fix regression in form action on Special:Listusers
2472 * Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving
2473 overlong key errors.
2474 * Fixed zero-padding issues with MySQL 5 binary schema
2475 * (bug 10344) Don't follow a redirect after changing its protection level
2476 * (bug 10333) Correct date format in Slovenian
2477 * (bug 10160) Show error message for unknown namespace on Special:Allpages and
2478 Special:Prefixindex; making forms prettier for RTL wikis.
2479 * (bug 10334) Replace normal spaces before percent (%) signs with non-breaking
2481 * (bug 10372) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores namespace aliases
2482 * (bug 10198) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores interwiki prefixes
2483 * namespaceDupes.php should work better for initial-lowercase wikis
2484 * (bug 10377) "Permanent links" to revisions still work if the page is moved
2485 and the redirect deleted
2486 * (bug 7071) Properly handle an 'oldid' passed to view or edit that doesn't
2487 match the given title. Fixes inconsistencies with talk, history, edit links.
2488 * (bug 10397) Fix AJAX watch error fallback when we receive a bogus result
2489 * (bug 10396) Fix AJAX error when $wgScriptPath/index.php is not valid;
2490 using $wgScript now included in JS info
2491 * Use native XMLHttpRequest class in preference to ActiveX on IE 7; this
2492 avoids the "ActiveX "Do you want to allow ActiveX?" prompt when something
2493 security settings are cranked this way and AJAX-y gets used.
2494 * Delay AJAX watch initialization until click so IE 6 with ugly security
2495 settings doesn't prompt you until you use the link.
2496 * (bug 10401) Provide non-redirecting link to original title in Special:Movepage
2497 * Fix broken handling of log views for page titles consisting of one
2498 or more zeros, e.g. "0", "00" etc.
2499 * Fix read permission check for special pages with subpage parameters, e.g.
2500 Special:Confirmemail
2501 * Fix read permission check for unreadable page titles which are numerically
2502 equivalent to a whitelisted title
2503 * '?>' closing tag removed from all files to help avoid problems with extraneous
2504 whitespace (broken XML feeds, etc.)
2505 * Don't use garbled parser cache output when viewing custom CSS or JavaScript
2507 * (bug 10406) Fix Special:Listusers filter form for non-ASCII localizations
2508 * Fix empty message checks for message names containing &
2509 This corrects some odd behavior with sidebar items and custom namespaces
2510 containing ampersands.
2511 * (bug 10375) Change thousands separator character to for Latin (la)
2512 * (bug 10477) Fix AJAX watch for Farsi on Firefox: JavaScript encoding tweak
2513 * (bug 10496) Fix broken DISTINCT option logic in database backend
2514 * Fix CSS media declaration for "screen, projection"; was causing some
2516 * (bug 10495) $wgMemcachedDebug set twice in includes/DefaultSettings.php
2517 * (bug 10316) Prevent inconsistent cached skin settings in gen=js by setting
2518 the intended skin directly in the URL.
2519 * (bug 9903) Don't mark redirects in categories as stubs
2520 * (bug 6965) Cannot include "Template:R" with {{R}} (magic word conflict)
2521 * Padding parser functions now work with strings like '0' that evaluate to false
2522 * (bug 10332) Title->userCan( 'edit' ) may return false positive
2523 * Fix bug with <nowiki> in front of links for wikis where linkPrefixExtension is true
2524 * (bug 10552) Suppress rollback link in history for single-revision pages
2525 * (bug 10538) Gracefully handle invalid input on move success page
2526 * Fix for Esperanto double-x-encoding in move success page
2527 * (bug 10526) Fix toolbar/insertTags behavior for IE 6/7 and Opera (8+)
2528 Now matches the selection behavior on Mozilla / Safari.
2529 Patch by Alex Smotrov.
2530 * Don't show non-functional toolbar buttons on Opera 7 anymore
2531 * (bug 9151) Fix relative subpage links with section fragments
2532 * (bug 10560) Adding a space between category letter heading and "continues"
2533 * (bug 4650) Keep impossibly large/small counts off Special:Statistics
2534 * (bug 10608) PHP notice when installing with PostgreSQL
2535 * (bug 10615) Fix for transwiki import when CURL not available
2536 * (bug 8054) Return search page for empty search requests with ugly URLs
2537 * (bug 10572) Force refresh after clearing visitation timestamps on watchlist
2538 * (bug 10631) Warn when illegal characters are removed from filename at upload
2539 * Fix several JavaScript bugs under MSIE 5/Macintosh
2540 * (bug 10591) Use Arabic numerals (0,1,2...) for the Malayam language
2541 * (bug 10642) Fix shift-click checkbox behavior for Opera 9.0+ and 6.0
2542 * Work around Safari bug with pages ending in ".gz" or ".tgz"
2543 * Removed obsolete maintenance/changeuser.sql script; use RenameUser extension
2544 * (bug 2735) "Preview" shown in title bar for action=submit on special pages
2545 * Removed "restore" links from the deletion log embedded in Special:Undelete
2546 * Improved error reporting and robustness for file delete/undelete.
2547 * Improved speed of file delete by storing the SHA-1 hash in image/oldimage
2548 * Fixed leading zero in base 36 SHA-1 hash
2549 * Protection form no longer produces JavaScript errors
2550 * (bug 10741) File histories show "delete" links for non-sysops
2551 * (bug 10744) Treat "noarticletext" and "noarticletextanon" as wiki text when
2552 used on a non-existent page with "action=info"
2553 * Fix escaping of raw message text when used on a non-existent page with
2555 * (bug 10683) Fix inconsistent handling of URL-encoded titles in links
2556 used in redirects (i.e. they now work)
2557 * (bug 8878) Changes to $dateFormats in German localization (removing unused,
2558 nonexistent formats, putting time after date)
2559 * (bug 10769) Database::update() should return boolean result
2560 * Fix preference checkbox display for right-to-left languages which caused
2561 them to be hidden in IE in some cases
2562 * Fix upload form display in right-to-left languages
2563 * Fixed regression in blocking of username '0'
2564 * (bug 9437) Don't overwrite edit form submission handler when setting up
2565 edit box scroll position preserve/restore behaviour
2566 * (bug 10805) Fix "undo" link when viewing the diff of the most recent
2567 change to a page using "diff=0"
2568 * (bug 10765) img_auth.php will now refuse logged-out requests where
2569 $wgWhitelistRead is undefined, instead of (incorrectly) honouring them
2570 * Fixed img_auth.php file name extraction for whitelist checking
2571 * Tweak spacing of email preference display
2572 * Table sorting JavaScript prefers textContent over innerText to allow hidden
2573 sort keys to work on Safari
2574 * (bug 4530) Fix local name of Kurdish language
2575 * (bug 10830) Fix local name of Haitian Creole language
2576 * Fix invalid XHTML in Special:Protectedpages
2577 * Fix comments in contributions and log pages for right-to-left languages
2578 * Make installer include_path-independent, so it should work on hosts which
2579 disable user setting of PHP include_path setting
2580 * glob() is horribly unreliable and doesn't work on some systems, including
2581 free.fr shared hosting. No longer using it in Language::getLanguageNames()
2582 * (bug 10763) Fix multi-insert logic for PostgreSQL
2583 * Fix invalid XHTML when viewing a deleted revision
2584 * Fix syntax error in translations of magic words in Romanian language
2585 * (bug 8737) Fix warnings caused by incorrect use of `/dev/null` when piping
2586 process error output under Windows
2587 * (bug 7890) Don't list redirects to special pages in Special:BrokenRedirects
2588 * (bug 10783) Resizing PNG-24 images with GD no longer causes all alpha
2589 channel transparency to be lost and transparent pixels to be turned black
2590 * (bug 9339) General error pages were transforming messages and their parameters
2592 * (bug 9026) Incorrect heading numbering when viewing Special:Statistics with
2593 "auto-numbered headings" enabled
2594 * Fixed invalid XHTML in Special:Upload
2595 * (bug 11013) Make sure dl() is available before attempting to use it to check
2596 available databases in installer
2597 * Resizing transparent GIF images with GD now retains transparency by skipping
2599 * (bug 11065) Fix regression in handling of wiki-formatted EXIF metadata
2600 * Double encoding broke Special:Newpages for some languages
2601 * Adding a newline before the statistics footer, to prevent parsing problems
2602 * Preventing the TOC from appearing in Special:Statistics
2603 * (bug 11082) Fix check for fully-specced table names in Database::tableName
2604 * (bug 11067) Fix regression in upload conflict thumbnail display
2605 * (bug 10985) Resolved cached entries on Special:DoubleRedirects were being
2606 supressed, breaking paging - now strikes out "fixed" results
2607 * (bug 8393) <sup> and <sub> need to be preserved (without attributes) for
2608 entries in the table of contents
2609 * (bug 11114) Fix regression in read-only mode error display during editing
2610 * Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure
2611 that the first page_title is truly the first page title.
2612 * (bug 10836) Change the summary on creating of new section
2613 * Inclusion of Special:Wantedpages now works again
2615 == API changes since 1.10 ==
2617 Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
2619 * New properties: links, templates, images, langlinks, categories, external
2621 * Breaking Change: imagelinks renamed into imageusage (il->iu)
2622 * Bug fix: incorrect generator behavior in some cases
2623 * JSON format allows an optional callback function to wrap the result.
2624 * Login module disabled until a more secure solution can be implemented
2625 * (bug 9938) Querying by revision identifier returns the most recent revision
2626 for the corresponding page, rather than the requested revision
2627 * (bug 8772) Filter page revision queries by user
2628 * (bug 9927) User contributions queries do not accept IP addresses
2629 * Watchlist feed now reports a proper feed item when the user is not logged in
2630 * Watchlist feed date bug fixed - automatically shows one last day
2631 * Watchlist feed now allows to specify number of hours to monitor
2632 * list=allpages now returns a list instead of a map in JSON format
2633 * Breaking Change: in json, revisions are now returned as a list, not as a map.
2634 * Add: prop=info can show page is new flag, current page length, and visit
2636 * Change: Query watchlist now shows flags only when explicitly requested with
2638 * rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible from query watchlist
2639 * action=usercontribs: additional filtering by ucshow=; selection of needed
2640 fields with ucprop=; the textid (rev_text_id) is no longer being exposed
2641 * (bug 9970) Breaking Change: backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage now return
2642 lists in JSON instead of a map, and do not return anything when titles do
2644 * (bug 9121) Introduced indexpageids query parameter to list the page_id
2645 values of all returned page items
2646 * (bug 10147) Now interwiki titles are not processed but added to a separate
2647 "interwiki" section of the output.
2648 * Added categorymembers list to query for pages in a category.
2649 * (bug 10260) Show page protection status
2650 * (bug 10392) Include MediaWiki version details in version output
2651 * (bug 10411) Site language in meta=siteinfo
2652 * (bug 10391) action=help doesn't return help if format is fancy markup
2653 * backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage lists should use (bl|ei|iu)title parameter
2654 instead of titles. Titles for these lists is obsolete and might stop working soon.
2655 * Added prop=imageinfo - gets image properties and upload history
2656 * (bug 10211) Added db server replication lag information in meta=siteinfo
2657 * Added external url search within wiki pages (list=exturlusage)
2658 * Added link enumeration (list=alllinks)
2659 * Added registered users enumeration (list=allusers)
2660 * Added full text search in titles and content (list=search)
2661 * (bug 10684) Expanded list=allusers functionality
2662 * Possible breaking change: prop=revisions no longer includes pageid for rvprop=ids
2663 * Added rvprop=size to prop=revisions (The size will not be shown if it is NULL in the database)
2664 * list=allpages now allows to filter by article min/max size and protection status
2665 * Added site statistics (siprop=statistics for meta=siteinfo)
2666 * (bug 10902) Unable to fetch user contributions from IP addresses
2667 * `list=usercontribs` no longer requires that the user exist
2668 * (bug 10971) `aufrom` parameter doesn't work with spaces
2669 * Fix username handling issue with `auprefix` parameter
2670 * Treat underscores as spaces for `aufrom` and `auprefix` parameters
2671 * Added edit/delete/... token retrieval to prop=info
2672 * Added meta=userinfo - logged-in user information, group membership, rights
2673 * (bug 11072) Fix regression in API image history query
2674 * (bug 11115) Adding SHA1 hash to imageinfo query
2675 * (bug 10898) API does not return an edit token for non-existent pages
2676 * (bug 10890) Timestamp support for categorymembers query
2677 * (bug 10980) Add exclude redirects on backlinks
2678 * IPv6 titles in User namespace are normalized (run cleanupTitles.php to fix any old stray pages)
2680 == Maintenance script changes since 1.10 ==
2682 * Add support for wgMaxTocLevel option in parserTests
2683 * (bug 6823) Disable article view counter in maintenance/dumpHTML.php
2684 * Fix maintenance/importImages.php so it doesn't barf PHP errors when no
2685 suitable files are found, and make the list of extensions an option (defaults
2686 to $wgFileExtensions)
2687 * Add option to maintenance/createAndPromote.php to give the user bureaucrat
2688 permissions (--bureaucrat)
2689 * Allow overwriting existing files with a conflicting name using
2690 maintenance/importImages.php
2691 * (bug 10266) Use native newlines when rebuilding a messages file.
2693 == Languages updated since 1.10 ==
2706 * Extremaduran (ext)
2711 * Français Cadien (frc) (new)
2712 * Franco-Provençal/Arpetan (frp)
2716 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
2726 * Kinaray-a (krj) (new)
2733 * Bahasa Melayu (ms)
2739 * Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (pa)
2745 * Aromanian (roa-rup)
2763 * Winaray (war) (new)
2765 * Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
2766 * Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
2767 * Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
2768 * Cantonese (zh-yue)
2770 == MediaWiki 1.10 ==
2772 This is the Spring 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
2774 MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
2775 quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
2776 "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
2778 Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
2779 from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
2780 will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
2782 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
2783 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
2785 == Configuration changes ==
2787 * A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php).
2788 It lets you specify if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized
2789 output will be made lighter making things easier to read.
2790 * The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be
2791 customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in
2792 the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before.
2793 * Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting
2794 $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally).
2795 * Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser
2796 * Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions
2797 * (Bug 8590) limited HTML is now always enabled ($wgUserHtml = true).
2798 * Deprecated $wgUseImageResize, thumbnailing will be enabled unconditionally.
2800 == New features since 1.9 ==
2802 * (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to
2804 * (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries
2805 * (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript
2806 * Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage()
2808 (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html)
2809 * Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded
2810 into a page protected with this option enabled
2811 * (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown
2812 out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output.
2813 * (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be
2814 overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page
2815 * Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in
2816 determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the
2817 permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking.
2818 * (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview
2819 * (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip
2820 * (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with
2821 the appropriate permission
2822 * (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip
2823 * (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled
2824 * Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details
2825 * Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete
2826 * Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete
2827 * (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info
2828 * (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global
2829 * Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
2830 * New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages
2831 and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due
2832 to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or
2834 * (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same
2835 format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite,
2836 as are protections made with the new field left blank.
2837 * (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image
2839 * (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery>
2840 * (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as
2841 MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are
2842 disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also
2843 be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr).
2844 * Sort log types in Special:Log
2845 * Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit
2847 * Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an
2848 IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.)
2849 * (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages
2850 * (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages.
2851 * (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range.
2852 * (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the
2853 confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id.
2854 * (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page
2855 * (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions
2856 * (bug 1723) Article size in history
2857 * (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames
2858 * (bug 6997) Link from Special:log/block to unblock form
2859 * (bug 9117) Link from Special:log/delete to undelete form
2860 * Link from Special:log/protect to change protection form
2861 * (bug 1196) Add IPv6 support added to blocks, more consistancy for IPv6 contribs
2862 * (bug 3984) Searching in logs by title%
2863 * Show thumbnail of existing image if image exists already under this filename
2864 * (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete
2865 * Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols
2866 * (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images
2867 * Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase
2869 * (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere
2870 * Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt
2871 for more information
2872 * (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon"
2873 messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target
2874 * (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction')
2875 * (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images
2876 * (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path
2877 which can lead to broken session storage
2878 * (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links
2879 * (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions
2880 * Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
2881 * Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
2882 * Introduce 'mywatchlist' message; used on personal menu to link to watchlist page
2883 * Introduce magic word {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
2884 * Introduced media handlers for file-type specific operations.
2885 * Improved error reporting for image thumbnailing
2886 * Added sharpening option for ImageMagick thumbnailing
2887 * (bug 9656) Autosummaries will be generated for deletion of pages longer than
2889 * Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip
2890 * (bug 9196) Installer now check that zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is off
2891 * (bug 9697) Introduce 'InternalParseBeforeLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
2892 * 'contribsub' message changed to 'contribsub2' with two parameters to permit
2893 better localization. Change is reverse-compatible and can be ignored for
2895 * Adding a 'reason' field to Special:Userrights
2897 == Bugfixes since 1.9 ==
2899 * (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces
2900 * (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála
2901 * Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default
2902 * Fixed up the AjaxSearch
2903 * Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be
2904 null to be treated properly with isset.
2905 * Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table
2906 * Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh
2907 (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-).
2908 * (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis
2909 * Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional
2910 optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time.
2911 * PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated
2912 * (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres.
2913 * Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing
2914 * (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0
2915 * Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed.
2916 * Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt
2917 * (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update
2918 * (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions
2919 * (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins
2920 * (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback
2921 * (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer
2922 * Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on
2923 * (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is
2924 not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI
2925 * Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:")
2926 * use configured cache servers for mctest.php
2927 * bucket details in mcc.php
2928 * fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld
2929 * full ID range for moveToExternal
2930 * fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data
2931 * maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php
2932 * recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc
2933 * profile unicode cleanup in Xml
2934 * log slow parses in Article.php
2936 * log mkdir failures
2937 * profile AutoLoader
2938 * rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing ''
2939 * security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval
2940 * Undelete page list can use plural marker
2941 * (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier
2942 * (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table
2943 * (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser
2944 * (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy.
2945 * Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag.
2946 * Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>')
2947 * (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header
2948 * Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment
2949 * (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist
2950 in a consistent manner
2951 * (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users
2952 * ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files
2953 * (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language
2954 * Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name
2955 * (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the
2957 * ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found
2958 * (bug 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li)
2959 * (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext"
2960 * (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages
2961 * Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group
2962 * (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation
2963 * (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11;
2964 accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows.
2965 * Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link
2966 red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an
2967 alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating.
2968 * (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync
2969 * (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies
2970 * (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media
2971 * (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile
2972 * (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page
2973 * (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs
2974 * Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title
2975 is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as
2976 a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL
2977 * (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies
2978 * Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles
2979 * Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js
2980 * (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area
2981 * (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note
2982 in DefaultSettings to make it clear.
2983 * (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression
2984 affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second
2985 edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin.
2986 * Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script
2987 * (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key
2988 * (bug 6844) Use <ins> and <del> tags to emphase the differences
2989 * (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration
2990 * (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to
2991 * Add AlphabeticPager abstract class
2992 * Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories
2993 * (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent
2994 pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images
2995 * Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was
2996 opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner
2998 * (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix
2999 * Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied
3000 by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence
3001 of other tables while they work.
3002 * Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758
3003 for better localisations.
3004 * (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php
3005 * (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history
3006 * (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice.
3007 * (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked
3008 when using the Postgres database.
3009 * Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php.
3010 The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older
3011 LocalSettings.php files.
3012 * Give Content-Length header for HTTP/1.0 clients.
3013 * Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering.
3014 * Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to
3015 dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES
3017 * Add 'charset' to Content-Type headers on various HTTP error responses
3018 to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. PHP sends only
3019 'text/html' by default when the script didn't specify more details,
3020 which some inconsiderate browsers consider a license to autodetect
3021 the deadly, hard-to-escape UTF-7.
3022 This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when
3023 $wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant
3024 on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec:
3025 http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
3026 * Trackback responses now specify XML content type
3027 * (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode
3028 to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly,
3029 particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia
3030 * (bug 8919) Suppress paging links and related messages where there are no
3031 rows to list for query pages
3032 * (bug 9057) Standardize MediaWiki: namespace for oc
3033 * (bug 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when
3035 * (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres)
3036 * (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and
3037 Special:DoubleRedirects
3038 * (bug 8918) Enable PLURAL option for MediaWiki:showingresults and
3039 MediaWiki:showingresultsnum
3040 * (bug 9122) Fix minor display issue in RTL with section edit link margin
3041 * (bug 5805) Enable PLURAL option for some messages of watchlist and statistic
3042 * (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other
3043 languages section of MonoBook skin
3044 * (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges.
3045 * (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages
3046 * (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres
3047 * (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook
3048 * (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect
3049 loops on some server configurations
3050 * (bug 9097) column "pr_pagetype" does not exist
3051 * (bug 9217) Balance wfProfile calls in Skin::outputPage
3052 * (bug 9222) PostgreSQL updater should not be version-specific
3053 * Fix fallback implementation of mb_strlen so it works and isn't insanely
3054 slow for large strings, since it's used for page edit lengths
3055 * (bug 8815) Setting password in initUser() breaks LdapAuthentication plugin
3056 * (bug 9256) Add a quick note to index.php header comments
3057 * Make Special:Listusers caseinsensitive for first letter
3058 * Default tidy.conf has been moved from extensions module into includes.
3059 * Ignore lonely '''''
3060 * (bug 9244) When calling edit page for nonexistent section, generate error
3061 inside of just discarding edits, since edit links sometimes go to the wrong
3063 * (bug 9019) No warning during upload if image description page exists, but no
3065 * (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space.
3066 * (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to bytea for Postgres
3067 * (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language
3068 * (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked
3069 * (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader
3070 * (bug 4777) Separate prev/next messages for Special:Whatlinkshere
3071 * Merge approx 15 missing Wikipedia language codes into wikipedia-interwiki.sql
3072 based on Jeff Merkey's mediawiki-1.9.3.WG-20070316.tar.gz.bz2 archive.
3073 * (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles
3074 * (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log
3075 instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension
3076 * (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent
3077 target page instead of silently redirecting
3078 * (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}}
3079 * (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached
3080 templates the same as the first transclusion.
3081 * (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment
3082 * (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages
3083 * (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages
3084 * (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions
3085 * (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere
3086 * (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed
3087 to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions
3088 * Fixed $wgFeedLimit
3089 * (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
3090 * (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences
3091 * (bug 9554) Extension-provided group name messages not used
3092 * (bug 9565) Translate template namespace name for Hindi (hi)
3093 * (bug 8599) Correct localized names of zh-variants
3094 * (bug 3366) Require skins based on SkinTemplate to override the skinname
3096 * (bug 9220) Removed obsoletes functions in install-utils.inc.
3097 * Removed obsoletes Title::getRelatedCache and Title:touchArray
3098 * (bug 7285) Check MySQL username length during install
3099 * (bug 6910) Correct date/time formats in Vietnamese (vi)
3100 * (bug 9608) Correctly use ORDER BY in dumpLinks.php
3101 * (bug 9609) Correctly use ORDER BY in SpecialWhatlinkshere.php
3102 * Special:Random and Special:Randomredirect now try harder to send the user to
3103 a random page, and will give an error message if none really can be found
3104 instead of sending the user to the main page like they used to
3105 * Fix object variable used for displaying "not-patrolled" CSS class on list
3106 * Fixed interaction of page parameter to ImagePage with the HTML file cache
3107 * Fixed MIME type for SVG files, will be silently changed from image/svg
3108 to image/svg+xml after loading from the database.
3109 * Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump
3111 * Fixed odd behaviour in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors
3112 * (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and
3113 MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited.
3114 * (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter
3115 * Fixed upgrade for the non-standard MySQL schemas
3116 * Disable MySQL's strict mode at session start for MySQL 4.1+, to avoid the
3117 various problems that occur when it is on.
3118 * (bug 9585) Fix regression in tidy usage in Special:Undelete previews
3119 * (bug 3826) Normalize some invalid cookie name characters when setting
3120 up $wgCookiePrefix. Completes application of patch by Anders Kaseorg.
3121 * (bug 9649) Fix RTL form alignment for Special:Movepage
3122 * (bug 9582) Members of bot group now mark edits patrolled by default
3123 * (bug 9669) Fix limit ordering for rebuildrecentchanges; broken since
3124 converted from 1.4 to 1.5 schema
3125 * (bug 9682) Revert PHP 5.1 dependency on warning suppression for SVN info
3126 * (bug 5959) Anchors dropped from stub links
3127 * (bug 3348) Some additional weak password checks: password which is same
3128 as username will now be rejected.
3129 * (bug 8602) Converted Special:Contributions to use an IndexPager. The
3130 interpretation of the offset parameter has changed, and the go parameter
3132 * (bug 6204) Fixes for indentation with $wgMaxTocLevel:
3133 - don't emit too many list close tags after an invisible header
3134 - don't emit too many final list close tags if last header is invisible
3135 - don't emit TOC when there are no visible headers
3136 * (bug 7629) Fix $wgBrowserBlackList to avoid false positive on MSIE
3137 when certain plugins are present which alter the user agent
3142 * New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n
3143 progress in the extension repository.
3144 * Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now
3145 automatically attempt to create the required tables
3146 * --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php
3147 * Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php
3148 * parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing
3149 it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg
3150 * (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php
3151 exists but is not readable
3152 * dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL
3153 * (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php
3154 and importTextFile.php scripts
3155 * (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script
3156 * (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org
3157 * (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning
3158 * Restore '--norc' option for maintenance/importTextFile.php
3159 * Help information for maintenance/importTextFile.php now easier to read on
3161 * Doxygen documentation now show the revision number of each file, generate
3162 graphs using dot and include a search engine.
3165 == Languages updated ==
3170 * Belarusian normative (be)
3171 * Belarusian alternative (be-x-old)
3189 * Upper Sorbian (hsb)
3209 * Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl)
3229 * Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
3230 * Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
3231 * Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
3232 * Cantonese (zh-yue)
3236 MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
3238 PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
3239 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
3240 Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
3242 MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
3243 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
3248 1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, and will not work without schema
3251 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
3252 new database fields are filled with data.
3254 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
3255 changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
3256 break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
3258 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
3260 = MediaWiki release notes =
3262 Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
3263 setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
3266 == Changes since 1.8 ==
3268 * (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres.
3269 * (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist
3271 * (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function,
3272 because it seems to be unused.
3273 * (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger
3274 screen sizes, for the default monobook skin.
3275 * Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends
3276 * Improved register_globals paranoia checks
3277 * (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install
3278 * Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails
3279 is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call
3281 * (bug 6164) Avoid smashing Cite state if message transformation triggers
3282 during bad image list check, by skipping message transformation.
3283 This isn't a good permanent fix.
3284 * (bug 6918) Stopped borders and backgrounds from showing through floated
3286 * (bug 6868) Un-hardcode section edit link style
3287 * (bug 3205) Stop right floats from stacking horizontally in non-Monobook skins
3288 * Added global $wgStyleVersion to centralize bumping CSS and JS file versions
3289 for cache-friendly style and script updating
3290 * (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers
3291 * Friendlier check for PHP 5 in command-line scripts; it's common for parallel
3292 PHP 4 and 5 installations to interfere on the command-line.
3293 * Fix regression in autoconfirm permission check
3294 * (bug 3015) Add CSS ids to subcategory and page sections on category pages
3295 * (bug 7587) Fix erroneous id for specialpage tab, enabling informative popup
3296 * (bug 7599) Fix thumbnail purging, PHP notices on HTCP image page purge
3297 * (bug 7581) Update language name for cbk-zam
3298 * (bug 7444) Update namespace translations for Telugu (te), kept old values as
3299 alias for compatibility
3300 * (bug 4525) Move section links down visually to same level as headings
3301 (editsection links are now inside the heading elements)
3302 * Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 , PATH_INFO and hence
3303 URLs of the style /index.php/Main_Page were broken on some CGI installations.
3304 * (bug 7623) Validate custom HTML id's correctly in Monobook interface
3305 * (bug 2241) Fix collision of 'w' and 'd' accesskeys
3306 * (bug 5795) CSS class added to body based on page name for page-specific
3308 * (bug 6276) Stopped search field from getting too large in Cologne Blue
3309 * (bug 7644) User creations that are aborted by hooks shouldn't be counted
3310 against account creations per day limit
3311 * (bug 7636) Show Firefox 2 users correct accesskey prefix
3312 * (bug 6427) Block blocked IPs from using the mail password function
3313 to allow blocking of flooders
3314 * Include common.css from classic-style skins in main HTML with the bump URL
3315 * (bug 7607) Add Karakalpak (kaa) to Names.php and stub message file for linktrail
3316 * (bug 7582) Add 'tog-nolangconversion' to MessagesEn.php.
3317 This key is need for languages with variants (zh, sr, kk)
3318 * (bug 7606) MediaWiki messages for "rss" and "atom" missing
3319 * (bug 7609) Add some more '*-summary' messages to MessagesEn.php with empty
3320 strings to allow better localisation via Special:Allmessages. Mark this new
3321 messages as optional for localisation.
3322 * Fix user_newpass upgrade for prefixed tables (reported by Fyren)
3323 * (bug 7663) Include language variant switcher links on Nostalgia skin
3324 * (bug 6531) Fix PHP fatal error on installation page with bad username input.
3325 * (bug 6977) Remove 404 link for autogenerated database documentation.
3326 * (bug 7369) Allow "Show Changes" without requiring edit token.
3327 * (bug 7687) Fix movetalk box checks itself when confirming a delete and move.
3328 * (bug 7684) Obey watchcreated preference for Special:Upload watch checkbox
3329 * (bug 7686) Include id attribute on delete form confirmation button
3330 * Allow compound interwiki prefixes in $wgImportSources
3331 * (bug 7304) Added redirect table to store redirect targets.
3332 * Added querycachetwo table (similar to querycache but has two titles)
3333 * PageArchive can now return a Revision object for more convenient processing
3334 of deleted revision data
3335 * Added 'UndeleteShowRevision' hook in Special:Undelete
3336 * Error message on attempt to view invalid or missing deleted revisions
3337 * Remove unsightly "_" from namespace in Special:Allpages, Special:Prefixindex
3338 * (bug 3224) Allow minor edits by bots to skip new message notification on
3339 user talk pages. This can be disabled by adjusting the 'nominornewtalk'
3340 permission. Patch by Werdna.
3341 * (bug 7741) MATH: fixed broken syntax of underbrace etc. Fixed arrays
3342 * Fix purging for updated SVG files
3343 * (bug 7745) Add id attribute to search button in Monobook
3344 * (bug 7749) MATH: added some more LaTeX symbols, e.g. parallel, diamond, ast, ...
3345 * (bug 7304) Added code in Article.php to keep redirect table up to date.
3346 * Made special page names case-insensitive and localisable. Care has been taken
3347 to maintain backwards compatibility.
3348 * Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters.
3349 * (bug 7758) Added wrapper span to "templates used" explanation to allow CSS
3350 styling (class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation").
3351 * Added {{#special:}} parser function, to give the local default title for
3353 * (bug 7766) Remove redundant / from AJAX requests, can break some servers
3354 * Add tab links from extensions to classic-based skins (SkinTemplateTab hook)
3355 Provides better cross-skin compatibility for extensions using the modern
3356 skin hooks, such as Oversight
3357 * Moved variant language links on Cologne Blue and Nostalgia to before the
3359 * Fix for parser tests with MySQL 5 in strict mode
3360 * Added block option "enable autoblocks"
3361 * Amend Special:Ipblocklist to note when a block has autoblock DISABLED.
3362 * (bug 7780) Fix regression in editing redirects
3363 * Add whitespace above "templates included on this page" using CSS, not
3364 hardcoded line break.
3365 * Remove entries from redirect table on article deletion
3366 * (bug 7788) Force section headers in new section links for users who have
3367 'prompt for blank edit summaries' on.
3368 * (bug 1133) Special:Emailuser: add an option to send yourself a copy of your mail.
3369 * (bug 461) Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via
3370 pagecategorieslink message.
3371 * Sort the list of skins in "My Preferences" -> Skins by alphabetical order.
3372 * (bug 7785) Postgres compatibility for timestamps in RC feeds
3373 * (bug 7550) Normalize user parameter normally on Special:Log
3374 * (bug 7294) Fix PATH search for diff3 on install
3375 * Various fixes related to the blocking change re: autoblocks. On inserting
3376 an IP block, the ipb_enable_autoblock field is now automagically blanked,
3377 because it doesn't make any sense for an IP. Additionally, IP blocks
3378 without the ipb_enable_autoblock option no longer show up as "autoblock
3379 disabled" on Special:Ipblocklist.
3380 * (bug 7774) MATH: aded more amstex functions
3381 * (bug 1182) MATH: fixed inconsistent rendering of upper case Greek letters in TeX
3382 * Fix regression in streaming page dump generation
3383 * (bug 7801) Add support for parser function hooks in parser tests
3384 * checkUsernames.php now uses wfDebugLog instead of hardcoded path to log
3385 * (bug 7810) Update talk namespaces for Occitan
3386 * Allow case-sensitive URLs to be used for uploading from URLs.
3387 * (bug 1109) Correct fix for compressed 304 responses when additional output
3388 buffers have been installed within the compression handler
3389 * (bug 7819) Move automatic redirect edit summary after pre-save transform
3390 to work properly with subst: fun
3391 * (bug 7826) Fix typos in two English messages.
3392 * (bug 5365) Stop users being prompted to enter an edit summary for null edits,
3393 if they have selected that option in preferences.
3394 * (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits.
3395 * (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL.
3396 * (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most
3397 recently used IP of a user when they are blocked.
3398 * Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will
3399 make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster.
3400 * Fix regression in Special:Undelete for revisions deleted under MediaWiki 1.4
3401 with compression or legacy encoding
3402 * (bug 6737) Fixes for MySQL 5 schema in strict mode
3403 * Approximate height for client-side scaling fallback instead of passing -1
3404 into the HTML output.
3405 * Make the DNSBL to check for proxy blocking configurable via $wgSorbsUrl
3406 * Add experimental recording/reporting mode to parser tests runner, to
3407 compare changes against the previous run.
3408 Additional tables 'testrun' and 'testitem' are in maintenance/testRunner.sql,
3409 source this and pass --record option to parserTests.php
3410 * Make the set of default parser test input files extensible via
3411 $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local
3412 configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically
3413 run along with the main batch.
3414 * Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see
3415 new version requirements
3416 * Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive
3417 as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a
3418 warning and a request to upgrade.
3419 * (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images)
3420 * Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks
3421 * (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display,
3423 * (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in
3425 * Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled.
3426 * Add auto-summaries to blankings and large removals without summaries.
3427 * (bug 7811) Allow preview of edit summaries.
3428 * (bug 6839) Wikibits.js minor changes to make JS-lint happier.
3429 * (bug 7932) Make sure that edit toolbar clears floats so it appears correctly.
3430 * (bug 6873) When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version.
3431 * (bug 3315) Provide rollback link directly on history page.
3432 * Replace 'old-revision-navigation' message with 'revision-info' and
3433 'revision-nav' messages, wrapped in divs with appropriate id's.
3434 * (bug 4178) MediaWiki:Common.js will now be included for all users if
3435 $wgUseSiteJs is enabled, in addition to (if applicable) MediaWiki:Monobook.js
3436 and user JS subpages.
3437 * (bug 7918) "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect
3438 any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits.
3439 * (bug 7919) "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages.
3440 * (bug 7688) When viewing diff, section anchors in autosummary jump to section
3441 on current page instead of loading the latest version.
3442 * (bug 7970) Use current connection explicitly on Database::getServerVersion
3443 * (bug 2001) Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via
3445 * Added autosummary for new pages with 500 or less characters, and refactor
3446 the autosummary code so it's all done in one function. doEdit is getting too
3448 * (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the
3449 image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg).
3450 * (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges
3451 can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format,
3452 in the autoblock_whitelist system message.
3453 * Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php
3454 * (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages
3455 * Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema
3456 * Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like
3457 behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...)
3458 * Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two
3459 member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks.
3460 * (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone
3461 (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3).
3462 This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL
3463 that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages.
3464 The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the
3466 * Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages
3467 * (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned
3468 images, not horizontally.
3469 * Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php
3470 * Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration
3471 * Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login
3472 * (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs
3473 * (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference
3474 * Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved.
3475 * (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation
3476 * Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain
3477 broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions
3478 * (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php
3479 * (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform
3480 * (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set;
3481 now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB
3482 * {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone
3483 to ensure consistent behavior
3484 * {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends
3485 * (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment
3486 * Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output
3487 * (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht
3488 * (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit
3489 instead of hardcoding to 1000
3490 * Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting
3491 * (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view
3492 * (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization
3493 * Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely.
3494 * Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature
3495 to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default.
3496 * Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute
3497 * DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store
3498 the text lengths before and after the edit
3499 * (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions
3500 * Removed a redundant <strong> tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users
3501 * (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it
3502 when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview".
3503 * (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning
3504 buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export.
3505 Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers()
3506 * Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next
3507 chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk.
3508 * (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage')
3509 * (bug 8121) wfRandom() was not between 0 and 1
3510 * Add static method Parser::createAssocArgs($args), so parser functions can
3511 use the same code to parse arguments as the templates do.
3512 * Change behavior of logins using the temporary e-mailed password (as stored
3513 in user_newpassword hash field). Instead of just logging in silently and
3514 leaving the previous user_password field in place indefinitely, the user
3515 is now prompted to set a new password.
3517 The password-changing form is at Special:Resetpass; currently it's only
3518 usable for changing from the temporary password during login, but it
3519 could perhaps be generalized, replacing the subform in preferences.
3521 Once the new password is set successfully, the temporary password is wiped
3522 so it cannot be used to login a second time, and the login process
3524 * Suppress 'mail new password' button on login form if $wgAuth forbids
3525 changing user passwords; it wouldn't work very well...
3526 * Consolidate password length checks and $wgAuth manipulation into
3527 User::setPassword() to avoid duplicate code in different places
3529 * User::setPassword() now throws PasswordError exceptions if the password
3530 is illegal or cannot be set via $wgAuth. These can be caught and a human-
3531 readable error message displayed by UI code.
3532 * Added Title::isSubpage()
3533 * (bug 8241) Don't consider user pages of User:Foo.css to be CSS subpages
3534 * Set an explicit class on framed thumbnail inner divs and images, changed some
3535 CSS to use these instead of using descendent selectors.
3536 * Accept null parameter to User::setPassword() as indicating the password
3537 field should be cleared to an unusable state. Login will only be possible
3538 after the password is reset, for instance by e-mail.
3539 * (bug 6394) Invalidate the password set for "by e-mail" account creations
3540 to avoid accidental empty password creations.
3541 * Made the show change size function work on page moves, page creations, and
3542 log entries. Also fixed it in the javascript recentchanges.
3543 * (bug 8239) correctly get 50 new contributions when clicking '(50 next)'
3544 * (bug 2259) Fix old regression where e-mail addresses were no longer
3545 confirmed on login with mailed password.
3546 * Add a notification about the confirmation mail sent during account
3547 creation, so people don't immediately go off to request a second one.
3548 * Add a warning on Special:Confirmemail if a code was already sent and has
3550 * Add user_editcount field to provide data for heuristics on account use.
3551 Incremented on edit, with lazy initialization from past revision data.
3552 Can batch-initialize with maintenance/initEditCount.php (not yet friendly
3553 to replication environments, this will do all accounts in one query).
3554 * Allow raw SQL subsections in Database::update() SET portion as well as
3555 for WHERE portion. Handy for increments and such.
3556 * User::getOption now accept a default value to override default user values
3557 this makes it consistent with WebRequest::get* methods. Corrected code in
3558 various places accordingly.
3559 * (bug 8264) Fix JavaScript global vars for XHTML mode
3560 * Make $wgSiteNotice value wikitext again, for consistency with editable
3561 MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice.
3562 * (bug 8044) When redirecting from the canonical name of the special page
3563 to the localised one, parameters/subpages are omitted
3564 * (bug 8164) Special:Booksources should use GET for form submission
3565 * Rewrite Special:Booksources to clean up interface and remove redundant code
3566 * (bug 7925) Change Special:Allmessages message name filter javascript to be
3567 a bit more responsive and easier on the CPU
3568 * (bug 4488) Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference
3569 * Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch
3570 pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options
3571 * (bug 8153) <nowiki> doesn't work in site notice
3572 * (bug 6690) wfMsgNoTrans() transforms messages
3573 * (bug 8274) Wrap edit tools in a <div> with a specified class
3574 * Detect PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug and abort in WebStart.php; too many things break
3575 mysteriously otherwise (detection code copied from install-utils.inc)
3576 * (bug 8295) Change handling of <center> tags in doBlockLevels() to match that
3578 * (bug 8110) Make magic ISBN linking stricter: only match ten-digit sequences
3579 (plus optional ISBN-13 prefix) with no immediately following alphanumeric
3580 character, disallow multiple consecutive internal redirects
3581 * (bug 2785) Accept optional colon prefix in links when formatting comments
3582 * Don't show "you can view and copy the source of this page" message for
3583 pages which don't exist
3584 * (bug 8310) Blank line added to top of 'post' when page is blank
3585 * (bug 8109) Template parameters ignored in "recentchangestext"
3586 * Gracefully skip redirect-to-fragment on WebKit versions less than 420;
3587 it messes up on current versions of Safari but is ok in the latest
3588 nightlies. Checking the version number will allow it to automatically
3589 work when new releases of Safari appear.
3590 * Fix regression in thumb styles; size and padding didn't match with
3592 * (bug 8333) Fix quick user data update on login password change on
3593 replication database setups. User data is now pulled from master
3594 instead of slave in User::loadFromDatabase, ensuring that it is
3595 fresh and accurate when read and then saved back into cache.
3596 This was breaking with the Special:Rename operation which
3597 automatically logs the user in with the new password after changing
3598 it; pulling from slave meant the record was often not the updated
3600 * (bug 8335) Set image width to the first valid parameter found.
3601 * (bug 8350) Fix watchlist viewing bug when using Postgres.
3602 * (bug 6603) When warning about invalid file extensions, output the bit
3603 of the extension we actually checked
3604 * (bug 7669) Drop defaults on BLOB/TEXT columns for better compatibility
3605 with MySQL's strict mode, often enabled by the Windows installer.
3606 The defaults are ignored anyway when strict mode is off...
3607 * (bug 7685) Use explicit values for ar_text and ar_flags when deleting,
3608 for better compatibility with MySQL's strict mode
3609 * Update default interwiki values to reflect changed location of ursine:
3610 * (bug 5411) Remove autopatrol preference
3611 * Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as
3612 patrolled automatically
3613 * Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able
3614 to mark their own edits as patrolled
3615 * Introduce 'PingLimiter' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
3616 * (bug 532) Tweaked alt text for some interface messages
3617 * (bug 8231) Gave useful alt text to the main <img> on image pages
3618 * (bug 371) Remove alt text for "Enlarge" icon on thumbnails
3619 * Initialize user_editcount to 0 instead of NULL for newly created accounts
3620 * (bug 3696) Strip LRM and RLM characters from titles to work around the
3621 problem some people have where titles cut-and-pasted from lists include
3622 the bidi override characters appended to the lists.
3623 A more thorough blacklist for forbidden and translatable characters would
3624 be wise, though, as might a cleaner method for the lists in the first place.
3625 * Fix regression in email password resets on read-restricted sites
3626 * Set tabindex on fields in deletion form so you don't have to tab through
3627 the links in the sitenotice
3628 * (bug 8271) Show full time and date on viewer for individual deleted
3630 * (bug 8214) Output file size limit and actual file size in appropriate units
3632 * (bug 8016) Purge objectcache table during upgrade processes - use the --nopurge
3633 option to prevent this when running maintenance/update.php
3634 * (bug 7612) Remove superfluous link to Special:Categories from result items
3635 on Special:Mostcategories
3636 * {{PLURAL:}} now handles formatted numbers correctly
3637 * (bug 8331) Added the change size value to watchlists; therefore made
3638 watchlists use RecentChange::newFromRow() instead of newFromCurRow()
3639 * (bug 8351) Fix undo for simple reverts
3640 * (bug 6856) User::clearNotification() does not respect read-only mode
3641 * (bug 6853) Use a checkbox on the installer form to indicate that a superuser
3642 account should be used; this is clearer than the old check which relied on
3643 the password never being an obscure value
3644 * Remove old unused watchlist cache, which was a leftover from the old schema
3645 where watchlists were more expensive to generate
3646 * Minor cosmetic changes to Special:Userrights
3647 * Added wgCanonicalSpecialPageName to JavaScript variables
3648 * Fix image deleting when using Postgres.
3649 * Output both source and destination titles in maintenance/moveBatch.php
3650 * Added basic parser tests for language variants
3651 * Enable selflinks and categories to be written in some of the language variants
3652 * Prevent conversion of JavaScript code in language variants
3653 * Output software version number in maintenance/parserTests.php
3654 * (bug 7169) Use Ajax to watch/unwatch articles if enabled
3655 * Make variant table caching a little more robust, using main language code
3656 in cache key. Probably this is still a bit wonky, though. Was breaking
3657 parser tests when Chinese tables were getting loaded into Serbian code.
3658 * (bug 8380) Be nicer about blank lines in deleteBatch.php
3659 * (bug 8401) Fix regression in SORBS lookup for some DNS setups
3660 * Use raw file descriptor in posix_isatty() check to avoid warning on
3661 Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP
3662 * (bug 5908) Allow overriding the default category sort key for all items on
3663 a page using {{DEFAULTSORT}}
3664 * (bug 6449) Throw a more definitive error message when installation fails
3665 due to an invalid database name
3666 * (bug 5827) Use full text for option link labels on Special:Watchlist
3667 * (bug 8018) Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist
3668 * (bug 8427) MonoBook RTL IE 7.0 tweaks failed when sidebar's navigation
3669 section is renamed; no longer relies on first section name
3670 * Stabilize client-side table sorting even if the underlying Javascript sort()
3671 implementation is unstable
3672 * Add hook for extensions to add user information to the panel in preferences,
3673 next to the user name and ID.
3674 * (bug 8392) Display protection status of transcluded pages in the edit page
3675 template list. Patch by Fyren, with i18n naming tweak.
3676 * Fix for interwiki transclusion where target wiki uses query string for title
3677 * Resolve namespaces on interwiki Title objects using canonical namespace names
3678 if possible (should not happen, though, outside interwiki transclusion... and
3679 maybe not even then, but it does)
3680 * (bug 8447) Fix SQL typo breaking non-default $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq
3681 * Do not allow previews of deleted images to be cached
3682 * Add global variable $wgDefaultLanguageVariant used to set the default language
3683 variant of a wiki to something different than the main language code
3684 * Add 'variant' option to parserTests - runs test with the given variant as
3685 preferred, utilize it for more parser tests of language variants code
3686 * (bug 6503) Fix bug that stopped certain irrelevant links from being hidden
3688 * Avoid PHP warning in Creative Commons metadata when a creative commons
3689 license is not actually set up
3690 * (bug 8463) Don't print external link icons for Monobook
3691 * (bug 8461) Support watching pages on move
3692 * (bug 8041) Work around bug with debug_backtrace when Zend Optimizer is
3693 loaded by skipping the function. Use wfDebugBacktrace() wrapper function.
3694 * Reduce config file clutter by setting various script and upload paths
3695 based on $IP or $wgScriptPath in Setup.php. They can still be explicitly
3696 overridden in LocalSettings.php if desired...
3697 * Attempt to detect redirect loops for the canonical title redirect, and
3698 give some hints to the poor confused administrator.
3699 * Introduce new flag 'R' - raw output for language variant escape tags
3700 * Advise users when updates for a query page have been disabled using
3701 $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate
3702 * (bug 8413) Improve comments for $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies
3703 * (bug 8330) Show "bytes" suffix on recent changes diff counter
3704 optionally... if set in rc-changes-size message (default empty for now)
3705 * (bug 8489) Support basic links in <gallery> caption attribute
3706 * (bug 8485) Correct Lingala number formatting
3707 * The MediaWiki namespace is no longer pre-filled with default messages on
3708 install. All default messages will be removed from the MediaWiki namespace
3710 * Recentchanges RSS/Atom feeds now use a separate message for the description
3711 to avoid cluttering it with useless wiki formatting
3712 * (bug 8417) Handle EXIF unknown dates
3713 * (bug 8372) Return nothing on empty <math> tags.
3714 * New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php.
3715 * Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php
3716 * (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission
3717 key has been added to enable this behaviour, by default assigned to sysops.
3718 * (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild.
3719 * (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization
3720 * (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond)
3721 * Fix regression with default lock file and cache directories; threw visible
3722 warning with open_basedir
3725 == 1.8 Compatibility changes ==
3727 === Zend Optimizer ===
3729 A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under
3730 MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging
3731 features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common
3732 "blank page" problems.
3734 === PHP 5.0 64-bit ===
3736 MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data
3737 on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This
3738 bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8
3739 and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions.
3741 The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you
3742 probably should do anyway for security reasons!
3746 MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when
3747 MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows
3748 installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.)
3750 This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields".
3754 Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing
3755 due to use of the -thumbnail option.
3758 == 1.8 Behavior changes ==
3760 === Localized special pages ===
3762 The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them
3763 are more legible in languages that aren't English.
3765 Not all languages have included localized names yet.
3767 === E-mail password ===
3769 Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first
3770 log in with a newly generated e-mailed password.
3772 Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing.
3774 === Undo revision ===
3776 An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits.
3777 When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much
3778 easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding
3779 changes elsewhere in the page.
3781 The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional
3782 full-revision reverts.
3786 User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the
3787 account logs in with.
3790 == 1.8 Database changes ==
3792 * new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects
3793 * new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages
3794 * 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock'
3795 * 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking
3796 * 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields
3797 * some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges'
3799 == 1.8 Configuration changes ==
3801 Several configuration options have changed since 1.8:
3803 === $wgEnableAPI ===
3805 The experimental machine API interface is now enabled by default, read-only.
3806 You can disable it by setting $wgEnableAPI = false; in LocalSettings.php.
3810 The use of PATH_INFO (the text after the script name in 'index.php/Blah')
3811 is controlled by the $wgUsePathInfo setting. This is now explicitly disabled
3812 for CGI, apache2filter, and ISAPI configurations of PHP, for more consistency
3813 with the autodetection from the installer.
3815 In some rarer configurations you may have to switch $wgUsePathInfo from false
3816 to true or, perhaps, from true to false to make things work properly if bad
3817 PATH_INFO data comes through the server.
3819 The wiki now tries to detect this condition and should show you an error
3820 message describing what to change instead of sending the browser into an
3821 infinite redirect loop.
3823 === $wgScript and other path settings ===
3825 The following configuration variables are now automatically set in Setup.php
3826 if they are not overridden in LocalSettings.php:
3839 + $wgUploadDirectory
3843 Newly generated configuration files will by default include only $wgScriptPath
3844 (hardcoded from the installer) and $IP (detected at runtime).
3846 Old configuration files which specify all these values explicitly should
3847 continue to work just fine, but if you use the defaults you can remove them
3850 === $wgGroupPermissions ===
3852 The sysop group now holds the "autopatrol" and "ipblock-exempt" rights by
3855 "autopatrol" replaces the preference for marking ones own edits patrolled
3856 by default; users holding this permission will automatically have their
3857 edits patrolled, while others cannot mark their own edits as patrolled
3858 even if they have patrolling rights.
3860 "ipblock-exempt" excludes the user from IP blocks; accounts which are blocked
3861 explicitly by name will still be blocked, however. This is given to sysops
3862 to minimize annoyance from accidental "collateral damage"; remember that a
3863 sysop will be able to lift the block if they desire.
3865 The bot group now holds the "nominornewtalk" right. A user with this right
3866 will not trigger new message notifications when making minor edits to user
3867 talk pages. This is meant to minimize annoyance from maintenance bot
3870 === $wgUseWatchlistCache ===
3872 Watchlist caching has been removed. The feature was not maintained, and has
3873 been unnecessary since switching to the 'recentchanges' database table
3874 reduced server pressure for Wikipedia's watchlists.
3876 === $wgBreakFrames ===
3878 MediaWiki in the past attempted to detect when it was embedded in a frameset
3879 and "break out" of it, assuming it to be hostile.
3881 This behavior is now disabled by default, but can be reenabled by setting
3882 $wgBreakFrames to true in LocalSettings.php.
3885 == 1.8 New settings ==
3887 === $wgVariantArticlePath ===
3889 For languages with script variant support (Chinese, Serbian, and others),
3890 it's possible to use alternate URL paths to select the variant for article
3891 display, setting $wgVariantArticlePath.
3893 Documentation for this setting would be useful.
3895 === $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize ===
3897 The message cache can now skip items larger than a given size; this allows
3898 it to better handle the primary caching case when large CSS and JS blobs are
3901 === $wgStyleVersion ===
3903 When making significant changes to skin stylesheets and JavaScript files,
3904 you can append a string to this variable to tweak the generated URLs,
3905 forcing newly rendered pages to bring in a fresh version despite server-
3906 or browser-side caching.
3908 Normally this will be set in the course of MediaWiki development, but
3909 if doing development on a custom skin you may wish to poke it as well.
3911 === $wgRCShowChangedSize ===
3913 Special:Recentchanges and Special:Watchlist now show the number of bytes
3914 added or removed to an article to give an idea of the size of the edit.
3915 This information was previously available only in the IRC update feeds.
3917 To disable this site-wide, set $wgRCShowChangedSize to false.
3918 (Individual users can suppress the data in custom CSS.)
3920 Adjust $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold to trigger highlighting of particularly
3923 The formatting of the size figure can be adjusted through the
3924 [[MediaWiki:Rc-change-size]] message.
3926 === $wgQueryCacheLimit ===
3928 The number of rows stored for "expensive" special pages in miser mode
3929 can now be adjusted up or down from the default 1000.
3931 === $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate ===
3933 Individual "expensive" special pages can be skipped in processing by
3934 updateSpecialPages if added to this list.
3938 The base hostname for the DNS-based proxy blacklist can now be overridden
3939 when $wgEnableSorbs is set, to use a different blacklist instead of SORBS.
3940 The blacklist would need to respond the same was as SORBS; any positive
3941 response will be taken as a proxy.
3943 === $wgAjaxWatch ===
3945 Experimental AJAX mode for the watch/unwatch tabs to execute inline.
3946 Does not include the UI messages describing how to reach the watchlist,
3947 so you may not want it on a general-audience site just yet.
3949 === $wgParserTestFiles ===
3951 MediaWiki's parser test suite can now be expanded with additional test
3952 files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and
3953 they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php
3956 == Changes since 1.7 ==
3958 * Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy
3959 * Changes to sajax_do_call: optionally accept an element to fill instead of a
3960 callback function; take the target function or element as a third parameter;
3961 pass the full XMLHttpRequest object to the handler function, instead of just
3962 the resultText value; use HTTP response codes to report errors.
3963 * (bug 6562) Removed unmaintained ParserXml.php for now
3964 * History paging overlap bug fixed
3965 * (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle
3966 * Don't put empty-page message into view-source when page text is blank
3967 * (bug 6587) Remove redundant "allnonarticles" message
3968 * Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow
3969 or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses. Prevent duplicate
3970 blocks. Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting
3971 multiple blocks. Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user
3972 attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in
3973 the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an
3975 * (bug 6448) Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username
3976 * (bug 6618) Improve permissions/error detection in Special:Lockdb
3977 * Quick hack for extension testing: parser test doesn't create new message
3979 * (bug 6299) Maintain parser's revision ID across recursive calls to fix
3980 {{REVISIONID}} when Cite extension is used
3981 * (bug 6622) Removed deprecated function Image::newFromTitle
3982 * (bug 6627) Fix regression in Special:Ipblocklist with table prefix
3983 * Removed forced dereferencements (new() returns a reference in PHP5)
3984 * Note about $wgUploadSizeWarning using byte
3985 * (bug 6592) Add most viewed pages summary to Special:Statistics
3986 * Pre-strip characters ignored in IDNs from URLs so they can't be used
3987 to break the blacklists for regular URLs
3988 * Fix regression in blocking of user accounts
3989 * (bug 6635) Fix regression searching for range blocks on Ipblocklist
3990 * Fix regression searching Ipblocklist with ugly URLs
3991 * (bug 6639) Use a consistent default for upload directories
3992 * Preserve entered reason when reporting unconfirmed lock on Special:Lockdb
3993 * (bug 6642) Don't offer to unlock the database when it isn't locked
3994 * cleanupTitles.php changed from --dry-run option to --fix, so default
3995 behavior is now a non-invasive check as with namespaceDupes.php
3996 * (bug 6660) Fix behaviour of EditPage::blockedPage() when the article does
3997 not exist; now doesn't show the source box if the user hasn't provided it
3998 (blocked mid-edit) and the page doesn't exist
3999 * Improve default value of "blockedtext"
4000 * (bug 6680) Added localisation for Dutch bookstore list (nl)
4001 * Renamed maintainace script redundanttrans.php to unusedMessages.php - clearer usage
4002 * Fix regression which allowed some blocked users to create additional accounts
4003 * (bug 6657) Fix Hungarian linktrail
4004 * (bug 6751) Fix preview of blanked section with edit on first preview option
4005 * (bug 5456) Separate MediaWiki:Search into messages for both noun and verb,
4006 introduced 'MediaWiki:Searchbutton'
4007 * Made lines from initialiseMessages() appear as list items during installation
4008 * Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the
4009 Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files.
4010 * Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core
4012 * Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will
4013 now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php
4014 or another entry point.
4015 * Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches.
4016 * Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in
4017 the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer
4018 identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should
4019 be transparent in most cases.
4020 * Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects.
4021 * Removed the broken altencoding feature.
4022 * Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects
4023 are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles,
4024 via a slightly different interface.
4025 * Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless
4026 $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled.
4027 * Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php.
4028 * Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is
4029 now consistently done from Language::factory().
4030 * Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the
4031 profiler during maintenance scripts.
4032 * Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form.
4033 * Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace
4034 * Fix regression in ordering of namespaces
4035 * (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name,
4037 * hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body
4039 * Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the
4040 framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box.
4041 * Added experimental installer for extensions.
4042 See maintenance/installExtension.php
4043 * Added Tajic (tg) language file.
4044 * (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue)
4045 * Fix regression in Korean and Japanese date formatting (day of week)
4046 * (bug 6919) Add English alias magic words for Tatar (tt) language file.
4047 * (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk)
4048 * (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php
4049 * (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch
4050 * Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and
4051 OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead.
4052 * Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper -
4053 use User::isAllowed instead.
4054 * (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission
4055 * (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view
4056 * Revamped Special:Imagelist
4057 * (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php
4058 * (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export
4059 * (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting
4060 point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit.
4061 * Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip
4062 * (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms
4063 * (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly
4064 * (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order
4065 * (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success
4066 * (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user
4067 has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page
4068 * Added {{CURRENTHOUR}}
4069 * Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table
4070 * Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import
4071 * (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message
4072 * (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages
4073 * (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions
4074 * Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update
4075 default message text
4076 * Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php
4077 Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate
4078 * (bug 832) Return to user page after emailing a user
4079 * (bug 366) Add local-system-timezone equivalents for date/time variables
4080 * (bug 7109) Fix Atom feed version number in header links
4081 * (bug 7075) List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version
4082 * (bug 7059) Introduce "anchorencode" colon function
4083 * Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable
4084 * Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list
4085 * (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows
4086 * (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip
4087 * [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number
4088 of disambiguation templates.
4089 * [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed
4090 any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]].
4091 * Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete
4092 * (bug 7026) Fix action=raw&templates=expand
4093 * (bug 6976) Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins
4094 * (bug 7144) Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't
4095 read the main page in the first place
4096 * (bug 7188) Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm
4097 * (bug 6675) Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload in Special:Upload
4098 * Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the
4099 format for WSR-1 SisterSites support
4100 * (bug 7223) Monobook.js is used for site content, should not be localized
4101 * Set default disabled values for DjVu render options
4102 * Added Xml::option() for generating <option>s easily
4103 * Localized page numbers in drop-down for DjVu page selection
4104 * Fixed linktrail for vi
4105 * (bug 6893) "Call to a member function exists() on a non-object" on trackback.php with bad input
4106 * (bug 6886) PHP undefined offset on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
4107 * (bug 6887) PHP error for call to getId() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
4108 * (bug 6888) PHP error for call to getTimestamp() on bad input to Special:Revisiondelete
4109 * (bug 7252) Use dvipng support in texvc math rastrization. dvipng is required if texvc is rebuilt.
4110 * (bug 7279) Use wfBaseName in place of basename() in more places
4111 * Clear newtalk marker on diff links with explicit current revision number
4112 * (bug 7064) Replace hard-coded empty message checks with wfEmptyMsg calls
4113 * (bug 6777) Remove some PHP 4 compat cruft
4114 * Add --user, --comment, and --license options to importImages.php
4115 * (bug 6216) The immobile namespace message does not mention the source page
4116 * (bug 7299) Normalize username filter on Special:Newpages
4117 * (bug 7306) RTL text in an LTR wiki breaks appearance of Special:Recentchanges
4118 * (bug 7312) Don't emit SET NAMES utf8 if connection failed
4119 * (bug 7305) Proper compare for bot check on RC notify, should fix overrides
4120 that force edits by non-bot users to bot mode
4121 * Set Vary: Cookie on action=raw generated CSS and JS, to ensure that user
4122 preferences don't get stuck in proxy caches for other people
4123 * (bug 7324) Fix error message for failure of Database::sourceFile()
4124 * (bug 7309) Plurals: use singular form for zero in French and Brazilian Portuguese
4125 * Add page_no_title_convert field to support language variant conversion
4126 for page titles which shouldn't be converted on display/linking
4127 * Lazy extraction of text chunks in Revision objects, may reduce hits to
4128 external storage when actual text content is not used
4129 * Added experimental $wgRevisionCacheExpiry to cache extracted revision text
4130 in $wgMemc, to further reduce hits to external storage.
4131 Set to 0 (disabled) by default.
4132 * Minor changes to the installer.
4133 * Remove ":" for 'youremail' and 'yourrealname' in includes/templates/Userlogin.php
4134 so that ":" could be used in i18n for Special:Preferences (like 'username' and 'uid').
4135 * Fix layout for Special:Preferences->Date and Time (position for 'timezonetext').
4136 * Updates to language variant code for Serbian et al
4137 * (bug 6756) Enabling RTL direction for kk-cn
4138 * (bug 6701) Kazakh language variants in MessagesEn.php
4139 * (bug 7335) SVN revision check in Special:Version fails on SVN 1.4 working copy
4140 * (bug 6518) Replaced 'lastmodified' with 'lastmodifiedat' and 'lastmodifiedby' with 'lastmodifiedatby'
4141 with separated parameters for date and time to allow better localisation. Updated all message files
4142 to display the old format for compatibility.
4143 * (bug 7357) Make supposedly static methods of Skin actually static
4144 * Added info text to Special:Deadendpages and Special:Lonelypages
4145 * Fix regression in cachability of generated CSS and JS for MonoBook skin,
4146 while avoiding clobbering of different users' cached data
4147 * (bug 6849) Block @ from usernames; interferes with multi-database tools and
4148 was meant to be banned years ago... For now existing accounts will not be
4149 prevented fromm login.
4150 * (bug 6092) Introduce magic words {{REVISIONDAY}}, {{REVISIONDAY2}, {{REVISIONMONTH}},
4151 {{REVISIONYEAR}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
4152 * (bug 7425) Preceeding whitespace in [[...]] breaks subpages
4153 * Try to reconnect after transitory database errors in dumpTextPass.php
4154 * (bug 6023) Fixed mismatch of 0/NULL for wl_notificationtimestamp; now notification
4155 mails are working after 'Mark all pages visited' button on Special:Watchlist is clicked
4156 * Made {{INT:}} a core parser function instead of a special case. The syntax
4157 and behaviour is largely unchanged.
4158 * (bug 7448) Fixing the native name for Ewe (ee)
4159 * (bug 6864) Replace message 'editing' with new message 'editinguser' in Special:Userrights
4160 to allow better localisation
4161 * Add '*-summary' for special pages to MessagesEn.php to allow customizing/translation
4162 directly through Special:Allmessages
4163 * (bug 6130, bug 5818) Replaced message 'go' with the new message 'searcharticle' in skins
4164 to allow better localisation
4165 * Add + to $wgLegalTitleChars by default. Some sites may have occasional
4166 problems with hard-to-reach pages, but it should be less trouble than
4167 "I can't import dumps from Wikipedia" complaints
4168 * (bug 7460) Revert broken patch for bug 7226 which slows down
4169 Special:Allmessages by a factor of 16
4170 * Committed a bunch of live hacks from Wikimedia servers
4171 * (bug 6889) PHP notices in thumb.php with missing params
4172 * Cleaner error behavior on thumb.php with invalid page selection
4173 * (bug 6617) Validate timestamps on Special:Undelete
4174 * Do fewer unnecessary full writes of user rows; only update user_touched
4175 for watch/unwatch, group membership change, and login operations
4176 * Restructured the languages directory, to avoid problems when people
4177 untar MW 1.8 over the top of a 1.7 installation.
4178 * (bug 6890) SQL query error on bad input to Pager lists
4179 due to negative LIMIT clause, caused by integer wraparound.
4180 * Fixed various bugs related to table prefixes, especially the interaction
4181 between table prefixes and memcached, which was formerly completely broken.
4182 * (bug 7004) PHP iconv() notice on bad password input to Special:Userlogin.
4183 * (bug 6826) Extend pre-save transform context link ("pipe trick")
4184 syntax to pages with commas in title
4185 * Use ImageMagick -thumbnail option instead of -resize to avoid including
4186 excessive metadata in thumbs (requires ImageMagick 6.0.0 or newer).
4187 * (bug 7499) Corrections to Swedish talk namespace names
4188 * (bug 7508) Added option to compress HTML pages by dumpHTML.php
4189 * (bug 7519) Add plural in SpecialWatchlist
4190 * (bug 7459) Magic word variables are always case sensitive
4191 * Replaced {{SERVER}}{{localurl:xxx}} with {{fullurl:xxx}} in localisation files
4192 * Fix regression in Special:Watchlist text header
4193 * (bug 7510) Update article counts etc on undelete
4194 * (bug 7520) Update article counts on XML import
4195 * (bug 7526) Make $wgDefaultUserOptions work again
4196 * (bug 7472) Localize Help namespace for Basque
4197 * (bug 7529) Including a non-existent category in an article places that article in the category
4198 * (bug 4528) Lack of important LaTeX functions stackrel, rightleftharpoon
4199 * (bug 6721) missing symbols ulcorner, urcorner, llcorner, lrcorner, twoheadrightarrow, twoheadleftarrow
4200 * (bug 7367) Hyphens sometimes erroneously appended to equations when not converted to PNG
4201 * Add "title" to the opensearch link to allow automatic adding of the search engine in Firefox 2
4202 * (bug 7537) Add php5 to $wgFileBlacklist
4203 * (bug 6929) Restore AutoAuthenticate hook
4206 == Changes since 1.6 ==
4208 * (bug 5458) Fix double-URL encoding in block log link in contribs and contribs
4210 * (bug 5462) Bogus missing patch warning in updater
4211 * (bug 5461) Use of deprecated "showhideminor" in Special:Recentchangeslinked
4212 * PHP warning when allow_call_time_pass_reference is off
4213 * Update to Finnish localization
4214 * (bug 5467) Link to page histories in watchlist edit mode
4215 * Further additions to Hebrew localisation
4216 * (bug 5476) Invalid xhtml in German localization
4217 * (bug 5479) Id translation for preferences tabs caption
4218 * (bug 5493) Id translation for special pages
4219 * Added skinname and style path parameters to CBT version of MonoBook
4220 * Include subversion revision number in Special:Version if available
4221 * (bug 5344) Fix regression that broke slashes in extension tag parameters
4222 * Improve Special:Log performance on big log sets
4223 * (bug 5507) Changed mediawiki:logouttext from plain to wikitext
4224 * (bug 4760) Prevent creation of entries in protection log when protection
4225 levels haven't changed
4226 * (bug 861) Show page protection/unprotection events in histories
4227 * (bug 5499) Don't clear the tag strip state when asked not to clear state.
4228 Fixes regression with use of <ref> in a template breaking <nowiki> etc.
4229 * Minor improvements to English language files
4230 * Display the anon talk page info message on anon talk pages again
4231 (moved outside the parser cache)
4232 * Optional {{DISPLAYTITLE|title with markup}} magic word
4233 Deactivated by default, set "$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true" in LocalSettings.php
4235 * Cleaned SpecialContributions a bit
4236 * Added a table to track interlanguage links
4237 * (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left
4239 * Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the
4241 * (bug 5537) Add stub language file for Samogitian (bat-smg); inherits
4243 * Don't force edit summaries when a user is editing their own user/talk page
4244 * (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces
4245 * (bug 385) Installer support for PostgreSQL, fixes for PG compatibility
4246 * PersistentObject removed; it doesn't do anything and was broken besides.
4247 All extensions using it have been corrected.
4248 * Propagate ISBN number for Booksources in LanguageNo.php
4249 * (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin]
4250 * Add TALKSPACE, SUBJECTSPACE, TALKPAGENAME, SUBJECTPAGENAME (and encoded forms
4251 for all) magic words
4252 * (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds
4253 * Reject malformed addresses in X-Forwarded-For entries
4254 * (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload
4255 * (bug 5559) Improve detection of ImageMagick [patch: Greg Turnquist]
4256 * (bug 5475) New pages feeds ignore "limit" argument
4257 * (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to
4258 conflicting anchor identifiers
4259 * (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default.
4260 * Maintenance script to import the contents of a text file into a wiki page
4261 * Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use
4262 * (bug 5576) Remove debugging hack in session check
4263 * (bug 5426) Lowercase treatment of titles in rights log leads to broken links
4265 * Minor improvements to French localisation files
4266 * (bug 5181) Update "nogomatch" for Slovak
4267 * (bug 5594) Id translation up to # Login and logout pages section
4268 * (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link
4269 * Improvements to German localisation files
4270 * (bug 5570) Problems using <special page>/parameter link form for long titles
4271 * (bug 3884) Add $user parameter to AddNewUser hook, call it for by-email
4272 registrations as well as self-registrations.
4273 * (bug 4327) Report age of cached data sets in query pages
4274 * (bug 4662) Fix Safari check in wikibits.js
4275 * (bug 4663) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Safari
4276 * (bug 5572) Edit toolbar enabled in compatible versions of Konqueror (3.5+)
4277 * (bug 5235) Edit toolbar tooltips no longer show JavaScript junk in Opera
4278 * Edit toolbar now works in pure XHTML mode (application/xhtml+xml)
4279 * Add watchlist clear function to allow quick purging of all items
4280 * (bug 5625) Additional namespace translations for Welsh
4281 * Add meta tag and JavaScript variables to cached special pages which provides
4282 the timestamp of the last update, in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.
4283 * (bug 5628) More translations for MessagesHr.php
4284 * (bug 5595) Localisation for Bosnian language (bs)
4285 * (bug 2910) Default view preferences for watchlists
4286 * Add "hide bot edits from the watchlist" user preference
4287 * (bug 5250) Introduce Special:Unusedtemplates
4288 * Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent
4289 edits up to a certain edit, and not just the latest edit..
4290 * Made MessageRo.php more general
4291 * (bug 5640) Indonesian localisation improvements
4292 * (bug 5592) Actions are logged with the default language for the
4293 wiki, not the language of the user performing the operation.
4294 * (bug 5644) Error in LanguageBs.php file
4295 * (bug 5646) Compare for identical types in wfElement()
4296 * (bug 5472) Language::userAdjust()->minDiff not initialized on else condition
4297 * (bug 5386) LanguageMk.php: updated namespaces translations
4298 * (bug 5422) Stub for Romani (rmy) language which extends ro
4299 * Fix linktrail for LanguageSr
4300 * (bug 5664) Fix Bosnian linktrail
4301 * (bug 3825) Namespace filtering on Special:Newpages
4302 * (bug 1922) When Special:Wantedpages is cached, mark links to pages
4303 which have since been created
4304 * (bug 5659) Change grammar hacks for Bosnian Wikimedia namespaces.
4305 This sort of special casing should be removed and fixed properly.
4306 * Remove useless whitespace from Special:Brokenredirects header
4307 * Treat "allmessagesnotsupporteddb" as wikitext when echoing; change default
4309 * (bug 5497) Regression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>)
4310 * (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories
4311 * (bug 5684) Introduce Special:Randomredirect
4312 * (bug 5611) Add a name attribute to the text box containing source text in
4314 * Indicate when a protected page is an interface message ("protectedinterface")
4315 * (bug 4259) Indicate when a protected page being edited is an interface message
4316 ("editinginterface")
4317 * (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel
4318 * Pass login link to "whitelistedittext" containing 'returnto' parameter
4319 * (bug 5728): mVersion missing from User::__sleep() leading to constant cache
4321 * Updated maintenance/transstat.php so it can show duplicate messages
4322 * Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser
4323 credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if
4324 the connection fails
4325 * (bug 5005) Fix XHTML <gallery> output.
4326 * (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date).
4327 * (bug 4825) note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation
4328 * Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories
4329 * (bug 5679) time units are now using local numerals
4330 * (bug 5751) Updates to Portuguese localisation files
4331 * (bug 5741) Introduce {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} magic word
4332 * (bug 93) <nowiki> tags and tildes in templates
4333 * The returnto parameter is now actually used by SpecialUserlogin.php
4334 * Parser can now know that it is parsing an interface message
4335 * (bug 4737) MediaWiki:Viewcount supports {{PLURAL}} now
4336 * Fix bug in wfMsgExt under PHP 5.1.2
4337 * (bug 5761) Project talk namespace broken in Xal, Os, Udm and Cv
4338 * Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to
4339 recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes
4340 * Cleaned up formatNum usage in langfiles
4341 * (bug 5716) Warn when a user tries to upload a file which was previously
4343 * (bug 5565) Add a class attribute to the table on Special:Allpages
4344 * "lang=xx" option for parser test cases to set content language
4345 * (bug 5764) Friulian translation updated
4346 * (bug 5757) Fix premature cutoff in LanguageConverter with extra end markers
4347 * (bug 5516) Show appropriate "return to" link on blocked page
4348 * (bug 5377) Do not auto-login when creating an account as another user
4349 * (bug 5284) Special redirect pages should remember parameters
4350 * Suppress 7za output on dumpBackup
4351 * (bug 5338) Reject extra initial colons in title
4352 * (bug 5487) Escape self-closed HTML pair tags
4353 * Add "raw suffix" magic word for some magic words, e.g. {{NUMBEROFUSERS|R}}
4354 will produce a count minus formatting
4355 * Fix Parser::cleanSig() to use Parser::startExternalParse() and choose an
4356 appropriate output format given the scope of the clean
4357 * (bug 5593) Change "bureaucrat log" to "rights log"
4358 * Show a boilerplate "(none)" in place of a blank within the log action text for
4360 * (bug 137) Commented out translations for copyrightwarning which mention GNU FDL
4361 * (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted"
4362 * (bug 5696) Add a third parameter, $3, to "rcnote", passing the current time
4363 formatted according to the current user's settings
4364 * (bug 5780) Thousands and decimal separators for Norwegian
4365 * Updated initStats maintenance script
4366 * (bug 5767) Fix date formats in Vietnamese locale
4367 * (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are.
4368 * (bug 4876) Add __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to force the "new section" link/tab to
4369 show up on specific pages on demand
4370 * Bidi-aid on list pages
4371 * (bug 5782) Allow entries in the bad image list to use canonical namespace names
4372 * (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext
4373 * Sanitizer: now handles nested <li> in <ul> or <ol>
4374 * (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14
4375 * Add 'EmailConfirmed' hook
4376 * New findhooks.php script to find undocumented hooks.
4377 * Silently ignore errors on profiling table update.
4378 * (bug 5801) Correct handling of underscores in Special:Listusers
4379 * Clean up Special:Listusers; add an "(all)" label to the group selection box
4380 * (bug 5812) Use appropriate link colour in Special:Mostlinked
4381 * (bug 5802) {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} variable broken in Vietnamese locale
4382 * (bug 5817) Appropriate handling for Special:Recentchangeslinked where the target
4384 * Special:Randompage now additionally accepts English namespace name as parameter
4385 * (bug 2981) Really fixed linktrail for Tamil (ta)
4386 * Disallow substituting Special pages when included into a page
4387 * (bug 5587) Clean up the languages from references to the Groups special page
4388 * Added new group-X and group-X-member messages
4389 * Rewritten removeUnusedAccounts to be more efficient, print names of inactive
4391 * Redirect Special:Userlist to Special:Listusers
4392 * Introduce $wgAllowTitlesInSVG, which allows the <title> attribute in uploaded files
4393 bearing the image/svg MIME type. Disabled by default due to the vast majority of
4394 web servers being hideously misconfigured. See DefaultSettings.php for more details.
4395 * Changed default LocalSettings.php to append the previous include path when setting it
4396 * (bug 5837) Use "members" for the value descriptor in Special:Categories,
4397 Special:Wantedcategories and Special:Mostlinkedcategories.
4398 * (bug 3309) Allow comments when undeleting pages
4399 * Clean up Special:Undelete a bit
4400 * (bug 5805) messages nbytes, ncategories can now use {{plural:}}
4401 * Clean up Special:Imagelist a bit
4402 * (bug 5838) Namespace names for Nds-NL
4403 * (bug 5749) Added Tyvan language files
4404 * (bug 5791) Fix SQL syntax in Special:BrokenRedirects, was causing incorrect data to show
4405 * (bug 5839) Prevent access to Special:Confirmemail for logged-out users
4406 * (bug 5853) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
4407 * (bug 5851) Use Cyrillic for Kirghiz language name
4408 * (bug 5841) Allow the 'EditFilter' hook to return a non-fatal error message
4409 * (bug 5846) Link to individual group description pages in Special:Listusers
4410 * (bug 5857) Update for German localisation (de)
4411 * (bug 5858) Update for Russian language (ru)
4412 * (bug 5860) Update for Indonesian language (id)
4413 * (bug 1120) Update for Czech language (Cs)
4414 * Added many missing formatNum calls
4415 * Added grammar function to Belarusian (be)
4416 * (bug 5819) Add 'PersonalUrls' hook
4417 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian language (be)
4418 * (bug 5886) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
4419 * (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links
4420 * (bug 5878) Update for Indonesian language (id)
4421 * (bug 5697) Update for Malay language (ms)
4422 * (bug 5890) Update for German language (de)
4423 * (bug 5889) Name for Sindhi language should appear as سنڌي
4424 * --force-normal parameter on dump scripts to force check for ICU extension
4425 * (bug 5895) Update for Dutch language (nl)
4426 * (bug 5891) Linktrail for Polish language (pl)
4427 * User::isBureaucrat , User::isDeveloper , User::isSysop deprecated in
4428 v1.6 now die with a backtrace. They will be removed in v1.8
4429 * dumpTextPass now skips goes to database for entries that were blank in the
4430 previous dump, as this may indicate a broken dump.
4431 * dumpTextPass progress includes percentage of items prefetched
4432 * dumpTextPass can now use 7zip files for prefetch
4433 * (bug 5915) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
4434 * (bug 5913) Update for German localisation (de)
4435 * (bug 5905) Plural support for Bosnian localisation (bs)
4436 * Groups which won't hit the rate limiter now configurable with
4437 $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups
4438 * (bug 5806) {{plural:}} support instead of "twin" MediaWiki messages
4439 * (bug 5931) Update for Polish language (pl)
4440 * Ignore the user and user talk namespaces on Special:Wantedpages
4441 * Introduce NUMBEROFPAGES magic word
4442 * (bug 5833) Introduce CURRENTVERSION magic word
4443 * (bug 5370) Allow throttling of password reminder requests with the rate limiter
4444 * (bug 5683) Respect parser output marked as uncacheable when saving
4445 * (bug 5918) Links autonumbering now work for all defined protocols
4446 * (bug 5935) Improvement to German localisation (de)
4447 * (bug 5937) Register links from gallery captions with the parent parser output
4448 object so that link tables receive those updates too
4449 * (bug 5845) Introduce BASEPAGENAME and BASEPAGENAMEE magic words
4450 * (bug 5941) Use content language when getting the administrator page title for
4452 * (bug 5949) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
4453 * (bug 5862) Update of Belarusian translation (be)
4454 * (bug 5950) Improvements to French localisation
4455 * (bug 5805) {{plural:}} support for counters in some special pages
4456 * (bug 5952) Improvement to German localisation (de)
4457 * Rename conflicting metadata help message to "metadata_help" (was "metadata")
4458 and treat it as wiki text
4459 * Improve preferences input filtering
4460 * Maintenance script to import multiple files into the wiki
4461 * (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he)
4462 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
4463 * (bug 5961) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
4464 * (bug 5849) Remove some hard-coded references to "Wikipedia" in messages
4465 * (bug 5967) Improvement to German localisation (de)
4466 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
4467 * Suppress images in galleries which appear on the bad image list (when rendering
4468 for a wiki page; galleries in special pages and categories are unaffected)
4469 * Maintenance script to remove orphaned revisions from the database
4470 * (bug 5991) Update for Russian language (ru)
4471 * (bug 6001) PAGENAMEE and FULLPAGENAMEE don't work in FULLURL and LOCALURL magic
4473 * (bug 5958) Switch Uzbek language name to use latin script
4474 * (bug 839) Add URLENCODE magic word
4475 * (bug 6004) Update for Polish language (pl)
4476 * (bug 5971) Improvement to German localisation (de)
4477 * (bug 4873) Don't overwrite the subtitle navigation when viewing a redirect page
4479 * (bug 2203) Namespace updates for Thai
4480 * Fix breakage in parser test suite which caused incorrect reporting of the failure of
4481 {{NUMBEROFFILES}}. Now initialises the site_stats table with some dumb data. Updated
4482 the expected output for {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} to reflect this.
4483 * (bug 6009) Use {{ns:project}} in messages where appropriate
4484 * (bug 6012) Update to Indonesian localisation (id)
4485 * (bug 6017) Update list of bookstores in German localisation files
4486 * (bug 5187) Allow programmatically bypassing username validation, for scripts
4487 * (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected
4488 * (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this"
4489 * (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified')
4490 * (bug 2015) Add "\sim" to ~ conversion for HTML rendering
4491 * (bug 6029) Improvement to German localisation (de)
4492 * (bug 5015) Update be: magic words
4493 * (bug 3974) Add parameter for site URL to "passwordremindertext"
4494 * (bug 6039) Update for Portuguese localisation (pt)
4495 * (bug 764) Add CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES to default database permissions
4496 * Big update to Swedish localisation (sv)
4497 * Use appropriate HTML functions to create the tool links on image pages, so they don't
4498 look garbled when tidy isn't on
4499 * (bug 5511) Fix URL-encoding of usernames in links on Special:Ipblocklist
4500 * (bug 6046) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #15
4501 * (bug 5523) $wgNoFollowNsExceptions to allow disabling rel="nofollow" in
4502 specially-selected namespaces.
4503 * (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick Jenkins)
4504 * Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better
4505 handle some overlapping tag cases.
4506 * Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC
4507 * (bug 4610) Indicate patrolled status on watchlists and allow users to mark
4508 changes as patrolled using the diff links there
4509 * Add 'DiffViewHeader' hook called before diff page output
4510 * (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de)
4511 * (bug 6054) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #16
4512 * Add {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} magic word
4513 * (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms
4514 * (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics.
4515 * (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs
4516 * To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays
4517 can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is
4518 no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a
4520 * (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages)
4521 * Added $wgGrammarForms global
4522 * Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries.
4523 * (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
4524 * (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate()
4525 * wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages
4526 * Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group
4527 * wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code
4528 * Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed.
4529 Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways.
4530 * (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language
4531 * Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when
4532 adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs.
4533 * Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory.
4534 * (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an)
4535 * (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru)
4536 * Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering
4537 problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages
4538 making it into cached display.
4539 * (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink")
4540 * (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded
4541 character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg
4542 = when making URLs for template parameters.
4543 * Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness
4544 under HTML-compatible browsers.
4545 * (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage
4546 * Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext'
4547 * (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history
4548 * Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed
4549 * Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs
4550 * (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization
4551 * (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs.
4552 * Add APC as object caching option
4553 * Update to Albanian localization (sq)
4554 * (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias)
4555 * Use optimized php5-only microtime()
4556 * Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script
4557 * Fix profiling table definition
4558 * (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a
4559 "show changes" operation in the editor
4560 * (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins
4561 * Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php
4562 * Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer
4563 * (bug 6133) Update strip state as we work. This mostly fixes extensions
4564 used in Cite.php <ref> tags when Tidy is on.
4565 * (bug 6139) Workaround for transclusion oddities in Vietnamese upload text
4566 * (bug 6136) Update to Catalan language (ca)
4567 * Update to Japanese localization (ja)
4568 * Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer
4569 * (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17
4570 * (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views
4571 * (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page
4572 * (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word
4573 * Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles
4574 * (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language
4575 message contains '-'; fixes licenses selector on Commons configuration after
4576 recent addition of the message to Messages.php
4577 * (bug 5527) Batch up job queue insertions for, hopefully, better survivability
4578 of lock contention etc. Duplicates are now removed at pop time instead of
4580 * When showing the "blah has been undeleted" page, make sure it's a blue link
4581 * parserTests.php accepts a --file parameter to run an alternate test sutie
4582 * parser tests can now test extensions using !!hooks sections
4583 * Fix oddity with open tag parameters getting stuck on </li>
4584 * (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension
4585 * Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more
4586 consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the
4587 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to
4588 further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise
4589 expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences
4590 in behavior based on the order tags are loaded.
4591 * (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags
4592 * Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags
4593 * (bug 6164) Fix regression with <gallery> resetting <ref> state
4594 * Hackaround for IE 7 wrapping bug in MonoBook footer
4595 * New message sp-newimages-showfrom replaces rclistfrom on special:newimages
4596 * Improve handling of ;: definition list construct with overlapping or
4598 * (bug 6171) Fix sanitizing of HTML-elements with an optional closing
4599 tag. The sanitizer still needs to learn how to make well-formed XML
4601 * Fix fatal error when specifying illegal name for manual thumbnail
4602 * (bug 6184) Use shinier Linker::userLink() to make user links in
4604 * (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb)
4605 * (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18
4606 * (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa)
4607 * Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a
4608 per-namespace basis.
4609 * Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being
4610 interspersed into your ordered lists.
4611 * (bug 5021) Transcluding the same special page twice now works
4612 * Add 'SiteNoticeBefore' and 'SiteNoticeAfter' hooks
4613 * (bug 6182) Date passed in "sp-newimages-showfrom" not adjusted to user time
4615 * (bug 2587) Fix for section editing with comment prefix
4616 * (bug 2607) Fix for section editing with mix of wiki and HTML headings
4617 * (bug 3342) Fix for section editing with headings wrapped in <noinclude>
4618 * (bug 3476) Fix for section editing with faux headings in extensions
4619 * (bug 5272) Fix for section editing with HTML-heading subsections
4620 * Fix for bogus wiki headings improperly detected with following text
4621 * Fix for HTML headings improperly not detected with preceding/following text
4622 * Section extraction and replacement functions merged into one implementation
4623 on the Parser object, so they can't get out of sync with each other.
4624 * Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc
4625 * (bug 6197) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #19
4626 * (bug 6175) Improvement to German translation (de)
4627 * Redirect Special:Logs to Special:Log
4628 * (bug 6206) Linktrail for Swedish localization (se)
4629 * (bug 3202) Attributes now allowed on <pre> tags
4630 * Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes now available to discard illegal/unsafe
4631 attribute values from an array.
4632 * (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement
4633 to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype
4634 (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and
4635 could even result in invalid output from valid input.
4636 * (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default
4637 meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of
4638 robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt
4639 doesn't forbid access.
4640 * Regression fix: suppress warning about session failure when clicking to
4641 edit with 'preview on first edit' enabled.
4642 * (bug 6230) Regression fix: <nowiki> in [URL link text]
4643 * Added AutoLoader.php, which loads classes without need of require_once()
4644 * (bug 5981) Add plural function Slovenian (sl)
4645 * (bug 5945) Introduce {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word
4646 * {{PLURAL}} can now take up to five forms
4647 * (bug 6243) Fix email for usernames containing dots when using PEAR::Mail
4648 * Remove a number of needless {{ns:project}}-type transforms from messages files. These
4649 usages already have separate label text. Such transforms are wasteful on each page view.
4650 * Update to Yiddish localization (yi)
4651 * (bug 6254) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #20
4652 * (bug 6255) Fix transclusions starting with "#" or "*" in HTML attributes
4653 * Whitespace now normalized more or less properly in HTML attributes
4654 * Fix regression(?) in behavior of initial-whitespace-pre in <center>
4655 * (bug 6260) Update to Interlingua localization (ia)
4656 * Update to Vlax Romany localization (rmy)
4657 * Update to Latin translation (la)
4658 * Update to Dutch translation (nl)
4659 * Avoid some notices in page history with bad input
4660 * Use double quoted consistently on attributes in linker output; preparing
4661 for new normalization code when tidy not in use
4662 * Replace "nogomatch" with "noexactmatch" and place the magic colon in the messages
4663 themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content.
4664 * Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other
4665 than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics.
4666 * (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word
4667 * Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default.
4668 * (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags.
4669 * Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this
4670 could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong.
4671 * Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile;
4672 it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html".
4673 * (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl)
4674 * (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
4675 * (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21
4676 * Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information
4677 * (bug 4054) Add "boteditletter" to recent changes flags
4678 * Update to Catalan localization (ca)
4679 * (bug 2099) Deleted image files can now be archived and undeleted.
4680 Set $wgSaveDeletedFiles on and an appropriate directory path in
4681 $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory']
4682 * (bug 6324) Fix regression in enhanced RC alignment
4683 * Introduce {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} magic word
4684 * Update to Slovak translation (sk)
4685 * Update to Alemannic localization (gsw)
4686 * (bug 6300) Bug fixes for sr: variants
4687 * namespaceDupes.php can now accept an arbitrary prefix, for checking rogue
4688 interwikis and such. Not yet fully automated.
4689 * (bug 6344) Add Special:Uncategorizedimages page
4690 * (bug 6357) Update to Russian translation (ru)
4691 * Workaround possible bug in Firefox nightlies by properly removing the
4692 Content-Encoding header instead of sending explicit 'identity' value
4694 * (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages
4695 * Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display
4696 * (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message
4697 * (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account
4698 * (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links
4699 * Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
4700 * (bug 6345) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #22
4701 * (bug 6279) Add genitive month names to Slovenian localisation
4702 * (bug 6351) Update to German translation (de)
4703 * Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects
4704 * Remove unused "validation" table definitions from the schema files
4705 * (bug 6398) Work around apparent PCRE bug breaking section editing when
4706 massively-indented preformatted text immediately followed a header
4707 * (bug 6392) Fix misbehaving <br /> in preferences form
4708 * Add translated magic words to Hebrew localization
4709 * (bug 6396) Change name for Chuvash language
4710 * Introduce optional (off by default) language selector bar for user login
4711 and registration. Customisable via the "loginlanguagelinks" message, the
4712 links will preserve "returnto" values. If the user creates an account while
4713 using such a link, then the language in use will be saved as their language
4715 * Make sure '~~~' '~~~~' '~~~~~' are removed in Nickname preference.
4716 * Rename "ipusuccess" to "unblocked", change the format (now wiki text)
4717 * (bug 2316) Add "caption" attribute to <gallery> tag
4718 * Allow setting the skin object that ImageGallery will use; needed during parse
4719 operations (the skin must come from the ParserOptions, not $wgUser)
4720 * Fix notice in MacBinary detection debug data for files of certain lengths
4721 * (bug 6131) Add type detection for DjVu files, allowing them to be uploaded
4722 with validity checking and size detection. No inline thumbnailing yet,
4723 but could be added in the future.
4724 * (bug 6423) Don't update newtalk flag if page content didn't change (null edits
4725 were causing the newtalk flag to trigger inappropriately)
4726 * Parser functions are now set using magic words.
4727 * (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set
4728 * (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version
4729 if blocked during an edit
4730 * (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page,
4731 return blank content (as opposed to the message key)
4732 * Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css
4733 * (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export
4734 * (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories
4735 * Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off
4736 * (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23
4737 * Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow
4738 localizble extensions magic words.
4739 * Update to Romanian translation (ro)
4740 * Update to Esperanto translation (eo)
4741 * Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE
4742 if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error
4743 * (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook
4744 * Update to Piedmontese localization (pms)
4745 * dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2
4746 * (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import
4747 * (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import
4748 * (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events
4749 * Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import
4750 * Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request
4751 * Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming
4752 large numbers of history items.
4753 * Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export;
4754 pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from
4755 export when history is requested.
4756 * Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name
4757 * Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import
4758 * Update to Korean translation (ko)
4759 * Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist
4760 * (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex
4761 * Added Latvian localization (lv)
4762 * (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages
4763 * Update to Macedonian translation (mk)
4764 * Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created
4765 as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if
4766 we can move over them.
4767 * Show some error results in moveBatch.php
4768 * (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps
4769 * (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages
4770 * (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing
4771 * (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}}
4772 * (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin
4773 * (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages
4774 * Added formatnum magic word
4775 * Added Javanese localization (jv)
4776 * (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries
4777 * (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage
4778 * Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true
4779 * Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in
4780 the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields.
4781 Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a
4782 "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe
4783 in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes
4785 * (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set
4786 * (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete
4787 * (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24
4788 * Extension messages translation is now possible.
4789 * Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports.
4790 $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for
4791 Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc.
4792 * (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de)
4793 * (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page
4794 * (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar
4795 * (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation'
4796 * Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms
4797 * (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex
4798 more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input
4799 with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does.
4800 * (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation
4801 * New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'.
4802 * Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it
4803 * Introduce updateArticleCount maintenance script which uses a better check that
4804 reflects what Article::isCountable() tests for
4805 * Introduce 'BadImage' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
4806 * Add "searchsubtitleinvalid" message for searches that are not valid titles.
4807 * (bug 5962) Update to Italian localisation
4808 * (bug 6530) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #25
4809 * (bug 6523) Fix SVG issue in rebuildImages.php
4810 * (bug 6512) Link to page-specific logs on page histories
4811 * (bug 6504) Allow configuring session name with $wgSessionName
4812 * (bug 6185) Add standard user tool links to log page views
4813 * Update to Venetian translation (vec)
4814 * Update to Slovenian translation (sl)
4815 * Add standard user tool links to deleted revision list
4816 * Separate out EditPage's getContent bits from regular Article getContent.
4817 Cleans up read-only-mode warning on empty pages and neats up some code.
4818 * (bug 6565) Strict JavaScript writing
4819 * (bug 6570) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #26
4820 * Added Telugu translation (te)
4821 * Update to Catalan translation (ca)
4822 * (bug 6560) Avoid PHP notice when trimming ISBN whitespace
4823 * Added namespace translation to Kannada (ka)
4824 * (bug 6566) Improve input validation on timestamp conversion
4825 * Implicit group "emailconfirmed" for all users whose email addresses are confirmed
4826 * (bug 6577) Avoid multiline parser breakage on <pre> with newline in attribute
4827 * (bug 6771) Make old revisions of MediaWiki pages available with action=raw
4829 == Changes since 1.5 ==
4831 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
4834 * Use strval() to make sure we don't accidentally get null on bad revision
4835 text loads or other fields mucking up XML export output
4836 * Clean up duplicate code for selection of changeslist style
4837 * Correct blob caching to reduce redundant blob loads on backups
4838 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
4839 * Fixed possible infinite loop in formatComment
4840 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
4841 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
4842 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
4843 * Avoid numerous redundant latest-revision lookups in history
4844 * Require PHP 4.3.2 or higher strictly now.
4845 * Tweak infinite-template-handling loop for PHP 5.1.1 string handling change
4846 * Remove unused OutputPage::addCookie()
4847 * Fix for short_open_tag off again; please don't break this, guys
4848 * (bug 4507) Adjust FULLPAGENAMEE escaping to standard form
4849 * (bug 5302) Merge the two #p-search .pBody statements in monobook css.
4852 * Finally dropped MySQL 3.23.x support
4854 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
4855 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
4856 * (bug 3227) Fix SQL injection introduced in experimental code
4857 * Fix table prefix usage in Block::enumBlocks
4858 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
4859 * (bug 3506) Avoid MySQL error when Listusers returns no results
4860 * Skip update of disused 'rc_cur_time' field (todo: discard the field)
4861 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
4862 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
4863 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
4864 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
4865 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
4866 * Ability to set the table name for external storage servers
4867 * Update ipblocks table in MySQL 5 table defs
4868 * Removed FulltextStoplist.php, no longer used (was for MySQL 3.x workaround)
4869 * Added templatelinks table, to track template inclusions. User-visible effects
4871 * (inclusion) tag for inclusions in Special:Whatlinkshere
4872 * More accurate list of used templates on the edit page
4873 * More reliable cache invalidation when templates outside the template
4874 namespace are changed
4875 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
4876 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
4877 * Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs
4878 * Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is
4879 to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed.
4880 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
4883 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
4887 * Move ArticleSave hook execution into Article insert/update functions,
4888 so they get called on non-EditPage actions that use these functions
4889 to create or update pages.
4890 * Added EditFilter hook, and output callback on EditPage::showEditForm()
4891 for a place to add in captcha-type extensions in the edit flow
4892 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
4893 * Fix for hook callbacks on objects containing no fields
4894 * Add a hook for additional user creation throttle / limiter extensions
4895 * Use $wgOut->parse() in wfGetSiteNotice() instead of creating a new parser
4896 instance. This allows use of extension hooks if required.
4897 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
4898 * Added 'PageRenderingHash' hook for changing the parser cache hash key
4899 from an extension that changes rendering based on nonstandard options.
4900 * Add 'GetInternalURL' hook to match the GetFullURL and GetLocalURL ones
4901 * (bug 4456) Add hook for marking article patrolled
4902 * Add UserRights hook, fires after a user's group memberships are changed
4905 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
4906 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
4907 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
4908 * Fix scaling of non-integer SVG unit sizes
4909 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small images on |thumb| without explicit size
4910 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
4911 large SVG images on image description page
4912 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
4913 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
4914 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
4915 * Added a limit to the size of image files which can be thumbnailed
4916 * (bug 3806) Gracefully fall back to client-side scaling on |thumb| image
4917 that passes $wgMaxImageArea
4918 * (bug 153) Adjust thumbnail size calculations to match consistently;
4919 patch by David Benbennick
4920 * (bug 4162) Add $wgThumbnailEpoch timestamp to force old thumbs to
4921 be rerendered on demand, sitewide
4922 * (bug 1850) Additional fixes so existing local and remote images
4923 get a blue link even if there's no local description page
4924 * Avoid FATAL ERROR when creating thumbnail of non-existing image
4925 * (bug 4207) Wrong image size when using 100x200px syntax to scale image up
4926 patch by David Benbennick
4927 * Don't delete thumbnails when refreshing exif metadata. This caused thumbs
4928 to vanish mysteriously from time to time for files that didn't have metadata.
4929 * (bug 4426) Add link to user_talk page on image pages
4930 * Support a custom convert command for thumbnailing. See DefaultSettings.php
4931 and the comments for $wgCustomConvertCommand, for more information.
4932 * UserCan hook now allows advisory return values, rather than mandatory ones.
4935 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
4936 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
4937 * Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
4938 * (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
4941 * Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
4942 * Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
4943 permissions, if said user exists
4944 * Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields
4945 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
4946 * Add basic check for session support in PHP and die if not present
4949 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert
4950 duplicate rows with the same id field)
4951 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
4952 different LocalSettings.php.
4953 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
4954 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
4955 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
4956 * Maintenance script to reassign edits from one user to another
4957 * Maintenance script to find and remove links to a given domain (cleanupSpam.php)
4958 * Fix --report interval option for dumpTextPass
4961 * Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
4962 * (bug 3141) Partial support for Breton language (thanks Fulup).
4963 * Support for venitian language
4964 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
4965 * Finnish date format was hardcoded, now implemented properly
4966 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
4967 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
4968 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
4969 * (bug 3177) Estonian date formats not implemented in LanguageEt.php
4970 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
4971 * (bug 3271) Updated LanguageNn.php for HEAD
4972 * Experimental feature to allow translation of block expiry times
4973 Implementation only for Finnish currently
4974 * (bug 3304) Language file for Croatian (LanguageHr.php)
4975 * (bug 2143) Update Vietnamese interface
4976 * (bug 3063) Remove some hardcodings from Hebrew localisation
4977 * (bug 3408) Bulgarian formatNum corrected
4978 * (bug 1512) Disable x-code interp on Esperanto URLs for now, it does more
4979 harm than good under current system by breaking incoming URLs with "ux".
4980 (Editing is not affected, just URLs.)
4981 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
4982 * Fix language name for dv
4983 * (bug 3503) Update LanguageSq.php from sq.wikipedia.org messages
4984 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
4985 * (bug 3334) Namespace changes for Polish
4986 * (bug 3580) Change default Dutch language file to more neutral
4987 * (bug 3656) LanguageHr.php - added convertPlural
4988 * (bug 3414) LanguageBe.php - added convertPlural
4989 * (bug 3163) Full translation of LanguageBr
4990 * (bug 3617) Update for portuguese language (pt)
4991 * Namespaces hacks on LanguagePl
4992 * (bug 3682) LanguageSr.php - added convertPlural
4993 * (bug 3694) LanguageTr.php update
4994 * (bug 3711) Removed invisible unicode characters from LanguageHu
4995 * (bug 2981) Linktrail for Tamil (ta)
4996 * (bug 3722) Update of Arabic language (ar) Namespace changes
4997 * Removed hardcoded Norwegian (no) project namespaces
4998 * (bug 2324) image for redirects should be without text and oriented according to content language
4999 * (bug 3666) Don't spew PHP warnings in prefs on unrecognized site language
5000 * (bug 3817) Use localized date formats in preferences; 'no preference' option
5001 localizable as 'datedefault' message. Tweaked lots of languages files...
5002 * (bug 2721) Regression: Use European number separators for vi: wikis
5003 * (bug 3961) minor languageDe changes
5004 * (bug 1984) LanguageKo.php (Korean) update
5005 * (bug 3804) update of LanguageWa.php file
5006 * (bug 3886) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
5007 * (bug 4020) Update namespaces for ms
5008 * (bug 3922) bidi embedding overrides on category links
5009 * (bug 4061) Update of Slovene namespace names (LanguageSl.php)
5010 * (bug 4064) LanguageDe comma changes
5011 * (bug 3922) Further tweaks to bidi overrides in category list for old
5012 versions of Safari and Konqueror
5013 * Fix custom namespaces on wikis set for Portuguese
5014 * (bug 4153) Fix block length localizations in Greek
5015 * (bug 3844) ab: av: ba: ce: & kv: now inherit from LanguageRu.php
5016 ii: & za: now inherit from LanguageZn_cn.php
5017 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
5018 * (bug 4192) Remove silly 'The Free Encyclopedia' default sitesubtitle
5019 * Use content-lang for sitenotice
5020 * (bug 4233) Update LanguageJa.php
5021 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
5022 * (bug 4108, 4336) Remove trailing whitespace from various messages, which
5023 mucks up message updating to create dupe entries
5024 * (bug 4389) Fix math options on zh-hk and zh-tw (but not localized)
5025 * (bug 4392) Update of LanguageSr.php
5026 * (bug 4382) Frisian numeric format
5027 * (bug 4424) Update for Spanish language (es) 100% messages translated
5028 * (bug 4425) Typos in Polish translation
5029 * (bug 4436) Update for Turkish language (tr)
5030 * (bug 4413) Update of Farsi language file (LanguageFa.php)
5031 * Update for LanguageSr (Serbian): magic words
5032 * (bug 137) MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning hardcoding
5033 * (bug 4457) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
5034 * convertPlural breakage fixed a little
5035 * (bug 4144) Support for Sudanese language (Basa Sunda)
5037 - Removed obsolote, badly or untranslated messages
5038 - Removed references to wikipedia/wikimedia etc in messages
5039 - Other cleanup, like removing html and javascript and extension calls
5040 - Removed hardcoded namespaces: Tt, Ms, Ia, Ga, Fo, Bn, Csb, He, Nv, Oc, Tlh
5041 - Removed some useless backwards compatibility hacks
5042 - Fixed formatnum on many languages
5043 * wgAmericanDates check produced incorrect results in languages that don't have
5045 * (bug 4548) Update for Portuguese language (pt): time format
5046 * (bug 4530) Use consistent name for Kurdish
5047 * Tweak default "upload disabled" text
5048 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
5049 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
5050 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
5051 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
5052 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
5053 * (bug 4615) Update for Portuguese language (pt)
5054 * Separated MessagesSl.php as the other languages.
5055 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yiddish for compatibility
5056 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from MessagesUk.php
5057 * (bug 5015) Update magic words translation in LanguageBe.php
5058 * (bug 4859) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
5059 * (bug 4788) One string for MessagesPl
5060 * Restriction types now use restriction-* messages instead of ui messages
5061 * (bug 4685) Slovenian LanguageSl.php hardcodes project namespace
5062 * (bug 5097) Fix Hungarian language (hu): thousands separator
5063 * (bug 5098) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
5064 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
5065 * (bug 5105) Magic words for LanguageAr.php
5066 * (bug 3993) Variants for Serbian language
5067 * Typo in English messages file
5068 * (bug 4114) Spacing in watchlist rows (in editing mode)
5069 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
5070 * (bug 4960) Add additional namespaces variants to Yi projects: Yiddish Wikinews fix
5071 * (bug 5357) Add the icon near the user name also in RTL interfaces
5072 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he)
5073 * (bug 4497,4704,5010) Added some new language codes.
5074 * (bug 5362) Piedmontese added
5075 * (bug 5349) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
5076 * (bug 3573) Finished full Greek translation: namespaces
5077 * (bug 5288) Initial localisation for Az
5078 * (bug 4361) Fix "allmessagesnotsupportedui" so it doesn't refer to nonexisting
5080 * Tweak wording of "allmessagesnotsupporteddb"
5083 * (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits
5084 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
5085 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
5086 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
5087 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
5088 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 5.1.0RC4
5089 * (bug 3797) Don't expand variables and sigs in comments
5090 * Allow parser cache on redirect targets
5091 * Run wikitext-escaping on plaintext sigs (no wiki markup, just name)
5092 * Check for unbalanced HTML tags on raw sigs (markup allowed, but show
5093 a warning in prefs and use default sig if not balanced)
5094 * Respect <noinclude> and <includeonly> during {{subst:}} expansion as well as
5096 * Support <includeonly> in templates loaded through preload= parameter
5097 * (bug 3979) Save correct {{REVISIONID}} into parser cache on edit
5098 * Substitute {{REVISIONID}} correctly in diff display
5099 * (bug 1850) Allow red-links on image pages linked with [[:image:foo]]
5100 * Fix XML validity checks in parser tests on PHP 5.1
5101 * (bug 4377) "[" is not valid in URLs
5102 * (bug 4453) fix for __TOC__ dollar-number breakage
5103 * Convert unnecessary URL escape codes in external links to their equivalent
5104 character before doing anything with them. This prevents certain kinds of
5105 spam filter evasion.
5106 * (bug 4783) : Fix for "{{ns:0}} does not render"
5107 * Improved support for interwiki transclusion
5108 * (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed.
5109 * (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables
5110 * (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish
5111 * Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}}
5112 etc. Registered via an interface similar to tag hooks.
5115 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
5116 * (bug 3076) Support MacBinary-encoded uploads from IE/Mac
5117 * (bug 2554) Tell users they are uploading too large file
5118 * Support for a license selection box on Special:Upload, configurable from MediaWiki:Licenses
5119 * Add 'reupload' and 'reupload-shared' permission keys to restrict new uploads
5120 overwriting existing files; default is the old behavior (allowed).
5123 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
5124 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
5125 * (bug 2613) Clear saved passwords from the form
5126 * IP privacy fix for blocklist search on autoblocks
5127 * Security fix for <math>
5128 * Security fix for tables
5129 * Security fix for Special:Upload license selection list
5130 * Add UploadVerification hook for custom file upload validation/security checks
5131 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
5132 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
5133 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
5134 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
5135 * Forbid usernames that can be interpreted as titles with namespaces, as that
5136 leads to hard-to-manage names.
5137 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
5138 * Add createpage and createtalk permission keys, allowing a quick
5139 switch to disable page creation for anonymous users.
5140 * (bug 675) Add page protection level for unregistered/new accounts
5141 * User::isNewbie now uses the registration date and $wgAutoconfirmAge
5142 * Add 'deletedhistory' permission key for ability to view deleted history
5143 list via Special:Undelete. Default is off, replicating the 1.5 behavior,
5144 but it can be turned back on for random users to replicate the previous
5146 * Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure
5147 * (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures
5148 * Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit
5149 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
5150 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
5151 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
5152 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
5153 * Blocked users can no longer roll back, change the protection of, or delete/undelete pages
5154 * Protect against spoofing of X-Forwarded-For header
5155 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input (fixed in 1.5rc3)
5156 * Remove deprecated $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol references; use User::isAllowed( 'patrol' )
5157 per bug 5282. Patch by Alan Harder.
5158 * Prevent registration/login with the username "MediaWiki default"
5161 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
5162 title and reason input boxes
5163 * (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages
5164 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
5165 * (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search
5166 * Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting
5167 $wgFilterRobotsWL = true.
5168 * Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured
5169 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
5170 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
5171 * (bug 2369) Add separate message for input box on Special:Prefixindex
5172 * (bug 3798) DoubleRedirects no longer has hard coded arrows
5173 * (bug 3803) Fix links on Special:Wantedcategories with miser mode off
5174 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
5175 * (bug 3807) Fix 'all' in namespaces drop-down on contribs, rc
5176 * Fail gracefully on invalid namespace in Special:Newpages
5177 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
5178 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
5179 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
5180 * (bug 4059) fix 'hide minor edits' on Recentchangeslinked
5181 * (bug 146) List number of category members in Special:Categories
5182 (patch by Joel Nothman)
5183 * (bug 4090) Fix diff links in Special:Recentchangeslinked
5184 * (bug 4093) '&bot=1' in Special:Contributions now propagate to other links
5185 * Fix display of old recentchanges records for page moves
5186 * (bug 360) Let Whatlinkshere track [[:image:foo]] links
5187 * (bug 3073) Keep search parameter on paging in Special:Newimages
5188 * Removed Special:Validate, it's been superseded by the Review extension
5189 * (bug 4359) red [[user:#id]] links generated in [[special:Log]]
5190 * (bug 1996) Special page to list redirects
5191 * (bug 4334) Add "watch" links to Special:Unwatchedpages
5192 * Generate target user page links in Special:Ipblocklist where appropriate
5193 (i.e. not an autoblock)
5194 * Generate link to talk page of the blocker in Special:Ipblocklist, move
5195 contribs. link of the target next to their name
5196 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
5197 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
5198 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
5199 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
5200 * Add block, block log and general log links to Special:Contributions
5201 * Add contributions link to block log items
5202 * Added optional "hide own edits" feature to Special:Recentchanges
5203 * (bug 5018) Anchors for each message in Special:Allmessages
5204 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
5205 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
5206 * (bug 4319) Don't show a "create account" link on the login form when
5207 account creation is disabled.
5208 * JavaScript filter for Special:Allmessages
5209 * (bug 3047) Don't mention talk pages on Special:Movepage when there isn't one
5210 * Show links to user page, talk page and contributions page on Special:Newpages
5211 * Special:Export can now export a list of all contributors to an article (off by default)
5212 * (bug 5372) Add number of files to Special:Statistics
5213 * (bug 2871) Links to talk pages in watchlist editing view
5214 * (bug 5385) Allow hiding anonymous edits on Special:Recentchanges
5215 * (bug 2544) Illogical error reporting order in Special:Userlogin
5216 * (bug 5409) Hide "show/hide patrolled edits" in Special:Recentchanges if patrolling
5218 * (bug 5447) Convert first letter of username to uppercase before searching in Special:Listusers
5219 * (bug 759) Wrap redirects on the watchlist editing page in a span, class "watchlistredir"
5220 * (bug 1862) Namespace filtering in watchlists
5223 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
5224 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
5225 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
5226 * (bug 2323) Remove "last" tabindex from history page
5227 * (bug 3116) Division by zero on [[Image:Foo.png|123x123px|]]
5228 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
5229 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
5230 as a proxy debugging aid
5231 * (bug 3170) Page Title failed to obey MediaWiki:Pagetitle.
5232 wikititlesuffix was removed
5233 * Add ability to break off certain debug topics into additional log files;
5234 use $wgDebugLogGroups to configure and wfDebugLog() to log.
5235 * Edit conflict on recreation of deleted page
5236 * (bug 3216) Don't show empty warning page when no warnings.
5237 * (bug 3218) Use proper quoting on history Compare Revisions button
5238 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage [for rc future]
5239 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
5240 * Remove "info" editing toolbar that was shown in browsers which do not
5241 fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing.
5242 * Don't override edit conflict suppression on section edits; section merging
5243 should provide the expected transparency here and fits usage patterns better.
5244 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
5245 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
5246 * Fix regressions in ChangesList traditional layout
5247 * Fix edit on double-click for move-protected pages in Classic skin
5248 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
5249 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
5250 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
5251 * Add options to dumpBackup.php for making split/partial dumps by page id
5252 * Added filter options, compression piping, and multiple output streams for
5254 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
5255 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
5256 * Added separate noarticletext and newarticletext messages for logged in and anon users.
5257 * (bug 3332) Installation now uses Monobook, validates, plus usability improvements.
5258 * (bug 3660) Update diff3 detection to work with Windows/Cygwin
5259 * (bug 2330) Don't do funny thinks with "links" in MediaWiki:Undeletedtext
5260 * Two-pass data dump for friendliness to the DB (--stub, then dumpTextPass.php)
5261 * Data dump 'prefetch' mode to read normalized text from a prior dump
5262 (requires PHP 5, XMLReader extension)
5263 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
5264 * (bug 2938) Update MediaWiki:Exporttext to be more general
5266 * Fix wfMsg*() replacements; args containing literal $[2-9] were wiped
5267 * Added @import for [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to all skins
5268 * Edit box now remembers scrollbar position on preview
5269 * (bug 3816) Throw edit conflict instead of fatal error when a page is
5270 moved or deleted during section edit
5271 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
5272 * (bug 3291) 'last' diff link for last history line when not at end
5273 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
5274 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
5275 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
5276 * (bug 3852) "Redirected from" link no longer obscured on double-redirects
5277 * changed directory hierarchy in images/math/. System upgrades from old to
5278 new hierarchy on the fly.
5279 * (bug 3487) Fix category edit preview with preview-on-bottom
5280 * (bug 918) Search index incorrectly joined words at == headings ==
5281 * (bug 3877) Render math images into temp directory, then move to hashed
5282 subdir so you can render new math images and have them work
5283 * (bug 2392) Fix Atom items content type, upgrade to Atom 1.0
5284 * Allow $wgFeedCacheTimeout of 0 to disable feed caching
5285 * Fix WebRequest::getRequestURL() to strip off the host bits squid prepends
5286 * Require POST for action=purge, to stop bots from purging the cache
5287 * Added local message cache feature ($wgLocalMessageCache), to reduce bandwidth
5288 requirements to the memcached server.
5289 * (bug 3562) for go search, try Caps-Variants-Broken-At-Non-Whitespace
5290 * (bug 2569) Use PATH_SEPARATOR instead of trying to guess based on
5291 DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (was wrong on NetWare)
5292 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
5293 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
5294 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
5295 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
5296 * (bug 3999) Change atom 1.0 feed id; had been unnecessarily complex due to
5297 unclear language in the spec. Now using the URL, same as the permalink,
5298 which someone else will probably whine about because it's not 'perma'
5299 enough or something.
5300 * (bug 4014) Fix include mode for Allpages on small page sets
5301 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
5302 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
5303 * Changed mail form to have a bigger message entry box (like for editing
5305 * Fix ulimit parameters for wfShellExec when memory_limit is specified in 'm'
5306 * (bug 2111) Collapsable exif metadata table, clean up display
5307 * Reduce fractions in display of exif exposure time
5308 * (bug 4048) Optional footer link to site privacy policy
5309 * Don't die() when update.php reaches the end of the warning count
5310 * (bug 1915) Fix edit links when 'direction' used with 'oldid';
5311 using revision ID reported via OutputPage; Skin::editUrlOptions()
5312 * Remove obsolete 'redirect=no' on some edit links
5313 * Include oldid for the second revision on edit link on diff view
5314 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
5315 * (bug 4100, 3049) Add 'edittools' message to hold edit tools, put it
5316 on Special:Upload as well as edit, rearrange edit page pieces a bit.
5317 Copyright warning now above the buttons to ensure it's visible,
5318 template list at the bottom so it can grow.
5319 * Optional summary parameter to action=rollback, for user javascript
5320 * (bug 4167) Fix regression caused by patch for bug 153
5321 * (bug 4169) Use $wgLegalTitleChars in pipe trick conversions
5322 * (bug 4170) Decode HTML character escapes in sort key
5323 * (bug 4201) Fix user-talk mode for Enotif, and general code cleanup
5324 * (bug 4214) Skip redundant action text inserts into the HTML <title>
5325 * (bug 4212) Skip redundant meta-robots tag for default settings
5326 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links in Nostalgia skin
5327 * (bug 1600) Trigger edit conflict on duplicate section=new submissions
5328 * (bug 4001) Use local variables properly in wikibits.js akeytt()
5329 * Fix regression: old version missing from edit links on CSS/JS pages
5330 * (bug 3211) Include Date, To mail headers when using PEAR::Mail
5331 * (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification
5332 mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of
5333 a raw string to abstract things a level.
5334 * Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php
5335 * Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output
5336 sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension
5337 * (bug 349) Fix for some numeric differences not being highlighted
5338 patch by Andrius Ramanauskas
5339 * (bug 4298) Include rc_id on enhanced RC singleton diff links for patrolling
5340 * Did some refactoring on ChangesList.php merging dupe code
5341 * (bug 1586) Fix interwiki generator for wikimedia obscure domains
5342 * (bug 3493) Mark edits patrolled when they are reverted
5343 patch by Leon Planken
5344 * Removed experimental Amethyst skin from default set
5345 * Upgrade old skin preferences properly at Special:Preferences
5346 (used to spontaneously switch to Classic skin for old numeric pref records)
5347 * (bug 3424) Update page_touched for category members on category page creation
5348 * Log views show message when no matches
5349 * Fix raw sitenotice display on database error
5350 * Fix autoconfirm check for old accounts
5351 * (bug 4368) Don't show useless empty preview on new section creation
5352 * Don't show useless empty preview on new page creation
5353 * (bug 4411) Fix messages diff link for classic skin
5354 * (bug 4385) Separate parser cache entries for non-editing users, so section
5355 edit links don't vanish / appear unwanted on protected pages
5356 * (bug 2726, 3397) Fix [[Special:]] and [[:Image]] links in action=render
5357 * (bug 4419) Remove obsolete magnify.png.old
5358 * Removed $wgUseCategoryMagic option, categories are now enabled unconditionally
5359 * (bug 3318) UI workarounds for disabled items in license selector
5360 MSIE/Win: items now grayed out, JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked
5361 Safari: JS will revert to 'non selected' if clicked (but not gray)
5362 MSIE/Mac: indented items now visible (JS hack)
5363 * (bug 714) "plainlinks" class issues in IE, Opera
5364 * (bug 4317) Inconsistent "broken redirects" messages
5365 * Default interface text for "selflinks" tweaked
5366 * (bug 3194) default implementation of translateBlockExpiry
5367 which uses ipboptions
5368 * (bug 4446) $wgExportAllowHistory option to explicitly disable history in
5369 Special:Export form, 'exportnohistory' message to translate live hack.
5370 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
5371 * (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links)
5372 * $wgParserCacheExpireTime added
5373 * Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed
5374 * Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source
5375 size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage.
5376 * Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects
5377 * Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage
5378 * Improve "upload disabled" notice
5379 * Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php
5380 and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object
5381 * (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output
5382 HTML on final output (cached or not)
5383 * Avoid PHP notice on command-line scripts if empty argument is passed ('')
5384 * (bug 4571) Partial fix hack for {{fulllurl:}} in action=render
5385 * (bug 3502) Bowtie symbol for TeX
5386 * (bug 4000) Support for \textstyle et al. in <math>
5387 * (bug 1663) support color in TeX formulas
5388 * (bug 2026) missing glue around \not= (TeX)
5389 * (bug 4576) Missing '>' broke license selector's first option in IE, Opera
5390 * Override $wgLocaltimezone in parser tests for us outside Iceland and UK
5391 * Fix extra whitespace at end of Wiki.php, DESTROYS XML OUTPUT
5392 * Remove redundant 'echo' statements from MonoBook.php
5393 * (bug 1103) Fix up redirect handling for images, categories
5394 Redirects are now followed from the top-level, outside of the Article
5395 content loading and viewing, for clarity and consistency.
5396 * (bug 4104) 'OutputPageBeforeHTML' hook to postprocess article HTML on
5397 page view (comes after parser cache, if used). Patch by ThomasV.
5398 * Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5
5399 if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy.
5400 * Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers.
5401 * Remove obsolete killthread.php
5402 * Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code
5403 to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error.
5404 * Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin
5405 for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell
5406 * Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs
5407 * Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks.
5408 Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5
5409 * (bug 4482) Include move comment on the null edit as well as the redirect
5410 * (bug 3990) Use existing session name if session.auto_start is on
5411 Fixes checks for open sessions, such as the cookie warning on login.
5412 Patch by Zbigniew Braniecki.
5413 * Add cache-safe alternate sitenotice for anonymous users. (MediaWiki:Anonnotice)
5414 This is displayed instead of the regular sitenotice, if it exists. If not, the
5415 regular sitenotice shows. If that doesn't exist, the value of $wgSiteNotice is used,
5416 and if that's null, then nothing is shown.
5417 * Spit the generated LocalSettings code out during the installer as an aid
5418 to debugging issues. (Keep this?)
5419 * Use __FILE__ to form path in new LocalSettings.php, so it stays accurate
5420 when the directory is relocated for typical usage.
5421 * Auto-update $wgCacheEpoch when LocalSettings.php changes on new installs.
5422 For typical usage this will be a light burden and should reduce confusion
5423 when the configuration is edited.
5424 * Fix $wgCacheEpoch's effect on client-side caching.
5425 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
5426 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
5427 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
5429 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
5430 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
5431 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
5432 * Add ".deps.php" include-file preloaders for some dynamically-loaded
5433 language and skin classes. Should help with the broken base-class
5434 problem under PHP 5 with APC as opcode cache. See details:
5435 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033660.html
5436 * Small changes to tabs in Monobook skin c/o Chris Ware
5437 * (bug 4679) Work around buggy basename() function in PHP5, which breaks
5438 uploads of files starting with multibyte characters on Linux.
5439 wfBaseName() doesn't suffer this bug, and understands backslash on
5440 both Unix and Windows.
5441 * (bug 3603) headscripts variable not hooked up to MonoBook skin
5442 * Allow local cdb-based interwiki cache
5443 * Use the "block", not the "protect" permission, when determining whether to
5444 show a "block user" link in the toolbox
5445 * Fix backup dump text prefetch for XMLReader constant changes in PHP 5.1
5446 * Suppress useless percentage indicator on output from 7za during dumps
5447 * (bug 4633) Add (previous 200) (next 200) also above catlinks
5448 * (bug 4686) Fix regression where ?diff=0&oldid=0 caused fatal error on
5449 pages with only one revision. Fixes message diff link on first edit.
5450 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
5451 * Do not check lag on external storage servers
5452 * Do not tidy interface messages (unless full tidy is set)
5453 * Do not trust equality propagation and give more hints to MySQL
5454 optimizer for revision fetches (avoids index scans)
5455 * Use revision rate for ETA in dump generation; it tends to be more stable
5456 than the per-page count for full-history dumps.
5457 * Include timestamp in wfDebugLog breakouts
5458 * (bug 4469) Namespace-specific notice to be displayed below site-notice
5459 Edit messages like "MediaWiki:Namespacenotice-" plus namespace name
5460 which is blank for main namespace, or like e.g. "User_talk"
5461 * Adjust user login/creation form hooks to work with a captcha plugin
5462 * (bug 1284) Inline styles for diffs in Recent Changes RSS/Atom feeds
5463 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
5464 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
5465 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
5466 * Fix extra namespace for Bulgarian
5467 * (bug 4303) Add $wgFavicon to change the shorticon icon link from
5468 the default /favicon.ico or disable it (if set to false)
5469 * (bug 3347) strip linebreaks in math error source
5470 * (bug 4841) Warning for non-logged-in edits
5471 * (bug 4867) Leave invalid EXIF date fields unformatted instead of
5472 showing a bogus current timestamp
5473 * Reset $wgActionPaths during parser test; corrects some false failures
5474 in the automated test report.
5475 * (bug 4875) Define a div containing the shared image description
5476 * (bug 4860) Expose Title->userCan() as Hooks
5477 * (bug 4828) Fix genitive month-name variable for cs, pl, uk
5478 * (bug 4842) Fix 'show number of watching users' with enhanced RC
5479 * (bug 4889) Fix image talk namespace for Tamil
5480 * (bug 4147) Added cleanupWatchlist.php to clear out bogus watchlist entries
5481 * (partial bug 3456) Disable auto redirect to Main Page after account creation
5482 * (bug 4824) Separate out IE7 CSS compat hacks, fix for RTL pages
5483 * Added support for wikidiff2 and similar external diff engines.
5484 * Allow cookies to be shared between multiple wikis with a shared user database
5485 * Blocking some Unicode whitespace characters in usernames. Should check
5486 if some or all should be blocked from all page titles.
5487 * Unknown log types no longer throw notices everywhere in RecentChanges
5488 * (bug 4502, 5017) Don't render potentially hostile deleted page contents
5489 on Special:Undelete by default; show source, with an optional preview.
5490 The revisions list no longer shows the latest text by default, so it can
5491 still be operated if the text is hostile.
5492 * (bug 5013) Check for existence on "return to" links
5493 * Removed trailing whitespace on a bunch more messages.
5494 * Fix missing bad title check in Special:Booksources
5495 * Remove empty booksources string in fy
5496 * Avoid corrupting <gallery> inside <!-- comment -->
5497 * Remove legacy PHPTal code, hasn't been maintained in ages.
5498 * Tweak Userlogin include order for APC issue
5499 * Don't try to link to current page on protection tab
5500 * More exact checking in Title::equals() to fox moves of numerically similar
5501 page titles. (Odd hex title bug on 64-bit.)
5502 * Fix explicit s-maxage=0 on raw pages; should help with proxy issues in
5503 generated stylesheets... hopefully...
5504 * (bug 4685) More fixes for Slovenian project namespace
5505 * Fixed and enhanced a little the Live Preview, which had been broken for some time
5506 * Added article size limit, $wgMaxArticleSize
5507 * (bug 4974) Don't follow redirected talk page on "new messages" link
5508 * (bug 4970) Make category paging limits configurable
5509 * (bug 4535) Warn user when editing CSS or JS subpage of a skin that doesn't exist
5510 * Make Live Preview an user preference, still controllable by the global variable
5511 * Rename the stub LanguageAls / LanguageGem_alsation to LanguageGsw to follow
5512 updated language code assignments
5513 * (bug 5081) Remove bogus fix for invalid characters in links which simply
5514 broke use of legitimate multiple whitespace characters in bracketed link.
5515 * (bug 4838) Add relative oldids (prev, next, cur) for raw pages
5517 * (bug 5086) Force image resize dimensions on ImageMagick, as for instance
5518 "-resize 100x35!"; some thumbs were off due to differences in rounding and
5519 would be generated smaller than expected.
5520 * (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights
5521 * Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page
5522 * (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment
5523 with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field)
5524 * (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off
5525 * (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector
5526 * (bug 5152) Proper HTML escaping on subpage breadcrumbs
5527 * (bug 4855) Section edit links now have the section name in the title attribute.
5528 * (bug 2115) Support shift-selecting multiple checkboxes with JavaScript.
5529 * (bug 5161) Don't try to load template list for nonexistent pages
5530 * (bug 5228) Workaround for broken LanguageConverter title overrides; avoid
5531 unnecessary hidden UI work when watch/unwatch is performed on edit
5532 * Fixed bogus master fallback in external storage
5533 * (bug 5246) Add speak:none to "hiddenStructure" class in main.css
5534 * Further work on rev_deleted; changed to a bitfield with several data-hiding
5535 options. Not yet ready for production use; Special:Revisiondelete is
5536 incomplete, and the flags are not preserved across page deletion/undeletion.
5537 To try it; add the 'deleterevision' permission to a privileged group.
5538 * (bug 5270) Fix broken linktrail for br, cv, fr, hr, nn, oc, ta, wa
5539 * Add a clickable contribs link in user tool links (rc, watchlist, diff view)
5540 to see how people like it. (There was one in the old hacked-up diff view.)
5541 * (bug 5236) Load wikibits.js before site-customized javascript
5542 * (bug 4119) Workaround for <nowiki> following link in Walloon; remove capitals
5543 from linktrail, as they're not used anywhere else.
5544 * (bug 4781) Output links with the percent-encoding they're supplied with;
5545 save the normalization for internal link storage. The normalization is a bit
5546 buggy and can make incorrect foldings in the query string and such, so isn't
5547 reliable beyond the hostname where it's used for the spam bulk checker.
5548 * Don't URL-decode in the title attribute for URL links; it can produce false
5549 results that don't code back to their original values.
5550 * (bug 4611) Add user preference (default on) to add new pages to creators's watchlist
5551 * (bug 5286) Fix regression in display of missing/bad revision IDs
5552 * (bug 4729) Add user preference that marks a user's edits as patrolled if user is able to
5553 * (bug 4630) Add user preference to prompt users when entering blank edit summaries
5554 * Added optional suggest feature for the search box. Set wgUseAjax to true to
5556 * (bug 5277) Use audio/midi rather that audio/mid
5557 * (bug 5410) Use namespace name when a custom namespace's nstab-NS message is nonexistent
5558 * (bug 5432) Fix inconsistencies in cookie names when using table prefixes
5559 * Additional protections against HTML breakage in table parsing
5560 * (bug 5355) Include skin name and style JS settings in page source;
5561 fixes regression where Opera 6/7 and KHTML CSS fixes weren't applied
5562 when wikibits.js was moved up before user JS inclusion.
5563 * Added $wgColorErrors: if set, database error messages will be highlighted
5564 when running command-line scripts in a Unix terminal.
5565 * (bug 5195) rebuildrecentchanges.php works again; Database::insertSelect now
5566 has a parameter for select options.
5567 * Fix updateSearchIndex.php for new schema
5568 * Fix bogus "filename too short" error when uploading files with a period in the base
5569 name, e.g. "Mr. Zee.png"
5570 * (bug 2139) Show page title in subtitle when viewing "read only" page
5571 * (bug 5452) Update language name for Cree
5577 == MediaWiki 1.5.8 ==
5581 MediaWiki 1.5.8 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
5583 A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw
5584 HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks.
5586 Some minor UI fixes were also made, see the change log at the bottom of
5590 == MediaWiki 1.5.7 ==
5594 MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release.
5596 Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug
5597 affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root
5598 password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the
5599 installer would not only create the new account but also change the root
5600 password to be equal to the password of the new account.
5602 Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back
5603 manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see:
5604 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html
5606 This version includes fixes for compatibility with Internet Explorer 7
5607 beta 2, and various other bugs; see the full changelog at the end of
5611 == MediaWiki 1.5.6 ==
5615 MediaWiki 1.5.6 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
5617 A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop
5618 if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this
5619 would cause the script to fail after PHP's 30-second failsafe timeout.
5621 Some improvements have been made to the installer which should make
5622 installation possible on a system with a broken MySQL "root" account.
5624 For several other minor fixes, see the complete changelog at the end
5628 == MediaWiki 1.5.5 ==
5632 MediaWiki 1.5.5 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
5634 Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added
5635 to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft
5636 Windows operating systems.
5638 Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types
5639 (such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure
5640 that malicious .wmf files can't be uploaded with a fake extension;
5641 such files could put visitors to the site at risk.
5643 For more details on this, see:
5644 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
5646 Additionally, a maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts.php has been added;
5647 this replaces an older Perl script which had not been updated for the new
5651 == MediaWiki 1.5.4 ==
5655 MediaWiki 1.5.4 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
5657 A hardcoded internal placeholder string has been replaced with a random
5658 one. This closes a hole where security checks in inline style attributes
5659 could be bypassed, injecting JavaScript code that could execute in
5660 Microsoft Internet Explorer.
5662 Other browsers would not be vulnerable.
5664 Several minor fixes are included in this release, most notably a fix
5665 to clear the "you have new messages" flag properly for usernames
5666 containing spaces when e-mail notification is enabled.
5668 See the changelog at the end of the release notes for a full list of
5672 == MediaWiki 1.5.3 ==
5676 MediaWiki 1.5.3 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
5678 Validation of the user language option was broken by a code change in
5679 May 2005, opening the possibility of remote code execution as this
5680 parameter is used in forming a class name dynamically created with
5683 The validation has been corrected in this version. All prior 1.5 release
5684 and prelease versions are affected; 1.4 and earlier and not affected.
5686 Additionally several bugs have been fixed; see the changelog later in
5687 this file for a complete list.
5690 == MediaWiki 1.5.2 ==
5694 MediaWiki 1.5.2 is a bugfix maintenance release.
5696 A change in PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC broke handling of extension and
5697 <pre> sections, causing garbage data to be inserted in output and saved
5698 edits. This version works around the change.
5700 Several other glitches with MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0.5 were also fixed;
5701 see the change log below for a complete list.
5704 == MediaWiki 1.5.1 ==
5708 MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a
5709 recommended upgrade for all installations.
5711 This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style sanitation
5712 which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
5713 Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may be vulnerable to
5714 XSS injections on prior versions; users of standards-compliant browsers
5717 Major fixes include:
5718 * Image pages work again with resizing disabled
5719 * Works in MySQL 5.0 strict mode
5721 There is experimental support in this release for explicitly declaring
5722 the UTF-8 charset in the database; this has been tested with MySQL 5.0.15
5723 but should work on 4.1 as well.
5725 IMPORTANT: Changing this setting on an existing wiki may produce interesting
5726 data corruption, depending on server configuration. Page contents should,
5727 usually, be unaffected, but page titles and other items may be. Limitations
5728 in MySQL's Unicode support mean that characters outside the BMP cannot be used
5729 in page titles or various other fields when using this mode.
5731 Table definitions are in maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql, and the runtime
5732 option to send 'SET NAMES utf8' is set by $wgDBmysql5 = true.
5734 (MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on these
5735 versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is blissfully
5740 == MediaWiki 1.5.0 final ==
5744 MediaWiki 1.5.0 is the new stable release branch of MediaWiki, and is
5745 recommended for all new installations.
5747 Any wikis running a 1.5 beta or release candidate are strongly recommended
5748 to upgrade to the final release, which includes a number of bug fixes and
5749 a security fix for CSS bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
5751 IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet?
5752 Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions
5753 prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is
5754 triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.
5757 === What's new in 1.5? ===
5760 The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better
5761 use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up
5762 rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories.
5764 Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require
5765 some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend
5766 changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily.
5769 The current revision of a page now has a permanent 'oldid' number assigned
5770 immediately, and the id numbers are now preserved across deletion/undeletion.
5771 A permanent reference to the current revision of a page is now just a matter
5772 of going to the 'history' tab and copying the first link in the list.
5775 Renames of pages are now recorded in Special:Log and the page history.
5776 A handy revert link is available from the log for sysops.
5779 Ever lost track of what you'd done so far during an edit? A 'Show diff'
5780 button on the edit page now makes it easy to remember.
5783 It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct
5784 from the original filename on your disk.
5786 An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page.
5788 More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure
5789 on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on
5790 the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module.
5792 If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render
5793 them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several
5794 external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options.
5797 There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable
5798 groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only
5799 accessible to certain groups.
5801 For details see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights
5804 User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation
5805 first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses.
5807 Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail
5811 A somewhat experimental interface for hooking in an external editor
5812 application is included.
5815 A bunch of stuff we forgot to mention.
5818 === What's gone? ===
5821 Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for
5822 some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode.
5823 This is no longer supported.
5825 You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's
5826 "view source"; look for a line like this:
5828 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
5830 If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1,
5831 you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding
5832 any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.)
5835 Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema
5836 clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields).
5838 MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should
5839 very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support
5840 will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release.
5843 These tools were, ironically enough, not really maintained. This special
5844 page has been removed; insofar as some of its pieces were useful and haven't
5845 already been supplanted by other special pages they should be rewritten in
5846 an efficient and safe manner in the future.
5852 Wikis in Latin-1 encoding are no longer supported; only Unicode UTF-8.
5853 A new option $wgLegacyEncoding is provided to allow on-the-fly recoding of
5854 old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need
5855 to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate
5856 this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php.
5858 The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so
5859 it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations.
5862 The text entries of deleted pages are no longer removed from the main
5863 text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases,
5864 you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available
5865 as maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
5867 For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia,
5868 see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
5871 The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date. PostgreSQL
5872 support may return in later releases, pending appropriate patches.
5875 Some users may encounter installation problems with MySQL 4.1 or higher
5876 due to strange charset encoding / collation configurations. Try setting
5877 to 'latin1' or 'utf8' if you encounter problems.
5881 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 4 ==
5885 MediaWiki 1.5rc4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
5886 It fixes compatibility with PHP 5.1, and corrects two cross-site scripting
5889 * <math> tags were handled incorrectly when TeX rendering support is off,
5890 as in the default configuration.
5891 * Extension or <nowiki> sections in Wiki table syntax could bypass HTML
5892 style attribute restrictions for cross-site scripting attacks against
5893 Microsoft Internet Explorer
5895 Wikis where the optional math support has been *enabled* are not vulnerable
5896 to the first, but are vulnerable to the second.
5900 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 3 ==
5904 MediaWiki 1.5rc3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
5905 It fixes several major problems in 1.5rc2:
5907 * Fixed a cross-site scripting injection in the search form
5908 (broken since 1.5beta1)
5910 * Fixed upgrades from 1.4 database schema
5911 (broken since 1.5rc2)
5913 1.3 and 1.4 releases are not vulnerable to the XSS bug, but anyone
5914 running an earlier 1.5 beta or release candidate should upgrade
5918 == MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 2 ==
5922 MediaWiki 1.5rc2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
5923 Numerous bug fixes since last beta, plus a security fix; see change
5924 log below for full details.
5926 A flaw in the interaction between extensions and HTML attribute
5927 sanitization was discovered which could allow unauthorized use
5928 of offsite resources in style sheets, and possible exploitation
5929 of a JavaScript injection feature on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
5931 This version expands the returned text and properly checks it
5934 A 1.5rc1 release was mistakenly made from the incorrect source code
5935 branch; 1.5rc2 is identical to the actual 1.5rc1 in revision control
5936 except for version number.
5939 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 ==
5943 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
5944 A number of bugs have been fixed since beta 3; see the full changelist below.
5947 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 ==
5951 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release
5952 series, with a security update over beta 2.
5954 Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could
5955 be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a
5956 maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are
5957 recommended to upgrade to this release.
5959 Vulnerable versions:
5960 * 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3
5961 * 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6
5962 * 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable
5964 This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates.
5965 See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list.
5969 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 ==
5973 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
5974 While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point,
5975 third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release
5976 on a public site without closely following additional development.
5978 Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to
5979 upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including
5980 a couple of HTML and SQL injections.
5982 This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and
5983 a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks.
5985 Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades
5986 from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and
5987 configuration file changes.
5989 Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool,
5990 maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
5991 These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able
5992 to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database
5993 and compression format.
5996 == MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 ==
6000 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 is a preview release, pretty much feature complete,
6001 of the new 1.5 release series. There are several known and likely a number
6002 of unknown bugs; it is not recommended to use this release in a production
6003 environment but would be recommended for testing in mind of an upcoming
6006 A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases,
6007 including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings.
6008 See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior
6009 configuration settings for the new system.
6013 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 ==
6017 MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 includes a lot of bug fixes, feature merges,
6018 and a security update.
6020 Incorrect handling of page template inclusions made it possible to
6021 inject JavaScript code into HTML attributes, which could lead to
6022 cross-site scripting attacks on a publicly editable wiki.
6024 Vulnerable releases and fix:
6025 * 1.5 prerelease: fixed in 1.5alpha2
6026 * 1.4 stable series: fixed in 1.4.5
6027 * 1.3 legacy series: fixed in 1.3.13
6028 * 1.2 series no longer supported; upgrade to 1.4.5 strongly recommended
6031 == MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 1 ==
6035 This is a testing preview release, being put out mainly to aid testers in
6036 finding installation bugs and other major problems. It is strongly recommended
6037 NOT to run a live production web site on this alpha release.
6039 ** WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH **
6040 ** TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH, GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE **
6041 ** INNUENDO INTO YOUR C.V. RIGHT BEFORE A JOB INTERVIEW! **
6042 ** DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE. **
6045 === Smaller changes since 1.4 ===
6047 Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things:
6049 * 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
6050 * support for external editors for files and wiki pages:
6051 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors
6052 * Schema reworking: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
6053 * (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit
6054 * (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
6055 * (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
6056 * (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
6057 * (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
6058 * (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
6059 * (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month
6060 * (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see:
6061 http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
6062 * (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database
6063 revision id, useful for proper citation.
6064 * (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
6065 * (bug 2064) Configurable JavaScript mimetype with $wgJsMimeType
6066 * (bug 2084) Fixed a regular expression in includes/Title.php that was accepting invalid syntax like #REDIRECT [[foo] in redirects
6067 * It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
6068 * No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
6069 * What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
6070 * Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
6071 * Language conversion support for category pages
6072 * $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
6073 * Special:Movepage can now take paramaters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move
6074 (used to just be able to take paramaters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
6075 * (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one has edited the article.
6076 * (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail.
6077 * (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation
6081 === Changes since 1.5alpha1 ===
6083 * (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category to
6084 file description from upload page (previously it would be set to
6085 "Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging)
6086 * (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable through
6087 the MediaWiki namespace on the MediaWiki:navbar page.
6088 * (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable
6089 * (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded files
6090 including virus checks using external programs.
6091 * (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab
6092 * (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization, update namespaces
6093 * (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs" to "Limburgs
6094 * (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in <div dir='ltr'> in order
6095 to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis.
6096 * (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute
6097 * (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization
6098 * (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message
6099 * (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases
6100 * (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed
6101 * (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for "sharedupload" media
6102 * (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form
6103 * (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for <td> and <th>
6104 * (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now
6105 * (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests
6106 * (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation
6107 * (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install
6108 * Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates, {{msg: is
6109 now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent()
6110 * Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries
6111 * HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up
6112 multiple-revision pulls
6113 * Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of
6114 copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub reference
6115 records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields. Requires
6116 that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields are migrated
6117 into the main text store.
6118 * Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by
6119 default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason)
6120 * dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with current
6121 revisions only or complete histories.
6122 * The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved word in
6123 SQL which caused some inconveniances.
6124 * New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid, mov, o,
6125 ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on the KDE
6127 * Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0'
6128 * Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Íslenzka"
6129 * The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation
6130 * Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of
6131 admnistrators out of normal users.
6132 * links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce pain
6133 dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages.
6134 * Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater.
6135 * Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits
6136 (somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached)
6137 * (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled
6138 * (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image.
6139 * Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema
6140 * Remove linkscc table code, no longer used.
6141 * (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text
6142 instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation.
6143 * Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once.
6144 * Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single function
6145 that does both numeric and named chars: Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences
6146 * Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions
6147 * Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements
6148 * (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move
6149 * (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save;
6150 leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview.
6151 * (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list
6152 * (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title from the watchlist
6153 * Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces.
6154 * (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments
6155 * (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags
6156 * (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's external
6157 LDAP authentication plugin
6158 * (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging
6160 === Changes since 1.5alpha2 ===
6162 * (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching
6163 * (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages
6164 * (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts
6165 * (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set
6166 * (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning
6167 * (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute zone,
6168 with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304)
6169 * Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for <hr> and <br>
6170 * Changed user_groups format quite a bit.
6171 * (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line
6172 * (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move
6173 * (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links
6174 * (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking
6175 * (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a possible
6176 version conflict is detected
6177 * (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes
6178 * (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1
6179 when the default charset is set to utf8
6180 * (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if
6181 $wgEmailAuthentication is false.
6182 * (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings
6183 when a template with a gallery was used.
6184 * Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery
6185 * (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!)
6186 * Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact
6187 * Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all groups
6188 when searching for a specific group and can't be split across pages
6189 * (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank link
6190 for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files.
6191 * (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount
6192 * (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser
6193 * (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file
6194 * (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special page
6196 * (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation
6197 * A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath
6198 * A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName
6199 * A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in the image table
6200 * Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_"
6201 * Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary
6202 * badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages
6203 * Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format
6204 * 'developer' group deprecated by default
6205 * Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check
6206 * Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import
6207 * (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links
6208 * (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke too many
6209 things for the current parser to handle cleanly
6210 * (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file
6211 * Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to
6212 be forgotten between submits
6213 * Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
6214 * (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to separate it from
6215 "Show preview" and "Show changes"
6216 * Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to
6217 harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
6218 * The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off by default
6219 and can be turned back on by setting $wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value.
6220 * Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail, replacing
6221 the factually inaccurate text that was there.
6222 * (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again
6223 * (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext
6224 * (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php
6225 * (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who don't
6226 realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted printable page.
6227 * Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems
6228 * Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA)
6229 * (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation
6230 * (bug 2506, 2512) Updated the Nynorsk translation
6231 * (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup UPGRADE
6232 documentation about edit and read whitelists.
6233 * (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update
6234 * Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's
6235 * (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page
6236 * Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension
6237 writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension
6239 * Serialized user objects now checked for versioning
6240 * Fix for interwiki link regression
6241 * Printable link shorter in monobook
6242 * Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script
6243 * (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled
6245 == Changes since 1.5beta1 ==
6247 * (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to
6248 Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski))
6249 * Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace()
6250 * Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php
6251 * Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave
6252 * (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks
6253 * Fix paging on Special:Contributions
6254 * (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab
6255 * (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page
6256 * Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
6257 * Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
6258 * (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image
6259 * (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage
6260 * Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave
6261 * Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
6262 * (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit
6263 * Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user
6264 agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was
6265 not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of
6267 * Moved the user name / password validity checking from
6268 LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions,
6269 User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do
6270 these checks without rewriting code.
6271 * Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-'
6272 * Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a
6274 * upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization
6275 * Fix namespaces in category list.
6276 * Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields
6277 * Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now
6278 * (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused
6279 the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off.
6280 * (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size
6281 * Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled
6282 * Don't show old debug messages in watchlist
6283 * (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links
6284 * (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times
6285 * Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert'
6286 status between next/previous buttons.
6287 * Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar
6288 * (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list
6289 * (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages
6290 * (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries
6291 for uploaded files that don't have them
6292 * (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling
6293 * (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last
6294 page in the article history pager.
6295 * Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page
6296 * (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere
6297 * (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list
6298 * (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page
6299 * (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision
6300 * Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets
6301 * Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4
6302 * (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit
6303 * Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage
6304 * HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first
6305 * (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set
6306 Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view.
6307 * (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as
6308 subpage parent links) on current-diff view.
6309 * (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for
6310 categories only if the page does not exist.
6311 * (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers
6312 * (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection
6313 * Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4
6314 * (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems.
6315 * (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces.
6316 * (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list
6317 * (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and
6318 recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly.
6319 * (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin.
6320 * (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles.
6321 * (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images
6322 * (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of
6323 rejecting lowercase with a useless error message
6324 * (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs
6325 * Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into
6326 edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead
6327 of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
6328 * (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and
6329 Spanish numeric formatting
6330 * Fixed Swedish numeric formatting
6331 * (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again
6332 * Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their
6333 image description pages when viewed on local wikis.
6334 * Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia
6335 * Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link
6336 * (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support
6337 dynamic date conversion.
6338 * FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links
6339 * (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse
6340 * Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it
6341 * (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru:
6342 * (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips
6343 * (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page
6344 * (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used <a></a> instead of [ ]
6345 * (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch)
6346 * Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits
6347 * Removed language conversion support from Icelandic
6348 * (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height
6349 * (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images
6350 * Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs
6351 * (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses
6352 * (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data:
6353 namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version.
6354 * Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export <text> elements
6355 * Make language variant selection work again for zh
6357 == Changes since 1.5beta2 ==
6359 * Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions
6360 * (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work
6361 * (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt
6362 * (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization
6363 * Fixed number formatting for Dutch
6364 * (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css
6365 * (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia
6366 * Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia
6367 * (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia
6368 * (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database
6369 * (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles
6370 * Fix escaping in page move template.
6371 * (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and <img> height attribute
6373 == Changes since 1.5beta3 ==
6375 * Fix talk page move handling
6376 * (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation
6377 * (bug 2749) would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv
6378 * (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash
6379 * Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some
6380 interesting errors with signitures.
6381 * (bug 2764) Number format for Nds
6382 * (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language.
6383 * (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories
6384 * (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian
6385 * Fix nohistory message on empty page history
6386 * Fix fatal error in history when validation on
6387 * Cleaned up email notification message formatting
6388 * Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK
6389 * (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish
6390 * (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion
6391 * Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records
6392 * (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema
6393 * (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format
6394 * (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing
6395 * Nynorsk numeric format fix
6396 * (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off
6397 * (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix
6398 * With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match
6399 * Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]]
6400 * (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]]
6401 * (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements
6402 * Some shared upload fixes
6403 * (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
6404 * support preload= parameter for section=new
6405 * show comment subject in preview when using section=new
6406 * use comment form when creating a new talk page
6407 * (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block.
6408 * Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
6409 * (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
6410 * PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing
6411 * (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan
6412 * Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed
6413 inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
6414 * Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
6415 * Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php
6416 * Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost
6417 due to bogus optimization
6418 * (bug 275) Section duplication fix
6419 * Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
6420 * Fix notice on search index update due to non-array
6421 * (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3
6422 * (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0
6423 * (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add
6424 their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an
6426 * (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages
6427 * (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections
6428 * (bug 796) Trackback support
6429 * Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC
6430 are now suppressed as before.
6432 * "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
6433 viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively.
6434 * Skins can now be previewed in preferences
6435 * (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
6437 * Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
6439 * (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
6440 * (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
6442 * Removed useless protectreason message
6443 * Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
6444 * Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
6445 * Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
6446 * (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization
6447 * (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces
6448 * (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output
6449 for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash.
6450 * (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
6451 * compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.
6454 === Changes since 1.5beta4 ===
6456 * Fix Special:Allmessages under PHP 5
6457 * (bug 2911) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time
6458 * (bug 693) Special:Allmessages is excessively wide and redundant
6459 * (bug 3001) Updated and applied live hack for recentchanges-based watchlist
6460 * (bug 145) Finish 'exclude redirect' implementation in search form
6461 * Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
6462 title and reason input boxes
6463 * (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
6464 * (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
6465 * PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
6466 if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
6467 * (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
6468 * (bug 1487) invalid html on empty list in banlist
6469 * (bug 3017) Hotkey conflict for delete and show changes
6470 * made pixel unit translateable and blocklistline now eats infiniteblock
6472 * (bug 3092) Wrong numerical separator for big numbers in Serbian.
6473 * (bug 2855) Credit for a uniq author showed its realname even with
6474 $wgAllowRealName=false.
6475 * New special page: SpecialMostlinked
6476 * (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
6477 * Fix display of read-only lockfile message
6478 * Added a new hook, 'AddNewAccount', which is run after account creation
6479 * Update all stats fields on recount.sql
6480 * Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
6481 as a proxy debugging aid
6482 * (bug 3162) Fix 'undefined property page_is_new' error on watchlist
6483 * (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
6484 * (bug 3170) wikititlesuffix was removed, use pagetitle instead
6485 * (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
6486 * (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
6487 * (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
6488 * (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
6489 * (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
6490 * (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
6491 * (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
6492 * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
6493 * (bug 3238): Updated LanguageNn.php for 1_5 branch
6494 * (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
6495 * (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
6496 * Fix URL sanitization in HTML attributes, which broke in this branch
6497 * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
6500 === Changes since 1.5rc2 ===
6502 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage
6503 * Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
6504 * (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
6505 * XSS issue : now sanitize search query input
6508 === Changes since 1.5rc3 ===
6510 * (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
6511 * (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
6512 * Security fix for <math>
6513 * Security fix for tables
6516 === Changes since 1.5rc4 ===
6518 * (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
6519 * (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
6520 * (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
6521 * Support SVG rendering with rsvg
6522 * Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
6523 * (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
6524 * (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
6525 * (bug 2800) Don't scale up small iamges on |thumb| without explicit size
6526 * Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
6527 large SVG images on image description page
6528 * Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
6529 * (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
6530 format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
6531 * (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
6532 * (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
6533 * (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
6534 * (bug 2792) Update rebuildrecentchanges.inc for new schema
6535 * Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
6536 * (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
6537 * (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
6538 * (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
6539 by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
6540 * (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
6541 * (bug 3573) Full Greek Translation
6542 * (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
6543 * (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
6544 * Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
6547 === Changes since 1.5.0 ===
6549 * (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
6550 * (bug 3641) Fix handling of unrecognized file uploads with known extensions
6551 * (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
6552 * Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
6553 versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
6554 * (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
6555 * Backport fix for reference usage notice in Special:Search on PHP 4.4.0
6556 * Backport database connect error display fix from HEAD
6557 * (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
6558 * MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
6560 * Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
6561 * Fix Special:MovePage invalid HTML attribute for reason textarea
6562 * Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
6563 * (bug 3734) Swapped out obsolete recount.sql with initStats.php
6564 * (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
6565 * (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
6566 NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
6567 work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
6568 * Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
6571 === Changes since 1.5.1 ===
6573 * Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
6574 * (bug 3809) Backport fix for detecting diff3 failure
6575 * MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
6576 * (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
6577 Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
6578 * (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
6579 * (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
6580 * (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
6581 * (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
6582 * (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
6583 * (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
6584 talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
6585 * (bug 3845) Update attribute.php for 1.5 schema
6586 * Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC4
6589 === Changes since 1.5.2 ===
6591 * (bug 3612) Remove old broken version of maintenance/compressOld.php
6592 The working version is in maintenance/storage/compressOld.php
6593 * (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
6594 * (bug 3933) specify XML namespace for Atom 0.3 feeds
6595 * (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
6596 * (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
6597 * Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
6598 * (bug 4013) typo in fr
6599 * (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
6600 * (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
6601 * (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
6602 * Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
6603 * (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
6604 * (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
6605 * (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
6606 * Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
6609 === Changes since 1.5.3 ===
6611 * (bug 3805) Clear 'new messages' flag properly in enotif mode
6612 for usernames containing spaces
6613 * (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
6614 * (bug 4249) Typo in entities2literals.pl
6615 * (bug 4233) Update for japanese language
6616 * (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
6617 * (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
6618 * (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
6619 * Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
6620 * Parser internal placeholder string now fully randomized for safety
6622 === Changes since 1.5.4 ===
6624 * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
6625 * Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
6626 MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
6627 which are not of known image types. This is in response to
6628 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
6630 === Changes since 1.5.5 ===
6632 * (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1"
6634 * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
6635 * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
6636 * Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of
6637 establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor
6638 changes to installer.
6639 * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work
6640 (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field)
6641 * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
6642 * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
6643 * Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script
6644 * Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1
6645 * Removed read-only check from Database::query()
6646 * Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
6647 different LocalSettings.php.
6649 === Changes since 1.5.6 ===
6651 * Default main page content improved per bug 4690
6652 * Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
6653 * Fixed Special:Unlockdb
6654 * Maintenance script to delete unused text records
6655 * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
6656 * Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
6657 * (bug 4768) Wrong Russian translation (typo)
6658 * Performance bugfix: propagate equality manually for Revision fetches
6659 * (bug 4773) PHP fatal error when invalid title passed to Special:Export
6660 * Added missing table defs. for transcache to installer schemas
6661 * (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
6662 and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
6663 workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
6664 * (bug 2532) Image directory structure migration bug
6665 * (bug 4881) Correction to the fix for 1487; Ipblocklist showed 'no blocks'
6666 message at the end of the list even if there were blocks.
6667 * (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from LanguageUk.php
6668 * Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
6669 list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
6670 * Allow customisation of paging limits for items in categories using the
6671 $wgCategoryPagingLimit global, per bug 4970.
6672 * Improve "nogomatch" text to make it more obvious that a page can be created.
6673 * (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
6674 * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
6676 === Changes since 1.5.7 ===
6678 * (bug 5180) User login page shows inappropriate email blurb
6679 * Add the "AbortNewAccount" hook on account creation; see hooks.txt for more info.
6680 * Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
6681 * Add links to useful material to the default main page content
6682 * Fix fragment HTML injection
6684 === Changes since 1.5.8 ===
6686 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Finnish (fi) translation
6687 * Fixed obvious mistakes in Kurdish (ku) translation
6688 * Merge two #p-search .pBody statements i monobook/main.css
6689 * (bug 5156) Update for Hebrew language (he) translation
6690 * Add the "UserRights" hook on user group changes; see hooks.txt for more info.
6691 * Translated "listingcontinuesabbrev" for German
6695 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
6696 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
6697 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
6698 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
6699 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
6703 == MediaWiki 1.4.3 ==
6705 (released 2005-04-28)
6707 MediaWiki 1.4.3 is a bugfix release for the 1.4 stable release series.
6709 Chiefly, this fixes a compatibility problem with PHP 5 and a minor link
6710 table corruption bug on initial page save.
6713 == MediaWiki 1.4.2 ==
6715 (released 2005-04-20)
6717 MediaWiki 1.4.2 is a security and bug fix release for the 1.4 stable release
6720 A cross-site scripting injection vulnerability was discovered, which
6721 affects only MSIE clients and is only open if MediaWiki has been
6722 manually configured to run output through HTML Tidy ($wgUseTidy).
6724 Several other bugs are fixed in this release, see the changelog below.
6726 All new installations are highly recommended to use 1.4.2 instead of
6727 1.3.x; 1.3.x users should consider upgrading for bug fixes and new
6728 features. Ealier 1.4.x release and beta users should upgrade to this
6729 release for relevant bug fixes; see the changelog later in this file.
6732 If you have trouble, remember to read this whole file and the online FAQ page
6733 before asking for help:
6735 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
6738 === READ THIS FIRST: Upgrading ===
6740 If upgrading from an older release, see the notes in the file UPGRADE.
6741 There are a couple of minor database changes from the beta releases,
6742 and somewhat larger changes from 1.3.x.
6744 Upgrading from a previous 1.4.x stable release installation should
6745 generally only require copying the new files over the old ones.
6748 ==== READ THIS FIRST, TOO: MySQL 4.1 AND 5.0 ====
6750 MySQL 5.0 is a beta release, not yet ready for production use. If you
6751 are using it, the notes below about 4.1 apply to you too.
6753 If you have the choice of MySQL 4.0 or MySQL 4.1 and don't need 4.1 for
6754 some other application, you should consider sticking with 4.0 for the
6755 moment. 4.1 may require you to do extra fiddling to get things to work
6756 due to changes that aren't fully backwards-compatible.
6758 MySQL 4.1 has changed the authentication protocol in an incompatible
6759 way; many PHP installations still use the older client libraries and
6760 CANNOT CONNECT TO THE SERVER WITH A PASSWORD without some changes.
6762 See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html
6764 If MySQL is set with utf-8 as the default character set, installation
6765 may fail with "key too long" errors. Set the default charset to 'latin1'
6766 for installation and it should work.
6768 The mysqldump backup generator now applies an automatic conversion to
6769 UTF-8, which may irretrivably corrupt your data. Pass the -charset option
6770 with the original default charset (eg 'latin1') to skip the conversion.
6773 ==== READ THIS FIRST IF RUNNING ON A WINDOWS SERVER ====
6775 MediaWiki is tested and deployed primarily under the Apache web server
6776 on Linux Unix systems. There are known to be problems running on
6777 Microsoft's IIS which are not fully resolved. If you have a choice,
6778 try running under Apache on Windows, or on a Unix/Linux box instead.
6780 If you're having trouble with blank pages on IIS and can't switch,
6781 try the workaround suggested in this bug report:
6782 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1763
6785 === New features ===
6787 * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
6788 * New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs
6789 * Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and <gallery> tag)
6790 * SVG rasterization support (requires external support tools)
6791 * Users can select from the available localizations to override the
6792 default user interface language.
6793 * Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support
6794 * rel="nofollow" support to combat linkspam
6796 The current implementation adds this attribute to _all_ external URL
6797 links in wiki text (but not internal [[wiki links]] or interwiki links).
6798 To disable the attribute for _all_ external links, add this line to your
6801 $wgNoFollowLinks = false
6803 For background information on nofollow see:
6805 http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
6808 === Installation and compatibility ===
6810 * The default MonoBook theme now works with PHP 5.0
6811 * Installation on systems with PHP's safe mode or other oddities
6812 should work more reliably, as MonoBook no longer needs to
6813 create a compiled template file for the wiki to run.
6814 * A table prefix may be specified, to avoid conflicts with other
6815 web applications forced to share a database.
6816 * More thorough UTF-8 input validation; fixes non-ASCII uploaded
6817 filenames from Safari.
6818 * Command-line database upgrade script.
6821 === Customizability ===
6823 * Default user options can now be overridden in LocalSettings.
6824 * Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/
6825 New skins can be dropped into this directory and used immediately.
6826 * More extension hooks have been added.
6827 * Authentication plugin hook.
6828 * More internal code documentation, generated with phpdoc:
6829 http://www.mediawiki.org/docs/html/
6832 === Optimization ===
6834 * For many operations, MediaWiki 1.4 should run faster and use
6835 less memory than MediaWiki 1.3. Page rendering is up to twice
6836 as fast. (Use a PHP accelerator such as Turck MMCache for best
6837 results with any PHP application, though!)
6838 * The parser cache no longer requires memcached, and is enabled
6839 by default. This avoids a lot of re-rendering of pages that
6840 have been shown recently, greatly speeding longer page views.
6841 * Support for compiled PHP modules to speed up page diff and
6842 Unicode validation/normalization. (Requires ability to compile
6843 and load PHP extensions).
6846 === What isn't ready yet ===
6848 * A new user/groups permissions scheme has been held back to 1.5.
6849 * An experimental SOAP interface will be made available as an extension
6850 * PostgreSQL support is largely working, minus search and the installer.
6851 You can perform a manual installation.
6852 * E-mail notification of watched page changes and verification of
6853 user-submitted e-mail addresses is not yet included.
6854 * Log pages are not automatically imported into the new log table
6855 at upgrade time. A script to import old text log entries is
6856 incomplete, but may be available in later point releases.
6857 * Some localizations are still incomplete.
6863 === Important security updates ===
6865 A security audit found and fixed a number of problems. Users of MediaWiki
6866 1.3.10 and earlier should upgrade to 1.3.11; users of 1.4 beta releases
6867 prior to 1.4rc1 should upgrade immediately.
6869 ==== Cross-site scripting vulnerability ====
6871 XSS injection points can be used to hijack session and authentication
6872 cookies as well as more serious attacks.
6874 * Media: links output raw text into an attribute value, potentially
6875 abusable for JavaScript injection. This has been corrected.
6876 * Additional checks added to file upload to protect against MSIE and
6877 Safari MIME-type autodetection bugs.
6879 As of 1.3.10/1.4beta6, per-user customized CSS and JavaScript is disabled
6880 by default as a general precaution. Sites which want this ability may set
6881 $wgAllowUserCss and $wgAllowUserJs in LocalSettings.php.
6884 ==== Cross-site request forgery ====
6886 An attacker could use JavaScript-submitted forms to perform various
6887 restricted actions by tricking an authenticated user into visiting
6888 a malicious web page. A fix for page editing in 1.3.10/1.4beta6 has
6889 been expanded in this release to other forms and functions.
6891 Authors of bot tools may need to update their code to include the
6895 ==== Directory traversal ====
6897 An unchecked parameter in image deletion could allow an authenticated
6898 administrator to delete arbitary files in directories writable by the
6899 web server, and confirm existence of files not deletable.
6902 ==== Older issues ====
6904 Note that 1.4 beta releases prior to beta 5 include an input validation
6905 error which could lead to execution of arbitrary PHP code on the server.
6906 Users of older betas should upgrade immediately to the current version.
6909 Beta 6 also introduces the use of rel="nofollow" attributes on external
6910 links in wiki pages to reduce the effectiveness of wiki spam. This will
6911 cause participating search engines to ignore external URL links from wiki
6912 pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking.
6915 === Misc bugs fixed in beta 1 ===
6917 * (bug 95) Templates no longer limited to 5 inclusions per page
6918 * New user preference for limiting the image size for images on image description
6920 * (bug 530) Allow user to preview article on first edit
6921 * (bug 479) [[RFC 1234]] will now make an internal link
6922 * (bug 511) PhpTal skins shown bogus 'What links here' etc on special pages
6923 * (bug 770) Adding filter and username exact search match for Special:Listusers
6924 * (bug 733) Installer die if it can not write LocalSettings.php
6925 * (bug 705) Various special pages no more show the rss/atom feed links
6926 * (bug 114) use category backlinks in Special:Recentchangeslinked
6928 === Beta 2 fixes ===
6930 * (bug 987) Reverted bogus fix for bug 502
6931 * (bug 992) Fix enhanced recent changes in PHP5
6932 * (bug 1009) Fix Special:Makesysop when using table prefixes
6933 * (bug 1010) fix broken Commons image link on Classic & Cologne Blue
6934 * (bug 985) Fix auto-summary for section edits
6935 * (bug 995) Close <a> tag
6936 * (bug 1004) renamed norsk language links (twice)
6937 * Login works again when using an old-style default skin
6938 * Fix for load balancing mode, notify if using old settings format
6939 * (bug 1014) Missing image size option on old accounts handled gracefully
6940 * (bug 1027) Fix page moves with table prefix
6941 * (bug 1018) Some pages fail with stub threshold enabled
6942 * (bug 1024) Fix link to high-res image version on Image: pages
6943 * (bug 1016) Fix handling of lines omitting Image: in a <gallery> tag
6944 * security fix for image galleries
6945 * (bug 1039) Avoid error message in certain message cache failure modes
6946 * Fix string escaping with PostgreSQL
6947 * (bug 1015) [partial] -- use comment formatter on image gallery text
6948 * Allow customization of all UI languages
6949 * use $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg to make regular UI messages act as content
6950 * new user option for zh users to disable language conversion
6951 * Defer message cache initialization, shaving a few ms off file cache hits
6952 * Fixed Special:Allmessages when using table prefixes
6953 * (bug 996) Fix $wgWhitelistRead to work again
6954 * (bug 1028) fix page move over redirect to not fail on the unique index
6956 === Beta 3 fixes ===
6958 * Hide RC patrol markers when patrol is disabled or not allowed to patrol.
6959 * Fix language selection for upgraded accounts
6960 * (bug 1076) navigation links in QueryPage should be translated by wgContLang.
6961 * (bug 922) bogus DOS line endings in LanguageEl.php
6962 * Fix index usage in contribs
6963 * Caching and load limiting options for Recentchanges RSS/Atom feed
6964 * (bug 1074) Add stock icons for non-image files in gallery/Newimages
6965 * Add width and height attributes on thumbs in gallery/Newimages
6966 * Enhance upload extension blacklist to protect against vulnerable
6967 Apache configurations
6969 === Beta 4 fixes ===
6971 * (bug 1090) Fix sitesupport links in CB/classic skins
6972 * Gracefully ignore non-legal titles in a <gallery>
6973 * Fix message page caching behavior when $wgCapitalLinks is turned off
6974 after installation and the wiki is subsequently upgraded
6975 * Database error messages include the database server name/address
6976 * Paging support for large categories
6977 * Fix image page scaling when thumbnail generation is disabled
6978 * Select the content language in prefs when bogus interface language is set
6979 * Fix interwiki links in edit comments
6980 * Fix crash on banned user visit
6981 * Avoid PHP warning messages when thumbnail not generated
6982 * (bug 1157) List unblocks correctly in Special:Log
6983 * Fix fatal errors in LanguageLi.php
6984 * Undo overly bright, difficult to read colors in Cologne Blue
6985 * (bug 1162) fix five-tilde date inserter
6986 * Add raw signatures option for those who simply must have cute sigs
6987 * (bug 1164) Let wikitext be used in Loginprompt and Loginend messages
6988 * Add the dreaded <span> to the HTML whitelist
6989 * (bug 1170) Fix Russian linktrail
6990 * (bug 1168) Missing text on the bureaucrat log
6991 * (bug 1180) Fix Makesysop on shared-user-table sites
6992 * (bug 1178) Fix previous diff link when using 'oldid=0'
6993 * (bug 1173) Stop blocked accounts from reverting/deleting images
6994 * Keep generated stylesheets cache-separated for each user
6995 * (bug 1175) Fix "preview on first edit" mode
6996 * Fix revert bug caused by bug 1175 fix
6997 * Fix CSS classes on minor, new, unpatrolled markers in enhanced RC
6998 * Set MySQL 4 boolean search back to 'and' mode by default
6999 * (bug 1193) Fix move-only page protection mode
7000 * Fix zhtable Makefile to include the traditional manual table
7001 * Add memcache timeout for the zh conversion tables
7002 * Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through
7003 Mediawiki:zhconversiontable
7004 * Add zh-min-man (back) to language names list
7005 * Ported $wgCopyrightIcon setting from REL1_3A
7006 * (bug 1218) Show the original image on image pages if the thumbnail would be
7007 bigger than the original image
7008 * (bug 1213) i18n of Special:Log labels
7009 * (bug 1013) Fix jbo, minnan in language names list
7010 * Added magic word MAG_NOTITLECONVERT to indicate that the title of the page
7011 do not need to be converted. Useful in zh:
7012 * (bug 1224) Use proper date messages for date reformatter
7013 * (bug 1241) Don't show 'cont.' for first entry of the category list
7014 * (bug 1240) Special:Preferences was broken in Slovenian locale when
7015 $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled
7016 * Added magic word MAG_NOCONTENTCONVERT to supress the conversion of the
7017 content of an article. Useful in zh:
7018 * write-lock for updating the zh conversion tables in memcache
7019 * recursively parse subpages of MediaWiki:Zhconversiontable
7020 * (bug 1144) Fix export for fy language
7021 * make removal of an entry from zhconversiontable work
7022 * (bug 752) Don't insert newline in link title for url with %0a
7023 * Fix missing search box contents in MonoBook skin
7024 * Add option to forward search directly to an external URL (eg google)
7025 * Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected
7026 variant is disabled. Used in zh: only for now.
7028 === Beta 5 fixes ===
7030 * (bug 1124) Fix ImageGallery XHTML compliance
7031 * (bug 1186) news: in the middle of a word
7032 * (bug 1283) Use underlining and borders to highlight additions/deletions
7034 * Use user's local timezone in Special:Log display
7035 * Show filename for images in gallery by default (restore beta 3 behaviour)
7036 * (bug 1201) Double-escaping in brokenlinks, imagelinks, categorylinks, searchindex
7037 * When using squid reverse proxy, cache the redirect to the Main_Page
7038 * (bug 1302) Fix Norwegian language file
7039 * (bug 1205) Fix broken article saving in PHP 5.1
7040 * (bug 1206) Implement CURRENTWEEK and CURRENTDOW magic keyword (will give
7041 number of the week and number of the day).
7042 * (bug 1204) Blocks do not expire automatically
7043 * (bug 1184) expiry time of indefinite blocks shown as the current time
7044 * (bug 1317) Fix external links in image captions
7045 * (bug 1084) Fix logo not rendering centrally in IE
7046 * (bug 288) Fix tabs wrapping in IE6
7047 * (bug 119) Fix full-width tabs with RTL text in IE
7048 * (bug 1323) Fix logo rendering off-screen in IE with RTL language
7049 * Show "block" link in Special:Recentchanges for logged in users, too, if
7050 wgUserSysopBans is true.
7051 * (bug 1326) Use content language for '1movedto2' in edit history
7052 * zh: Fix warning when HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is not set
7053 * zh: Fix double conversion for zh-sg and zh-hk
7054 * (bug 1132) Fix concatenation of link lists in refreshLinks
7055 * (bug 1101) Fix memory leak in refreshLinks
7056 * (bug 1339) Fix order of @imports in Cologne Blue CSS
7057 * Don't try to create links without namespaces ([[Category:]] link bug)
7058 * Memcached data compression fixes
7059 * Several valid XHTML fixes
7060 * (bug 624) Fix IE freezing rendering whilst waiting for CSS with MonoBook
7061 * (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type
7062 * Fix for script execution vulnerability.
7064 === Beta 6 fixes ===
7066 * (bug 1335) implement 'tooltip-watch' in Language.php
7067 * Fix linktrail for nn: language
7068 * (bug 1214) Fix prev/next links in Special:Log
7069 * (bug 1354) Fix linktrail for fo: language
7070 * (bug 512) Reload generated CSS on preference change
7071 * (bug 63) Fix displaying as if logged in after logout
7072 * Set default MediaWiki:Sitenotice to '-', avoiding extra database hits
7073 * Skip message cache initialization on raw page view (quick hack)
7074 * Fix notice errors in wfDebugDieBacktrace() in XML callbacks
7075 * Suppress notice error on bogus timestamp input (returns epoch as before)
7076 * Remove unnecessary initialization and double-caching of parser variables
7077 * Call-tree output mode for profiling
7078 * (bug 730) configurable $wgRCMaxAge; don't try to update purged RC entries
7079 * Add $wgNoFollowLinks option to add rel="nofollow" on external links
7081 * (bug 1130) Show actual title when moving page instead of encoded one.
7082 * (bug 925) Fix headings containing <math>
7083 * (bug 1131) Fix headings containing interwiki links
7084 * (bug 1380) Update Nynorsk language file
7085 * (bug 1232) Fix sorting of cached Special:Wantedpages in miser mode
7086 * (bug 1217) Image within an image caption broke rendering
7087 * (bug 1384) Make patrol signs have the same width for page moves as for edits
7088 * (bug 1364) fix "clean up whitespace" in Title:SecureAndSplit
7089 * (bug 1389) i18n for proxyblocker message
7090 * Add fur/Furlan/Friulian to language names list
7091 * Add TitleMoveComplete hook on page renames
7092 * Allow simple comments for each translation rules in MW:Zhconversiontable
7093 * (bug 1402) Make link color of tab subject page link on talk page indicate whether article exists
7094 * (bug 1368) Fix SQL error on stopword/short word search w/ MySQL 3.x
7095 * Translated Hebrew namespace names
7096 * (bug 1429) Stop double-escaping of block comments; fix formatting
7097 * (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success
7098 * (bug 1228) Fix double-escaping on & sequences in [enclosed] URLs
7099 * (bug 1435) Fixed many CSS errors
7100 * (bug 1457) Fix XHTML validation on category column list
7101 * (bug 1458) Don't save if edit form submission is incomplete
7102 * Logged-in edits and preview of user CSS/JS are now locked to a session token.
7103 * Per-user CSS and JavaScript subpage customizations now disabled by default.
7104 They can be re-enabled via $wgAllowUserJs and $wgAllowUserCss.
7105 * Removed .ogg from the default uploads whitelist as an extra precaution.
7106 If your web server is configured to serve Ogg files with the correct
7107 Content-Type header, you can re-add it in LocalSettings.php:
7108 $wgFileExtensions[] = 'ogg';
7112 * Fix notice error on nonexistent template in wikitext system message
7113 * (bug 1469) add missing <ul> tags on Special:Log
7114 * (bug 1470) remove extra <ul> tags from Danish log messages
7115 * Fix notice on purge w/ squid mode off
7116 * (bug 1477) hide details of SQL error messages by default
7117 Set $wgShowSQLErrors = true for debugging.
7118 * (bug 1430) Don't check for template data when editing page that doesn't exist
7119 * Recentchanges table purging fixed when using table prefix
7120 * (bug 1431) Avoid redundant objectcache garbage collection
7121 * (bug 1474) Switch to better-cached index for statistics page count
7122 * Run Unicode normalization on all input fields
7123 * Fix translation for allpagesformtext2 in LanguageZh_cn and LanguageZh_tw
7124 * Block image revert without valid login
7125 * (bug 1446) stub Bambara (bm) language file using French messages
7126 * (bug 1432) Update Estonian localization
7127 * (bug 1471) unclosed <p> tag in Danish messages
7128 * convertLinks script fixes
7129 * Corrections to template loop detection
7130 * XHTML encoding fix for usernames containing & in Special:Emailuser
7131 * (for zh) Search for variant links even when conversion is turned off,
7132 to help prevent duplicate articles.
7133 * Disallow ISO 8859-1 C1 characters and "no-break space" in user names
7135 * Correct the name of the main page it LanguageIt
7136 * Allow Special:Makesysop to work for usernames containing SQL special
7138 * Fix annoying blue line in Safari on scaled-down images on description page
7139 * Increase upload sanity checks
7140 * Fix XSS bug in Media: links
7141 * Add cross-site form submission protection to various actions
7142 * Fix fatal error on some dubious page titles
7143 * Stub threshold displays correctly again
7146 === 1.4.0 final fixes ===
7148 * (bug 65) Fix broken interwiki link encoding on Latin-1 wikis; force to UTF-8
7149 * (bug 563) Fix UTF-8 interwiki URL redirects via Latin-1 wikis
7150 * (bug 1536) Fix page info
7151 * Support os (Ossetic) as language code, using Russian localization base
7152 * (bug 1610) Support non (Old Norse) as language code, using Icelandic localization base
7153 * (bug 1618) Properly list custom namespaces in Special:Allpages
7154 * (bug 1622) Remove trailing' >' when using category browser
7155 * (bug 1570) Fix php 4.2.x error on conflict merging
7156 * (bug 1585) Fix page title on post-login redirection page
7157 * Run UTF-8 validation on old text in Recentchanges RSS diffs
7158 * (bug 1642) fix a mime type typo in img_auth.php
7159 * Automated interwiki redirects only for local interwikis
7160 * Respect read-only mode on block removals
7161 * Trim old illegal characters from syndication feeds
7162 * Reduce message cache outage recovery delay from 1 day to 5 minutes
7163 * (bug 1403) Update Finnish localization
7164 * (bug 1478) Punjabi localization
7165 * (bug 1667) Update script 5 second countdown.
7166 * (bug 1057) Fix logging table encoding (error on MySQL 4.1)
7167 * (bug 1680) Fix linktrail for fo
7168 * (bug 1653) Removing hardcoded messages in Special:Allmessages
7169 * (bug 1594) Render a hyphen in a formula as − in HTML
7170 * (bug 1495) Fall back to default language MediaWiki: for custom messages
7171 * (bug 1617) Show different error messages for "user does not
7172 exist" and "wrong password" when using AuthPlugin
7173 * (bug 1532), (bug 1544) Changed language names for
7174 'bn', 'bo', 'dv', 'dz', 'ht', 'ii', 'li', 'lo', 'ng', 'or', 'pa', 'si',
7176 * Fix editing on non-Esperanto wiki with user language pref set to Esperanto
7177 * Make conversion table for zh-sg default to zh-cn, and zh-hk default to zh-tw
7178 * Fix PHP notice in MonoBook when counters disabled
7179 * (bug 1696) Update namespaces, dates in uk localization
7180 * (bug 551) Installer warns about magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase
7181 instead of trying to install with corrupt table files
7182 * Installer no longer tries to move non-default MediaWiki: pages into Template:
7183 * User-to-user email disabled by default ($wgEnableUserEmail)
7188 * (bug 1720) fix genitive month names for uk
7189 * (bug 1704) fixed untranslateable string in Special:Log
7190 * (bug 1638) Added Belrusian language file
7191 * (bug 1736) typo in SpecialValidate.php
7192 * (bug 73) Upload doesn't run edit updates on description page (links,
7193 search index and categories)
7194 * (bug 646) <math> fails to recognize \ll and \gg
7195 * (bug 926) \div element from TeX not supported in <math> element
7196 * (bug 1147) add \checkmark to whitelist in texutil.ml
7197 * (bug 937) \limits function from LaTeX not supported in <math> element
7198 * Support for manually converting article title to different Chinese
7200 * (bug 1488, bug 1744) Fix encoding for preferences, dates in Latin-1 mode
7201 * (bug 1042) Fix UTF-8 case conversion for PHP <4.3 with mbstring extension
7202 * Fix code typo that broke article credits display
7203 * Installation fixes for running under IIS
7204 * (bug 1556) login page tab order. "remember" checkbox now come after password.
7205 * SQL debug log fixlets
7206 * (bug 1815) Fix namespace in old revision display with mismatched title
7207 * (bug 1788) Fix link duplication when edit/upload comment includes newlines
7208 * Change default on $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans to true
7209 * Fix link conversion for URL request
7210 * (bug 1851) Updated download URL for the SCIM packages used by zhtable
7211 * (bug 1853) Try stripping quotes from term for 'go' title match
7212 * Fix missing function in Latin1 mode
7213 * (bug 1860) Anchors of interwiki links did not get normalized
7214 * (bug 1847) accept lowercase x in ISBN, do not accept invalid A-W,Y,Z
7215 * Fix link conversion for URL request, hopefully without breaking the wiki
7216 * (bug 1849) New option allows to consider categorized images as used on
7217 Special:Unusedimages
7218 * Localized category namespace for ka (Georgian)
7219 * (bug 1107) Work around includes problem in installer when parent dir is not
7220 readable by the web server
7221 * (bug 1927) Incorrect escaping on wikitext message in Blockip
7226 * Fix math options in Finnish localization
7227 * Use in-process Tidy extension if available when $wgUseTidy is on
7228 * (bug 1933) Fix PATH_INFO usage under IIS with PHP ISAPI module
7229 * (bug 1188) <nowiki> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
7230 * (bug 1936) <!-- comments --> in {{subst:}} includes fixed
7231 * Fix a potential MSIE JavaScript injection vector in Tidy mode
7236 * (bug 1636) Refs like ţ were misinterpreted as octal in some places
7237 * (bug 1163) Special:Undelete showed oldest revision instead of newest
7238 * (bug 1938) Fix escaping of illegal character references in link text
7239 * (bug 1997) Fix for error on display of renamed items in Recentchanges on PHP5
7240 * (bug 1949) Profiling typo in rare error case
7241 * (bug 1963) Fix deletion log link when $wgCapitalLinks is off
7242 * (bug 1970) Don't show move tab for immobile pages
7243 * (bug 1770) Page creation recorded links from the 'newarticletext' message
7244 * Optional change to the site_stats table. When applied, this removes the need
7245 for expensive queries in Special:Statistics.
7250 * (bug 725) Let dir="ltr" attribute work again in MonoBook on RTL languages
7251 * (bug 2024) Skip JavaScript error for custom skins where .js message not set
7252 * (bug 2025) Updated Indonesian localization
7253 * (bug 2039) Updated Lithuanian localization
7258 Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
7259 produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
7260 set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
7261 cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
7262 MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
7265 For notes on 1.3.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
7268 === Online documentation ===
7270 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
7271 built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
7274 http://www.mediawiki.org/
7277 === Mailing list ===
7279 A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
7282 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
7284 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
7285 http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
7287 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
7288 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
7293 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net