Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES.
+== MediaWiki 1.14 ==
+
+=== Changes since 1.14.0rc1 ===
+
+* Fixed the performance of the backlinks API module
+* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
+ cache is enabled.
+* (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
+* (bug 17527) Fixed missing MySQL-specific options in installer
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.14 ===
+
+* $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl is an array of namespaces to be exempt from
+ the effect of the new __INDEX__/__NOINDEX__ magic words. (Default: null, ex-
+ empt all content namespaces.)
+* $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
+ has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
+* (bug 15080) $wgOverrideSiteFeed has been added. Setting either
+ $wgSiteFeed['rss'] or 'atom' to a URL will override the default Recent
+ Changes feed that appears on all pages.
+* $wgSQLiteDataDirMode has been introduced as the default directory mode for
+ SQLite data directories on creation. Note that this setting is separate from
+ $wgDirectoryMode, which applies to all normal dirs created by MediaWiki.
+* $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf now work more like
+ $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
+ group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
+ Backwards compatibility is maintained.
+* $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
+ word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
+ is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
+* $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
+* $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
+* Editing the MediaWiki namespace is now unconditionally restricted to people
+ with the editinterface right, configuring this in $wgNamespaceProtection
+ is not required.
+* $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom may now be an array of multiple strings.
+* Introduced $wgEnableImageWhitelist to toggle the on-wiki external image
+ whitelist on or off.
+* Added $wgRenderHashAppend to append some string to the parser cache and the
+ sitenotice cache keys.
+* $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold is now a positive integer by default,
+* (bug 16006) $wgEnableWriteAPI is now true by default. Authorized can perform
+ write actions using the API.
+* Added $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix which adds an interwiki prefix
+ ($wgLocalInterwiki) onto the page names in the UDP feed.
+* Added $wgAllowUserSkin to let the wiki's owner disable user selectable skins
+ on the wiki. If it's set to false, then the skin used will *always* be
+ $wgDefaultSkin.
+* Added $wgEnotifUseRealName, which allows UserMailer to send out e-mails based
+ on the user's real name if one is set. Defaults to false (use the username)
+* Removed the 'apiThumbCacheDir' option from $wgForeignFileRepos (only used in
+ ForeignAPIRepo)
+* (bug 44) Image namespace and accompanying talk namespace renamed to File.
+ For backward compatibility purposes, Image still works. External tools may
+ need to be updated.
+* The constants NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK can now be used instead of NS_IMAGE and
+ NS_IMAGE_TALK. The old constants are retained as aliases for compatibility,
+ and should still be used in code meant to be compatible with v1.13 or older.
+* MediaWiki can be forced to use private IPs forwarded by a proxy server by
+ using $wgUsePrivateIPs.
+* The 'BeforeWatchlist' hook has been removed due to internal changes in
+ Special:Watchlist. 'SpecialWatchlistQuery' should now be used by extensions
+ to customize the watchlist database query.
+
+=== Migrated extensions ===
+The following extensions are migrated into MediaWiki 1.14:
+
+* Special:DeletedContributions to show deleted user contributions (was
+ extension DeletedContributions)
+* Special:Log/newusers recording new users (was extension Newuserlog)
+* Special:LinkSearch to search for external links (was extension LinkSearch)
+* RenderHash
+* NoMoveUserPages
+* UniversalEditButton
+
+=== New features in 1.14 ===
+
+* New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
+ 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
+ 'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
+* Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
+ respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
+ MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
+ PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
+* (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
+ search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
+* Handheld stylesheet options
+* Added 'DoEditSectionLink' hook as a cleaner unified version of the old
+ 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks. Note that the
+ 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hook has been removed, but 'EditSectionLink' is
+ run in all cases instead, so extensions using the old hooks should still work
+ if they ran roughly the same code for both hooks (as is almost certain).
+* Signature (~~~~) "cleaning", i.e. template removal, can be disabled with
+ $wgCleanSignatures=false
+* Extensions can use the SkinBuildSidebar hook to modify the content of the
+ sidebar and add custom portlets to it
+* Added 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript' hook for extensions to be able to add vari-
+ ables into into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript
+* (bug 13846) Added $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups display on
+ Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 14377) Add a date selector to history pages
+* (bug 15007) New 'pagetitle-view-mainpage' message allows the HTML <title> of
+ the main page to be customized
+* Added $wgDisableTitleConversion to disabling the conversion for all pages on
+ the wiki
+* Added 'noconvertlink' toggle that can be set per user preferences, also
+ added 'convertlink=no|yes' on GET requests whether have the link titles
+ being converted or not
+* (bug 14921) Special:Contributions/: add user name to <title>
+ Patch by Emufarmers
+* Unescape more "safe" characters when producing URLs, for added prettiness
+* Introduced a new hook 'SkinAfterContent' that allows extensions to add text
+ after the page content and article metadata. Updated all skins and skin
+ templates to work with that hook.
+* (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
+ 'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
+* (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
+* By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
+ so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
+* (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
+ option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
+* (bug 15157) Special:Watchlist has the same options as Special:Watchlist:
+ Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
+* Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
+ groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
+* HTML entities like now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
+* (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
+ instead of a hardcoded colon.
+* Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
+* Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
+* BMP images are now displayed as PNG
+* (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word
+* (bug 11884) Now support Flash EXIF attribute
+* Show thumbnails in the file history list, patch by User:Agbad
+* Added support of piped wikilinks using double-width brackets
+* Added an on-wiki external image whitelist. Items in this whitelist are
+ treated as regular expression fragments to match for when possibly
+ displaying an external image inline.
+* (bugs 15405, 15436) Sort more currency types correctly in sortable tables
+* (bug 15422) Sort more different types of numbers in sortable tables
+* (bug 2889) MediaWiki:Print.css applies to the printable version
+* Category counts (e.g. from {{PAGESINCATEGORY:}}) should be more accurate for
+ small categories
+* After logging in, automatically redirect to wherever you logged in from
+* (bug 5619) Break messages used in Special:Statistics down further
+* (bug 11029) Add link to Special:Listusers?group=sysop etc at
+ Special:Statistics
+* (bug 15514) Setting $wgRightsText without $wgRightsUrl now produces a
+ plaintext copyright notice. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
+* (bug 15551) Deletion log excerpt is now shown whenever a user vists a
+ deleted page, even if they are unable to edit it.
+* Added Wantedfiles special pages, allowing users to find image links with no
+ image.
+* (bug 12650) It is now possible to set different expiration times for
+ different restriction types on the protection form.
+* (bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages
+* Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats
+* Added the ability to set the target attribute on external links with
+ $wgExternalLinkTarget
+* api.php now sends "Retry-After" and "X-Database-Lag" HTTP headers if the
+ maxlag check fails, just like index.php does
+* Added "link" parameter to image links, to allow images to link to an
+ arbitrary title or URL. This should replace inaccessible and incomplete
+ solutions such as CSS-based overlays and ImageMap.
+* (bug 368) Don't use caption for alt attribute; allow manual specification
+ using new "alt=" parameter for images
+* (bug 44) The {{ns:}} core parser function now also accepts localized
+ namespace names and aliases; also, its output now uses spaces instead of
+ underscores to match the behavior of the {{NAMESPACE}} magic word
+* Added the ability to display user edit counts in Special:ListUsers. Off by
+ default, enabled with $wgEdititis = true (named after the medical condition
+ marked by unhealthy obsession with edit counts).
+* Added a file cache to the parser to improve page rendering time on pages with
+ several uses of the same image.
+* (bug 1250) Users can still use "show preview" and "show changes" even if the
+ wiki is set to read-only mode.
+* Added a call to the 'UnwatchArticleComplete' hook to the watchlist editor.
+ This should make it so that ALL user-accessible methods of removing a page
+ from a watchlist lead to this hook being called (it was previously only
+ called from within Article.php
+* Maximum execution time for shell processes on linux is now configured with
+ $wgMaxShellTime (180 seconds by default)
+* (bug 1306) 'Email user' link no longer shown on user page when emailing
+ is not available due to lack of confirmed address or disabled preference
+* Special:Wanted templates special page added to display missing templates
+ linked from articles
+* Make search matches bold only, not red as well
+* (bug 10080) Blocks can be modified without unblocking first
+* (bug 15820) Special:BlockIP shows a notice if the user being blocked is
+ already directly blocked
+* (bug 13710) Allow to force "watch this" checkbox via URL using parameter
+ "watchthis"
+* (bug 15125) Add Public Domain to default options when installing. Patch by
+ Nathan Larson.
+* Set a special temporary directory for ImageMagick with $wgImageMagickTempDir
+* (bug 16113) Show/hide for redirects in Special:NewPages
+* (bug 15903) Upload link was added to Nostalgia skin
+* (bug 15761) Add user toggle to omit diff after rollback
+* Added the BitmapHandler_ClientOnly media handler, which allows server-side
+ image scaling to be completely disabled for specific media types, via the
+ $wgMediaHandlers configuration variable.
+* New 'AbortDiffCache' hook can be used to cancel the caching of a diff
+* (bug 15835) Added Content-Style-Type meta tag
+* (bug 11027) Add parameter to MW:Randompage-nopages so that user can see the
+ namespace.
+* Add id="mw-user-domain-section" to <tr> tag in Userlogin.php template so that
+ admins with a single domain can hide the domain section using CSS
+* Dropped old Paser_OldPP class. Only new parser with preprocessor is used.
+* Moved password reset form from Special:Preferences to Special:ResetPass
+* Added Special:ChangePassword as a special page alias for Special:ResetPass
+* Added complimentary function for addHandler() called removeHandler() for removing events
+* Improved security of file uploads for IE clients, using a reverse-engineered
+ algorithm very similar to IE's content detection algorithm.
+* Cascading protection no longer requires that both edit and move are restricted
+ to sysop, just edit=sysop is enough
+* (bug 2391) A warning is now shown for invalid ISBN numbers on Special:Booksources.
+* Installer has been updated to reflect the release of the GFDL 1.3. The URL for 1.2
+ has been updated, and the 1.3 URL has been given. 1.2 is still Wikipedia-compatible.
+ RightsCode was changed from 'gfdl' to 'gfdl1_2', so we can now support 1.2 as well
+ as 1.3 (gfdl1_3).
+* (bug 16293) PD URL was changed to the CreativeCommons site on PD (which auto-detects
+ your language) instead of Wikipedia.
+* (bug 16635) The "view and edit watchlist" page (Special:Watchlist/edit) now
+ includes a table of contents
+* File objects returned by wfFindFile() are now cached by default
+* (bug 7492) Rights can now be assigned to specific IP addresses and ranges by
+ using $wgAutopromote (new defines: APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE)
+* Add a 'change block' link to Special:IPBlockList and Special:Log
+* (bug 16459) Use native getElementsByClassName where possible, for better
+ performance in modern browsers
+* Enable \cancel and \cancelto in texvc (recompile required)
+* Added 'UserCryptPassword' and 'UserComparePasswords' hooks to allow extensions to implement
+ their own password hashing methods.
+* (bug 16760) Add CSS-class to action links of Special:Log
+* (bug 505) Time zones can now be specified by location in user preferences,
+ avoiding the need to manually update for DST. Patch by Brad Jorsch.
+* (bug 2585) HTTP 404 return code is now given for a page view if the page
+ does not exist, allowing spiders and link checkers to detect broken links.
+* Special:Log: Add 'change protection' link for unprotected pages too
+* Special:Log: Add log type specific CSS classes 'mw-logline-$logtype' to
+ 'li' elements
+* (bug 16754) Making arbitrary rows of sortable tables sticky:
+ |- class="unsortable"
+* Show subversion too even if a "normal" version number is available
+* (bug 16121) Add a note that a page move was without creating a redirect in the
+ move log
+* Image moving is now enabled for sysops by default
+* Make "Did you mean" search feature more noticeable
+* (bug 16720) Transcluded Special:NewPages processes "/username="
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
+
+* (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
+* (bug 14659) Passing the default limit param to Special:Recentchanges no more
+ falls back to the user option
+* (bug 14954) Fix regression in Modern and Simple skins
+* Recursion loop check added to Categoryfinder class
+* Fixed few performance troubles of large job queue processing
+* Not setting various parameters in Foreign Repos now fails more gracefully
+* (bug 2333) Redirects are properly rendered when previewing an edit.
+* (bug 14972) Use localized alias of Special:Search on all search forms
+* (bug 11035) Special:Search should have descriptive <title>
+* Special pages are now not subject to special handling for "self-links"
+* (bug 15053) Syntactically incorrect redirects with another link in them
+ no longer redirect to the second link
+* (bug 15049) Fix for CheckUser extension's log search: usernames containing
+ a "-" were incorrectly turned into bogus IP range searches.
+ Patch by Max Semenik.
+* (bug 15055) Talk page notifications no longer attempt to send mail when
+ user's e-mail address is invalid or unconfirmed
+* (bug 12370) Add throttle on password attempts. Defaults to max 5 attempts in
+ 5 minutes.
+* (bug 15016) 'Templates used on this page' list in view source should be
+ wrapped in a div with class "templatesUsed"
+* (bug 14868) Setting $wgFeedDiffCutoff to 0 now disables generation of the
+ diff entirely, not just the display of it.
+* (bug 6387) Introduced new setting $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey which
+ allows having the unprefixed page title as the default category sortkey
+* (bug 15079) Add class="ns-talk" / "ns-subject" to <body>. Also added
+ ns-special to special pages.
+* (bug 15052) Skins should add their name as a class in <body>
+* (bug 14165, bug 14294) Wikimedia specific configuration in convertGrammar()
+ for several languages was removed. The settings have been put in extension
+ WikimediaMessages. Patch for Czech by Danny B.
+* (bug 15101) Displaying only bots edits in Special:Recentchanges now works
+ again
+* (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
+* (bug 14790) Export of category pages when using Category: prefix now actually
+ gives results
+* Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
+ contain '/*' in the title
+* Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
+* $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
+ addition to body text.
+* Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
+ from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
+* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and
+ description pages).
+* (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
+* (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
+ literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
+* (bug 15342) "Invert" checkbox now works correctly when selecting main
+ namespace in Special:Watchlist
+* (bug 15172) 'Go' button of Special:Recentchanges now on the same line as the
+ last input element (like Special:Watchlist too)
+* (bug 15351) Fix fatal error for invalid section fragments in autocomments
+* Fixed intermittent deadlock errors involving objectcache table queries.
+ Use a separate database connection for the objectcache table to avoid
+ long-lasting locks on that table.
+* Respect file restrictions in the file history list
+* (bug 15399) Odd/even classes on sortable tables' rows could be slow for large
+ tables, and have been disabled by default.
+* (bug 15482) Special:Recentchangeslinked has no longer two submit buttons
+* (bug 15292) New message notification for unregistred users now works again
+* (bug 14398) mwsuggest.js: Let width of container be configurable
+* (bug 15543) Only include user touched timestamp to generated CSS
+* (bug 15497) Removed encoding attribute from <?xml ?> tag
+* (bug 12284) Special:Preferences now sets a returnto parameter on the link to
+ Special:UserLogin. Patch by Marooned.
+* Fixed the HTTP accept language string detection length in
+ LanguageConverter.php, instead of the fixed length language codes.
+* Special:RecentChangesLinked no longer shows outgoing links for nonexistent
+ pages even if there are broken link records with source article id 0 in the
+ database
+* (bug 15598) Special:Newpages default limit uses user preference for
+ recentchanges limit instead of hardcoded 50.
+* (bug 15617) $wgFeedClassesOutputPage::getHeadLinks() respects $wgFeedClasses,
+ instead of hardcoding rss and atom. Patch by Juliano F. Ravasi.
+* (bug 14638) Special:Blockip now provides a link to the block log if the user
+ has been blocked more than 10 times. Patch by Matt Johnston.
+* (bug 12678) Skins don't show Upload link if the user isn't allowed to upload.
+* Fixed incorrect usage of DB_LAST in Special:Export. Deprecated DB_LAST.
+* (bug 15642) Blocked sysops can no longer block other users
+* Http::request() now respects $wgHTTPtimeout when not using cURL
+* (bug 15158) Userinvalidcssjstitle not shown on preview
+* (bug 15196) Free external links should be numbered in a localised manner
+* (bug 15388) Title of Special:PrefixIndex
+* Links with no title but a curid parameter now use the curid to pick a page
+* (bug 10323) Special:Undelete should have "inverse selection" button
+* (bug 15831) Modern skin RTL support is bugous
+* (bug 15869) Nostalgia skin does not show page title in printable mode
+* (bug 15795) Special:Userrights is now listed on Special:SpecialPages when the
+ user can only change his rights
+* (bug 15846) Categories "leak" from older revisions in certain circumstances
+* (bug 15928) Special pages dropdown should be inline in non-MonoBook skins
+* (bug 14178) Some uses of UserLoadFromSession hook cause segfault
+* (bug 15925) Postitive bytes added on recentchanges and watchlists are now
+ bolded if above the threshold, previously it only worked for negatives
+* Specify apple-touch-icon before favicon in HTML head section to make the
+ Konqueror browser correctly use the latter
+* (bug 15717) Set $separatorTransformTable for language 'eu'
+* (bug 15605) Enabled $datePreferences for language 'hr'. Added standard date
+ preferences.
+* (bug 13701) {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word to show number of total views.
+* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
+ search box
+* (bug 14609) User's namespaces to be searched default not updated after adding
+ new namespace
+* Purge form uses valid XHTML
+* (bug 12764) Special:LonelyPages shows transcluded pages
+* (bug 16073) Enhanced RecentChanges uses onclick handler with better fallback
+ if JavaScript is disabled
+* (bug 4253) Recentchanges IRC messages no longer include title in diff URLs
+* Allow '0' to be an accesskey.
+* (bug 8063) Use language-dependent sorting in client-side sortable tables
+* (bug 16160) Suggestions box should be resized from left for RTL wikis
+* (bug 11533) Fixed insane slowdown when in read-only mode for long periods
+ of time with CACHE_NONE (default objectcache table configuration).
+* Trying to set two different default category sort keys for one page now
+ produces a warning
+* (bug 16143) Fix redirect loop on special pages starting with lower case
+ letters
+* (bug 15737) Fix notices while expanding using PPCustomFrame
+* (bug 15544) Non-index entry points cause the "Wiki not set up" message to
+ have corrupt URLs
+* (bug 5101) Image from Commons doesn't show up when searched in Wikipedia
+ search box
+* (bug 4362) [[MediaWiki:History copyright]] no more used with most recent
+ revision when passing oldid parameter in the url
+* (bug 16265) When caching thumbs with the ForeignApiRepo, we now use the same
+ filename as the remote site.
+* (bug 8345) Don't autosummarize where a redirect was left unchanged
+* Made thumb caching in ForeignApiFile objects integrated with normal thumb
+ path naming (/thumbs/hash/file), retired 'apiThumbCacheDir' as a result.
+* (bug 5530) Consistency between character encoding in {{PAGENAMEE}},
+ {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} and {{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
+* Safer handling of non-MediaWiki exceptions -- now obeys our settings for
+ formatting and path exposure.
+* Less verbose errors from profileinfo.php when not configured
+* Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath, hard to use.
+* Improved input validation on Special:Import form
+* Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection
+ against exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default
+ installations.
+* Improved scripting safety heuristics for IE 5/6 content-type detection.
+* Improved scripting safety heuristics on SVG uploads.
+* (bug 11728) Unify layout of enhanced watchlist/recent changes
+* (bug 8702) Properly update stats when running nukePage maintenance script
+* (bug 7726) Searches for words less than 4 characters now work without
+ requiring customization of MySQL server settings
+* Honour unchecked "Leave a redirect behind" for moved subpages
+* (bug 16440) Broken 0-byte math renderings are now deleted and re-rendered
+ when page is re-parsed.
+* (bug 6100) Unicode BiDi embedding/override characters (U+202A - U+202E) are
+ now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end
+ up in copy-and-pasted titles, and, by overriding normal bidirectional text
+ handling, can lead to annoying behavior such as text rendering backwards
+* Fixed minor bug where the memcached value for how many accounts an IP had
+ created that day would be increased even if $wgAccountCreationThrottle was
+ hit. This meant if an IP hit the throttle and then the throttle was raised
+ later that day, the IP still couldn't create another account, because it
+ had marked them as having created another account, when their last account
+ creation had actually failed.
+* (bug 12647) Allow autogenerated edit summary messages to be blanked with '-'
+* (bug 16026) 'Revision-info' and 'revision-info-current' both accept wiki
+ markup now.
+* (bug 16529) Fix for search suggestions with some third-party JS libraries
+* (bug 13342) importScript() generates more consistent URI encoding
+* (bug 16577) When a blocked user tries to rollback a page, the block message
+ is now only displayed once
+* (bug 14268) SVG image sizes now extracted with proper XML parser
+* (bug 14365) RepoGroup::findFiles() no longer crashes if passed an invalid
+ title via the API
+* (bug 4253, bug 16586) Revision ID is now given instead of title in URLs for
+ new pages in the recent changes IRC feed
+* Ugly tooltips in Special:Statistics were phased out in favor of more direct
+ information. Went ahead and rewrote SpecialStatistics to subclass SpecialPage
+* (bug 5506) Links to files on foreign repositories are now shown consistently
+ as bluelinks e.g. in logs and edit summaries
+* (bug 16623) Add missing </p> tag in Special:LockDB
+* (bug 15849) Special:Movepage now throws a more specific error when trying to
+ move a title to an interwiki target
+* (bug 16638) 8-bit URL fallback encoding now set on additional languages using
+ Arabic script (Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi)
+* (bug 16656) cleanupTitles and friends should now work in load-balanced
+ DB environments when $wgDBserver isn't set.
+* (bug 3691) Aspect ratio from viewBox attribute is now preserved for SVG
+ images which do not specify width and height attributes.
+* (bug 15027) Internet domain names and IP addresses can now be indexed and
+ searched sensibly with the default MySQL search backend.
+* (bug 11733) Fixed parameter validation in importTextFile.php
+* (bug 16712) Special:NewFiles updated to use "newer"/"older" paging messages
+ for clarity over "previous/next"
+* (bug 16612) Fixed "noprint" class for Modern skin print style
+* Section anchors now have an "id" attribute as well as a "name" attribute,
+ even when Tidy is not used
+* (bug 16026) revision-info, revision-info-current, cannotdelete,
+ redirectedfrom, historywarning and difference messages now use Wiki text
+ rather than raw HTML markup
+* (bug 13835) Fix rendering of {{filepath:Wiki.png|nowiki}}
+* (bug 16772) Special:Upload now correctly rejects files with spaces in the
+ file extension (e.g. Foo. jpg).
+* Image moving over an existing file no longer throws a database error
+* (bug 16786) Restored "redundant" links recently removed from Classic sidebar
+* (bug 16850) $wgActionPaths can have query strings now, previously, this broke
+ local URLs
+* (bug 16376) Mention in deleteBatch.php and moveBatch.php maintenance scripts
+ that STDIN can be used for page list
+* (bug 16560) Special:Random returns a page from ContentNamespaces, and no
+ longer from NS_MAIN
+
+=== API changes in 1.14 ===
+
+* Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
+ shown as empty instead of the current time.
+* API search now falls back to fulltext search by default when using Lucene
+ or other engine which doesn't support a separate title search function.
+ This means you can use API search on Wikipedia without explicitly adding
+ &srwhat=text to the query.
+* Added iiprop=bitdepth to imageinfo and aiprop=bitdepth to allimages
+* (bug 14713) API-specific permissions (such as 'writeapi' and 'apihighlimits'
+ are now listed on action=help
+* (bug 15044) Added requestid parameter to api.php to facilitate distinguishing
+ between requests
+* (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
+ output.
+* When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
+* list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
+* (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
+ non-hidden categories
+* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of
+ an error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
+* list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
+ etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
+ for consistency with other list modules.
+* Added action=watch
+* (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
+* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228 when trying to create an
+ empty section with section=new
+* Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
+ nochange flag any more
+* (bug 15392) ApiFormatBase::formatHTML now uses $wgUrlProtocols.
+* (bug 15444) action=edit returns "Unknown error: ``AS_END''" where it should
+ return just "Unknown error"
+* (bug 15448) YAML output returns empty values instead of 0
+* (bug 15445) Added action=patrol
+* (bug 15466) Added action=purge
+* (bug 15486) action=block ignores autoblock parameter
+* (bug 15492) added rcprop=loginfo to list=recentchanges
+* (bug 15527) action=rollback can now revert anonymous editors
+* (bug 15535) prop=info&inprop=protection doesn't list pre-1.10 protections
+ if the page is also protected otherwise (1.10+ style or cascading)
+* list=random now has rnredirect parameter, to get random redirects.
+* Added APIAfterExecute, APIQueryAfterExecute and APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute
+ hooks which allow for extending core modules in a cleaner way
+* action=protect checks for invalid protection types and levels
+* (bug 15673) Added indentation to format=wddxfm output and improved built-in
+ WDDX formatter to resemble PHP's more
+* (bug 15706) Empty values for apprtype and apprlevel are now silently ignored
+ rather than causing an exception
+* Added uiprop=preferencestoken to meta=userinfo
+* (bug 15609) Add inprop=url and inprop=readable to prop=info
+* Add ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled classes so individual modules can
+ be disabled in LocalSettings.php
+* (bug 15653) Add prop=duplicatefiles
+* (bug 15768) Add list=watchlistraw
+* (bug 15647) action=edit with basetimestamp fails if the page has been deleted
+ and undeleted since the last edit
+* (bug 15785) Allow for different expiry times for different protections in
+ action=protect
+* Added allowsduplicates attribute to action=paraminfo output
+* (bug 15767) apfilterlanglinks returns duplicate results
+* (bug 15845) Added pageid/fromid parameter to action=delete/move, making
+ manipulation of legacy pages with invalid titles possible
+* (bug 15881) Empty or invalid parameters cause database errors
+* The maxage and smaxage parameters are now properly validated
+* (bug 15945) list=recentchanges doesn't check $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgUseNPPatrol
+ and patrolmarks right
+* (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
+ descending order.
+* (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
+ list=categorymembers
+* (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
+ sortkeys containing pipes
+* (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
+ works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
+* (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
+ output
+* Added redirect resolution to action=parse
+* (bug 16074) rvprop=content combined with a generator with a high limit causes
+ an error
+* (bug 16105) Image metadata attributes containing spaces result in invalid XML
+* (bug 16126) Added siprop=magicwords to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 16159) Added wlshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=watchlist
+* (bug 16225) Titles like Talk:Talk:Foo broke apfrom and friends
+* meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap no longer throws an exception for empty
+ sifilter parameter.
+* (bug 12760) meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits doesn't list group-specific rate
+ limits
+* (bug 16398) meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights lists some rights twice in some cases
+* (bug 16408) Added rvgeneratexml to prop=revisions
+* (bug 16421) Made list=logevents's leuser accept user names with underscores
+ instead of spaces
+* (bug 16516) Made rvsection=T-2 work
+* (bug 16526) Added usprop=emailable to list=users
+* (bug 16548) list=search threw errors with an invalid error code
+* (bug 16515) Added pst and onlypst parameters to action=parse
+* (bug 16541) Added block expiry timestamp to list=logevents output
+* (bug 16613) action=protect doesn't tell when &cascade was set but cascading
+ protection wasn't allowed
+* (bug 16626) action=delete now correctly handles empty "reason" param
+* (bug 15579) clshow considers all categories !hidden
+* (bug 16647) list=allcategories, prop=categories don't return "hidden"
+ property for hidden categories
+* New siprop parameter of 'extensions' to list all installed extensions
+* (bug 16672) Include canonical namespace name in
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces.
+* (bug 16726) siprop=namespacealiases should also list localized aliases
+* (bug 16730) Added apprfiltercascade parameter to list=allpages to filter
+ cascade-protected pages
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.14 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed.
+
+* Bakhtiari (bqi) (new)
+* Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script) (hif-deva) (new)
+* Krio (kri) (new)
+* Lezghian (lez) (new)
+* Laz (lzz) (new)
+* Eastern Mari (mhr) (new)
+* Niuean (niu) (new)
+* Oromo (om) (new)
+* Plautdietsch (pdt) (new)
+* Western Punjabi (pnb) (new)
+* Tarantino (roa-tara) (new)
+* Serbo-Croatian (sh) (new)
+* Tulu (tcy) (new)
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.13 ==
+
+== Changes since 1.13.2 ==
+
+David Remahl of Apple's Product Security team has identified a number of
+security issues in previous releases of MediaWiki. Subsequent analysis by the
+MediaWiki development team expanded the scope of these vulnerabilities. The
+issues with a significant impact are as follows:
+
+* An XSS vulnerability affecting all MediaWiki installations between 1.13.0 and
+ 1.13.2. [CVE-2008-5249]
+* A local script injection vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer clients for
+ all MediaWiki installations with uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
+* A local script injection vulnerability affecting clients with SVG scripting
+ capability (such as Firefox 1.5+), for all MediaWiki installations with SVG
+ uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250]
+* A CSRF vulnerability affecting the Special:Import feature, for all MediaWiki
+ installations since the feature was introduced in 1.3.0. [CVE-2008-5252]
+
+XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities allow an attacker to steal an
+authorised user's login session, and to act as that user on the wiki. The
+authorised user must visit a web page controlled by the attacker in order to
+activate the attack. Intranet wikis are vulnerable if the attacker can
+determine the intranet URL.
+
+Local script injection vulnerabilities are like XSS vulnerabilities, except
+that the attacker must have an account on the local wiki, and there is no
+external site involved. The attacker uploads a script to the wiki, which another
+user is tricked into executing, with the effect that the attacker is able to act
+as the privileged user.
+
+CSRF vulnerabilities allow an attacker to act as an authorised user on the wiki,
+but unlike an XSS vulnerability, the attacker can only act as the user in a
+specific and restricted way. The present CSRF vulnerability allows pages to be
+edited, with forged revision histories. Like an XSS vulnerability, the
+authorised user must visit the malicious web page to activate the attack.
+
+These four vulnerabilities are all fixed in this release.
+
+David Remahl also reminded us of some security-related configuration issues:
+
+* By default, MediaWiki stores a backup of deleted images in the images/deleted
+ directory. If you do not want these images to be publically accessible, make
+ sure this directory is not accessible from the web. MediaWiki takes some steps
+ to avoid leaking these images, but these measures are not perfect.
+* Set display_errors=off in your php.ini to avoid path disclosure via PHP fatal
+ errors. This is the default on most shared web hosts.
+* Enabling MediaWiki's debugging features, such as $wgShowExceptionDetails, may
+ lead to path disclosure.
+
+Other changes in this release:
+
+* Avoid fatal error in profileinfo.php when not configured.
+* Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection against
+ exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default installations.
+* Avoid streaming uploaded files to the user via index.php. This allows
+ security-conscious users to serve uploaded files via a different domain, and
+ thus client-side scripts executed from that domain cannot access the login
+ cookies. Affects Special:Undelete, img_auth.php and thumb.php.
+* When streaming files via index.php, use the MIME type detected from the
+ file extension, not from the data. This reduces the XSS attack surface.
+* Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath. Such redirects exacerbate any
+ XSS vulnerabilities involving uploads of files containing scripts.
+* Internationalisation updates.
+
+== Changes since 1.13.1 ==
+
+* Security: Work around misconfiguration by requiring strict comparisons for
+ in_array in User::isAllowed().
+* (bug 14944) Added $wgShellLocale for configuration of an appropriate locale
+ to use for LC_CTYPE during shell invocation. For servers that don't have
+ en_US.utf8. Also added locale detection during install.
+* Localisation updates
+* Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability in useskin parameter.
+
+== Changes since 1.13.0 ==
+
+* (bug 15460) Fixed intermittent deadlock errors and poor concurrent
+ performance for installations without memcached.
+* (bug 13770) Fixed DOM module detection for installations with both dom
+ and domxml.
+* (bug 15148) Fixed Special:BlockIP for PostgreSQL
+* Fixed SQLite support for non-memcached installations
+* Localisation updates, Achinese (ace) added.
+
+== Changes since 1.13.0rc2 ==
+
+* (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module
+* Fix regression from r37834: accesskey tooltip hint should be given for the
+ minor edit and watch labels on the edit page.
+* Updated Chinese simplified/traditional conversion tables
+
+== Changes since 1.13.0rc1 ==
+
+* $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4
+ has been $wgSearchForwardUrl.
+* (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
+* (bug 14966) Fix SearchEngineDummy class for silently non-functional search
+ on Sqlite instead of horribly fatal error breaky one.
+* (bug 14987) Only fix double redirects on page move when the checkbox is
+ checked
+* (bug 13376) Use $wgPasswordSender, not $wgEmergencyContact, as return
+ address for page update notification mails.
+* API: Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now
+ shown as empty instead of the current time.
+* (bug 14904): fragments were lost when redirects were fixed.
+* Added magic word __STATICREDIRECT__ to suppress the redirect fixer
+* (bug 15035) Revert English linkTrail to /^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD, as it was before
+ r36253. Multiple reports of breakage due to old (pre-5.0) PCRE libraries,
+ both bundled with PHP and packaged with distros such as RHEL.
+* (bug 14944) Shell invocation of external programs such as ImageMagick convert
+ was broken in PHP 5.2.6, if the server had a non-UTF-8 locale.
+
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.13 ===
+
+* New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds
+* (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved
+ links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500
+* Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default
+* Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms
+* Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf
+* (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to
+ $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges
+* (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated
+ for only some namespaces
+* Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use:
+ $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
+ in your LocalSettings.php.
+* (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows
+ you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local
+ database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new
+ $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share.
+* Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries
+* Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page
+* $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to
+ be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge
+* $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits
+ displayed on the recent changes special pages
+* The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target
+ image page already exists
+* $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once
+ (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage
+* Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use
+ $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it.
+* $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over
+ a certain number of days to be considered active
+* $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days
+* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
+ $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however.
+* New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving
+ subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default.
+* New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output.
+ Default: false
+* Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection
+ is no longer possible.
+* $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class,
+ previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType
+* $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages
+ provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles
+* Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for
+ with MimeMagic.
+* Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when
+ creating new directories.
+* (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults
+ current behavior.
+
+=== New features in 1.13 ===
+
+* __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the
+ article page
+* Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the
+ article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not
+ confused when they are told they are range-blocked.
+* Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext
+ image syntax output
+* (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit§ion=new that
+ pre-fills the section title field
+* (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked
+* (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to
+ reduce broken form submissions
+* Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old
+ redirects to the redirect table
+* Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons
+* (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload
+* (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract
+* When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit"
+* (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled"
+ link on diffs
+* Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting
+* Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema
+* Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts
+** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories
+** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories
+* (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch
+* (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings
+* Image redirects are now enabled by default
+* (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration
+* (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form
+* Redesign of Special:UserRights
+* Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible
+* (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word
+* (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of
+ 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar'
+* Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed
+* (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or
+ off on Special:WhatLinksHere
+* Cache image redirects
+* (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections
+* Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor
+ to modify the output for edit conflicts
+* Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get
+ a slightly less huge margin and padding
+* (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format
+* Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z
+* On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove
+ one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you
+* (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page
+* Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different
+ text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount')
+* Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account,
+ otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins
+* Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content
+ namespaces, not just NS_MAIN.
+* (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository
+ and local one
+* Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php
+* (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added.
+* (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL]
+* Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message
+* (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers
+* Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest)
+* More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting)
+* (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block.
+* (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet
+* Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere
+* Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages
+* Add support for SQLite
+* AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession
+* (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS
+* (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]]
+* Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well
+* (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now
+ 'import-upload' instead of 'upload'
+* Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences
+* (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s.
+* New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated
+ from other pages in their group.
+* (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page.
+* (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist
+* Sidebar is now cached for all languages
+* The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures
+ out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of
+ edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days.
+* SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be
+ changed by extensions.
+* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of
+ external links.
+* (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP.
+* (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string
+* (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of
+ e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser
+* Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar
+* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output
+ of external (hotlinked) images.
+* (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter:
+ Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single
+ page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks.
+* Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language
+* (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that
+ are in Special:Recentchanges
+* Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook
+* Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem();
+* Add meta generator tag to HTML output
+* MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object
+* Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc.
+* Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached.
+* (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images
+* Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
+ moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
+ SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
+* Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
+ the database is potentially queried
+* (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such.
+* New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ČSN and PČP.
+* Special:Recentchangeslinked now includes changes to transcluded pages and
+ displayed images; also, the "Show changes to pages linked" checkbox now works on
+ category pages too, showing all links that are not categorizations
+* (bug 4578) Automatically fix redirects broken by a page move
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
+
+* (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
+* (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form
+* (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge
+* (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace
+* (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page
+* Make the default filepageexists message accurate
+* (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email
+* (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x
+* (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki
+* (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code
+ to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via
+ 'opensearch-desc' message.
+* (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission
+ to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames
+* (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created
+* (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages
+* (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form
+* (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded
+* (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page
+* (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in
+ maintenance/cleanupSpam.php
+* All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element
+* (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing
+* (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links
+* maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option
+* (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled
+ back when using rollback
+* (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the
+ recentchanges entry
+* (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst
+* (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator,
+ autocomment-prefix)
+* Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview
+* (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as
+ case-insensitive names.
+* Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc
+* (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy.
+* (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated
+ for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance
+* (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding
+* Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language
+* (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres
+* (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects
+* (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer
+ overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it.
+* (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class
+ 'generated-sidebar'.
+* (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp'
+* (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places
+* (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change
+* (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL
+* (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search
+* (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity
+* (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input
+* (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom
+* (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect',
+ so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms
+* Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and
+ using the "delete and move" option.
+* (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs
+* (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably
+* (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility
+* PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters
+* (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled
+* (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust
+* (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks
+* Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute
+* (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken
+* (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field
+* (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely
+* (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC
+* (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab
+* (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords
+ (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright")
+* Trackback display formatting fixed
+* Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors
+ that have an array index other than 0
+* (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams
+* (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images
+* (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar
+* (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language
+* (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty.
+* (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload
+* (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails
+* (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only
+* (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml
+* (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language
+* (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in
+ Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry.
+* (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins
+* (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images
+* (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form
+* (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently
+* (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages
+* (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook
+* (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language
+* (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs
+* Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page
+* Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload
+* (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions
+* (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search
+ without query
+* (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses
+* (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits
+* (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion
+* (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again
+* (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile
+* (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if
+ the page is included
+* When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too
+* Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in
+ search results
+* (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed
+* Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are
+ changeable or all unchangeable
+* Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name
+* (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before
+* (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing
+* (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere
+* (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle
+* (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins
+* Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types
+* (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing
+* Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete
+* (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin
+* (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id
+* (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin
+* (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin
+* (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode
+* (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels
+* (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has
+ "show hidden categories" option on
+* (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php
+* (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup
+* (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes
+* (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages
+* (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form
+* (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population
+* (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list
+* (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2
+* Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-)
+* (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML
+* (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors
+* (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled
+* (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0
+ Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present.
+* (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users
+* (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file
+* (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options
+ Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer.
+* (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page
+* (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview
+* (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-"
+* Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive
+* (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behaviour on image pages
+* (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation
+* (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check
+* (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page
+* (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers
+* (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members
+* (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists
+ even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean
+* (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are
+ loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them
+* (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages
+* (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also
+ disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions
+* (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in
+* (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon)
+* (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message
+* (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name
+ for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem
+ with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6.
+* (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror
+* (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ
+ and I to ı
+* (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode
+* (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
+ set to true
+* (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button
+* (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias
+* (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the
+ ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it,
+ not the main namespace page.
+* (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries
+* (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments
+* (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry
+* (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles
+* (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page
+* (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode.
+* (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of
+ $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit'].
+* (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title)
+ and $2 (=revision numbers)
+* (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions
+* (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode
+* (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static.
+* (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer
+* (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for
+ extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names.
+* (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview
+* (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload.
+* We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now
+ created automatically if we have sufficient permissions!
+* (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper
+* (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files
+ fail due to database permission or other error
+* (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual
+ recent changes page.
+* (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped
+* Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers
+* (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins
+* (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings
+* (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls
+* (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges
+ and multiple servers
+* (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect.
+* (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu)
+* (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories."
+* (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form
+* (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes
+* (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should.
+* OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty
+ searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki).
+* (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title
+ on Special:Newpages.
+* (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer
+ generates a log entry.
+* (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid,
+ keeps the log page from being distorted.
+* (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend.
+* (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output
+* (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check
+* (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar
+* (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404
+* (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using
+ application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed.
+* (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work
+ on non-mySQL schemas.
+* (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle)
+ had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster().
+* (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays.
+* (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized
+* (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base
+* (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as
+ history pages
+* (bug 14845) Bug in prefs javascript: Calling an array item without checking
+ its existance.
+* Accesskeys for minor edit/watch checkboxes on edit now work in Firefox 3
+* (bug 12384) Comments in maintenance/*php
+* (bug 12441) ./maintenance/generateSitemap.php fix -fspath requiring
+ a trailing slash.
+* (bug 12568) configuration script now produce valid XHTML.
+* The accesskey to edit a page is now disabled when editing the page, to pre-
+ vent conflicts with Safari shortcuts.
+
+=== API changes in 1.13 ===
+
+* Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges
+* Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well)
+* (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces
+* (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs
+* (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid
+ retrieval easier
+* (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks
+* Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move
+* Added action=edit
+* (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter
+* Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of
+ a certain section only
+* Introduced list=allimages
+* (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes
+* Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing
+* (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query
+* (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works
+* (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless
+* (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table
+* (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now
+ handled properly.
+* (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist
+* (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly
+* Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info
+* Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only
+* Added createonly parameter to action=edit
+* Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows
+* (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output.
+* (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo
+* Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output
+* (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse
+* (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo
+* Cleaned up redirect resolution
+* Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage
+* (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop
+* (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's
+ very weak typing on array keys.
+* (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9
+* (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format
+* (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges
+* (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old
+ revisions
+* (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp
+* action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property
+* (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results.
+* (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item
+* Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block
+* (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with
+ format=xml
+* (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module
+* (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection
+* (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting
+* (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending
+* (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging
+* (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges
+* (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo
+* (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete
+ for ages)
+* (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates
+* (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images
+* Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata
+* Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully
+* Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully
+* (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries
+* (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk
+* action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do
+* Added md5 parameter to action=edit
+* (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible
+* Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user
+* (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse
+* (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit
+* (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks
+* Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output
+* Added nocreate parameter to action=edit
+* (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php
+* Added bkip parameter to list=blocks
+* (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized
+* Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories
+* (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and
+ $wgShowSQLErrors
+* (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo
+* Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions
+ can add their own tokens
+* Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well
+* Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to
+ prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images}
+* Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to
+ the page
+* list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol
+
+
+
+== MediaWiki 1.12 ==
+
+This is the Winter 2007 quarterly release.
+
+MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
+quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
+"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
+
+Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
+from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
+will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
+
+Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
+it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.12 ===
+* Marking edits as bot edits with Special:Contributions?bot=1 now requires the
+ markbotedit permission, rather than the rollback permission previously used.
+ This permission is assigned by default to the sysop group.
+* MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
+ variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
+ to not check and assume they are always up to date)
+* The rollback permission can now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
+* New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
+* Behaviour of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behaviour:
+* * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights.
+* * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or
+ remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for
+ any groups they are in.
+* New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
+* $wgImplicitGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc.
+* $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria
+* $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove
+ themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
+* When $wgUseTidy has been enabled, PHP's Tidy module is now used if it is
+ present, in preference to an external Tidy executable which may or may not
+ be present. To force use of external Tidy even when the PHP module is
+ available, set $wgTidyInternal to false.
+
+
+=== New features in 1.12 ===
+* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
+* Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file,
+ complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages.
+* (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema
+ is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user.
+* (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page
+* (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages
+* (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw
+* (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously
+ deleted file
+* On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view
+ source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to
+ create it
+* Clarify instructions given when an exception is thrown
+* AuthPlugin added strictUserAuth() method to allow per-user override
+ of the strict() authentication behavior.
+* (bug 7872) Deleted revisions can now be viewed as diffs showing changes
+ against the previous revision, whether currently deleted or live.
+* Added tooltips for the "Go" and "Search" buttons
+* (bug 11649) Show input form when Special:Whatlinkshere has no parameters
+* isValidEmailAddr hook added to User method of that name, to allow, e.g., re-
+ stricting e-mail addresses to a specific domain
+* Removed "Clear" link in watchlist editor tools, as people were afraid to
+ click it. Existing clear links will fall back to the raw editor, which is
+ very easy to clear your watchlist with.
+* (bug 1405) Add wgUseNPPatrol option to control patroling for new articles
+ on Special:Newpages
+* LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log.
+* Support for Iranian calendar
+* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on
+ Special:Newpages
+* ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC.
+* MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main
+ globals have been set up but before any actions have been taken.
+* BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist.
+* SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links.
+* OutputPage::getRedirect public method added.
+* (bug 11848, 12506) Allow URL parameters 'section', 'editintro' and 'preload'
+ in Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk
+* Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages
+* Support for Hebrew calendar
+* Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times
+* (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and
+ [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]]
+* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than
+ user page
+* Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php
+* Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP
+ fails
+ because it is part of a blocked range.
+* (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is
+ created by another user
+* dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart
+ cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
+* (bug 12028) Add Special:Listbots as shortcut for Special:Listusers/bot
+* (bug 9633) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the deletion form
+* Show a warning message when creating/editing a user (talk) page but the user
+ does not exists
+* (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches
+* (bug 12195) Undeleting pages now requires 'undelete' permission
+* (bug 11810) Localize displayed semicolons
+* (bug 11657) Support for Thai solar calendar
+* (bug 943) RSS feed for Recentchangeslinked
+* Introduced AbortMove hook
+* (bug 2919) Protection of nonexistent pages with regular protection interface.
+* Special:Upload now lists permitted/prohibited file extensions.
+* Split ambiguous filetype-badtype message into two new messages,
+ filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type.
+* Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage
+* On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable.
+* It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop
+ extension
+* Add HTML ID's mw-read-only-warning and mw-anon-edit-warning to warnings when
+ editing to allow CSS styling.
+* Parser now returns list of sections
+* When a user is prohibited from creating a page, a title of "View source"
+ makes no sense, and there should be no "Return to [[Page]]" link.
+* (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors.
+* (bug 9939) Special:Search now sets focus to search input box when no existing
+ search is active
+* For Special:Userrights, use GET instead of POST to search for users.
+* Allow subpage syntax for Special:Userrights, i.e., Special:Userrights/Name.
+* When submitting changes on Special:Userrights, show the full form again, not
+ just the search box.
+* Added exception hooks
+* (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot
+ edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1')
+* (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page
+* (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
+* Add caching to the AJAX search
+* Add APCOND_INGROUPS
+* Add DBA caching to installer
+* (bug 12585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
+* Support redirects in image namespace
+* (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
+* (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon
+* Add option to include templates in Special:Export.
+* (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender
+ address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails.
+ This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages
+ when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value.
+* (bug 11897) Add alias [[Special:CreateAccount]] & [[Special:Userlogin/signup]]
+ for Special:Userlogin?type=signup
+* (bug 12214) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the file deletion form
+* Merged backends for OpenSearch suggestions and AJAX search.
+ Both now accept namespace prefixes, handle 'Media:' and 'Special:' pages,
+ and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code,
+ and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook.
+* (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version
+* When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for
+ and installed when at the superuser level.
+* The default robot policy for the entire wiki is now configurable via the
+ $wgDefaultRobotPolicy setting.
+* (bug 12239) Use different separators for autocomments
+* (bug 12857) Patrol link on new pages should clear floats
+* (bug 12968) Render redirect wikilinks in a redirect class for customization
+ via user/site CSS.
+* EditPageBeforeEditButtons hook added for altering the edit buttons below the edit box
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
+
+* Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL
+* (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for
+ ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus]
+* (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to
+ getUserPermissionsErrors.
+* Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages.
+* (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible
+ translations
+* (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface
+ message, the level of protection.
+* (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext
+ message.
+* (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis
+ where rollback is given to non-sysops.
+* (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from
+ editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs.
+* (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French
+* (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log
+* Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist
+ is not defined
+* (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode
+* (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search
+* (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search
+* (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used
+* (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent
+ page
+* Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values
+* (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which
+ linked to the main page instead of targetted page
+* Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in
+ Special:Listredirects
+* (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection
+ when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value
+* (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob
+ object.
+* (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres.
+* (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make
+ oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key
+ TEXT.
+* (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text
+* Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked
+* (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade
+* Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages
+* Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis
+* (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name
+* (bug 11474) Fix unintentional fall-through in math error handling
+* (bug 11478) Fix undefined method call in file deletion interface
+* (bug 278) Search results no longer highlight incorrect partial word matches
+* Compatibility with incorrectly detected old-style DJVU mime types
+* (bug 11560) Fix broken HTML output from weird link nesting in edit comments.
+ Nested links (as in image caption text) still don't work _right_ but they're
+ less wrong
+* (bug 9718) Remove unnecessary css from main.css causing spacing issues on
+ some browsers.
+* (bug 11574) Add an interface message loginstart, which, similarly to loginend,
+ appears just before the login form. Patch by MinuteElectron.
+* Do not cache category pages if using 'from' or 'until'
+* Created new hook getUserPermissionsErrors, to go with userCan changes.
+* Diff pages did not properly display css/js pages.
+* (bug 11620) Add call to User::isValidEmailAddr during accout creation.
+* (bug 11629) If $wgEmailConfirmToEdit is true, require people to supply an
+ email address when registering.
+* (bug 11612) Days to show in recent changes cannot be larger than 7
+* (bug 11131) Change filearchive width/height columns to int for Postgres
+* Support plural in undeleted{revisions,revisions-files,files}
+* (bug 11343) If the database is read-only, ensure that undelete fails.
+* (bug 11690) Show revert link for page moves in Special:Log to allowed users
+ only
+* Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work.
+* Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0
+* (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic
+ words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''.
+* (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message
+* (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories()
+* (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak)
+* (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs
+* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is
+ present
+* (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers
+* (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu)
+* Remove all commas when parsing float numbers in sorted tables
+* Limit text field of deletion, protection and user rights changes reasons to
+ 255 characters (already restricted in the database)
+* In the deletion default reasons, calculate how much text to get from the
+ article text, rather than getting 150 characters (which may be too much)
+* Add two messages for Special:Blockme which were used but undefined
+* (bug 11921) Support plural in message number_of_watching_users_pageview
+* If an IP address is blocked as part of a rangeblock, attempting to unblock
+ the single IP should not unblock the entire range.
+* (bug 6695) Fix native language name of Southern Sotho (Sesotho) (st)
+* Make action=render follow redirects by default
+* If restricted read access was enabled, whitelist didn't work with special
+ pages which had spaces in theirs names
+* If restricted read access was enabled, requests for non-existing special pages
+ threw an exception
+* Feeds for recent changes now provide correct URLs for the change, not just
+ the page
+* Check for if IP is blocked as part of a range when unblocking (see above bug-
+ fix) was faulty. Now fixed.
+* Fixed wpReason URL parameter to action=delete.
+* Do not force a password for account creation by email
+* Ensure that rate-limiting is applied to rollbacks.
+* Make a better rate-limiting error message (i.e. a normal MW error,
+ rather than an "Internal Server Error").
+* Do not present an image bigger than the source when 'frameless' option is used
+ (to be consistent with the 'thumb' option now)
+* Support {{PLURAL}} for import log
+* Make sure that the correct log entries are shown on Special:Userrights even
+ for users with special characters in their names
+* The number of watching users in watchlists was always reported as 1
+* namespaceDupes.php no longer dies when coming across an illegal title
+* (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
+* (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
+* (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
+* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
+ instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
+ conversion with China variant.
+* (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
+* Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
+ in the page_restrictions matching its old page_restrictions field.
+ May help with odd upgrade issues or race condition.
+* (bug 11993) Remove contentsub "revision history"
+* (bug 11952) Ensure we quote_ident() all schema names as needed
+ inside of the DatabasePostgres.php file.
+* (bug 12184) Exceptions now sent to stderr instead of stdout for command-line
+ scripts, making for cleaner reporting during batch jobs. PHP errors will also
+ be redirected in most cases on PHP 5.2.4 and later, switching 'display_errors'
+ to 'stderr' at runtime.
+* (bug 12148) Text highlight wasn't applied to cleanly deleted and added
+ lines in diff output
+* (bug 10166) Fix a PHP warning in Language::getMagic
+* Only mark rollback edits as minor if the user can normally mark edits minor
+* Escape page names in the move successful page (e.g. for pages with two
+ apostrophes).
+* (bug 12145) Add localized names of kk-variants
+* (bug 12259) Localize the numbers in deleted pages on the sysop view
+* Set proper page title for successful file deletion
+* (bug 11221) Do not show 'Compare selected versions' button for a history page
+ with one revision only
+* (bug 12267) Set the default date format to Thai solar calender for the Thai
+ language
+* (bug 10184) Extensions' stylesheets and scripts should be loaded before
+ user-customized ones (like Common.css, Common.js)
+* (bug 12283) Special:Newpages forgets parameters
+* (bug 12031) All namespaces doesn't work in Special:Newpages
+* (bug 585) Only create searchindex replica table for parser tests if db is
+ MySQL
+* Allow --record option if parserTests.php to work when using Postgres
+* (bug 12296) Simplify cache epoch in default LocalSettings.php
+* (bug 12346) XML fix when body double-click and click handlers are present
+* Fix regression -- missing feed links in sidebar on Special:Recentchanges
+* (bug 12371) Handle more namespace case variants in namespaceDupes.php
+* (bug 12380) Bot-friendly EditPage::spamPage
+* (bug 8066) Spaces can't be entered in special page aliases
+* Hide undo link if user can't edit article
+* (bug 12416) Fix password setting for createAndPromote.php
+* (bug 3097) Inconsistently usable titles containing HTML character entities
+ are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up existing pages.
+* (bug 12446) Permissions check fix for undelete link
+* (bug 12451) AJAX title normalization tweaks
+* When a user creating a page is not allowed to either create the page nor edit
+ it, all applicable reasons are now shown.
+* (bug 11428) Allow $wgScript inside $wgArticlePath when emulating PATH_INFO
+ Fixes 'root'-style rewrite configurations
+* (bug 12493) Removed hardcoded MAX_FILE_SIZE from Special:Import upload form
+* (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again
+* (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen
+* (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw
+* (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
+* (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move
+* (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages
+* Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links.
+ This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow,
+ and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner.
+* (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code.
+* (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes
+* (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian
+* (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect.
+ Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages.
+ Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework.
+* Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the
+ name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set).
+* (bug 12695) Suppress dvips verbiage from web server error log
+* (bug 12716) Unprotecting a non-protected page leaves a log entry
+* Log username blocks with canonical form of name instead of input form
+* (bug 11593, 12719) Fixes for overzealous invocation of thumb.php.
+ Non-image handlers and full-size images may now decline it, fixing
+ mystery failures when using $wgThumbnailScriptPath.
+* (bug 12327) Comma in username no longer disrupts mail headers
+* (bug 6436) Localization of Special:Import XML parser Error message(s).
+* Security fix for API on MSIE
+* (bug 12768) Database query syntax error in maintenance/storage/compressOld.inc
+* (bug 12753) Empty captions in MediaWiki:Sidebar result in PHP errors
+* (bug 12790) Page protection is not logged when edit-protection is used
+ and move-protection is not
+* (bug 12793) Fix for restricted namespaces/pages in Special:Export
+* Fix for Special:Export so it doesn't ignore the page named '0'
+* Don't display rollback link if the user doesn't have all required permissions
+* The comment of a time-limited protection now contains the date in the default
+ format
+* (bug 12880) wfLoadExtensionMessages does not use $fallback from MessagesXx.php
+* (bug 12885) Correction for Russian convertPlural function
+* (bug 12768) Make DatabasePostgres->hasContraint() schema aware.
+* (bug 12735) Truncate usernames in comments using mb_ functions.
+* (bug 12892) Poor tab indexing on "delete file" form
+* (bug 12660) When creating an account by e-mail, do not send the creator's IP
+ address
+* (bug 12931) Fix wrong global variable in SpecialVersion
+* (bug 12919) Use 'deletedrevision' message as content when deleting an old file
+ version
+* (bug 12952) Using Nosuchusershort instead of Nosuchuser when account creation
+ is disabled
+* (bug 12869) Magnify icon alignment should be adjusted using linked CSS
+* Fixing message cache updates for MediaWiki messages moves
+* (bug 12815) Signature timestamps were always in UTC, even if the timezone code
+ in parentheses after them claimed otherwise
+* (bug 12732) Fix installer and searching to handle built-in tsearch2 for Postgres.
+* (bug 12784) Change "bool" types to smallint to handle Postgres 8.3 strictness.
+* (bug 12301) Allow maintenance/findhooks.php to search hooks in multiple directories.
+* (bug 7681, 11559) Cookie values no longer override GET and POST variables.
+* (bug 5262) Fully-qualified $wgStylePath no longer corrupted on XML feeds
+* (bug 3269) Inaccessible titles ending in '/.' or '/..' now forbidden.
+* (bug 12935, 12981) Fully-qualify archive URLs in delete, revert messages
+* (bug 12938) Fix template expansion and 404 returns for action=raw with section
+* (bug 11567) Fix error checking for PEAR::Mail. UserMailer::send() now returns
+ true-or-WikiError, which seems to be the calling convention expected by half
+ its callers already
+* (bug 12846) IE rtl.css issue in RTL wikis special:Preferences when selecting an
+ LTR user language
+* (bug 13005) DISPLAYTITLE does not work on preview
+* (bug 13004) Fix error on Postgres searches that return too many results.
+
+== Parser changes in 1.12 ==
+
+For help with migration to the MediaWiki 1.12 parser, please visit:
+
+http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor
+
+The parser pass order has changed from
+
+ * Extension tag strip and render
+ * HTML normalisation and security
+ * Template expansion
+ * Main section...
+
+to
+
+ * Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation
+ * Template expansion and extension rendering
+ * HTML normalisation and security
+ * Main section...
+
+The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax
+have changed.
+
+Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas
+previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in
+one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a
+valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>".
+
+Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you
+have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be
+converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This
+was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in
+the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion
+will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template
+expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security
+pass.
+
+Bug 5678 has been fixed. This has a number of user-visible effects related to
+the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples.
+
+Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess"
+mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated,
+especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behaviour
+of the former message mode.
+
+The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section
+edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a
+whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by
+template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an
+entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings
+will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the
+template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major
+break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects are almost entirely
+beneficial.
+
+The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass
+preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed
+#switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a
+significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from
+Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement
+by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration.
+
+The pre-expand include size limit has been removed, since there's no efficient
+way to calculate such a figure, and it would now be meaningless for performance
+anyway. The "preprocessor node count" takes its place, with a generous default
+limit.
+
+The context in which XML-style extension tags are called has changed, so
+extensions which make use of the parser state may need compatibility changes.
+
+The new preprocessor syntax has been documented in Backus-Naur Form at:
+
+http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF
+
+The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse
+tree from wikitext source. This parse tree corresponds closely to the grammar
+documented on that page.
+
+=== API changes in 1.12 ===
+
+Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
+
+* (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers
+* (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata
+* (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in
+ pretty-printed
+ help document.
+* (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API
+* (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each
+ page.
+* (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal
+ api error messages.
+* (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work
+* Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if
+ revision content is requested.
+* Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo
+ query.
+* (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php
+* (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates
+* (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix
+* (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges
+ list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively.
+* Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x.
+* Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type
+* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection
+ types and levels
+* Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A
+* (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page.
+* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers
+ query.
+* (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query.
+* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
+ name
+* (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag
+* Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
+* Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots
+* Add limit=max to use maximal limit
+* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render
+ which has been removed
+* Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
+* Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
+* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
+* Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and
+ list={blocks,deletedrevs}
+* Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login
+* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using
+ 200 / 10000, now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules.
+* Added list=allcategories module
+* (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data
+* Fix output of wfSajaxSearch
+* (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag
+* Add list of sections to action=parse output
+* Added action=logout
+* Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections
+* Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow
+ (list=recentchanges)
+* Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo
+* action={login,block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} now must be
+ POSTed
+* prop=imageinfo interface changed: iihistory replaced by iilimit, iistart and
+ iiend parameters
+* Added amlang parameter to meta=allmessages
+* Added apfilterlanglinks parameter to list=allpages, replacing
+ query.php?what=nolanglinks
+* (bug 12718) Added action=paraminfo module that provides information about API
+ modules and their parameters
+* Added iiurlwidth and iiurlheight parameters to prop=imageinfo
+* Added format=txt and format=dbg, imported from query.php
+* Added uiprop=editcount to meta=userinfo
+* Added list=users which fetches user information
+* Added list=random which fetches a list of random pages
+* Added page parameter to action=parse to facilitate parsing of existing pages
+* Added uiprop=ratelimits to meta=userinfo
+* Added siprop=namespacealiases to meta=siteinfo
+* Made multiple values for ucuser possible in list=usercontribs
+* (bug 12944) Added cmstart and cmend parameters to list=categorymembers
+* Allow queries to have a where range that does not match the range field
+
+== MediaWiki 1.11 ==
+
+This is the Summer 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
+
+MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
+quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
+"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
+
+Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
+from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
+will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
+
+Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
+it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
+
+== Configuration changes since 1.10 ==
+
+* $wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is
+ used
+* $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups - Finer control over who can assign which
+ usergroups
+* $wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ - Bulk mail options for large sites
+* $wgShowHostnames - Expose server host names through the API and HTML comments
+* $wgSaveDeletedFiles has been removed, the feature is now enabled unconditionally
+
+== New features since 1.10 ==
+
+* (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks
+* Adding expiry of block to block messages
+* Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in
+ <span class="redirect-in-category"></span>
+* Introduced 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
+ more information
+* (bug 9628) Show warnings about slave lag on Special:Contributions,
+ Special:Watchlist
+* (bug 8818) Expose "wpDestFile" as parameter $1 to "uploaddisabledtext"
+* Introducing new image keyword 'upright' and corresponding variable
+ $wgThumbUpright. This allows better proportional view of upright images
+ related to landscape images on a page without nailing the width of upright
+ images to a fix value which makes views for anon unproportional and user
+ preferences useless
+* (bug 6072) Introducing 'border' keyword to the [[Image:]] syntax
+* Introducing 'frameless' keyword to [[Image:]] syntax which respects the
+ user preferences for image width like 'thumb' but without a frame.
+* (bug 7960) Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry
+* Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style
+ file repositories.
+* Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output
+* Improved thumb.php error handling
+* Display file history on local image description pages of shared images
+* Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies
+* (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext
+ containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the
+* (bug 7691) Show relevant lines from the deletion log when re-creating a
+ previously deleted article
+* Added variables 'wgRestrictionEdit' and 'wgRestrictionMove' for JS to header
+* (bug 9898) Allow viewing all namespaces in Special:Newpages
+* (bug 10139) Introduce 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks;
+ see docs/hooks.txt for details
+* (bug 9769) Provide "watch this page" toggle on protection form
+* (bug 9886) Provide clear example "stub link" in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 10055) Populate email address and real name properties of User objects
+ passed to the 'AbortNewAccount' hook
+* Show result of Special:Booksources in wiki content language always, it's
+ normally better maintained than the generic list from the standard message
+ files
+* (bug 7997) Allow users to be blocked from using Special:Emailuser
+* (bug 8989) Blacklist 'mhtml' and 'mht' files from upload
+* (bug 8760) Allow wiki links in "protectexpiry" message
+* (bug 5908) Add "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases for
+ "DEFAULTSORT" magic word
+* (bug 10181) Support the XCache object caching mechanism
+* (bug 9058) Introduce '--aconf' option for all maintenance scripts, to provide
+ a path to the AdminSettings.php file
+* (bug 8781) Remind users to check file permissions for LocalSettings.php
+ post-installation
+* Use shared.css for all skins and oldshared.css in place of common.css for
+ pre-Monobook skins. As always, modifications should go in-wiki to MediaWiki:
+ Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css.
+* (bug 8869) Introduce Special:Uncategorizedtemplates
+* (bug 8734) Different log message when article protection level is changed
+* (bug 8458, 10338) Limit custom signature length to $wgMaxSigChars Unicode
+ characters
+* (bug 10096) Added an ability to query interwiki map table
+* On reupload, add a null revision to the image description page
+* Group log output by date
+* Kurdish interface latin/arabic writing system with transliteration
+* Support wiki text in all query page headers
+* Add 'Orphanedpages' as an alias to Special:Lonelypages
+* (bug 9328) Use "revision-info-current" message in place of "revision-info"
+ when viewing the current revision of a page, if available
+* (bug 8890) Enable wiki text for "license" message
+* Throw a showstopper exception when a hook function fails to return a value.
+ Forgetting to give a 'true' return value is a very common error which tends
+ to cause hard-to-track-down interactions between extensions.
+* Use $wgJobClasses to determine the correct Job to instantiate for a particular
+ queued task; allows extensions to introduce custom jobs
+* (bug 10326) AJAX-based page watching and unwatching has been cleaned up and
+ enabled by default.
+* Added option to install to MyISAM
+* (bug 9250) Remove hardcoded minimum image name length of three characters
+* Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behaviour to reject titles which don't normalise to the
+ same title as the current page, and enabled per default
+* Wrap site CSS and JavaScript in a <pre> tag, like user JS/CSS
+* (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the <pre>s on CSS and JS pages (new
+ classes: mw-code, mw-css, mw-js)
+* (bug 6711) Add $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups to allow finer control over
+ usergroup assignment.
+* Introduce 'UserEffectiveGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 10387) Detect and handle '.php5' extension environments at install time
+* Introduce 'ShowRawCssJs' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 10404) Show rights log for the selected user in Special:Userrights
+* New javascript for upload page that will show a warning if a file with the
+ "destination filename" already exists.
+* Add 'editsection-brackets' message to allow localization (or removal) of the
+ brackets in the "[edit]" link for sections
+* (bug 10437) Move texvc styling to shared.css
+* Introduce "raw editing" mode for the watchlist, to allow bulk additions,
+ removals, and convenient exporting of watchlist contents
+* Show "undo" links in page histories
+* Option to jump to specified time period in user contributions
+* Improved feedback on "rollback success" page
+* Show distinct 'namespaceprotected' message to users when namespace protection
+ prevents page editing
+* (bug 9936) Per-edit suppression of preview-on-first edit with "preview=no"
+* Allow showing a one-off preview on first edit with "preview=yes"
+* (bug 9151) Remove timed redirects on "Return to X" pages for accessibility.
+* Link to user logs in toolbox when viewing a user page
+* (bug 10508) Allow HTML attributes on <gallery>
+* (bug 1962) Allow HTML attributes on <math>
+* (bug 10530) Introduce optional "sp-contributions-explain" message for
+ additional explanation in Special:Contributions
+* (bug 10520) Preview licences during upload via AJAX (toggle with
+ $wgAjaxLicensePreview)
+* New Parser::setTransparentTagHook for parser extension and template
+ compatibility
+* Introduced 'ContributionsToolLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
+ information
+* Add a message if category is empty
+* Add CSS compatibility for Opera 9.5
+* Remove largely untested handheld stylesheet, which was causing more trouble
+ than good. Proper handheld support will be added at a future date. For now,
+ display should be acceptable either with CSS turned off or when using a so-
+ phisticated handheld browser.
+* (bug 3173) Option to offer exported pages as a download, rather than displaying
+ inline, as in most browsers
+* Pass the user as an argument to 'isValidPassword' hook callbacks; see
+ docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* Introduce 'UserGetRights' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 9595) Pass new Revision to the 'ArticleInsertComplete' and
+ 'ArticleSaveComplete' hooks; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 9575) Accept upload description from GET parameters
+* Skip the difference engine cache when 'action=purge' is used while requesting
+ a difference page, to allow refreshing the cache in case of errors
+* (bug 10701) Link to Special:Listusers in default Special:Statistics messages
+* Improved file history presentation
+* (bug 10739) Users can now enter comments when reverting files
+* Improved handling of permissions errors
+* (bug 10793) "Mark patrolled" links will now be shown for users with
+ patrol permissions on all eligible diff pages
+* (bug 10655) Show standard tool links for blocked users in block log messages
+* Show standard tool links for blocked users in Special:Ipblocklist
+* Miscellaneous aesthetic improvements to Special:Ipblocklist
+* (bug 10826) Added link trail with Cyrillic characters for Mongolian language
+* (bug 10859) Introduce 'UserGetImplicitGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
+ more information
+* (bug 10832) Include user information when viewing a deleted revision
+* (bug 10872) Fall back to sane defaults when generating protection selector
+ labels for custom restriction levels
+* Show edit count in user preferences
+* Improved support for audio/video extensions
+* (bug 10937) Distinguish overwritten files in upload log
+* Introduce 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
+ information
+* Confirmation is now required when deleting old versions of files
+* (bug 7535) Users can now enter comments when deleting old versions of files
+* (bug 11001) Submit Special:Newpages as a GET, rather than a POST request
+* The <strong></strong> around links to watched pages in change lists now
+ has a class - "mw-watched"
+* (bug 9002) Provide a "view/restore deleted edits" link on Special:Upload
+ when a destination filename is provided that corresponds with previous
+ deleted files
+* Make the "invalid special page" message clearer
+* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'upload file' button at Special:Upload
+* Introduced 'SkinAfterBottomScripts' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
+ more information
+* (bug 11095) Honour "preview on first edit" preference when preloading
+ text for a non-existent page
+* (bug 11022) Use a more accurate page title for Special:Whatlinkshere and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked
+* Add link to user contributions in normal watchlist edit mode
+* (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow
+ modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new
+ argument is supplied
+* (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the
+ text that prefixes a new section link in Recent Changes
+
+== Bugfixes since 1.10 ==
+
+* (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi
+* (bug 9670) Follow redirects when render edit section links to transcluded
+ templates.
+* (bug 6204) Fix incorrect unindentation with $wgMaxTocLevel
+* (bug 3431) Suppress "next page" link in Special:Search at end of results
+* Don't show unblock form if the user doesn't have permission to use it
+ (cosmetic change, no vulnerabilities existed)
+* Subtitle success message when unblocking a block ID instead of a pseudo link
+ like [[User:#123|#123]]
+* Use the standard HTTP fetch functions when retrieving remote wiki pages
+ through transwiki, so we can take advantage of cURL goodies if available
+* Disable user JavaScript on Special:Userlogin, Special:Resetpass and
+ Special:Preferences, to avoid a compromised script sniffing passwords, etc.
+* (bug 9854, 3770) Clip overflow text in gallery boxes for visual cleanliness
+ instead of letting it flow outside the box or trigger ugly scroll bars.
+* Tooltips for print version and permalink
+* Links to the MediaWiki namespace for system messages having their default
+ values are no longer shown as nonexistent (e.g., in red)
+* Special:Ipblocklist differentiates between empty list and no search results.
+* (bug 5375) profiling does not respect read-only mode.
+* (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts
+* (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset
+* (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR
+* (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer
+ throws warnings.
+* (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error.
+* (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines.
+ Diff style rules have been broken out to common/diff.css,
+ and the dupes removed from the default skin files.
+ Skins can still override the default rules.
+* (bug 1229) Balance columns in diff display evenly
+* Right-align diff line numbers in RTL language display
+* (bug 9332) Fix instructions in tests/README
+* (bug 9813) Reject usernames containing '#' to avoid silent truncation
+ of fragments during the normalisation process
+* (bug 7989) RSS feeds content now use black text when using white background.
+* (bug 9971) Typo in a french language message.
+* (bug 9973) Changed size was shown in advanced recentchanges collapsible items
+ with $wgRCShowChangedSized = false.
+* Fix PHP strict standards warning in enhanced recent changes.
+* (bug 5850) Added hexadecimal html entities comments for $digitTransformTable
+ entries.
+* (bug 7432) Change language name for Aromanian (roa-rup)
+* (bug 908) Unexistent special pages now generate a red link.
+* (bug 7899) Added \hline and \vline to the list of allowed TeX commands
+* (bug 7993) support mathematical symbol classes
+* (bug 10007) Allow Block IP to work with Postgrs again.
+* Add Google Wireless Transcoder to the Unicode editing blacklist
+* (bug 10083) Fix for Special:Version breakage on PHP 5.2 with some hooks
+* (bug 3624) TeX: \ker, \hom, \arg, \dim treated like \sin & \cos
+* (bug 10132, 10134) Restore back-compatibility Image::imageUrl() function
+* (bug 10113) Fix double-click for view source on protected pages
+* (bug 10117) Special:Wantedpages doesn't handle invalid titles in result
+ set [now prints out a warning]
+* (bug 10118) Introduced Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, report which lists
+ templates with a high number of inclusion links
+* (bug 10104) Fixed Database::getLag() for PostgreSQL and Oracle
+* (bug 9820) session.save_path check no longer halts installation, but
+ warns of possible bad values
+* (bug 9978) Fixed session.save_path validation when using extended
+ configuration format, e.g. "5;/tmp"
+* Don't generate a diff link in the patrol log if the page doesn't exist
+* (bug 10067) Translations for former skins removed from message files
+* (bug 9993) Force $wgShowExceptionDetails on during installation
+* (bug 9980) Validate administrator username and password during
+ installation
+* (bug 9383) Don't set a default value for BLOB column in rc-deleted
+ database patch
+* (bug 10149) Don't show full template list on section-0 edit
+* (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob()
+ and decodeBlob()
+* (bug 6743) Don't link broken image links to the upload form when uploads
+ are disabled
+* (bug 9679) Improve documentation for $wgSiteNotice
+* (bug 10215) Show custom editing introduction when editing existing pages
+* (bug 10223) Fix edit link in noarticletext localizations for fr, oc
+* (bug 10247) Fix IP address regex to avoid false positive IPv6 matches
+* (bug 9948) Workaround for diff regression with old Mozilla versions
+* (bug 10265) Fix regression in category image gallery paging
+* (bug 8577) Fix some weird misapplications of time zones.
+ {{CURRENT*}} functions now consistently use UTC as intended, while
+ {{LOCAL*}} functions return local time per server config or $wgLocaltimezone.
+ Signature dates for Japanese and other languages including weekday now show
+ the correct day to match the rest of the time in local time.
+* Escape the output of magic variables that return page name or part of it
+* (bug 10309) Initialise parser state properly in extractSections(), fixes
+ some cases where section edits broke because tags were improperly stripped
+* Avoid PHP notice errors when doing HTTP proxy purges for an empty list
+* As intended, *skip* the HTTP proxy purges when doing HTCP purges
+* (bug 9696) Fix handling of brace transformations in "pagemovedtext"
+* (bug 10325) Fix regression in form action on Special:Listusers
+* Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving
+ overlong key errors.
+* Fixed zero-padding issues with MySQL 5 binary schema
+* (bug 10344) Don't follow a redirect after changing its protection level
+* (bug 10333) Correct date format in Slovenian
+* (bug 10160) Show error message for unknown namespace on Special:Allpages and
+ Special:Prefixindex; making forms prettier for RTL wikis.
+* (bug 10334) Replace normal spaces before percent (%) signs with non-breaking
+ spaces
+* (bug 10372) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores namespace aliases
+* (bug 10198) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores interwiki prefixes
+* namespaceDupes.php should work better for initial-lowercase wikis
+* (bug 10377) "Permanent links" to revisions still work if the page is moved
+ and the redirect deleted
+* (bug 7071) Properly handle an 'oldid' passed to view or edit that doesn't
+ match the given title. Fixes inconsistencies with talk, history, edit links.
+* (bug 10397) Fix AJAX watch error fallback when we receive a bogus result
+* (bug 10396) Fix AJAX error when $wgScriptPath/index.php is not valid;
+ using $wgScript now included in JS info
+* Use native XMLHttpRequest class in preference to ActiveX on IE 7; this
+ avoids the "ActiveX "Do you want to allow ActiveX?" prompt when something
+ security settings are cranked this way and AJAX-y gets used.
+* Delay AJAX watch initialization until click so IE 6 with ugly security
+ settings doesn't prompt you until you use the link.
+* (bug 10401) Provide non-redirecting link to original title in Special:Movepage
+* Fix broken handling of log views for page titles consisting of one
+ or more zeros, e.g. "0", "00" etc.
+* Fix read permission check for special pages with subpage parameters, e.g.
+ Special:Confirmemail
+* Fix read permission check for unreadable page titles which are numerically
+ equivalent to a whitelisted title
+* '?>' closing tag removed from all files to help avoid problems with extraneous
+ whitespace (broken XML feeds, etc.)
+* Don't use garbled parser cache output when viewing custom CSS or JavaScript
+ pages
+* (bug 10406) Fix Special:Listusers filter form for non-ASCII localizations
+* Fix empty message checks for message names containing &
+ This corrects some odd behavior with sidebar items and custom namespaces
+ containing ampersands.
+* (bug 10375) Change thousands separator character to for Latin (la)
+* (bug 10477) Fix AJAX watch for Farsi on Firefox: JavaScript encoding tweak
+* (bug 10496) Fix broken DISTINCT option logic in database backend
+* Fix CSS media declaration for "screen, projection"; was causing some
+ validation issues
+* (bug 10495) $wgMemcachedDebug set twice in includes/DefaultSettings.php
+* (bug 10316) Prevent inconsistent cached skin settings in gen=js by setting
+ the intended skin directly in the URL.
+* (bug 9903) Don't mark redirects in categories as stubs
+* (bug 6965) Cannot include "Template:R" with {{R}} (magic word conflict)
+* Padding parser functions now work with strings like '0' that evaluate to false
+* (bug 10332) Title->userCan( 'edit' ) may return false positive
+* Fix bug with <nowiki> in front of links for wikis where linkPrefixExtension is true
+* (bug 10552) Suppress rollback link in history for single-revision pages
+* (bug 10538) Gracefully handle invalid input on move success page
+* Fix for Esperanto double-x-encoding in move success page
+* (bug 10526) Fix toolbar/insertTags behavior for IE 6/7 and Opera (8+)
+ Now matches the selection behavior on Mozilla / Safari.
+ Patch by Alex Smotrov.
+* Don't show non-functional toolbar buttons on Opera 7 anymore
+* (bug 9151) Fix relative subpage links with section fragments
+* (bug 10560) Adding a space between category letter heading and "continues"
+* (bug 4650) Keep impossibly large/small counts off Special:Statistics
+* (bug 10608) PHP notice when installing with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 10615) Fix for transwiki import when CURL not available
+* (bug 8054) Return search page for empty search requests with ugly URLs
+* (bug 10572) Force refresh after clearing visitation timestamps on watchlist
+* (bug 10631) Warn when illegal characters are removed from filename at upload
+* Fix several JavaScript bugs under MSIE 5/Macintosh
+* (bug 10591) Use Arabic numerals (0,1,2...) for the Malayam language
+* (bug 10642) Fix shift-click checkbox behavior for Opera 9.0+ and 6.0
+* Work around Safari bug with pages ending in ".gz" or ".tgz"
+* Removed obsolete maintenance/changeuser.sql script; use RenameUser extension
+* (bug 2735) "Preview" shown in title bar for action=submit on special pages
+* Removed "restore" links from the deletion log embedded in Special:Undelete
+* Improved error reporting and robustness for file delete/undelete.
+* Improved speed of file delete by storing the SHA-1 hash in image/oldimage
+* Fixed leading zero in base 36 SHA-1 hash
+* Protection form no longer produces JavaScript errors
+* (bug 10741) File histories show "delete" links for non-sysops
+* (bug 10744) Treat "noarticletext" and "noarticletextanon" as wiki text when
+ used on a non-existent page with "action=info"
+* Fix escaping of raw message text when used on a non-existent page with
+ "action=info"
+* (bug 10683) Fix inconsistent handling of URL-encoded titles in links
+ used in redirects (i.e. they now work)
+* (bug 8878) Changes to $dateFormats in German localization (removing unused,
+ nonexistent formats, putting time after date)
+* (bug 10769) Database::update() should return boolean result
+* Fix preference checkbox display for right-to-left languages which caused
+ them to be hidden in IE in some cases
+* Fix upload form display in right-to-left languages
+* Fixed regression in blocking of username '0'
+* (bug 9437) Don't overwrite edit form submission handler when setting up
+ edit box scroll position preserve/restore behaviour
+* (bug 10805) Fix "undo" link when viewing the diff of the most recent
+ change to a page using "diff=0"
+* (bug 10765) img_auth.php will now refuse logged-out requests where
+ $wgWhitelistRead is undefined, instead of (incorrectly) honouring them
+* Fixed img_auth.php file name extraction for whitelist checking
+* Tweak spacing of email preference display
+* Table sorting JavaScript prefers textContent over innerText to allow hidden
+ sort keys to work on Safari
+* (bug 4530) Fix local name of Kurdish language
+* (bug 10830) Fix local name of Haitian Creole language
+* Fix invalid XHTML in Special:Protectedpages
+* Fix comments in contributions and log pages for right-to-left languages
+* Make installer include_path-independent, so it should work on hosts which
+ disable user setting of PHP include_path setting
+* glob() is horribly unreliable and doesn't work on some systems, including
+ free.fr shared hosting. No longer using it in Language::getLanguageNames()
+* (bug 10763) Fix multi-insert logic for PostgreSQL
+* Fix invalid XHTML when viewing a deleted revision
+* Fix syntax error in translations of magic words in Romanian language
+* (bug 8737) Fix warnings caused by incorrect use of `/dev/null` when piping
+ process error output under Windows
+* (bug 7890) Don't list redirects to special pages in Special:BrokenRedirects
+* (bug 10783) Resizing PNG-24 images with GD no longer causes all alpha
+ channel transparency to be lost and transparent pixels to be turned black
+* (bug 9339) General error pages were transforming messages and their parameters
+ in the wrong order
+* (bug 9026) Incorrect heading numbering when viewing Special:Statistics with
+ "auto-numbered headings" enabled
+* Fixed invalid XHTML in Special:Upload
+* (bug 11013) Make sure dl() is available before attempting to use it to check
+ available databases in installer
+* Resizing transparent GIF images with GD now retains transparency by skipping
+ resampling
+* (bug 11065) Fix regression in handling of wiki-formatted EXIF metadata
+* Double encoding broke Special:Newpages for some languages
+* Adding a newline before the statistics footer, to prevent parsing problems
+* Preventing the TOC from appearing in Special:Statistics
+* (bug 11082) Fix check for fully-specced table names in Database::tableName
+* (bug 11067) Fix regression in upload conflict thumbnail display
+* (bug 10985) Resolved cached entries on Special:DoubleRedirects were being
+ supressed, breaking paging - now strikes out "fixed" results
+* (bug 8393) <sup> and <sub> need to be preserved (without attributes) for
+ entries in the table of contents
+* (bug 11114) Fix regression in read-only mode error display during editing
+* Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure
+ that the first page_title is truly the first page title.
+* (bug 10836) Change the summary on creating of new section
+* Inclusion of Special:Wantedpages now works again
+
+== API changes since 1.10 ==
+
+Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
+
+* New properties: links, templates, images, langlinks, categories, external
+ links
+* Breaking Change: imagelinks renamed into imageusage (il->iu)
+* Bug fix: incorrect generator behavior in some cases
+* JSON format allows an optional callback function to wrap the result.
+* Login module disabled until a more secure solution can be implemented
+* (bug 9938) Querying by revision identifier returns the most recent revision
+ for the corresponding page, rather than the requested revision
+* (bug 8772) Filter page revision queries by user
+* (bug 9927) User contributions queries do not accept IP addresses
+* Watchlist feed now reports a proper feed item when the user is not logged in
+* Watchlist feed date bug fixed - automatically shows one last day
+* Watchlist feed now allows to specify number of hours to monitor
+* list=allpages now returns a list instead of a map in JSON format
+* Breaking Change: in json, revisions are now returned as a list, not as a map.
+* Add: prop=info can show page is new flag, current page length, and visit
+ counter.
+* Change: Query watchlist now shows flags only when explicitly requested with
+ wlparam=flags
+* rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible from query watchlist
+* action=usercontribs: additional filtering by ucshow=; selection of needed
+ fields with ucprop=; the textid (rev_text_id) is no longer being exposed
+* (bug 9970) Breaking Change: backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage now return
+ lists in JSON instead of a map, and do not return anything when titles do
+ not exist
+* (bug 9121) Introduced indexpageids query parameter to list the page_id
+ values of all returned page items
+* (bug 10147) Now interwiki titles are not processed but added to a separate
+ "interwiki" section of the output.
+* Added categorymembers list to query for pages in a category.
+* (bug 10260) Show page protection status
+* (bug 10392) Include MediaWiki version details in version output
+* (bug 10411) Site language in meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 10391) action=help doesn't return help if format is fancy markup
+* backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage lists should use (bl|ei|iu)title parameter
+ instead of titles. Titles for these lists is obsolete and might stop working soon.
+* Added prop=imageinfo - gets image properties and upload history
+* (bug 10211) Added db server replication lag information in meta=siteinfo
+* Added external url search within wiki pages (list=exturlusage)
+* Added link enumeration (list=alllinks)
+* Added registered users enumeration (list=allusers)
+* Added full text search in titles and content (list=search)
+* (bug 10684) Expanded list=allusers functionality
+* Possible breaking change: prop=revisions no longer includes pageid for rvprop=ids
+* Added rvprop=size to prop=revisions (The size will not be shown if it is NULL in the database)
+* list=allpages now allows to filter by article min/max size and protection status
+* Added site statistics (siprop=statistics for meta=siteinfo)
+* (bug 10902) Unable to fetch user contributions from IP addresses
+* `list=usercontribs` no longer requires that the user exist
+* (bug 10971) `aufrom` parameter doesn't work with spaces
+* Fix username handling issue with `auprefix` parameter
+* Treat underscores as spaces for `aufrom` and `auprefix` parameters
+* Added edit/delete/... token retrieval to prop=info
+* Added meta=userinfo - logged-in user information, group membership, rights
+* (bug 11072) Fix regression in API image history query
+* (bug 11115) Adding SHA1 hash to imageinfo query
+* (bug 10898) API does not return an edit token for non-existent pages
+* (bug 10890) Timestamp support for categorymembers query
+* (bug 10980) Add exclude redirects on backlinks
+* IPv6 titles in User namespace are normalized (run cleanupTitles.php to fix any old stray pages)
+
+== Maintenance script changes since 1.10 ==
+
+* Add support for wgMaxTocLevel option in parserTests
+* (bug 6823) Disable article view counter in maintenance/dumpHTML.php
+* Fix maintenance/importImages.php so it doesn't barf PHP errors when no
+ suitable files are found, and make the list of extensions an option (defaults
+ to $wgFileExtensions)
+* Add option to maintenance/createAndPromote.php to give the user bureaucrat
+ permissions (--bureaucrat)
+* Allow overwriting existing files with a conflicting name using
+ maintenance/importImages.php
+* (bug 10266) Use native newlines when rebuilding a messages file.
+
+== Languages updated since 1.10 ==
+
+* Afrikaans (af)
+* Arabic (ar)
+* Bikol (bcl)
+* Bulgarian (bg)
+* Catalan (ca)
+* Danish (da)
+* German (de)
+* Greek (el)
+* Esperanto (eo)
+* Spanish (es)
+* Estonian (et)
+* Extremaduran (ext)
+* Farsi (fa)
+* Finnish (fi)
+* Vöro (fiu-vro)
+* French (fr)
+* Français Cadien (frc) (new)
+* Franco-Provençal/Arpetan (frp)
+* Galician (gl)
+* Hakka (hak)
+* Hebrew (he)
+* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
+* Haitian (ht)
+* Indonesian (id)
+* Icelandic (is)
+* Italian (it)
+* Japanese (ja)
+* Georgian (ka)
+* Kabyle (kab)
+* Kazakh (kk)
+* Korean (ko)
+* Kinaray-a (krj) (new)
+* Kurdish (ku)
+* Latin (la)
+* Lao (lo)
+* Lithuanian (lt)
+* Latviešu (lv)
+* Malayalam (ml)
+* Bahasa Melayu (ms)
+* Burmese (my)
+* Low German (nds)
+* Dutch (nl)
+* Norwegian (no)
+* Occitan (oc)
+* Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (pa)
+* Polish (pl)
+* Piedmontese (pms)
+* Portuguese (pt)
+* Romani (rmy)
+* Romanian (ro)
+* Aromanian (roa-rup)
+* Russian (ru)
+* Sakha (sah)
+* Sango (se) (new)
+* Slovak (sk)
+* Slovenian (sl)
+* Shona (sn)
+* Somali (so)
+* Albanian (sq)
+* Sundanese (su)
+* Swedish (sv)
+* Tamil (ta)
+* Thai (th)
+* Tigrinya (ti)
+* Setswana (tn)
+* Tok Pisin (tpi)
+* Uyghur (ug)
+* Volapük (vo)
+* Winaray (war) (new)
+* Yiddish (yi)
+* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
+* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
+* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
+* Cantonese (zh-yue)
+
== MediaWiki 1.10 ==
This is the Spring 2007 branch release of MediaWiki.
* (bug 6701) Kazakh language variants in MessagesEn.php
* (bug 7335) SVN revision check in Special:Version fails on SVN 1.4 working copy
* (bug 6518) Replaced 'lastmodified' with 'lastmodifiedat' and 'lastmodifiedby' with 'lastmodifiedatby'
- with seperated parameters for date and time to allow better localisation. Updated all message files
+ with separated parameters for date and time to allow better localisation. Updated all message files
to display the old format for compatibility.
* (bug 7357) Make supposedly static methods of Skin actually static
* Added info text to Special:Deadendpages and Special:Lonelypages
* Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to
be forgotten between submits
* Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
-* (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to seperate it from
+* (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to separate it from
"Show preview" and "Show changes"
* Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to
harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
=== Online documentation ===
Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
-built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
+built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
License:
- http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/
=== Mailing list ===
A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
wikitech-l list:
- http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
- http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
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