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Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals
setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
-== MediaWiki 1.11.0 ==
+== MediaWiki 1.15.4 ==
-September 10, 2007
+2010-05-28
-This is the Fall 2007 snapshot release of MediaWiki.
+This is a security and maintenance release.
MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
@@ -20,612 +20,423 @@ 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
-== Changes since 1.11.0rc1 ==
-
-A possible HTML/XSS injection vector in the API pretty-printing mode has
-been found and fixed.
-
-The vulnerability may be worked around in an unfixed version by simply
-disabling the API interface if it is not in use, by adding this to
-LocalSettings.php:
-
- $wgEnableAPI = false;
-
-(This is the default setting in 1.8.x.)
-
-Not vulnerable versions:
-* 1.11 >= 1.11.0
-* 1.10 >= 1.10.2
-* 1.9 >= 1.9.4
-* 1.8 >= 1.8.5
-
-Vulnerable versions:
-* 1.11 <= 1.11.0rc1
-* 1.10 <= 1.10.1
-* 1.9 <= 1.9.3
-* 1.8 <= 1.8.4 (if $wgEnableAPI has been switched on)
-
-MediaWiki 1.7 and below are not affected as they do not include
-the faulty function, however the BotQuery extension is similarly
-vulnerable unless updated to the latest SVN version.
-
-
-== 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
- tag, like user JS/CSS
-* (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the 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
-* (bug 1962) Allow HTML attributes on
-* (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 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) and 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)
+* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
+ specialpages
+* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
+* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
+ recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
+* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
+ special pages.
+* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
+* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
+ link instead of Go button & Search button
+* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
+* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
+* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
+* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
+* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
+* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
+ content language.
+* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
+ set to false.
+* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
+* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
+* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
+ can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
+* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
+ "mw-confirmemail-pending"
+* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
+ parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
+ part for a given title.
+* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
+ rest of the font
+* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
+* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
+* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
+* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
+ class "mw-searchresult"
+* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
+* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
+* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
+* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
+* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
+ "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
+* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
+ this information will be public
+* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
+* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
+ the active users data from site_stats.
+* Add a tag, fixing sortable tables
+ with dynamic dates.
+* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the
+ dateformat parser function.
+* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited
+ to 5000 pages)
+* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
+ enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,
+ optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting
+ $wgTiffThumbnailType
+* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and
+ 'mw-log-user', respectively
+* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
+ usernames during registration (such as "@")
+* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
+ used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
+ on a different database
+* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
+ line
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
+
+* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
+* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
+ before trying to delete the edit.
+* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
+* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
+ the destination page exists
+* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
+ been disabled
+* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
+* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
+* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
+* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
+ allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
+* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
+* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
+* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
+ to 'administrator'
+* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
+* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
+* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
+* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
+ "user contributions"
+* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
+* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
+ comment label uses better message
+* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
+ LocalSettings
+* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
+ error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
+* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
+* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
+ for identical files at different titles are still given.
+* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
+ certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
+ and the entries can be styled with CSS.
+* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
+* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
+ results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
+* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
+* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
+ configs
+* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
+* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
+* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
+* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
+ history
+* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
+ and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
+* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
+* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
+ longer affects the page title
+* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
+* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
+* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
+* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
+* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
+* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
+ cache is enabled.
+* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
+* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
+ maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
+* (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
+* (bug 17472) use print << parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
+ now point to the actual contributors' feed.
+* ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
+* Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
+ $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
+* (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
+ redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
+* (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
+* (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
+ changed to rc_timestamp_bot
+* (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
+* (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in tags
+* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
+* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
+* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
+* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
+ two "page" parameters
+* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
+ don't use PathInfo or short urls
+* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
+ $wgScriptExtension
+* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
+ IS NULL
+* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
+* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
+* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when
+ you cut-and-paste article text
+* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
+* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
+* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and
+ "Previous edit" diff links
+* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as
+ target'
+* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
+* Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop
+ involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is
+ possible.
+* (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data
+ directory is wrong.
+* (bug 16937) Fixed PostgreSQL installation on Windows, workaround for upstream
+ pg_version() bug.
+* (bug 11451) Fix upgrade from MediaWiki 1.2 or earlier (imagelinks schema).
+* Fixed SQLite indexes, installation and upgrade. Reintroduced it as an option
+ to the installer.
+* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
+
+== API changes in 1.15 ==
+
+* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
+ and listing all deleted pages possible
+* (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
+* (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
+* (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
+ created the page, even if it's not the top revision
+* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
+* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
+* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
+* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
+ Building query properly now using makeList()
+* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
+ autolinked correctly
+* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
+* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
+* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
+* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
+* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
+* (bug 17007) Added action=import
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
+ of performance concerns
+* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
+ and list=logevents
+* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
+ limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
+* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
+* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
+* (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
+* Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
+* (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
+ aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
+* (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
+* (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
+* (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
+* Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
+ conversion rules
+* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
+ is set
+* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
+ without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
+* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
+ when someone tries to use them
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
+ a POST request
+* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
+ message to be included in the page text
+* (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter
+* (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter
+* (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+
+* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
+* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
+* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
+* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
+* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
+* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
+* Veps (vep) (new)
+* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
+* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
+* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
+* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
+* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
+* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
+ when the user is blocked
+* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.11 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
@@ -637,9 +448,13 @@ At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
== Upgrading ==
-1.11 has several database changes since 1.10, and will not work without schema
+1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema
updates.
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
+ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
+database schema changes.
+
If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
new database fields are filled with data.
@@ -649,6 +464,7 @@ break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
+
=== Caveats ===
Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
@@ -657,8 +473,7 @@ set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-
-For notes on 1.10.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===