= MediaWiki release notes =
-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 1.14.0 ==
-
-February 22, 2009
-
-This is the first stable release of the 2009 Q1 branch 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
-
-NOTE: Installation of MediaWiki on SQLite has been temporarily disabled in this
-release due to the discovery of serious problems with the schema. We expect to
-fix this problem for the release of 1.15.0.
-
-== 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 true, 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
+== MediaWiki 1.16.3 ==
+
+2011-04-12
+
+This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.16 branch.
+
+=== Summary of selected changes in 1.16 ===
+
+Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.15 that may be of interest:
+
+* A new skin called Vector was added
+
+* Watchlists now have RSS/Atom feeds. RSS feeds generally are now hidden,
+ since Atom is a better protocol and is supported by virtually all clients.
+
+* It's now possible to block users from sending email via Special:Emailuser.
+
+* The maintenance script system was overhauled. Most maintenance scripts now
+ have a useful help page when you run them with --help.
+
+* AdminSettings.php is no longer required in order to run maintenance scripts.
+ You can just set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your
+ LocalSettings.php instead.
+
+* The preferences system was overhauled. Preferences are stored in a more
+ compact format. Changes to site default preferences will automatically
+ affect all users who have not chosen a different preference.
+
+* Support for SQLite was improved. Some broken features were fixed, and it
+ now has an efficient full-text search.
+
+* The user groups ACL system was improved by allowing rights to be revoked,
+ instead of just granted.
+
+* A new localisation caching system was introduced, which will make MediaWiki
+ faster for almost everyone, especially when lots of extensions are enabled.
+
+By default, this new system makes a lot of database queries. If your database
+is particularly slow, or if your system administrator limits your query count,
+or if you want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of Mediawiki,
+set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable path on the local filesystem. Make sure
+you have the DBA extension for PHP installed, this will improve performance
+further.
+
+== Changes since 1.16.2 ==
+
+* (bug 28449) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users
+ without the 'import' permission to import pages from the configured import
+ sources.
+* (bug 28235) Fixed XSS affecting IE 6 and earlier clients only, due to those
+ browsers looking for a file extension in the query string of the URL, and
+ ignoring the Content-Type header if one is found.
+* (bug 28450) Fixed a CSS validation issue involving escaped comments, which
+ led to XSS for Internet Explorer clients and privacy loss for other clients.
+
+== Changes since 1.16.1 ==
+
+* (bug 26642) Fixed incorrect translated namespace due to a regression in the
+ language converter.
+* The interface translations were updated.
+* (bug 27093, CVE-2011-0047): Fixed CSS injection vulnerability.
+* (bug 27094) Fixed server-side arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability.
+ Affects Windows servers only. A malicious file with extension ".php" must
+ exist on the server for the exploit to be effective.
+
+== Changes since 1.16.0 ==
+
+* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again
+* (bug 24724) list=allusers was out by 1 (shows total users - 1)
+* (bug 24166) Fixed API error when using rvprop=tags
+* For wikis using French as a content language, Special:Téléchargement works
+ again as an alias for Special:Upload.
+* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16.0)
+* (bug 25248) Fixed paraminfo errors in certain API modules.
+* The installer now has improved handling for situations where safe_mode is
+ active or exec() and similar functions are disabled.
+* (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts.
+* Fixed $wgLicenseTerms register globals.
+* (bug 26561) Fixed clickjacking vulnerabilities by introducing support for
+ X-Frame-Options. The header value can be configured using $wgBreakFrames and
+ $wgEditPageFrameOptions.
+
+== Changes since 1.16 beta 3 ==
+
+* (bug 23769) Disabled HTML 5 client-side form validation. Was introduced in
+ 1.16 beta 1, but is currently poorly supported by browsers.
+* (bug 23175) Re-added window.ta variable for backwards compatibility.
+* (bug 23264) Fixed breakage of various command line scripts due to extra line
+ endings being inserted by Maintenance::output().
+* Fixed HTTP client functionality with safe_mode=On.
+* Fixed parser tests broken in 1.16 beta 3.
+* For Oracle DB backend: fixed parser tests and table prefix feature.
+* (bug 23767) Fixed PHP warning when REQUEST_URI is blank (IIS issue).
+* Fixed plural function for Northern Sami (se)
+* (bug 23597) Fixed conflicts between ID attributes in the Vector skin and
+ parser-generated heading IDs. Renamed head, panel, head-base and page-base.
+* Disabled $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq>1 feature on SQLite, does not work yet.
+* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
+ Special:Upload after following a red link to a file.
+* In SQLite full-text search feature: fixed "move page" feature, was non-
+ functional.
+* (bug 24565) Fixed Cache-Control headers sent from API modules, to protect
+ user privacy in the case where an attacker can access the wiki through the
+ same HTTP proxy as a logged-in user.
+* Fixed an XSS vulnerability in profileinfo.php for installations with
+ $wgEnableProfileInfo = true (false by default)
+* Fixed a case where an X-Vary-Options header was sent despite $wgUseXVO being
+ false. Fixed a minor header parsing issue when $wgUseXVO = true.
+* Fixed a register_globals arbitrary inclusion vulnerability in
+ MediaWikiParserTest.php, introduced in 1.16 beta 1.
+
+== Changes since 1.16 beta 2 ==
+
+* Fixed bugs in the [[Special:Userlogin]] and [[Special:Emailuser]] handling of
+ invalid usernames.
+* Fixed sorting in [[Special:Allmessages]]
+* (bug 23113) Fixed title in the show/hide links on diff pages
+* (bug 23117) Fixed API rollback, was returning "badtoken" for valid requests
+* (bug 23127) Re-added missing $1 parameter to the uploadtext message
+* Fixed a bug in the Vector skin where personal tools display behind the logo
+* (bug 23139) Fixed a bug in edit conflict resolution, where both textboxes
+ showed the same text.
+* (bug 23115, bug 23124) Fixed various problems with <title> and <h1> elements
+ in page views and previews when the language converter is enabled.
+* (bug 23148) Fixed a local path disclosure vulnerability in ImageMagick image
+ scaling, which was introduced in 1.16 beta 1.
+* Improved error checking on installer.
+* (bug 22970) Fixed a JavaScript error in the upload destination conflict
+ check.
+* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
+ preference is set.
+* (bug 23171) Improve IE6 version check to avoid false positives.
+* (bug 23176) Fixed upload warning override feature "upload new version",
+ broken in 1.16 beta 1.
+* Fixed regression in unwatch links sent out in notification emails. When the
+ mailing job was deferred via the job queue, the title was incorrect.
+* (bug 23534) Fixed SQL query error in API list=allusers.
+* Fixed a bug in uploads for non-JavaScript clients. An empty string was used
+ as the default destination filename, instead of the source filename as
+ expected.
+* (bug 23371) Fixed CSRF vulnerability in "e-mail me my password", "create
+ account" and "create by e-mail" features of [[Special:Userlogin]]
+* (bug 23687) Fixed XSS vulnerability affecting IE clients only, due to a CSS
+ validation issue.
+* Fixed a DoS vulnerability in ImageMagick image scaling. ImageMagick
+ expanded wildcard characters "?" and "*" in image filenames, potentially
+ causing large numbers of images to be scaled in response to a single request.
+ The fix for this involves breaking the scaling of such image filenames until
+ ImageMagick 6.6.1-5 or later is deployed, see bug 23361 for more details.
+* (bug 23608) Fixed invalid HTML in diff pages.
+
+=== Changes since 1.16 beta 1 ===
+
+* Fixed errors in maintenance/patchSql.php
+* (bug 19627) Fix regression from r57867 where HTMLForm would output
+ <element classes="foo bar"> rather than <element class="foo bar">
+* Fixed broken "-r" option to maintenance/lag.php
+* (bug 23076) Fixed login CSRF vulnerability. Logins now require a token to
+ be submitted along with the user name and password.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
+* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
+* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
+ be used when uploading/moving files
+* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
+ to be shown to users
+* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
+ $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
+ for backwards-compatibility
+* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
+* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
+ functions and other potential errors when developing.
+* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
+ mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
+ which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
+* Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
+ appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
+ oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
+* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
+* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
+ $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
+ files.
+* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
+ needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
+* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
+ to true
+* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
+ functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
+* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
+ interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
+* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
+ to same server
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
+ to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
+* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
+* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
+ should be used instead
+* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
+ characters in file names.
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
+ was denied to users(img_auth only)
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
+ correctly (img_auth only)
+* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
+ maintenance
+* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
+* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
+ to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
+* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
+* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
+ CIDR ranges for blocking
+* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
+ file repository
+* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
+* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
+ similarly to the category namespace.
+* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
+ backward compatibility)
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
+ exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
+ it as appropriate.
+* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
+ signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
+ but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
+ by default.
+* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
+ If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
+* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
+ with some search engines.
+* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
+ neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
+ longer advertised by default (but it still works).
+* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
+ memcached servers.
+* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
+ for controlling debug output.
+* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
+ logging in.
+* (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
+ extension "MetadataEdit".
+
+=== New features in 1.16 ===
+
+* A new skin called Vector was added
+* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
+* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
+ viewing talk pages
+* Superfluous border="0" removed from images
+* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
+ to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
+ a cached MonoBook sidebar
+* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
+* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
+ to Special:Version
+* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
+ type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
+* (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
+* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
+ Special:Version
+* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
+* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
+* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
+* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
+* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
+* Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
+ each page
+* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
+* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
+ it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
+* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
+* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
+ month number without the leading zero
+* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
+* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
+* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
+* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
+* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
+ 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
+ customisation of the user interface
+* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
+ items)
+* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
+ wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
+ various user groups.
+* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
+ syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
+ have these rights stripped from them.
+* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
+ the DBA extension is not available.
+* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
+ fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
+ time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
+ set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
+* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
+ files.
+* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
+ task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
+ invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
+* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
+ headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
+ removing the redundant anchor elements.
+* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
+ preprocesor level.
+* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
+ display for old versions of images.
+* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
+ appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
+* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
+ thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
+* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
+ now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
+* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
+* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
+ will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
+* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
+ class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
+* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
+* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
+ message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
+* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
+ AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
+* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
+ difficulties
+* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
+ browsers
+* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
+* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
+ extension version in Special:Version
+* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
+ right name in Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
+ to {{ns:...}}
+* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
+ params
+* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
+* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
+* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
+ flags have tooltips.
+* (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
+ but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
+* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
+ page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
+* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
+ use
+* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
+ This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
+ if HTML 5 is used:
+** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers.
+** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
+ obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
+** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
+** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
+ output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
+** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
+* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
+* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
+ criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
+ deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
+* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
+* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
+ detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
+* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
+* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
+ display-in-limit-form.
+* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
+ and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
+* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
+ database connection and query errors.
+* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
+* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
+ excerpt from the block log.
+* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
+ file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
+* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
+* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
+ non-existent pages.
+* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
+ on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
+ of anonymous users that edited the page
+* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
+ for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
+* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
+* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
+ called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
+* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
+ a smaller subversion checkout.
+* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
+* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
+ of existing users
+* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
+ function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
+ setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
+ etc) to "-".
+* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
+* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
+* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
+ reuploading.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
+ the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
+* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
+ an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
+* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
+ or ExtUser-driven requests.
+* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
+ contains the number of revisions in the history
+* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
+* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
+ to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
+* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
+* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
+ MySQL
+* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
+* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
+ respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
+* Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
+ and common coding mistakes
+* Updated Unicode normalization tables
+* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
+* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
+* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
+ membership in SpecialActiveusers
+* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
+* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
+* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
+* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
+* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
+* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
+* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
+* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
+* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
+ Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
+ convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
+ equivalents.
+* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
+ stops normal output
+* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
+* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
+ "-{-{}-}-"
+* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
+* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
+* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
+ restrict/expand it.
+* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
+ article
+* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
+ the return value
+* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
+ maintenance/tests/.
+* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
+comment from another wiki.
+* Support for Turck MMCache was removed
+* (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
+ account will not be renamed
+* Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
+ selection
+* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
+* (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
+* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
+* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
+* Improved error handling for image moving
+* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
+ with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
+* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
+ MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
+* Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
+* (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
+* (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
+* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
+* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
+ skins
+* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
+* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
+* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
+ an IP address
+* (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
+* (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
+* (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
+* (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
+* (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
+* (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
+* (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
+* (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
+* (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
+* (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
+* Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
+ after some parsed math syntax.
+* (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
+* (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
+ <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
+* (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
+ divisible by 3
+* (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
+ revisions when --delete is not passed
+* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
+* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
+** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
+** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
+** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
+** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
+ to $wgSharedTables.
+** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
+ for it.
+* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
+ languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
+* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
+* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
+* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
+ problems in FF2
+* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
+* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
+* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
+ 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
+* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
+* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
+* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
+ tweaked spacing.
+* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
+* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
+ $wgSysopEmailBans
+* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
+* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
+* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
+* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
+* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
+* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
+ tags that were redundantly defined.
+* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
+* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
+ .inc
+* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
+ Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
+* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
+ and user can upload
+* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
+ uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
+* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
+* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
+* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
+ variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
+* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
+ show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
+* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
+* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
+* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
+* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
+ link from the edit comment
+* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
+* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
+* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
+* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
+* Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
+* Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only
+* (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they
+ can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
+* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
+* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
+ via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
+ work.
+* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
+ Chinese
+* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
+ whether the engines are actually available
+* (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version
+* (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan
+* (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input
+ and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an
+ extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid)
+* (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on
+* (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once
+* (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url
+* (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self
+* Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6
+* Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore
+ and was causing problems.
+* Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links.
+* (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on
+ Special:BlockIP
+* (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite.
+* Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from
+ history view, edit page, or something similar
+* (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
+* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
+* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
+* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
+ database type
+* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
+ standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
+* (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]])
+ are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table
+* (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id
+* (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data.
+ Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway.
+* (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file
+* (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist
+* (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5
+* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
+* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
+* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
+* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
+ table.
+* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
+* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
+ users who can't edit them
+* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
+* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
+ "enhanced recent changes"
+* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
+ the recentchanges table
+* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
+ when using long urls
+* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
+ BCP 47 standards.
+* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
+* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
+ $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed 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
-* (bug 16123) Fixed Special:Import on SQLite.
-* (bug 16937) Show appropriate error message for attempted installs on
- PostgreSQL 7.3 or earlier.
-* Disabled SQLite support in the installer.
-* Fixed XSS vulnerabilities in the web-based installer.
-* Added a meta robots tag to the installer to prevent indexing of potentially
- sensitive configuration data.
-* (bug 16483) Prevented a filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
- Building query properly now using makeList()
-
-=== 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, $wgUseNPPatrol
- and patrolmarks right
-* (bug 15985) acfrom and aifrom parameters didn't work when sorting in
- descending order.
-* (bug 15995) Add cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to
- list=categorymembers
-* (bug 16017) list=categorymembers sets invalid continue parameters for
- sortkeys containing pipes
-* (bug 16018) Added uccontinue parameter to list=usercontribs so paging
- works properly when multiple users are queried or a userprefix is used
-* (bug 16047) Added activeusers attribute to meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
+* (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
+ to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as
+ content's language
+* (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL
+ database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup
+* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
+ if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
+* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
+* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
+ option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
+* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
+* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
+ "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
+* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
+ "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
+* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
+ (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
+* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
+ language ($wgContLang)
+* (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php
+* (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count
+* (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have
+ not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their
+ preferences
+* (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
+ using the full path
+* (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
+* (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
+* (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
+* (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
+* (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip
+* (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on
+ Special:RecentChangesLinked
+* Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
+ foo,bar@example,com
+* (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
+* (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
+* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
+ namespaces
+* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
+* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
+ versions of MediaWiki were affected).
+* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
+* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
+* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
+ are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
+ titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
+* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
+ cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
+* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
+* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
+* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
+ enabled
+* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
+ target page
+* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
+ Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
+* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
+* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
+ use wikitext
+* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
+ DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
+* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
+ the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
+* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
+ Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
+* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
+ if they contain non-ASCII characters
+* (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
+ Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
+* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
+* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
+ execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
+ at script execution, it now throws an exception
+* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
+ (analogous to EditFilter hook)
+* (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
+ by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
+* (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
+ $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
+* (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
+* (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
+ the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
+* (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
+ argument
+* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
+ any change, in addition to onkeyup.
+* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
+ allowed to create page. Done via new message
+ MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
+* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
+ wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
+ portlet unhides it
+* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
+ be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
+* (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
+* (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
+ correct type="text" parameter
+* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
+* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
+* (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
+* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
+ the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
+* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
+* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
+ assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
+* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
+ editing an old version
+* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
+ by disable_functions
+* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
+ returns false if the page doesn't exist
+* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
+* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
+* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
+ command line scripts to fail
+* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
+ MediaWiki:Missing-article
+* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
+* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
+ be rendered.
+* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
+* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
+ now links to the file rather than the file description page
+* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
+ attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
+* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
+* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
+* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
+ searching for special pages
+* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
+ hideuser right
+* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
+* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
+ field names per driver.
+* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
+ false on non-special pages
+* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
+ displayed when there isn't any entry in it
+* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
+ revisions
+* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
+ MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
+* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
+ Special:Log
+* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
+* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
+ databases
+* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
+* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
+ dummy
+* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
+* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
+* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
+* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
+* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
+* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
+ shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
+ complete the move.
+* (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
+* User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results,
+ User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string
+* The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
+* (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
+* Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
+* Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
+* (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
+* (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
+* (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
+* (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
+* (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
+* (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
+ id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
+* (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
+* (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
+* (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
+ even to non-logged in users
+* (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and
+ general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as
+ Varnish.
+* Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
+ instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
+* (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
+ of the displayed page
+* (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with
+ PHP's memcached extension
+* (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible
+* (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
+* (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
+ only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
+* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
+ "unknown error"
+* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
+ redirects-only switch is not present
+* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
+* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
+ due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
+* (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
+ the page selector when they have only one page
+* (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
+ "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
+* (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
+ a redirect instead of a baderror.
+* (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
+* Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g.
+ for namespace)
+* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
+ groups if there are duplicate entries
+* (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username
+ now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links
+* (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID
+* (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
+ previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
+* (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
+* refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
+* (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
+ consistency with RC/WL
+* (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language
+* If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
+ type selector on Special:Log
+* (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
+ user can't create an account
+* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
+* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
+ user's page if possible
+* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
+* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
+ reimplementing it.
+* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
+* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
+ skin-specific JS pages
+* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
+ for image divs.
+* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
+* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
+* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
+* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
+* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
+ not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
+* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
+ that can only change their rights
+* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
+* (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload
+ link from file pages
+* Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in
+ $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used
+ as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it
+ was unintentionally sorted along with other fields.
+* (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8
+* Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken
+ multibyte characters
+* (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist
+* (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to
+ the page set in the &returnto parameter.
+* (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome
+* (bug 17790) Users instantly logged off on HughesNet
+
+== API changes in 1.16 ==
+* Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
+* Added usprop=gender to list=users
+* (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
+* Add parentid to prop=revisions output
+* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
+ when the user is blocked
+* (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
+* (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
+ users
+* (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
+* (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
+* Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories
+* (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo
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
-* (bug 16798) JSON encoding errors for some characters outside the BMP
-* (bug 16629) prop=info&inprop=protection lists empty legacy protections
- incorrectly
-* (bug 15261, 16262) API no longer outputs invalid UTF-8
-* Fix broken list=alllinks paging and make alunique actually work
-
-=== 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)
+* (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version
+* (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output
+* (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs
+* (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output
+* Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans
+* Made deleting file description pages without files possible
+* (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output
+* (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and
+ list=recentchanges
+* Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections
+ output
+* (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups
+* (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite
+ warnings
+* (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output
+* (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang
+ rather than UI lang
+* (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
+* (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
+* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
+ parameter in action=edit
+* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
+ parameter in action=edit
+* Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
+* Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
+ optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
+ external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
+ Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
+* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
+ srprop and srinfo.
+* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
+ customized messages
+* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
+* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
+* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
+ drcontinue param is passed
+* (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 19004) Added support for tags
+* (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
+ without registration date
+* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
+* (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
+* (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
+* (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
+* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
+ for logged-in users under certain circumstances
+* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
+* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
+ descriptionurl
+* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
+* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
+* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
+* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
+* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
+* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
+* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
+* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
+* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
+* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
+* (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output
+* (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo
-== Compatibility ==
+=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
-MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+
+* Capiznon (cps) (new)
+* North Frisian (frr) (new)
+* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
+* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
+* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
+* Latgalian (ltg) (new)
+* Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
+* Prussian (prg) (new)
+* Romagnol (rgn) (new)
+* Rusyn (rue) (new)
+* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
+* Picard (pcd) (new)
+* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
+* Upper Franconian (vmf) (new)
+* Votic (vot) (new)
+* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
+* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
+* Ladin (lld) (removed)
+* Palembang (plm) (removed)
+* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
+* Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
+
+* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
+* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
+* Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et)
+* (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my)
+* (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash
+ (Чӑвашла)
+* (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language
+* (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc)
+* (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail
+* (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl)
+* (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian
+* (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail
+* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
+* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
+* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
+* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
+* (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku)
+
+== Compatibility ==
-PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
-http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
-Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
+MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
== Upgrading ==
-1.14 has several database changes since 1.13, and will not work without schema
+1.16 has several database changes since 1.15, and will not work without schema
updates.
If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-For notes on 1.13.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===
scripts.mit.edu / autoinstallsdev / mediawiki.git / blobdiff