= 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
- 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
- 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)
+setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
+
+== MediaWiki 1.17.1 ==
+
+2011-11-24
+
+This a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.17 branch.
+
+=== Security changes ===
+* (bug 32276) Skins were generating output using the internal page title which
+ would allow anonymous users to determine wheter a page exists, potentially
+ leaking private data. In fact, the curid and oldid request parameters would
+ allow page titles to be enumerated even when they are not guessable.
+* (bug 32616) action=ajax requests were dispatched to the relevant internal
+ functions without any read permission checks being done. This could lead to
+ data leakage on private wikis.
+
+=== Summary of selected changes in 1.17 ===
+
+Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.16 that may be of interest:
+
+* A new installer has been introduced. It has a wizard-style interface which is
+ translated into many languages. Many shortcomings in the old installer were
+ addressed with this rewrite. Note that it is no longer required for the config
+ directory to be made writable by the webserver. Instead the generated
+ LocalSettings.php file is offered as a download, which you must then upload
+ to the wiki's base directory.
+
+* ResourceLoader, a new framework for delivering client-side resources such as
+ JavaScript and CSS, has been introduced. These resources are now delivered
+ through the new entry point script "load.php", instead of as static files
+ served directly by the web server. This allows minification, compression and
+ client-side caching to be used more effectively, which should provide a net
+ performance improvement for most users.
+
+* Category sorting has been improved.
+** Sorting is now case insensitive.
+** Sub-categories, pages and files can now be paged separately.
+** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their
+ names instead of randomly.
+
+* The lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.2.3. If necessary, please
+ upgrade PHP prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
+
+=== Changes since 1.17.0 ===
+
+* (bug 29535) Added missing Creative Commons CC0 icon.
+* (bug 29726) Fixed failure to load internationalization messages in
+ client-side scripts on WebKit-based browsers.
+* Fixed a bug in message transformation where the previous language could leak
+ into later transformations in the UI language.
+* (bug 29091) Fixed form of native name for Ossetic language (Иронау -> Ирон)
+* Fixed maintenance scripts upgrade1_5.php and rebuildImages.php, they did not
+ work at all since 1.17 beta 1.
+* (bug 29531) Fixed img_auth.php for thumbnails and other filenames with
+ multiple dots, was broken by the fix for bug 28840.
+* In the maintenance script purgeList.php, fixed a fatal error when a page
+ title is given, instead of a URL.
+* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit).
+* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
+* $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very
+ wide pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
+* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
+ tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce.
+* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals
+* (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
+ caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
+* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
+ instead require() for included extensions.
+* (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
+ warnings/notices to be thrown
+* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
+* (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on
+ Windows servers.
+
+=== Changes since 1.17.0rc1 ===
+
+* Fixed syntax error in generated LocalSettings.php when a non-default user
+ rights profile is chosen.
+* (bug 29399) Fixed PostgreSQL installation when the DB user for installation
+ is the same as the one for web access.
+* (bug 29233) Fixed failover for DB slave servers. When a DB slave went down,
+ an error was immediately shown to the user, instead of trying another slave.
+ Was broken since 1.17 beta 1.
+* (bug 29278) Fixed PHP fatal error when attempting to add text to a page via a
+ redirect.
+* (bug 29408) Fixed uploads of files with MIME types that aren't detected by
+ MediaWiki.
+* Removed DEFAULT '' NOT NULL field definitions from Oracle DB schema because
+ using the DEFAULT value ('') in DML broke Oracle backend as it treats an
+ empty VARCHAR2 value as NULL. Indexes on Oracle do not require NOT NULL
+ fields.
+
+=== Changes since 1.17 beta 1 ===
+
+* Fixed warning about missing file "password.js".
+* When installing on MySQL, don't attempt to create a new database user if the
+ same user is used for installation and web access.
+* Fixed SQL query errors in queries with table aliases.
+* (bug 27891) Fixed the "chronology protector", broken since 1.17beta1, which
+ ensures that when database replication is used, the new version is seen by
+ the user immediately after they create or edit an article.
+* (bug 28845) Allow PostgreSQL installation using a non-root user account which
+ has role creation abilities.
+* When installing on PostgreSQL and the install account is the same as the web
+ account, check to make sure that the account has suitable privileges in the
+ mediawiki schema.
+* (bug 28172) Fixed error in PostgreSQL installation when creating the wiki
+ sysop account.
+* Fixed an issue with the Oracle installer in cases where the user is different
+ to the database name.
+* Added "unblockself" to the list of available rights.
+* In the installer, fixed the "user rights profile" option, it never worked.
+* (bug 29117) Fixed Hebrew localisation of the installer.
+* (bug 28840) Reduce the collateral damage caused by the fix for bug 28235 (XSS
+ on Internet Explorer 6 due to a file extension in the query string) by
+ reducing the number of URLs that are blocked, and by redirecting the request
+ to a safer URL where possible instead of blocking it.
+* (bug 28812) Fixed documentation of API action=parse.
+* (bug 28979) Fixed styling of <abbr> and <acronym>.
+* Fixed the error message displayed when you try to create an account by email,
+ but an email address is not given.
+* Fixed JS error due to missing dependency for jquery.suggestions.
+* Exposed $wgExtensionAssetsPath in JavaScript.
+* (bug 28738) Made ResourceLoader support environments with small URL length
+ limits. The length limit can be configured via $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength,
+ and this is set automatically in the generated LocalSettings.php when the
+ php.ini variable "suhosin.get.max_value_length" is set. When a URL exceeds
+ this limit, the request is split up. Also, reduced the average length of
+ load.php URLs by using a more compact parameter format.
+* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS.
+* (bug 25124) Respect $wgStyleDirectory in ResourceLoader.
+* Allow installation when no HTTP client is available, don't throw an exception.
+* (bug 27465) Fix metadata extraction for SVG files using unusual namespace
+ names.
+* (bug 29174) Fix regression in upload-by-URL: uploading files larger than the
+ PHP memory limit should work again.
+* Fixed the display of comments in the new user log.
+* (bug 28237) When installing extensions using the web-based installer, create
+ any necessary database tables.
+* (bug 28983) Fixed automated installation of extensions that overwrite $path.
+* Fixed error caused by missing magic words.
+* Fixed breakage of article editing in PostgreSQL due to text search
+ configuration errors.
+* Fixed the HTTPS client used when Curl is not available. This avoids an error
+ during install about failure of the mediawiki-announce subscription.
+* (bug 28162) When installing to PostgreSQL, respect the "database port" input,
+ it was ignored.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
+
+* $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged
+ to new users log.
+* (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as
+ $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is
+ on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly.
+* $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has
+ been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory.
+* $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted
+ uploads in.
+* IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the
+ normal $wgDBport.
+* $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
+ provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
+* Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized,
+ $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors, $wgUseZhdaemon,
+ $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
+* (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
+* $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use.
+* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extensions should use
+ DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate() via the LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates hook.
+* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
+ available as input for other configuration items, either.
+* It's no longer necessary for LocalSettings.php to include DefaultSettings.php.
+* It's no longer necessary to set $wgCacheEpoch to the file modification time
+ of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done
+ automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is
+ the default).
+* $wgCopyrightIcon is deprecated and $wgFooterIcons['copyright']['copyright']
+ should be used instead.
+* $wgSysopUserBans is deprecated, and will be made permanently true in 1.18.
+ If you need this functionality, you should use the BlockIp hook to filter and
+ reject such blocks.
+* $wgSysopRangeBans is deprecated, you should set $wgBlockCIDRLimit to maximum
+ (32 for IPv4, 128 for IPv6), equivalent to allowing rangeblocks of only 1
+ address at a time.
+
+=== New features in 1.17 ===
+
+* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
+ User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled).
+* (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights.
+* (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
+ apply the names of the individual files within the gallery.
+* Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer
+ if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>.
+* Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links.
+* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the
+ 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default).
+* (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced
+ changes list.
+* (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when
+ viewing contributions of a blocked IP address.
+* (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second parameter for type of
+ escaping.
+* Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter.
+* Special:Random carries over query string parameters.
+* (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go".
+* When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt
+ is provided on the Upload form.
+* (bug 22647) Add category details in search results.
+* (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query.
+* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences.
+* Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits.
+* ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
+ watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on.
+* (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there
+ is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages.
+* (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine.
+* (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching (for IIS).
+* (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be notified
+ about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions.
+* (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup.
+* (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages.
+* Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
+ Special:Preferences.
+* Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip.
+* (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
+* (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
+ contributions
+* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids
+* (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math>
+* (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math>
+* (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math>
+* texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time.
+* SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB.
+* (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages.
+* Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being
+ well-formed XML.
+* texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto
+* Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos.
+* ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set.
+* (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign
+ client wikis.
+* (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
+ page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
+ {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
+* (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class
+ "mw-ipb-needreblock"
+* Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa.
+* (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user
+ input.
+* (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users.
+* (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token.
+* A variety of category sort-related fixes, including:
+** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same.
+** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately.
+** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names
+ instead of randomly.
+* (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word.
+* (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements.
+* (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages.
+* The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
+ used in the page.
+* Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
+* (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
+ intermediate revisions.
+* Added new hook GetIP.
+* Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text
+ search.
+* TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader
+ for versioning.
+* Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which
+ is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit).
+* (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled
+ by default.
+* (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails.
+* Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly
+ when a wiki has multiple variant languages.
+* (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts.
+* Now rebuildtextindex.php warns if SQLite doesn't support full-text search.
+* (bug 10541) Front/backend separation of installation/upgrade code.
+* (bug 10596) Allow installer to enable extensions already in extensions folder.
+* (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English.
+* Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description).
+* Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages.
+* Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent
+ changes/watchlist entries.
+* (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text
+ customizable.
+* Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets.
+* (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign
+ file repositories.
+* When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both
+ wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection
+ arrow can be customized with CSS.
+* (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message
+ [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead.
+ Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw
+ number of the textsize in Byte.
+* (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width.
+* Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions.
+* Added Special:Myuploads special page that redirects to Special:Listfiles.
+* The footerlinks used in Monobook/Vector/Modern are now part of common skin
+ code, SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec can be used to customize the list.
+* Special wrapping setups can now define MW_CONFIG_FILE to load a config file
+ other than LocalSettings.php. This is like MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK but works in
+ some cases where MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK will not work.
+* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
+ pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
+ disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
+* The name attribute of HTMLForm fields can now be overridden by passing a
+ 'name' key in the descriptor array. Hidden field names are now treated
+ consistently with other fields and, by default, prefixed with 'wp'.
+* (bug 27402) Add support for disabling MWSuggest.
+* (bug 26563) Add bytes changed per revision for stub and full article dumps.
+* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an svg we
+ look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
+* (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades
+ without having to move LocalSettings.php
+* Added $wgAllowImageTag, which can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag
+ in wikitext.
+* (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display
+ options.
+* Added the $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option which allows disabling CSS-based
+ preferences; which can improve page loading speed.
+* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
+ or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks).
+* (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable
+ which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
+ showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
+ research into its user experience implications.
+* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
+ navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
+* $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls.
+* Added $wgSecureLogin to optionally login using HTTPS.
+* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to make the name associated
+ with $wgPasswordSender configurable.
+* (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in
+ the footers of skins.
+* $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy.
+ used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior.
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
+
+* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
+ without updating database.
+* (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer
+ throws an error.
+* (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block
+ settings changed.
+* (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different
+ when the address changed.
+* (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name.
+* (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and
+ redirects.
+* (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when
+ the URL contains a colon.
+* (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again.
+* (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is
+ now only displayed when relevant.
+* (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages.
+* (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects.
+* (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion.
+* (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language.
+* (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN.
+* (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work.
+* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users.
+* (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not
+ correctly set.
+* (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so
+ that links with non-NFC character references work correctly.
+* (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for
+ anonymous users instead of null.
+* (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited.
+* (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being
+ logged in (anonpreviewwarning).
+* (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files.
+* (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly.
+* (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text.
+* (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content
+ language.
+* (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page
+ when using rebuildFileCache.php
+* (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid".
+ parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target.
+* (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend.
+* (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed.
+* (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases.
+* (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces
+ rather than only main namespace.
+* (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all.
+ frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than
+ the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images
+ exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size.
+* (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first
+ item.
+* (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase.
+* Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
+ style is not valid for the user's interface language.
+* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
+ preference is set.
+* Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
+ in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
+* (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
+* (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer
+ displays incorrect tabs.
+* (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers.
+* (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display.
+* (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources.
+* (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files
+ work.
+* (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery.
+* (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer
+ displayed on Special:Listusers.
+* (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences
+ to enhance preference grouping.
+* (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the
+ correct link.
+* (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
+* (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
+* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create).
+ are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
+ is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
+* (bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as ˜ not ∼
+* (bug 23241) License selector should be disabled during upload of a new
+ version.
+* (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist.
+* The pipe | character in urls is now escaped.
+* (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved.
+* (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of
+ MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary.
+* (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
+ new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed.
+* Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if
+ user did not capitalize first letter of username.
+* (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables.
+* (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
+ as Opera 8.
+* (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
+ account upload rights.
+* (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
+ and correct render results.
+* (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
+ consistent and correct render results.
+* (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo.
+* (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for multibyte
+ characters.
+* (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser.
+* (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if
+ the $noRedir parameter is set to true.
+* (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents.
+* (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php.
+* (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter.
+* (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not
+ accidentally activated when hitting enter.
+* (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores.
+* Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0.
+* (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
+* (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
+ a fatal error.
+* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
+ Special:Upload after following a red link.
+* (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
+* (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments.
+* (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings.
+* (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
+* (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers.
+* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect.
+ Image: --> File: namespace rename.
+* Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
+* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
+ disabled.
+* (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when Special:RecentChanges(linked) or
+ Special:Newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the page.
+* (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer
+ throw fatal errors.
+* (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a
+ useful error message.
+* Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
+ instead of showing an error page.
+* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in
+ SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
+* (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
+* (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules.
+* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages.
+* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
+ longer pollutes the parser cache.
+* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a
+ letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons,
+ underscores, hyphens, and/or periods).
+* Save 200 useless queries on each category page view.
+* Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec.
+* (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian.
+* "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between
+ revisions" on diffs when appropriate.
+* (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as
+ a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages.
+* (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also
+ make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case.
+* (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
+ memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
+* Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
+ when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
+* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again.
+* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file.
+* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available.
+* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel.
+* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff.
+ instead of alternating focus between the two buttons.
+* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account.
+* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output.
+* SQLite system table names are now never prefixed.
+* (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second
+ parameter.
+* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16).
+* (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled
+ passthru().
+* (bug 25462) Fix double-escaping for section edit link tooltips.
+* action=raw was removed for Special:Statistics. This information is still
+ available via the API.
+* (bug 23934) Groups defined in $wgRevokePermissions but not in
+ $wgGroupPermissions now appear on Special:ListGroupRights.
+* (bug 23923) Special:Prefixindex no longer shows results if nothing was
+ requested.
+* (bug 22308) Search now finds text in default main page immediately after setup.
+* (bug 25697) Make sure empty lines render in diff view.
+* Use an actual minus sign in diff views, instead of a hyphen.
+* (bug 23732) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedFiles.
+* (bug 23731) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedTemplates.
+* (bug 25642) A exception is now thrown instead of a fatal error when using
+ $wgSMTP without PEAR mail package.
+* (bug 19633) When possible, Upscale small SVGs when creating thumbnails.
+* (bug 11013) Database driver detection needs rewriting for robustness.
+* (bug 13409) Installer prompts could use clarification--now has help boxes.
+* (bug 16902) Installer spews warnings when exec() and dl() are not available.
+* (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported.
+* (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled.
+* Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails.
+* (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error
+ on discussion pages with vector as default skin.
+* (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing.
+* (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores.
+* (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir
+ parameters.
+* (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if
+ $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set.
+* (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3.
+* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now.
+ normalised like normal links to special pages.
+* (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect
+ $wgExternalLinkTarget.
+* (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that
+ is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages.
+* (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page.
+* (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in
+ some cases.
+* (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only
+ "File" and "Media" are allowed now.
+* (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict
+ with php extension that defines same class.
+* (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when
+ $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false.
+* Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database.
+* (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation.
+* (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2.
+* Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong
+ case.
+* (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available.
+* (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated.
+* (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow
+ absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google).
+* Partial workaround for bug 6220: at least make files on shared repositories
+ show up as (struck-out) bluelinks instead of redlinks on Special:WantedFiles.
+* rebuildFileCache.php no longer creates inappropriate cache files for redirects.
+* (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members.
+* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
+ treated as wikitext on preview.
+* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
+ cannot read the page in question.
+* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
+ indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "..."
+* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
+* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown as
+ "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
+* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
+* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
+ selected when the action is "purge".
+* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
+* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
+* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences.
+* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
+* (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel.
+* (bug 27781) Installer does not warn about 5.1.x. Added a compatibility function
+ for array_key_exists().
+* Fix XML well-formedness on a few pages when $wgHtml5 is true (the default).
+* (bug 28069) MediaWiki fails streaming files when mod_deflate and ob_gzhandler
+ are also set.
+* (bug 26223) Concurrently moving an article to different titles leaks a
+ redirect revision with no page.
+* (bug 15641) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users
+ without the 'import' permission to import pages from configured import sources.
+* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
+ adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
+* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
+* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output better.
+* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences
+ and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is going on.
+* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
+ to table.wikitable instead.
+* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language.
+* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
+ exist.
+* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
+ (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
+* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
+* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
+ page restrictions.
+* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
+ prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
+* (bug 28568) Entries in the iwlinks table are now removed on page deletion.
+* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
+* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
+* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
+ intl installed.
+* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
+ members.
+* (bug 28214) When page not found, sends malformed HTTP/1.x instead of HTTP/1.1
+ in header of response.
+* (bug 27634) TOC title appears in wrong language.
+* (bug 27761) Fix regression: pages with Esperanto titles containing convertible
+ character sequences became unreachable.
+* (bug 27508) SVGMetadataExtractor takes too much resources on huge svgs.
+* (bug 27465) SVG thumbnail generation.
+* (bug 27467) preload can leave UNIQ.
+* (bug 27539) Allow attributes beginning with a digit in wiktext tag parameters.
+* (bug 27328) using relative paths in CSS imports in MediaWiki:Common.css broken
+ in 1.17.
+* (bug 27333) Fix repetitive last-seen time queries on page history.
+* (bug 26250, bug 23817) Fix wfObjectToArray() to descend into arrays; fixes
+ processing of JSON return values for ForeignAPIRepo when native json module
+ not present.
+* (bug 25675) Fix search suggestions for Special: pages with spaces.
+* (bug 25571) Xml::encodeJsVar now passes floats natively instead of converting
+ to strings.
+* (bug 27338) Gallery in 1.17 breaks for audio/video + ogghandler.
+* (bug 27302) Don't append the current timestamp for user/site modules when no
+ user/site JS/CSS is present.
+* (bug 27016) dumpTextPass.php now consider the "output" parameter.
+* (bug 22606) don't send the "someone registred an account" message when setting
+ email address (i.e. old one empty) in user preferences.
+* (bug 26458) Section edit links appear on pages that user does not have right
+ to edit.
+* (bug 28611) Don't die in SqlBagOStuff::incr() if there's a race condition.
+* (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
+ in IE 7.
+* (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame"
+ parameter.
+
+=== API changes in 1.17 ===
+
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=patrol now requires POST.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: patrol token is no longer the same as edit token.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Session keys returned by ApiUpload are now strings instead
+ of integers.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually
+ enforce validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning.
+ Also add flag to enforce (die) if integer out of range.
+* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
+* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
+* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
+* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
+ duplicated.
+* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
+* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
+ prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
+* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
+* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
+* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
+* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
+* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
+* (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse.
+* (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent.
+* (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
+* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment.
+ is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
+* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
+ module.
+* (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests.
+* (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option.
+* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash.
+* (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions.
+* (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
+ using token and username.
+* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
+ track inline interwiki link usage).
+* Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
+ similar to prop=categories's clcategorie.
+* (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when
+ thumbnailing larger than original image.
+* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query.
+* (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages.
+* (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups.
+* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
+ ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help.
+* (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied.
+* (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules.
+* (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but
+ forceditsummary.
+* (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result.
+* (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the
+ hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added
+ unconditionally on error.
+* (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
+ title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved
+ to the local alias.
+* (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
+ canonical language variant.
+* (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API.
+* (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and
+ iwtitle.
+* (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
+ one of the backlinks generators with limit=max.
+* (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report.
+* PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user
+ does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
+* (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to
+ NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit.
+* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks,
+ allmessages, allpages, and allusers.
+* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups.
+* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module.
+* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit.
+* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and
+ blockreason if the user is actually blocked.
+* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format.
+* For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as
+ missing.
+* (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1).
+* (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags.
+* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
+ $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
+* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
+ implicit groups rather than showing 0.
+* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules.
+* (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a
+ POST request was needed due to cache pollution.
+* Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions.
+* Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is
+ used, rvlimit is enforced to 1.
+* (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the
+ current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary.
+* (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to
+ reduce confusion.
+* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page.
+ <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
+ ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
+ list.
+* The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs,
+ empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters.
+* (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop.
+* (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when
+ $wgDisableCounters enabled.
+* (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages.
+* (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL.
+* (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook.
+* (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo.
+* (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the
+ file is a multi-page file.
+* (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist.
+* (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description.
+* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
+ real timestamp field.
+* (bug 27722) list=filearchive now supports revdel.
+
+=== Language support changes in 1.17 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localizations are updated regularly.
+
+The following languages were added:
+
+* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary)
+* Banjar (bjn)
+* Kabardian (kdb)
+* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl)
+* Latgalian (ltg)
+* Minangkabau (min)
+* Dutch (informal) (nl-informal)
+* Rusyn (rue)
+
+Other significant changes to MediaWiki's language support:
+
+* Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) was removed.
+* Removed deprecated language code "dk" (Danish), use "da" instead.
+* Link trail added for sl and sh.
+* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
+* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
+ (Taraškievica).
+* (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc.
+* (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca.
+* (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script.
+* (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto.
+* (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia.
+* (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated.
+* Esperanto date format corrected.
+* (bug 28159) Change interwiki name of language kbd to Къэбэрдеибзэ /
+ Qabardjajəbza.
+* (bug 28184) Namespaces for the Latgalian Wikipedia.
+* (bug 25010) Bashkir-language interwikis: linktext change from Башҡорт
+ to Башҡортса.
+* (bug 26395) Change name of Cornish language to Kernowek.
+
+=== Other changes in 1.17 ===
+
+* DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
+ extensions has been removed.
+* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
+* The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed
+* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
+* Removed $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by
+ $wgUploadNavigationUrl.
+* (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed
+* The PHPUnit test suite has been removed from this release due to serious issues
+ which should be resolved by the 1.18 release.
+* Oracle DB now uses the __destruct fuction to commit/close connection as it
+ doesn't commit on close if transation is triggered in OCI.
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.14 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.2.3 or later.
-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.
+MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
+support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
+DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
-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.
+The supported versions are:
+* MySQL 4.0 or later
+* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
+* SQLite 3
+* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
== Upgrading ==
-1.14 has several database changes since 1.13, and will not work without schema
+1.17 has several database changes since 1.16, and will not work without schema
updates.
-If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
-ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
+make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
database schema changes.
If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
+For notes on 1.16.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
-=== Caveats ===
+== Online documentation ==
-Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
-produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
-set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
-cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
-MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
+Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
+MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
+for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
-For notes on 1.13.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
+== Mailing list ==
-=== Online documentation ===
+A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
-Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
-built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
-License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
-the public domain) :
-
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
-
-
-=== Mailing list ===
-
-A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
-wikitech-l list:
-
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
-
-=== IRC help ===
+== IRC help ==
There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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