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 1.5.8 ==
-
-March 26, 2006
-
-MediaWiki 1.5.8 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
-
-A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw
-HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks.
-
-Some minor UI fixes were also made, see the change log at the bottom of
-this file.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5.7 ==
-
-March 2, 2006
-
-MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release.
-
-Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug
-affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root
-password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the
-installer would not only create the new account but also change the root
-password to be equal to the password of the new account.
-
-Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back
-manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see:
-http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html
-
-This version includes fixes for compatibility with Internet Explorer 7
-beta 2, and various other bugs; see the full changelog at the end of
-the release notes.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5.6 ==
-
-January 19, 2006
-
-MediaWiki 1.5.6 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
-
-A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop
-if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this
-would cause the script to fail after PHP's 30-second failsafe timeout.
-
-Some improvements have been made to the installer which should make
-installation possible on a system with a broken MySQL "root" account.
-
-For several other minor fixes, see the complete changelog at the end
-of this file.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5.5 ==
-
-January 5, 2006
-
-MediaWiki 1.5.5 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
-
-Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added
-to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft
-Windows operating systems.
-
-Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types
-(such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure
-that malicious .wmf files can't be uploaded with a fake extension;
-such files could put visitors to the site at risk.
-
-For more details on this, see:
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
-
-Additionally, a maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts.php has been added;
-this replaces an older Perl script which had not been updated for the new
-schema in 1.5.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5.4 ==
-
-December 21, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5.4 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
-
-A hardcoded internal placeholder string has been replaced with a random
-one. This closes a hole where security checks in inline style attributes
-could be bypassed, injecting JavaScript code that could execute in
-Microsoft Internet Explorer.
-
-Other browsers would not be vulnerable.
-
-Several minor fixes are included in this release, most notably a fix
-to clear the "you have new messages" flag properly for usernames
-containing spaces when e-mail notification is enabled.
-
-See the changelog at the end of the release notes for a full list of
-fixes.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5.3 ==
-
-December 4, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5.3 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
-
-Validation of the user language option was broken by a code change in
-May 2005, opening the possibility of remote code execution as this
-parameter is used in forming a class name dynamically created with
-eval().
-
-The validation has been corrected in this version. All prior 1.5 release
-and prelease versions are affected; 1.4 and earlier and not affected.
-
-Additionally several bugs have been fixed; see the changelog later in
-this file for a complete list.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5.2 ==
-
-November 2, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5.2 is a bugfix maintenance release.
-
-A change in PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC broke handling of extension and
-<pre> sections, causing garbage data to be inserted in output and saved
-edits. This version works around the change.
-
-Several other glitches with MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0.5 were also fixed;
-see the change log below for a complete list.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5.1 ==
-
-October 26, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a
-recommended upgrade for all installations.
-
-This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style sanitation
-which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
-Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may be vulnerable to
-XSS injections on prior versions; users of standards-compliant browsers
-are not vulnerable.
-
-Major fixes include:
-* Image pages work again with resizing disabled
-* Works in MySQL 5.0 strict mode
-
-There is experimental support in this release for explicitly declaring
-the UTF-8 charset in the database; this has been tested with MySQL 5.0.15
-but should work on 4.1 as well.
-
-IMPORTANT: Changing this setting on an existing wiki may produce interesting
-data corruption, depending on server configuration. Page contents should,
-usually, be unaffected, but page titles and other items may be. Limitations
-in MySQL's Unicode support mean that characters outside the BMP cannot be used
-in page titles or various other fields when using this mode.
-
-Table definitions are in maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql, and the runtime
-option to send 'SET NAMES utf8' is set by $wgDBmysql5 = true.
-
-(MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on these
-versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is blissfully
-unaware of it.)
-
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5.0 final ==
-
-October 5, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5.0 is the new stable release branch of MediaWiki, and is
-recommended for all new installations.
-
-Any wikis running a 1.5 beta or release candidate are strongly recommended
-to upgrade to the final release, which includes a number of bug fixes and
-a security fix for CSS bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
-
-IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet?
-Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions
-prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is
-triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.
-
-
-=== What's new in 1.5? ===
-
-Schema:
- The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better
- use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up
- rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories.
-
- Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require
- some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend
- changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily.
-
-Permalinks:
- The current revision of a page now has a permanent 'oldid' number assigned
- immediately, and the id numbers are now preserved across deletion/undeletion.
- A permanent reference to the current revision of a page is now just a matter
- of going to the 'history' tab and copying the first link in the list.
-
-Page move log:
- Renames of pages are now recorded in Special:Log and the page history.
- A handy revert link is available from the log for sysops.
-
-Editing diff:
- Ever lost track of what you'd done so far during an edit? A 'Show diff'
- button on the edit page now makes it easy to remember.
-
-Uploads:
- It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct
- from the original filename on your disk.
-
- An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page.
-
- More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure
- on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on
- the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module.
-
- If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render
- them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several
- external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options.
-
-User accounts:
- There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable
- groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only
- accessible to certain groups.
-
- For details see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights
-
-E-mail:
- User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation
- first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses.
-
- Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail
- notifications.
-
-External hooks:
- A somewhat experimental interface for hooking in an external editor
- application is included.
-
-And...
- A bunch of stuff we forgot to mention.
-
-
-=== What's gone? ===
-
-Latin-1:
- Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for
- some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode.
- This is no longer supported.
-
- You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's
- "view source"; look for a line like this:
-
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
-
- If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1,
- you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding
- any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.)
-
-MySQL 3.x:
- Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema
- clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields).
-
- MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should
- very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support
- will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release.
-
-Special:Maintenance
- These tools were, ironically enough, not really maintained. This special
- page has been removed; insofar as some of its pieces were useful and haven't
- already been supplanted by other special pages they should be rewritten in
- an efficient and safe manner in the future.
-
-
-=== Caveats ===
-
-Upgrade:
- Wikis in Latin-1 encoding are no longer supported; only Unicode UTF-8.
- A new option $wgLegacyEncoding is provided to allow on-the-fly recoding of
- old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need
- to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate
- this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php.
-
- The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so
- it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations.
-
-Backups:
- The text entries of deleted pages are no longer removed from the main
- text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases,
- you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available
- as maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
-
- For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia,
- see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
-
-PostgreSQL:
- The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date. PostgreSQL
- support may return in later releases, pending appropriate patches.
-
-MySQL 4.1+:
- Some users may encounter installation problems with MySQL 4.1 or higher
- due to strange charset encoding / collation configurations. Try setting
- to 'latin1' or 'utf8' if you encounter problems.
-
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 4 ==
-
-August 29, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5rc4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
-It fixes compatibility with PHP 5.1, and corrects two cross-site scripting
-security bugs:
-
-* <math> tags were handled incorrectly when TeX rendering support is off,
- as in the default configuration.
-* Extension or <nowiki> sections in Wiki table syntax could bypass HTML
- style attribute restrictions for cross-site scripting attacks against
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
-
-Wikis where the optional math support has been *enabled* are not vulnerable
-to the first, but are vulnerable to the second.
-
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 3 ==
-
-August 24, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5rc3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
-It fixes several major problems in 1.5rc2:
-
-* Fixed a cross-site scripting injection in the search form
- (broken since 1.5beta1)
-
-* Fixed upgrades from 1.4 database schema
- (broken since 1.5rc2)
-
-1.3 and 1.4 releases are not vulnerable to the XSS bug, but anyone
-running an earlier 1.5 beta or release candidate should upgrade
-immediately.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5 release candidate 2 ==
-
-August 23, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5rc2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
-Numerous bug fixes since last beta, plus a security fix; see change
-log below for full details.
-
-A flaw in the interaction between extensions and HTML attribute
-sanitization was discovered which could allow unauthorized use
-of offsite resources in style sheets, and possible exploitation
-of a JavaScript injection feature on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
-
-This version expands the returned text and properly checks it
-before output.
-
-A 1.5rc1 release was mistakenly made from the incorrect source code
-branch; 1.5rc2 is identical to the actual 1.5rc1 in revision control
-except for version number.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 ==
-
-July 30, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
-A number of bugs have been fixed since beta 3; see the full changelist below.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 ==
-
-July 7, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5 beta 3 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release
-series, with a security update over beta 2.
-
-Incorrect escaping of a parameter in the page move template could
-be used to inject JavaScript code by getting a victim to visit a
-maliciously constructed URL. Users of vulnerable releases are
-recommended to upgrade to this release.
-
-Vulnerable versions:
-* 1.5 preview series: n <= 1.5beta2 vulnerable, fixed in 1.5beta3
-* 1.4 stable series: 1.4beta6 <= n <= 1.4.5 vulnerable, fixed in 1.4.6
-* 1.3 legacy series: not vulnerable
-
-This release also includes several bug fixes and localization updates.
-See the changelog at the end of this file for a detailed list.
-
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 ==
-
-July 5, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
-While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point,
-third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release
-on a public site without closely following additional development.
-
-Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to
-upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including
-a couple of HTML and SQL injections.
-
-This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and
-a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks.
-
-Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades
-from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and
-configuration file changes.
-
-Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool,
-maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
-These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able
-to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database
-and compression format.
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 ==
-
-June 26, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 is a preview release, pretty much feature complete,
-of the new 1.5 release series. There are several known and likely a number
-of unknown bugs; it is not recommended to use this release in a production
-environment but would be recommended for testing in mind of an upcoming
-deployment.
-
-A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases,
-including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings.
-See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior
-configuration settings for the new system.
-
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 ==
-
-June 3, 2005
-
-MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 includes a lot of bug fixes, feature merges,
-and a security update.
-
-Incorrect handling of page template inclusions made it possible to
-inject JavaScript code into HTML attributes, which could lead to
-cross-site scripting attacks on a publicly editable wiki.
-
-Vulnerable releases and fix:
-* 1.5 prerelease: fixed in 1.5alpha2
-* 1.4 stable series: fixed in 1.4.5
-* 1.3 legacy series: fixed in 1.3.13
-* 1.2 series no longer supported; upgrade to 1.4.5 strongly recommended
-
-
-== MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 1 ==
-
-May 3, 2005
-
-This is a testing preview release, being put out mainly to aid testers in
-finding installation bugs and other major problems. It is strongly recommended
-NOT to run a live production web site on this alpha release.
-
-** WARNING: USE OF THIS ALPHA RELEASE MAY INFEST YOUR HOUSE WITH **
-** TERMITES, ROT YOUR TEETH, GROW HAIR ON YOUR PALMS, AND PASTE **
-** INNUENDO INTO YOUR C.V. RIGHT BEFORE A JOB INTERVIEW! **
-** DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, MAN. WE TOTALLY DID RIGHT HERE. **
-
-
-=== Smaller changes since 1.4 ===
-
-Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things:
-
-* 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
-* support for external editors for files and wiki pages:
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors
-* Schema reworking: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
-* (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit
-* (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
-* (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
-* (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
-* (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
-* (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
-* (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the abbreviation of the current month
-* (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English, see:
- http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
-* (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or diff database
- revision id, useful for proper citation.
-* (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
-* (bug 2064) Configurable JavaScript mimetype with $wgJsMimeType
-* (bug 2084) Fixed a regular expression in includes/Title.php that was accepting invalid syntax like #REDIRECT [[foo] in redirects
-* It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
-* No longer using sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
-* What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
-* Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
-* Language conversion support for category pages
-* $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
-* Special:Movepage can now take paramaters like Special:Movepage/Page_to_move
- (used to just be able to take paramaters via a GET request like index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
-* (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one has edited the article.
-* (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail.
-* (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation
-* ...and more!
-
-
-=== Changes since 1.5alpha1 ===
-
-* (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category to
- file description from upload page (previously it would be set to
- "Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging)
-* (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable through
- the MediaWiki namespace on the MediaWiki:navbar page.
-* (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable
-* (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded files
- including virus checks using external programs.
-* (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab
-* (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization, update namespaces
-* (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs" to "Limburgs
-* (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in <div dir='ltr'> in order
- to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis.
-* (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute
-* (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization
-* (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message
-* (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases
-* (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed
-* (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for "sharedupload" media
-* (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form
-* (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for <td> and <th>
-* (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now
-* (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests
-* (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation
-* (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install
-* Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates, {{msg: is
- now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent()
-* Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries
-* HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up
- multiple-revision pulls
-* Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of
- copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub reference
- records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields. Requires
- that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields are migrated
- into the main text store.
-* Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by
- default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason)
-* dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with current
- revisions only or complete histories.
-* The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved word in
- SQL which caused some inconveniances.
-* New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid, mov, o,
- ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on the KDE
- crystalsvg theme.
-* Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0'
-* Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Íslenzka"
-* The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation
-* Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of
- admnistrators out of normal users.
-* links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce pain
- dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages.
-* Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater.
-* Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits
- (somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached)
-* (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled
-* (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image.
-* Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema
-* Remove linkscc table code, no longer used.
-* (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text
- instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation.
-* Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once.
-* Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single function
- that does both numeric and named chars: Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences
-* Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions
-* Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements
-* (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move
-* (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save;
- leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview.
-* (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list
-* (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title from the watchlist
-* Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces.
-* (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments
-* (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags
-* (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's external
- LDAP authentication plugin
-* (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging
-
-=== Changes since 1.5alpha2 ===
-
-* (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching
-* (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages
-* (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts
-* (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set
-* (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning
-* (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute zone,
- with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304)
-* Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for <hr> and <br>
-* Changed user_groups format quite a bit.
-* (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line
-* (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move
-* (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links
-* (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking
-* (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a possible
- version conflict is detected
-* (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes
-* (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1
- when the default charset is set to utf8
-* (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if
- $wgEmailAuthentication is false.
-* (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings
- when a template with a gallery was used.
-* Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery
-* (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!)
-* Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact
-* Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all groups
- when searching for a specific group and can't be split across pages
-* (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank link
- for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files.
-* (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount
-* (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser
-* (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file
-* (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special page
- rather than to "".
-* (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation
-* A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath
-* A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName
-* A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in the image table
-* Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_"
-* Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary
-* badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages
-* Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format
-* 'developer' group deprecated by default
-* Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check
-* Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import
-* (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links
-* (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke too many
- things for the current parser to handle cleanly
-* (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file
-* Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace selection to
- be forgotten between submits
-* Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
-* (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to seperate it from
- "Show preview" and "Show changes"
-* Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed to
- harwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
-* The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off by default
- and can be turned back on by setting $wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value.
-* Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail, replacing
- the factually inaccurate text that was there.
-* (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again
-* (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext
-* (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php
-* (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who don't
- realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted printable page.
-* Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems
-* Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA)
-* (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation
-* (bug 2506, 2512) Updated the Nynorsk translation
-* (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup UPGRADE
- documentation about edit and read whitelists.
-* (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update
-* Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's
-* (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page
-* Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension
- writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension
- can be used with.
-* Serialized user objects now checked for versioning
-* Fix for interwiki link regression
-* Printable link shorter in monobook
-* Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script
-* (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled
-
-== Changes since 1.5beta1 ==
-
-* (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to
- Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski))
-* Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace()
-* Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php
-* Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave
-* (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks
-* Fix paging on Special:Contributions
-* (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab
-* (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page
-* Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
-* Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
-* (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image
-* (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage
-* Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave
-* Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
-* (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit
-* Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user
- agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was
- not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of
- PHP ucfirst() )
-* Moved the user name / password validity checking from
- LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions,
- User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do
- these checks without rewriting code.
-* Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-'
-* Fixed a bug where the watchlist count without talk pages would be off by a
- factor of two.
-* upgrade1_5.php uses insert ignore, allows to skip image info initialization
-* Fix namespaces in category list.
-* Add rebuildImages.php to update image metadata fields
-* Special:Ancientpages is expensive in new schema for now
-* (bug 2568) Fixed a logic error in the Special:Statistics code which caused
- the displayed percentage of admins to be totally off.
-* (bug 2560) Don't show blank width/height attributes for missing size
-* Don't show bogus messages about watchlist notifications when disabled
-* Don't show old debug messages in watchlist
-* (bug 2576) Fix recording of transclusion links
-* (bug 2577) Allow sysops to enter non-standard block times
-* Fixed a bug where Special:Contributions wouldn't remember the 'invert'
- status between next/previous buttons.
-* Move MonoBook printable link from tab to sidebar
-* (bug 2567) Fix HTML escaping on category titles in list
-* (bug 2562) Show rollback link for current revisions on diff pages
-* (bug 2583) Add --missinig option on rebuildImages.php to add db entries
- for uploaded files that don't have them
-* (bug 2572) Fix edit conflict handling
-* (bug 2595) Show "Earlier" and "Latest" links on history go to the first/last
- page in the article history pager.
-* Don't show empty-page text in 'Show changes' on new page
-* (bug 2591) Check for end, fix limits on Whatlinkshere
-* (bug 2584) Fix output of subcategory list
-* (bug 2597) Don't crash when undeleting an image description page
-* (bug 2564) Don't show "editingold" warning for recent revision
-* Various code cleanup and HTML escaping fixlets
-* Copy IRC-over-UDP update option from REL1_4
-* (bug 2548) Keep summary on 'show changes' of section edit
-* Move center on toc to title part to avoid breaking .toc style usage
-* HTML sanitizer: correct multiple attributes by keeping last, not first
-* (bug 2614) Fix section edit links on diff-to-current with oldid set
- Also fix navigation links on current-with-oldid view.
-* (bug 2620) Return to prior behavior for some more things (such as
- subpage parent links) on current-diff view.
-* (bug 2618) Fix regression from another fix; show initial preview for
- categories only if the page does not exist.
-* (bug 2625) Keep group & user settings when paging in Listusers
-* (bug 2627) Fix regression: diff radio button initial selection
-* Copy fix for old search URLs with Lucene search plugin from REL1_4
-* (bug 619) Don't use incompatible diff3 executable on non-Linux systems.
-* (bug 2631) Fix Hebrew namespaces.
-* (bug 2630) Indicate no-longer-valid cached entries in BrokenRedirects list
-* (bug 2644, 2645) "cur" diff links in page history, watchlist and
- recentchanges should specify current ID explicitly.
-* (bug 2609) Fix text justification preferenced with MonoBook skin.
-* (bug 2594) Display article tab as red for non-existent articles.
-* (bug 2656) Fix regression: prevent blocked users from reverting images
-* (bug 2629) Automatically capitalize usernames again instead of
- rejecting lowercase with a useless error message
-* (bug 2661) Fix link generation in contribs
-* Add support for &preload=Page_name (load text of an existing page into
-edit area) and &editintro=Page_name (load text of an existing page instead
-of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new.
-* (bugs 2633, 2672, 2685, 2695) Fix Estonian, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and
- Spanish numeric formatting
-* Fixed Swedish numeric formatting
-* (bug 2658) Fix signature time, localtime to match timezone offset again
-* Files from shared repositories (e.g. commons) now display with their
- image description pages when viewed on local wikis.
-* Restore compatibility namespace aliases for French Wikipedia
-* Fix diff order on Enhanced RC 'changes' link
-* (bug 2650) Fix national date type display on wikis that don't support
- dynamic date conversion.
-* FiveUpgrade: large table hacks, install iw_trans update before links
-* (bug 2648) Rename namespaces in Afrikaanse
-* Special:Booksources checks if custom list page exists before using it
-* (bug 1170) Fixed linktrail for da: and ru:
-* (bug 2683) Really fix apostrophe escaping for toolbox tips
-* (bug 923) Fix title and subtitle for rclinked special page
-* (bug 2642) watchdetails message in several languages used <a></a> instead of [ ]
-* (bug 2181) basic CSB language localisation by Tomasz G. Sienicki (thanks for the patch)
-* Fix correct use of escaping in edit toolbar bits
-* Removed language conversion support from Icelandic
-* (bug 2616) Fix proportional image scaling, giving correct height
-* (bug 2640) Include width and height attributes on unscaled images
-* Workaround for mysterious problem with bogus epoch If-Last-Modified reqs
-* (bug 1109) Suppress compressed output on 304 responses
-* (bug 2674) Include some site configuration info in export data:
- namespaces definitions, case-sensitivity, site name, version.
-* Use xml:space="preserve" hint on export <text> elements
-* Make language variant selection work again for zh
-
-== Changes since 1.5beta2 ==
-
-* Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions
-* (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work
-* (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt
-* (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization
-* Fixed number formatting for Dutch
-* (bug 1355) add class noprint to commonPrint.css
-* (bug 2350) Massive update for Limburgish (li) language using Wikipédia
-* Massive update for Arab (ar) language using Wikipédia
-* (bug 1560) Massive update for Kurdish (ku) language using Wikipédia
-* (bug 2709) Some messages were not read from database
-* (bug 2416) Don't allow search engine robots to index or follow nonexisting articles
-* Fix escaping in page move template.
-* (bug 153) Discrepancy between thumbnail size and <img> height attribute
-
-== Changes since 1.5beta3 ==
-
-* Fix talk page move handling
-* (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese number notation
-* (bug 2749) would appear as a literal in image galleries for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv
-* (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash
-* Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause some
- interesting errors with signitures.
-* (bug 2764) Number format for Nds
-* (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German language.
-* (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories
-* (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian
-* Fix nohistory message on empty page history
-* Fix fatal error in history when validation on
-* Cleaned up email notification message formatting
-* Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK
-* (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish
-* (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion
-* Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records
-* (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema
-* (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format
-* (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing
-* Nynorsk numeric format fix
-* (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ enotif off
-* (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix
-* With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' match
-* Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]]
-* (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to [[Special:Listusers/sysop]]
-* (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements
-* Some shared upload fixes
-* (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
-* support preload= parameter for section=new
-* show comment subject in preview when using section=new
-* use comment form when creating a new talk page
-* (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block.
-* Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
-* (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category sort
-* PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing
-* (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan
-* Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed
- inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
-* Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
-* Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php
-* Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost
- due to bogus optimization
-* (bug 275) Section duplication fix
-* Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
-* Fix notice on search index update due to non-array
-* (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3
-* (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0
-* (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions to add
- their own logtypes, see extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an
- example of this.
-* (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages
-* (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections
-* (bug 796) Trackback support
-* Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC
- are now suppressed as before.
-* New skin: Simple
-* "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
- viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page respectively.
-* Skins can now be previewed in preferences
-* (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
- patch from robla
-* Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
- edit conflict.
-* (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
-* (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
- content language
-* Removed useless protectreason message
-* Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
-* Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
-* Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
-* (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization
-* (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces
-* (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output
- for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash.
-* (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
-* compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.
-
-
-=== Changes since 1.5beta4 ===
-
-* Fix Special:Allmessages under PHP 5
-* (bug 2911) Special:Watchlist allowed only one type of limit at a time
-* (bug 693) Special:Allmessages is excessively wide and redundant
-* (bug 3001) Updated and applied live hack for recentchanges-based watchlist
-* (bug 145) Finish 'exclude redirect' implementation in search form
-* Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
- title and reason input boxes
-* (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
-* (bug 3056) MySQL 3 compatibility fix: USE INDEX instead of FORCE INDEX
-* PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
- if running prior to 4.2.0 as it causes the call to fail
-* (bug 3117) Fix display of upload size and type with tidy on
-* (bug 1487) invalid html on empty list in banlist
-* (bug 3017) Hotkey conflict for delete and show changes
-* made pixel unit translateable and blocklistline now eats infiniteblock
- and expiringblock
-* (bug 3092) Wrong numerical separator for big numbers in Serbian.
-* (bug 2855) Credit for a uniq author showed its realname even with
- $wgAllowRealName=false.
-* New special page: SpecialMostlinked
-* (bug 2393) Fix MIME type for Atom feeds ( application/rss+atom )
-* Fix display of read-only lockfile message
-* Added a new hook, 'AddNewAccount', which is run after account creation
-* Update all stats fields on recount.sql
-* Include software-visible client IP address in Special:Version comment
- as a proxy debugging aid
-* (bug 3162) Fix 'undefined property page_is_new' error on watchlist
-* (bug 1734) granting db permissions failed with db usernames containg '-'
-* (bug 3170) wikititlesuffix was removed, use pagetitle instead
-* (bug 3187) watchlist text refer to unexistent "Stop watching" action
-* (bug 3190) Added some date format choices for language sr
-* (bug 1334) LanguageGa.php update
-* (bug 1020) Changing user interface language does not work immediately
-* (bug 2753) Some namespaces were not translated in LanguageTa.php (Tamil)
-* (bug 3204) Fix typo breaking special pages in fy localization
-* (bug 3210) Fix Media: links with remote image URL path
-* (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges
-* (bug 3238): Updated LanguageNn.php for 1_5 branch
-* (bug 3192): properly check 'limit' parameter on Special:Contributions
-* (bug 3244) Fix remote image loading hack, JavaScript injection on MSIE
-* Fix URL sanitization in HTML attributes, which broke in this branch
-* (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages
-
-
-=== Changes since 1.5rc2 ===
-
-* Fix upgrade from 1.4 due to version number check breakage
-* Fix upgrade from 1.4 with no old revisions
-* (bug 2108) Sort entries when using category browser
-* XSS issue : now sanitize search query input
-
-
-=== Changes since 1.5rc3 ===
-
-* (bug 3280) Respect 'move' group permission on page moves
-* (bug 2885) More PHP 5.1 fixes: skin, search, log, undelete
-* Security fix for <math>
-* Security fix for tables
-
-
-=== Changes since 1.5rc4 ===
-
-* (bug 3292) Fix move-over-redirect test when current entries are not plaintext
-* (bug 2078) Don't hide watch tab on preview
-* (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
-* Support SVG rendering with rsvg
-* Cap arbitrary SVG renders to given image size or $wgSVGMaxSize pixels wide
-* (bug 3127) Render large SVGs at image page size correctly
-* (bug 3448) Set page_len on undelete
-* (bug 2800) Don't scale up small iamges on |thumb| without explicit size
-* Use the real file link instead of the default-size rasterized version for
- large SVG images on image description page
-* Include the file name/type/size line for non-resized images
-* (bug 3412) Clean up date format handling so ~~~~-sigs work with default
- format as designed. Documentation comments updated.
-* (bug 1423) LanguageJa.php update
-* (bug 3405) Don't use raw letters as aliases of MSGNW: and SUBST:
-* (bug 3485) Fix bogus warning about filename capitalization when off
-* (bug 2792) Update rebuildrecentchanges.inc for new schema
-* Special:Import/importDump fixes: report XML parse errors, accept <minor/>
-* (bug 3489) PHP 5.1 compat problem with captioned images
-* (bug 3350) Missing label for move talk page checkbox.
-* (bug 2570) Add 'watch this page' checkbox on uploads, watch uploads
- by default when 'watchdefault' option is on
-* (bug 3182) Clear link cache during import to prevent memory leak
-* (bug 3573) Full Greek Translation
-* (bug 3595) Warn and abort if importDump.php called in read-only mode.
-* (bug 3598) Update message cache on message page deletion, patch by Tietew
-* Blacklist additional MSIE CSS safety tricks
-
-
-=== Changes since 1.5.0 ===
-
-* (bug 3629) Fix date & time format for Frisian
-* (bug 3641) Fix handling of unrecognized file uploads with known extensions
-* (bug 3643) Fix image page display of large images with resizing disabled
-* Fix meta robots tag on Special:Version again to avoid listing vulnerable
- versions for convenient harvesting by automated worms
-* (bug 3684) Fix typo in fatal error backtraces in Hooks.php
-* Backport fix for reference usage notice in Special:Search on PHP 4.4.0
-* Backport database connect error display fix from HEAD
-* (bug 2773) Print style sheet no longer overrides RTL text direction
-* MonoBook skin top link id changed from "contentTop" to "top" (shared with
- name attribute)
-* Wrap message page insertions in a transaction to speed up installation
-* Fix Special:MovePage invalid HTML attribute for reason textarea
-* Avoid notice warning on edit with no User-Agent header
-* (bug 3734) Swapped out obsolete recount.sql with initStats.php
-* (bug 3735) Fix to run under MySQL 5's strict mode
-* (bug 3786) Experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 utf8 charset mode
- NOTE: Enabling this may break existing wikis, and still doesn't
- work for all Unicode characters due to MySQL limitations.
-* Sanitizer CSS comment processing order fix
-
-
-=== Changes since 1.5.1 ===
-
-* Fix Special:BrokenRedirects on MySQL 5.0
-* (bug 3809) Backport fix for detecting diff3 failure
-* MySQL 5.0 strict mode fix for moving unwatched pages
-* (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
- Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
-* (bug 3762) Define missing Special:Import UI messages
-* (bug 3771) Handle internal functions in backtrace in wfAbruptExit()
-* (bug 3649) Remove obsolete, broken moveCustomMessages script
-* (bug 3667) Add missing global in page move code
-* (bug 3761) Avoid deprecation warnings in Special:Import
-* (bug 2885) Remove unnecessary reference parameter which broke classic skin
- talk notification on PHP 5.0.5
-* (bug 3845) Update attribute.php for 1.5 schema
-* Fix Parser::unstrip on PHP 4.4.1 and PHP 5.1.0RC4
-
-
-=== Changes since 1.5.2 ===
-
-* (bug 3612) Remove old broken version of maintenance/compressOld.php
- The working version is in maintenance/storage/compressOld.php
-* (bug 2740) Accept image deletions on 'enter' submit from MSIE
-* (bug 3933) specify XML namespace for Atom 0.3 feeds
-* (bug 3939) Don't try to load text for interwiki redirect target
-* (bug 3948) Avoid notice warning in debug statement in bad search
-* Recognize Special:Search consistently so read whitelist works
-* (bug 4013) typo in fr
-* (bug 3996) Fix text for new entries in RC RSS/Atom feed
-* (bug 2894) Enhanced Recent Changes link fixes
-* (bug 3065) Update both watched namespaces when renaming pages
-* Move parentheses out of <a> link in Special:Contributions
-* (bug 4071) Generate passwords long enough for $wgMinimalPasswordLength
-* (bug 4035) Fix prev/next revision links on edit page
-* (bug 4165) Correct validation for user language selection (data taint)
-* Clearer message in DefaultSettings.php: edit LocalSettings.php instead
-
-
-=== Changes since 1.5.3 ===
-
-* (bug 3805) Clear 'new messages' flag properly in enotif mode
- for usernames containing spaces
-* (bug 2714) Backlink from special:whatlinkshere was hard set as 'existing'
-* (bug 4249) Typo in entities2literals.pl
-* (bug 4233) Update for japanese language
-* (bug 4279) Small correction to LanguageDa.php
-* (bug 4267) Switch dv sd ug ks arc languages to RTL
-* (bug 3991) Allow the operation of wikicode on Protect move only text
-* Added AutoAuthenticate hook for external User object suppliers
-* Parser internal placeholder string now fully randomized for safety
-
-=== Changes since 1.5.4 ===
-
-* Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts
-* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this
- MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images
- which are not of known image types. This is in response to
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
-
-=== Changes since 1.5.5 ===
-
-* (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1"
- should be set
-* (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
-* (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
-* Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of
- establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor
- changes to installer.
-* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work
- (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field)
-* (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision.
-* Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
-* Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script
-* Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1
-* Removed read-only check from Database::query()
-* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a
- different LocalSettings.php.
-
-=== Changes since 1.5.6 ===
-
-* Default main page content improved per bug 4690
-* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
-* Fixed Special:Unlockdb
-* Maintenance script to delete unused text records
-* Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
-* Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
-* (bug 4768) Wrong Russian translation (typo)
-* Performance bugfix: propagate equality manually for Revision fetches
-* (bug 4773) PHP fatal error when invalid title passed to Special:Export
-* Added missing table defs. for transcache to installer schemas
-* (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds,
- and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE
- workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
-* (bug 2532) Image directory structure migration bug
-* (bug 4881) Correction to the fix for 1487; Ipblocklist showed 'no blocks'
- message at the end of the list even if there were blocks.
-* (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia-references from LanguageUk.php
-* Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not
- list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
-* Allow customisation of paging limits for items in categories using the
- $wgCategoryPagingLimit global, per bug 4970.
-* Improve "nogomatch" text to make it more obvious that a page can be created.
-* (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
-* Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
-
-=== Changes since 1.5.7 ===
-
-* (bug 5180) User login page shows inappropriate email blurb
-* Add the "AbortNewAccount" hook on account creation; see hooks.txt for more info.
-* Update default "exporttext" to reflect that Special:Import exists
-* Add links to useful material to the default main page content
-* Fix fragment HTML injection
+== MediaWiki 1.15.3 ==
+
+April 7, 2010
+
+This is a security and maintenance release.
+
+MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
+quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
+"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
+
+=== Changes since 1.15.2 ===
+
+* (bug 22828) Fixed deletion on SQLite.
+* (bug 23076) Fixed login CSRF vulnerability. Logins now require a token to
+ be submitted along with the user name and password.
+
+=== Changes since 1.15.1 ===
+
+* The installer now includes a check for a data corruption issue with certain
+ versions of libxml2 2.7 and PHP earlier than 5.2.9, and also for a PHP bug
+ present in the official release of PHP 5.3.1.
+* (bug 20239) MediaWiki:Imagemaxsize does not contain anymore a <br /> tag which
+ was displayed to the user
+* (bug 21150) SQLite no longer raise an error when deleting files
+* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
+* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
+* Fixed a CSS validation issue which allowed external images to be included
+ into wikis where that is disallowed by configuration.
+* Fixed a data leakage vulnerability for private wikis using img_auth.php or
+ similar image access authentication schemes. Check user permissions before
+ streaming out scaled images from thumb.php.
+
+=== Changes since 1.15.0 ===
+
+* Fixed fatal errors for unusual file repository configurations, such as
+ ForeignAPIRepo.
+* Fixed the "change password" link on Special:Preferences to have the correct
+ returnto parameter.
+* (bug 19693) Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability in Special:Block
+
+=== Changes since 1.15.0rc1 ===
+
+* Removed category redirect feature, implementation was incomplete.
+* (bug 18846) Remove update_password_format(), unnecessary, destroys all
+ passwords if a wiki with $wgPasswordSalt=false is upgraded with the web
+ installer.
+* (bug 19127) Documentation warning for PostgreSQL users who run update.php:
+ use the same user in AdminSettings.php as in LocalSettings.php.
+* Fixed possible web invocation of some maintenance scripts, due to the use of
+ include() instead of require(). A full exploit would require a very strange
+ web server configuration.
+* Localisation updates.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
+
+* Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
+ temporary passwords
+* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
+* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
+ from rel="nofollow" on external links
+* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
+* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
+ to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
+* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
+ namespace" option (disabled by default)
+
+=== New features in 1.15 ===
+
+* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
+* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
+ for the current page for a given action
+* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
+ to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
+* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
+* When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
+ Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
+ hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
+* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
+ from the database.
+* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
+ existing block when modifying an existing block.
+* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
+ rather than hardcoded HTML tags
+* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
+ extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
+ pages
+* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
+ specialpages
+* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
+* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
+ recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
+* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
+ special pages.
+* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
+* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
+ link instead of Go button & Search button
+* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
+* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
+* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
+* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
+* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
+* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
+ content language.
+* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
+ set to false.
+* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
+* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
+* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
+ can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
+* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
+ "mw-confirmemail-pending"
+* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
+ parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
+ part for a given title.
+* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
+ rest of the font
+* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
+* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
+* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
+* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
+ class "mw-searchresult"
+* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
+* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
+* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
+* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
+* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
+ "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
+* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
+ this information will be public
+* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
+* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
+ the active users data from site_stats.
+* Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
+* Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
+ 'ellipsis' message
+* Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
+ 'mw-editinginterface'
+* (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
+* Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
+ of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
+ next section anyway.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
+ Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
+ $wgForeignFileRepos
+* Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
+* (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
+* (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
+* Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
+* (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
+ username
+* Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
+ with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
+* $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
+ of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
+* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
+ $wgRedirectOnLogin
+* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
+* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
+ of the displayed revision's author user name
+* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
+ a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
+* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables
+ with dynamic dates.
+* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the
+ dateformat parser function.
+* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited
+ to 5000 pages)
+* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
+ enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,
+ optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting
+ $wgTiffThumbnailType
+* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and
+ 'mw-log-user', respectively
+* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
+ usernames during registration (such as "@")
+* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
+ used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
+ on a different database
+* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
+ line
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
+
+* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
+* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
+ before trying to delete the edit.
+* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
+* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
+ the destination page exists
+* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
+ been disabled
+* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
+* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
+* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
+* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
+ allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
+* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
+* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
+* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
+ to 'administrator'
+* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
+* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
+* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
+* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
+ "user contributions"
+* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
+* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
+ comment label uses better message
+* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
+ LocalSettings
+* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
+ error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
+* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
+* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
+ for identical files at different titles are still given.
+* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
+ certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
+ and the entries can be styled with CSS.
+* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
+* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
+ results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
+* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
+* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
+ configs
+* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
+* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
+* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
+* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
+ history
+* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
+ and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
+* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
+* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
+ longer affects the page title
+* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
+* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
+* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
+* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
+* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable
+* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file
+ cache is enabled.
+* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode
+* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in
+ maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php
+* (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin
+* (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php
+* Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables
+ use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' '
+ in next page link
+* (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails
+* Fixed excessive job queue utilisation
+* File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once.
+* (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now
+ used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization.
+* (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera)
+* (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom)
+ now point to the actual contributors' feed.
+* ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally
+* Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if
+ $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0
+* (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following
+ redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects)
+* (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link.
+* (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot,
+ changed to rc_timestamp_bot
+* (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer
+* (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements
+* (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key
+ on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does
+* (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes
+ it unreadable in RTL
+* Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL
+* (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with
+ PostgreSQL
+* (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga"
+* (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere
+* (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL
+* (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no
+ toolbar present
+* (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights
+* (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1
+* (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job
+ queue
+* (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first
+ displayed revision if it's not the current one
+* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords
+* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non-
+ namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN
+* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized
+* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect
+ no longer corrupts the message cache
+* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups.
+* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags
+* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities
+* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres
+* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore
+* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have
+ two "page" parameters
+* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that
+ don't use PathInfo or short urls
+* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with
+ $wgScriptExtension
+* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL
+* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry
+ IS NULL
+* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect
+* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses
+* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when
+ you cut-and-paste article text
+* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request
+* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages
+* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and
+ "Previous edit" diff links
+* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as
+ target'
+* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits
+* Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop
+ involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is
+ possible.
+* (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data
+ directory is wrong.
+* (bug 16937) Fixed PostgreSQL installation on Windows, workaround for upstream
+ pg_version() bug.
+* (bug 11451) Fix upgrade from MediaWiki 1.2 or earlier (imagelinks schema).
+* Fixed SQLite indexes, installation and upgrade. Reintroduced it as an option
+ to the installer.
+* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
+
+== API changes in 1.15 ==
+
+* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions
+ and listing all deleted pages possible
+* (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories
+* (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop=
+* (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that
+ created the page, even if it's not the top revision
+* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs
+* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right
+* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit
+* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses.
+ Building query properly now using makeList()
+* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are
+ autolinked correctly
+* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse
+* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect
+* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query
+* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata
+* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers
+* (bug 17007) Added action=import
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because
+ of performance concerns
+* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions
+ and list=logevents
+* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the
+ limit and still set a query-continue in some cases
+* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move
+* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output
+* (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles
+* Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo
+* (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace
+ aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces
+* (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified
+* (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo
+* (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions
+* Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in
+ conversion rules
+* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters
+ is set
+* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users
+ without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them.
+* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error
+ when someone tries to use them
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users,
+ a POST request
+* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface
+ message to be included in the page text
+* (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter
+* (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter
+* (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.15 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+
+* Austrian German (de-at) (new)
+* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new)
+* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new)
+* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new)
+* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new)
+* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug')
+* Veps (vep) (new)
+* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro)
+* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese
+* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English)
+* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar
+* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them
+* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
+ when the user is blocked
+* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support
+
+== Compatibility ==
+
+MediaWiki 1.15 requires PHP 5 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+
+PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
+http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
+Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
+
+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 ==
+
+1.15 has several database changes since 1.14, and will not work without schema
+updates.
+
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
+ry, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
+database schema changes.
+
+If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
+new database fields are filled with data.
+
+If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
+changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
+break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
+
+See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
=== Caveats ===
cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-
-For notes on 1.4.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.14.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===
Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
-built up on Meta-Wikipedia, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
-License:
+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://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
+ 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://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
- http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
+
+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
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