= 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 1.5.8 ==
-
-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 1.16.0 ==
+
+2010-07-28
+
+This is a stable release of the MediaWiki 1.16 branch.
+
+=== Summary of selected changes in 1.16 ===
+
+Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.15 that may be of interest:
+
+* Watchlists now have RSS/Atom feeds. RSS feeds generally are now hidden,
+ since Atom is a better protocol and is supported by virtually all clients.
+
+* It's now possible to block users from sending email via Special:Emailuser.
+
+* The maintenance script system was overhauled. Most maintenance scripts now
+ have a useful help page when you run them with --help.
+
+* AdminSettings.php is no longer required in order to run maintenance scripts.
+ You can just set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your
+ LocalSettings.php instead.
+
+* The preferences system was overhauled. Preferences are stored in a more
+ compact format. Changes to site default preferences will automatically
+ affect all users who have not chosen a different preference.
+
+* Support for SQLite was improved. Some broken features were fixed, and it
+ now has an efficient full-text search.
+
+* The user groups ACL system was improved by allowing rights to be revoked,
+ instead of just granted.
+
+* A new localisation caching system was introduced, which will make MediaWiki
+ faster for almost everyone, especially when lots of extensions are enabled.
+
+By default, this new system makes a lot of database queries. If your database
+is particularly slow, or if your system administrator limits your query count,
+or if you want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of Mediawiki,
+set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable path on the local filesystem. Make sure
+you have the DBA extension for PHP installed, this will improve performance
+further.
+
+== Changes since 1.16 beta 3 ==
+
+* (bug 23769) Disabled HTML 5 client-side form validation. Was introduced in
+ 1.16 beta 1, but is currently poorly supported by browsers.
+* (bug 23175) Re-added window.ta variable for backwards compatibility.
+* (bug 23264) Fixed breakage of various command line scripts due to extra line
+ endings being inserted by Maintenance::output().
+* Fixed HTTP client functionality with safe_mode=On.
+* Fixed parser tests broken in 1.16 beta 3.
+* For Oracle DB backend: fixed parser tests and table prefix feature.
+* (bug 23767) Fixed PHP warning when REQUEST_URI is blank (IIS issue).
+* Fixed plural function for Northern Sami (se)
+* (bug 23597) Fixed conflicts between ID attributes in the Vector skin and
+ parser-generated heading IDs. Renamed head, panel, head-base and page-base.
+* Disabled $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq>1 feature on SQLite, does not work yet.
+* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
+ Special:Upload after following a red link to a file.
+* In SQLite full-text search feature: fixed "move page" feature, was non-
+ functional.
+* (bug 24565) Fixed Cache-Control headers sent from API modules, to protect
+ user privacy in the case where an attacker can access the wiki through the
+ same HTTP proxy as a logged-in user.
+* Fixed an XSS vulnerability in profileinfo.php for installations with
+ $wgEnableProfileInfo = true (false by default)
+* Fixed a case where an X-Vary-Options header was sent despite $wgUseXVO being
+ false. Fixed a minor header parsing issue when $wgUseXVO = true.
+* Fixed a register_globals arbitrary inclusion vulnerability in
+ MediaWikiParserTest.php, introduced in 1.16 beta 1.
+
+== Changes since 1.16 beta 2 ==
+
+* Fixed bugs in the [[Special:Userlogin]] and [[Special:Emailuser]] handling of
+ invalid usernames.
+* Fixed sorting in [[Special:Allmessages]]
+* (bug 23113) Fixed title in the show/hide links on diff pages
+* (bug 23117) Fixed API rollback, was returning "badtoken" for valid requests
+* (bug 23127) Re-added missing $1 parameter to the uploadtext message
+* Fixed a bug in the Vector skin where personal tools display behind the logo
+* (bug 23139) Fixed a bug in edit conflict resolution, where both textboxes
+ showed the same text.
+* (bug 23115, bug 23124) Fixed various problems with <title> and <h1> elements
+ in page views and previews when the language converter is enabled.
+* (bug 23148) Fixed a local path disclosure vulnerability in ImageMagick image
+ scaling, which was introduced in 1.16 beta 1.
+* Improved error checking on installer.
+* (bug 22970) Fixed a JavaScript error in the upload destination conflict
+ check.
+* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
+ preference is set.
+* (bug 23171) Improve IE6 version check to avoid false positives.
+* (bug 23176) Fixed upload warning override feature "upload new version",
+ broken in 1.16 beta 1.
+* Fixed regression in unwatch links sent out in notification emails. When the
+ mailing job was deferred via the job queue, the title was incorrect.
+* (bug 23534) Fixed SQL query error in API list=allusers.
+* Fixed a bug in uploads for non-JavaScript clients. An empty string was used
+ as the default destination filename, instead of the source filename as
+ expected.
+* (bug 23371) Fixed CSRF vulnerability in "e-mail me my password", "create
+ account" and "create by e-mail" features of [[Special:Userlogin]]
+* (bug 23687) Fixed XSS vulnerability affecting IE clients only, due to a CSS
+ validation issue.
+* Fixed a DoS vulnerability in ImageMagick image scaling. ImageMagick
+ expanded wildcard characters "?" and "*" in image filenames, potentially
+ causing large numbers of images to be scaled in response to a single request.
+ The fix for this involves breaking the scaling of such image filenames until
+ ImageMagick 6.6.1-5 or later is deployed, see bug 23361 for more details.
+* (bug 23608) Fixed invalid HTML in diff pages.
+
+=== Changes since 1.16 beta 1 ===
+
+* Fixed errors in maintenance/patchSql.php
+* (bug 19627) Fix regression from r57867 where HTMLForm would output
+ <element classes="foo bar"> rather than <element class="foo bar">
+* Fixed broken "-r" option to maintenance/lag.php
+* (bug 23076) Fixed login CSRF vulnerability. Logins now require a token to
+ be submitted along with the user name and password.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
+* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
+* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
+ be used when uploading/moving files
+* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
+ to be shown to users
+* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
+ $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
+ for backwards-compatibility
+* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
+* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
+ functions and other potential errors when developing.
+* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
+ mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
+ which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
+* Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
+ appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
+ oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
+* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
+* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
+ $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
+ files.
+* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
+ needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
+* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
+ to true
+* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
+ functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
+* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
+ interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
+* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
+ to same server
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
+ to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
+* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
+* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
+ should be used instead
+* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
+ characters in file names.
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
+ was denied to users(img_auth only)
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
+ correctly (img_auth only)
+* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
+ maintenance
+* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
+* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
+ to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
+* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
+* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
+ CIDR ranges for blocking
+* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
+ file repository
+* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
+* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
+ similarly to the category namespace.
+* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
+ backward compatibility)
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
+ exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
+ it as appropriate.
+* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
+ signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
+ but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
+ by default.
+* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
+ If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
+* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
+ with some search engines.
+* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
+ neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
+ longer advertised by default (but it still works).
+* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
+ memcached servers.
+* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
+ for controlling debug output.
+* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
+ logging in.
+* (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
+ extension "MetadataEdit".
+
+=== New features in 1.16 ===
+
+* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
+* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
+ viewing talk pages
+* Superfluous border="0" removed from images
+* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
+ to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
+ a cached MonoBook sidebar
+* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
+* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
+ to Special:Version
+* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
+ type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
+* (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
+* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
+ Special:Version
+* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
+* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
+* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
+* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
+* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
+* Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
+ each page
+* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
+* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
+ it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
+* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
+* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
+ month number without the leading zero
+* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
+* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
+* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
+* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
+* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
+ 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
+ customisation of the user interface
+* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
+ items)
+* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
+ wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
+ various user groups.
+* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
+ syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
+ have these rights stripped from them.
+* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
+ the DBA extension is not available.
+* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
+ fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
+ time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
+ set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
+* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
+ files.
+* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
+ task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
+ invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
+* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
+ headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
+ removing the redundant anchor elements.
+* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
+ preprocesor level.
+* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
+ display for old versions of images.
+* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
+ appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
+* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
+ thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
+* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
+ now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
+* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
+* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
+ will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
+* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
+ class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
+* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
+* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
+ message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
+* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
+ AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
+* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
+ difficulties
+* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
+ browsers
+* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
+* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
+ extension version in Special:Version
+* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
+ right name in Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
+ to {{ns:...}}
+* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
+ params
+* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
+* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
+* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
+ flags have tooltips.
+* (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
+ but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
+* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
+ page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
+* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
+ use
+* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
+ This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
+ if HTML 5 is used:
+** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers.
+** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
+ obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
+** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
+** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
+ output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
+** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
+* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
+* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
+ criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
+ deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
+* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
+* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
+ detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
+* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
+* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
+ display-in-limit-form.
+* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
+ and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
+* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
+ database connection and query errors.
+* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
+* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
+ excerpt from the block log.
+* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
+ file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
+* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
+* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
+ non-existent pages.
+* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
+ on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
+ of anonymous users that edited the page
+* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
+ for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
+* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
+* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
+ called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
+* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
+ a smaller subversion checkout.
+* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
+* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
+ of existing users
+* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
+ function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
+ setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
+ etc) to "-".
+* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
+* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
+* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
+ reuploading.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
+ the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
+* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
+ an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
+* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
+ or ExtUser-driven requests.
+* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
+ contains the number of revisions in the history
+* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
+* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
+ to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
+* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
+* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
+ MySQL
+* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
+* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
+ respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
+* Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
+ and common coding mistakes
+* Updated Unicode normalization tables
+* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
+* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
+* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
+ membership in SpecialActiveusers
+* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
+* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
+* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
+* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
+* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
+* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
+* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
+* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
+* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
+ Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
+ convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
+ equivalents.
+* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
+ stops normal output
+* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
+* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
+ "-{-{}-}-"
+* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
+* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
+* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
+ restrict/expand it.
+* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
+ article
+* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
+ the return value
+* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
+ maintenance/tests/.
+* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
+comment from another wiki.
+* Support for Turck MMCache was removed
+* (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
+ account will not be renamed
+* Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
+ selection
+* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
+* (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
+* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
+* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
+* Improved error handling for image moving
+* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
+ with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
+* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
+ MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
+* Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
+* (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
+* (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
+* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
+* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
+ skins
+* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
+* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
+* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
+ an IP address
+* (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
+* (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
+* (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
+* (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
+* (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
+* (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
+* (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
+* (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
+* (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
+* (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
+* Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
+ after some parsed math syntax.
+* (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
+* (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
+ <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
+* (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
+ divisible by 3
+* (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
+ revisions when --delete is not passed
+* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
+* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
+** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
+** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
+** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
+** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
+ to $wgSharedTables.
+** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
+ for it.
+* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
+ languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
+* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
+* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
+* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
+ problems in FF2
+* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
+* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
+* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
+ 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
+* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
+* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
+* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
+ tweaked spacing.
+* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
+* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
+ $wgSysopEmailBans
+* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
+* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
+* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
+* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
+* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
+* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
+ tags that were redundantly defined.
+* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
+* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
+ .inc
+* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
+ Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
+* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
+ and user can upload
+* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
+ uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
+* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
+* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
+* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
+ variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
+* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
+ show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
+* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
+* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
+* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
+* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
+ link from the edit comment
+* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
+* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
+* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
+* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
+* Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
+* Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only
+* (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they
+ can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
+* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
+* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
+ via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
+ work.
+* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
+ Chinese
+* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
+ whether the engines are actually available
+* (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version
+* (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan
+* (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input
+ and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an
+ extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid)
+* (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on
+* (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once
+* (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url
+* (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self
+* Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6
+* Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore
+ and was causing problems.
+* Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links.
+* (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on
+ Special:BlockIP
+* (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite.
+* Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from
+ history view, edit page, or something similar
+* (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
+* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
+* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
+* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
+ database type
+* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
+ standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
+* (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]])
+ are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table
+* (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id
+* (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data.
+ Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway.
+* (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file
+* (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist
+* (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5
+* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
+* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
+* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
+* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
+ table.
+* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
+* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
+ users who can't edit them
+* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
+* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
+ "enhanced recent changes"
+* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
+ the recentchanges table
+* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
+ when using long urls
+* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
+ BCP 47 standards.
+* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
+* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
+ $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on
+ Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
+ to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as
+ content's language
+* (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL
+ database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup
+* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
+ if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
+* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
+* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
+ option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
+* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
+* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
+ "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
+* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
+ "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
+* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
+ (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
+* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($wgLang), not wiki
+ language ($wgContLang)
+* (bug 11867) Lock error on redirect table when running orphans.php
+* (bug 18930) initStats.php now refreshes active users count
+* (bug 18699) Using the nosummary URL option no longer triggers the "You have
+ not provided a summary" warning for those who activated it in their
+ preferences
+* (bug 18855) commandLine.inc and Maintenance.php are now properly included
+ using the full path
+* (bug 18497) Fixed broken style sheets in Opera fullscreen mode
+* (bug 16084) Default memory limit has be increased to 50M, see $wgMemoryLimit
+* (bug 17864/19519) Added proper input normalization in Special:UserRights
+* (bug 20086) Add Hook to add extra statistics at the end of Special:Statistics
+* (bug 19289) importDump.php can now handle bzip2 and 7zip
+* (bug 20131) Fixed a PHP notice for users having the "rollback" right on
+ Special:RecentChangesLinked
+* Do not transform EXIF fields with pure text to avoid results like
+ foo,bar@example,com
+* (bug 20176) Fix login/logout links in skin CologneBlue
+* (bug 20203) "Powered by Mediawiki" now has height/width on image tag
+* (bug 20273) Fix broken output when no pages are found in the content
+ namespaces
+* (bug 20265) Make AncientPages and UnusedFiles work on SQLite
+* Fixed XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients (only pre-release
+ versions of MediaWiki were affected).
+* (bug 14817) Moving a page to a subpage of itself moves it twice
+* (bug 20289) $wgMaximumMovedPages should only count pages actually moved
+* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space characters
+ are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki has existing
+ titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or cleanupImages.php
+* (bug 11143) Links containing invalid UTF-8 percent-code sequences are now
+ cleanly disabled instead of breaking parsing entirely on PHP 5.2.
+* (bug 20296) Fixed an PHP warning in Language::getMagic() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 20358) Unprotect tab was missing accesskey; now same as protect tab.
+* (bug 20317) Cleaned up default main page link accesskey settings
+* (bug 20362) Special:Statistics now produces valid HTML when view counters are
+ enabled
+* (bug 19857) maintenance/deleteRevision.php on last revision no longer breaks
+ target page
+* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
+ Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
+* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
+* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
+ use wikitext
+* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
+ DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
+* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
+ the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
+* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
+ Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
+* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
+ if they contain non-ASCII characters
+* (bug 19055) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php now purges
+ Special:Recentchanges's RSS and Atom feed cache
+* The installer will now try to bypass PHP's max_execution_time
+* (bug 20260) SQLite no longer tries to automatically create the database at
+ execution time, this now happens only at install time; if it is not available
+ at script execution, it now throws an exception
+* Fixed EditFilterMerged hook so the hookError parameter serves a purpose
+ (analogous to EditFilter hook)
+* (bug 2257) Tag extensions can expand template parameters provided to the tag,
+ by using a new parameter added to the recursiveTagParse function
+* (bug 14900) __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ no longer override site config set in
+ $wgArticleRobotPolicies.
+* (bug 20466) Hidden categories are no more displayed when printing
+* (bug 20446) When changing user rights with User@remotewiki and remotewiki is
+ the local wiki, the user is now treated as the local user
+* (bug 20494) OutputPage::getArticleBodyOnly() no longer requires an useless
+ argument
+* (bug 20136) Protection form JavaScript now synchronizes the expiry boxes on
+ any change, in addition to onkeyup.
+* Don't link to "edit this page" on MediaWiki:Noarticletext if user is not
+ allowed to create page. Done via new message
+ MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission
+* Improved compatibility between the Vector skin and addPortletLink() from
+ wikibits.js: empty portlets are now present but hidden, adding an element to a
+ portlet unhides it
+* (bug 19531) addPortletLink() now wraps inserted labels in a <span> element to
+ be compatible with the CSS for the Vector skin
+* (bug 20578) Wrong localized image metadata - duplicated string?
+* (bug 20556) Stub threshold's "other" <input> in Special:Preferences now has a
+ correct type="text" parameter
+* (bug 482) Don't include TOC in the printable version if it has been hidden
+* Adjust the time according to the user configuration on Special:Revisiondelete
+* (bug 20624) Installation no longer allows "qqq" as the chosen language
+* (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all rights on
+ the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.
+* (bug 18180) Special:Export ignores limit, dir, offset parameters
+* User::getBlockedStatus() works for all kinds of user objects and doesn't
+ assume the user object is equal to the current-user object ($wgUser)
+* (bug 20517) Cancel link from edit page now returns to the old version when
+ editing an old version
+* (bug 16902) Installer no longer shows warnings when exec() has been disabled
+ by disable_functions
+* (bug 20726) Title::getLatestRevID's documentation now says that the function
+ returns false if the page doesn't exist
+* (bug 20751) ForeignApiRepo now urldecodes filenames when saving to local cache
+* (bug 20730) Fix to Special:Version ViewVC link for branch checkouts
+* (bug 20353) wfShellExec() was adding extra quotes on Windows Vista, causing
+ command line scripts to fail
+* (bug 20702) Parser functions can now be used correctly in
+ MediaWiki:Missing-article
+* (bug 14117) "redirected from" is now also shown on foreign file redirects
+* (bug 17747) Only display thumbnail column in file history if the image can
+ be rendered.
+* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
+* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
+ now links to the file rather than the file description page
+* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
+ attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
+* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
+* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
+* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
+ searching for special pages
+* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
+ hideuser right
+* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
+* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
+ field names per driver.
+* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
+ false on non-special pages
+* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
+ displayed when there isn't any entry in it
+* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
+ revisions
+* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
+ MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
+* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
+ Special:Log
+* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
+* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
+ databases
+* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
+* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
+ dummy
+* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
+* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
+* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
+* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
+* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
+* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
+ shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
+ complete the move.
+* (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
+* User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results,
+ User::getPasswordValidity can be used to get an error message string
+* The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
+* (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
+* Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
+* Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
+* (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
+* (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
+* (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
+* (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
+* (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
+* (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
+ id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
+* (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
+* (bug 19391) Fix caching for Recent ChangesFeed.
+* (bug 21455) Fixed "Watch this page" checkbox appearing on some special pages
+ even to non-logged in users
+* (bug 21551) Rewrote the Squid purge HTTP client to provide a more robust and
+ general implementation of HTTP, allowing it to purge non-Squid caches such as
+ Varnish.
+* Fixed corruption of long UDP debug log messages by using socket_sendto()
+ instead of fsockopen() with fwrite().
+* (bug 16884) Fixed feed links in sidebar not complying with URL parameters
+ of the displayed page
+* (bug 21403) memcached class renamed to MWMemecached to avoid conflict with
+ PHP's memcached extension
+* (bug 21650) Both calls to SkinTemplateTabs hook are now compatible
+* (bug 21672) Add missing Accept-Language to both Vary and XVO headers
+* (bug 21679) "Edit block reasons" link at the bottom of Special:Blockip is now
+ only displayed to the users that have "editinterface" right
+* (bug 21740) Attempting to protect a page that doesn't exist (salting) returns
+ "unknown error"
+* (bug 18762) both redirects and links get fixed one after another if
+ redirects-only switch is not present
+* (bug 20159) thumbnails rerendered if older that $wgThumbnailEpoch
+* Fixed a bug which in some situations causes the job queue to grow forever,
+ due to an infinite loop of job requeues.
+* (bug 21523) File that can have multiple pages (djvu, pdf, ...) no longer have
+ the page selector when they have only one page
+* (bug 21559) "logempty" message is now wrapped in a div with class
+ "mw-warning-logempty" when used in log extract
+* (bug 20549) Parser tests were broken on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21776) Interwiki urls like http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/cs: should give
+ a redirect instead of a baderror.
+* (bug 21803) Special:MyContributions now keeps the query string parameters
+* Redirecting special pages now keep query string paramters set to "0" (e.g.
+ for namespace)
+* (bug 20765) Special:ListGroupRights no longer misses addables and removables
+ groups if there are duplicate entries
+* (bug 21814) Message shown when rolling back an edit with a deleted username
+ now shows '(username deleted)' instead of broken user tool links
+* (bug 21536) Fixed JavaScript error on Special:Search caused by an incorrect ID
+* (bug 21535) RecentChanges RSS feed now always recognises the namespace filter,
+ previously it sometimes didn't due to caching.
+* (bug 20388) ProfilerSimpleText no longer outputs comment on action=raw
+* refreshLinks.php now purges orphaned redirect table rows
+* (bug 2971) Swap links of hist & diff location on Special:Contributions for
+ consistency with RC/WL
+* (bug 21986) Special page names were are now capitalized by content language
+* If two log type have the same description, they're now both displayed in the
+ type selector on Special:Log
+* (bug 20115) Special:Userlogin title says "Log in / create account" even if the
+ user can't create an account
+* (bug 2658) Don't attempt to set the TZ environment variable.
+* (bug 9794) User rights log entries for foreign user now links to the foreign
+ user's page if possible
+* (bug 14717) Don't load nonexistent CSS fix files for non-Monobook skins
+* (bug 22034) Use wfClientAcceptsGzip() in wfGzipHandler instead of
+ reimplementing it.
+* (bug 19226) First line renders differently on many UI messages.
+* (bug 21303) Comments are no longer stripped from MediaWiki:Common.js and
+ skin-specific JS pages
+* (bug 5061) Use the more precise thumbcaption thumbimage and thumbinner classes
+ for image divs.
+* Fixed bug involving unclosed "-{" markup in the language converter
+* (bug 21870) No longer include Google logo from an external server on wiki error.
+* (bug 22181) Do not truncate if the ellipsis actually make the string longer
+* (bug 16039) Text disappearing after a bad image
+* (bug 18784) Internal links like [[File:Foo|caption]] should read 'caption',
+ not 'File:Foo' when Foo is not an image
+* (bug 21518) Special:UserRights no longer displays the user name box for users
+ that can only change their rights
+* (bug 21593) Special:UserRights now lists automatic groups membership
+* (bug 22364) Setting $wgUseExternalEditor to false no longer hides the reupload
+ link from file pages
+* Fix bug introduced in MediaWiki 1.12: The author field in
+ $wgExtensionCredits is no longer sorted with sort() but rather used
+ as it appears in extensions as was the case before r30117 where it
+ was unintentionally sorted along with other fields.
+* (bug 19334) Textarea no longer jumps when editing longer articles in IE8
+* Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken
+ multibyte characters
+* (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist
+* (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to
+ the page set in the &returnto parameter.
+* (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome
+* (bug 17790) Users instantly logged off on HughesNet
+
+== API changes in 1.16 ==
+
+* Added uiprop=changeablegroups to meta=userinfo
+* Added usprop=gender to list=users
+* (bug 18311) action=purge now works for images too
+* Add parentid to prop=revisions output
+* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied'
+ when the user is blocked
+* (bug 18546) Added timestamp of new revision to action=edit output
+* (bug 18554) Also list hidden revisions in list=usercontribs for privileged
+ users
+* (bug 13049) "API must be accessed from the primary script entry point" error
+* (bug 16422) Don't display help for format=jsonfm unless specifically requested
+* Added PHP and database version to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18533) Add readonly message to meta=siteinfo output
+* (bug 18518) Add clprop=hidden to prop=categories
+* (bug 18710) Fixed internal error with empty parameter in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 18709) Missing descriptions for some parameters in action=paraminfo
+ output
+* (bug 18731) Show correct SVN links for extension modules in api.php?version
+* (bug 18730) Add version information to action=paraminfo output
+* (bug 18743) Add ucprop=size to list=usercontribs
+* (bug 18749) Add generator flag to action=paraminfo output
+* Make action=block respect $wgEnableUserEmail and $wgSysopEmailBans
+* Made deleting file description pages without files possible
+* (bug 18773) Add content flag to siprop=namespaces output
+* (bug 18785) Add siprop=languages to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 14200) Added user and excludeuser parameters to list=watchlist and
+ list=recentchanges
+* Added index, fromtitle and byteoffset fields to action=parse&prop=sections
+ output
+* (bug 19313) action=rollback returns wrong revid on master/slave setups
+* (bug 19323) action=parse doesn't return section tree on pages with Cite
+ warnings
+* (bug 18720) Add anchor field to action=parse&prop=sections output
+* (bug 19423) The initial file description page used caption in user lang
+ rather than UI lang
+* (bug 17809) Add number of users in user groups to meta=siteinfo
+* (bug 18533) Add readonly reason to readonly exception
+* (bug 19528) Added XSLT parameter to API queries in format=xml
+* (bug 19040) Fix prependtext and appendtext in combination with section
+ parameter in action=edit
+* (bug 19090) Added watchlist parameter, deprecated watch and unwatch
+ parameter in action=edit
+* Added fields to list=search output: size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet
+* Where supported by backend, list=search adds a 'searchinfo' element with
+ optional info: 'totalhits' count and 'suggestion' alternate query term
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
+ external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
+ Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
+* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
+ srprop and srinfo.
+* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
+ customized messages
+* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
+* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
+* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
+ drcontinue param is passed
+* (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 19004) Added support for tags
+* (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
+ without registration date
+* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
+* (bug 19523) Add inprop=watched to prop=info
+* (bug 21589) API: Separate summary and initial page text for uploads
+* (bug 21817) list=usercontribs returns empty result for empty ucuser
+* (bug 21441) meta=userinfo&uiprop=options no longer returns default options
+ for logged-in users under certain circumstances
+* (bug 21945) Add chomp control in YAML
+* Expand the thumburl to an absolute url to make it consistent with url and
+ descriptionurl
+* (bug 20233) ApiLogin::execute() doesn't handle LoginForm :: RESET_PASS
+* (bug 22061) API: add prop=headitems to action=parse
+* (bug 22240) API: include time in siteinfo
+* (bug 22241) Quick edit is still using the deprecated watch parameter (API: Setting default for watch/unwatch wrongly set)
+* (bug 22245) blfilterredirect=nonredirects in blredirect mode wrongly filtering
+* (bug 22248) Output extension URLs in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* Support key-params arrays in 'descriptionmsg' in meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions
+* (bug 21922) YAML output should quote asterisk when used as key
+* (bug 22297) safesubst: to allow substitution without breaking transclusion
+* (bug 18758) API read of watchlist's wl_notificationtimestamp
+* (bug 20809) Expose EditFormPreloadText via the API
+* (bug 18427) Comment (edit summary) parser option for API
+* (bug 18608) API should provide list of CSS styles to apply to rendered output
+* (bug 18771) List possible errors in action=paraminfo
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
+regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
+changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+
+* Capiznon (cps) (new)
+* North Frisian (frr) (new)
+* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
+* Komi-Permyak (koi) (new)
+* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
+* Latgalian (ltg) (new)
+* Hill Mari (mrj) (new)
+* Prussian (prg) (new)
+* Romagnol (rgn) (new)
+* Rusyn (rue) (new)
+* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
+* Picard (pcd) (new)
+* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
+* Upper Franconian (vmf) (new)
+* Votic (vot) (new)
+* Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (removed)
+* Iriga Bicolano (bto) (removed)
+* Ladin (lld) (removed)
+* Palembang (plm) (removed)
+* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (removed)
+* Tamazight (tzm) (removed)
+
+* (bug 18474) Sorani (ckb - Central Kurdish) (renamed from ku-arab)
+* Add PLURAL function for Scots Gaelic (gd)
+* Add Estonian letters äöõšüž to linktrail (et)
+* (bug 18776) Native name of Burmese language (my)
+* (bug 18806) Use correct unicode characters in spelling of native Chuvash
+ (Чӑвашла)
+* (bug 18864) Updated autonym for Zhuang language
+* (bug 18308) Updated date formatting in Occitan (oc)
+* (bug 19080) Added ăâîşţșțĂÂÎŞŢȘȚ to Romanion (ro) linktrail
+* (bug 19286) Correct commafying function in Polish (pl)
+* (bug 19441) Updated date formatting for Lithuanian
+* (bug 19630) Added ÄäÇçĞğŇňÖöŞşÜüÝýŽž to Turkmen (tk) linktrail
+* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
+* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
+* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
+* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
+* (bug 21596) Change interwiki link for Kurdish (ku)
+
+== Compatibility ==
+
+MediaWiki 1.16 requires PHP 5.1 (5.2 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+
+MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
+At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
+
+
+== Upgrading ==
+
+1.16 has several database changes since 1.15, and will not work without schema
+updates.
+
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
+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 1.15.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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