= 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 1.11.0 ==
-
-September 10, 2007
-
-This is the Fall 2007 snapshot release of MediaWiki.
-
-MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with
-quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept
-"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
-
-Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year
-from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments
-will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
-
-Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
-it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
-
-== Changes since 1.11.0rc1 ==
-
-A possible HTML/XSS injection vector in the API pretty-printing mode has
-been found and fixed.
-
-The vulnerability may be worked around in an unfixed version by simply
-disabling the API interface if it is not in use, by adding this to
-LocalSettings.php:
-
- $wgEnableAPI = false;
-
-(This is the default setting in 1.8.x.)
-
-Not vulnerable versions:
-* 1.11 >= 1.11.0
-* 1.10 >= 1.10.2
-* 1.9 >= 1.9.4
-* 1.8 >= 1.8.5
-
-Vulnerable versions:
-* 1.11 <= 1.11.0rc1
-* 1.10 <= 1.10.1
-* 1.9 <= 1.9.3
-* 1.8 <= 1.8.4 (if $wgEnableAPI has been switched on)
-
-MediaWiki 1.7 and below are not affected as they do not include
-the faulty function, however the BotQuery extension is similarly
-vulnerable unless updated to the latest SVN version.
-
-
-== Configuration changes since 1.10 ==
-
-* $wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is
- used
-* $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups - Finer control over who can assign which
- usergroups
-* $wgEnotifImpersonal, $wgEnotifUseJobQ - Bulk mail options for large sites
-* $wgShowHostnames - Expose server host names through the API and HTML comments
-* $wgSaveDeletedFiles has been removed, the feature is now enabled unconditionally
-
-== New features since 1.10 ==
-
-* (bug 8868) Separate "blocked" message for autoblocks
-* Adding expiry of block to block messages
-* Links to redirect pages in categories are wrapped in
- <span class="redirect-in-category"></span>
-* Introduced 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
- more information
-* (bug 9628) Show warnings about slave lag on Special:Contributions,
- Special:Watchlist
-* (bug 8818) Expose "wpDestFile" as parameter $1 to "uploaddisabledtext"
-* Introducing new image keyword 'upright' and corresponding variable
- $wgThumbUpright. This allows better proportional view of upright images
- related to landscape images on a page without nailing the width of upright
- images to a fix value which makes views for anon unproportional and user
- preferences useless
-* (bug 6072) Introducing 'border' keyword to the [[Image:]] syntax
-* Introducing 'frameless' keyword to [[Image:]] syntax which respects the
- user preferences for image width like 'thumb' but without a frame.
-* (bug 7960) Link to "what links here" for each "what links here" entry
-* Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style
+setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can.
+
+== MediaWiki 1.17.1 ==
+
+2011-11-24
+
+This a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.17 branch.
+
+=== Security changes ===
+* (bug 32276) Skins were generating output using the internal page title which
+ would allow anonymous users to determine wheter a page exists, potentially
+ leaking private data. In fact, the curid and oldid request parameters would
+ allow page titles to be enumerated even when they are not guessable.
+* (bug 32616) action=ajax requests were dispatched to the relevant internal
+ functions without any read permission checks being done. This could lead to
+ data leakage on private wikis.
+
+=== Summary of selected changes in 1.17 ===
+
+Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.16 that may be of interest:
+
+* A new installer has been introduced. It has a wizard-style interface which is
+ translated into many languages. Many shortcomings in the old installer were
+ addressed with this rewrite. Note that it is no longer required for the config
+ directory to be made writable by the webserver. Instead the generated
+ LocalSettings.php file is offered as a download, which you must then upload
+ to the wiki's base directory.
+
+* ResourceLoader, a new framework for delivering client-side resources such as
+ JavaScript and CSS, has been introduced. These resources are now delivered
+ through the new entry point script "load.php", instead of as static files
+ served directly by the web server. This allows minification, compression and
+ client-side caching to be used more effectively, which should provide a net
+ performance improvement for most users.
+
+* Category sorting has been improved.
+** Sorting is now case insensitive.
+** Sub-categories, pages and files can now be paged separately.
+** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their
+ names instead of randomly.
+
+* The lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.2.3. If necessary, please
+ upgrade PHP prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
+
+=== Changes since 1.17.0 ===
+
+* (bug 29535) Added missing Creative Commons CC0 icon.
+* (bug 29726) Fixed failure to load internationalization messages in
+ client-side scripts on WebKit-based browsers.
+* Fixed a bug in message transformation where the previous language could leak
+ into later transformations in the UI language.
+* (bug 29091) Fixed form of native name for Ossetic language (Иронау -> Ирон)
+* Fixed maintenance scripts upgrade1_5.php and rebuildImages.php, they did not
+ work at all since 1.17 beta 1.
+* (bug 29531) Fixed img_auth.php for thumbnails and other filenames with
+ multiple dots, was broken by the fix for bug 28840.
+* In the maintenance script purgeList.php, fixed a fatal error when a page
+ title is given, instead of a URL.
+* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit).
+* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
+* $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very
+ wide pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
+* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
+ tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce.
+* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals
+* (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
+ caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
+* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
+ instead require() for included extensions.
+* (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
+ warnings/notices to be thrown
+* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
+* (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on
+ Windows servers.
+
+=== Changes since 1.17.0rc1 ===
+
+* Fixed syntax error in generated LocalSettings.php when a non-default user
+ rights profile is chosen.
+* (bug 29399) Fixed PostgreSQL installation when the DB user for installation
+ is the same as the one for web access.
+* (bug 29233) Fixed failover for DB slave servers. When a DB slave went down,
+ an error was immediately shown to the user, instead of trying another slave.
+ Was broken since 1.17 beta 1.
+* (bug 29278) Fixed PHP fatal error when attempting to add text to a page via a
+ redirect.
+* (bug 29408) Fixed uploads of files with MIME types that aren't detected by
+ MediaWiki.
+* Removed DEFAULT '' NOT NULL field definitions from Oracle DB schema because
+ using the DEFAULT value ('') in DML broke Oracle backend as it treats an
+ empty VARCHAR2 value as NULL. Indexes on Oracle do not require NOT NULL
+ fields.
+
+=== Changes since 1.17 beta 1 ===
+
+* Fixed warning about missing file "password.js".
+* When installing on MySQL, don't attempt to create a new database user if the
+ same user is used for installation and web access.
+* Fixed SQL query errors in queries with table aliases.
+* (bug 27891) Fixed the "chronology protector", broken since 1.17beta1, which
+ ensures that when database replication is used, the new version is seen by
+ the user immediately after they create or edit an article.
+* (bug 28845) Allow PostgreSQL installation using a non-root user account which
+ has role creation abilities.
+* When installing on PostgreSQL and the install account is the same as the web
+ account, check to make sure that the account has suitable privileges in the
+ mediawiki schema.
+* (bug 28172) Fixed error in PostgreSQL installation when creating the wiki
+ sysop account.
+* Fixed an issue with the Oracle installer in cases where the user is different
+ to the database name.
+* Added "unblockself" to the list of available rights.
+* In the installer, fixed the "user rights profile" option, it never worked.
+* (bug 29117) Fixed Hebrew localisation of the installer.
+* (bug 28840) Reduce the collateral damage caused by the fix for bug 28235 (XSS
+ on Internet Explorer 6 due to a file extension in the query string) by
+ reducing the number of URLs that are blocked, and by redirecting the request
+ to a safer URL where possible instead of blocking it.
+* (bug 28812) Fixed documentation of API action=parse.
+* (bug 28979) Fixed styling of <abbr> and <acronym>.
+* Fixed the error message displayed when you try to create an account by email,
+ but an email address is not given.
+* Fixed JS error due to missing dependency for jquery.suggestions.
+* Exposed $wgExtensionAssetsPath in JavaScript.
+* (bug 28738) Made ResourceLoader support environments with small URL length
+ limits. The length limit can be configured via $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength,
+ and this is set automatically in the generated LocalSettings.php when the
+ php.ini variable "suhosin.get.max_value_length" is set. When a URL exceeds
+ this limit, the request is split up. Also, reduced the average length of
+ load.php URLs by using a more compact parameter format.
+* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS.
+* (bug 25124) Respect $wgStyleDirectory in ResourceLoader.
+* Allow installation when no HTTP client is available, don't throw an exception.
+* (bug 27465) Fix metadata extraction for SVG files using unusual namespace
+ names.
+* (bug 29174) Fix regression in upload-by-URL: uploading files larger than the
+ PHP memory limit should work again.
+* Fixed the display of comments in the new user log.
+* (bug 28237) When installing extensions using the web-based installer, create
+ any necessary database tables.
+* (bug 28983) Fixed automated installation of extensions that overwrite $path.
+* Fixed error caused by missing magic words.
+* Fixed breakage of article editing in PostgreSQL due to text search
+ configuration errors.
+* Fixed the HTTPS client used when Curl is not available. This avoids an error
+ during install about failure of the mediawiki-announce subscription.
+* (bug 28162) When installing to PostgreSQL, respect the "database port" input,
+ it was ignored.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
+
+* $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged
+ to new users log.
+* (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as
+ $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is
+ on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly.
+* $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has
+ been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory.
+* $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted
+ uploads in.
+* IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the
+ normal $wgDBport.
+* $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
+ provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
+* Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized,
+ $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors, $wgUseZhdaemon,
+ $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
+* (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
+* $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use.
+* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extensions should use
+ DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate() via the LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates hook.
+* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
+ available as input for other configuration items, either.
+* It's no longer necessary for LocalSettings.php to include DefaultSettings.php.
+* It's no longer necessary to set $wgCacheEpoch to the file modification time
+ of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done
+ automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is
+ the default).
+* $wgCopyrightIcon is deprecated and $wgFooterIcons['copyright']['copyright']
+ should be used instead.
+* $wgSysopUserBans is deprecated, and will be made permanently true in 1.18.
+ If you need this functionality, you should use the BlockIp hook to filter and
+ reject such blocks.
+* $wgSysopRangeBans is deprecated, you should set $wgBlockCIDRLimit to maximum
+ (32 for IPv4, 128 for IPv6), equivalent to allowing rangeblocks of only 1
+ address at a time.
+
+=== New features in 1.17 ===
+
+* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
+ User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled).
+* (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights.
+* (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
+ apply the names of the individual files within the gallery.
+* Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer
+ if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>.
+* Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links.
+* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the
+ 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default).
+* (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced
+ changes list.
+* (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when
+ viewing contributions of a blocked IP address.
+* (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second parameter for type of
+ escaping.
+* Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter.
+* Special:Random carries over query string parameters.
+* (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go".
+* When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt
+ is provided on the Upload form.
+* (bug 22647) Add category details in search results.
+* (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query.
+* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences.
+* Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits.
+* ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
+ watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on.
+* (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there
+ is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages.
+* (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine.
+* (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching (for IIS).
+* (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be notified
+ about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions.
+* (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup.
+* (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages.
+* Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
+ Special:Preferences.
+* Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip.
+* (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
+* (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
+ contributions
+* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids
+* (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math>
+* (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math>
+* (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math>
+* texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time.
+* SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB.
+* (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages.
+* Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being
+ well-formed XML.
+* texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto
+* Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos.
+* ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set.
+* (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign
+ client wikis.
+* (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
+ page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
+ {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
+* (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class
+ "mw-ipb-needreblock"
+* Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa.
+* (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user
+ input.
+* (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users.
+* (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token.
+* A variety of category sort-related fixes, including:
+** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same.
+** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately.
+** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names
+ instead of randomly.
+* (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word.
+* (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements.
+* (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages.
+* The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
+ used in the page.
+* Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
+* (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
+ intermediate revisions.
+* Added new hook GetIP.
+* Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text
+ search.
+* TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader
+ for versioning.
+* Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which
+ is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit).
+* (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled
+ by default.
+* (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails.
+* Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly
+ when a wiki has multiple variant languages.
+* (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts.
+* Now rebuildtextindex.php warns if SQLite doesn't support full-text search.
+* (bug 10541) Front/backend separation of installation/upgrade code.
+* (bug 10596) Allow installer to enable extensions already in extensions folder.
+* (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English.
+* Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description).
+* Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages.
+* Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent
+ changes/watchlist entries.
+* (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text
+ customizable.
+* Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets.
+* (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign
file repositories.
-* Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output
-* Improved thumb.php error handling
-* Display file history on local image description pages of shared images
-* Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies
-* (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext
- containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the
-* (bug 7691) Show relevant lines from the deletion log when re-creating a
- previously deleted article
-* Added variables 'wgRestrictionEdit' and 'wgRestrictionMove' for JS to header
-* (bug 9898) Allow viewing all namespaces in Special:Newpages
-* (bug 10139) Introduce 'EditSectionLink' and 'EditSectionLinkForOther' hooks;
- see docs/hooks.txt for details
-* (bug 9769) Provide "watch this page" toggle on protection form
-* (bug 9886) Provide clear example "stub link" in Special:Preferences
-* (bug 10055) Populate email address and real name properties of User objects
- passed to the 'AbortNewAccount' hook
-* Show result of Special:Booksources in wiki content language always, it's
- normally better maintained than the generic list from the standard message
- files
-* (bug 7997) Allow users to be blocked from using Special:Emailuser
-* (bug 8989) Blacklist 'mhtml' and 'mht' files from upload
-* (bug 8760) Allow wiki links in "protectexpiry" message
-* (bug 5908) Add "DEFAULTSORTKEY" and "DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT" aliases for
- "DEFAULTSORT" magic word
-* (bug 10181) Support the XCache object caching mechanism
-* (bug 9058) Introduce '--aconf' option for all maintenance scripts, to provide
- a path to the AdminSettings.php file
-* (bug 8781) Remind users to check file permissions for LocalSettings.php
- post-installation
-* Use shared.css for all skins and oldshared.css in place of common.css for
- pre-Monobook skins. As always, modifications should go in-wiki to MediaWiki:
- Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css.
-* (bug 8869) Introduce Special:Uncategorizedtemplates
-* (bug 8734) Different log message when article protection level is changed
-* (bug 8458, 10338) Limit custom signature length to $wgMaxSigChars Unicode
- characters
-* (bug 10096) Added an ability to query interwiki map table
-* On reupload, add a null revision to the image description page
-* Group log output by date
-* Kurdish interface latin/arabic writing system with transliteration
-* Support wiki text in all query page headers
-* Add 'Orphanedpages' as an alias to Special:Lonelypages
-* (bug 9328) Use "revision-info-current" message in place of "revision-info"
- when viewing the current revision of a page, if available
-* (bug 8890) Enable wiki text for "license" message
-* Throw a showstopper exception when a hook function fails to return a value.
- Forgetting to give a 'true' return value is a very common error which tends
- to cause hard-to-track-down interactions between extensions.
-* Use $wgJobClasses to determine the correct Job to instantiate for a particular
- queued task; allows extensions to introduce custom jobs
-* (bug 10326) AJAX-based page watching and unwatching has been cleaned up and
- enabled by default.
-* Added option to install to MyISAM
-* (bug 9250) Remove hardcoded minimum image name length of three characters
-* Fixed DISPLAYTITLE behaviour to reject titles which don't normalise to the
- same title as the current page, and enabled per default
-* Wrap site CSS and JavaScript in a <pre> tag, like user JS/CSS
-* (bug 10196) Add classes and dir="ltr" to the <pre>s on CSS and JS pages (new
- classes: mw-code, mw-css, mw-js)
-* (bug 6711) Add $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups to allow finer control over
- usergroup assignment.
-* Introduce 'UserEffectiveGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
-* (bug 10387) Detect and handle '.php5' extension environments at install time
-* Introduce 'ShowRawCssJs' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
-* (bug 10404) Show rights log for the selected user in Special:Userrights
-* New javascript for upload page that will show a warning if a file with the
- "destination filename" already exists.
-* Add 'editsection-brackets' message to allow localization (or removal) of the
- brackets in the "[edit]" link for sections
-* (bug 10437) Move texvc styling to shared.css
-* Introduce "raw editing" mode for the watchlist, to allow bulk additions,
- removals, and convenient exporting of watchlist contents
-* Show "undo" links in page histories
-* Option to jump to specified time period in user contributions
-* Improved feedback on "rollback success" page
-* Show distinct 'namespaceprotected' message to users when namespace protection
- prevents page editing
-* (bug 9936) Per-edit suppression of preview-on-first edit with "preview=no"
-* Allow showing a one-off preview on first edit with "preview=yes"
-* (bug 9151) Remove timed redirects on "Return to X" pages for accessibility.
-* Link to user logs in toolbox when viewing a user page
-* (bug 10508) Allow HTML attributes on <gallery>
-* (bug 1962) Allow HTML attributes on <math>
-* (bug 10530) Introduce optional "sp-contributions-explain" message for
- additional explanation in Special:Contributions
-* (bug 10520) Preview licences during upload via AJAX (toggle with
- $wgAjaxLicensePreview)
-* New Parser::setTransparentTagHook for parser extension and template
- compatibility
-* Introduced 'ContributionsToolLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
- information
-* Add a message if category is empty
-* Add CSS compatibility for Opera 9.5
-* Remove largely untested handheld stylesheet, which was causing more trouble
- than good. Proper handheld support will be added at a future date. For now,
- display should be acceptable either with CSS turned off or when using a so-
- phisticated handheld browser.
-* (bug 3173) Option to offer exported pages as a download, rather than displaying
- inline, as in most browsers
-* Pass the user as an argument to 'isValidPassword' hook callbacks; see
- docs/hooks.txt for more information
-* Introduce 'UserGetRights' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
-* (bug 9595) Pass new Revision to the 'ArticleInsertComplete' and
- 'ArticleSaveComplete' hooks; see docs/hooks.txt for more information
-* (bug 9575) Accept upload description from GET parameters
-* Skip the difference engine cache when 'action=purge' is used while requesting
- a difference page, to allow refreshing the cache in case of errors
-* (bug 10701) Link to Special:Listusers in default Special:Statistics messages
-* Improved file history presentation
-* (bug 10739) Users can now enter comments when reverting files
-* Improved handling of permissions errors
-* (bug 10793) "Mark patrolled" links will now be shown for users with
- patrol permissions on all eligible diff pages
-* (bug 10655) Show standard tool links for blocked users in block log messages
-* Show standard tool links for blocked users in Special:Ipblocklist
-* Miscellaneous aesthetic improvements to Special:Ipblocklist
-* (bug 10826) Added link trail with Cyrillic characters for Mongolian language
-* (bug 10859) Introduce 'UserGetImplicitGroups' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
- more information
-* (bug 10832) Include user information when viewing a deleted revision
-* (bug 10872) Fall back to sane defaults when generating protection selector
- labels for custom restriction levels
-* Show edit count in user preferences
-* Improved support for audio/video extensions
-* (bug 10937) Distinguish overwritten files in upload log
-* Introduce 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more
- information
-* Confirmation is now required when deleting old versions of files
-* (bug 7535) Users can now enter comments when deleting old versions of files
-* (bug 11001) Submit Special:Newpages as a GET, rather than a POST request
-* The <strong></strong> around links to watched pages in change lists now
- has a class - "mw-watched"
-* (bug 9002) Provide a "view/restore deleted edits" link on Special:Upload
- when a destination filename is provided that corresponds with previous
- deleted files
-* Make the "invalid special page" message clearer
-* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'upload file' button at Special:Upload
-* Introduced 'SkinAfterBottomScripts' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for
- more information
-* (bug 11095) Honour "preview on first edit" preference when preloading
- text for a non-existent page
-* (bug 11022) Use a more accurate page title for Special:Whatlinkshere and
- Special:Recentchangeslinked
-* Add link to user contributions in normal watchlist edit mode
-* (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow
- modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new
- argument is supplied
-* (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the
- text that prefixes a new section link in Recent Changes
-
-== Bugfixes since 1.10 ==
-
-* (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi
-* (bug 9670) Follow redirects when render edit section links to transcluded
- templates.
-* (bug 6204) Fix incorrect unindentation with $wgMaxTocLevel
-* (bug 3431) Suppress "next page" link in Special:Search at end of results
-* Don't show unblock form if the user doesn't have permission to use it
- (cosmetic change, no vulnerabilities existed)
-* Subtitle success message when unblocking a block ID instead of a pseudo link
- like [[User:#123|#123]]
-* Use the standard HTTP fetch functions when retrieving remote wiki pages
- through transwiki, so we can take advantage of cURL goodies if available
-* Disable user JavaScript on Special:Userlogin, Special:Resetpass and
- Special:Preferences, to avoid a compromised script sniffing passwords, etc.
-* (bug 9854, 3770) Clip overflow text in gallery boxes for visual cleanliness
- instead of letting it flow outside the box or trigger ugly scroll bars.
-* Tooltips for print version and permalink
-* Links to the MediaWiki namespace for system messages having their default
- values are no longer shown as nonexistent (e.g., in red)
-* Special:Ipblocklist differentiates between empty list and no search results.
-* (bug 5375) profiling does not respect read-only mode.
-* (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts
-* (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset
-* (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR
-* (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer
- throws warnings.
-* (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error.
-* (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines.
- Diff style rules have been broken out to common/diff.css,
- and the dupes removed from the default skin files.
- Skins can still override the default rules.
-* (bug 1229) Balance columns in diff display evenly
-* Right-align diff line numbers in RTL language display
-* (bug 9332) Fix instructions in tests/README
-* (bug 9813) Reject usernames containing '#' to avoid silent truncation
- of fragments during the normalisation process
-* (bug 7989) RSS feeds content now use black text when using white background.
-* (bug 9971) Typo in a french language message.
-* (bug 9973) Changed size was shown in advanced recentchanges collapsible items
- with $wgRCShowChangedSized = false.
-* Fix PHP strict standards warning in enhanced recent changes.
-* (bug 5850) Added hexadecimal html entities comments for $digitTransformTable
- entries.
-* (bug 7432) Change language name for Aromanian (roa-rup)
-* (bug 908) Unexistent special pages now generate a red link.
-* (bug 7899) Added \hline and \vline to the list of allowed TeX commands
-* (bug 7993) support mathematical symbol classes
-* (bug 10007) Allow Block IP to work with Postgrs again.
-* Add Google Wireless Transcoder to the Unicode editing blacklist
-* (bug 10083) Fix for Special:Version breakage on PHP 5.2 with some hooks
-* (bug 3624) TeX: \ker, \hom, \arg, \dim treated like \sin & \cos
-* (bug 10132, 10134) Restore back-compatibility Image::imageUrl() function
-* (bug 10113) Fix double-click for view source on protected pages
-* (bug 10117) Special:Wantedpages doesn't handle invalid titles in result
- set [now prints out a warning]
-* (bug 10118) Introduced Special:Mostlinkedtemplates, report which lists
- templates with a high number of inclusion links
-* (bug 10104) Fixed Database::getLag() for PostgreSQL and Oracle
-* (bug 9820) session.save_path check no longer halts installation, but
- warns of possible bad values
-* (bug 9978) Fixed session.save_path validation when using extended
- configuration format, e.g. "5;/tmp"
-* Don't generate a diff link in the patrol log if the page doesn't exist
-* (bug 10067) Translations for former skins removed from message files
-* (bug 9993) Force $wgShowExceptionDetails on during installation
-* (bug 9980) Validate administrator username and password during
- installation
-* (bug 9383) Don't set a default value for BLOB column in rc-deleted
- database patch
-* (bug 10149) Don't show full template list on section-0 edit
-* (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob()
- and decodeBlob()
-* (bug 6743) Don't link broken image links to the upload form when uploads
- are disabled
-* (bug 9679) Improve documentation for $wgSiteNotice
-* (bug 10215) Show custom editing introduction when editing existing pages
-* (bug 10223) Fix edit link in noarticletext localizations for fr, oc
-* (bug 10247) Fix IP address regex to avoid false positive IPv6 matches
-* (bug 9948) Workaround for diff regression with old Mozilla versions
-* (bug 10265) Fix regression in category image gallery paging
-* (bug 8577) Fix some weird misapplications of time zones.
- {{CURRENT*}} functions now consistently use UTC as intended, while
- {{LOCAL*}} functions return local time per server config or $wgLocaltimezone.
- Signature dates for Japanese and other languages including weekday now show
- the correct day to match the rest of the time in local time.
-* Escape the output of magic variables that return page name or part of it
-* (bug 10309) Initialise parser state properly in extractSections(), fixes
- some cases where section edits broke because tags were improperly stripped
-* Avoid PHP notice errors when doing HTTP proxy purges for an empty list
-* As intended, *skip* the HTTP proxy purges when doing HTCP purges
-* (bug 9696) Fix handling of brace transformations in "pagemovedtext"
-* (bug 10325) Fix regression in form action on Special:Listusers
-* Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving
- overlong key errors.
-* Fixed zero-padding issues with MySQL 5 binary schema
-* (bug 10344) Don't follow a redirect after changing its protection level
-* (bug 10333) Correct date format in Slovenian
-* (bug 10160) Show error message for unknown namespace on Special:Allpages and
- Special:Prefixindex; making forms prettier for RTL wikis.
-* (bug 10334) Replace normal spaces before percent (%) signs with non-breaking
- spaces
-* (bug 10372) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores namespace aliases
-* (bug 10198) namespaceDupes.php no longer ignores interwiki prefixes
-* namespaceDupes.php should work better for initial-lowercase wikis
-* (bug 10377) "Permanent links" to revisions still work if the page is moved
- and the redirect deleted
-* (bug 7071) Properly handle an 'oldid' passed to view or edit that doesn't
- match the given title. Fixes inconsistencies with talk, history, edit links.
-* (bug 10397) Fix AJAX watch error fallback when we receive a bogus result
-* (bug 10396) Fix AJAX error when $wgScriptPath/index.php is not valid;
- using $wgScript now included in JS info
-* Use native XMLHttpRequest class in preference to ActiveX on IE 7; this
- avoids the "ActiveX "Do you want to allow ActiveX?" prompt when something
- security settings are cranked this way and AJAX-y gets used.
-* Delay AJAX watch initialization until click so IE 6 with ugly security
- settings doesn't prompt you until you use the link.
-* (bug 10401) Provide non-redirecting link to original title in Special:Movepage
-* Fix broken handling of log views for page titles consisting of one
- or more zeros, e.g. "0", "00" etc.
-* Fix read permission check for special pages with subpage parameters, e.g.
- Special:Confirmemail
-* Fix read permission check for unreadable page titles which are numerically
- equivalent to a whitelisted title
-* '?>' closing tag removed from all files to help avoid problems with extraneous
- whitespace (broken XML feeds, etc.)
-* Don't use garbled parser cache output when viewing custom CSS or JavaScript
- pages
-* (bug 10406) Fix Special:Listusers filter form for non-ASCII localizations
-* Fix empty message checks for message names containing &
- This corrects some odd behavior with sidebar items and custom namespaces
- containing ampersands.
-* (bug 10375) Change thousands separator character to for Latin (la)
-* (bug 10477) Fix AJAX watch for Farsi on Firefox: JavaScript encoding tweak
-* (bug 10496) Fix broken DISTINCT option logic in database backend
-* Fix CSS media declaration for "screen, projection"; was causing some
- validation issues
-* (bug 10495) $wgMemcachedDebug set twice in includes/DefaultSettings.php
-* (bug 10316) Prevent inconsistent cached skin settings in gen=js by setting
- the intended skin directly in the URL.
-* (bug 9903) Don't mark redirects in categories as stubs
-* (bug 6965) Cannot include "Template:R" with {{R}} (magic word conflict)
-* Padding parser functions now work with strings like '0' that evaluate to false
-* (bug 10332) Title->userCan( 'edit' ) may return false positive
-* Fix bug with <nowiki> in front of links for wikis where linkPrefixExtension is true
-* (bug 10552) Suppress rollback link in history for single-revision pages
-* (bug 10538) Gracefully handle invalid input on move success page
-* Fix for Esperanto double-x-encoding in move success page
-* (bug 10526) Fix toolbar/insertTags behavior for IE 6/7 and Opera (8+)
- Now matches the selection behavior on Mozilla / Safari.
- Patch by Alex Smotrov.
-* Don't show non-functional toolbar buttons on Opera 7 anymore
-* (bug 9151) Fix relative subpage links with section fragments
-* (bug 10560) Adding a space between category letter heading and "continues"
-* (bug 4650) Keep impossibly large/small counts off Special:Statistics
-* (bug 10608) PHP notice when installing with PostgreSQL
-* (bug 10615) Fix for transwiki import when CURL not available
-* (bug 8054) Return search page for empty search requests with ugly URLs
-* (bug 10572) Force refresh after clearing visitation timestamps on watchlist
-* (bug 10631) Warn when illegal characters are removed from filename at upload
-* Fix several JavaScript bugs under MSIE 5/Macintosh
-* (bug 10591) Use Arabic numerals (0,1,2...) for the Malayam language
-* (bug 10642) Fix shift-click checkbox behavior for Opera 9.0+ and 6.0
-* Work around Safari bug with pages ending in ".gz" or ".tgz"
-* Removed obsolete maintenance/changeuser.sql script; use RenameUser extension
-* (bug 2735) "Preview" shown in title bar for action=submit on special pages
-* Removed "restore" links from the deletion log embedded in Special:Undelete
-* Improved error reporting and robustness for file delete/undelete.
-* Improved speed of file delete by storing the SHA-1 hash in image/oldimage
-* Fixed leading zero in base 36 SHA-1 hash
-* Protection form no longer produces JavaScript errors
-* (bug 10741) File histories show "delete" links for non-sysops
-* (bug 10744) Treat "noarticletext" and "noarticletextanon" as wiki text when
- used on a non-existent page with "action=info"
-* Fix escaping of raw message text when used on a non-existent page with
- "action=info"
-* (bug 10683) Fix inconsistent handling of URL-encoded titles in links
- used in redirects (i.e. they now work)
-* (bug 8878) Changes to $dateFormats in German localization (removing unused,
- nonexistent formats, putting time after date)
-* (bug 10769) Database::update() should return boolean result
-* Fix preference checkbox display for right-to-left languages which caused
- them to be hidden in IE in some cases
-* Fix upload form display in right-to-left languages
-* Fixed regression in blocking of username '0'
-* (bug 9437) Don't overwrite edit form submission handler when setting up
- edit box scroll position preserve/restore behaviour
-* (bug 10805) Fix "undo" link when viewing the diff of the most recent
- change to a page using "diff=0"
-* (bug 10765) img_auth.php will now refuse logged-out requests where
- $wgWhitelistRead is undefined, instead of (incorrectly) honouring them
-* Fixed img_auth.php file name extraction for whitelist checking
-* Tweak spacing of email preference display
-* Table sorting JavaScript prefers textContent over innerText to allow hidden
- sort keys to work on Safari
-* (bug 4530) Fix local name of Kurdish language
-* (bug 10830) Fix local name of Haitian Creole language
-* Fix invalid XHTML in Special:Protectedpages
-* Fix comments in contributions and log pages for right-to-left languages
-* Make installer include_path-independent, so it should work on hosts which
- disable user setting of PHP include_path setting
-* glob() is horribly unreliable and doesn't work on some systems, including
- free.fr shared hosting. No longer using it in Language::getLanguageNames()
-* (bug 10763) Fix multi-insert logic for PostgreSQL
-* Fix invalid XHTML when viewing a deleted revision
-* Fix syntax error in translations of magic words in Romanian language
-* (bug 8737) Fix warnings caused by incorrect use of `/dev/null` when piping
- process error output under Windows
-* (bug 7890) Don't list redirects to special pages in Special:BrokenRedirects
-* (bug 10783) Resizing PNG-24 images with GD no longer causes all alpha
- channel transparency to be lost and transparent pixels to be turned black
-* (bug 9339) General error pages were transforming messages and their parameters
- in the wrong order
-* (bug 9026) Incorrect heading numbering when viewing Special:Statistics with
- "auto-numbered headings" enabled
-* Fixed invalid XHTML in Special:Upload
-* (bug 11013) Make sure dl() is available before attempting to use it to check
- available databases in installer
-* Resizing transparent GIF images with GD now retains transparency by skipping
- resampling
-* (bug 11065) Fix regression in handling of wiki-formatted EXIF metadata
-* Double encoding broke Special:Newpages for some languages
-* Adding a newline before the statistics footer, to prevent parsing problems
-* Preventing the TOC from appearing in Special:Statistics
-* (bug 11082) Fix check for fully-specced table names in Database::tableName
-* (bug 11067) Fix regression in upload conflict thumbnail display
-* (bug 10985) Resolved cached entries on Special:DoubleRedirects were being
- supressed, breaking paging - now strikes out "fixed" results
-* (bug 8393) <sup> and <sub> need to be preserved (without attributes) for
- entries in the table of contents
-* (bug 11114) Fix regression in read-only mode error display during editing
-* Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure
- that the first page_title is truly the first page title.
-* (bug 10836) Change the summary on creating of new section
-* Inclusion of Special:Wantedpages now works again
-
-== API changes since 1.10 ==
-
-Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
-
-* New properties: links, templates, images, langlinks, categories, external
- links
-* Breaking Change: imagelinks renamed into imageusage (il->iu)
-* Bug fix: incorrect generator behavior in some cases
-* JSON format allows an optional callback function to wrap the result.
-* Login module disabled until a more secure solution can be implemented
-* (bug 9938) Querying by revision identifier returns the most recent revision
- for the corresponding page, rather than the requested revision
-* (bug 8772) Filter page revision queries by user
-* (bug 9927) User contributions queries do not accept IP addresses
-* Watchlist feed now reports a proper feed item when the user is not logged in
-* Watchlist feed date bug fixed - automatically shows one last day
-* Watchlist feed now allows to specify number of hours to monitor
-* list=allpages now returns a list instead of a map in JSON format
-* Breaking Change: in json, revisions are now returned as a list, not as a map.
-* Add: prop=info can show page is new flag, current page length, and visit
- counter.
-* Change: Query watchlist now shows flags only when explicitly requested with
- wlparam=flags
-* rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible from query watchlist
-* action=usercontribs: additional filtering by ucshow=; selection of needed
- fields with ucprop=; the textid (rev_text_id) is no longer being exposed
-* (bug 9970) Breaking Change: backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage now return
- lists in JSON instead of a map, and do not return anything when titles do
- not exist
-* (bug 9121) Introduced indexpageids query parameter to list the page_id
- values of all returned page items
-* (bug 10147) Now interwiki titles are not processed but added to a separate
- "interwiki" section of the output.
-* Added categorymembers list to query for pages in a category.
-* (bug 10260) Show page protection status
-* (bug 10392) Include MediaWiki version details in version output
-* (bug 10411) Site language in meta=siteinfo
-* (bug 10391) action=help doesn't return help if format is fancy markup
-* backlinks, embeddedin and imageusage lists should use (bl|ei|iu)title parameter
- instead of titles. Titles for these lists is obsolete and might stop working soon.
-* Added prop=imageinfo - gets image properties and upload history
-* (bug 10211) Added db server replication lag information in meta=siteinfo
-* Added external url search within wiki pages (list=exturlusage)
-* Added link enumeration (list=alllinks)
-* Added registered users enumeration (list=allusers)
-* Added full text search in titles and content (list=search)
-* (bug 10684) Expanded list=allusers functionality
-* Possible breaking change: prop=revisions no longer includes pageid for rvprop=ids
-* Added rvprop=size to prop=revisions (The size will not be shown if it is NULL in the database)
-* list=allpages now allows to filter by article min/max size and protection status
-* Added site statistics (siprop=statistics for meta=siteinfo)
-* (bug 10902) Unable to fetch user contributions from IP addresses
-* `list=usercontribs` no longer requires that the user exist
-* (bug 10971) `aufrom` parameter doesn't work with spaces
-* Fix username handling issue with `auprefix` parameter
-* Treat underscores as spaces for `aufrom` and `auprefix` parameters
-* Added edit/delete/... token retrieval to prop=info
-* Added meta=userinfo - logged-in user information, group membership, rights
-* (bug 11072) Fix regression in API image history query
-* (bug 11115) Adding SHA1 hash to imageinfo query
-* (bug 10898) API does not return an edit token for non-existent pages
-* (bug 10890) Timestamp support for categorymembers query
-* (bug 10980) Add exclude redirects on backlinks
-* IPv6 titles in User namespace are normalized (run cleanupTitles.php to fix any old stray pages)
-
-== Maintenance script changes since 1.10 ==
-
-* Add support for wgMaxTocLevel option in parserTests
-* (bug 6823) Disable article view counter in maintenance/dumpHTML.php
-* Fix maintenance/importImages.php so it doesn't barf PHP errors when no
- suitable files are found, and make the list of extensions an option (defaults
- to $wgFileExtensions)
-* Add option to maintenance/createAndPromote.php to give the user bureaucrat
- permissions (--bureaucrat)
-* Allow overwriting existing files with a conflicting name using
- maintenance/importImages.php
-* (bug 10266) Use native newlines when rebuilding a messages file.
-
-== Languages updated since 1.10 ==
-
-* Afrikaans (af)
-* Arabic (ar)
-* Bikol (bcl)
-* Bulgarian (bg)
-* Catalan (ca)
-* Danish (da)
-* German (de)
-* Greek (el)
-* Esperanto (eo)
-* Spanish (es)
-* Estonian (et)
-* Extremaduran (ext)
-* Farsi (fa)
-* Finnish (fi)
-* Vöro (fiu-vro)
-* French (fr)
-* Français Cadien (frc) (new)
-* Franco-Provençal/Arpetan (frp)
-* Galician (gl)
-* Hakka (hak)
-* Hebrew (he)
-* Upper Sorbian (hsb)
-* Haitian (ht)
-* Indonesian (id)
-* Icelandic (is)
-* Italian (it)
-* Japanese (ja)
-* Georgian (ka)
-* Kabyle (kab)
-* Kazakh (kk)
-* Korean (ko)
-* Kinaray-a (krj) (new)
-* Kurdish (ku)
-* Latin (la)
-* Lao (lo)
-* Lithuanian (lt)
-* Latviešu (lv)
-* Malayalam (ml)
-* Bahasa Melayu (ms)
-* Burmese (my)
-* Low German (nds)
-* Dutch (nl)
-* Norwegian (no)
-* Occitan (oc)
-* Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (pa)
-* Polish (pl)
-* Piedmontese (pms)
-* Portuguese (pt)
-* Romani (rmy)
-* Romanian (ro)
-* Aromanian (roa-rup)
-* Russian (ru)
-* Sakha (sah)
-* Sango (se) (new)
-* Slovak (sk)
-* Slovenian (sl)
-* Shona (sn)
-* Somali (so)
-* Albanian (sq)
-* Sundanese (su)
-* Swedish (sv)
-* Tamil (ta)
-* Thai (th)
-* Tigrinya (ti)
-* Setswana (tn)
-* Tok Pisin (tpi)
-* Uyghur (ug)
-* Volapük (vo)
-* Winaray (war) (new)
-* Yiddish (yi)
-* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical)
-* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn)
-* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
-* Cantonese (zh-yue)
+* When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both
+ wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection
+ arrow can be customized with CSS.
+* (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message
+ [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead.
+ Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw
+ number of the textsize in Byte.
+* (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width.
+* Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions.
+* Added Special:Myuploads special page that redirects to Special:Listfiles.
+* The footerlinks used in Monobook/Vector/Modern are now part of common skin
+ code, SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec can be used to customize the list.
+* Special wrapping setups can now define MW_CONFIG_FILE to load a config file
+ other than LocalSettings.php. This is like MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK but works in
+ some cases where MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK will not work.
+* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
+ pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
+ disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
+* The name attribute of HTMLForm fields can now be overridden by passing a
+ 'name' key in the descriptor array. Hidden field names are now treated
+ consistently with other fields and, by default, prefixed with 'wp'.
+* (bug 27402) Add support for disabling MWSuggest.
+* (bug 26563) Add bytes changed per revision for stub and full article dumps.
+* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an svg we
+ look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
+* (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades
+ without having to move LocalSettings.php
+* Added $wgAllowImageTag, which can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag
+ in wikitext.
+* (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display
+ options.
+* Added the $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option which allows disabling CSS-based
+ preferences; which can improve page loading speed.
+* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
+ or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks).
+* (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable
+ which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
+ showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
+ research into its user experience implications.
+* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
+ navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
+* $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls.
+* Added $wgSecureLogin to optionally login using HTTPS.
+* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to make the name associated
+ with $wgPasswordSender configurable.
+* (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in
+ the footers of skins.
+* $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy.
+ used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior.
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
+
+* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
+ without updating database.
+* (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer
+ throws an error.
+* (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block
+ settings changed.
+* (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different
+ when the address changed.
+* (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name.
+* (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and
+ redirects.
+* (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when
+ the URL contains a colon.
+* (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again.
+* (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is
+ now only displayed when relevant.
+* (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages.
+* (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects.
+* (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion.
+* (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language.
+* (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN.
+* (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work.
+* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users.
+* (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not
+ correctly set.
+* (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so
+ that links with non-NFC character references work correctly.
+* (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for
+ anonymous users instead of null.
+* (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited.
+* (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being
+ logged in (anonpreviewwarning).
+* (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files.
+* (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly.
+* (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text.
+* (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content
+ language.
+* (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page
+ when using rebuildFileCache.php
+* (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid".
+ parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target.
+* (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend.
+* (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed.
+* (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases.
+* (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces
+ rather than only main namespace.
+* (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all.
+ frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than
+ the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images
+ exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size.
+* (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first
+ item.
+* (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase.
+* Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
+ style is not valid for the user's interface language.
+* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
+ preference is set.
+* Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
+ in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
+* (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
+* (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer
+ displays incorrect tabs.
+* (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers.
+* (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display.
+* (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources.
+* (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files
+ work.
+* (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery.
+* (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer
+ displayed on Special:Listusers.
+* (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences
+ to enhance preference grouping.
+* (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the
+ correct link.
+* (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
+* (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
+* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create).
+ are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
+ is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
+* (bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as ˜ not ∼
+* (bug 23241) License selector should be disabled during upload of a new
+ version.
+* (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist.
+* The pipe | character in urls is now escaped.
+* (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved.
+* (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of
+ MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary.
+* (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
+ new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed.
+* Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if
+ user did not capitalize first letter of username.
+* (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables.
+* (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
+ as Opera 8.
+* (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
+ account upload rights.
+* (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
+ and correct render results.
+* (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
+ consistent and correct render results.
+* (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo.
+* (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for multibyte
+ characters.
+* (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser.
+* (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if
+ the $noRedir parameter is set to true.
+* (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents.
+* (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php.
+* (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter.
+* (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not
+ accidentally activated when hitting enter.
+* (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores.
+* Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0.
+* (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
+* (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
+ a fatal error.
+* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
+ Special:Upload after following a red link.
+* (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
+* (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments.
+* (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings.
+* (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
+* (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers.
+* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect.
+ Image: --> File: namespace rename.
+* Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
+* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
+ disabled.
+* (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when Special:RecentChanges(linked) or
+ Special:Newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the page.
+* (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer
+ throw fatal errors.
+* (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a
+ useful error message.
+* Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
+ instead of showing an error page.
+* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in
+ SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
+* (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
+* (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules.
+* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages.
+* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
+ longer pollutes the parser cache.
+* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a
+ letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons,
+ underscores, hyphens, and/or periods).
+* Save 200 useless queries on each category page view.
+* Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec.
+* (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian.
+* "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between
+ revisions" on diffs when appropriate.
+* (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as
+ a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages.
+* (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also
+ make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case.
+* (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
+ memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
+* Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
+ when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
+* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again.
+* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file.
+* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available.
+* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel.
+* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff.
+ instead of alternating focus between the two buttons.
+* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account.
+* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output.
+* SQLite system table names are now never prefixed.
+* (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second
+ parameter.
+* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16).
+* (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled
+ passthru().
+* (bug 25462) Fix double-escaping for section edit link tooltips.
+* action=raw was removed for Special:Statistics. This information is still
+ available via the API.
+* (bug 23934) Groups defined in $wgRevokePermissions but not in
+ $wgGroupPermissions now appear on Special:ListGroupRights.
+* (bug 23923) Special:Prefixindex no longer shows results if nothing was
+ requested.
+* (bug 22308) Search now finds text in default main page immediately after setup.
+* (bug 25697) Make sure empty lines render in diff view.
+* Use an actual minus sign in diff views, instead of a hyphen.
+* (bug 23732) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedFiles.
+* (bug 23731) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedTemplates.
+* (bug 25642) A exception is now thrown instead of a fatal error when using
+ $wgSMTP without PEAR mail package.
+* (bug 19633) When possible, Upscale small SVGs when creating thumbnails.
+* (bug 11013) Database driver detection needs rewriting for robustness.
+* (bug 13409) Installer prompts could use clarification--now has help boxes.
+* (bug 16902) Installer spews warnings when exec() and dl() are not available.
+* (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported.
+* (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled.
+* Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails.
+* (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error
+ on discussion pages with vector as default skin.
+* (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing.
+* (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores.
+* (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir
+ parameters.
+* (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if
+ $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set.
+* (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3.
+* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now.
+ normalised like normal links to special pages.
+* (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect
+ $wgExternalLinkTarget.
+* (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that
+ is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages.
+* (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page.
+* (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in
+ some cases.
+* (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only
+ "File" and "Media" are allowed now.
+* (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict
+ with php extension that defines same class.
+* (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when
+ $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false.
+* Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database.
+* (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation.
+* (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2.
+* Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong
+ case.
+* (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available.
+* (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated.
+* (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow
+ absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google).
+* Partial workaround for bug 6220: at least make files on shared repositories
+ show up as (struck-out) bluelinks instead of redlinks on Special:WantedFiles.
+* rebuildFileCache.php no longer creates inappropriate cache files for redirects.
+* (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members.
+* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
+ treated as wikitext on preview.
+* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
+ cannot read the page in question.
+* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
+ indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "..."
+* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
+* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown as
+ "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
+* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
+* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
+ selected when the action is "purge".
+* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
+* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
+* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences.
+* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
+* (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel.
+* (bug 27781) Installer does not warn about 5.1.x. Added a compatibility function
+ for array_key_exists().
+* Fix XML well-formedness on a few pages when $wgHtml5 is true (the default).
+* (bug 28069) MediaWiki fails streaming files when mod_deflate and ob_gzhandler
+ are also set.
+* (bug 26223) Concurrently moving an article to different titles leaks a
+ redirect revision with no page.
+* (bug 15641) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users
+ without the 'import' permission to import pages from configured import sources.
+* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
+ adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
+* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
+* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output better.
+* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences
+ and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is going on.
+* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
+ to table.wikitable instead.
+* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language.
+* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
+ exist.
+* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
+ (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
+* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
+* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
+ page restrictions.
+* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
+ prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
+* (bug 28568) Entries in the iwlinks table are now removed on page deletion.
+* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
+* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
+* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
+ intl installed.
+* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
+ members.
+* (bug 28214) When page not found, sends malformed HTTP/1.x instead of HTTP/1.1
+ in header of response.
+* (bug 27634) TOC title appears in wrong language.
+* (bug 27761) Fix regression: pages with Esperanto titles containing convertible
+ character sequences became unreachable.
+* (bug 27508) SVGMetadataExtractor takes too much resources on huge svgs.
+* (bug 27465) SVG thumbnail generation.
+* (bug 27467) preload can leave UNIQ.
+* (bug 27539) Allow attributes beginning with a digit in wiktext tag parameters.
+* (bug 27328) using relative paths in CSS imports in MediaWiki:Common.css broken
+ in 1.17.
+* (bug 27333) Fix repetitive last-seen time queries on page history.
+* (bug 26250, bug 23817) Fix wfObjectToArray() to descend into arrays; fixes
+ processing of JSON return values for ForeignAPIRepo when native json module
+ not present.
+* (bug 25675) Fix search suggestions for Special: pages with spaces.
+* (bug 25571) Xml::encodeJsVar now passes floats natively instead of converting
+ to strings.
+* (bug 27338) Gallery in 1.17 breaks for audio/video + ogghandler.
+* (bug 27302) Don't append the current timestamp for user/site modules when no
+ user/site JS/CSS is present.
+* (bug 27016) dumpTextPass.php now consider the "output" parameter.
+* (bug 22606) don't send the "someone registred an account" message when setting
+ email address (i.e. old one empty) in user preferences.
+* (bug 26458) Section edit links appear on pages that user does not have right
+ to edit.
+* (bug 28611) Don't die in SqlBagOStuff::incr() if there's a race condition.
+* (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
+ in IE 7.
+* (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame"
+ parameter.
+
+=== API changes in 1.17 ===
+
+* BREAKING CHANGE: action=patrol now requires POST.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: patrol token is no longer the same as edit token.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Session keys returned by ApiUpload are now strings instead
+ of integers.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually
+ enforce validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning.
+ Also add flag to enforce (die) if integer out of range.
+* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
+* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
+* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
+* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
+ duplicated.
+* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
+* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
+ prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
+* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
+* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
+* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
+* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
+* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
+* (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse.
+* (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent.
+* (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
+* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment.
+ is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
+* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
+ module.
+* (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests.
+* (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option.
+* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash.
+* (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions.
+* (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
+ using token and username.
+* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
+ track inline interwiki link usage).
+* Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
+ similar to prop=categories's clcategorie.
+* (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when
+ thumbnailing larger than original image.
+* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query.
+* (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages.
+* (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups.
+* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
+ ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help.
+* (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied.
+* (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules.
+* (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but
+ forceditsummary.
+* (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result.
+* (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the
+ hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added
+ unconditionally on error.
+* (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
+ title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved
+ to the local alias.
+* (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
+ canonical language variant.
+* (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API.
+* (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and
+ iwtitle.
+* (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
+ one of the backlinks generators with limit=max.
+* (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report.
+* PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user
+ does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
+* (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to
+ NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit.
+* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks,
+ allmessages, allpages, and allusers.
+* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to
+ meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups.
+* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module.
+* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit.
+* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and
+ blockreason if the user is actually blocked.
+* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format.
+* For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as
+ missing.
+* (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1).
+* (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags.
+* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
+ $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
+* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
+ implicit groups rather than showing 0.
+* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules.
+* (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a
+ POST request was needed due to cache pollution.
+* Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions.
+* Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is
+ used, rvlimit is enforced to 1.
+* (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the
+ current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary.
+* (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to
+ reduce confusion.
+* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page.
+ <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
+ ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
+ list.
+* The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs,
+ empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters.
+* (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop.
+* (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when
+ $wgDisableCounters enabled.
+* (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages.
+* (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL.
+* (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook.
+* (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo.
+* (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the
+ file is a multi-page file.
+* (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist.
+* (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description.
+* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
+ real timestamp field.
+* (bug 27722) list=filearchive now supports revdel.
+
+=== Language support changes in 1.17 ===
+
+MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localizations are updated regularly.
+
+The following languages were added:
+
+* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary)
+* Banjar (bjn)
+* Kabardian (kdb)
+* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl)
+* Latgalian (ltg)
+* Minangkabau (min)
+* Dutch (informal) (nl-informal)
+* Rusyn (rue)
+
+Other significant changes to MediaWiki's language support:
+
+* Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) was removed.
+* Removed deprecated language code "dk" (Danish), use "da" instead.
+* Link trail added for sl and sh.
+* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
+* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
+ (Taraškievica).
+* (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc.
+* (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca.
+* (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script.
+* (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto.
+* (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia.
+* (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated.
+* Esperanto date format corrected.
+* (bug 28159) Change interwiki name of language kbd to Къэбэрдеибзэ /
+ Qabardjajəbza.
+* (bug 28184) Namespaces for the Latgalian Wikipedia.
+* (bug 25010) Bashkir-language interwikis: linktext change from Башҡорт
+ to Башҡортса.
+* (bug 26395) Change name of Cornish language to Kernowek.
+
+=== Other changes in 1.17 ===
+
+* DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
+ extensions has been removed.
+* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
+* The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed
+* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
+* Removed $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by
+ $wgUploadNavigationUrl.
+* (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed
+* The PHPUnit test suite has been removed from this release due to serious issues
+ which should be resolved by the 1.18 release.
+* Oracle DB now uses the __destruct fuction to commit/close connection as it
+ doesn't commit on close if transation is triggered in OCI.
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.11 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.2.3 or later.
-PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing:
-http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879
-Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher.
+MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
+support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
+DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
-MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
-At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.
+The supported versions are:
+* MySQL 4.0 or later
+* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
+* SQLite 3
+* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
== Upgrading ==
-1.11 has several database changes since 1.10, and will not work without schema
+1.17 has several database changes since 1.16, and will not work without schema
updates.
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
+make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
+database schema changes.
+
If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
new database fields are filled with data.
See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
-=== Caveats ===
-
-Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
-produce 100% valid or well-formed XHTML output. Testers are welcome to
-set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem
-cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for
-MathML to display properly in Mozilla.)
-
-
-For notes on 1.10.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.16.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+== Online documentation ==
-=== Online documentation ===
+Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
+MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
+for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
-Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is currently being
-built up on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation
-License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in
-the public domain) :
+ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
+== Mailing list ==
+A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
-=== Mailing list ===
-
-A MediaWiki-l mailing list has been set up distinct from the Wikipedia
-wikitech-l list:
-
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
+ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
-
-=== IRC help ===
+== IRC help ==
There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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