= 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
- 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)
+== MediaWiki 1.16.2 ==
-== Compatibility ==
+2011-02-01
+
+This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.16 branch.
+
+=== Summary of selected changes in 1.16 ===
+
+Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.15 that may be of interest:
+
+* A new skin called Vector was added
+
+* Watchlists now have RSS/Atom feeds. RSS feeds generally are now hidden,
+ since Atom is a better protocol and is supported by virtually all clients.
+
+* It's now possible to block users from sending email via Special:Emailuser.
+
+* The maintenance script system was overhauled. Most maintenance scripts now
+ have a useful help page when you run them with --help.
+
+* AdminSettings.php is no longer required in order to run maintenance scripts.
+ You can just set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your
+ LocalSettings.php instead.
+
+* The preferences system was overhauled. Preferences are stored in a more
+ compact format. Changes to site default preferences will automatically
+ affect all users who have not chosen a different preference.
+
+* Support for SQLite was improved. Some broken features were fixed, and it
+ now has an efficient full-text search.
+
+* The user groups ACL system was improved by allowing rights to be revoked,
+ instead of just granted.
+
+* A new localisation caching system was introduced, which will make MediaWiki
+ faster for almost everyone, especially when lots of extensions are enabled.
+
+By default, this new system makes a lot of database queries. If your database
+is particularly slow, or if your system administrator limits your query count,
+or if you want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of Mediawiki,
+set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable path on the local filesystem. Make sure
+you have the DBA extension for PHP installed, this will improve performance
+further.
+
+== Changes since 1.16.1 ==
+
+* (bug 26642) Fixed incorrect translated namespace due to a regression in the
+ language converter.
+* The interface translations were updated.
+* (bug 27093, CVE-2011-0047): Fixed CSS injection vulnerability.
+* (bug 27094) Fixed server-side arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability.
+ Affects Windows servers only. A malicious file with extension ".php" must
+ exist on the server for the exploit to be effective.
+
+== Changes since 1.16.0 ==
+
+* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again
+* (bug 24724) list=allusers was out by 1 (shows total users - 1)
+* (bug 24166) Fixed API error when using rvprop=tags
+* For wikis using French as a content language, Special:Téléchargement works
+ again as an alias for Special:Upload.
+* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16.0)
+* (bug 25248) Fixed paraminfo errors in certain API modules.
+* The installer now has improved handling for situations where safe_mode is
+ active or exec() and similar functions are disabled.
+* (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts.
+* Fixed $wgLicenseTerms register globals.
+* (bug 26561) Fixed clickjacking vulnerabilities by introducing support for
+ X-Frame-Options. The header value can be configured using $wgBreakFrames and
+ $wgEditPageFrameOptions.
+
+== Changes since 1.16 beta 3 ==
+
+* (bug 23769) Disabled HTML 5 client-side form validation. Was introduced in
+ 1.16 beta 1, but is currently poorly supported by browsers.
+* (bug 23175) Re-added window.ta variable for backwards compatibility.
+* (bug 23264) Fixed breakage of various command line scripts due to extra line
+ endings being inserted by Maintenance::output().
+* Fixed HTTP client functionality with safe_mode=On.
+* Fixed parser tests broken in 1.16 beta 3.
+* For Oracle DB backend: fixed parser tests and table prefix feature.
+* (bug 23767) Fixed PHP warning when REQUEST_URI is blank (IIS issue).
+* Fixed plural function for Northern Sami (se)
+* (bug 23597) Fixed conflicts between ID attributes in the Vector skin and
+ parser-generated heading IDs. Renamed head, panel, head-base and page-base.
+* Disabled $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq>1 feature on SQLite, does not work yet.
+* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
+ Special:Upload after following a red link to a file.
+* In SQLite full-text search feature: fixed "move page" feature, was non-
+ functional.
+* (bug 24565) Fixed Cache-Control headers sent from API modules, to protect
+ user privacy in the case where an attacker can access the wiki through the
+ same HTTP proxy as a logged-in user.
+* Fixed an XSS vulnerability in profileinfo.php for installations with
+ $wgEnableProfileInfo = true (false by default)
+* Fixed a case where an X-Vary-Options header was sent despite $wgUseXVO being
+ false. Fixed a minor header parsing issue when $wgUseXVO = true.
+* Fixed a register_globals arbitrary inclusion vulnerability in
+ MediaWikiParserTest.php, introduced in 1.16 beta 1.
-MediaWiki 1.11 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
+== Changes since 1.16 beta 2 ==
-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.
+* Fixed bugs in the [[Special:Userlogin]] and [[Special:Emailuser]] handling of
+ invalid usernames.
+* Fixed sorting in [[Special:Allmessages]]
+* (bug 23113) Fixed title in the show/hide links on diff pages
+* (bug 23117) Fixed API rollback, was returning "badtoken" for valid requests
+* (bug 23127) Re-added missing $1 parameter to the uploadtext message
+* Fixed a bug in the Vector skin where personal tools display behind the logo
+* (bug 23139) Fixed a bug in edit conflict resolution, where both textboxes
+ showed the same text.
+* (bug 23115, bug 23124) Fixed various problems with <title> and <h1> elements
+ in page views and previews when the language converter is enabled.
+* (bug 23148) Fixed a local path disclosure vulnerability in ImageMagick image
+ scaling, which was introduced in 1.16 beta 1.
+* Improved error checking on installer.
+* (bug 22970) Fixed a JavaScript error in the upload destination conflict
+ check.
+* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
+ preference is set.
+* (bug 23171) Improve IE6 version check to avoid false positives.
+* (bug 23176) Fixed upload warning override feature "upload new version",
+ broken in 1.16 beta 1.
+* Fixed regression in unwatch links sent out in notification emails. When the
+ mailing job was deferred via the job queue, the title was incorrect.
+* (bug 23534) Fixed SQL query error in API list=allusers.
+* Fixed a bug in uploads for non-JavaScript clients. An empty string was used
+ as the default destination filename, instead of the source filename as
+ expected.
+* (bug 23371) Fixed CSRF vulnerability in "e-mail me my password", "create
+ account" and "create by e-mail" features of [[Special:Userlogin]]
+* (bug 23687) Fixed XSS vulnerability affecting IE clients only, due to a CSS
+ validation issue.
+* Fixed a DoS vulnerability in ImageMagick image scaling. ImageMagick
+ expanded wildcard characters "?" and "*" in image filenames, potentially
+ causing large numbers of images to be scaled in response to a single request.
+ The fix for this involves breaking the scaling of such image filenames until
+ ImageMagick 6.6.1-5 or later is deployed, see bug 23361 for more details.
+* (bug 23608) Fixed invalid HTML in diff pages.
+
+=== Changes since 1.16 beta 1 ===
+
+* Fixed errors in maintenance/patchSql.php
+* (bug 19627) Fix regression from r57867 where HTMLForm would output
+ <element classes="foo bar"> rather than <element class="foo bar">
+* Fixed broken "-r" option to maintenance/lag.php
+* (bug 23076) Fixed login CSRF vulnerability. Logins now require a token to
+ be submitted along with the user name and password.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18222) $wgMinimalPasswordLength default is now 1
+* $wgSessionHandler can be used to configure session.save_handler
+* $wgLocalFileRepo/$wgForeignFileRepos now have a 'fileMode' parameter to
+ be used when uploading/moving files
+* (bug 18761) $wgHiddenPrefs is a new array for specifying preferences not
+ to be shown to users
+* $wgAllowRealName and $wgAllowUserSkin were deprecated in favor of
+ $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname', but the former are still retained
+ for backwards-compatibility
+* (bug 9257) $wgRCMaxAge now defaults to three months
+* $wgDevelopmentWarnings can be set to true to show warnings about deprecated
+ functions and other potential errors when developing.
+* Subpages are now enabled in the MediaWiki namespace by default. This is
+ mainly a cosmetic change, and does not in any way affect the MessageCache,
+ which was already effectively treating the namespace as if it had subpages.
+* Oracle: maintenance/ora/user.sql script for creating DB user on oracle with
+ appropriate privileges. Creating this user with web-install page requires
+ oci8.privileged_connect set to On in php.ini.
+* Removed UserrightsChangeableGroups hook introduced in 1.14
+* Added $wgCacheDirectory, to replace $wgFileCacheDirectory,
+ $wgLocalMessageCache, and any other local caches which need a place to put
+ files.
+* $wgFileCacheDirectory is no longer set to anything by default, and so either
+ needs to be set explicitly, or $wgCacheDirectory needs to be set instead.
+* $wgLocalMessageCache has been removed. Instead, set $wgUseLocalMessageCache
+ to true
+* Removed $wgEnableSerializedMessages and $wgCheckSerialized. Similar
+ functionality is now available via $wgLocalisationCacheConf.
+* $wgMessageCache->addMessages() is deprecated. Messages added via this
+ interface will not appear in Special:AllMessages.
+* $wgRegisterInternalExternals can be used to record external links pointing
+ to same server
+* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains and $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions added
+ to control which external domains may access the API via cross-site AJAX.
+* $wgMaintenanceScripts for extensions to add their scripts to the default list
+* $wgMemoryLimit has been added, default value '50M'
+* $wgExtraRandompageSQL is deprecated, the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook
+ should be used instead
+* (bug 20489) $wgIllegalFileChars added to override the default list of illegal
+ characters in file names.
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthDetails added to display reason access to uploaded file
+ was denied to users(img_auth only)
+* (bug 19646) $wgImgAuthPublicTest added to test to see if img_auth set up
+ correctly (img_auth only)
+* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
+ maintenance
+* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
+* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL and renamed
+ to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls (backward compatibility kept)
+* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
+* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
+ CIDR ranges for blocking
+* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
+ file repository
+* $wgDBAhandler added to choose a DBA handler when using CACHE_DBA
+* $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces for extensions that create namespaces that behave
+ similarly to the category namespace.
+* $wgEnableSorbs renamed to $wgDnsBlacklistUrls ($wgEnableSorbs kept for
+ backward compatibility)
+* $wgUploadNavigationUrl now also affects images inline images that do not
+ exist. In that case the URL will get (?|&)wpDestFile=<filename> appended to
+ it as appropriate.
+* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for
+ signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php
+ but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used
+ by default.
+* Added $wgExtensionAssetsPath, to decouple assets serving from $wgScriptPath.
+ If not specified it will default to $wgScriptPath/extensions
+* Added $wgCountTotalSearchHits to make search UI display total number of hits
+ with some search engines.
+* Added $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes to decide what feed types (RSS, Atom, both, or
+ neither) MediaWiki advertises. Default is array( 'atom' ), so RSS is no
+ longer advertised by default (but it still works).
+* Added $wgMemCachedTimeout, controls how long to wait for data from the
+ memcached servers.
+* New configuration variables $wgDebugTimestamps and $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders
+ for controlling debug output.
+* New $wgBlockDisablesLogin when set to true disallows blocked users from
+ logging in.
+* (bug 8790) Metadata edition ($wgUseMetadataEdit) has been moved to a separate
+ extension "MetadataEdit".
+
+=== New features in 1.16 ===
+
+* A new skin called Vector was added
+* Add CSS defintion of the 'wikitable' class to shared.css
+* (bug 17163) Added MediaWiki:Talkpageheader which will be displayed when
+ viewing talk pages
+* Superfluous border="0" removed from images
+* Added new hook 'MessageCacheReplace' into MessageCache.php. For instance
+ to allow extensions to update caches in similar way as MediaWiki invalidates
+ a cached MonoBook sidebar
+* Special:AllPages: Move hardcoded styles from code to CSS
+* (bug 18529) New hook: SoftwareInfo for adding information about the software
+ to Special:Version
+* Added $wgExtPGAlteredFields to allow extensions to easily alter the data
+ type of columns when using the Postgres backend.
+* (bug 16950) Show move log when viewing/creating a deleted page
+* (bug 18242) Show the Subversion revision number per extensions in
+ Special:Version
+* (bug 18420) Missing file revisions are handled gracefully now
+* (bug 9219) Auth plugins can control editing RealName/Email/Nick preferences
+* (bug 18466) Add note or warning when overruling a move (semi-)protection
+* (bug 18342) insertTags works in edit summary box
+* (bug 18411) The upload form also checks post_max_size
+* Watchlist now has a specialized <div> tag that contains a unique class for
+ each page
+* Added Minguo calendar support for the Taiwan Chinese language
+* Database: unionQueries function to be used for UNION sql construction, so
+ it can be overloaded on DB abstraction level for DB specific functionality
+* (bug 18849) Implement Japanese and North Korean calendars
+* (bug 5755) Introduce {{CURRENTMONTH1}} and {{LOCALMONTH1}} to display the
+ month number without the leading zero
+* (bug 13456) categoriespagetext supports PLURAL
+* (bug 18860) Blocks of IPs affecting registered users can now block email
+* (bug 17093) Date and time are separate parameters in Special:BlockList
+* (bug 11484) Added ISO speed rating to default collapsed EXIF metadata view
+* (bug 14866) Messages 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' and
+ 'recentchangeslinked-toolbox' were added to allow more fine grained
+ customisation of the user interface
+* DISPLAYTITLE now accepts a limited amount of wiki markup (the single-quote
+ items)
+* Special:Search now could search terms in all variant-forms. ONLY apply on
+ wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* Add autopromote condition APCOND_BLOCKED to autopromote blocked users to
+ various user groups.
+* Add $wgRevokePermissions as a means of restricting a group's rights. The
+ syntax is identical to $wgGroupPermissions, but users in these groups will
+ have these rights stripped from them.
+* Added a PHP port of CDB (constant database), for improved local caching when
+ the DBA extension is not available.
+* Introduced a new system for localisation caching. The system is based around
+ fast fetches of individual messages, minimising memory overhead and startup
+ time in the typical case. The database backend will be used by default, but
+ set $wgCacheDirectory to get a faster CDB-based implementation.
+* Expanded the number of variables which can be set in the extension messages
+ files.
+* Added a feature to allow per-article process pool size control for the parsing
+ task, to limit resource usage when the cache for a heavily-viewed article is
+ invalidated. Requires an external daemon.
+* (bug 19576) Moved the id attribues from the anchors accompanying section
+ headers to the <span class="mw-headline"> elements within the section headers,
+ removing the redundant anchor elements.
+* Parser::setFunctionTagHook now can be used to add a new tag which is parsed at
+ preprocesor level.
+* Added $wgShowArchiveThumbnails, allowing sysadmins to disable thumbnail
+ display for old versions of images.
+* In watchlists and Special:RecentChanges, the difference in page size now
+ appears in dark green if bytes were added and dark red if bytes were removed.
+* Added FSRepo configuration properties thumbUrl and thumbDir, to allow the
+ thumbnails to be stored in a separate location to the source images.
+* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
+ now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
+* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
+* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
+ will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
+* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
+ class "mw-listgrouprights-key"
+* (bug 471) Allow RSS feeds for watchlist, using an opt-in security token
+* (bug 10812) Interwiki links can have names and descriptions, fetched from
+ message 'interwiki-desc-PREFIX', not really used anywhere yet though
+* (bug 9691) Add type (signup or login) parameter to
+ AuthPlugin::ModifyUITemplate()
+* (bug 14454) "Member of group(s)" in Special:Preferences causes language
+ difficulties
+* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
+ browsers
+* Parser test supports uploading results to remote CodeReview instance
+* (bug 20013) Added CSS class "mw-version-ext-version" is wrapped on the
+ extension version in Special:Version
+* (bug 20014) Added CSS class "mw-listgrouprights-right-name" is wrapped on the
+ right name in Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 12920) New CoreParserFunction {{nse:...}} as an url-friendly equivalent
+ to {{ns:...}}
+* (bug 16322) Allow maintenance scripts to accept DB user/pass over input or
+ params
+* (bug 18566) Maintenance script to un/protect pages
+* (bug 671) The HTML <abbr> tag is now permitted.
+* RecentChanges now has a legend to explain what the Nmb! flags mean, and the
+ flags have tooltips.
+* (bug 15209) New hook BeforeInitialize called after everything has been setup
+ but before Mediawiki::performRequestForTitle()
+* wgMainPageTitle variable now available to JavaScript code to identify the main
+ page link, so it doesn't have to be extracted from the link URLs.
+* (bug 16836) Display preview of signature in user preferences and describe its
+ use
+* The default output format is now HTML 5 instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
+ This can be disabled by setting $wgHtml5 = false;. Specific features enabled
+ if HTML 5 is used:
+** Some extra inputs will be autofocused, in supporting browsers.
+** The summary attribute has been removed from tables of contents. summary is
+ obsolete in HTML 5 and wasn't useful here anyway.
+** Unnecessary type="" attribute removed for CSS and JS.
+** If $wgWellFormedXml is set to false, some bytes will be shaved off of HTML
+ output by omitting some things like quotation marks where HTML 5 allows.
+** (bug 16921) maxlength enabled for page move comments
+* The description message in $wgExtensionCredits can be an array with parameters
+* New hook SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle allows extensions to modify the selection
+ criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
+ deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
+* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
+* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
+ detail labels in prefsectiontip divs.
+* MakeSysop and MakeBot are now aliases for Special:UserRights
+* IndexPager->mLimitsShown can now be an associative array of limit => text-to-
+ display-in-limit-form.
+* (bug 18880) LogEventsList::showLogExtract() can now take a string-by-reference
+ and add its HTML to it, rather than having to go straight to $wgOut.
+* Added $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace, to allow users to easily gather backtraces for
+ database connection and query errors.
+* Show change block / unblock link on Special:Contributions if user is blocked
+* Display note on Special:Contributions if the user is blocked, and provide an
+ excerpt from the block log.
+* (bug 19646) New hook: ImgAuthBeforeStream for tests and functionality before
+ file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth
+* Note on non-existing user and user talk pages if user does not exist
+* New hook ShowMissingArticle so extensions can modify the output for
+ non-existent pages.
+* Admins could disable some variants using $wgDisabledVariants now. ONLY apply
+ on wikis enabled LanguageConverter.
+* (bug 16310) Credits page now lists IP addresses rather than saying the number
+ of anonymous users that edited the page
+* New permission 'sendemail' added. Default right for all registered users. Can
+ for example be used to prevent new accounts from sending spam.
+* (bug 16979) Tracking categories for __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__
+* Two new hooks, ConfirmEmailComplete and InvalidateEmailComplete, which are
+ called after a user's email has been successfully confirmed or invalidated.
+* (bug 19741) Moved the XCF files out of the main MediaWiki distribution, for
+ a smaller subversion checkout.
+* (bug 13750) First letter capitalization can now be a per-namespace setting
+* (bug 21073) "User does not exist" message no longer displayed on sub-sub-pages
+ of existing users
+* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser
+ function limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by
+ setting the system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]]
+ etc) to "-".
+* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
+* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
+* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
+ reuploading.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
+ the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
+* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
+ an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
+* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
+ or ExtUser-driven requests.
+* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
+ contains the number of revisions in the history
+* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
+* New hook OtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
+ to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
+* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
+* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
+ MySQL
+* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
+* (bug 17662) Customizable default preload/editintro for new sections in the
+ respective addsection-preload and addsection-editintro messages
+* Added maintenance script checkSyntax.php that checks for PHP syntax errors
+ and common coding mistakes
+* Updated Unicode normalization tables
+* (bug 21604) Spellcheck attribute for editsummary
+* New wgCategories JavaScript global variable for userscripts.
+* (bug 20717) Added checkboxes to hide users with bot and/or sysop group
+ membership in SpecialActiveusers
+* Allow \pagecolor and \definecolor in texvc
+* $wgTexvcBackgroundColor contains background color for texvc call
+* (bug 21574) Redirects can now have "303 See Other" HTTP status
+* EditPage refactored to allow extensions to derive new edit modes much easier.
+* (bug 21826) Subsections of Special:Version now also have anchors
+* (bug 19791) Add URL of file source as comment to thumbs (for ImageMagick)
+* (bug 21946) Sorted wikitables do not properly handle minus signs
+* (bug 18885) Red links for media files do not support shared repositories
+* Added $wgFixArabicUnicode, to convert deprecated presentation forms in
+ Arabic text to their modern equivalents, and $wgFixMalayalamUnicode, to
+ convert ZWJ-based chillu sequences in Malayalam text to their Unicode 5.1
+ equivalents.
+* (bug 22051) Returing false in SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput hook now
+ stops normal output
+* Send new password e-mail in users preference language
+* LanguageConverter now support nested using of manual convert syntax like
+ "-{-{}-}-"
+* Upload license preview now uses the API instead of action=ajax
+* (bug 7346) Add <guid> to RSS to avoid duplicates
+* (bug 19996) Added new hooks for Special:Search, which allow to further
+ restrict/expand it.
+* (bug 21936) When a revision has been patrolled, there's now a link back to the
+ article
+* (bug 22315) SpecialRecentChangesQuery hook now pass $query_options and checks
+ the return value
+* Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to
+ maintenance/tests/.
+* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and
+comment from another wiki.
+* Support for Turck MMCache was removed
+* (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their
+ account will not be renamed
+* Show block log on non-existing user (talk) pages of currently blocked users
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
+
+* (bug 18031) Make namespace selector on Special:Export remember the previous
+ selection
+* The svn-version version numbers on Special:Version have been removed
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports two copies of the same page
+* (bug 18190) Proper parsing in MediaWiki:Sharedupload message
+* (bug 17617) HTML cleanup for ImagePage
+* (bug 17964) namespaceDupes.php no longer fails on an empty interwiki table
+* Improved error handling for image moving
+* (bug 17974) On Special:SpecialPages, restricted special pages are now marked
+ with <strong> tags, helps with text-based browsers
+* (bug 18259) Special:DeletedContributions now also uses
+ MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-logs for the link to Special:Log
+* Don't add empty title="" attributes to links to anchors on the current page
+* (bug 18291) rebuildrecentchanges.php failed to add deletion log entries
+* (bug 18304) rebuildrecentchanges.php got size changes wrong
+* (bug 18170) Fixed a PHP warning in Parser::preSaveTransform() in PHP 5.3
+* (bug 18289) Database connection error page now returns correct HTML
+* "successbox", "errorbox" and related CSS classes are now available in all
+ skins
+* (bug 18316) Removed superfluous name="fulltext" from Special:Search
+* (bug 18331) MediaWiki:Undelete-revision can now have wikitext
+* The "noautoblock" flag is no longer displayed in the block log when blocking
+ an IP address
+* (bug 18009) $wgHooks and $wgExtensionFunctions now support closures
+* (bug 17948) Maintenance scripts now exit(0) or exit(1) as appropriate
+* (bug 18377) Time in Enhanced ChangesList lacking localisation
+* (bug 12998) Allow <sup>, <sub>, etc. in DISPLAYTITLE
+* (bug 1553) Lowercase navigation headings in German
+* (bug 7830) Pending transactions failed to commit on loginToUse() error
+* (bug 11613) session.save_handler being over-ridden
+* (bug 11381) session.save_handler being set twice (causes error)
+* (bug 17835) ForeignAPIRepo throwing error on first page load for file
+* (bug 18115) ForeignAPIRepo cache isn't working
+* Fixed a bug caused by LanguageConverter.php, which brings an abnormal '}-'
+ after some parsed math syntax.
+* (bug 18441) rebuildrecentchanges.inc no longer ignores $wgLogRestrictions
+* (bug 18317) Bolded selections in 1 | 3 | etc days on RecentChanges now use
+ <strong> instead of hardcoded styles
+* (bug 18449) Fixed items number per column on category pages when the total is
+ divisible by 3
+* (bug 18121) maintenance/deleteArchivedRevisions.php no longer deletes
+ revisions when --delete is not passed
+* (bug 13172) GPS coordinates in image Exif data are now actually displayed
+* Overhaul of preferences system, includes the following bug fixes:
+** (bug 5363) Changes to default preferences now impact registered users.
+** (bug 14806) Hook to enable putting preferences in existing tabs.
+** (bug 17191) Registration date now listed on preferences page.
+** The user_properties table (now used for storing preferences) has been added
+ to $wgSharedTables.
+** Note that this change will break some extensions which have not been adapted
+ for it.
+* (bug 17020) Adding fallback encodings for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
+ languages while the the text is typed as URLs.
+* (bug 17614) Prev / Next links are not shown if all results are shown
+* (bug 18207) Strange spacing before [[irc:...]] links
+* Removed float from the user login form in RTL interface - caused display
+ problems in FF2
+* (bug 15008) Redirect images are now subject to Bad image list rules
+* (bug 6802) profileinfo.php now also work on other database servers than MySQL
+* (bug 16925) Diffs no longer fail when $wgExternalDiffEngine is set to
+ 'wikidiff' or 'wikidiff2' but extension is not installed
+* (bug 18326) Chmod errors in file repos have been hidden
+* (bug 18718) Comma after a } create a error in IE
+* (bug 18716) Removed redundant class in Modern skin CSS for category links and
+ tweaked spacing.
+* (bug 18656) Use proper directory separators in wfMkdirParents()
+* (bug 18549) Make Special:Blockip respect $wgEnableUserEmail and
+ $wgSysopEmailBans
+* (bug 16912) Tooltips on images with link= disappear
+* (bug 18389) Localise numbers in EXIF data
+* (bug 18522) Wrap MediaWiki:Protect-cascadeon in a div for identification
+* (bug 18438) Tweak HTML for preview bar for consistency and accessibility
+* (bug 18432) Updated documentation for dumpBackup.php
+* Fix array logic in Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags so that it doesn't strip good
+ tags that were redundantly defined.
+* (bug 14118) SpecialPage::getTitleFor does not return a localised name
+* (bug 18698) Renaming non entry point maintenance scripts from .inc.php to
+ .inc
+* Deprecated methods Title::getInterwikiLink, Title::userCanCreate(),
+ Title::userCanEdit() and Title::userCanMove() have been removed
+* Only show upload links on file description if $wgEnableUploads = true
+ and user can upload
+* Don't say "You need to log in to upload/move", because it's possible that
+ uploading/moving is disabled for registered users as well (e.g. only sysops)
+* (bug 18943) Handle invalid titles gracefully at Special:Mostlinked
+* (bug 8873) Enable variant conversion in text on 'alt' and 'title' attributes
+* (bug 10837) Introducing the StubUserVariant class to determine the variant
+ variable instead of using this to overrules the user language preference.
+* (bug 19014) If user had deletedhistory right, but not undeleted right, then
+ show "view" instead of "view/restore" on logs.
+* (bug 19017) TOC level calculation error in an odd case
+* (bug 18999) CSS update for RTL interwiki links
+* (bug 18925) history.js removes class names of list elements on initialization
+* Multiple whitespace in TOC anchors is now stripped, for consistency with the
+ link from the edit comment
+* (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor
+* (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
+* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
+* (bug 19160) maintenance/purgeOldText.inc is now compatible with PostgreSQL
+* Fixed performance regression in "bad image list" feature
+* Show user preference 'Use live preview' if $wgLivePreview is enabled only
+* (bug 17014) Blocked users can no longer use Special:UserRights unless they
+ can add/remove *all* groups (have 'userrights' permission).
+* (bug 19294) Always show Sp-contributions-footer(-anon)
+* Attempts to restrict reading of pages while anonymous viewing is allowed
+ via extensions not using the userCan hook and via $wgRevokePermissions now
+ work.
+* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly for
+ Chinese
+* (bug 19450) Use formatNum for "Number of edits" in Special:Preferences
+* (bug 11242) Check for MySQL storage engines during installation now checks
+ whether the engines are actually available
+* (bug 19390) Omit the "printable version" link on the printable version
+* (bug 18394) img_auth.php now respects userCan
+* (bug 19509) Uploading to a file named '0' previously treated it as null input
+ and attempted to upload with the source name. Now warns about not having an
+ extension (since 0.ext is perfectly valid)
+* (bug 19468) Enotif preferences are now only displayed when they are turned on
+* (bug 19442) Show/hide options on watchlist only work once
+* (bug 19602) PubMed Magic links now use updated NIH url
+* (bug 19637) externallinks have links to self
+* Don't load Opera 9.5 RTL fixes for Opera 9.6
+* Remove five-year-old KHTMLFixes.css, which is unlikely to be relevant anymore
+ and was causing problems.
+* Removed repetition of URIs in the title attributes of external links.
+* (bug 19693) User name is now escaped in "Contributions for ..." link on
+ Special:BlockIP
+* (bug 19571) Override buildConcat for SQLite.
+* Log in and log out links no longer return to page view when clicked from
+ history view, edit page, or something similar
+* (bug 19513) RTL fixes for new Search UI
+* (bug 16497) Special:Allmessages is paginated
+* (bug 18708) CSS plainlinks class now available to all skins
+* (bug 19590) Database error messages no longer have "MySQL" hardcoded as the
+ database type
+* (bug 19759) successbox on Special:Preferences now correctly aligned on
+ standard, nostalgia and cologneblue skin
+* (bug 19814) interwiki links from file links ([[File:Foo.jpg|link=de:Test]])
+ are no longer recorded in the pagelinks table
+* (bug 19784) date option "ISO 8601" produced illegal id
+* (bug 19761) Removed autogenerated <meta keywords> tag with link data.
+ Keyword set was not useful, and is ignored by modern search engines anway.
+* (bug 19827) Special:SpecialPages title is "Upload file
+* (bug 19355) Added .xhtml, .xht to upload file extension blacklist
+* (bug 19287) Workaround for lag on history page in Firefox 3.5
+* (bug 19564) Updated docs/hooks.txt
+* (bug 18751) Fix for buggage in profiling setup for some extensions on PHP 5.1
+* (bug 17139) ts_resortTable inconsistent trimming makes date sorting fragile
+* (bug 19445) Change oldimage table to use ON UPDATE CASCADE for FK to image
+ table.
+* (bug 14080) Short notation links to subpages didn't work in edit summaries
+* (bug 17374) Special:Export no longer exports multiple copies of pages
+* (bug 19818) Edits to user CSS/JS subpages can now be marked as patrolled by
+ users who can't edit them
+* (bug 19839) Comments in log items are no more double escaped
+* (bug 18161) Fix inconsistent separators in watchlist link toolbars with
+ "enhanced recent changes"
+* (bug 16877) Moving a page over a redirect no longer leaves an orphan entry in
+ the recentchanges table
+* (bug 16009) Limit selection forms based on Pager now links to the correct page
+ when using long urls
+* The display of the language list on the preferences is more comply with the
+ BCP 47 standards.
+* (bug 19849) Custom X-Vary-Options header now disabled unless $wgUseXVO is set
+* (bug 19301) Duplicates entries in $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups,
+ $wgGroupsAddToSelf and $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf are no more displayed on
+ Special:ListGroupRights
+* (bug 18799) Special:Userlogin now handles correctly the returnto parameter
+ to not link back to Special:Userlogout when user's language isn't the same as
+ content's language
+* (bug 19479) Show proper error message when unable to connect to PostgreSQL
+ database with username/password in MediaWiki's setup
+* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
+ if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
+* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
+* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
+ option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
+* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
+* (bug 15680) Split the edit tip message of user CSS/JS subpage into
+ "usercssyoucanpreview" and "userjsyoucanpreview" respectively.
+* (bug 12110) Split the rights for editing users' CSS/JS subpage from
+ "editusercssjs" into "editusercss" and edituserjs" respectively.
+* (bug 19394) RecentChanges feed URLs for log items with no revisions
+ (eg Newuser, Userrights) are no longer broken
+* (bug 17395) Remote file descriptions use user language ($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 ==
-1.11 has several database changes since 1.10, and will not work without schema
+1.16 has several database changes since 1.15, and will not work without schema
updates.
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons reposito-
+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.
See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
+
=== Caveats ===
Some output, particularly involving user-supplied inline HTML, may not
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 1.15.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
=== Online documentation ===
scripts.mit.edu / autoinstallsdev / mediawiki.git / blobdiff