+== MediaWiki 1.15 ==
+
+=== Changes since 1.15.1 ===
+
+* The installer now includes a check for a data corruption issue with certain
+ versions of libxml2 2.7 and PHP earlier than 5.2.9, and also for a PHP bug
+ present in the official release of PHP 5.3.1.
+* (bug 20239) MediaWiki:Imagemaxsize does not contain anymore a <br /> tag which
+ was displayed to the user
+* (bug 21150) SQLite no longer raise an error when deleting files
+* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
+* upgrade1_5.php now requires to be run --update option to prevent confusion
+* Fixed a CSS validation issue which allowed external images to be included
+ into wikis where that is disallowed by configuration.
+* Fixed a data leakage vulnerability for private wikis using img_auth.php or
+ similar image access authentication schemes. Check user permissions before
+ streaming out scaled images from thumb.php.
+
+=== Changes since 1.15.0 ===
+
+* Fixed fatal errors for unusual file repository configurations, such as
+ ForeignAPIRepo.
+* Fixed the "change password" link on Special:Preferences to have the correct
+ returnto parameter.
+* (bug 19693) Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability in Special:Block
+
+=== Changes since 1.15.0rc1 ===
+
+* Removed category redirect feature, implementation was incomplete.
+* (bug 18846) Remove update_password_format(), unnecessary, destroys all
+ passwords if a wiki with $wgPasswordSalt=false is upgraded with the web
+ installer.
+* (bug 19127) Documentation warning for PostgreSQL users who run update.php:
+ use the same user in AdminSettings.php as in LocalSettings.php.
+* Fixed possible web invocation of some maintenance scripts, due to the use of
+ include() instead of require(). A full exploit would require a very strange
+ web server configuration.
+* Localisation updates.
+
+=== Configuration changes in 1.15 ===
+
+* Added $wgNewPasswordExpiry, to specify an expiry time (in seconds) to
+ temporary passwords
+* Added $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm to choose the Search form behavior/look
+* Added $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions to allow exempting particular domain names
+ from rel="nofollow" on external links
+* (bug 12970) Brought back $wgUseImageResize.
+* Added $wgRedirectOnLogin to allow specifying a specifc page to redirect users
+ to upon logging in (ex: "Main Page")
+* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from
+ namespace" option (disabled by default)
+
+=== New features in 1.15 ===
+
+* (bug 2242) Add an expiry time to temporary passwords
+* (bug 9947) Add PROTECTIONLEVEL parser function to return the protection level
+ for the current page for a given action
+* (bug 17002) Add &minor= and &summary= as parameters in the url when editing,
+ to automatically add a summary or a minor edit.
+* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now accept multiletter pad characters
+* When using 'UserCreateForm' hook to add new checkboxes into
+ Special:UserLogin/signup, the messages can now contain HTML to allow
+ hyperlinking to the site's Terms of Service page, for example
+* Add new hook 'UserLoadFromDatabase' that is called while loading a user
+ from the database.
+* (bug 17045) Options on the block form are prefilled with the options of the
+ existing block when modifying an existing block.
+* (bug 17055) "(show/hide)" links to Special:RevisionDelete now use a CSS class
+ rather than hardcoded HTML tags
+* Added new hook 'WantedPages::getSQL' into SpecialWantedpages.php to allow
+ extensions to alter the SQL query which is used to get the list of wanted
+ pages
+* (bugs 16957/16969) Add show/hide to preferences for RC patrol options on
+ specialpages
+* (bug 11443) Auto-noindex user/user talk pages for blocked user
+* (bug 11644) Add $wgMaxRedirects variable to control how many redirects are
+ recursed through until the "destination" page is reached.
+* Add $wgInvalidRedirectTargets variable to prevent redirects to certain
+ special pages.
+* Use HTML5 rel attributes for some links, where appropriate
+* Added optional alternative Search form look - Go button & Advanced search
+ link instead of Go button & Search button
+* (bug 2314) Add links to user custom CSS and JS to Special:Preferences
+* More helpful error message on raw page access if PHP_SELF isn't set
+* (bug 13040) Gender switch in user preferences
+* (bug 13040) {{GENDER:}} magic word for interface messages
+* (bug 3301) Optionally sort user list according to account creation time
+* Remote description pages for foreign file repos are now fetched in the
+ content language.
+* (bug 17180) If $wgUseFileCache is enabled, $wgShowIPinHeader is automatically
+ set to false.
+* (bug 16604) Mark non-patrolled edits in feeds with "!"
+* (bug 16604) Show title/rev in IRC for patrol log
+* (bug 16854) Whether a page is being parsed as a preview or section preview
+ can now be determined and set with ParserOptions.
+* Wrap message 'confirmemail_pending' into a div with CSS classes "error" and
+ "mw-confirmemail-pending"
+* (bug 8249) The magic words for namespaces and pagenames can now be used as
+ parser functions to return the desired namespace or normalized title/title
+ part for a given title.
+* (bug 17110) Styled #mw-data-after-content in cologneblue.css to match the
+ rest of the font
+* (bug 7556) Time zone names in signatures lack i18n
+* (bug 3311) Automatic category redirects
+* (bug 17236) Suppress 'watch user page link' for IP range blocks
+* Wrap message 'searchresulttext' (Special:Search) into a div with
+ class "mw-searchresult"
+* (bug 15283) Interwiki imports can now fetch included templates
+* Treat svn:// URLs as external links by default
+* New function to convert namespace text for display (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17379) Contributions-title is now parsed for magic words.
+* Preprocessor output now cached in memcached.
+* (bug 14468) Lines in classic RecentChanges and Watchlist have classes
+ "mw-line-odd" and "mw-line-even" to make styling using css possible.
+* (bug 17311) Add a note beside the gender selection menu to tell users that
+ this information will be public
+* Localize time zone regions in Special:Preferences
+* Add NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS magic word, which is like NUMBEROFUSERS, but uses
+ the active users data from site_stats.
+* Add a <link rel="canonical"> tag on redirected page views
+* Replace hardcoded '...' as indication of a truncation with the
+ 'ellipsis' message
+* Wrap warning message 'editinginterface' into a div with class
+ 'mw-editinginterface'
+* (bug 17497) Oasis opendocument added to mime.types
+* Remove the link to Special:FileDuplicateSearch from the "file history" section
+ of image description pages as the list of duplicated files is shown in the
+ next section anyway.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 14981) Shared repositories can now have display names, located at
+ Mediawiki:Shared-repo-name-REPONAME, where REPONAME is the name in
+ $wgForeignFileRepos
+* Special:ListUsers: Sort list of usergroups by alphabet
+* (bug 16762) Special:Movepage now shows a list of subpages when possible
+* (bug 17585) Hide legend on Special:Specialpages from non-privileged users
+* Added $wgUseTagFilter to control enabling of filter-by-change-tag
+* (bug 17291) MediaWiki:Nocontribs now has an optional $1 parameter for the
+ username
+* Wrap special page summary message '$specialPageName-summary' into a div
+ with class 'mw-specialpage-summary'
+* $wgSummarySpamRegex added to handle edit summary spam. This is used *instead*
+ of $wgSpamRegex for edit summary checks. Text checks still use $wgSpamRegex.
+* New function to convert content text to specified language (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17844) Redirect users to a specific page when they log in, see
+ $wgRedirectOnLogin
+* Added a link to Special:UserRights on Special:Contributions for privileged users
+* (bug 10336) Added new magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}, which displays the editor
+ of the displayed revision's author user name
+* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and
+ a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made
+* (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with
+ dynamic dates.
+* (bug 4582) Provide preference-based autoformatting of unlinked dates with the dateformat
+ parser function.
+* (bug 17886) Special:Export now allows you to export a whole namespace (limited to 5000 pages)
+* (bug 17714) Limited TIFF upload support now built in if 'tif' extension is
+ enabled. Image width and height are now recognized, and when using ImageMagick,
+ optional flattening to PNG or JPEG for inline display can be enabled by setting
+ $wgTiffThumbnailType
+* Renamed two input IDs on Special:Log from 'page' and 'user' to 'mw-log-page' and
+ 'mw-log-user', respectively
+* Added $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters to disallow certain characters in
+ usernames during registration (such as "@")
+* Added $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter to allow changing the delimiter
+ used in Special:UserRights to denote the user should be searched for
+ on a different database
+* Add a class if 'missingsummary' is triggered to allow styling of the summary
+ line
+* Title attributes are now always blank on framed and thumbnailed images, and default to blank
+ on inline images instead of defaulting to the image's filename. Additionally, the alt
+ attribute now defaults to the filename on framed and thumbnailed images if no caption or alt
+ attribute is specified.
+
+=== Bug fixes in 1.15 ===
+* (bug 16968) Special:Upload no longer throws useless warnings.
+* (bug 17000) Special:RevisionDelete now checks if the database is locked
+ before trying to delete the edit.
+* (bug 16852) padleft and padright now handle multibyte characters correctly
+* (bug 17010) maintenance/namespaceDupes.php now add the suffix recursively if
+ the destination page exists
+* (bug 17035) Special:Upload now fails gracefully if PHP's file_uploads has
+ been disabled
+* Fixing the caching issue by using -{T|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* Improving the efficiency by using -{A|xxx}- syntax (only applies on wiki with
+ LanguageConverter class)
+* (bug 17054) Added more descriptive errors in Special:RevisionDelete
+* (bug 11527) Diff on page with one revision shows "Next" link to same diff
+* (bug 8065) Fix summary forcing for new pages
+* (bug 10569) redirects to Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk are no longer
+ allowed by default. Change $wgInvalidRedirectTargets to re-enable.
+* (bug 3043) Feed links of given page are now preceded by standard feed icon
+* (bug 17150) escapeLike now escapes literal \ properly
+* Inconsistent use of sysop, admin, administrator in system messages changed
+ to 'administrator'
+* (bug 14423) Check block flag validity for block logging
+* DB transaction and slave-lag avoidance tweaks for Email Notifications
+* (bug 17104) Removed [Mark as patrolled] link for already patrolled revisions
+* (bug 17106) Added 'redirect=no' and 'mw-redirect' class to redirects at
+ "user contributions"
+* Rollback links on new pages removed from "user contributions"
+* (bug 15811) Re-upload form tweaks: license fields removed, destination locked,
+ comment label uses better message
+* Whole HTML validation ($wgValidateAllHtml) now works with external tidy
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgExternalLinkTarget is set in
+ LocalSettings
+* (bug 15391) catch DBQueryErrors on external storage insertion. This avoids
+ error messages on save were the edit in fact is saved.
+* (bug 17184) Remove duplicate "z" accesskey in MonoBook
+* Parser tests no longer fail when $wgAlwaysUseTidy is set in LocalSettings.php
+* Removed redundant dupe warnings on reupload for the same title. Dupe warnings
+ for identical files at different titles are still given.
+* Add 'change tagging' facility, where changes can be tagged internally with
+ certain designations, which are displayed on various summaries of changes,
+ and the entries can be styled with CSS.
+* (bug 17207) Fix regression breaking category page display on PHP 5.1
+* Categoryfinder utility class no longer fails on invalid input or gives wrong
+ results for category names that include pseudo-namespaces
+* (bug 17252) Galician numbering format
+* (bug 17146) Fix for UTF-8 and short word search for some possible MySQL
+ configs
+* (bug 7480) Internationalize database error message
+* (bug 16555) Number of links to mediawiki.org scaled back on post-installation
+* (bug 14938) Removing a section no longer leaves excess whitespace
+* (bug 17304) Fixed fatal error when thumbnails couldn't be generated for file
+ history
+* (bug 17283) Remove double URL escaping in show/hide links for log entries
+ and RevisionDeleteForm::__construct
+* (bug 17105) Numeric table sorting broken
+* (bug 17231) Transcluding special pages on wikis using language conversion no
+ longer affects the page title
+* (bug 6702) Default system messages updated/improved
+* (bug 17190) User ID on preference page no longer has delimeters
+* (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis
+* (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights
+* (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable