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authorPierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>2011-12-03 13:29:22 +0100
committerPierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>2011-12-03 13:29:22 +0100
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-= 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 1.17.1 ==
-
-2011-11-24
-
-This a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.17 branch.
-
-=== Security changes ===
-* (bug 32276) Skins were generating output using the internal page title which
- would allow anonymous users to determine wheter a page exists, potentially
- leaking private data. In fact, the curid and oldid request parameters would
- allow page titles to be enumerated even when they are not guessable.
-* (bug 32616) action=ajax requests were dispatched to the relevant internal
- functions without any read permission checks being done. This could lead to
- data leakage on private wikis.
-
-=== Summary of selected changes in 1.17 ===
-
-Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.16 that may be of interest:
-
-* A new installer has been introduced. It has a wizard-style interface which is
- translated into many languages. Many shortcomings in the old installer were
- addressed with this rewrite. Note that it is no longer required for the config
- directory to be made writable by the webserver. Instead the generated
- LocalSettings.php file is offered as a download, which you must then upload
- to the wiki's base directory.
-
-* ResourceLoader, a new framework for delivering client-side resources such as
- JavaScript and CSS, has been introduced. These resources are now delivered
- through the new entry point script "load.php", instead of as static files
- served directly by the web server. This allows minification, compression and
- client-side caching to be used more effectively, which should provide a net
- performance improvement for most users.
-
-* Category sorting has been improved.
-** Sorting is now case insensitive.
-** Sub-categories, pages and files can now be paged separately.
-** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their
- names instead of randomly.
-
-* The lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.2.3. If necessary, please
- upgrade PHP prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
-
-=== Changes since 1.17.0 ===
-
-* (bug 29535) Added missing Creative Commons CC0 icon.
-* (bug 29726) Fixed failure to load internationalization messages in
- client-side scripts on WebKit-based browsers.
-* Fixed a bug in message transformation where the previous language could leak
- into later transformations in the UI language.
-* (bug 29091) Fixed form of native name for Ossetic language (Иронау -> Ирон)
-* Fixed maintenance scripts upgrade1_5.php and rebuildImages.php, they did not
- work at all since 1.17 beta 1.
-* (bug 29531) Fixed img_auth.php for thumbnails and other filenames with
- multiple dots, was broken by the fix for bug 28840.
-* In the maintenance script purgeList.php, fixed a fatal error when a page
- title is given, instead of a URL.
-* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit).
-* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals.
-* $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very
- wide pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes.
-* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user
- tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce.
-* Installer checked for magic_quotes_runtime instead of register_globals
-* (bug 30131) XCache with variable caching disabled no longer used for variable
- caching (CACHE_ACCEL)
-* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once()
- instead require() for included extensions.
-* (bug 26486) ResourceLoader modules with paths to nonexistent files cause PHP
- warnings/notices to be thrown
-* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly.
-* (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on
- Windows servers.
-
-=== Changes since 1.17.0rc1 ===
-
-* Fixed syntax error in generated LocalSettings.php when a non-default user
- rights profile is chosen.
-* (bug 29399) Fixed PostgreSQL installation when the DB user for installation
- is the same as the one for web access.
-* (bug 29233) Fixed failover for DB slave servers. When a DB slave went down,
- an error was immediately shown to the user, instead of trying another slave.
- Was broken since 1.17 beta 1.
-* (bug 29278) Fixed PHP fatal error when attempting to add text to a page via a
- redirect.
-* (bug 29408) Fixed uploads of files with MIME types that aren't detected by
- MediaWiki.
-* Removed DEFAULT '' NOT NULL field definitions from Oracle DB schema because
- using the DEFAULT value ('') in DML broke Oracle backend as it treats an
- empty VARCHAR2 value as NULL. Indexes on Oracle do not require NOT NULL
- fields.
-
-=== Changes since 1.17 beta 1 ===
-
-* Fixed warning about missing file "password.js".
-* When installing on MySQL, don't attempt to create a new database user if the
- same user is used for installation and web access.
-* Fixed SQL query errors in queries with table aliases.
-* (bug 27891) Fixed the "chronology protector", broken since 1.17beta1, which
- ensures that when database replication is used, the new version is seen by
- the user immediately after they create or edit an article.
-* (bug 28845) Allow PostgreSQL installation using a non-root user account which
- has role creation abilities.
-* When installing on PostgreSQL and the install account is the same as the web
- account, check to make sure that the account has suitable privileges in the
- mediawiki schema.
-* (bug 28172) Fixed error in PostgreSQL installation when creating the wiki
- sysop account.
-* Fixed an issue with the Oracle installer in cases where the user is different
- to the database name.
-* Added "unblockself" to the list of available rights.
-* In the installer, fixed the "user rights profile" option, it never worked.
-* (bug 29117) Fixed Hebrew localisation of the installer.
-* (bug 28840) Reduce the collateral damage caused by the fix for bug 28235 (XSS
- on Internet Explorer 6 due to a file extension in the query string) by
- reducing the number of URLs that are blocked, and by redirecting the request
- to a safer URL where possible instead of blocking it.
-* (bug 28812) Fixed documentation of API action=parse.
-* (bug 28979) Fixed styling of <abbr> and <acronym>.
-* Fixed the error message displayed when you try to create an account by email,
- but an email address is not given.
-* Fixed JS error due to missing dependency for jquery.suggestions.
-* Exposed $wgExtensionAssetsPath in JavaScript.
-* (bug 28738) Made ResourceLoader support environments with small URL length
- limits. The length limit can be configured via $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength,
- and this is set automatically in the generated LocalSettings.php when the
- php.ini variable "suhosin.get.max_value_length" is set. When a URL exceeds
- this limit, the request is split up. Also, reduced the average length of
- load.php URLs by using a more compact parameter format.
-* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS.
-* (bug 25124) Respect $wgStyleDirectory in ResourceLoader.
-* Allow installation when no HTTP client is available, don't throw an exception.
-* (bug 27465) Fix metadata extraction for SVG files using unusual namespace
- names.
-* (bug 29174) Fix regression in upload-by-URL: uploading files larger than the
- PHP memory limit should work again.
-* Fixed the display of comments in the new user log.
-* (bug 28237) When installing extensions using the web-based installer, create
- any necessary database tables.
-* (bug 28983) Fixed automated installation of extensions that overwrite $path.
-* Fixed error caused by missing magic words.
-* Fixed breakage of article editing in PostgreSQL due to text search
- configuration errors.
-* Fixed the HTTPS client used when Curl is not available. This avoids an error
- during install about failure of the mediawiki-announce subscription.
-* (bug 28162) When installing to PostgreSQL, respect the "database port" input,
- it was ignored.
-
-=== Configuration changes in 1.17 ===
-
-* $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts controls whether autocreation of accounts is logged
- to new users log.
-* (bug 22858) $wgLocalStylePath is by default set to the same value as
- $wgStylePath but should never point to a different domain than the site is
- on, allowing skins to use .htc files which are not cross-domain friendly.
-* $wgFileStore has been deprecated. The only usage $wgFileStore['deleted'] has
- been turned into $wgDeletedDirectory.
-* $wgDeletedDirectory has been added to specify what directory to place deleted
- uploads in.
-* IBM DB2 database no longer uses the db specific $wgDBport_db2 variable but the
- normal $wgDBport.
-* $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
- provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
-* Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized,
- $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors, $wgUseZhdaemon,
- $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
-* (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
-* $wgVectorExtraStyles was removed, and is no longer in use.
-* Removed $wgUpdates for database updates; extensions should use
- DatabaseUpdater::addExtensionUpdate() via the LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates hook.
-* Removed $wgServerName. It doesn't need to be set anymore and is no longer
- available as input for other configuration items, either.
-* It's no longer necessary for LocalSettings.php to include DefaultSettings.php.
-* It's no longer necessary to set $wgCacheEpoch to the file modification time
- of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done
- automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is
- the default).
-* $wgCopyrightIcon is deprecated and $wgFooterIcons['copyright']['copyright']
- should be used instead.
-* $wgSysopUserBans is deprecated, and will be made permanently true in 1.18.
- If you need this functionality, you should use the BlockIp hook to filter and
- reject such blocks.
-* $wgSysopRangeBans is deprecated, you should set $wgBlockCIDRLimit to maximum
- (32 for IPv4, 128 for IPv6), equivalent to allowing rangeblocks of only 1
- address at a time.
-
-=== New features in 1.17 ===
-
-* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
- User:<name>/common.css and /common.js (if user css/js is enabled).
-* (bug 22748) Add anchors on Special:ListGroupRights.
-* (bug 21981) Add parameter 'showfilename' to <gallery> to automatically
- apply the names of the individual files within the gallery.
-* Future-proof redirection to fragments in Gecko, so things work a little nicer
- if they fix <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516293>.
-* Support git:// and mms:// protocols by default for external links.
-* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer unblock themselves without the
- 'unblockself' permission (which they have by default).
-* (bug 18499) Added "enhanced" URL parameter to switch between old and enhanced
- changes list.
-* (bug 22925) "sp-contributions-blocked-notice-anon" message now displayed when
- viewing contributions of a blocked IP address.
-* (bug 22474) {{urlencode:}} now takes an optional second parameter for type of
- escaping.
-* Special:Listfiles now supports a username parameter.
-* Special:Random carries over query string parameters.
-* (bug 23206) Add Special::Search hook for detecting successful "Go".
-* When visiting a "red link" of a deleted file, a deletion and move log excerpt
- is provided on the Upload form.
-* (bug 22647) Add category details in search results.
-* (bug 23276) Add hook to Special:NewPages to modify query.
-* Add accesskey 's' and tooltip to 'Save' button at Special:Preferences.
-* Add accesskey 'b' and tooltip to the summary field of edit mode.
-* (bug 20186) Allow filtering Special:Contributions for RevisionDeleted edits.
-* ajaxwatch now uses the API and JQuery, and can be used to animate arbitrary
- watch links, not just to watch the page the link is on.
-* (bug 20976) "searchmenu-new-nocreate" message now displayed when when there
- is no title match in search and the user has no rights to create pages.
-* (bug 23429) Added new hook WatchlistEditorBuildRemoveLine.
-* (bug 22844) Added support for WinCache object caching (for IIS).
-* (bug 23580) Add two new events to LivePreview so that scripts can be notified
- about the beginning and finishing of LivePreview actions.
-* (bug 21278) Now the sidebar allows inclusion of wiki markup.
-* (bug 23733) Add IDs to messages used on CSS/JS pages.
-* Show validity period of the login cookie in Special:UserLogin and
- Special:Preferences.
-* Interlanguage links display the page title in their tooltip.
-* (bug 23621) New Special:ComparePages to compare (diff) two articles.
-* (bug 4597) Provide support in Special:Contributions to show only "current"
- contributions
-* (bug 17857) {{anchorencode}} acts more like how the parser creates section ids
-* (bug 21477) \& can now be used in <math>
-* (bug 11641) \dotsc \dotsm \dotsi \dotso can now be used in <math>
-* (bug 21475) \mathtt and \textsf can now be used in <math>
-* texvc is now run via ulimit4.sh, to limit execution time.
-* SQLite now supports $wgSharedDB.
-* (bug 8507) Group file links by namespace:title on image pages.
-* Stop emitting named entities, so we can use <!DOCTYPE html> while still being
- well-formed XML.
-* texvc now supports \bcancel and \xcancel in addition to \cancel and \cancelto
-* Added scriptExtension setting to $wgForeignFileRepos.
-* ForeignApiRepo uses scriptDirUrl if apiBase not set.
-* (bug 24212) Added MediaWiki:Filepage.css which is also included on foreign
- client wikis.
-* (bug 14685) Double underscore magic word usage is now tracked in the
- page_props table, as well as the behavioral magic words {{DEFAULTSORT}} and
- {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
-* (bug 24045) MediaWiki:Ipb-needreblock is now wrapped in a div with class
- "mw-ipb-needreblock"
-* Non-file pages can no longer be moved to the file namespace, nor vice versa.
-* (bug 671) The <dfn>, <kbd> and <samp> elements have been whitelisted in user
- input.
-* (bug 21503) There's now a "reason" field when creating account for other users.
-* (bug 24418) action=markpatrolled now requires a token.
-* A variety of category sort-related fixes, including:
-** (bug 164) In English, lowercase and uppercase letters now sort the same.
-** (bug 1211) Subcategories, ordinary pages, and files now page separately.
-** When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names
- instead of randomly.
-* (bug 23848) Add {{ARTICLEPATH}} Magic Word.
-* (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements.
-* (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages.
-* The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
- used in the page.
-* Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
-* (bug 24007) Diff pages now mention the number of users having edited
- intermediate revisions.
-* Added new hook GetIP.
-* Special:Version now displays whether a SQLite database supports full-text
- search.
-* TS_ISO_8691_BASIC was added as a time format, which is used by ResourceLoader
- for versioning.
-* Maintenance scripts get a --memory-limit option to override defaults (which
- is usually to set it to -1 to disable the limit).
-* (bug 25397) Allow uploading (not displaying) of WebP images, disabled
- by default.
-* (bug 23194) Special:ListFiles now has thumbnails.
-* Use hreflang to specify canonical and alternate links, search engine friendly
- when a wiki has multiple variant languages.
-* (bug 19593) Specifying --server in now works for all maintenance scripts.
-* Now rebuildtextindex.php warns if SQLite doesn't support full-text search.
-* (bug 10541) Front/backend separation of installation/upgrade code.
-* (bug 10596) Allow installer to enable extensions already in extensions folder.
-* (bug 20627) Installer should be in languages other than English.
-* Support for metadata in SVG files (title, description).
-* Special:Search: Add CSS classes to 'none found' and 'create link' messages.
-* Add CSS classes (including namespace and pagename) to the enhanced recent
- changes/watchlist entries.
-* (bug 22463) Add hook 'SkinGetPoweredBy' to make 'powered by' icon/text
- customizable.
-* Added CSS print pagination to the print stylesheets.
-* (bug 25960) Add <link rel=canonical"> for File pages of shared/foreign
- file repositories.
-* When viewing a redirect, the redirect arrow and redirection target are both
- wrapped in a div that has the class "redirectMsg" so that the redirection
- arrow can be customized with CSS.
-* (bug 21911) Hard coded limit for long page warning removed. New message
- [[MediaWiki:Longpage-hint]] (empty per default) can be used instead.
- Parameters: $1 shows the formatted textsize in Byte/KB/MB, $2 is the raw
- number of the textsize in Byte.
-* (bug 3276) Give image <gallery>s fluid width.
-* Added uploads link to page subtitle in Special:Contributions.
-* Added Special:Myuploads special page that redirects to Special:Listfiles.
-* The footerlinks used in Monobook/Vector/Modern are now part of common skin
- code, SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec can be used to customize the list.
-* Special wrapping setups can now define MW_CONFIG_FILE to load a config file
- other than LocalSettings.php. This is like MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK but works in
- some cases where MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK will not work.
-* (bug 26574) Added 'upload' to $wgRestrictionTypes, allowing upload protected
- pages to be queried via the API and Special:ProtectedPages, and allowing
- disabling upload protection by removing it from $wgRestrictionTypes.
-* The name attribute of HTMLForm fields can now be overridden by passing a
- 'name' key in the descriptor array. Hidden field names are now treated
- consistently with other fields and, by default, prefixed with 'wp'.
-* (bug 27402) Add support for disabling MWSuggest.
-* (bug 26563) Add bytes changed per revision for stub and full article dumps.
-* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an svg we
- look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
-* (bug 198) $wgUpgradeKey allows unlocking the web installer for upgrades
- without having to move LocalSettings.php
-* Added $wgAllowImageTag, which can be set to true to whitelist the <img> tag
- in wikitext.
-* (bug 12797) Add $wgGalleryOptions for adjusting of default gallery display
- options.
-* Added the $wgAllowUserCssPrefs option which allows disabling CSS-based
- preferences; which can improve page loading speed.
-* Added $wgSQLMode for setting database SQL modes - either performance (null)
- or other reasons (such as enabling stricter checks).
-* (bug 20193) Added $wgVectorShowVariantName global configuration variable
- which causes Vector to render the variants drop-down menu with a label
- showing the current variant name. This is off by default, pending further
- research into its user experience implications.
-* The upload link for missing files can now be set separately from the
- navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
-* $wgAdditionalMailParams added to allow setting extra options to mail() calls.
-* Added $wgSecureLogin to optionally login using HTTPS.
-* (bug 25728) Added $wgPasswordSenderName to make the name associated
- with $wgPasswordSender configurable.
-* (bug 22463) $wgFooterIcons added to allow configuration of the icons shown in
- the footers of skins.
-* $wgFileCacheDepth can be used to set the depth of the subdirectory hierarchy.
- used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior.
-
-=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
-
-* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
- without updating database.
-* (bug 22666) Submitting user block form with an invalid user name no longer
- throws an error.
-* (bug 22665, bug 22667) User '0' can now be unblocked and have its block
- settings changed.
-* (bug 22606) The body of e-mail address confirmation message is now different
- when the address changed.
-* (bug 22664) Special:Userrights now accepts '0' as a valid user name.
-* (bug 5210) Preload parser now parses <noinclude>, <includeonly> and
- redirects.
-* (bug 22709) IIS7 mishandles redirects generated by OutputPage::output() when
- the URL contains a colon.
-* (bug 22353) Categorised recent changes now works again.
-* (bug 22747) "Reveal my e-mail address in notification e-mails" preference is
- now only displayed when relevant.
-* (bug 22772) {{#special:}} parser function now works with subpages.
-* (bug 18664) Relative URIs in interwiki links cause failed redirects.
-* (bug 19270) Relative URIs in interwiki links break interwiki transclusion.
-* (bug 22903) Revdelete log entries now show in the user preferred language.
-* (bug 22905) Correctly handle <abbr> followed by ISBN.
-* (bug 22940) Namespace aliases pointing to main namespace don't work.
-* (bug 15810) Blocked admins can no longer block/unblock other users.
-* (bug 22876) Avoid possible PHP Notice if $wgDefaultUserOptions is not
- correctly set.
-* (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are removed so
- that links with non-NFC character references work correctly.
-* (bug 22991) wgUserGroups JavaScript variable now reports * group for
- anonymous users instead of null.
-* (bug 22627) Remove PHP notice when deleting a page only hidden users edited.
-* (bug 21520) Anonymous previews now also gives a warning about not being
- logged in (anonpreviewwarning).
-* (bug 22935) image/x-ms-bmp mime type added for BMP files.
-* (bug 23024) Special:ListFiles now escapes file names correctly.
-* (bug 22867) "View source" tab is now only displayed if there's source text.
-* (bug 19393) Feeds now format dates in user language rather than content
- language.
-* (bug 22852) "Served in" comment is now the time used to cache a single page
- when using rebuildFileCache.php
-* (bug 22496) Viewing diff of a redirect page without specifying "oldid".
- parameter no longer makes the page displayed as being the redirect target.
-* (bug 22918) Feed cache keys now use $wgRenderHashAppend.
-* (bug 21916) Last-Modified header is now correct when outputting cached feed.
-* (bug 20049) Fixed PHP notice in search highlighter that occurs in some cases.
-* (bug 23017) Special:Disambiguations now list pages in content namespaces
- rather than only main namespace.
-* (bug 23063) $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea is checked against the total size of all.
- frames, and $wgMaxImageArea against the size of the first frame, rather than
- the other way around. Both now default to 12.5 megapixels. Also, images
- exceeding $wgMaxImageArea can still be embedded at original size.
-* (bug 23078) "All public logs" option on Special:Log is now always the first
- item.
-* (bug 16817) Group names in user rights log are now singular and in lowercase.
-* Special:Preferences no longer crashes if the wiki default date formatting
- style is not valid for the user's interface language.
-* (bug 23167) Check the watch checkbox by default if the watchcreations
- preference is set.
-* Maintenance script cleanupTitles is now able to fix titles stored
- in a negative namespace (which is invalid).
-* (bug 19858) Removed obsolete <big> in interface messages.
-* (bug 21456) "Bad title" error when showing non-local interwiki pages no longer
- displays incorrect tabs.
-* (bug 23190) Improved math representation for text browsers.
-* (bug 22015) Improved upload-by-url error handling and error display.
-* (bug 17941) $wgMaxUploadSize is now honored by all upload sources.
-* (bug 23080) New usernames now limited to 235 bytes so that custom skin files
- work.
-* (bug 23075) Correct MediaTransformError default width in gallery.
-* (bug 16487) The Anonymous user account used on Postgres is no longer
- displayed on Special:Listusers.
-* (bug 23313) Move watchlisthidepatrolled above token in watchlist preferences
- to enhance preference grouping.
-* (bug 23298) Interwiki links with prefix only in log summaries now link to the
- correct link.
-* (bug 23284) Times are now rounded correctly.
-* (bug 23375) Added ogv, oga, spx as extensions for ogg files.
-* (bug 18408) All required permissions for uploading (upload, edit, create).
- are now checked when loading Special:Upload. Toolbar link for Special:Upload
- is no longer shown if the user does not have the required permissions.
-* (bug 23397) texvc in html mode renders \sim as &tilde; not &sim;
-* (bug 23241) License selector should be disabled during upload of a new
- version.
-* (bug 23240) Add ID to namespace selector form on Special:Watchlist.
-* The pipe | character in urls is now escaped.
-* (bug 23422) mp3 files can now be moved.
-* (bug 23448) MediaWiki:Summary-preview is now displayed instead of
- MediaWiki:Subject-preview when previewing summary.
-* (bug 23426) The {{REVISIONMONTH}} variable is now zero-padded and added
- new variable {{REVISIONMONTH1}} when unpadded version is needed.
-* Special:Userrights didn't recognize user as changing his/her own rights if
- user did not capitalize first letter of username.
-* (bug 23507) Add styles for printing wikitables.
-* (bug 19586) Avoid JS errors in mwsuggest when using old browsers such
- as Opera 8.
-* (bug 23563) Old skins now support $wgUploadNavigationUrl and take into
- account upload rights.
-* (bug 1347) Render \phi in math using images, in order to create consistent
- and correct render results.
-* (bug 16573) Render \epsilon in math using images, in order to create
- consistent and correct render results.
-* (bug 22541) Support image redirects when using ForeignAPIRepo.
-* (bug 22967) Make edit summary length cut-off behave correctly for multibyte
- characters.
-* (bug 8689) Long numeric lines no longer kill the parser.
-* (bug 23740) Article::doRedirect() now use $extraQuery parameter correctly if
- the $noRedir parameter is set to true.
-* (bug 23688) Correct mime types for Office 2007 OpenXML documents.
-* (bug 23787) Corrected $wgDefaultSkin's comment in DefaultSettings.php.
-* (bug 23797) Xml::input() now allows '0' for the value parameter.
-* (bug 23747) Make sure that on History pages, the RevDel button is not
- accidentally activated when hitting enter.
-* (bug 23845) Special:ListFiles now uses correct file names without underscores.
-* Ask for permanent login in Special:Preferences only if $wgCookieExpiration > 0.
-* (bug 16356) Repair dumpInterwiki.inc to use proper normalization.
-* (bug 24006) deleteArchivedRevisions.php maintenance script now longer throws
- a fatal error.
-* (bug 23465) Don't ignore the predefined destination filename on
- Special:Upload after following a red link.
-* (bug 23642) Recognize mime types of MS OpenXML documents.
-* (bug 22784) Normalise underscores and spaces in autocomments.
-* (bug 19910) Headings of the form ===+\s+ are now displayed as valid headings.
-* (bug 24022) Only check file extensions on the uploadpage when needed.
-* (bug 24076) Recognize Office 2003 files with OpenXML trailers.
-* (bug 24244) Updated comments in DefaultSettings.php to reflect.
- Image: --> File: namespace rename.
-* Make wfTimestamp recognize negative unix timestamp values.
-* (bug 24401) SimpleSearch: No button/text indicating 'Search' if image is
- disabled.
-* (bug 23293) Do not show change tags when Special:RecentChanges(linked) or
- Special:Newpages is transcluded into another page as it messes up the page.
-* (bug 24517) LocalFile::newFromKey() and OldLocalFile::newFromKey() no longer
- throw fatal errors.
-* (bug 23380) Uploaded files that are larger than allowed by PHP now show a
- useful error message.
-* Uploading to a protected title will allow the user to choose a new name
- instead of showing an error page.
-* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in
- SqlBagOStuff::set to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
-* (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
-* (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules.
-* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages.
-* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
- longer pollutes the parser cache.
-* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes (a
- letter, colon or underscore followed by 0 or more letters, numbers, colons,
- underscores, hyphens, and/or periods).
-* Save 200 useless queries on each category page view.
-* Shell commands will now work on Linux in filesystems mounted noexec.
-* (bug 24804) Corrected commafying in Polish and Ukrainian.
-* "Difference between pages" is now displayed instead of "Difference between
- revisions" on diffs when appropriate.
-* (bug 23703) ForeignAPIRepo fails on findBySha1() when using a 1.14 install as
- a repository due to missing 'name' attribute from the API list=allimages.
-* (bug 24898) MediaWiki uses /tmp even if a vHost-specific tempdir is set, also
- make wfTempDir() return a sane value for Windows on worst-case.
-* (bug 24824) Support ImageMagick 6.5.6-2+ JPEG decoder size hint, to reduce
- memory usage when such an ImageMagick is used for scaling.
-* Disable multithreaded behaviour in recent ImageMagick, to avoid a deadlock
- when a resource limit such as $wgMaxShellMemory is hit.
-* (bug 24981) Allow extensions to access SpecialUpload variables again.
-* (bug 20744) Wiki forgets about an uploaded file.
-* (bug 17913) Don't show "older edit" when no older edit available.
-* (bug 6204) TOC not properly rendered when using $wgMaxTocLevel.
-* (bug 24977) The accesskey in history page now lead directly to the diff.
- instead of alternating focus between the two buttons.
-* (bug 24987) Special:ListUsers does not take external groups into account.
-* (bug 20633) update.php has mixed language output.
-* SQLite system table names are now never prefixed.
-* (bug 25292) SkinSubPageSubtitle hook now passes the Skin object as second
- parameter.
-* (bug 25167) Correctly load JS fixes for IE6 (fixing a regression in 1.16).
-* (bug 25367) wfShellExec() is more explicit when failing due to disabled
- passthru().
-* (bug 25462) Fix double-escaping for section edit link tooltips.
-* action=raw was removed for Special:Statistics. This information is still
- available via the API.
-* (bug 23934) Groups defined in $wgRevokePermissions but not in
- $wgGroupPermissions now appear on Special:ListGroupRights.
-* (bug 23923) Special:Prefixindex no longer shows results if nothing was
- requested.
-* (bug 22308) Search now finds text in default main page immediately after setup.
-* (bug 25697) Make sure empty lines render in diff view.
-* Use an actual minus sign in diff views, instead of a hyphen.
-* (bug 23732) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedFiles.
-* (bug 23731) Clarified "n links" message on Special:MostLinkedTemplates.
-* (bug 25642) A exception is now thrown instead of a fatal error when using
- $wgSMTP without PEAR mail package.
-* (bug 19633) When possible, Upscale small SVGs when creating thumbnails.
-* (bug 11013) Database driver detection needs rewriting for robustness.
-* (bug 13409) Installer prompts could use clarification--now has help boxes.
-* (bug 16902) Installer spews warnings when exec() and dl() are not available.
-* (bug 19129) Only show MyISAM/InnoDB when supported.
-* (bug 17762) Only show other e-mail options when e-mail is globally enabled.
-* Cache multiple sizes of InstantCommons thumbnails.
-* (bug 25488) Disallowing anonymous users to read pages no longer throws error
- on discussion pages with vector as default skin.
-* (bug 24833) Files name in includes/diff/ are now less confusing.
-* (bug 25713) SpecialPage::resolveAlias() now normalise spaces to underscores.
-* (bug 25829) Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk now forward oldid, diff and dir
- parameters.
-* (bug 25175) HTML file cache now honor $wgCacheDirectory if
- $wgFileCacheDirectory is not set.
-* (bug 13353) Diff3 version checks were too strict, did not detect working diff3.
-* (bug 25843) Links to special pages using link= attribute on images are now.
- normalised like normal links to special pages.
-* (bug 21364) External links using link= attribute on images now respect
- $wgExternalLinkTarget.
-* (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that
- is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages.
-* (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page.
-* (bug 19944) Link on image thumbnails no longer link to "Media:" namespace in
- some cases.
-* (bug 25670) wfFindFile() now checks the namespace of the given title, only
- "File" and "Media" are allowed now.
-* (bug 25872) Rename the HttpRequest class to MWHttpRequest to avoid conflict
- with php extension that defines same class.
-* (bug 20591) There's now a different message on Special:MovePage when
- $wgFixDoubleRedirects is set to false.
-* Fixed PHP warnings when updating a broken MySQL database.
-* (bug 26023) Corrected deleteBacth.php's documentation.
-* (bug 25451) Improved datetime representation in 32 bit php >= 5.2.
-* Show "skin does not exist error" only when the skin is inputted in the wrong
- case.
-* (bug 26164) Potential html injection when the database server isn't available.
-* (bug 26160) Upload description set by extensions are not propagated.
-* (bug 9675) generateSitemap.php now takes an --urlpath parameter to allow
- absolute URLs in the sitemap index (as required e.g. by Google).
-* Partial workaround for bug 6220: at least make files on shared repositories
- show up as (struck-out) bluelinks instead of redlinks on Special:WantedFiles.
-* rebuildFileCache.php no longer creates inappropriate cache files for redirects.
-* (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members.
-* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer
- treated as wikitext on preview.
-* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who
- cannot read the page in question.
-* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries
- indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "..."
-* (bug 16019) $wgArticlePath = "/$1" no longer breaks API edit/watch actions.
-* (bug 18372) File types blacklisted by $wgFileBlacklist will no longer be shown as
- "Permitted file types" on the upload form.
-* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater.
-* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain
- selected when the action is "purge".
-* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction.
-* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links.
-* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences.
-* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works.
-* (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel.
-* (bug 27781) Installer does not warn about 5.1.x. Added a compatibility function
- for array_key_exists().
-* Fix XML well-formedness on a few pages when $wgHtml5 is true (the default).
-* (bug 28069) MediaWiki fails streaming files when mod_deflate and ob_gzhandler
- are also set.
-* (bug 26223) Concurrently moving an article to different titles leaks a
- redirect revision with no page.
-* (bug 15641) Fixed permissions checks in Special:Import which allowed users
- without the 'import' permission to import pages from configured import sources.
-* (bug 26449) Keep underlines from headings outside of tables and thumbs by
- adding overflow:hidden to h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 (also fixes editsection bunching).
-* (bug 26708) Remove background-color:white from tables in Monobook and Vector.
-* (bug 26781) {{PAGENAME}} and related parser functions escape their output better.
-* (bug 26716) Provide link to instructions for external editor related preferences
- and add a comment to the ini control file explaining what is going on.
-* (bug 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it
- to table.wikitable instead.
-* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in walloon language.
-* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not
- exist.
-* (bug 28034) uploading file to local wiki when file exists on shared repository
- (commons) gives spurious info in the warning message.
-* Usernames get lost when selecting different sorts on Special:listfiles.
-* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per
- page restrictions.
-* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki
- prefix be a 301 instead of a 302.
-* (bug 28568) Entries in the iwlinks table are now removed on page deletion.
-* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo.
-* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again.
-* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if
- intl installed.
-* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no
- members.
-* (bug 28214) When page not found, sends malformed HTTP/1.x instead of HTTP/1.1
- in header of response.
-* (bug 27634) TOC title appears in wrong language.
-* (bug 27761) Fix regression: pages with Esperanto titles containing convertible
- character sequences became unreachable.
-* (bug 27508) SVGMetadataExtractor takes too much resources on huge svgs.
-* (bug 27465) SVG thumbnail generation.
-* (bug 27467) preload can leave UNIQ.
-* (bug 27539) Allow attributes beginning with a digit in wiktext tag parameters.
-* (bug 27328) using relative paths in CSS imports in MediaWiki:Common.css broken
- in 1.17.
-* (bug 27333) Fix repetitive last-seen time queries on page history.
-* (bug 26250, bug 23817) Fix wfObjectToArray() to descend into arrays; fixes
- processing of JSON return values for ForeignAPIRepo when native json module
- not present.
-* (bug 25675) Fix search suggestions for Special: pages with spaces.
-* (bug 25571) Xml::encodeJsVar now passes floats natively instead of converting
- to strings.
-* (bug 27338) Gallery in 1.17 breaks for audio/video + ogghandler.
-* (bug 27302) Don't append the current timestamp for user/site modules when no
- user/site JS/CSS is present.
-* (bug 27016) dumpTextPass.php now consider the "output" parameter.
-* (bug 22606) don't send the "someone registred an account" message when setting
- email address (i.e. old one empty) in user preferences.
-* (bug 26458) Section edit links appear on pages that user does not have right
- to edit.
-* (bug 28611) Don't die in SqlBagOStuff::incr() if there's a race condition.
-* (bug 16886) Sister projects box moves down the extract of the first result
- in IE 7.
-* (bug 17398) Fixed "link" parameter in image links with "thumb" or "frame"
- parameter.
-
-=== API changes in 1.17 ===
-
-* BREAKING CHANGE: action=patrol now requires POST.
-* BREAKING CHANGE: patrol token is no longer the same as edit token.
-* BREAKING CHANGE: Session keys returned by ApiUpload are now strings instead
- of integers.
-* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 25303) Fix API parameter integer validation to actually
- enforce validation on the input values in addition to giving a warning.
- Also add flag to enforce (die) if integer out of range.
-* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes.
-* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages.
-* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs.
-* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets
- duplicated.
-* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete.
-* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and
- prop=info&inprop=displaytitle.
-* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
-* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type.
-* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info.
-* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users.
-* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
-* (bug 22764) uselang parameter for action=parse.
-* (bug 22944) API: watchlist options are inconsistent.
-* (bug 22868) don't list infinite block expiry date as "now" in API logevents.
-* (bug 22290) prop=revisions now outputs "comment" field even when comment.
- is empty, for consistency with list=recentchanges.
-* (bug 19721) API action=help should have a way to just list for a specific
- module.
-* (bug 23458) Add support for pageid parameter to action=parse requests.
-* (bug 23460) Parse action should have a section option.
-* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash.
-* (bug 23461) Normalise usage of parameter names in parameter descriptions.
-* (bug 23548) Allow access of another users watchlist through watchlistraw
- using token and username.
-* (bug 23524) Api Modules as followup to bug 14473 (Add iwlinks table to
- track inline interwiki link usage).
-* Add pltitles and tltemplates to prop=links and prop=templates respectively,
- similar to prop=categories's clcategorie.
-* (bug 23834) Invalid "thumbwidth" and "thumbheight" in "imageinfo" query when
- thumbnailing larger than original image.
-* (bug 23835) Need "thumbmime" result in "imageinfo" query.
-* (bug 23851) Repair diff for file redirect pages.
-* (bug 24009) Include implicit groups in action=query&list=users&usprop=groups.
-* (bug 24016) API: Handle parameters specified in simple string syntax
- ( 'paramname' => 'defaultval' ) correctly when outputting help.
-* (bug 24089) Logevents causes PHP Notice if leprop=title isn't supplied.
-* (bug 23473) Give description of properties on all modules.
-* (bug 24136) unknownerror when adding new section without summary, but
- forceditsummary.
-* (bug 22339) Added srwhat=nearmatch to list=search to get a "go" result.
-* (bug 24303) Added new &servedby parameter to all actions which adds the
- hostname that served the request to the result. It is also added
- unconditionally on error.
-* (bug 24185) Titles in the Media and Special namespace are now supported for
- title normalization in action=query. Special pages have their name resolved
- to the local alias.
-* (bug 24296) Added converttitles parameter to convert titles to their
- canonical language variant.
-* (bug 23936) Add "displaytitle" to query/info API.
-* (bug 24485) Make iwbacklinks a generator, optionally display iwprefix and
- iwtitle.
-* (bug 24564) Fix fatal errors when using list=deletedrevs, prop=revisions or
- one of the backlinks generators with limit=max.
-* (bug 24656) API's parse module needs option to disable PP report.
-* PARAM_REQUIRED parameter flag added. If this flag is set, and the end user
- does not set the parameter, the API will automatically throw an error.
-* (bug 24665) When starttimestamp is not specified, fake it by setting it to
- NOW, not to the timestamp of the last edit.
-* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks,
- allmessages, allpages, and allusers.
-* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to
- meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups.
-* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module.
-* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit.
-* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and
- blockreason if the user is actually blocked.
-* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format.
-* For required string parameters, if '' is provided, this is now classed as
- missing.
-* (bug 24724) list=allusers is out by 1 (shows total users - 1).
-* (bug 24166) API error when using rvprop=tags.
-* Introduced "asynchronous download" mode for upload-by-url. Requires
- $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads to be true.
-* sinumberingroup correctly gives size of 'user' group, and omits size of
- implicit groups rather than showing 0.
-* (bug 25248) API: paraminfo errors with certain modules.
-* (bug 24792) API help for action=purge sometimes wrongly stated whether a
- POST request was needed due to cache pollution.
-* Added iiprop=parsedcomment to prop=imageinfo, similar to prop=revisions.
-* Added rvparse to parse revisions. For performance reasons if this option is
- used, rvlimit is enforced to 1.
-* (bug 25748) If a action=parse request provides an oldid that is actually the
- current revision id, try the parser cache, and save it to it if necessary.
-* (bug 25463) Export header should not be shown if no pages were requested, to
- reduce confusion.
-* (bug 25648) API discovery information has been added as RSD link in page.
- <head> and by providing an API module action=rsd. Added hook
- ApiRsdServiceApis for extensions to add their own service to the services
- list.
-* The HTML of diff output markers has changed. Hyphens are now minus signs,
- empty markers are now filled with non-breaking-space characters.
-* (bug 25741) Add more data to list=search's srprop.
-* (bug 25760) counter property still reported by the API when
- $wgDisableCounters enabled.
-* (bug 25987) prop=info&inprop=watched now also works for missing pages.
-* (bug 26006) prop=langlinks now allows obtaining full URL.
-* (bug 26075) ApiDelete.php now calls correctly ArticleDelete hook.
-* (bug 26089) add block expiration to blockinfo.
-* (bug 26125) prop=imageinfo&iiprop=size now returns the page count if the
- file is a multi-page file.
-* (bug 10268) Added linktodiffs parameter on action=feedwatchlist.
-* (bug 26219) Show API limits for multi values in description.
-* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a
- real timestamp field.
-* (bug 27722) list=filearchive now supports revdel.
-
-=== Language support changes in 1.17 ===
-
-MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localizations are updated regularly.
-
-The following languages were added:
-
-* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary)
-* Banjar (bjn)
-* Kabardian (kdb)
-* Kabardian (Cyrillic) (kbd-cyrl)
-* Latgalian (ltg)
-* Minangkabau (min)
-* Dutch (informal) (nl-informal)
-* Rusyn (rue)
-
-Other significant changes to MediaWiki's language support:
-
-* Fiji Hindi (Devangari script) was removed.
-* Removed deprecated language code "dk" (Danish), use "da" instead.
-* Link trail added for sl and sh.
-* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br).
-* (bug 23156) Commafy and search normalization updated for Belarusian
- (Taraškievica).
-* (bug 23283) Native name for Old English -> Ænglisc.
-* (bug 23364) Native name for Azerbaijani -> Azərbaycanca.
-* (bug 24593) Native name for Sorani now uses only Arabic script.
-* (bug 24628) Generic translations for NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK for Esperanto.
-* (bug 24917) Polish as fallback for Kashubia.
-* (bug 24794) Tatar link trail updated.
-* Esperanto date format corrected.
-* (bug 28159) Change interwiki name of language kbd to Къэбэрдеибзэ /
- Qabardjajəbza.
-* (bug 28184) Namespaces for the Latgalian Wikipedia.
-* (bug 25010) Bashkir-language interwikis: linktext change from Башҡорт
- to Башҡортса.
-* (bug 26395) Change name of Cornish language to Kernowek.
-
-=== Other changes in 1.17 ===
-
-* DatabaseFunctions.php that was needed for compatibility with pre-1.3
- extensions has been removed.
-* XmlFunctions.php has been removed. Use the Xml or Html classes as appropriate.
-* The FailFunction "error handling" method has now been removed
-* Sysops now have the "suppressredirect" right by default
-* Removed $wgRemoteUploads. It was not well supported and superseded by
- $wgUploadNavigationUrl.
-* (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed
-* The PHPUnit test suite has been removed from this release due to serious issues
- which should be resolved by the 1.18 release.
-* Oracle DB now uses the __destruct fuction to commit/close connection as it
- doesn't commit on close if transation is triggered in OCI.
-
-== Compatibility ==
-
-MediaWiki 1.17 requires PHP 5.2.3 or later.
-
-MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
-support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM
-DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
-
-The supported versions are:
-
-* MySQL 4.0 or later
-* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
-* SQLite 3
-* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
-
-== Upgrading ==
-
-1.17 has several database changes since 1.16, and will not work without schema
-updates.
-
-If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository,
-make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to
-database schema changes.
-
-If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
-new database fields are filled with data.
-
-If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
-changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
-break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
-
-See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
-
-For notes on 1.16.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
-
-== Online documentation ==
-
-Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
-MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
-for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
-
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
-
-== Mailing list ==
-
-A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
-
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
-
-A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
-
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
-
-It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
-going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
-
-== IRC help ==
-
-There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net