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For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. -== MediaWiki 1.14 == - -=== Changes since 1.14.0rc1 === - -* Fixed the performance of the backlinks API module +== 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 * (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file cache is enabled. +* (bug 12746) Do not allow new password e-mails when wiki is in read-only mode +* (bug 17478) Fixed a PHP Strict standards error in + maintenance/cleanupWatchlist.php +* (bug 17488) RSS/Atom links in left toolbar are now localized in classic skin +* (bug 17472) use print <<<EOF in maintenance/importTextFile.php +* Special:PrefixIndex: Move table styling to shared.css, add CSS IDs to tables + use correct message 'allpagesprefix' for input form label, replace _ with ' ' + in next page link +* (bug 17506) Exceptions within exceptions now respect $wgShowExceptionDetails +* Fixed excessive job queue utilisation +* File dupe messages for remote repos are now shown only once. +* (bug 14980) Messages 'shareduploadwiki' and 'shareduploadwiki-desc' are now + used as a parameter in 'sharedupload' for easier styling and customization. +* (bug 17482) Formatting error in Special:Preferences#Misc (Opera) +* (bug 17556) <link> parameters in Special:Contributions feeds (RSS and Atom) + now point to the actual contributors' feed. +* ForeignApiRepos now fetch MIME types, rather than trying to figure it locally +* Special:Import: Do not show input field for import depth if + $wgExportMaxLinkDepth == 0 +* (bug 17570) $wgMaxRedirects is now correctly respected when following + redirects (was previously one more than $wgMaxRedirects) +* (bug 16335) __NONEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word to suppress new section link. +* (bug 17581) Wrong index name in PostgreSQL's updater: was rc_timestamp_nobot, + changed to rc_timestamp_bot * (bug 17437) Fixed incorrect link to web-based installer -* (bug 17527) Fixed missing MySQL-specific options in installer +* (bug 17538) Use shorter URLs in <link> elements +* (bug 13778) Hidden input added to the search form so that using the Enter key + on IE will do a fulltext search like clicking the button does +* (bug 1061) CSS-added icons next to links display through the text and makes + it unreadable in RTL +* Special:Wantedtemplates now works on PostgreSQL +* (bug 14414) maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php no longer throws error with + PostgreSQL +* (bug 17546) Correct Tongan language native name is "lea faka-Tonga" +* (bug 17621) Special:WantedFiles has no link to Special:Whatlinkshere +* (bug 17460) Client ecoding is now correctly set for PostgreSQL +* (bug 17648) Prevent floats from intruding into edit area in previews if no + toolbar present +* (bug 17692) Added (list of members) link to 'user' in Special:Listgrouprights +* (bug 17707) Show file destination as plain text if &wpForReUpload=1 +* (bug 10172) Moved setting of "changed since last visit" flags out of the job + queue +* (bug 17761) "show/hide" link in page history in now works for the first + displayed revision if it's not the current one +* (bug 17722) Fix regression where users are unable to change temporary passwords +* (bug 17799) Special:Random no longer throws a database error when a non- + namespace is given, silently falls back to NS_MAIN +* (bug 17751) The message for bad titles in WantedPages is now localized +* (bug 17860) Moving a page in the "MediaWiki" namespace using SuppressRedirect + no longer corrupts the message cache +* (bug 17900) Fixed User Groups interface log display after saving groups. +* (bug 17897) Fixed string offset error in <pre> tags +* (bug 17778) MediaWiki:Catseparator can now have HTML entities +* (bug 17676) Error on Special:ListFiles when using Postgres +* Special:Export doesn't use raw SQL queries anymore +* (bug 14771) Thumbnail links to individual DjVu pages have two no longer have + two "page" parameters +* (bug 17972) Special:FileDuplicateSearch form now works correctly on wikis that + don't use PathInfo or short urls +* (bug 17990) trackback.php now has a trackback.php5 alias and works with + $wgScriptExtension +* (bug 14990) Parser tests works again with PostgreSQL +* (bug 11487) Special:Protectedpages doesn't list protections with pr_expiry + IS NULL +* (bug 18018) Deleting a file redirect leaves behind a malfunctioning redirect +* (bug 17537) Disable bad zlib.output_compression output on HTTP 304 responses +* (bug 11213) [edit] section links in printable version no longer appear when you cut-and-paste article text +* (bug 17405) "Did you mean" to mirror Go/Search behavior of original request +* (bug 18116) 'edittools' is now output identically on edit and upload pages +* (bug 17241) The diffonly URI parameter should cascade to "Next edit" and "Previous edit" diff links +* (bug 16823) 'Sidebar search form should not use Special:Search view URL as target' +* (bug 16343) Non-existing, but in use, category pages can be "go" match hits +* 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. + +== API changes in 1.15 == +* (bug 16858) Revamped list=deletedrevs to make listing deleted contributions + and listing all deleted pages possible +* (bug 16844) Added clcategories parameter to prop=categories +* (bug 17025) Add "fileextension" parameter to meta=siteinfo&siprop= +* (bug 17048) Show the 'new' flag in list=usercontribs for the revision that + created the page, even if it's not the top revision +* (bug 17069) Added ucshow=patrolled|!patrolled to list=usercontribs +* action=delete respects $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit and the bigdelete user right +* (bug 15949) Add undo functionality to action=edit +* (bug 16483) Kill filesort in ApiQueryBacklinks caused by missing parentheses. + Building query properly now using makeList() +* (bug 17182) Fix pretty printer so URLs with parentheses in them are + autolinked correctly +* (bug 17224) Added siprop=rightsinfo to meta=siteinfo +* (bug 17239) Added prop=displaytitle to action=parse +* (bug 17317) Added watch parameter to action=protect +* (bug 17007) Added export and exportnowrap parameters to action=query +* (bug 17326) BREAKING CHANGE: Changed output format for iiprop=metadata +* (bug 17355) Added auwitheditsonly parameter to list=allusers +* (bug 17007) Added action=import +* BREAKING CHANGE: Removed rctitles parameter from list=recentchanges because + of performance concerns +* Listing (semi-)deleted revisions and log entries as well in prop=revisions + and list=logevents +* (bug 11430) BREAKING CHANGE: Modules may return fewer results than the + limit and still set a query-continue in some cases +* (bug 17357) Added movesubpages parameter to action=move +* (bug 17433) Added bot flag to list=watchlist&wlprop=flags output +* (bug 16740) Added list=protectedtitles +* Added mainmodule and pagesetmodule parameters to action=paraminfo +* (bug 17502) meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespacealiases no longer lists namespace + aliases already listed in siprop=namespaces +* (bug 17529) rvend ignored when rvstartid is specified +* (bug 17626) Added uiprop=email to list=userinfo +* (bug 13209) Added rvdiffto parameter to prop=revisions +* Manual language conversion improve: Now we can include both ";" and ":" in + conversion rules +* (bug 17795) Don't report views count on meta=siteinfo if $wgDisableCounters + is set +* (bug 17774) Don't hide read-restricted modules like action=query from users + without read rights, but throw an error when they try to use them. +* Don't hide write modules when $wgEnableWriteAPI is false, but throw an error + when someone tries to use them +* BREAKING CHANGE: action=purge requires write rights and, for anonymous users, + a POST request +* (bug 18099) Using appendtext to edit a non-existent page causes an interface + message to be included in the page text +* Fixed the circular template inclusion check, was broken when the loop + involved redirects. Without this, infinite recursion within the parser is + possible. +* (bug 18601) generator=backlinks returns invalid continue parameter +* (bug 18597) Internal error with empty generator= parameter +* (bug 18617) Add xml:space="preserve" attribute to relevant tags in XML output +* (bug 17611) Provide a sensible error message on install when the SQLite data + directory is wrong. + +=== Languages updated in 1.15 === + +MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated +regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as +changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports. + +* Austrian German (de-at) (new) +* Swiss Standard German (de-ch) (new) +* Simplified Gan Chinese (gan-hans) (new) +* Traditional Gan Chinese (gan-hant) (new) +* Literary Chinese (lzh) (new) +* Uyghur (Latin script) (ug-latn) (renamed from 'ug') +* Veps (vep) (new) +* Võro (vro) (renamed from fiu-vro) +* (bug 17151) Add magic word alias for #redirect for Vietnamese +* (bug 17288) Messages improved for default language (English) +* (bug 12937) Update native name for Afar +* (bug 16909) 'histlegend' now reuses messages instead of copying them +* (bug 17832) action=delete returns 'unknownerror' instead of 'permissiondenied' when + the user is blocked +* Traditional/Simplified Gan Chinese conversion support + +== MediaWiki 1.14 == === Configuration changes in 1.14 === @@ -5408,7 +5798,7 @@ User accounts: groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only accessible to certain groups. - For details see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights + For details see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights E-mail: User-to-user e-mail can now be restricted to require a mail-back confirmation @@ -5658,8 +6048,8 @@ Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things: * 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers * support for external editors for files and wiki pages: - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors -* Schema reworking: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004 + http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors +* Schema reworking: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004 * (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually submitting an edit * (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist * (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN. @@ -6342,7 +6732,7 @@ release for relevant bug fixes; see the changelog later in this file. If you have trouble, remember to read this whole file and the online FAQ page before asking for help: -http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ +http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ === READ THIS FIRST: Upgrading === |