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@@ -1,4 +1,494 @@ -Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. +Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES. + +== MediaWiki 1.10 == + +This is the Spring 2007 branch 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 + +== Configuration changes == + +* A new switch $wgCommandLineDarkBg used by maintenance scripts (parserTests.php). + It lets you specify if your terminal use a dark background, the colorized + output will be made lighter making things easier to read. +* The minimum permissions needed to edit a page in each namespace can now be + customized via the $wgNamespaceProtection array. By default, editing pages in + the MediaWiki namespace requires "editinterface" permission, as before. +* Allow restriction of autoconfirmed permission by edit count. New global setting + $wgAutoConfirmCount (defaulting to zero, naturally). +* Added rate limiter for Special:Emailuser +* Private logs can now be created using $wgLogRestrictions +* (Bug 8590) limited HTML is now always enabled ($wgUserHtml = true). +* Deprecated $wgUseImageResize, thumbnailing will be enabled unconditionally. + +== New features since 1.9 == + +* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to + Special:Statistics +* (bug 6638) List block flags in block log entries +* (bugs 5051, 5376) Tooltips and accesskeys no longer require JavaScript +* Added SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook before SkinTemplate::outputPage() + starts page output + (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/028554.html) +* Introduce "cascading protection" -- implicit protection on pages transcluded + into a page protected with this option enabled +* (bug 8567) Added hook RawPageViewBeforeOutput just before the text is blown + out in action=raw, so extensions might influence the output. +* (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be + overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page +* Add 'purge' privilege to replace the hardcoded check for login state in + determining whether action=purge can be done via GET. Switching the + permission on for anons can be helpful for benchmarking. +* (bug 7842) Link back to deleted revision list from deleted revision preview +* (bug 8619) Add user-aware "unblock" link to Special:Blockip +* (bug 8522) Provide a "delete" link on Special:Brokenredirects for users with + the appropriate permission +* (bug 8628) Add user-aware block list link to Special:Blockip +* (bug 8621) Log revisions marked as patrolled +* Introduce "BookInformation" hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more details +* Add title prefix search for Special:Undelete +* Remove full-archive list from Special:Undelete +* (bug 8136) Introduce 'ArticleUndelete' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more info +* (bug 8712) Expose user groups as a JavaScript global +* Introduce 'CustomEditor' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* New special page, Special:Protectedpages, which shows all protected pages + and their protection status (full protection status is not pulled out due + to performance considerations, so it just shows "full protected" or + "semi protected". +* (bug 4133) Allow page protections to be made with an expiry date, in the same + format as block expiry dates. Existing protections are assumed to be infinite, + as are protections made with the new field left blank. +* (bug 8535) Allow certain vertical alignment attributes to be used as image + keywords +* (bug 6987) Allow perrow, widths, and heights attributes for <gallery> +* (bug 3678) Allow disabling MediaWiki:Aboutsite in the same way as + MediaWiki:Disclaimers; Also means that if any of the footer links are + disabled in the wiki's default language (by setting to "-"), they'll also + be disabled in other languages too (e.g. if the user specifies uselang=fr). +* Sort log types in Special:Log +* Added a classname ("mw-toolbar-editbutton") and unique IDs to the edit + toolbar buttons +* Hide irrelevant block options in Special:Blockip based on whether an + IP address/range or username is listed. (Dynamic using JS.) +* (bug 9032) Make quickbarSettings localizable through Special:Allmessages +* (bug 7782) Standardisation of file info at image description pages. +* (bug 1035) View contributions / recentchanges for an IP range. +* (bug 8747) When unwatching pages from Special:Watchlist/edit, put the + confirmation messages in a proper list with a CSS class and id. +* (bug 9118) Show relevant log fragments on deletion confirmatio page +* (bug 9009) Add username entry field to Special:Contributions +* (bug 1723) Article size in history +* (bug 9223) Disallow magic tilde sequences in page titles and usernames +* (bug 6997) Link from Special:log/block to unblock form +* (bug 9117) Link from Special:log/delete to undelete form +* Link from Special:log/protect to change protection form +* (bug 1196) Add IPv6 support added to blocks, more consistancy for IPv6 contribs +* (bug 3984) Searching in logs by title% +* Show thumbnail of existing image if image exists already under this filename +* (bug 5546) Watchlist reflects logged actions like move, protection, undelete +* Support protocols other than HTTP in LinkFilter, use $wgUrlProtocols +* (bug 3069) Warning on upload of scaled down images +* Warning on upload of images with uppercase extension if image with lowercase + extension exists +* (bug 4624) Namespace selection for Special:Whatlinkshere +* Introduce PageHistoryBeforeList and PageHistoryLineEnding hooks; see docs/hooks.txt + for more information +* (bug 9397) Introduce "sp-contributions-footer" and "sp-contributions-footer-anon" + messages, shown at the end of Special:Contributions as appropriate for the target +* (bug 8421) Expose current action in JavaScript globals (as 'wgAction') +* (bug 9069) Use galleries in query pages dedicated to images +* (bug 9177) Installer now warns of various conditions affecting session.save_path + which can lead to broken session storage +* (bug 9046) Special page to list pages without language links +* (bug 9508) Special page to list articles with the fewest revisions +* Introduce 'FileUpload' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* Introduce 'SearchUpdate' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* Introduce 'mywatchlist' message; used on personal menu to link to watchlist page +* Introduce magic word {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} +* Introduced media handlers for file-type specific operations. +* Improved error reporting for image thumbnailing +* Added sharpening option for ImageMagick thumbnailing +* (bug 9656) Autosummaries will be generated for deletion of pages longer than + 500 characters +* Predefined block reasons added to Special:Blockip +* (bug 9196) Installer now check that zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is off +* (bug 9697) Introduce 'InternalParseBeforeLinks' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* 'contribsub' message changed to 'contribsub2' with two parameters to permit + better localization. Change is reverse-compatible and can be ignored for + most wikis. +* Adding a 'reason' field to Special:Userrights + +== Bugfixes since 1.9 == + +* (bug 7292) Fix site statistics when moving pages in/out of content namespaces +* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála +* Made the PLURAL: parser function return singular on -1 per default +* Fixed up the AjaxSearch +* Fix SpecialVersion->formatCredits input. Version and Url parameters should be + null to be treated properly with isset. +* Page restrictions moved into a new, dedicated table +* Correct tooltip accesskey hint for Opera on the Macintosh + (uses Shift-Esc-, not Ctrl-). +* (bug 8002) Math should render left-to-right even in right-to-left wikis +* Pass e-mail and real name fields to AuthPlugin::addUser, as additional + optional fields, which may be considered useful at registration time. +* PostgreSQL upgrade scripts fixed and updated +* (bug 8613) Fix error when viewing "Recent Changes" and using Postgres. +* Initialise site_stats table at upgrade time if data was missing +* (bug 7250) Updated Unicode normalization tables to Unicode 5.0 +* Unmaintained Oracle support files have been removed. +* Use browser default for printing size, don't force to 11pt +* (bug 8632) Fix regression in page protection null edit update +* (bug 8407) Disallow indexing of "printable" versions +* (bug 8643) Correctly escape the page-specific CSS class for non-Monobook skins +* (bug 8629) Document $wgFilterCallback +* (bug 1000) Clarify warning about memory_limit in installer +* Suppress PHP warning about set_time_limit in installer when safe mode is on +* (bug 3000) Fall back to SCRIPT_NAME plus QUERY_STRING when REQUEST_URI is + not available, as on IIS with PHP-CGI +* Missing interwiki row for English Wikipedia restored (as "wikipedia:") +* use configured cache servers for mctest.php +* bucket details in mcc.php +* fix input validation and remove debugging code in compressOld +* full ID range for moveToExternal +* fix resolveStubs.php for compatibility with older serialized data +* maximum line length for bar graphs in getLagTimes.php +* recognize specieswiki in rebuildInterwiki.inc +* profile unicode cleanup in Xml +* log slow parses in Article.php +* profile wfMsgReal +* log mkdir failures +* profile AutoLoader +* rebuild empty DjVu metadata containing '' +* security fix for DjVu metadata retrieval +* Undelete page list can use plural marker +* (bug 8638) Fix update from 1.4 and earlier +* (bug 8641) Fix order of updates to ipblocks table +* (bug 8678) Fix detection of self-links for numeric titles in Parser +* (bug 6171) Magically close tags in tables when not using Tidy. +* Sanitizer now correctly escapes lonely '>' occurring before the first wikitag. +* Ignore self closing on closing tags ( '</div />' now gives '</div>') +* (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header +* Fix API revision list on PHP 5.2.1; bad reference assignment +* (bug 8688) Handle underscores/spaces in Special:Blockip and Special:Ipblocklist + in a consistent manner +* (bug 8701) Check database lock status when blocking/unblocking users +* ParserOptions and ParserOutput classes are now in their own files +* (bug 8708) Namespace translations for Zealandic language +* Renamed constructor methods to PHP 5 __construct reserved name +* (bug 8715) Warn users when editing an interface message whether or not the + message page exists +* ar: fix the 'create a new page' on search page when no exact match found +* (bug 8703) Corrected talk and image namespace name for Limburgish (li) +* (bug 8671) Expose "wpDestFile" as a parameter to "uploadtext" +* (bug 8403) Respect bad image list exceptions in galleries on wiki pages +* Allow sending per-user contribution requests to "contributions" query group +* (bug 3717) Update user count for AuthPlugin account autocreation +* (bug 8719) Firefox release notes lie! Fix tooltips for Firefox 2 on x11; + accesskeys default settings appear to be same as Windows. +* Added an option to make Linker::userToolLinks() show the contribs link + red when the user has no edits. Linker::userToolLinksRedContribs() is an + alias to that which should be used to make it more self documentating. +* (bug 8749) Bring MySQL 5 table defs back into sync +* (bug 8751) Set session cookies to HTTPS-only to match other cookies +* (bug 8652) Catch exceptions generated by malformed XML in multipage media +* (bug 8782) Help text in Makefile +* (bug 8777) Suppress 'previous' link on Special:Allpages when at first page +* (bug 8774) Fix path for GNU FDL rights icon on new installs +* Fix multipage selector drop-down for DjVu images to work when title + is passed as a query string parameter; we have to pass the title as + a form parameter or it gets dropped from the form submission URL +* (bug 8819) Fix full path disclosure in with skins dependencies +* Fixed bug affecting HTML formatting in sortable table column titles +* Merged table sorting code into wikibits.js +* (bug 8711) Stop floats in previews from spilling into edit area +* (bug 8858) Safer handling when $wgImageLimits is changed. Added a note + in DefaultSettings to make it clear. +* (bug 4268) Fixed data-loss bug in compressOld batch text compression + affecting pages which had null edits (move, protect, etc) as second + edit in a batch group. Isolated and patched by Travis Derouin. +* Fix for paths in 1.4->1.5 special-case updater script +* (bug 8789) AJAX search: IE users can now use the return key +* (bug 6844) Use <ins> and <del> tags to emphase the differences +* (bug 6684) Fix improper javascript array iteration +* (bug 4347) use MailAddress object for reply-to +* Add AlphabeticPager abstract class +* Use faster AlphabeticPager for Special:Categories +* (bug 8875) Show printable link in MonoBook sidebar for locally nonexistent + pages; perhaps useful for categories and shared images +* Clean up session checks to better handle the case where the session was + opened during the current request. May help with some caching corner + cases. +* (bug 8897) Fix whitespace removal for interlanguage links with link prefix +* Add 'ParserTestTables' hook to expand the list of temporary tables copied + by the parser test harness; use for extensions which require the presence + of other tables while they work. +* Message names changed for AlphabeticPager introduced with r19758 + for better localisations. +* (bug 8944) The deprecated is_a() function is used in StubObjects.php +* (bug 8992) Fix a remaining raw use of REQUEST_URI in history +* (bug 8999) User.php gives "undefined user editcount" PHP notice. +* (bug 8984) Fix a database error in Special:Recentchangeslinked + when using the Postgres database. +* Moved the main ob_start() from the default LocalSettings.php to WebStart.php. + The ob_start() section should preferably be removed from older + LocalSettings.php files. +* Give Content-Length header for HTTP/1.0 clients. +* Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering. +* Lazy-initialize site_stats row on load when empty. Somewhat kinder to + dump-based installations, avoiding PHP warnings when NUMBEROFARTICLES + and such are used. +* Add 'charset' to Content-Type headers on various HTTP error responses + to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. PHP sends only + 'text/html' by default when the script didn't specify more details, + which some inconsiderate browsers consider a license to autodetect + the deadly, hard-to-escape UTF-7. + This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when + $wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant + on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec: + http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24 +* Trackback responses now specify XML content type +* (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode + to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly, + particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia +* (bug 8919) Suppress paging links and related messages where there are no + rows to list for query pages +* (bug 9057) Standardize MediaWiki: namespace for oc +* (bug 8132) Suppress "Pages in this category" heading in categories when + there are none +* (bug 8958) Handle search operators better when using tsearch2 (Postgres) +* (bug 8799) Use redirect table for Special:BrokenRedirects and + Special:DoubleRedirects +* (bug 8918) Enable PLURAL option for MediaWiki:showingresults and + MediaWiki:showingresultsnum +* (bug 9122) Fix minor display issue in RTL with section edit link margin +* (bug 5805) Enable PLURAL option for some messages of watchlist and statistic +* (bug 3953) Work around poor display of parenthesis in the in other + languages section of MonoBook skin +* (bug 8539) Enable PLURAL option for another message of recentchanges. +* (bug 8728) MediaWiki:Badfiletype splitted into 3 messages +* (bug 9131) Allow SpecialContributions to work with Postgres +* (bug 9155) Allow footer info to wrap in Monobook +* (bug 8847) Strip spurious #fragments from request URI to fix redirect + loops on some server configurations +* (bug 9097) column "pr_pagetype" does not exist +* (bug 9217) Balance wfProfile calls in Skin::outputPage +* (bug 9222) PostgreSQL updater should not be version-specific +* Fix fallback implementation of mb_strlen so it works and isn't insanely + slow for large strings, since it's used for page edit lengths +* (bug 8815) Setting password in initUser() breaks LdapAuthentication plugin +* (bug 9256) Add a quick note to index.php header comments +* Make Special:Listusers caseinsensitive for first letter +* Default tidy.conf has been moved from extensions module into includes. +* Ignore lonely ''''' +* (bug 9244) When calling edit page for nonexistent section, generate error + inside of just discarding edits, since edit links sometimes go to the wrong + place. +* (bug 9019) No warning during upload if image description page exists, but no + image +* (bug 8582) Allow thumbnailing when imagesize has a space. +* (bug 8716) Change math_inputhash and math_outputhash to bytea for Postgres +* (bug 9343) Correct internal name for Wolof language +* (bug 9363) Fix Postgres error on Recentchangeslinked +* (bug 5142) Fixed call of hook ArticleViewHeader +* (bug 4777) Separate prev/next messages for Special:Whatlinkshere +* Merge approx 15 missing Wikipedia language codes into wikipedia-interwiki.sql + based on Jeff Merkey's mediawiki-1.9.3.WG-20070316.tar.gz.bz2 archive. +* (bug 9411) Fix for shared image descriptions using query-string titles +* (bug 4756) Add user tool links for self created accounts at special:log + instead of sometimes broken block links from newuserlog extension +* (bug 5817) Special:Recentchangeslinked now shows red link for nonexistent + target page instead of silently redirecting +* (bug 8914) Don't transform colons in {{anchorencode:}} +* (bug 9241) Handle edit section links and include size links for cached + templates the same as the first transclusion. +* (bug 9466) "Rollback failed" page doesn't format edit comment +* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on cached special pages +* (bug 9472) Invalid XHTML on Special:Newpages +* (bug 4764) "My contributions" not bold when viewing own contributions +* (bug 9194) Add {{PLURAL:...}} to navigation bar of Special:Whatlinkshere +* (bug 9033) Use a more specific error message when users are not able/allowed + to edit page protection levels due to a block, database lock or permissions +* Fixed $wgFeedLimit +* (bug 9270) Corrected help namespace name for Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl) +* (bug 929, 4215) Expose "rcdays" user preference in Special:Preferences +* (bug 9554) Extension-provided group name messages not used +* (bug 9565) Translate template namespace name for Hindi (hi) +* (bug 8599) Correct localized names of zh-variants +* (bug 3366) Require skins based on SkinTemplate to override the skinname + property. +* (bug 9220) Removed obsoletes functions in install-utils.inc. +* Removed obsoletes Title::getRelatedCache and Title:touchArray +* (bug 7285) Check MySQL username length during install +* (bug 6910) Correct date/time formats in Vietnamese (vi) +* (bug 9608) Correctly use ORDER BY in dumpLinks.php +* (bug 9609) Correctly use ORDER BY in SpecialWhatlinkshere.php +* Special:Random and Special:Randomredirect now try harder to send the user to + a random page, and will give an error message if none really can be found + instead of sending the user to the main page like they used to +* Fix object variable used for displaying "not-patrolled" CSS class on list +* Fixed interaction of page parameter to ImagePage with the HTML file cache +* Fixed MIME type for SVG files, will be silently changed from image/svg + to image/svg+xml after loading from the database. +* Workaround for djvutoxml bug #1704049 (poor performance). Use djvudump + instead. +* Fixed odd behaviour in ImagePage on DjVu thumbnailing errors +* (bug 5439) "Go" title search will now jump to shared/foreign Image: and + MediaWiki: pages that have not been locally edited. +* (bug 9630) Limits links in Whatlinkshere forgot about namespace filter +* Fixed upgrade for the non-standard MySQL schemas +* Disable MySQL's strict mode at session start for MySQL 4.1+, to avoid the + various problems that occur when it is on. +* (bug 9585) Fix regression in tidy usage in Special:Undelete previews +* (bug 3826) Normalize some invalid cookie name characters when setting + up $wgCookiePrefix. Completes application of patch by Anders Kaseorg. +* (bug 9649) Fix RTL form alignment for Special:Movepage +* (bug 9582) Members of bot group now mark edits patrolled by default +* (bug 9669) Fix limit ordering for rebuildrecentchanges; broken since + converted from 1.4 to 1.5 schema +* (bug 9682) Revert PHP 5.1 dependency on warning suppression for SVN info +* (bug 5959) Anchors dropped from stub links +* (bug 3348) Some additional weak password checks: password which is same + as username will now be rejected. +* (bug 8602) Converted Special:Contributions to use an IndexPager. The + interpretation of the offset parameter has changed, and the go parameter + has been removed. +* (bug 6204) Fixes for indentation with $wgMaxTocLevel: + - don't emit too many list close tags after an invisible header + - don't emit too many final list close tags if last header is invisible + - don't emit TOC when there are no visible headers +* (bug 7629) Fix $wgBrowserBlackList to avoid false positive on MSIE + when certain plugins are present which alter the user agent + + +== Maintenance == + +* New script maintenance/language/checkExtensioni18n.php used to check i18n + progress in the extension repository. +* Running maintenance/parserTests.php with '--record' option, will now + automatically attempt to create the required tables +* --purge option to do additional parser-cache purging for purgeList.php +* Fix hardcoded background color in parserTests.php +* parserTests.php : removed the 'light' option for --color argument, replacing + it with a new global switch : $wgCommandLineDarkBg +* (bug 8780) Clarify message for command-line scripts if LocalSettings.php + exists but is not readable +* dumpBackup / importDump now work with PostgreSQL +* (bug 8975) Use "Maintenance script" as the default username for importImages.php + and importTextFile.php scripts +* (bug 8933) Fix maintenance/reassignEdits.php script +* (bug 9440) Added "mediawikiwiki" interwiki prefix to MediaWiki.org +* (bug 2979) Import now gracefully skips invalid titles with a warning +* Restore '--norc' option for maintenance/importTextFile.php +* Help information for maintenance/importTextFile.php now easier to read on + consoles +* Doxygen documentation now show the revision number of each file, generate + graphs using dot and include a search engine. + + +== Languages updated == + +* Arabic (ar) +* Aramaic (arc) +* Aymara (ay) +* Belarusian normative (be) +* Belarusian alternative (be-x-old) +* Bulgarian (bg) +* Bihara (bh) +* Breton (br) +* Catalan (ca) +* Czech (cs) +* Danish (da) +* German (de) +* Greek (el) +* Esperanto (eo) +* Spanish (es) +* Estonian (et) +* Basque (eu) +* Finnish (fi) +* Võro (fiu-vro) +* French (fr) +* Hebrew (he) +* Hindi (hi) +* Upper Sorbian (hsb) +* Hungarian (hu) +* Armenian (hy) +* Indonesian (id) +* Italian (it) +* Japanese (ja) +* Javanese (jv) +* Georgian (ka) +* Kabyle (kab) +* Kazakh (kk) +* Korean (ko) +* Kashmiri (ks) +* Ripuarian (ksh) +* Latin (la) +* Luganda (lg) +* Limburgish (li) +* Lithuanian (lt) +* Latvian (lv) +* Marathi (mr) +* Low Saxon (nds) +* Dutch Lower Saxon (nds-nl) +* Nepali (ne) +* Nepal Bhasa (new) +* Dutch (nl) +* Occitan (oc) +* Pali (pi) +* Polish (pl) +* Romanian (ro) +* Russian (ru) +* Sanskrit (sa) +* Sicilian (scn) +* Slovak (sk) +* Sundanese (su) +* Swedish (sv) +* Tahitian (ty) +* Ukrainian (uk) +* Urdu (ur) +* Uzbek (uz) +* Vietnamese (vi) +* Zealandic (zea) +* Old Chinese / Late Middle Chinese (zh-classical) +* Chinese (PRC) (zh-cn) +* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) +* Cantonese (zh-yue) + +== Compatibility == + +MediaWiki 1.10 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. + +PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing: +http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 +Upgrade affected systems to PHP 5.1 or higher. + +MySQL 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 == + +1.10 has several database changes since 1.9, and will not work without schema +updates. + +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. = MediaWiki release notes = |