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@@ -5,6 +5,697 @@ 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. + +== Changes since 1.8 == + +* (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres. +* (bug 7841) Support 'IGNORE' inserts for Postgres, fixes watchlist + adding problem. +* (bug 6835) Removing the includes/Parser.php::getTemplateArgs() function, + because it seems to be unused. +* (bug 7139) Increasing the visual width of the edit summary field on larger + screen sizes, for the default monobook skin. +* Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends +* Improved register_globals paranoia checks +* (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install +* Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails + is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call + parameters. +* (bug 6164) Avoid smashing Cite state if message transformation triggers + during bad image list check, by skipping message transformation. + This isn't a good permanent fix. +* (bug 6918) Stopped borders and backgrounds from showing through floated + tables in Monobook +* (bug 6868) Un-hardcode section edit link style +* (bug 3205) Stop right floats from stacking horizontally in non-Monobook skins +* Added global $wgStyleVersion to centralize bumping CSS and JS file versions + for cache-friendly style and script updating +* (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers +* Friendlier check for PHP 5 in command-line scripts; it's common for parallel + PHP 4 and 5 installations to interfere on the command-line. +* Fix regression in autoconfirm permission check +* (bug 3015) Add CSS ids to subcategory and page sections on category pages +* (bug 7587) Fix erroneous id for specialpage tab, enabling informative popup +* (bug 7599) Fix thumbnail purging, PHP notices on HTCP image page purge +* (bug 7581) Update language name for cbk-zam +* (bug 7444) Update namespace translations for Telugu (te), kept old values as + alias for compatibility +* (bug 4525) Move section links down visually to same level as headings + (editsection links are now inside the heading elements) +* Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 , PATH_INFO and hence + URLs of the style /index.php/Main_Page were broken on some CGI installations. +* (bug 7623) Validate custom HTML id's correctly in Monobook interface +* (bug 2241) Fix collision of 'w' and 'd' accesskeys +* (bug 5795) CSS class added to body based on page name for page-specific + styling +* (bug 6276) Stopped search field from getting too large in Cologne Blue +* (bug 7644) User creations that are aborted by hooks shouldn't be counted + against account creations per day limit +* (bug 7636) Show Firefox 2 users correct accesskey prefix +* (bug 6427) Block blocked IPs from using the mail password function + to allow blocking of flooders +* Include common.css from classic-style skins in main HTML with the bump URL +* (bug 7607) Add Karakalpak (kaa) to Names.php and stub message file for linktrail +* (bug 7582) Add 'tog-nolangconversion' to MessagesEn.php. + This key is need for languages with variants (zh, sr, kk) +* (bug 7606) MediaWiki messages for "rss" and "atom" missing +* (bug 7609) Add some more '*-summary' messages to MessagesEn.php with empty + strings to allow better localisation via Special:Allmessages. Mark this new + messages as optional for localisation. +* Fix user_newpass upgrade for prefixed tables (reported by Fyren) +* (bug 7663) Include language variant switcher links on Nostalgia skin +* (bug 6531) Fix PHP fatal error on installation page with bad username input. +* (bug 6977) Remove 404 link for autogenerated database documentation. +* (bug 7369) Allow "Show Changes" without requiring edit token. +* (bug 7687) Fix movetalk box checks itself when confirming a delete and move. +* (bug 7684) Obey watchcreated preference for Special:Upload watch checkbox +* (bug 7686) Include id attribute on delete form confirmation button +* Allow compound interwiki prefixes in $wgImportSources +* (bug 7304) Added redirect table to store redirect targets. +* Added querycachetwo table (similar to querycache but has two titles) +* PageArchive can now return a Revision object for more convenient processing + of deleted revision data +* Added 'UndeleteShowRevision' hook in Special:Undelete +* Error message on attempt to view invalid or missing deleted revisions +* Remove unsightly "_" from namespace in Special:Allpages, Special:Prefixindex +* (bug 3224) Allow minor edits by bots to skip new message notification on + user talk pages. This can be disabled by adjusting the 'nominornewtalk' + permission. Patch by Werdna. +* (bug 7741) MATH: fixed broken syntax of underbrace etc. Fixed arrays +* Fix purging for updated SVG files +* (bug 7745) Add id attribute to search button in Monobook +* (bug 7749) MATH: added some more LaTeX symbols, e.g. parallel, diamond, ast, ... +* (bug 7304) Added code in Article.php to keep redirect table up to date. +* Made special page names case-insensitive and localisable. Care has been taken + to maintain backwards compatibility. +* Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters. +* (bug 7758) Added wrapper span to "templates used" explanation to allow CSS + styling (class="mw-templatesUsedExplanation"). +* Added {{#special:}} parser function, to give the local default title for + special pages +* (bug 7766) Remove redundant / from AJAX requests, can break some servers +* Add tab links from extensions to classic-based skins (SkinTemplateTab hook) + Provides better cross-skin compatibility for extensions using the modern + skin hooks, such as Oversight +* Moved variant language links on Cologne Blue and Nostalgia to before the + login/logout link +* Fix for parser tests with MySQL 5 in strict mode +* Added block option "enable autoblocks" +* Amend Special:Ipblocklist to note when a block has autoblock DISABLED. +* (bug 7780) Fix regression in editing redirects +* Add whitespace above "templates included on this page" using CSS, not + hardcoded line break. +* Remove entries from redirect table on article deletion +* (bug 7788) Force section headers in new section links for users who have + 'prompt for blank edit summaries' on. +* (bug 1133) Special:Emailuser: add an option to send yourself a copy of your mail. +* (bug 461) Allow "Categories:" link at bottom of pages to be customized via + pagecategorieslink message. +* Sort the list of skins in "My Preferences" -> Skins by alphabetical order. +* (bug 7785) Postgres compatibility for timestamps in RC feeds +* (bug 7550) Normalize user parameter normally on Special:Log +* (bug 7294) Fix PATH search for diff3 on install +* Various fixes related to the blocking change re: autoblocks. On inserting + an IP block, the ipb_enable_autoblock field is now automagically blanked, + because it doesn't make any sense for an IP. Additionally, IP blocks + without the ipb_enable_autoblock option no longer show up as "autoblock + disabled" on Special:Ipblocklist. +* (bug 7774) MATH: aded more amstex functions +* (bug 1182) MATH: fixed inconsistent rendering of upper case Greek letters in TeX +* Fix regression in streaming page dump generation +* (bug 7801) Add support for parser function hooks in parser tests +* checkUsernames.php now uses wfDebugLog instead of hardcoded path to log +* (bug 7810) Update talk namespaces for Occitan +* Allow case-sensitive URLs to be used for uploading from URLs. +* (bug 1109) Correct fix for compressed 304 responses when additional output + buffers have been installed within the compression handler +* (bug 7819) Move automatic redirect edit summary after pre-save transform + to work properly with subst: fun +* (bug 7826) Fix typos in two English messages. +* (bug 5365) Stop users being prompted to enter an edit summary for null edits, + if they have selected that option in preferences. +* (bug 5936) Show an 'm' to the left of the edit summary on diff pages for minor edits. +* (bug 7820) Improve error reporting for uploads via URL. +* (bug 5149) When autoblocks are enabled, retroactively apply an autoblock to the most + recently used IP of a user when they are blocked. +* Add an index on (rc_user_text,rc_timestamp) on the recentchanges table. This will + make CheckUser.php and the new retroactive autoblock functionality faster. +* Fix regression in Special:Undelete for revisions deleted under MediaWiki 1.4 + with compression or legacy encoding +* (bug 6737) Fixes for MySQL 5 schema in strict mode +* Approximate height for client-side scaling fallback instead of passing -1 + into the HTML output. +* Make the DNSBL to check for proxy blocking configurable via $wgSorbsUrl +* Add experimental recording/reporting mode to parser tests runner, to + compare changes against the previous run. + Additional tables 'testrun' and 'testitem' are in maintenance/testRunner.sql, + source this and pass --record option to parserTests.php +* Make the set of default parser test input files extensible via + $wgParserTestFiles. This can now be appended to by extensions or local + configuration files so that extension or custom tests can be automatically + run along with the main batch. +* Run PHP install version checks on update.php so command-line updaters see + new version requirements +* Do a check for the PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug, since this is much more disruptive + as of MW 1.8 than it used to be. Install or upgrade now aborts with a + warning and a request to upgrade. +* (bug 6440) Updated indexes to improve backlinking queries (links, templates, images) +* Switched 'anon-only' block mode to default for IP blocks +* (bug 3687, 7892) Add distinct heading for media files in category display, + with count. +* (bug 1578) Add different icons for external links to audio, video, or PDF in + Monobook. +* Made autoblocks block account creation if the user block has that option enabled. +* Add auto-summaries to blankings and large removals without summaries. +* (bug 7811) Allow preview of edit summaries. +* (bug 6839) Wikibits.js minor changes to make JS-lint happier. +* (bug 7932) Make sure that edit toolbar clears floats so it appears correctly. +* (bug 6873) When viewing old revisions, add link to diff to current version. +* (bug 3315) Provide rollback link directly on history page. +* Replace 'old-revision-navigation' message with 'revision-info' and + 'revision-nav' messages, wrapped in divs with appropriate id's. +* (bug 4178) MediaWiki:Common.js will now be included for all users if + $wgUseSiteJs is enabled, in addition to (if applicable) MediaWiki:Monobook.js + and user JS subpages. +* (bug 7918) "Templates used on this page" changes during preview to reflect + any added or removed templates, and works as expected for section edits. +* (bug 7919) "Templates used on this page" is now shown for read-only pages. +* (bug 7688) When viewing diff, section anchors in autosummary jump to section + on current page instead of loading the latest version. +* (bug 7970) Use current connection explicitly on Database::getServerVersion +* (bug 2001) Tables with class="sortable" can now be dynamically sorted via + JavaScript. +* Added autosummary for new pages with 500 or less characters, and refactor + the autosummary code so it's all done in one function. doEdit is getting too + big! +* (bug 7554) The correct MIME type for SVG images is now displayed on the + image page (image/svg+xml, not image/svg). +* (bug 7883) Added autoblock whitelisting feature, using which specific ranges + can be protected from autoblocking. These ranges are specified, in list format, + in the autoblock_whitelist system message. +* Added placeholders for text injection by hooks to EditPage.php +* (bug 8009) Automatic edit summary for redirects is not filled for edits in existing pages +* Installer support for experimental MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary-safe schema +* Use INSERT IGNORE for db-based BagOStuff add/insert, for more memcache-like + behavior when keys already exist on add (instead of dying with an error...) +* Add a hook 'UploadForm:initial' before the upload form is generated, and two + member variable for text injection into the form, which can be filled by the hooks. +* (bug 6295) Add a "revision patching" functionality, where an edit can be undone + (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R rev3 -o rev3). + This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit URL. A link to a URL + that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW revision headers on diff pages. + The link leads to a "Show Changes" page showing what will be done to undo the + edit. +* Fix display of link in "already rolled back" message for image/category pages +* (bug 6016) Left-aligned images should stack vertically, like right-aligned + images, not horizontally. +* Patch from LeonWP: added UploadForm:BeforeProcessing hook in SpecialUpload.php +* Add AuthPluginSetup hook to override $wgAuth after configuration +* Fix regression in authentication hook auto-creation on login +* (bug 8110) Allow spaces in ISBNs +* (bug 8024) Introduce "send me copies of emails I send to others" preference +* Added 'EditPage::attemptSave' hook before an article is saved. +* (bug 8083) Applied patch for sk localisation +* Add a backslash character to the edit token, to prevent edits via certain + broken proxies that mangle such characters in form submissions +* (bug 7461) Allow overwriting pages using importTextFile.php +* (bug 7946) importTextFile.php doesn't perform pre-save transform +* (bug 8117) {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} showed weird default if $wgLocalTZoffset set; + now uses current time for previews and if timestamp can't be loaded from DB +* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} now uses site local timezone instead of user timezone + to ensure consistent behavior +* {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and friends should now work on non-MySQL backends +* (bug 7671) Observe canonical media namespace prefix in Linker::formatComment +* Added js variable wgCurRevisionId to the output +* (bug 8141) Cleanup of Parser::doTableStuff, patch by AzaTht +* (bug 8042) Make miser mode caching limits settable via $wgQueryCacheLimit + instead of hardcoding to 1000 +* Enable QueryPage classes to override list formatting +* (bug 5485) Show number of intervening revisions in diff view +* (bug 8100) Fix XHTML validity in Taiwanese localization +* Added redirect to section feature. Use it wisely. +* Added a configuration variable allowing the "break out of framesets" feature + to be switched on and off ($wgBreakFrames). Off by default. +* Allow Xml::check() $attribs parameter to override 'value' attribute +* DB schema change: added two columns (rc_old_len and rc_new_len) to the recentchanges table to store + the text lengths before and after the edit +* (bug 1085) Made Special:Recentchanges show the character difference between the changed revisions +* Removed a redundant <strong> tag from diff pages that was causing display issues for some users +* (bug 8203) The keyboard shortcut for "log out" was removed, because users were pressing it + when they intended to press the shortcut for "preview". +* (bug 8148) Handle non-removable output buffers gracefully when cleaning + buffers for HTTP 304 responses, StreamFile, and Special:Export. + Duplicated code merged into wfResetOutputBuffers() and wfClearOutputBuffers() +* Special:AllPages : 'next page' link now point to the first title of the next + chunk instead of pointing to the last title of current chunk. +* (bug 4673) Special:AllPages : add a 'previous' link (new message 'prevpage') +* (bug 8121) wfRandom() was not between 0 and 1 +* Add static method Parser::createAssocArgs($args), so parser functions can + use the same code to parse arguments as the templates do. +* Change behavior of logins using the temporary e-mailed password (as stored + in user_newpassword hash field). Instead of just logging in silently and + leaving the previous user_password field in place indefinitely, the user + is now prompted to set a new password. + + The password-changing form is at Special:Resetpass; currently it's only + usable for changing from the temporary password during login, but it + could perhaps be generalized, replacing the subform in preferences. + + Once the new password is set successfully, the temporary password is wiped + so it cannot be used to login a second time, and the login process + is completed. +* Suppress 'mail new password' button on login form if $wgAuth forbids + changing user passwords; it wouldn't work very well... +* Consolidate password length checks and $wgAuth manipulation into + User::setPassword() to avoid duplicate code in different places + that set passwords. +* User::setPassword() now throws PasswordError exceptions if the password + is illegal or cannot be set via $wgAuth. These can be caught and a human- + readable error message displayed by UI code. +* Added Title::isSubpage() +* (bug 8241) Don't consider user pages of User:Foo.css to be CSS subpages +* Set an explicit class on framed thumbnail inner divs and images, changed some + CSS to use these instead of using descendent selectors. +* Accept null parameter to User::setPassword() as indicating the password + field should be cleared to an unusable state. Login will only be possible + after the password is reset, for instance by e-mail. +* (bug 6394) Invalidate the password set for "by e-mail" account creations + to avoid accidental empty password creations. +* Made the show change size function work on page moves, page creations, and + log entries. Also fixed it in the javascript recentchanges. +* (bug 8239) correctly get 50 new contributions when clicking '(50 next)' +* (bug 2259) Fix old regression where e-mail addresses were no longer + confirmed on login with mailed password. +* Add a notification about the confirmation mail sent during account + creation, so people don't immediately go off to request a second one. +* Add a warning on Special:Confirmemail if a code was already sent and has + not yet expired. +* Add user_editcount field to provide data for heuristics on account use. + Incremented on edit, with lazy initialization from past revision data. + Can batch-initialize with maintenance/initEditCount.php (not yet friendly + to replication environments, this will do all accounts in one query). +* Allow raw SQL subsections in Database::update() SET portion as well as + for WHERE portion. Handy for increments and such. +* User::getOption now accept a default value to override default user values + this makes it consistent with WebRequest::get* methods. Corrected code in + various places accordingly. +* (bug 8264) Fix JavaScript global vars for XHTML mode +* Make $wgSiteNotice value wikitext again, for consistency with editable + MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice. +* (bug 8044) When redirecting from the canonical name of the special page + to the localised one, parameters/subpages are omitted +* (bug 8164) Special:Booksources should use GET for form submission +* Rewrite Special:Booksources to clean up interface and remove redundant code +* (bug 7925) Change Special:Allmessages message name filter javascript to be + a bit more responsive and easier on the CPU +* (bug 4488) Support watching pages on deletion; introduces new user preference +* Minor restructuring of Special:Preferences; "watch pages I edit" and "watch + pages I create" options now accessible under "Watchlist" options +* (bug 8153) <nowiki> doesn't work in site notice +* (bug 6690) wfMsgNoTrans() transforms messages +* (bug 8274) Wrap edit tools in a <div> with a specified class +* Detect PHP 5.0.x 64-bit bug and abort in WebStart.php; too many things break + mysteriously otherwise (detection code copied from install-utils.inc) +* (bug 8295) Change handling of <center> tags in doBlockLevels() to match that + of <div> +* (bug 8110) Make magic ISBN linking stricter: only match ten-digit sequences + (plus optional ISBN-13 prefix) with no immediately following alphanumeric + character, disallow multiple consecutive internal redirects +* (bug 2785) Accept optional colon prefix in links when formatting comments +* Don't show "you can view and copy the source of this page" message for + pages which don't exist +* (bug 8310) Blank line added to top of 'post' when page is blank +* (bug 8109) Template parameters ignored in "recentchangestext" +* Gracefully skip redirect-to-fragment on WebKit versions less than 420; + it messes up on current versions of Safari but is ok in the latest + nightlies. Checking the version number will allow it to automatically + work when new releases of Safari appear. +* Fix regression in thumb styles; size and padding didn't match with + new arrangement. +* (bug 8333) Fix quick user data update on login password change on + replication database setups. User data is now pulled from master + instead of slave in User::loadFromDatabase, ensuring that it is + fresh and accurate when read and then saved back into cache. + This was breaking with the Special:Rename operation which + automatically logs the user in with the new password after changing + it; pulling from slave meant the record was often not the updated + one. +* (bug 8335) Set image width to the first valid parameter found. +* (bug 8350) Fix watchlist viewing bug when using Postgres. +* (bug 6603) When warning about invalid file extensions, output the bit + of the extension we actually checked +* (bug 7669) Drop defaults on BLOB/TEXT columns for better compatibility + with MySQL's strict mode, often enabled by the Windows installer. + The defaults are ignored anyway when strict mode is off... +* (bug 7685) Use explicit values for ar_text and ar_flags when deleting, + for better compatibility with MySQL's strict mode +* Update default interwiki values to reflect changed location of ursine: +* (bug 5411) Remove autopatrol preference +* Users who have the "autopatrol" permission will have their edits marked as + patrolled automatically +* Users who do not have the "autopatrol" permission will no longer be able + to mark their own edits as patrolled +* Introduce 'PingLimiter' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information +* (bug 532) Tweaked alt text for some interface messages +* (bug 8231) Gave useful alt text to the main <img> on image pages +* (bug 371) Remove alt text for "Enlarge" icon on thumbnails +* Initialize user_editcount to 0 instead of NULL for newly created accounts +* (bug 3696) Strip LRM and RLM characters from titles to work around the + problem some people have where titles cut-and-pasted from lists include + the bidi override characters appended to the lists. + A more thorough blacklist for forbidden and translatable characters would + be wise, though, as might a cleaner method for the lists in the first place. +* Fix regression in email password resets on read-restricted sites +* Set tabindex on fields in deletion form so you don't have to tab through + the links in the sitenotice +* (bug 8271) Show full time and date on viewer for individual deleted + revisions +* (bug 8214) Output file size limit and actual file size in appropriate units + on Special:Upload +* (bug 8016) Purge objectcache table during upgrade processes - use the --nopurge + option to prevent this when running maintenance/update.php +* (bug 7612) Remove superfluous link to Special:Categories from result items + on Special:Mostcategories +* {{PLURAL:}} now handles formatted numbers correctly +* (bug 8331) Added the change size value to watchlists; therefore made + watchlists use RecentChange::newFromRow() instead of newFromCurRow() +* (bug 8351) Fix undo for simple reverts +* (bug 6856) User::clearNotification() does not respect read-only mode +* (bug 6853) Use a checkbox on the installer form to indicate that a superuser + account should be used; this is clearer than the old check which relied on + the password never being an obscure value +* Remove old unused watchlist cache, which was a leftover from the old schema + where watchlists were more expensive to generate +* Minor cosmetic changes to Special:Userrights +* Added wgCanonicalSpecialPageName to JavaScript variables +* Fix image deleting when using Postgres. +* Output both source and destination titles in maintenance/moveBatch.php +* Added basic parser tests for language variants +* Enable selflinks and categories to be written in some of the language variants +* Prevent conversion of JavaScript code in language variants +* Output software version number in maintenance/parserTests.php +* (bug 7169) Use Ajax to watch/unwatch articles if enabled +* Make variant table caching a little more robust, using main language code + in cache key. Probably this is still a bit wonky, though. Was breaking + parser tests when Chinese tables were getting loaded into Serbian code. +* (bug 8380) Be nicer about blank lines in deleteBatch.php +* (bug 8401) Fix regression in SORBS lookup for some DNS setups +* Use raw file descriptor in posix_isatty() check to avoid warning on + Linux systems with at least some versions of PHP +* (bug 5908) Allow overriding the default category sort key for all items on + a page using {{DEFAULTSORT}} +* (bug 6449) Throw a more definitive error message when installation fails + due to an invalid database name +* (bug 5827) Use full text for option link labels on Special:Watchlist +* (bug 8018) Allow hiding minor edits from the watchlist +* (bug 8427) MonoBook RTL IE 7.0 tweaks failed when sidebar's navigation + section is renamed; no longer relies on first section name +* Stabilize client-side table sorting even if the underlying Javascript sort() + implementation is unstable +* Add hook for extensions to add user information to the panel in preferences, + next to the user name and ID. +* (bug 8392) Display protection status of transcluded pages in the edit page + template list. Patch by Fyren, with i18n naming tweak. +* Fix for interwiki transclusion where target wiki uses query string for title +* Resolve namespaces on interwiki Title objects using canonical namespace names + if possible (should not happen, though, outside interwiki transclusion... and + maybe not even then, but it does) +* (bug 8447) Fix SQL typo breaking non-default $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq +* Do not allow previews of deleted images to be cached +* Add global variable $wgDefaultLanguageVariant used to set the default language + variant of a wiki to something different than the main language code +* Add 'variant' option to parserTests - runs test with the given variant as + preferred, utilize it for more parser tests of language variants code +* (bug 6503) Fix bug that stopped certain irrelevant links from being hidden + for printing +* Avoid PHP warning in Creative Commons metadata when a creative commons + license is not actually set up +* (bug 8463) Don't print external link icons for Monobook +* (bug 8461) Support watching pages on move +* (bug 8041) Work around bug with debug_backtrace when Zend Optimizer is + loaded by skipping the function. Use wfDebugBacktrace() wrapper function. +* Reduce config file clutter by setting various script and upload paths + based on $IP or $wgScriptPath in Setup.php. They can still be explicitly + overridden in LocalSettings.php if desired... +* Attempt to detect redirect loops for the canonical title redirect, and + give some hints to the poor confused administrator. +* Introduce new flag 'R' - raw output for language variant escape tags +* Advise users when updates for a query page have been disabled using + $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate +* (bug 8413) Improve comments for $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies +* (bug 8330) Show "bytes" suffix on recent changes diff counter + optionally... if set in rc-changes-size message (default empty for now) +* (bug 8489) Support basic links in <gallery> caption attribute +* (bug 8485) Correct Lingala number formatting +* The MediaWiki namespace is no longer pre-filled with default messages on + install. All default messages will be removed from the MediaWiki namespace + on upgrade. +* Recentchanges RSS/Atom feeds now use a separate message for the description + to avoid cluttering it with useless wiki formatting +* (bug 8417) Handle EXIF unknown dates +* (bug 8372) Return nothing on empty <math> tags. +* New maintenance script to show the cached statistics : showStats.php. +* Count deleted edits when regenerating total edits in maintenance/initStats.php +* (bug 3706) Allow users to be exempted from IP blocks. The ipblock-exempt permission + key has been added to enable this behaviour, by default assigned to sysops. +* (bug 7948) importDump.php now warn that Recentchanges need to be rebuild. +* (bug 7667) allow XHTML namespaces customization +* (bug 8531) Correct local name of Lingála (patch by Raymond) +* Fix regression with default lock file and cache directories; threw visible + warning with open_basedir + + +== 1.8 Compatibility changes == + +=== Zend Optimizer === + +A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under +MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging +features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common +"blank page" problems. + +=== PHP 5.0 64-bit === + +MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data +on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This +bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8 +and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions. + +The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you +probably should do anyway for security reasons! + +=== MySQL 5 === + +MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when +MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows +installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.) + +This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields". + +=== ImageMagick === + +Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing +due to use of the -thumbnail option. + + +== 1.8 Behavior changes == + +=== Localized special pages === + +The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them +are more legible in languages that aren't English. + +Not all languages have included localized names yet. + +=== E-mail password === + +Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first +log in with a newly generated e-mailed password. + +Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing. + +=== Undo revision === + +An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits. +When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much +easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding +changes elsewhere in the page. + +The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional +full-revision reverts. + +=== Blocking === + +User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the +account logs in with. + + +== 1.8 Database changes == + +* new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects +* new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages +* 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock' +* 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking +* 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields +* some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges' + +== 1.8 Configuration changes == + +Several configuration options have changed since 1.8: + +=== $wgEnableAPI === + +The experimental machine API interface is now enabled by default, read-only. +You can disable it by setting $wgEnableAPI = false; in LocalSettings.php. + +=== $wgPathInfo === + +The use of PATH_INFO (the text after the script name in 'index.php/Blah') +is controlled by the $wgUsePathInfo setting. This is now explicitly disabled +for CGI, apache2filter, and ISAPI configurations of PHP, for more consistency +with the autodetection from the installer. + +In some rarer configurations you may have to switch $wgUsePathInfo from false +to true or, perhaps, from true to false to make things work properly if bad +PATH_INFO data comes through the server. + +The wiki now tries to detect this condition and should show you an error +message describing what to change instead of sending the browser into an +infinite redirect loop. + +=== $wgScript and other path settings === + +The following configuration variables are now automatically set in Setup.php +if they are not overridden in LocalSettings.php: + +from $wgScriptPath: + + $wgScript + | \- $wgArticlePath + + $wgRedirectScript + + $wgStylePath + + $wgUploadPath + \- $wgLogo + + $wgMathPath + +from $IP: + - $wgStyleDirectory + + $wgUploadDirectory + \- $wgMathDirectory + + $wgTmpDirectory + +Newly generated configuration files will by default include only $wgScriptPath +(hardcoded from the installer) and $IP (detected at runtime). + +Old configuration files which specify all these values explicitly should +continue to work just fine, but if you use the defaults you can remove them +to reduce clutter. + +=== $wgGroupPermissions === + +The sysop group now holds the "autopatrol" and "ipblock-exempt" rights by +default. + +"autopatrol" replaces the preference for marking ones own edits patrolled +by default; users holding this permission will automatically have their +edits patrolled, while others cannot mark their own edits as patrolled +even if they have patrolling rights. + +"ipblock-exempt" excludes the user from IP blocks; accounts which are blocked +explicitly by name will still be blocked, however. This is given to sysops +to minimize annoyance from accidental "collateral damage"; remember that a +sysop will be able to lift the block if they desire. + +The bot group now holds the "nominornewtalk" right. A user with this right +will not trigger new message notifications when making minor edits to user +talk pages. This is meant to minimize annoyance from maintenance bot +processes. + +=== $wgUseWatchlistCache === + +Watchlist caching has been removed. The feature was not maintained, and has +been unnecessary since switching to the 'recentchanges' database table +reduced server pressure for Wikipedia's watchlists. + +=== $wgBreakFrames === + +MediaWiki in the past attempted to detect when it was embedded in a frameset +and "break out" of it, assuming it to be hostile. + +This behavior is now disabled by default, but can be reenabled by setting +$wgBreakFrames to true in LocalSettings.php. + + +== 1.8 New settings == + +=== $wgVariantArticlePath === + +For languages with script variant support (Chinese, Serbian, and others), +it's possible to use alternate URL paths to select the variant for article +display, setting $wgVariantArticlePath. + +Documentation for this setting would be useful. + +=== $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize === + +The message cache can now skip items larger than a given size; this allows +it to better handle the primary caching case when large CSS and JS blobs are +present. + +=== $wgStyleVersion === + +When making significant changes to skin stylesheets and JavaScript files, +you can append a string to this variable to tweak the generated URLs, +forcing newly rendered pages to bring in a fresh version despite server- +or browser-side caching. + +Normally this will be set in the course of MediaWiki development, but +if doing development on a custom skin you may wish to poke it as well. + +=== $wgRCShowChangedSize === + +Special:Recentchanges and Special:Watchlist now show the number of bytes +added or removed to an article to give an idea of the size of the edit. +This information was previously available only in the IRC update feeds. + +To disable this site-wide, set $wgRCShowChangedSize to false. +(Individual users can suppress the data in custom CSS.) + +Adjust $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold to trigger highlighting of particularly +large changes. + +The formatting of the size figure can be adjusted through the +[[MediaWiki:Rc-change-size]] message. + +=== $wgQueryCacheLimit === + +The number of rows stored for "expensive" special pages in miser mode +can now be adjusted up or down from the default 1000. + +=== $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate === + +Individual "expensive" special pages can be skipped in processing by +updateSpecialPages if added to this list. + +=== $wgSorbsUrl === + +The base hostname for the DNS-based proxy blacklist can now be overridden +when $wgEnableSorbs is set, to use a different blacklist instead of SORBS. +The blacklist would need to respond the same was as SORBS; any positive +response will be taken as a proxy. + +=== $wgAjaxWatch === + +Experimental AJAX mode for the watch/unwatch tabs to execute inline. +Does not include the UI messages describing how to reach the watchlist, +so you may not want it on a general-audience site just yet. + +=== $wgParserTestFiles === + +MediaWiki's parser test suite can now be expanded with additional test +files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and +they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php + + == Changes since 1.7 == * Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy |