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For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.20. + +== MediaWiki 1.18 == +=== Changes since 1.18.2 === +* (bug 35446) Using "{{nse:}}" with an invalid namespace name no longer throws + a PHP warning. +* (bug 35567) The whole password reminder e-mail is now sent in the same language. + +== MediaWiki 1.18.2 == +2012-03-21 + +This is a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch. + +=== Changes since 1.18.1 === +* (bug 33686) could not get a list of contributor for an article when using + a SQLite database. +* (Bug 33865) Exception thrown in action=parse when attempting to use the title + parameter without setting the text parameter. +* UserMailer could potentially throw a fatal error when a MailAddress object had + an empty email address. +* (Bug 33087) Exchange server rejected mail sent by MediaWiki +* (bug 34528) Edit section tooltips show correction section name again +* (bug 34246) MediaWiki:Whatlinkshere-summary message is displayed again in + Special:Whatlinkshere +* (bug 22555) Remove or skip strip markers from tag hooks like <nowiki> in + core parser functions which operate on strings, such as formatnum. +* (bug 34212) ApiBlock/ApiUnblock allow action to take place without a token + parameter present. +* (bug 34907) Fixed exposure of tokens through load.php that could have facilitated + CSRF attacks. +* (bug 35317) CSRF in Special:Upload. + +== MediaWiki 1.18.1 == +2012-01-11 + +This a maintenance and security release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch. + +=== Changes since 1.18.0 === +* (bug 32712) Fix for search indexing of pages with certain unicode chars following URL. +* (bug 3901) Lang, hreflang attribs added to sidebar interlanguage links for screen readers. +* (bug 30774) mediawiki.html: Add support for numbers and booleans in the + attribute values and element contents. +* (bug 32473) [[Special:PasswordReset]] can not be used on private wiki. +* (bug 32853) Fixed CACHE_DBA object cache type. +* (bug 32786) Backward compatibility for extension using 1.17's Database::newFromType(). +* Fixed exception when using Special:WhatLinksHere on a Media: file. +* (bug 32709) Private Wiki users were always taken to Special:Badtitle on login. +* (bug 33240) Sort images are missing but referenced in css. +* (bug 31921) Magic words REVISIONDAY, REVISIONMONTH and REVISIONYEAR were + not showing their values on preview. +* (bug 32702) Removed method Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript() has been readded + for backward compatibility. +* (bug 30172) The check for posix_isatty() in maintenance scripts did not detect + when the function exists but is disabled. Introduced Maintenance::posix_isatty(). +* (bug 33305) Make mw.util.addCSS resistant to IE's @font-face bug by setting + cssText after DOM insertion. +* (bug 29102) Upgrades no longer fail with the error "Unknown character set: 'mysql4'. +* (bug 25355) Parser generates edit section links for special pages. +* (bug 33321) Adding a line to MediaWiki:Sidebar that contains a pipe, but doesn't + have any pipes after being transformed by MessageCache, causes exception on + all pages. +* Fixed recentchanges FK violation on page delete and cache purge error in updater + for Oracle DB. +* (bug 33117) prop=revisions allows deleted text to be exposed through cache pollution. + +=== MediaWiki 1.18.0 === +2011-11-24 + +This is the first stable release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch. + +=== Summary of selected changes in 1.18 === + +Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.17 that may be of interest: + +* Some of the more commonly used MediaWiki extensions are now included in the + release tarball. These extensions are ConfirmEdit, Gadgets, Nuke, ParserFunctions, + Renameuser, Vector and WikiEditor. + +* Gender support has been improved, meaning user pages can display the correct gender + variant of "User" can now be used. + +* MediaWiki can now detect the camera orientation of an image from the Exif metadata, and + can rotate the image thumbnail appropriately. Metadata support has been generally + improved, and can now extract IPTC and XMP metadata. + +* Improved directionality support in 1.18 means that MediaWiki is better to use for + RTL users. + +* MediaWiki now supports protocol - relative URLs in links, interwiki targets and $wgServer + +* Math support has been removed from core + +=== Changes since 1.18.0rc1 === +* (bug 32228) regression in Special:Search which did not conserve profile on new search +* (bug 32460) Categories were improperly aligned in Simple and CologneBlue +* (bug 32412) TOC links on [[Special:EditWatchlist]] points to the fieldsets +* (bug 32582) Fix TOC show/hide link regression on IE 8 + +=== Changes since 1.18 beta 1 === +* (bug 31886) Wrong titles redirecting to Special:Badtitle in the 1.18 deployment. +* (bug 32051) Fix description for wlprop=sizes. +* (bug 31913) Special:MostLinkedTemplates had an incorrect GROUP BY clause + under Microsoft SQL. +* (bug 32100) installer complains about suhosin GET limit. +* (bug 31933) fix 1.18 regression in Monobook sidebar: huge spacing between portlets + on IE 7 and IE 8/9 in compatibility view. +* (bug 32126) Fix 1.18 regression in watchlist editor when items already removed + from watchlist. +* (bug 32183) remove the client-* classes added from user-agent-sniffing onto + the <html> element. +* (bug 29912) Unit tests break if parsertest tables are still present. +* (bug 31694) During installation, tabbing order (cursor focus) goes to logo + instead of 'continue'. +* (bug 29102) Upgrade fails "Unknown character set: 'mysql4". +* (bug 31990) justify paragraphs pref adds extra space to category listing. +* (bug 20148) Better title for [[Special:Disambiguations]] page. +* (bug 31502) TOC is missing on Special:EditWatchlist. +* (bug 32256) API list=search stops at first invalid result. +* (bug 32047) jquery.tablesorter.js: thead is before caption. +* (bug 29854) Store protocol-relative links twice in the externallinks table, + one with http: in el_index and once with https. +* (bug 31822) Error during upgrade due to output buffer reset in stdout. + +=== Configuration changes in 1.18 === +* The WantedPages::getSQL hook has been removed and replaced with + WantedPages::getQueryInfo. This may break older extensions. +* The SkinTemplateBuildContentActionUrlsAfterSpecialPage, + SkinTemplateContentActions and SkinTemplateTabs hooks have been removed in + favor of SkinTemplateNavigation and SkinTemplateNavigation::SpecialPage. +* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink controls whether to output a combined + login / create account link in the personal bar, or to output separate login + and create account links. +* Skin names are no longer created based on a ucfirst version of the key in + $wgValidSkinNames but now the value. This means for + $wgValidSkinNames["monobook"] = "MonoBook"; the skin loader will no longer try + loading SkinMonobook and will instead load SkinMonoBook. +* $wgMaxUploadSize may now be set to an array to specify the upload size limit + per upload type. +* $wgAPICacheHelp added in 1.16 is now removed. To disable API help caching, set + $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout = 0; +* OutputPage::isUserJsAllowed() no longer returns false when scripts are allowed + by the page, but $wgAllowUserJs is set to false. +* Pure "Skin" class based custom skins are no longer supported, all custom skins + should be put together using SkinTemplate and BaseTemplate or QuickTemplate. +* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old + Latin-1 install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with + $wgLegacyEncoding set. +* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an SVG we + look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage. +* $wgSysopUserBans and $wgSysopRangeBans (deprecated in 1.17) are now removed. + Use $wgBlockCIDRLimit = array( 'IPv4' => 43, 'IPv6' => 128 ) to achieve the + same functionality as $wgSysopRangeBans; you can use the BlockIp hook to + replicate $wgSysopUserBans functionality. +* The options on the block form have been standardised such that checking a box + makes the block 'more serious'; so while "check to prevent account creation" + and "check to enable autoblock" remain the same, "check to allow user-talk + edit" is reversed to "check to *disable* user-talk edit", and "check to block + anon-only" becomes "check to block logged-in users too". The default settings + remain the same. +* Most of the field names on the Special:Block form have been changed, which + will probably break screen-scraping bots. +* (bug 26866) The 'trackback' right is no longer granted to sysops by default. + $wgUseTrackbacks is already false by default. +* (bug 17009) the hiddenStructure CSS class, a highly hackish way of at least + *appearing* to hide article elements, has been removed. Use the + ParserFunctions extension to actually remove unwanted elements from the + output. +* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable + math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from + http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php: + require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php"; +* $wgProfiler is now a configuration array, see StartProfiler.sample for + details. +* $wgProfiling has been removed. +* The spyc library is now no longer included in phase3. +* (bug 28343) Unused preferences contextlines/contextchars have been removed +* $wgSkinExtensionFunctions has been removed. Use $wgExtensionFunctions instead. +* $wgProto has been removed. You now only need to set $wgServer to change the + URL protocol. +* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups (deprecated in 1.13) has been removed. +* $wgInputEncoding and $wgOutputEncoding (deprecated in 1.5) have now been removed. +* $wgAllowUserSkin (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed. +* $wgExtraRandompageSQL (deprecated in 1.16) has now been removed. +* LogReader and LogViewer classes (deprecated in 1.14) have now been removed. +* (bug 26033) Added $wgArticleCountMethod to select the method to use to say + whether a page is an article or not. $wgUseCommaCount is now deprecated. +* $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf and $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf no longer work in core, + and the functionality has been moved to the relevant extensions. See + http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DublinCoreRdf and + http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreativeCommonsRdf as appropriate. +* (bug 21107) Split error "customcssjsprotected" into separate messages for JS and CSS +* Removed $wgCheckCopyrightUpload from DefaultSettings, since the relevant feature + was removed in about 1.5. +* LogPageValidTypes, LogPageLogName, LogPageLogHeader and LogPageActionText + hooks have been removed. +* New hook "Collation::factory" to allow extensions to create custom + category collations. +* $wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions. +* $wgEnableAutoRotation enables or disables auto-rotation. Leaving it set to + null will cause MediaWiki to determine if auto-rotation is available. + +=== New features in 1.18 === +* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch / action=unwatch now requires a token. +* BREAKING CHANGE: Article class hierarchy split into WikiPage (backend). + and Article (frontend) hierarchies. Several hooks now pass a WikiPage object instead + of an Article object. These hooks all use an $article paramater as documented in hooks.txt. + Extensions should be updated to account for this, though most won't require any changes. +* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab + Now the "This is a minor edit" checkbox is not available when you + create a page or new section. +* (bug 8130) Query pages should limit to content namespaces, not just main + namespace. +* Special:Contribs now redirects to Special:Contributions. +* (bug 6672) Images are now autorotated according to their EXIF orientation. + This only affects thumbnails; the source remains unrotated. +* (bug 25708) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 6.0.0. +* New hook ArticlePrepareTextForEdit added, called when preparing text to be + saved. +* New parser option PreSaveTransform added, allows the pre-save transformation + to be selectively disabled. +* Alternative to $wgHooks implemented, using the new Hooks class. +* Add width parameter to Special:Filepath to allow getting the file path of a + thumbnail. +* (bug 26870) Add size to {{filepath:}}. +* Upload warnings now show a thumbnail of the uploaded file. +* Introduced the edittools-upload message, which will be inserted under the + upload form instead of edittools if available. +* (bug 26285) Extensions will be automatically generated on upload if the user + specified a filename without extension. +* (bug 26851) Special:UserRights now allows to prefill the reason field +* New maintenance script to fix double redirects + (maintenance/fixDoubleRedirects.php). +* (bug 23315) New body classes to allow easier styling of special pages. +* (bug 27159) Make email confirmation code expiration time configurable. +* (bug 29047) CSS/JS for each user group is imported from MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js, + MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css, etc. +* (bug 24230) Uploads of ZIP types, such as MS Office or OpenOffice can now be + safely enabled. A ZIP file reader was added which can scan a ZIP file for + potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked + specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked. +* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes. +* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers. +* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript + disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag). +* Added UserGetLanguageObject hook to change the language used in $wgLang. +* (bug 14645) When $wgMiserMode is on, expensive special pages are styled + differently (italicized by default) on Special:SpecialPages. +* Added $wgAggregateStatsID, which allows UDP stats to be aggregated over + several wikis. +* When $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes is true, all itemtypes are allowed, not just + the three that were defined in the original specification. +* (bug 14706) Added support for the Imagick PHP extension. +* (bug 18691) Added support for SVG rasterization using the Imagick PHP + extension. +* (bug 2581, bug 6834) Added links to thumbnail in several resolutions to the + file description page. The sizes are set by $wgImageLimits. +* (bug 28031) Add pageCount support to ArchivedFile. +* (bug 27924) PhpHttpRequest doesn't return response body if HTTP != 200. +* Added hook BitmapHandlerTransform to allow extension to transform a file + without overriding the entire handler. +* The parser now attempts to output markers for editsection tokens and defer the + rendering of them post-cache to reduce parser cache fragmentation and ensure + skin customizability of edit section links. +* (bug 24755) AuthPlugin auto-creation of local accounts can now be aborted by + other extensions by handling the 'AbortAutoAccount' hook, similar to the + 'AbortNewAccount' triggered by explicit account creations. (They are separate + to avoid loops and confusion; auth plugins like CentralAuth need to handle + AbortNewAccount separately. +* Special:ListFiles is now transcludable. +* (bug 13879) Special:Emailuser asks for suitable target user if called without. +* (bug 16956) IPTC and XMP metadata now extracted from images. +* (bug 23816) A tracking category is now added for any pages with broken images. +* (bug 23495) Allow createAndPromote.php to create non-sysop users. +* (bug 28916) A way to to toggle mw.config legacy globals settings from + LocalSettings.php has been created by introducing $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals. +* (bug 28503) Support for ircs:// URL protocols. +* (bug 26033) It is now possible to count all non-redirect pages in content + namespaces as articles. +* Images can now be embedded in an XML dump stream using backupDump.php + --include-files and can be imported using importDump.php --uploads; + furthermore, it can import files from the filesystem using --image-base-path. +* Three new hooks in Special:Undelete, 'UndeleteForm::showHistory', + 'UndeleteForm::showRevision' and 'UndeleteForm::undelete', so that extensions + may override the usage of PageArchive class and replace it with their own + class that extends PageArchive. +* (bug 28915) Implement QUnit test suite for MediaWiki JavaScript. + Also built-in support for distribution through a TestSwarm instance. +* (bug 29036) For cascade-protected pages, the mw-textarea-cprotected class is + added to the textarea on the edit form. +* mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php) +* (bug 29067) Expose user.tokens (like we do user.options) in ResourceLoader. +* New 'Debug' hook used by wfDebug() and wfDebugLog(). +* (bug 27655) Require token for watching/unwatching pages) +* (bug 28904) (bug 29773) Update jQuery version from 1.4.4 to 1.6.2 (the latest version) +* (bug 29441) Expose CapitalLinks config in JS to allow modules to properly + handle titles on case-sensitive wikis. +* (bug 29397) Implement mw.Title module in core. +* In MySQL 4.1.9+ with replication enabled, fetch the slave lag from SHOW SLAVE + STATUS instead of SHOW PROCESSLIST. This ensures that lag is reported + correctly in the case where there are no write events occurring. Note that + the DB user now needs to have the REPLICATION CLIENT privilege if you are + using replication. +* Language codes in $wgDummyLanguageCodes are now excluded on localization + statistics (maintenance/language/transstat.php). +* (bug 29586) Make the (next 200) links on categories link directly to + the relevant section of the category. +* (bug 29109) Allow the automatic edit summary for redirect creation + show the first bit of the new redirect page. +* (bug 29723) mw.util.wikiGetlink() now defaults to wgPageName. +* (bug 29680) Add GetDefaultSortkey hook to override the default sortkey. +* (bug 16699) {{#language:}} accepts second parameter to specify the language in + which the language name is wanted. Coverage depends on the cldr extension. +* (bug 15802) An easy way to look up messages: language qqx which returns + the message keys. +* (bug 29868) Add support for passing parameters to mw.msg in jquery.localize. +* (bug 29558) $wgMiserMode now disables update.php by default. +* AjaxCategories: Easily add, edit or delete categories on article pages. + Suggests possible categories when typing, all saves are done via AJAX. + Supports editing of multiple categories and then saving them in one batch. +* $wgAutopromoteOnce was added, allowing for users to be automatically promoted + to explicit usergroups. If a group is removed from a user via Special:UserRights, + it will not automatically be re-added. Configuration is similar to + $wgAutopromote (see DefaultSettings.php). +* The PerformRetroactiveAutoblock hook was added to allow overriding or complementing + retroactive autoblock handling. This runs when blocking a user with the 'autoblock' option. +* MediaWiki now supports using protocol-relative URLs in links, interwiki + targets and $wgServer. +* Introduced $wgVaryOnXFPForAPI which will cause the API to send + Vary: X-Forwarded-Proto headers. +* New maintenance script to refresh image metadata (maintenance/refreshImageMetadata.php). +* (bug 16428) Include permalink in printable version. +* (bug 30722) Add an identity collation that sorts things based on what the + unicode code point is (aka pre-1.17 behaviour). +* (bug 30940) Add a hook in User:getDefaultOptions. + To give extensions a better and more flexible way of providing default + values for preferences a hook has been introdiced in User:getDefaultOptions(). + Setting preferences in $wgDefaultUserOptions still work fine, but when reading + them (i.e. with array_keys) to get a list of all preferences, then + $wgDefaultUserOptions should no longer be used as it will contain those set via + User:getDefaultOptions(). +* (bug 30497) Add client-nojs and client-js classes on document element + to let styles easily hide or show things based on general JS availability. +* (bug 31293) If Special:Userlogin is loaded over HTTPS, display + MediaWiki:loginend-https instead of MediaWiki:loginend, if it's not empty. + Same for signupend on the account creation page. +* (bug 31233) New OutputPage::addJsConfigVars() method to make the output page specific + mw.config map extendable. +* mw.util.wikiScript has been implemented (like wfScript in GlobalFunctions.php). + +=== Bug fixes in 1.18 === +* (bug 27860) Minor edit after clicking 'new section' tab. +* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated. +* (bug 10871) Javascript and CSS pages in MediaWiki namespace are no longer + treated as wikitext on preview. +* (bug 22753) Output from update.php is more clear when things changed, entries + indicating nothing changed are now all prefixed by "...". +* Page existence is now not revealed (in the colour of the tabs) to users who + cannot read the page in question. +* (bug 19006) {{REVISIONUSER}} no longer acts like {{CURRENTUSER}} in some + cases. +* (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 26379) importImages.php gives more descriptive error message on failure. +* (bug 26410) + signs are no longer treated as spaces in internal links if + link has a % sign in it. +* (bug 26412) Search results headers no longer show a bogus edit link. +* (bug 26540) Fixed wrong call to applyPatch in MysqlUpdater. +* (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 $wgRestrictionTypes. +* If an edit summary exceeds 250 bytes and is truncated, add an ellipse. +* (bug 26638) Database error pages display correctly in RTL languages. +* (bug 26187) Confirmrecreate no longer parses the edit summary. +* (bug 26208) Mark directionality of some interlanguage links. +* (bug 26034) Make the "View / Read" tab in content_navigation style tabs remain + selected when the action is "purge". +* (bug 14267) Support a MediaWiki:Mainpage-nstab override for the subject + namespace tab on the mainpage of a wiki. +* (bug 10158) Do not mention allowing others to contact you when the feature + is disabled ($wgEnableUserEmail=false). +* (bug 26733) Wrap initial table creation in transaction. +* (bug 26729) Category pages should return 404 if they do not exist and have no + members. +* (bug 2585) Image pages should send 404 if no image, no shared image and no + description page. +* Custom editintro's using the editintro url parameter will no longer show + <noinclude> sections on pages they are included on. +* (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 28422) Remove color:black from tables in Monobook and Vector. And add it + to table.wikitable instead. +* (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. +* Trying to upload a file with no extension or with a disallowed MIME type now + gives the right message instead of complaining about a MIME/extension + mismatch. +* (bug 26809) Uploading files with multiple extensions where one of the + extensions is blacklisted now gives the proper extension in the error message. +* (bug 26961) Hide anon edits in watchlist preference now actually works. +* (bug 19751) Filesystem is now checked during image undeletion. +* Send last modified headers for Special:Recentchanges when RC patrol is + enabled, but user cannot see rc patrol links. +* (bug 26548) ForeignAPIRepo (InstantCommons) now works with PDF files + and other multi-paged file formats. +* Files with a mime type that does not match the extension are now properly + thumbnailed. +* (bug 27201) Special:WhatLinksHere output no longer contains duplicate IDs. +* (bug 15905) Nostalgia skin could become more usable by including a Talk: + link at the top of the page. +* (bug 27560) Search queries no longer fail in Walloon language. +* (bug 27679) Broken embedded files with special characters are no longer + double HTML escaped. +* (bug 27700) The upload protection can now also be set for files that do not + exist. +* (bug 27763) Article::getParserOutput() no longer throws a fatal given when an + incorrect revision ID is passed. +* Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could + cause confusing error messages. +* (bug 27854) Http::isValidURI is way too lax. +* Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits. +* AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled. Also allows message identifier + for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user. +* (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 14005) editing section 0 of an existing but empty page gives no such + section error. +* (bug 26939) Installer does not set $wgMetaNamespace. +* (bug 28166) UploadBase assumes that 'edit' and 'upload' rights are not per + page restrictions. +* Make truncate function automatically consider length of '...' string, + since length can vary by localization. +* (bug 28242) Make redirects generated by urls containing a local interwiki + prefix be a 301 instead of a 302. +* (bug 15641) blocked administrators are now prevented from deleting or + protecting their own talk page; and all blocked users are more + comprehensively prevented from performing other actions. +* (bug 27893) Edit-on-doubleclick now applies only on view and purge actions; + no longer triggers unexpectedly on delete, history etc. +* (bug 28417) Fix PHP notice when importing revision without a listed id. +* (bug 28430) Make html and TeX output of <math> always be left-to-right. +* (bug 28306) Fix exposure of suppressed usernames in ForeignDBRepo. +* (bug 28372) Fix bogus link to suppressed file versions in ForeignDBRepo. +* (bug 27473) Fix regression: bold, italic no longer interfere with linktrail + for ca, kaa. +* (bug 28444) Fix regression: edit-on-doubleclick retains revision id again. +* ' character entity is now allowed in wikitext. +* UtfNormal::cleanUp on an invalid utf-8 sequence no longer returns false if + intl installed. +* (bug 28561) The css class small will no longer make nested elements even + smaller. +* (bug 13172) Array type exif data (like GPS) was not being extracted from + images. +* (bug 28532) wfMsgExt() and wfMsgWikiHtml() use $wgOut->parse(). +* (bug 16129) Transcluded special pages expose strip markers when they output + parsed messages. +* (bug 27249) "Installed software" table in Special:Version should always be + left-to-right. +* (bug 28719) Do not call mLinkHolders __destruct explicitly. +* (bug 21196) Article::getContributors() no longer fails on PostgreSQL. +* (bug 28752) XCache doesn't work in CLI mode. +* (bug 28076) Thumbnail height limited to 360 pixels on Special:Listfiles. +* (bug 22227) Special:Listfiles no longer throws an error on bogus file entries. +* (bug 19408) user_properties.up_property: 32 bytes is not enough. +* (bug 25262) Fix for minification of hardcoded data: URIs in CSS. +* (bug 29263) Add LTR class to the shared CSS to be used for left-to-right text + such as SQL queries shown in dberrortext and similar messages in RTL + environments. +* (bug 14977) Fixed $wgServer detection in cases where an IPv6 address is used + as the server name. +* The View X deleted revisions is now shown again on Special:Upload. +* (bug 29071) mediawiki.action.watch.ajax.js should pass uselang to API. +* (bug 28868) Show total pages in the subtitle of an image on the + file description page for multi-paged documents. +* (bug 28883) Message names for different compression types commonly + used in Tiff files. +* When translcuding a special page, do not let it interpret url parameters. +* (bug 28887) Special page classes are no longer re-used during 1 request. +* (bug 28888) Searching for something starting with a # sign no longer tells + the user a page named [[:]] already exists. +* (bug 23002) Imagelinks table not updated after imagemove. +* (bug 27864) Transcluding {{Special:Prefix}} with empty prefix now lists all + pages. +* (bug 18803) JPEG2000 images should not be uploadable as .jpg files. +* (bug 11868) If using links to count articles, the checking will now be based + on the real presence of an internal link instead of the "[[" string. +* (bug 28287) The "your changes" box for edit conflicts is now read-only. +* (bug 28940) When making a thumb of an SVG, and only specifying the height + make the width be the max SVG size, not the natrual width of the SVG. +* (bug 1780) Uploading files with non-ascii characters are now forbidden on + Windows. +* (bug 23464) File: prefixes are now chopped off during uploading. +* (bug 28174) Message config-logo-help amended to not explicitly assume any + LTR/RTL screen layout. +* (bug 28992) Revision numbers in the patrol log are transformed in the user + language. +* (bug 27073) ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles marker should be dynamically appended to + the document head if it doesn't exist. +* (bug 27023) After the document is ready, mw.loader is broken (calls callback + before module is parsed). +* (bug 4330) External URLs without a custom title should be treated as LTR, + even in RTL text. +* (bug 29055) Make "don't send email on minor edits" preference apply to + changes to talk page in addition to watchlist edits. +* (bug 28272) Special:AllMessages should have only one "Go" button. +* (bug 29101) Special:FileDuplicateSearch no longer shows silly message. +* (bug 29048) jQuery.tabIndex: firstTabIndex() should not output the same + as lastTabIndex(). +* (bug 29332) Warn if user requests mediawiki-announce subscription but does not + enter an e-mail address. +* (bug 25375) Add canonical namespaces to "wgNamespaceIds" in mw.config. +* The class JpegOrTiffHandler was renamed ExifBitmapHandler. +* (bug 29443) Special:Undelete should use JavaScript to invert all checkboxes + instead of reloading the page. +* (bug 29325) Setting $wgStrictFileExtensions to false no longer gives incorrect warning. +* (bug 29437) Multiple apostrophes in deleted article title cause odd rendering. +* (bug 29485) RSS feed of Special:RecentChange grouped together multiple + consecutive edits by same user in included diff, but then linked to + a single ungrouped diff. +* Do not try to group together a page creation and edit in the RSS feed of RC. +* (bug 29342) Patrol preferences shouldn't be visible to users who don't have + patrol permissions. +* (bug 29471) Exception no longer thrown for files with invalid date in metadata. +* (bug 29492) Long-running steps in the installer (such as Upgrade and Install) + no longer cause timeouts. +* (bug 29507) Change 'image link' to 'file link' in Special:Whatlinkshere. +* If the db is really screwed up, and doesn't have a recentchanges table, + make the updater throw an exception instead of a fatal. +* wfArrayToCGI() and wfCgiToArray() now handle nested and associative arrays + correctly. +* (bug 29567) mw.util.addPortletLink should only wrap link in <span> for + "vectorTabs" portlets. +* (bug 8556) Incorrect session failure warning on preview-on-open + namespaces (categories) when combined with $wgRawHtml. +* Use content language in formatting of dates in revertpage message + (rollback revert edit summary) and do not adjust for user timezone. +* (bug 29277) MediaWiki:Filepage.css is also shown on the local wiki +* Make sure Backlink cache does not retrieve interwiki redirects when looking for + redirects to a local page. +* (bug 6100) Allow different directionality (LTR/RTL) for user interface + and wiki content, along with many other RTL and directionality improvements + (such as bugs 28030, 12406, 28349). +* (bug 29712) Removed broken defaultUserOptionOverrides in MessagesXx files and + unneeded CSS flipping of quickbar. Instead, introduce option 5 which sets + left/right according to the directionality of your interface language. +* (bug 19514) Unordered list list-style-image should be IE6-compatible (8-bit). +* (bug 27410) The tag filter on a history page is now within a <label> element. +* (bug 29779) DairikiDiff/WikiDiff <ins> and <del> should undo browser default + styling (strike/underline). +* (bug 28630) Add iwlinks, langlinks, redirect to + RefreshLinks::deleteLinksFromNonexistent. +* (bug 29797) Error: "Tried to load block with invalid type" when subpages + are disabled for user pages. +* (bug 12205) Bidirectional names in action=credits are split and displayed. + incorrectly when wrapped to the next line. +* (bug 20781) Move 'mainpagetext' messages to installer's .i18n file. +* (bug 29737) "MediaWiki:Qbsettings-directionality" should refer to script, + not language. +* (bug 26360) $wgSessionHandler was overriding system settings unconditionally. +* Removed AjaxFunctions.php. The last remaining function js_unescape() was moved + to the FCKEditor extension. +* (bug 28762) Resizing to specified height broken for very thin images. +* (bug 29959) Installer fatal when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled and user + tries to subsribe to mediawiki-announce. +* (bug 27427) mw.util.getParamValue shouldn't return value from hash even if + param is only present in hash. +* 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) +* $wgSVGMaxSize is now applied to the smaller of width or height, making very wide + pano/timeline/diagram SVGs renderable at saner sizes. +* (bug 30219) The page shown when LocalSettings.php does not exist was broken on + Windows servers. +* (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because + #REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS. +* (bug 30335) Fix for HTMLForms using GET breaking when non-friendly URLs + are used. +* (bug 30264) Changed installer-generated LocalSettings.php to use require_once() + instead require() for included extensions. +* Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages. +* (bug 30684) Fix bad escaping in mw.message for inexistent messages (i.e. <key>). +* $wgOverrideSiteFeed no longer double escapes urls. +* The preprocessor no longer fails with a PHP warning about XML_PARSE_HUGE when + processing complex pages using newer versions of libxml2. +* (bug 30907) Special:Unusedcategories should sort ascendingly. +* (bug 28545) When using the uca-default collation, sortkey's starting with a + space (U+20) will sort under an invisible header like in 1.16 rather than a U+6DE. +* (bug 30192) Thumbnails of archived files are now deleted. +* (bug 30843) mediawiki.Title should not convert extensions (anything after the + last full stop) to lower case). +* (bug 31213) Exception thrown when trying to move file cross-namespace. +* (bug 18424) Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages paging links are + really small, and somewhat inconsistent with each other. +* (bug 30466) Entries in iwlinks table are now cleared when moving a page over + redirect. +* (bug 31674) Can't edit watchlist if it contains special pages. +* (bug 32100) Installer complains about Suhosin GET limit even if it is + already set above 1024 bytes. + +=== API changes in 1.18 === +* BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token. +* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result. +* (bug 14869) Add API module for accessing QueryPage-based special pages. +* (bug 14020) API for Special:Unwatchedpages. +* (bug 24287) Wrap API Help output at 100 characters. +* Add a realname uiprop option to query=userinfo so a user's realname can be + extracted. +* Add a &watchuser option to ApiBlock. +* (bug 26541) Generator-ise ApiQueryRecentChanges. +* action=parse now correctly returns an error for nonexistent pages. +* (bug 25767) Add userrights properties to allusers and users query lists. +* (bug 26558) list=allusers auprop=groups does not list groups a user is + automatically a member of. +* (bug 26559) list=allusers auprop=rights does not match + list=users usprop=rights. +* (bug 26560) On allusers if limit < total number of users, last user gets + duplicate. +* (bug 25135) add "normalized" to action=parse. +* (bug 26460) Add support for listing category members by category pageid. +* (bug 26482) add a imimages param to prop=images. +* (bug 26498) allow LinksUpdate with API. +* (bug 26485) add a elextlinks param to prop=extlinks. +* (bug 26483) add a iwtitles param to prop=iwlinks. +* (bug 26484) add a lltitles param to prop=langlinks. +* (bug 26480) add a pppageprops param to prop=pageprops. +* (bug 26650) Remove $wgAPICacheHelp in favour of $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout. +* (bug 24650) Fix API to work with categorylinks changes. +* Expose list of skins in meta=siteinfo. +* (bug 26548) Add iiurlparam param to query=imageinfo and query=stashimageinfo. +* (bug 27205) aiprop=metadata and aiprop=parsedcomment need help text. +* Add a amtitle param to meta=allmessages. +* (bug 25832) query=allimages now outputs ns/title as well. +* (bug 27199) Thumbnail urls can be fetched for old files as well. +* (bug 27376) when using ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'integer' without a min or + max value, API doesn't validate the input is actually an integer. +* (bug 27479) API error when using both prop=pageprops and + prop=info&inprop=displaytitle. +* (bug 27554) Update API information text to reflect change in bug 26125. +* (bug 27611) list=blocks: Use ipb_by_text instead of join with user table. +* (bug 27616) Add userid of blocked user and blocker to list=blocks. +* (bug 27688) Simplify queries to list user block information. +* (bug 27708) list=users does not have a property to return user id. +* (bug 27715) imageinfo didn't respect revdelete. +* (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 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version. +* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users. +* (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode. +* (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute. +* (bug 28010) Passing a non existant user to list=users gives internal error. +* (bug 27549) action=query&list=users&usprop=groups doesn't show implicit + groups if a user doesn't have explicit groups. +* (bug 27670) Ordering by timestamp (and usage of start and end) isn't as clear + in auto generated document, as it is on mediawiki.org. +* (bug 27182) API: Add filter by prefix for meta=allmessages. +* (bug 27183) API: Add filter by customisation state for meta=allmessages. +* (bug 27340) API: Allow listing of "small" categories. +* (bug 27342) Add audir param to list=allusers. +* (bug 27203) add fato param to list=filearchive. +* (bug 27341) Add drto param to list=deletedrevs. +* (bug 26630) Add API for Special:ActiveUsers. +* (bug 27020) API: Allow title prefix search of logevents (only when not in + miser mode). +* (bug 26629) add Special:MIMESearch to API. +* (bug 27585) add pagecount to list=filearchive. +* (bug 28104) Namespace for local pages in interwiki backlinks (iwbacklinks) + is missing. +* (bug 27343) Add parseddescription to list=filearchive. +* (bug 27469) label implicit groups in list=allusers&auprop=groups/ + list=users&usprop=groups. +* Addition of APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo hook to add extra information to + the general site info results. +* (bug 16288) API: consider making closure status of wikis more clear + with meta=siteinfo. +* (bug 27589) list=allimages&aiprop=archivename is useless. +* (bug 27586) Remove duplication of props in ApiQueryStashImageInfo + by using ApiQueryImageInfo. +* (bug 28226) prop=extlinks&eloffset should be an integer. +* (bug 28070) Fix watchlist RSS for databases that store timestamps in a + real timestamp field. +* API upload errors may now return the parameter that needs to be changed and + a sessionkey to fix the error. +* (bug 28249) allow dupes in meta=allmessages&amargs. +* (bug 28263) cannot import xml with the API, when have not "import" user + right, but "importupload". +* (bug 28365) Added description for uiprop=preferencestoken in meta=userinfo. +* (bug 28394) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiUnblock. +* (bug 28395) Set forgotten parameters types in ApiParse. +* (bug 28368) add hint for multipart/form-data to API information of + action=import&xml=. +* (bug 28391) action=feedwatchlist&allrev should be a bool. +* (bug 28364) add registration date to meta=userinfo. +* (bug 28254) action=paraminfo: Extract type from PARAM_DFLT if + PARAM_TYPE is not set. +* (bug 27712) add parent_id to list=deletedrevs. +* (bug 28455) Add 'toponly' to recentchanges API module. +* (bug 26873) API: Add 'toponly' filter in usercontribs module. +* (bug 28586) YAML: strings that are the same as boolean literals. +* (bug 28591) Update/replace/supplement spyc (YAML parsing library). +* YAML API output is now 1.2 compliant, using JSON as the formatter. +* (bug 28672) give information about misermode on API. +* (bug 28558) Add iw_api and iw_wikiid to meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap +* (bug 26882) Allow listing of indefinite protections with the API. +* (bug 27344) add drprefix param to list=deletedrevs. +* (bug 28560) list=deletedrevs should die, if combination of param is invalid. +* (bug 28238) paraminfo: output both limits for multi param. +* (bug 27179) API: List of extension tags through meta=siteinfo. +* Get a list of function hooks through meta=siteinfo. +* Get a list of all subscribed hooks, and those subscribers. +* (bug 28225) Allow hiding of user groups in list=allusers. +* (bug 27185) API: Add Special:ComparePages. +* (bug 28265) allow outputting of comments for action=expandtemplates. +* (bug 27790) Add query type for querymodules to output of ApiParamInfo. +* (bug 28963) Add langbacklinks query module to the api. +* (bug 27593) API should return error message when sha1/sha1base36 is invalid. +* (bug 28578) API's parse module should not silently override invalid + title inputs. +* (bug 20699) Watchlist API should list log-events. +* (bug 29070) Require a token in API action=watch. +* (bug 29221) Expose oldrevid in ApiQueryWatchlist output. +* (bug 29267) Always give the servername for meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag. +* (bug 28897) rvparse now respects rvsection for action=query&prop=revisions. +* (bug 25734) API: Possible issue with revids validation. +* (bug 28002) Internal error in ApiFormatRaw::getMimeType. +* (bug 29237) ApiQuery now has an option to output the "iwurl" attribute. +* (bug 28392) Mark action=undelete×tamps as type "timestamp". +* (bug 21346) Make deleted images searchable by hash (disabled in Miser Mode). +* (bug 27595) sha1 search of list=filearchive does not work. +* (bug 26763) Make RSS/Atom of user contributions more visible. +* (bug 25133) Allow redirects also for action=parse&pageid. +* (bug 29745) Fatal error in API search. +* (bug 29476) API returns page title instead of sectiontitle for + srprop=sectiontitle. +* Correct the documentation of srprop properties. +* (bug 28817) Add reference help page link to API Modules. +* (bug 29935) Improve formatting of examples in ApiParamInfo. +* (bug 29938) list=users&usprop=rights shows rights the user doesn't have. +* (bug 24781) The API will include an XML namespace if the includexmlnamespace + parameter is set. +* (bug 29392) Setting the start or end parameter now works with lists blocks, + categorymembers, deletedrevs, logevents, protectedtitles, usercontributions + and watchlist in Postgres. + +=== Languages updated in 1.18 === + +MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated +regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as +changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. + +* Angika (anp) (new). +* Brahui (brh) (new). +* Central Dusun (dtp) (new). +* Jamaican Creole English (jam) (new). +* Khowar (khw) (new). +* Liv (liv) (new). +* Kichwa (qug) (new). +* Tokipona (tp) (removed) 'tokipona' is still valid. +* (bug 17160) Gender specific display text for User namespace. +* Link trail added for sl and sh. +* (bug 27633) Add characters to linkTrail for Portuguese (pt and pt-br). +* (bug 27426) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Arabic (ar). +* (bug 27385) Set Polish $namespaceGenderAliases. +* (bug 27681) Set $namespaceGenderAliases for Portuguese (pt and pt-br). +* (bug 27785) Fallback language for Kabardian (kbd) is English now. +* (bug 27825) Raw watchlist edit message now uses formatted numbers. +* (bug 28040) Turkish: properly lower case 'I' to 'i' (dotless i) and + uppercase 'i' to 'I' (dotted i). +* Conversion script between Syllabics and Latin for the Inuktitut language. +* Date formats for Indonesian (id) updated. +* Bhojpuri (bho) (renamed from "bh"). +* (bug 29031) When translating block log entries, indefinite, infinite, and + infinity are now considered the same. +* Aromanian (rup) (renamed from "rua-rup"). +* Kashmiri (ks) split into Kashmiri (Perso-Arabic) (ks-arab) and Kashmiri + (Devanagari) (ks-deva). Defaults to ks-arab. +* (bug 30864) Use bengali numerals for <ol> for Assamese. +* (bug 30817) Restored linktrail for kk (Kazakh). +* (bug 27398) Add $wgExtraGenderNamespaces for configured gendered namespaces. +* (bug 30846) New LanguageOs class. + +=== Other changes in 1.18 === +* Removed legacy wgAjaxWatch javascript global object, no longer in use. +* (bug 28556) Upload support for MacBinary files has been removed (Used by + Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9). +* On wiki farm setups using $wgConf, 'wgCanonicalServer' is now expected to be + set for all wikis. This was already the case for 'wgServer'. == MediaWiki 1.17 == @@ -10,8 +801,8 @@ upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki. MediaWiki 1.17 is shipping with a completely redesigned installer to fix a lot of outstanding bugs, cleanup the code quality, and make it easier to use. Notably, you can now run upgrades from the web without having to move -LocalSettings.php. Also, configuration script directory has been renamed -from config/ to mw-config/. The specific bugs are listed below in the +LocalSettings.php. Also, configuration script directory has been renamed +from config/ to mw-config/. The specific bugs are listed below in the general notes. === New ResourceLoader in 1.17 === @@ -84,12 +875,12 @@ are used instead. * (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 + used for the file cache. Default value is 2, which matches former behavior * 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). + of LocalSettings.php, in LocalSettings.php itself. Instead, this is done + automatically if $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange is true (which is + the default). * (bug 26253) $wgPostCommitUpdateList has been removed === New features in 1.17 === @@ -455,7 +1246,7 @@ are used instead. * 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 18372) $wgFileExtensions will now override $wgFileBlacklist +* (bug 18372) $wgFileExtensions will now override $wgFileBlacklist * (bug 25512) Subcategory list should not include category prefix for members. * (bug 20244) Installer does not validate SQLite database directory for stable path * (bug 1379) Installer directory conflicts with some hosts' configuration panel. @@ -559,7 +1350,7 @@ are used instead. * (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 +* (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 @@ -888,7 +1679,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. the return value * Separate unit test suites under t/ and tests/ were merged and moved to maintenance/tests/. -* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and +* importImages.php maintenance script can now use the original uploader and comment from another wiki. * Support for Turck MMCache was removed * (bug 14592) Warn users when they try to move their user page that their @@ -1325,11 +2116,11 @@ comment from another wiki. * Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid broken multibyte characters * (bug 22540) ForeignApiRepos no longer try to store thumbnails that don't exist -* (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to +* (bug 22551) Special:Resetpass now has a "Cancel" button that sends the user to the page set in the &returnto parameter. * (bug 19194) Search box in Modern skin doesn't focus with Safari/Chrome * (bug 17790) Users instantly logged off on HughesNet -* (bug 21549) Make foreign key constraints DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED +* (bug 21549) Make foreign key constraints DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED when using Postgres as the database backend. == API changes in 1.16 == @@ -1477,7 +2268,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. * (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 +* Add $wgExportFromNamespaces for enabling/disabling the "export all from namespace" option (disabled by default) === New features in 1.15 === @@ -1555,12 +2346,12 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. '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 + 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 + 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 @@ -1574,12 +2365,12 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. 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 +* (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 +* LinkerMakeExternalLink now has an $attribs parameter for link attributes and a $linkType parameter for the type of external link being made * (bug 17785) Dynamic dates surrounded with a <span> tag, fixing sortable tables with dynamic dates. @@ -1667,7 +2458,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. * (bug 17341) "Powered by MediaWiki" should be on the left on RTL wikis * (bug 17404) "userrights-interwiki" right was missing in User::$mCoreRights * (bug 7509) Separation strings should be configurable -* (bug 17420) Send the correct content type from action=raw when the HTML file +* (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 @@ -1728,7 +2519,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. 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 +* (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 @@ -1785,7 +2576,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. * (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 +* (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. @@ -1795,7 +2586,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. 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 +* 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 @@ -2413,31 +3204,31 @@ regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed. == Changes since 1.13.2 == -David Remahl of Apple's Product Security team has identified a number of +David Remahl of Apple's Product Security team has identified a number of security issues in previous releases of MediaWiki. Subsequent analysis by the MediaWiki development team expanded the scope of these vulnerabilities. The issues with a significant impact are as follows: * An XSS vulnerability affecting all MediaWiki installations between 1.13.0 and 1.13.2. [CVE-2008-5249] -* A local script injection vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer clients for +* A local script injection vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer clients for all MediaWiki installations with uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250] -* A local script injection vulnerability affecting clients with SVG scripting - capability (such as Firefox 1.5+), for all MediaWiki installations with SVG +* A local script injection vulnerability affecting clients with SVG scripting + capability (such as Firefox 1.5+), for all MediaWiki installations with SVG uploads enabled. [CVE-2008-5250] -* A CSRF vulnerability affecting the Special:Import feature, for all MediaWiki +* A CSRF vulnerability affecting the Special:Import feature, for all MediaWiki installations since the feature was introduced in 1.3.0. [CVE-2008-5252] XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities allow an attacker to steal an authorised user's login session, and to act as that user on the wiki. The authorised user must visit a web page controlled by the attacker in order to -activate the attack. Intranet wikis are vulnerable if the attacker can +activate the attack. Intranet wikis are vulnerable if the attacker can determine the intranet URL. -Local script injection vulnerabilities are like XSS vulnerabilities, except -that the attacker must have an account on the local wiki, and there is no +Local script injection vulnerabilities are like XSS vulnerabilities, except +that the attacker must have an account on the local wiki, and there is no external site involved. The attacker uploads a script to the wiki, which another -user is tricked into executing, with the effect that the attacker is able to act +user is tricked into executing, with the effect that the attacker is able to act as the privileged user. CSRF vulnerabilities allow an attacker to act as an authorised user on the wiki, @@ -2456,21 +3247,21 @@ David Remahl also reminded us of some security-related configuration issues: to avoid leaking these images, but these measures are not perfect. * Set display_errors=off in your php.ini to avoid path disclosure via PHP fatal errors. This is the default on most shared web hosts. -* Enabling MediaWiki's debugging features, such as $wgShowExceptionDetails, may +* Enabling MediaWiki's debugging features, such as $wgShowExceptionDetails, may lead to path disclosure. Other changes in this release: * Avoid fatal error in profileinfo.php when not configured. -* Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection against - exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default installations. -* Avoid streaming uploaded files to the user via index.php. This allows +* Add a .htaccess to deleted images directory for additional protection against + exposure of deleted files with known SHA-1 hashes on default installations. +* Avoid streaming uploaded files to the user via index.php. This allows security-conscious users to serve uploaded files via a different domain, and thus client-side scripts executed from that domain cannot access the login cookies. Affects Special:Undelete, img_auth.php and thumb.php. -* When streaming files via index.php, use the MIME type detected from the +* When streaming files via index.php, use the MIME type detected from the file extension, not from the data. This reduces the XSS attack surface. -* Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath. Such redirects exacerbate any +* Blacklist redirects via Special:Filepath. Such redirects exacerbate any XSS vulnerabilities involving uploads of files containing scripts. * Internationalisation updates. @@ -2478,17 +3269,17 @@ Other changes in this release: * Security: Work around misconfiguration by requiring strict comparisons for in_array in User::isAllowed(). -* (bug 14944) Added $wgShellLocale for configuration of an appropriate locale - to use for LC_CTYPE during shell invocation. For servers that don't have +* (bug 14944) Added $wgShellLocale for configuration of an appropriate locale + to use for LC_CTYPE during shell invocation. For servers that don't have en_US.utf8. Also added locale detection during install. * Localisation updates * Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability in useskin parameter. == Changes since 1.13.0 == -* (bug 15460) Fixed intermittent deadlock errors and poor concurrent +* (bug 15460) Fixed intermittent deadlock errors and poor concurrent performance for installations without memcached. -* (bug 13770) Fixed DOM module detection for installations with both dom +* (bug 13770) Fixed DOM module detection for installations with both dom and domxml. * (bug 15148) Fixed Special:BlockIP for PostgreSQL * Fixed SQLite support for non-memcached installations @@ -2497,7 +3288,7 @@ Other changes in this release: == Changes since 1.13.0rc2 == * (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module -* Fix regression from r37834: accesskey tooltip hint should be given for the +* Fix regression from r37834: accesskey tooltip hint should be given for the minor edit and watch labels on the edit page. * Updated Chinese simplified/traditional conversion tables @@ -2516,10 +3307,10 @@ Other changes in this release: shown as empty instead of the current time. * (bug 14904): fragments were lost when redirects were fixed. * Added magic word __STATICREDIRECT__ to suppress the redirect fixer -* (bug 15035) Revert English linkTrail to /^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD, as it was before - r36253. Multiple reports of breakage due to old (pre-5.0) PCRE libraries, - both bundled with PHP and packaged with distros such as RHEL. -* (bug 14944) Shell invocation of external programs such as ImageMagick convert +* (bug 15035) Revert English linkTrail to /^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD, as it was before + r36253. Multiple reports of breakage due to old (pre-5.0) PCRE libraries, + both bundled with PHP and packaged with distros such as RHEL. +* (bug 14944) Shell invocation of external programs such as ImageMagick convert was broken in PHP 5.2.6, if the server had a non-UTF-8 locale. @@ -2542,7 +3333,7 @@ Other changes in this release: you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share. -* Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries +* Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries * Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page * $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge @@ -2552,19 +3343,19 @@ Other changes in this release: image page already exists * $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage -* Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use +* Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it. * $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over a certain number of days to be considered active * $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days -* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of +* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however. * New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default. -* New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output. +* New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output. Default: false * Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection - is no longer possible. + is no longer possible. * $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class, previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType * $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages @@ -2573,7 +3364,7 @@ Other changes in this release: with MimeMagic. * Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when creating new directories. -* (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults +* (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults current behavior. === New features in 1.13 === @@ -2592,7 +3383,7 @@ Other changes in this release: reduce broken form submissions * Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old redirects to the redirect table -* Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons +* Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons * (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload * (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract * When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit" @@ -2632,7 +3423,7 @@ Other changes in this release: text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount') * Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account, otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins -* Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content +* Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content namespaces, not just NS_MAIN. * (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository and local one @@ -2641,7 +3432,7 @@ Other changes in this release: * (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL] * Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message * (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers -* Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest) +* Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest) * More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting) * (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block. * (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet @@ -2668,9 +3459,9 @@ Other changes in this release: changed by extensions. * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of external links. -* (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP. -* (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string -* (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of +* (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP. +* (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string +* (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser * Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar * Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output @@ -2689,7 +3480,7 @@ Other changes in this release: * Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached. * (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images * Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be - moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]: + moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]: SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES * Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before the database is potentially queried @@ -2698,7 +3489,7 @@ Other changes in this release: * Special:Recentchangeslinked now includes changes to transcluded pages and displayed images; also, the "Show changes to pages linked" checkbox now works on category pages too, showing all links that are not categorizations -* (bug 4578) Automatically fix redirects broken by a page move +* (bug 4578) Automatically fix redirects broken by a page move === Bug fixes in 1.13 === @@ -2757,7 +3548,7 @@ Other changes in this release: * (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity * (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input * (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom -* (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect', +* (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect', so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms * Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and using the "delete and move" option. @@ -2893,7 +3684,7 @@ Other changes in this release: * (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page * (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode. * (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of - $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. + $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. * (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title) and $2 (=revision numbers) * (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions @@ -2928,7 +3719,7 @@ Other changes in this release: searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki). * (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title on Special:Newpages. -* (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer +* (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer generates a log entry. * (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid, keeps the log page from being distorted. @@ -2980,7 +3771,7 @@ Other changes in this release: * (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works * (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless * (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table -* (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now +* (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now handled properly. * (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist * (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly @@ -2990,7 +3781,7 @@ Other changes in this release: * Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows * (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output. * (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo -* Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to +* Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output * (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse * (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo @@ -3019,7 +3810,7 @@ Other changes in this release: * (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges * (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo * (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo -* (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete +* (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete for ages) * (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates * (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images @@ -3041,7 +3832,7 @@ Other changes in this release: * Added bkip parameter to list=blocks * (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized * Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories -* (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and +* (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and $wgShowSQLErrors * (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo * Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions @@ -3205,7 +3996,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code, and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook. * (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version -* When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for +* When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for and installed when at the superuser level. * The default robot policy for the entire wiki is now configurable via the $wgDefaultRobotPolicy setting. @@ -3487,21 +4278,21 @@ expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security pass. Bug 5678 has been fixed. This has a number of user-visible effects related to -the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples. +the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples. Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess" mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated, especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behaviour -of the former message mode. +of the former message mode. The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by -template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an -entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings -will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the -template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major -break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects are almost entirely +template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an +entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings +will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the +template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major +break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects are almost entirely beneficial. The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass @@ -3523,7 +4314,7 @@ The new preprocessor syntax has been documented in Backus-Naur Form at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF -The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse +The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse tree from wikitext source. This parse tree corresponds closely to the grammar documented on that page. @@ -3658,7 +4449,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * Improved thumb.php error handling * Display file history on local image description pages of shared images * Added $wgArticleRobotPolicies -* (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext +* (bug 10076) Additional parameter $7 added to MediaWiki:Blockedtext containing, the ip, ip range, or username whose block is affecting the * (bug 7691) Show relevant lines from the deletion log when re-creating a previously deleted article @@ -3798,12 +4589,12 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 11022) Use a more accurate page title for Special:Whatlinkshere and Special:Recentchangeslinked * Add link to user contributions in normal watchlist edit mode -* (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow - modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new +* (bug 9426) Add 'newsectionheaderdefaultlevel' message to allow + modification of the heading formatting for new sections when section=new argument is supplied -* (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the +* (bug 10836) Add 'newsectionsummary' message to allow modification of the text that prefixes a new section link in Recent Changes - + == Bugfixes since 1.10 == * (bug 9712) Use Arabic comma in date/time formats for Arabic and Farsi @@ -3829,7 +4620,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 7070) monobook/user.gif has antialias artifacts * (bug 9123) Safer way when applying $wgLocalTZoffset * (bug 9896) Documentation for $wgSquidServers and X-FORWARDED-FOR -* (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer +* (bug 9417) Uploading new versions of images when using Postgres no longer throws warnings. * (bug 9908) Using tsearch2 with Postgres 8.1 no longer gives an error. * (bug 1438) Fix for diff table layout on very wide lines. @@ -3875,7 +4666,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 9383) Don't set a default value for BLOB column in rc-deleted database patch * (bug 10149) Don't show full template list on section-0 edit -* (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob() +* (bug 9909) Ensure access to binary fields in the math table use encodeBlob() and decodeBlob() * (bug 6743) Don't link broken image links to the upload form when uploads are disabled @@ -3897,7 +4688,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * As intended, *skip* the HTTP proxy purges when doing HTCP purges * (bug 9696) Fix handling of brace transformations in "pagemovedtext" * (bug 10325) Fix regression in form action on Special:Listusers -* Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving +* Fixed installation on MyISAM or old InnoDB with charset=utf8, was giving overlong key errors. * Fixed zero-padding issues with MySQL 5 binary schema * (bug 10344) Don't follow a redirect after changing its protection level @@ -4035,7 +4826,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (bug 8393) <sup> and <sub> need to be preserved (without attributes) for entries in the table of contents * (bug 11114) Fix regression in read-only mode error display during editing -* Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure +* Force non-MySQL databases to use an ORDER BY in SpecialAllpages to ensure that the first page_title is truly the first page title. * (bug 10836) Change the summary on creating of new section * Inclusion of Special:Wantedpages now works again @@ -4204,7 +4995,7 @@ 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 +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 @@ -4215,7 +5006,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * 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 +* 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 @@ -4227,7 +5018,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN == New features since 1.9 == -* (bug 6937) Introduce "statistics-footer" message, appended to +* (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 @@ -4261,7 +5052,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN "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. + 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> @@ -4371,7 +5162,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (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>') +* 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 @@ -4532,16 +5323,16 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN 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 +* 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 +* 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 +* 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 @@ -4554,8 +5345,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN * (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 +* (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 @@ -5393,12 +6184,12 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle * Don't put empty-page message into view-source when page text is blank * (bug 6587) Remove redundant "allnonarticles" message -* Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow +* Block improvements: Allow blocks on anonymous users only. Optionally allow or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses. Prevent duplicate blocks. Fixed the problem of expiry and unblocking erroneously affecting multiple blocks. Fixed confusing lack of error message when a blocked user - attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in - the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an + attempts to create an account. Fixed inefficiency of Special:Ipblocklist in + the presence of large numbers of blocks; added indexes and implemented an indexed pager. * (bug 6448) Allow filtering of Special:Newpages according to username * (bug 6618) Improve permissions/error detection in Special:Lockdb @@ -5436,11 +6227,11 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files. * Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core - modules. + modules. * Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php or another entry point. -* Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches. +* Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches. * Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should @@ -5448,25 +6239,25 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects. * Removed the broken altencoding feature. * Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects - are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles, + are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles, via a slightly different interface. * Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled. -* Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php. +* Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php. * Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is - now consistently done from Language::factory(). + now consistently done from Language::factory(). * Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the profiler during maintenance scripts. * Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form. * Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace * Fix regression in ordering of namespaces * (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name, - page title, etc. + page title, etc. * hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body by all skins. * Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box. -* Added experimental installer for extensions. +* Added experimental installer for extensions. See maintenance/installExtension.php * Added Tajic (tg) language file. * (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue) @@ -5512,7 +6303,7 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list * (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows * (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip -* [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number +* [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number of disambiguation templates. * [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]]. @@ -5557,7 +6348,7 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * Added experimental $wgRevisionCacheExpiry to cache extracted revision text in $wgMemc, to further reduce hits to external storage. Set to 0 (disabled) by default. -* Minor changes to the installer. +* Minor changes to the installer. * Remove ":" for 'youremail' and 'yourrealname' in includes/templates/Userlogin.php so that ":" could be used in i18n for Special:Preferences (like 'username' and 'uid'). * Fix layout for Special:Preferences->Date and Time (position for 'timezonetext'). @@ -5576,13 +6367,13 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php was meant to be banned years ago... For now existing accounts will not be prevented fromm login. * (bug 6092) Introduce magic words {{REVISIONDAY}}, {{REVISIONDAY2}, {{REVISIONMONTH}}, - {{REVISIONYEAR}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} + {{REVISIONYEAR}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} * (bug 7425) Preceeding whitespace in [[...]] breaks subpages * Try to reconnect after transitory database errors in dumpTextPass.php * (bug 6023) Fixed mismatch of 0/NULL for wl_notificationtimestamp; now notification mails are working after 'Mark all pages visited' button on Special:Watchlist is clicked -* Made {{INT:}} a core parser function instead of a special case. The syntax - and behaviour is largely unchanged. +* Made {{INT:}} a core parser function instead of a special case. The syntax + and behaviour is largely unchanged. * (bug 7448) Fixing the native name for Ewe (ee) * (bug 6864) Replace message 'editing' with new message 'editinguser' in Special:Userrights to allow better localisation @@ -5601,9 +6392,9 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * (bug 6617) Validate timestamps on Special:Undelete * Do fewer unnecessary full writes of user rows; only update user_touched for watch/unwatch, group membership change, and login operations -* Restructured the languages directory, to avoid problems when people - untar MW 1.8 over the top of a 1.7 installation. -* (bug 6890) SQL query error on bad input to Pager lists +* Restructured the languages directory, to avoid problems when people + untar MW 1.8 over the top of a 1.7 installation. +* (bug 6890) SQL query error on bad input to Pager lists due to negative LIMIT clause, caused by integer wraparound. * Fixed various bugs related to table prefixes, especially the interaction between table prefixes and memcached, which was formerly completely broken. @@ -5696,7 +6487,7 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link * Improvements to German localisation files * (bug 5570) Problems using <special page>/parameter link form for long titles -* (bug 3884) Add $user parameter to AddNewUser hook, call it for by-email +* (bug 3884) Add $user parameter to AddNewUser hook, call it for by-email registrations as well as self-registrations. * (bug 4327) Report age of cached data sets in query pages * (bug 4662) Fix Safari check in wikibits.js @@ -5713,7 +6504,7 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * (bug 2910) Default view preferences for watchlists * Add "hide bot edits from the watchlist" user preference * (bug 5250) Introduce Special:Unusedtemplates -* Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent +* Add user preference setting for an extended watchlist, showing all recent edits up to a certain edit, and not just the latest edit.. * Made MessageRo.php more general * (bug 5640) Indonesian localisation improvements @@ -6032,7 +6823,7 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * (bug 6170) Update for Kashubian translation (csb) * (bug 6191) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #18 * (bug 6114) Update to Walloon localization (wa) -* Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a +* Added $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies to allow customisation of robot policies on a per-namespace basis. * Add <ol> to the list of block elements for doBlockLevels; avoids <p>s being interspersed into your ordered lists. @@ -6060,7 +6851,7 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php * (bug 3837) Leave <center> as is instead of doing an unsafe text replacement to <div class="center">. <center> is perfectly valid in the target doctype (XHTML 1.0 Transitional), while the replacement didn't catch all cases and - could even result in invalid output from valid input. + could even result in invalid output from valid input. * (bug 4280) Use 'noindex,nofollow' instead of 'noindex,follow' for default meta robots tag on diff view and special pages. Should reduce impact of robots on scrolling special pages, diffs etc on sites where robots.txt @@ -6121,7 +6912,7 @@ they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php in StreamFile * (bug 6304) Show timestamp for current revision in diff pages * Vertically align current version with old version header in diff display -* (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message +* (bug 6174) Remove redundant "emailforlost" message * (bug 6189) Show an error to an unprivilleged user trying to create account * (bug 6365) Show user information in the "old revision" navigation links * Introduce 'FetchChangesList' hook; see docs/hooks.txt for more information @@ -6303,7 +7094,7 @@ Database: * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc * Removed read-only check from Database::query() * Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs -* Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is +* Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed. * Don't change the password of the MySQL root user. @@ -6365,7 +7156,7 @@ Installer: * Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth) * (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default patch by Rob Church -* Improve installer +* Improve installer * Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables * Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL permissions, if said user exists @@ -6376,7 +7167,7 @@ Installer: Maintenance: * Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field) -* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a +* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a different LocalSettings.php. * Maintenance script to delete unused text records * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions @@ -6536,7 +7327,7 @@ Parser: * (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed. * (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{SUBPAGENAMEE}} variables * (bug 4949) Missing : in "addedwatchtext" for English and Spanish -* Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}} +* Allow user-defined functions, which work in a similar way to {{GRAMMAR:}} etc. Registered via an interface similar to tag hooks. Upload: @@ -6574,7 +7365,7 @@ Security: * Set cookies to secure mode based on use of HTTPS or $wgCookieSecure * (bug 4371) Disallow tilde character in signatures * Removed broken wgAllowAnonymousMinor and added new group right minoredit -* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this +* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images which are not of known image types. This is in response to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability @@ -6591,7 +7382,7 @@ Special Pages: * (bug 1956) Hide bot uploads from Special:Newimages * (bug 3220) Fix escaping of block URLs in Recentchanges * (bug 3284) Ipblocklist paging, substring search -* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting +* Allow filtering of robot edits in Special:Watchlist by stting $wgFilterRobotsWL = true. * Fix interlanguage links on special pages when extra namespaces configured * (bug 3475) anon contrib links on Special:Newpages @@ -6799,12 +7590,12 @@ fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing. * (bug 912) Search box easier to reach in text browsers (lynx, links) * $wgParserCacheExpireTime added * Skip loading of RecentChange.php except where needed -* Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source +* Enforce $wgSVGMaxSize when rendering, even for SVGs with a very large source size. This is necessary to limit server memory usage. * Cleanup and error checking on Special:Listredirects * Clear up some instances of old OutputPage::sysopRequired() function usage * Improve "upload disabled" notice -* Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php +* Move parts of index.php to include/Wiki.php in an attempt to both cleanup index.php and create a MediaWiki-class mediaWiki base object * (bug 4104) Added OutputPageBeforeHTML hook for tweaking primary wiki output HTML on final output (cached or not) @@ -6947,7 +7738,7 @@ fully support the editing toolbar, but was found to be too confusing. would be generated smaller than expected. * (bug 5062) Width sometimes one pixel short when using maximum heights * Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page -* (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment +* (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field) * (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off * (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector @@ -7021,13 +7812,13 @@ March 2, 2006 MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bugfix maintenance release. -Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug -affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root -password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the -installer would not only create the new account but also change the root -password to be equal to the password of the new account. +Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug +affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root +password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the +installer would not only create the new account but also change the root +password to be equal to the password of the new account. -Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back +Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html @@ -7188,7 +7979,7 @@ Schema: The core table schema has changed significantly. This should make better use of the database's cache and disk I/O, and make significantly speed up rename and delete operations on pages with very long edit histories. - + Unfortunately this does mean upgrading a wiki of size from 1.4 will require some downtime for the schema restructuring, but future storage backend changes should be able to integrate into the new system more easily. @@ -7210,13 +8001,13 @@ Editing diff: Uploads: It's now possible to specify the final filename of an upload distinct from the original filename on your disk. - + An image link for a missing file will now take you straight to the upload page. - + More metadata is pre-extracted from uploaded images, which will ease pressure on disk or NFS volumes used to store images. EXIF metadata is displayed on the image description page if PHP is configured with the necessary module. - + If .svg files are added to the upload whitelist, you can choose to render them to rasterized .png images for inline display using one of several external helper programs. See DefaultSettings.php for SVG options. @@ -7225,13 +8016,13 @@ User accounts: There are some changes to the user permissions system, with assignable groups. Note that this does *not* allow you to make pages which are only accessible to certain groups. - + 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 first to reduce potential for abuse with false addresses. - + Updates to user talk pages and watchlist entries can optionally send e-mail notifications. @@ -7249,12 +8040,12 @@ Latin-1: Wikis must now be encoded in Unicode UTF-8; this has been the default for some time, but some languages could optionally be installed in Latin-1 mode. This is no longer supported. - + You can check if your current wiki is in Latin-1 mode by using your browser's "view source"; look for a line like this: - + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> - + If it says charset=utf-8, you're ready. If it says charset=iso8859-1, you may need to convert your data. (English-language wikis avoiding any accented characters may be able to get away without conversion.) @@ -7262,7 +8053,7 @@ Latin-1: MySQL 3.x: Some optimization hacks for MySQL 3.x have been removed as part of the schema clean-up (specifically, the inverse_timestamp fields). - + MediaWiki 1.5 may still run on 3.x, but wikis of non-trivial size should very seriously consider upgrading to a more modern release. MySQL 3.x support will probably be entirely dropped in the next major release. @@ -7282,7 +8073,7 @@ Upgrade: old page text entries, but other metadata fields (titles, comments etc) need to be pre-converted. The standard upgrade process does not yet fully automate this, but you can try the alternate partial-upgrader in upgrade1_5.php. - + The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for all cases, so it's possible you may experience problems in some combinations. @@ -7291,7 +8082,7 @@ Backups: text table on deletion. If you provide public backup dumps of your databases, you will probably want to use the new XML-format dump generator, available as maintenance/dumpBackup.php. - + For more information on how we run our own public data dumps at Wikimedia, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps @@ -7605,7 +8396,7 @@ Various bugfixes, small features, and a few experimental things: * (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes * (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL 4.1 when the default charset is set to utf8 -* (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if +* (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if $wgEmailAuthentication is false. * (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings when a template with a gallery was used. @@ -7785,7 +8576,7 @@ of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new. == Changes since 1.5beta2 == * Escaped & correctly in Special:Contributions -* (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work +* (bug 2534) Hide edit sections with CSS to make right click to edit section work * (bug 2708) Avoid undefined notice on cookieless login attempt * (bug 2188) Correct template namespace for Greek localization * Fixed number formatting for Dutch @@ -8050,34 +8841,34 @@ of MediaWiki:Newpagetext) to &action=edit, if page is new. === Changes since 1.5.4 === * Maintenance script to delete unused user accounts -* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this +* Added detection for WMF files (application/x-msmetafile), added this MIME type to the default blacklist. Prevented inline display of images which are not of known image types. This is in response to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability === Changes since 1.5.5 === -* (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1" +* (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1" should be set * (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs * (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution -* Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of - establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor +* Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of + establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor changes to installer. -* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work +* Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn't work (can't insert duplicate rows with the same id field) * (bug 1122) gray out 'older revision' when viewing first article revision. * Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc * Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script * Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1 * Removed read-only check from Database::query() -* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a +* Added --conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a different LocalSettings.php. === Changes since 1.5.6 === * Default main page content improved per bug 4690 -* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php +* Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php * Fixed Special:Unlockdb * Maintenance script to delete unused text records * Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions @@ -8427,7 +9218,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking. * (bug 1193) Fix move-only page protection mode * Fix zhtable Makefile to include the traditional manual table * Add memcache timeout for the zh conversion tables -* Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through +* Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through Mediawiki:zhconversiontable * Add zh-min-man (back) to language names list * Ported $wgCopyrightIcon setting from REL1_3A @@ -8450,7 +9241,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking. * (bug 752) Don't insert newline in link title for url with %0a * Fix missing search box contents in MonoBook skin * Add option to forward search directly to an external URL (eg google) -* Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected +* Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected variant is disabled. Used in zh: only for now. === Beta 5 fixes === @@ -8486,7 +9277,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking. * Memcached data compression fixes * Several valid XHTML fixes * (bug 624) Fix IE freezing rendering whilst waiting for CSS with MonoBook -* (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type +* (bug 211) Fix tabbed preferences with XHTML MIME type * Fix for script execution vulnerability. === Beta 6 fixes === @@ -8522,7 +9313,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking. * (bug 1368) Fix SQL error on stopword/short word search w/ MySQL 3.x * Translated Hebrew namespace names * (bug 1429) Stop double-escaping of block comments; fix formatting -* (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success +* (bug 829) Fix URL-escaping on block success * (bug 1228) Fix double-escaping on & sequences in [enclosed] URLs * (bug 1435) Fixed many CSS errors * (bug 1457) Fix XHTML validation on category column list @@ -8556,7 +9347,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking. * convertLinks script fixes * Corrections to template loop detection * XHTML encoding fix for usernames containing & in Special:Emailuser -* (for zh) Search for variant links even when conversion is turned off, +* (for zh) Search for variant links even when conversion is turned off, to help prevent duplicate articles. * Disallow ISO 8859-1 C1 characters and "no-break space" in user names on Latin-1 wikis. @@ -8600,7 +9391,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking. exist" and "wrong password" when using AuthPlugin * (bug 1532), (bug 1544) Changed language names for 'bn', 'bo', 'dv', 'dz', 'ht', 'ii', 'li', 'lo', 'ng', 'or', 'pa', 'si', - 'ti', 've' + 'ti', 've' * Fix editing on non-Esperanto wiki with user language pref set to Esperanto * Make conversion table for zh-sg default to zh-cn, and zh-hk default to zh-tw * Fix PHP notice in MonoBook when counters disabled @@ -8669,7 +9460,7 @@ pages for purposes of page relevancy ranking. * (bug 1963) Fix deletion log link when $wgCapitalLinks is off * (bug 1970) Don't show move tab for immobile pages * (bug 1770) Page creation recorded links from the 'newarticletext' message -* Optional change to the site_stats table. When applied, this removes the need +* Optional change to the site_stats table. When applied, this removes the need for expensive queries in Special:Statistics. |