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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 deleted file mode 100644 index bec12bf6..00000000 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,860 +0,0 @@ -= MediaWiki release notes = - -Security reminder: MediaWiki does not require PHP's register_globals -setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can. - -=== Changes since 1.18.2 === -2012-04-25 - -* (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. -* (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict. -* (bug 35671) PHP Notice: Undefined index: gettoken in includes/api/ApiMain.php - on line 598. -* Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes. - -== 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'. - -== Compatibility == - -MediaWiki 1.18 requires PHP 5.2.3. PHP 4 is no longer supported. - -MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL, Oracle or SQLite can also be used, but -support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM -DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server. - -The supported versions are: - -* MySQL 4.0 or later -* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later -* SQLite 3 -* Oracle 9.0.1 or later - -== Upgrading == - -1.18 has several database changes since 1.17, and will not work without schema -updates. - -If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons -repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise -due to database schema changes. - -If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure -new database fields are filled with data. - -If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database -changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could -break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! - -See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions. - -For notes on 1.17.x and older releases, see HISTORY. - -== Online documentation == - -Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on -MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except -for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain): - - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation - -== Mailing list == - -A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion: - - http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l - -A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available: - - http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce - -It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're -going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes. - -== IRC help == - -There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net. |