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If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can. - - -== MediaWiki 1.20.6 == - -This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch. - -=== Changes since 1.20.5 === -* (bug 48306) SECURITY: Run file validation checks on chunked uploads, and chunks - of upload, during the upload process. -* (bug 44327) mediawiki.user: Use session ID instead of 1-year cross-session cookies -* (bug 47202) wikibits: FF2Fixes.css should not be loaded in Firefox 20. -* (bug 31044) Make ResourceLoader behave in read-only mode - -== MediaWiki 1.20.5 == - -This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch. - -=== Changes since 1.20.4 === -* (bug 46590) Add hook AbortChangePassword to Special:ChangePassword -* (bug 47304) SECURITY: Check SVG xml encoding against whitelist -* Localisation updates from http://translatewiki.net. -* mwdocgen.php: Implement --version option. -* Remove svnstat stuff used in Doxygen generation -* (bug 43594) Correctly supress warnings that were missed after the upstream - PHP change to E_STRICT being included in E_ALL. -* jshint: Allow global mw to be set in mediawiki.js - -== MediaWiki 1.20.4 == - -This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch. - -=== Changes since 1.20.3 === -* (bug 47251) SECURITY: Disable external entities in Import -* (bug 46859) SECURITY: Disable external entities in XMLReader -* (bug 46084) SECURITY: Sanitize $limitReport before outputting - -== MediaWiki 1.20.3 == - -This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch. - -=== Changes since 1.20.2 === -* New preference type - 'api'. Preferences of this type are not shown on - Special:Preferences, but are still available via the action=options API. -* (bug 44010) Context is passed to UserGetLanguageObject. -* The recursion guard on RequestContext::getLanguage() was weakened. -* (bug 40585) Don't drop 'step="any"' in HTML input fields. -* (bug 44024) Fixed problems in ObjectCache when using XCache. -* (bug 44010) FauxRequest leaked cookie data from primary request. -* (bug 44135/42441) Pass '2' instead of 'true' to CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST -* (bug 43518) API action=unblock should return the user name, not the full - user object -* (Bug 45355) Prevent read of arbitrary files through mwdoc-filter.php - -== MediaWiki 1.20.2 == - -This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch. - -=== Changes since 1.20.1 === -* (bug 42638) Fix API action=options&reset=1 & unit tests. -* (bug 42370) Fixed backport of 60cc060 to use mDoneWrites. - -== MediaWiki 1.20.1 == - -This is a security release of the MediaWiki 1.20 branch. - -=== Changes since 1.20 === -* (bug 42202) Validate options to prevent html injection -* (bug 40995) Prevent session fixation in Special:UserLogin (CVE-2012-5391) -* (bug 41400) Prevent linker regex from exceeding PCRE backtrack limit -* Javscript Lint fixes -* (bug 40632) Remove CleanupPresentationalAttributes feature -* [Database] Fixed case where trx idle callbacks might be lost. - -== MediaWiki 1.20 == - -MediaWiki 1.20 is a stable release. - -=== PHP 5.3 now required === -Since 1.20, the lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.3.2. Please -upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki. - -=== Configuration changes in 1.20 === -* $wgGitRepositoryViewers defines a mapping from Git remote repository to the - Gitweb instance URL used in Special:Version. -* `$wgUsePathInfo = true;` is no longer needed to make $wgArticlePath work on servers - using like nginx, lighttpd, and apache over fastcgi. MediaWiki now always extracts - path info from REQUEST_URI if it's available. -* The user right 'upload_by_url' is no longer given to sysops by default. - This only affects installations which have $wgAllowCopyUploads set to true. -* Removed f-prot support from $wgAntivirusSetup. -* New variable $wgDBerrorLogTZ to provide dates in the error log in a - different timezone than the wiki timezone set by $wgLocaltimezone. -* New variables $wgDBssl and $wgDBcompress to enable SSL and compression for database - connections, if either are available for the selected DB type. -* $wgUseCombinedLoginLink now defaults to false, making MediaWiki output separate - login and create account links by default. - -=== New features in 1.20 === -* Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists. -* Added NamespaceIsMovable hook which gets called when determining if pages in a - certain namespace can be moved. -* Added SpecialPageBeforeExecute hook which gets called before SpecialPage::execute. -* Added SpecialPageAfterExecute hook which gets called after SpecialPage::execute. -* Added ORMTable, ORMRow and ORMResult classes for additional abstraction of - database interaction. -* Added CacheHelper and associated SpecialCachedPage and CachedAction helper classes. -* (bug 32341) Add upload by URL domain limitation. -* &useskin=default will now always display the default skin. Useful for users with a - preference for the non-default skin to look at something using the default skin. -* (bug 27619) Remove preference option to display broken links as link? -* (bug 34896) jQuery JSON plugin upgraded to v2.3 (2011-09-17). -* (bug 34302) Add CSS classes to email fields in user preferences. -* Introduced $wgDebugDBTransactions to trace transaction status (currently PostgreSQL only). -* (bug 23795) Add parser itself to ParserMakeImageParams hook. -* Introduce a cryptographic random number generator source api for use when - generating various tokens. -* (bug 30963) Option on Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages to not show redirects. -* (bug 18062) New message when edit or create the local page of a shared file. -* (bug 22870) Separate interface message when creating a page. -* (bug 17615) nosummary option should be reassigned on preview/captcha. -* (bug 34355) Add a variable and parser function for the namespace number. -* (bug 35649) Special:Version now shows hashes of extensions checked out from git. -* (bug 35728) Git revisions are now linked on Special:Version. -* "Show Changes" on default messages shows now diff against default message text -* (bug 23006) create #speciale parser function. -* generateSitemap can now optionally skip redirect pages. -* (bug 27757) New API command just for retrieving tokens (not page-based). -* Added GitViewers hook for extensions using external git repositories to have a web-based - repository viewer linked to from Special:Version. -* Memcached debug logs can now be sent to their own file logs by setting - $wgDebugLogFile['memcached'] to some filepath. -* (bug 35685) api.php URL and other entry point URLs are now listed on - Special:Version -* Edit notices can now be translated. -* jQuery upgraded to 1.8.2. -* jQuery UI upgraded to 1.8.23. -* QUnit upgraded from v1.2.0 to v1.10.0. -* (bug 37604) jquery.cookie upgraded to 2011 version. -* (bug 22887) Add warning and tracking category for preprocessor errors -* (bug 31704) Allow selection of associated namespace on the watchlist -* (bug 5445) Now remove autoblocks when a user is unblocked. -* Added $wgLogExceptionBacktrace, on by default, to allow logging of exception - backtraces. -* Added device detection for determining device capabilities. -* QUnit.newMwEnvironment now supports passing a custom setup and/or teardown function. - Arguments signature has changed. First arguments is now an options object of which - 'config' can be a property. Previously 'config' itself was the first and only argument. -* New getCreator and getOldestRevision methods added to WikiPage class -* (bug 4220) the XML dump format schema now have unique identity constraints - for page and revision identifiers. Patch by Elvis Stansvik. -* cleanupSpam.php now can delete spam pages if --delete was specified instead of blanking - them. -* Added new hook ChangePasswordForm to allow adding of additional fields in Special:ChangePassword -* Added new function getDomain to AuthPlugin for getting a user's domain -* (bug 23427) New magic word {{PAGEID}} which gives the current page ID. - Will be null on previewing a page being created. -* (bug 37627) UserNotLoggedIn() exception to show a generic error page whenever - a user is not logged in. -* Watched status in changes lists are no longer indicated by <strong></strong> - tags with class "mw-watched". Instead, each line now has a class - "mw-changeslist-line-watched" or "mw-changeslist-line-not-watched", and the - title itself is surrounded by <span></span> tags with class "mw-title". -* Added ContribsPager::reallyDoQuery hook allowing extensions to data to MyContribs -* Added new hook ParserAfterParse to allow extensions to affect parsed output - after the parse is complete but before block level processing, link holder - replacement, and so on. -* (bug 34678) Added InternalParseBeforeSanitize hook which gets called during Parser's - internalParse method just before the parser removes unwanted/dangerous HTML tags. -* Added new hook AfterFinalPageOutput to allow modifications to buffered page output before sent - to the client. -* (bug 36783) Implement jQuery Promise interface in mediawiki.api module. -* Make dates in sortable tables sort according to the page content language - instead of the site content language -* (bug 37926) Deleterevision will no longer allow users to delete log entries, - the new deletelogentry permission is required for this. -* (bug 14237) Allow PAGESINCATEGORY to distinguish between 'all', 'pages', 'files' - and 'subcats' -* (bug 38362) Make Special:Listuser includeable on wiki pages. -* Added support in jquery.localize for placeholder attributes. -* (bug 38151) Implemented mw.user.getRights for getting and caching the current - user's user rights. -* Session storage can now configured independently of general object cache - storage, by using $wgSessionCacheType. $wgSessionsInMemcached has been - renamed to $wgSessionsInObjectCache, with the old name retained for backwards - compatibility. When this feature is enabled, the expiry time can now be - configured with $wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry. -* Added a Redis client for object caching. -* Implemented mw.user.getGroups for getting and caching user groups. -* (bug 37830) Added $wgRequirePasswordforEmailChange to control whether password - confirmation is required for changing an email address or not. -* HTMLForm mutators can now be chained (they return $this) -* A new message, "api-error-filetype-banned-type", is available for formatting - API upload errors due to the file extension blacklist. -* New hook 'ParserTestGlobals' allows to set globals before running parser tests. -* Allow importing pages as subpage. -* Add lang and hreflang attributes to language links on Login page. -* (bug 22749) Create Special:MostInterwikis. -* Show change tags when transclude Special:Recentchanges(linked) or Special:Newpages. -* (bug 23226) Add |class= parameter to image links in order to add class(es) to HTML img tag. -* (bug 39431) SVG animated status is now shown in long description. -* (bug 39376) jquery.form upgraded to 3.14. -* SVG files will now show the actual width in the SVG's specified units - in the metadata box. -* Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.jStorage" (v0.3.0, http://jStorage.info/). -* (bug 39273) Added AJAX support for "Show changes" (diff) in LivePreview. -* Added ResourceLoader module "jquery.badge". -* mw.util.$content now points to the overall content area in the skin rather than just - page text content area. If you need the old behaviour please use $( '#mw-content-text'). -* jsMessage has been replaced with a floating bubble notification system complete - with auto-hide, multi-message support, and message replacement tags. -* jquery.messageBox which appears to be unused by both core and extensions has - been removed. -* (bug 34939) Made link parsing insensitive ([HttP://]). -* (bug 40072) Add CSS classes to items in output of ChangesList pages. -* Added $wgCopyUploadProxy global to define which proxy to use for copy - uploads. -* (bug 40448) mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest has been replaced with a new module, - mediawiki.searchSuggest, based on SimpleSeach from Extension:Vector. -* New preference type - 'api'. Preferences of this type are not shown on - Special:Preferences, but are still available via the action=options API. - -=== Known issues in 1.20.0 === -These are issues that we're targeting to be fixed in a later release -in the 1.20 series. Issues may be added or removed from this list as -we see fit. For now, it is comprised of those bugs on the 1.20.0 -milestone in Bugzilla. - -* (bug 35894): Reports of secret key generation "hanging" on windows - This is probably a bug that has been fixed in PHP. If you run - into this, try upgrading your PHP. -* (bug 38334): PHP Notice: Undefined index: href in /www/w/skins/Vector.php on line 416 - We think this is a problem in some extension. If you see this, - try disabling your extensions and check out the logging patch on - this bug. Or try this patch: - <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27937/1/skins/Vector.php> -* (bug 39268): [Regression] Toolbar inserts in main textarea only (instead of the focussed textarea) - This should only be an issue if you are using the ProofreadPage - extension. -* (bug 40641): Clicking "others" in Special:Version asks to download a file - If you encounter this, you can tell your webserver to serve the - CREDITS file with text/plain MIME type to fix it. - -=== Bug fixes in 1.20 === -* (bug 40939): [Regression] InfoAction: Call to a member function getUserText() on a non-object -* (bug 40780): searchsuggest-containing line ("containing...") doesn't include the entered text -* (bug 37714): [Regression] Incomplete log entries -* (bug 27202): API: Add timestamp sort to list=allimages -* (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title. -* (bug 34237) Regenerate an empty user_token and save to the database - when we try to set the user's cookies for login. -* (bug 32210) New edit emails for watched pages always provide a link to the - edit which triggered the mail. -* (bug 12021) Added user talk link on Special:Listusers. -* (bug 34445) section edit and TOC hide/show links are excluded from selection and - copy/paste on supporting browsers. -* (bug 34428) Fixed incorrect hash mismatch errors in the DiffHistoryBlob - history compression method. -* (bug 34702) Localised parentheses are now used in more special pages. -* (bug 34723) When editing a script page on a RTL wiki the textbox should be LTR. -* (bug 34762) Calling close() on a DatabaseBase object now clears the connection. -* (bug 34863) Show deletion log extract on non-existent file pages if applicable. -* (bug 28019) Let ?preloadtitle=foo be passed on to target of - Special:MyPage and Special:MyTalk. -* (bug 34929) Show the correct diff when a section edit is rejected by the spam - filter. -* (bug 15816) Add a switch for SETting the search_path (Postgres). -* (bug 34521) Returning to the previous page after logging in loses any array- - valued parameters in the query string. -* (bug 34735) Updated compressOld.php documentation to mention the different - usages of -s and -n parameters depending on compression type. -* (bug 13896) Rendering of devanagari numbers in automatic '#' number lists. -* (bug 33689) Upgrade to 1.19 on Postgres fails due to incomplete query when. - trying to defer foreign key for externallinks. -* (bug 32748) Printer friendly version of article decode Unicode chars as a - pretty IRI in footer. -* Removed white border around thumbnails in galleries. -* (bug 31236) "Next" and "Previous" buttons are shown incorrectly in - an RTL environment. -* (bug 35749) Updated maintenance/checkSyntax.php to use Git instead of - Subversion when invoked with the --modified option. -* (bug 35069) On history pages, the " . . " separator after the number of - characters changed in a revision is now suppressed if no text would follow. -* (bug 18704) Add a unique CSS class or ID to the tagfilter table row at RecentChanges -* (bug 33564) transwiki import sometimes result in invalid title. -* (bug 35572) Blocks appear to succeed even if query fails due to wrong DB structure -* (bug 31757) Add a word-separator between help-messages in HTMLForm -* (bug 30410) Removed deprecated $wgFilterCallback and the 'filtered' API error. -* (bug 32604) Some messages needs escaping of wikitext inside username. -* (bug 36537) Rename wfArrayToCGI to wfArrayToCgi for consistency with wfCgiToArray. -* (bug 25946) The message on the top of Special:RecentChanges is now displayed. - in user language instead of content language. -* (bug 35264) Wrong type used for <ns> in export.xsd -* (bug 24985) Use $wgTmpDirectory as the default temp directory so that people - who don't have access to /tmp can specify an alternative. -* (bug 27283) SqlBagOStuff breaks PostgreSQL transactions. -* (bug 35727) mw.Api ajax() should put token parameter last. -* (bug 37708) mw.Uri.clone() should make a deep copy. -* (bug 38024) ResourceLoader should not create empty stylesheets for modules - that don't have stylesheets. -* (bug 36812) Special:ActiveUsers "Hide bots" should hide users from any group - having the "bot" user right, instead of just the default "bot" user group. -* (bug 35082) mw.util.addPortletLink incorrectly adds link to mutiple <ul> tags. -* (bug 36991) jquery.tablesorter should extract date sort format from date - string instead of global config. Dates like "April 1 2012" and "1 April 2012" - now sort correctly regardless of the content language's DefaultDateFormat. -* (bug 31895) mw.loader mode now correct when triggered from a $.fn.ready - handler that is bound before mediawiki.js's handler (e.g. browser-userscripts - like greasemonkey). -* (bug 38152) jquery.tablesorter: Use .data() instead of .attr(), so that live - values are used instead of just the fixed values from when the tablesorter - was initialized. -* (bug 38093) Gender of changed user groups missing in Special:Log/rights -* (bug 35893) Special:Block needs to load mediawiki.special.block.js. -* (bug 37331) ResourceLoader modules sometimes execute twice in Firefox -* (bug 31644) GlobalUsage, CentralAuth and AbuseLog extensions should not use - insecure links to foreign wikis in the WikiMap. -* (bug 36073) Avoid duplicate element IDs on File pages. -* (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item - when "from" is filled. -* (bug 35526) jquery.tablesorter now uses a stable sort. -* (bug 38953) --memory-limit switch not working for runJobs.php. -* (bug 33037) Make subpage of Special:newfiles control how many files - are returned, like in previous versions. -* (bug 36524) "Show" options on Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked - are now remembered between successive clicks. -* (bug 26069) Page title is no longer "Error" for all error pages. -* (bug 39297) Show warning if thumbnail of animated image will not be animated. -* (bug 38249) Parser will throw an exception instead of outputting gibberish if - PCRE is compiled without support for unicode properties. -* (bug 30390) Suggested file name on Special:Upload should not contain - illegal characters. -* EXIF below sea level GPS altitude data is now shown correctly. -* (bug 39284) jquery.tablesorter should not consider "."" or "?"" to be a currency. -* (bug 39273) "Show changes" should not be incorrectly displayed in the Live Preview state. -* Made body-content lang attribute honor the variant language when it is set. -* (bug 36761) "Mark pages as visited" now submits previously established filter options. -* (bug 39635) PostgreSQL LOCK IN SHARE MODE option is a syntax error. -* (bug 36329) Accesskey tooltips for Firefox 14 on Mac should use "ctrl-option-" prefix. -* (bug 32552) Drop unused database field cat_hidden from table category. -* (bug 40214) Category pages no longer use deprecated "width" HTML attribute. -* (bug 39941) Add missing stylesheets to the installer pages -* In HTML5 mode, allow new input element types values (such as color, range..) -* (bug 36151) mw.Title: Don't limit extension in title parsing. -* (bug 38158) jquery.byteLimit sometimes causes an unexpected 0 maxLength being enforced. -* (bug 38163) jquery.byteLimit incorrectly limits input when using methods other than - basic per-char typing. -* (bug 34495) patrol log now credit the user patrolling (instead of patrolled - user). -* (bug 31676) ResourceLoader should work around IE stylesheet limit. -* (bug 40498) ResourceLoader should not output an empty "@media print { }" block. -* (bug 40500) ResourceLoader should not ignore media-type for urls in debug mode. -* (bug 40660) ResourceLoaderWikiModule should not convert " " to a space - for pages from the MediaWiki-namespace. -* (bug 40329) (bug 40632) Removed CleanupPresentationalAttributes feature. - -=== API changes in 1.20 === -* (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API. -* (bug 34313) MediaWiki API intro message about "HTML format" should mention - the format parameter. -* (bug 32384) Allow descending order for list=watchlistraw. -* (bug 31883) Limit of bkusers of list=blocks and titles of action=query is - not documented in API help. -* (bug 32492) API now allows editing using pageid. -* (bug 32497) API now allows changing of protection level using pageid. -* (bug 32498) API now allows comparing pages using pageids. -* (bug 30975) API import of pages with invalid characters in this wiki leads to Fatal Error. -* (bug 30488) API now allows listing of backlinks/embeddedin/imageusage per pageid. -* (bug 34927) Output media_type for list=filearchive. -* (bug 28814) add properties to output of action=parse. -* (bug 33224) add variants of content language to meta=siteinfo. -* (bug 32643) action=purge with forcelinkupdate no longer crashes when ratelimit is reached. -* The paraminfo module now also contains result properties for most modules. -* (bug 32348) Allow descending order for list=alllinks. -* (bug 31777) Upload unknown error ``fileexists-forbidden''. -* (bug 32382) Allow descending order for list=iwbacklinks. -* (bug 32381) Allow descending order for list=backlinks, list=embeddedin and list=imageusage. -* (bug 32383) Allow descending order for list=langbacklinks. -* API meta=siteinfo can now return the list of known variable IDs. -* (bug 35980) list=deletedrevs now honors drdir correctly in "all" mode (mode #3). -* (bug 29290) API avoids mangling fields in continuation parameters -* (bug 36987) API avoids mangling fields in continuation parameters -* (bug 30836) siteinfo prop=specialpagealiases will no longer return nonexistent special pages -* (bug 38190) Add "required" flag to some token params for hint in api docs. -* (bug 27567) Add file repo support to prop=duplicatefiles. -* (bug 27610) Add archivename for non-latest image version to list=filearchive -* (bug 38231) Add xml parse tree to action=parse. -* Watchlist notification timestamp may be queried by page and may be updated via the API. -* (bug 38904) prop=revisions&rvstart=... no longer blows up when continuing. -* (bug 39032) ApiQuery generates help in constructor. -* (bug 11142) Improve file extension blacklist error reporting in API upload. -* (bug 39665) Cache AllowedGenerator array so it doesn't autoload all query classes - on every request. - -=== Languages updated in 1.20 === - -MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated -regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as -changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports. - -* Emilian (egl) added. -* Tornedalen Finnish (fit) added. -* Mizo (lus) added. -* Santali (sat) added. -* (bug 34192) Namespace gender aliases for Albanian languages (sq & aln). -* (bug 35541) Namespace gender aliases for Croatian (hr). -* (bug 36012) Space in $separatorTransformTable should be non-breaking in - Portuguese, Esperanto and Udmurt. -* Turoyo (tru) added. -* Cyrillic-Latin language converter added for Uzbek (uz). - -=== Other changes in 1.20 === -* The user_token field is now left empty until a user attempts to login and - cookies need to be set. It is also now possible to reset every user's - user_token simply by clearing the values in the user_token column. -* Removed ./tests/qunit/index.html from core. It wasn't actively maintained and - has been made obsolete when [[Special:JavaScriptTest/qunit]] was introduced, - which actually uses ResourceLoader, LocalSettings and the Skin. -* Removed $wgDBtransactions global. This was only checked in one class - and only applies to MyISAM or similar DBs. Those should only be used - for archived sites anyway. We can't get edit conflicts on such sites, - so the WikiPage code wasn't useful there either. -* Deprecated mw.user.name in favour of mw.user.getName. -* Deprecated mw.user.anonymous in favour of mw.user.isAnon. -* Deprecated DatabaseBase functions newFromParams(), newFromType(), set(), - quote_ident(), and escapeLike() were removed. -* Use of __DIR__ instead of dirname( __FILE__ ). -* OutputPage::wrapWikiMsg() no longer supports the 'options' parameter. It was - not used and complicated migration to Message class. -* Live preview functionality has been improved and moved into the - 'mediawiki.action.edit.preview' module. The old 'mediawiki.legacy.preview' module - has been removed. -* (bug 40448) Removed mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest module, and removed the - following that has become obsolete: - - globals $wgEnableMWSuggest and $wgMWSuggestTemplate. - - mw.config.values wgMWSuggestTemplate and wgSearchNamespaces. - - method SearchEngine::getMWSuggestTemplate(). - -== Compatibility == - -MediaWiki 1.20 requires PHP 5.3.2. PHP 4 is no longer supported. - -MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but -support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for IBM -DB2 and Oracle. - -The supported versions are: - -* MySQL 5.0.2 or later -* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later -* SQLite 3.3.7 or later -* Oracle 9.0.1 or later - -== Upgrading == - -1.20 has several database changes since 1.19, 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 1.19.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): - - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation - -== Mailing list == - -A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion: - - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l - -A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available: - - https://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. |