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If you -have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can. - -== MediaWiki 1.21.3 == - -This is a security adn maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch. - -=== Changes since 1.21.2 === - -* (bug 53032) SECURITY: Don't cache when a call could autocreate -* (bug 55332) SECURITY: Improve css javascript detection -* (bug 49717) Fix behaviour $wgVerifyMimeType = false; in Upload -* Fix comma errors in various js files -* Translations - -== MediaWiki 1.21.2 == - -This is a security adn maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.21 branch. - -=== Changes since 1.21.1 === - -* SECURITY: Fix extension detection with 2 .'s -* SECURITY: Support for the 'gettoken' parameter to action=block and action=unblock, - deprecated since 1.20, has been removed. -* SECURITY: Sanitize ResourceLoader exception messages -* Purge upstream caches when deleting file assets. -* Unit test suite now runs the AutoLoader tests. Also fixed the autoloading - entry for the PageORMTableForTesting class though it had no impact. - -== MediaWiki 1.21.1 == - -This is a maintenance release of the 1.21 branch. - -MediaWiki 1.21 is a stable branch, and is recommended for use in production. - -=== Changes since 1.21.0 === - -* An incorrect version number was used for 1.21.0. 1.21.1 has the correct number. -* A problem with the Oracle SQL table creation was fixed. -* (PdfHandler extension) Fix warning if pdfinfo fails but pdftext succeeds. - -=== Configuration changes in 1.21 === -* (bug 48306) $wgAllowChunkedUploads has been added and is false by default. -* (bug 29374) $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch is now enabled by default. -* Deprecated $wgAllowRealName is removed. Use $wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname' - instead. -* (bug 39957) Added $wgUnwatchedPageThreshold, specifying minimum count - of page watchers required for the number to be accessible to users - without the unwatchedpages permission. -* $wgBug34832TransitionalRollback has been removed. -* (bug 29472) $wgUseDynamicDates has been removed and its functionality - disabled. - -=== New features in 1.21 === -* (bug 41769) Add parser method to call parser functions. -* (bug 38110) Schema changes (adding or dropping tables, indices and - fields) can be now be done separately from from other changes that - update.php makes. This is useful in environments that use database - permissions to restrict schema changes but allow the DB user that - MediaWiki normally runs as to perform other changes that update.php - makes. Schema changes can be run separately. See the file UPGRADE - for more information. -* (bug 34876) jquery.makeCollapsible has been improved in performance. -* Added ContentHandler facility to allow extensions to support other content - than wikitext. See docs/contenthandler.txt for details. -* New feature was developed for showing high-DPI thumbnails for high-DPI mobile - and desktop displays (configurable with $wgResponsiveImages). -* Added new backend to represent and store information about sites and site - specific configuration. -* jQuery upgraded from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3. -* jQuery UI upgraded from 1.8.23 to 1.8.24. -* Added separate fa_sha1 field to filearchive table. This allows sha1 - searches with the api in miser mode for deleted files. -* Add initial and programmatic sorting for tablesorter. -* Add the event "sortEnd.tablesorter", triggered after sorting has completed. -* The Job system was refactored to allow for different backing stores for - queues as well as cross-wiki access to queues, among other things. The schema - for the DB queue was changed to support better concurrency and reduce - deadlock errors. -* Added ApiQueryORM class to facilitate creation of query API modules based on - tables that have a corresponding ORMTable class. -* (bug 40876) Icon for PSD (Adobe Photoshop) file types. -* (bug 40641) Implemented Special:Version/Credits with a list of contributors. -* (bug 7851) Implemented one-click AJAX patrolling. -* The <data>, <time>, <meta>, and <link> elements are allowed within WikiText - for use with Microdata. -* The HTML5 <mark> tag has been whitelisted. -* Added ParserCloned hook for when the Parser object is cloned. -* Added AlternateEditPreview hook to allow extensions to replace the page - preview from the edit page. -* Added EditPage::showStandardInputs:options hook to allow extensions to add - new fields to the "editOptions" area of the edit form. -* Upload stash DB schema altered to improve upload performance. -* The following global functions are now reporting deprecated warnings in - debug mode: wfMsg, wfMsgNoTrans, wfMsgForContent, wfMsgForContentNoTrans, - wfMsgReal, wfMsgGetKey, wfMsgHtml, wfMsgWikiHtml, wfMsgExt, wfEmptyMsg. Use - the Message class, or the global method wfMessage. -* Added $wgEnableCanonicalServerLink, off by default. If enabled, a - <link rel=canonical> tag is added to every page indicating the correct server - to use. -* Debug message emitted by wfDebugLog() will now be prefixed with the group - name when its logged to the default log file. That is the case whenever the - group has no key in wgDebugLogGroups, that will help triage the default log. -* (bug 24620) Add types to LogFormatter. -* jQuery JSON upgraded from 2.3 to 2.4.0. -* Added GetDoubleUnderscoreIDs hook, for modifying the list of magic words. -* DatabaseUpdater class has two new methods to ease extensions schema changes: - dropExtensionIndex and renameExtensionIndex. -* New preference type - 'api'. Preferences of this type are not shown on - Special:Preferences, but are still available via the action=options API. -* (bug 39397) Hide rollback link if a user is the only contributor of the page. -* $wgPageInfoTransclusionLimit limits the list size of transcluded articles - on the info action. Default is 50. -* Added action=createaccount to allow user account creation. -* (bug 40124) action=options API also allows for setting of arbitrary - preferences, provided that their names are prefixed with 'userjs-'. This - officially reenables the feature that was undocumented and defective - in MW 1.20 (saving preferences using Special:Preferences cleared any - additional fields) and which has been disabled in 1.20.1 as a part of - a security fix (bug 42202). -* Added option to specify "others" as author in extension credits using - "..." as author name. -* Added the ability to limit the wall clock time used by shell processes, - as well as the CPU time. Configurable with $wgMaxShellWallClockTime. -* Allow memory of shell subprocesses to be limited using Linux cgroups - instead of ulimit -v, which tends to cause deadlocks in recent versions - of ImageMagick. Configurable with $wgShellCgroup. -* Added $wgWhitelistReadRegexp for regex whitelisting. -* (bug 5346) Categories that are redirects will be displayed italic in - the category links section at the bottom of a page. -* (bug 43915) New maintenance script deleteEqualMessages.php. -* You can now create checkbox option matrices through the HTMLCheckMatrix - subclass in HTMLForm. -* WikiText now permits the use of WAI-ARIA's role="presentation" inside of - html elements and tables. This allows presentational markup, especially - tables. To be marked up as such. -* maintenance/sql.php learned the --cluster option. Let you run the script - on some external cluster instead of the primary cluster for a given wiki. -* (bug 20281) test the parsing of inline URLs. -* Added Special:PagesWithProp, which lists pages using a particular page property. -* Implemented language-specific collations for category sorting for 67 languages - based in latin, greek and cyrillic alphabets. This allows one to *finally* get - articles to be correctly sorted on category pages. They are named - 'uca-<langcode>', where <langcode> is one of: af, ast, az, be, bg, br, bs, ca, - co, cs, cy, da, de, dsb, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fi, fo, fr, fur, fy, ga, gd, - gl, hr, hsb, hu, is, it, kk, kl, ku, ky, la, lb, lt, lv, mk, mo, mt, nl, no, - oc, pl, pt, rm, ro, ru, rup, sco, sk, sl, smn, sq, sr, sv, tk, tl, tr, tt, uk, - uz, vi. -* Added 'CategoryAfterPageAdded' and 'CategoryAfterPageRemoved' hooks. -* Added 'HistoryRevisionTools' and 'DiffRevisionTools' hooks. -* Added 'SpecialSearchResultsPrepend' and 'SpecialSearchResultsAppend' hooks. -* (bug 33186) Add image rotation api "imagerotate" -* (bug 34040) Add "User rights management" link on user page toolbox. -* (bug 45526) Add QUnit assertion helper "QUnit.assert.htmlEqual" for asserting - structual equality of HTML (ignoring insignificant differences like - quotmarks, order and whitespace in the attribute list). - -=== Bug fixes in 1.21 === -* (bug 48306) Chunked uploads allow arbitrary data to be dropped on the server -* (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the upgrade -* (bug 46084) Sanitize $limitReport before outputting. -* (bug 46859) Disable external entities in XMLReader. -* (bug 47251) Disable external entities in Import. -* (bug 42649) PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function isLocal() on a - non-object in Title.php. -* (bug 46493) Special:ProtectedPages results in whitepage when a bad title is protected. -* (bug 40617) Installer can now customize the logo in LocalSettings.php. -* (bug 40353) SpecialDoubleRedirect should support interwiki redirects. -* (bug 40352) fixDoubleRedirects.php should support interwiki redirects. -* (bug 9237) SpecialBrokenRedirect should not list interwiki redirects. -* (bug 34960) Drop unused fields rc_moved_to_ns and rc_moved_to_title from - recentchanges table. -* (bug 32951) Do not register internal externals with absolute protocol, - when server has relative protocol. -* (bug 39005) When purging proxies listed in $wgSquidServers using HTTP PURGE - method requests, we now send a Host header by default, for Varnish - compatibility. This also works with Squid in reverse-proxy mode. If you wish - to support Squid configured in forward-proxy mode, set - $wgSquidPurgeUseHostHeader to false. -* (bug 37020) sql.php with readline eats semicolon. -* (bug 11748) Properly handle optionally-closed HTML tags when Tidy is - disabled, and don't wrap HTML-syntax definition lists in paragraphs. -* (bug 41409) Diffs while editing an old revision should again diff against the - current revision. -* (bug 41494) Honor $wgLogExceptionBacktrace when logging non-API exceptions - caught during API execution. -* (bug 37963) Fixed loading process for user options. -* (bug 26995) Update filename field on Upload page after having sanitized it. -* (bug 41793) Contribution links to users with 0 edits on Special:ListUsers - didn't show up red. -* (bug 41899) A PHP notice no longer occurs when using the "rvcontinue" API - parameter. -* (bug 42036) Account creation emails now contain canonical (not - protocol-relative) URLs. -* (bug 41990) Fix regression: API edit with redirect=true and lacking - starttimestamp and basetimestamp should not cause an edit conflict. -* (bug 41706) EditPage: Preloaded page should be converted if possible and - needed. -* (bug 41886) Rowspans are no longer exploded by tablesorter until the table is - actually sorted. -* (bug 2865) User interface HTML elements don't use lang attribute. - (completed the fix by adding the lang attribute to firstHeading). -* (bug 42173) Removed namespace prefixes on Special:UncategorizedCategories. -* (bug 36053) Log in "returnto" feature forgets query parameters if no - title parameter was specified. -* (bug 42410) API action=edit now returns correct timestamp for the new edit. -* (bug 14901) Email notification mistakes log action for new page creation. - Enotif no longer sends "page has been created" notifications for some log - actions. The following events now have a correct message: page creation, - deletion, move, restore (undeletion), change (edit). Parameter - $CHANGEDORCREATED is deprecated in 'enotif_body' and scheduled for removal in - MediaWiki 1.23. -* (bug 457) In the sidebar of Vector, CologneBlue, Monobook, and Monobook-based - skins, the heading levels have been changed from (variously per skin) - <h4>, <h5> or <h6> to only <h3>s, with a <h2> hidden heading above them. - If you are styling or scripting the headings in a custom way, this change - will require updates to your site's CSS or JS. -* (bug 41342) jquery.suggestions should cancel any active (async) fetches - before it triggers another fetch. -* (bug 42184) $wgUploadSizeWarning missing second variable. -* (bug 34581) removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script now ignores newuser - log when determining whether an account is used. -* (bug 43379) Gracefully fail if rev_len is unavailable for a revision on the - History page. -* (bug 42949) API no longer assumes all exceptions are MWException. -* (bug 41733) Hide "New user message" (.usermessage) element from printable view. -* (bug 39062) Special:Contributions will display changes that don't have - a parent id instead of just an empty bullet item. -* (bug 37209) "LinkCache doesn't currently know about this title" error fixed. -* wfMerge() now works if $wgDiff3 contains spaces -* (bug 43052) mediawiki.action.view.dblClickEdit.dblClickEdit should trigger - ca-edit click instead opening URL directly. -* (bug 43964) Invalid value of "link" parameter in <gallery> no longer produces - a fatal error. -* (bug 44775) The username field is not pre-filled when creating an account. -* (bug 45069) wfParseUrl() no longer produces a PHP notice if passed a "mailto:" - URL without address -* (bug 45012) Creating an account by e-mail can no longer show a - "password mismatch" error. -* (bug 44599) On Special:Version, HEADs for submodule checkouts (e.g. for - extensions) performed using Git 1.7.8+ should now appear. -* (bug 42184) $wgUploadSizeWarning missing second variable -* (bug 40326) Check if files exist with a different extension during uploading -* (bug 34798) Updated CSS for Atom/RSS recent changes feeds to match on-wiki diffs. -* (bug 42430) Calling numRows on MySQL no longer propagates unrelated errors. -* (bug 44719) Removed mention of non-existing maintenance/migrateCurStubs.php - script in includes/DefaultSettings.php -* (bug 45143) jquery.badge: Treat non-Latin variants of zero as zero as well. -* (bug 46151) mwdocgen.php should not ignore exit code of doxygen command. -* (bug 41889) Fix $.tablesorter rowspan exploding for complex cases. -* (bug 47489) Installer now automatically selects the next-best database type if - the PHP mysql extension is not loaded, preventing fatal errors in some cases. -* (bug 47202) wikibits: FF2Fixes.css should not be loaded in Firefox 20. - -=== API changes in 1.21 === -* BREAKING CHANGE: Chunked uploads are now disabled by default. You can re-enable - them by setting $wgAllowChunkedUploads=true -* BREAKING CHANGE: list=logevents output format changed for details of some log - types. Specifically, details that were formerly reported under a key like - "4::foo" will now be reported under a key of simply "foo". -* BREAKING CHANGE: '??_badcontinue' error code was changed to '??badcontinue' - for all query modules. -* prop=revisions can now report the contentmodel and contentformat. - See docs/contenthandler.txt. -* action=edit and action=parse now support contentmodel and contentformat - parameters to control the interpretation of page content. - See docs/contenthandler.txt for details. -* (bug 35693) ApiQueryImageInfo now suppresses errors when unserializing metadata. -* (bug 40111) Disable minor edit for page/section creation by API. -* (bug 41042) Revert change to action=parse&page=... behavior when the page - does not exist. -* (bug 27202) Add timestamp sort to list=allimages. -* (bug 43137) Don't return the sha1 of revisions through the API if the content is - revision-deleted. -* ApiQueryImageInfo now also returns imageinfo for redirects. -* list=alltransclusions added to enumerate every instance of page embedding -* list=alllinks & alltransclusions now allow both 'from' and 'continue' in - the same query. When both are present, 'from' is simply ignored. -* list=alllinks & alltransclusions now allow 'unique' in generators, to yield - a list of all link/template target pages instead of source pages. -* ApiQueryBase adds 'badcontinue' error code if module has 'continue' parameter. -* (bug 35885) Removed version parameter and all getVersion() methods. -* action=options now takes a "resetkinds" option, which allows only resetting - certain types of preferences when the "reset" option is set. -* (bug 36751) ApiQueryImageInfo now returns imageinfo for the redirect target - when queried with &redirects=. -* (bug 31849) ApiQueryImageInfo no longer gets confused when asked for info on - a redirect and its target. -* (bug 43849) ApiQueryImageInfo no longer throws exceptions with ForeignDBRepo - redirects. -* On error, any warnings generated before that error will be shown in the result. -* action=help supports generalized submodules (modules=query+value), querymodules obsolete -* ApiQueryImageInfo continuation is more reliable. The only major change is - that the imagerepository property will no longer be set on page objects not - processed in the current query (i.e. non-images or those skipped due to - iicontinue). -* Add supports for all pageset capabilities - generators, redirects, converttitles to - action=purge and action=setnotificationtimestamp. -* (bug 43251) prop=pageprops&ppprop= now accepts multiple props to query. -* ApiQueryImageInfo will now limit the number of calls to File::transform made - in any one query. If there are too many, iicontinue will be returned. -* action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general will now return the regexes used for - link trails and link prefixes. Added for Parsoid support. -* Added an API query module list=pageswithprop, which lists pages using a - particular page property. -* Added an API query module list=pagepropnames, which lists all page prop names - currently in use on the wiki. -* (bug 44921) ApiMain::execute() will now return after the CORS check for an - HTTP OPTIONS request. -* (bug 44923) action=upload works correctly if the entire file is uploaded in - the first chunk. -* Added 'continue=' parameter to streamline client iteration over complex query results -* (bug 44909) API parameters may now be marked as type "upload", which is now - used for action=upload's 'file' and 'chunk' parameters. This type will raise - an error during parameter validation if the parameter is given but not - recognized as an uploaded file. -* (bug 44244) prop=info may now return the number of people watching each page. -* (bug 33304) list=allpages will no longer return duplicate entries when - querying protection. -* (bug 33304) list=allpages will now find really old indefinite protections. -* (bug 45937) meta=allmessages will report a syntactically invalid lang as a - proper error instead of as an uncaught exception. -* (bug 48542) SpecialStatistics::getOtherStats() now uses the user language. - -=== API internal changes in 1.21 === -* BREAKING CHANGE: ApiPageSet constructor now has two params instead of three, with only the - first one keeping its meaning. ApiPageSet is now derived from ApiBase. -* BREAKING CHANGE: ApiQuery::newGenerator() and executeGeneratorModule() were deleted. -* For debugging only, a new global $wgDebugAPI removes many API restrictions when true. - Never use on the production servers, as this flag introduces security holes. - Whenever enabled, a warning will also be added to all output. -* ApiModuleManager now handles all submodules (actions,props,lists) and instantiation -* Query stores prop/list/meta as submodules -* ApiPageSet can now be used in any action to process titles/pageids/revids or any generator. -* ApiQueryGeneratorBase::setGeneratorMode() now requires a pageset param. -* $wgAPIGeneratorModules is now obsolete and will be ignored. -* Added flags ApiResult::OVERRIDE and ADD_ON_TOP to setElement() and addValue() -* Internal API calls will now include <warnings> in case of unused parameters - -=== Languages updated in 1.21 === - -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. - -* South Azerbaijani (azb) added. -* (bug 30040) Autonym for nds-nl is now 'Nedersaksies' (was 'Nedersaksisch'). -* (bug 45436) Autonym for pi (Pali) is now 'पालि' (was ''पाळि'). -* (bug 34977) Now formatted numbers in Spanish use space as separator - for thousands, as mandated by the Real Academia Española. -* (bug 35031) Kurdish formatted numbers now use period and comma - as separators for thousands and decimals respectively. - -=== Other changes in 1.21 === -* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 44385) Removed the jquery.collapsibleTabs module and - moved it to the Vector extension. It was entirely Vector-extension-specific, - deeply interconnected with the extension, and this functionality really - belongs to the extension instead of the skin anyway. In the unlikely case you - were using it, you have to either copy it to your extension, or install the - Vector extension (and possibly disable its features using config settings if - you don't want them). -* BREAKING CHANGE: Filenames of maintenance scripts were standardized into - lowerCamelCase format, and made more explicit: - - clear_stats.php -> clearCacheStats.php - - clear_interwiki_cache.php -> clearInterwikiCache.php - - initStats.php -> initSiteStats.php - - proxy_check.php -> proxyCheck.php - - stats.php -> showCacheStats.php - - showStats.php -> showSiteStats.php. - Class names were renamed accordingly: - - clear_stats -> ClearCacheStats - - InitStats -> InitSiteStats - - CacheStats -> ShowCacheStats - - ShowStats -> ShowSiteStats. -* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 38244) Removed the mediawiki.api.titleblacklist module - and moved it to the TitleBlacklist extension. -* Experimental IBM DB2 support was removed due to lack of interest and maintainership. - -== Compatibility == - -MediaWiki 1.21 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later. - -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 -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 == - -1.21 has several database changes since 1.20, and will not work without schema -updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision -table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site, -many hours on a large site). - -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, you should upgrade to -1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed -with MediaWiki 1.21. - -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. |