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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index f38b41a5..2d1dbb4f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,35 +3,11 @@ 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. -== MediaWiki 1.12.0 == +== MediaWiki 1.13.0 == -This is the quarterly branch release of MediaWiki for Winter 2008. - - -MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with -quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept -"ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia. - -Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year -from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature developments -will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release. - -Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain -it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN - - -Changes since 1.12.0rc1: - -* (bug 13359) Double-escaping in Special:Allpages -* Localization updates. - - -== MediaWiki 1.12.0rc1 == - -This is a release candidate of the Winter 2008 quarterly snapshot release +This is the first stable release of the Summer 2008 quarterly snapshot release of MediaWiki. - MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia. @@ -43,774 +19,589 @@ will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release. Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN -=== Configuration changes in 1.12 === -* Marking edits as bot edits with Special:Contributions?bot=1 now requires the - markbotedit permission, rather than the rollback permission previously used. - This permission is assigned by default to the sysop group. -* MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration - variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e. - to not check and assume they are always up to date) -* The rollback permission can now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism. -* New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames -* Behaviour of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behaviour: -* * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights. -* * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or - remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for - any groups they are in. -* New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis. -* $wgImplictGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc. -* $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria -* $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove - themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights. -* When $wgUseTidy has been enabled, PHP's Tidy module is now used if it is - present, in preference to an external Tidy executable which may or may not - be present. To force use of external Tidy even when the PHP module is - available, set $wgTidyInternal to false. - - -=== New features in 1.12 === -* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload -* Add {{filepath:}} parser function to get full path to an uploaded file, - complementing {{fullurl:}} for pages. -* (bug 11136) If using Postgres, search path is explicitly set if wgDBmwschema - is not set to 'mediawiki', allowing multiple mediawiki instances per user. -* (bug 11151) Add descriptive <title> to revision history page -* (bug 5412) Add feed links for the site to all pages -* (bug 11353) Add ability to retrieve raw section content via action=raw -* (bug 6909) Show relevant deletion log lines when uploading a previously - deleted file -* On SkinTemplate based skins (like MonoBook), omit confusing "edit"/"view - source" tab entirely if the page doesn't exist and the user isn't allowed to - create it -* Clarify instructions given when an exception is thrown -* AuthPlugin added strictUserAuth() method to allow per-user override - of the strict() authentication behavior. -* (bug 7872) Deleted revisions can now be viewed as diffs showing changes - against the previous revision, whether currently deleted or live. -* Added tooltips for the "Go" and "Search" buttons -* (bug 11649) Show input form when Special:Whatlinkshere has no parameters -* isValidEmailAddr hook added to User method of that name, to allow, e.g., re- - stricting e-mail addresses to a specific domain -* Removed "Clear" link in watchlist editor tools, as people were afraid to - click it. Existing clear links will fall back to the raw editor, which is - very easy to clear your watchlist with. -* (bug 1405) Add wgUseNPPatrol option to control patroling for new articles - on Special:Newpages -* LogLine hook added to allow formatting custom entries in Special:Log. -* Support for Iranian calendar -* (bug 1401) Allow hiding logged-in users, bots and patrolled pages on - Special:Newpages -* ChangesListInsertArticleLink hook added for adding extra article info to RC. -* MediaWikiPerformAction hook added for diverting control after the main - globals have been set up but before any actions have been taken. -* BeforeWatchlist hook added for filtering or replacing watchlist. -* SkinTemplateTabAction hook added for altering the properties of tab links. -* OutputPage::getRedirect public method added. -* (bug 11848, 12506) Allow URL parameters 'section', 'editintro' and 'preload' - in Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk -* Add ot=raw to Special:Allmessages -* Support for Hebrew calendar -* Support for Hebrew numerals in dates and times -* (bug 11315) Signatures can be configured in [[MediaWiki:Signature]] and - [[MediaWiki:Signature-anon]] -* Signatures for anonymous users link to Special:Contributions page rather than - user page -* Added --override switch for disabled pages in updateSpecialPages.php -* Provide a unique message (ipb_blocked_as_range) if unblock of a single IP - fails - because it is part of a blocked range. -* (bug 3973) Use a separate message for the email content when an account is - created by another user -* dumpTextPass.php can spawn fetchText.php as a subprocess, which should restart - cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly. -* (bug 12028) Add Special:Listbots as shortcut for Special:Listusers/bot -* (bug 9633) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the deletion form -* Show a warning message when creating/editing a user (talk) page but the user - does not exists -* (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches -* (bug 12195) Undeleting pages now requires 'undelete' permission -* (bug 11810) Localize displayed semicolons -* (bug 11657) Support for Thai solar calendar -* (bug 943) RSS feed for Recentchangeslinked -* Introduced AbortMove hook -* (bug 2919) Protection of nonexistent pages with regular protection interface. -* Special:Upload now lists permitted/prohibited file extensions. -* Split ambiguous filetype-badtype message into two new messages, - filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type. -* Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage -* On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable. -* It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop - extension -* Add HTML ID's mw-read-only-warning and mw-anon-edit-warning to warnings when - editing to allow CSS styling. -* Parser now returns list of sections -* When a user is prohibited from creating a page, a title of "View source" - makes no sense, and there should be no "Return to [[Page]]" link. -* (bug 12486) Protected titles now give a warning for privileged editors. -* (bug 9939) Special:Search now sets focus to search input box when no existing - search is active -* For Special:Userrights, use GET instead of POST to search for users. -* Allow subpage syntax for Special:Userrights, i.e., Special:Userrights/Name. -* When submitting changes on Special:Userrights, show the full form again, not - just the search box. -* Added exception hooks -* (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot - edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1') -* (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page -* (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available -* Add caching to the AJAX search -* Add APCOND_INGROUPS -* Add DBA caching to installer -* (bug 18585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message -* Support redirects in image namespace -* (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki -* (bug 12668) Support for custom iPhone bookmark icon via $wgAppleTouchIcon -* Add option to include templates in Special:Export. -* (bug 12655) Added $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo config option to put sender - address in Reply-To instead of From for user-to-user emails. - This protects against SPF problems and privacy-leaking bounce messages - when using mailers that set the envelope sender to the From header value. -* (bug 11897) Add alias [[Special:CreateAccount]] & [[Special:Userlogin/signup]] - for Special:Userlogin?type=signup -* (bug 12214) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the file deletion form -* Merged backends for OpenSearch suggestions and AJAX search. - Both now accept namespace prefixes, handle 'Media:' and 'Special:' pages, - and reject interwiki prefixes. PrefixSearch class centralizes this code, - and the backend part can be overridden by the PrefixSearchBackend hook. -* (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version -* When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for - and installed when at the superuser level. -* The default robot policy for the entire wiki is now configurable via the - $wgDefaultRobotPolicy setting. -* (bug 12239) Use different separators for autocomments -* (bug 12857) Patrol link on new pages should clear floats -* (bug 12968) Render redirect wikilinks in a redirect class for customization - via user/site CSS. -* EditPageBeforeEditButtons hook added for altering the edit buttons below the edit box - -=== Bug fixes in 1.12 === - -* Subpages are now indexed for searching properly when using PostgreSQL -* (bug 3846) Suppress warnings from, e.g. open_basedir when scanning for - ImageMagick, diff3 et al. during installation [patch by Jan Reininghaus] -* (bug 7027) Shift handling of deletion permissions-checking to - getUserPermissionsErrors. -* Login and signup forms are now more correct for right-to-left languages. -* (bug 5387) Block log items on RecentChanges don't make use of possible - translations -* (bug 11211) Pass, as a parameter to the protectedpagetext interface - message, the level of protection. -* (bug 9611) Supply the blocker and reason for the cantcreateaccounttext - message. -* (bug 8759) Fixed bug where rollback was allowed on protected pages for wikis - where rollback is given to non-sysops. -* (bug 8834) Split off permission for editing user JavaScript and CSS from - editinterface to a new permission key editusercssjs. -* (bug 11266) Set fallback language for Fulfulde (ff) to French -* (bug 11179) Include image version deletion comment in public log -* Fixed notice when accessing special page without read permission and whitelist - is not defined -* (bug 9252) Fix for tidy funkiness when using editintro mode -* (bug 4021) Fix for MySQL wildcard search -* (bug 10699) Fix for MySQL phrase search -* (bug 11321) Fix width of gallerybox when option "width=xxx" is used -* (bug 7890) Special:BrokenRedirects links deleted redirects to a non-existent - page -* Fix initial statistics when installing: add correct values -* (bug 11342) Fix several 'returnto' links in permissions/error pages which - linked to the main page instead of targetted page -* Strike the link to the redirect rather than using an asterisk in - Special:Listredirects -* (bug 11355) Fix false positives in Safe Mode and other config detection - when boolean settings are disabled with 'Off' via php_admin_value/php_value -* (bug 11292) Fixed unserialize errors with Postgres by creating special Blob - object. -* (bug 11363) Make all metadata fields bytea when using Postgres. -* (bug 11331) Add buildConcat() and use CASE not IF for DB compatibility. Make - oldimage cascade delete via image table for Postgres, change fa_storage_key - TEXT. -* (bug 11438) Live Preview chops returned text -* Show the right message on account creation when the user is blocked -* (bug 11450) Fix creation of objectcache table on upgrade -* Fix namespace selection after submit of Special:Newpages -* Make input form of Special:Newpages nicer for RTL wikis -* (bug 11462) Fix typo in LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases hook name -* (bug 11474) Fix unintentional fall-through in math error handling -* (bug 11478) Fix undefined method call in file deletion interface -* (bug 278) Search results no longer highlight incorrect partial word matches -* Compatibility with incorrectly detected old-style DJVU mime types -* (bug 11560) Fix broken HTML output from weird link nesting in edit comments. - Nested links (as in image caption text) still don't work _right_ but they're - less wrong -* (bug 9718) Remove unnecessary css from main.css causing spacing issues on - some browsers. -* (bug 11574) Add an interface message loginstart, which, similarly to loginend, - appears just before the login form. Patch by MinuteElectron. -* Do not cache category pages if using 'from' or 'until' -* Created new hook getUserPermissionsErrors, to go with userCan changes. -* Diff pages did not properly display css/js pages. -* (bug 11620) Add call to User::isValidEmailAddr during accout creation. -* (bug 11629) If $wgEmailConfirmToEdit is true, require people to supply an - email address when registering. -* (bug 11612) Days to show in recent changes cannot be larger than 7 -* (bug 11131) Change filearchive width/height columns to int for Postgres -* Support plural in undeleted{revisions,revisions-files,files} -* (bug 11343) If the database is read-only, ensure that undelete fails. -* (bug 11690) Show revert link for page moves in Special:Log to allowed users - only -* Initial-lowercase prefix checks in namespaceDupes.php now actually work. -* Fix regression in LinkBatch.php breaking PHP 5.0 -* (bug 11452) wfMsgExt uses sometimes wrong language object for parsing magic - words when called with options ''parsemag'' or ''content''. -* (bug 11727) Support plural in 'historysize' message -* (bug 11744) Incorrect return value from Title::getParentCategories() -* (bug 11762) Fix native language name of Akan (ak) -* (bug 11722) Fix inconsistent case in unprotect tabs -* (bug 11795) Be more paranoid about confirming accept-encoding header is - present -* (bug 11809) Use formatNum() for more numbers -* (bug 11818) Fix native language name of Inuktitut (iu) -* Remove all commas when parsing float numbers in sorted tables -* Limit text field of deletion, protection and user rights changes reasons to - 255 characters (already restricted in the database) -* In the deletion default reasons, calculate how much text to get from the - article text, rather than getting 150 characters (which may be too much) -* Add two messages for Special:Blockme which were used but undefined -* (bug 11921) Support plural in message number_of_watching_users_pageview -* If an IP address is blocked as part of a rangeblock, attempting to unblock - the single IP should not unblock the entire range. -* (bug 6695) Fix native language name of Southern Sotho (Sesotho) (st) -* Make action=render follow redirects by default -* If restricted read access was enabled, whitelist didn't work with special - pages which had spaces in theirs names -* If restricted read access was enabled, requests for non-existing special pages - threw an exception -* Feeds for recent changes now provide correct URLs for the change, not just - the page -* Check for if IP is blocked as part of a range when unblocking (see above bug- - fix) was faulty. Now fixed. -* Fixed wpReason URL parameter to action=delete. -* Do not force a password for account creation by email -* Ensure that rate-limiting is applied to rollbacks. -* Make a better rate-limiting error message (i.e. a normal MW error, - rather than an "Internal Server Error"). -* Do not present an image bigger than the source when 'frameless' option is used - (to be consistent with the 'thumb' option now) -* Support {{PLURAL}} for import log -* Make sure that the correct log entries are shown on Special:Userrights even - for users with special characters in their names -* The number of watching users in watchlists was always reported as 1 -* namespaceDupes.php no longer dies when coming across an illegal title -* (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages -* (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser -* (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it. -* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table, - instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified - conversion with China variant. -* (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again. -* Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records - in the page_restrictions matching its old page_restrictions field. - May help with odd upgrade issues or race condition. -* (bug 11993) Remove contentsub "revision history" -* (bug 11952) Ensure we quote_ident() all schema names as needed - inside of the DatabasePostgres.php file. -* (bug 12184) Exceptions now sent to stderr instead of stdout for command-line - scripts, making for cleaner reporting during batch jobs. PHP errors will also - be redirected in most cases on PHP 5.2.4 and later, switching 'display_errors' - to 'stderr' at runtime. -* (bug 12148) Text highlight wasn't applied to cleanly deleted and added - lines in diff output -* (bug 10166) Fix a PHP warning in Language::getMagic -* Only mark rollback edits as minor if the user can normally mark edits minor -* Escape page names in the move successful page (e.g. for pages with two - apostrophes). -* (bug 12145) Add localized names of kk-variants -* (bug 12259) Localize the numbers in deleted pages on the sysop view -* Set proper page title for successful file deletion -* (bug 11221) Do not show 'Compare selected versions' button for a history page - with one revision only -* (bug 12267) Set the default date format to Thai solar calender for the Thai - language -* (bug 10184) Extensions' stylesheets and scripts should be loaded before - user-customized ones (like Common.css, Common.js) -* (bug 12283) Special:Newpages forgets parameters -* (bug 12031) All namespaces doesn't work in Special:Newpages -* (bug 585) Only create searchindex replica table for parser tests if db is - MySQL -* Allow --record option if parserTests.php to work when using Postgres -* (bug 12296) Simplify cache epoch in default LocalSettings.php -* (bug 12346) XML fix when body double-click and click handlers are present -* Fix regression -- missing feed links in sidebar on Special:Recentchanges -* (bug 12371) Handle more namespace case variants in namespaceDupes.php -* (bug 12380) Bot-friendly EditPage::spamPage -* (bug 8066) Spaces can't be entered in special page aliases -* Hide undo link if user can't edit article -* (bug 12416) Fix password setting for createAndPromote.php -* (bug 3097) Inconsistently usable titles containing HTML character entities - are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up existing pages. -* (bug 12446) Permissions check fix for undelete link -* (bug 12451) AJAX title normalization tweaks -* When a user creating a page is not allowed to either create the page nor edit - it, all applicable reasons are now shown. -* (bug 11428) Allow $wgScript inside $wgArticlePath when emulating PATH_INFO - Fixes 'root'-style rewrite configurations -* (bug 12493) Removed hardcoded MAX_FILE_SIZE from Special:Import upload form -* (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again -* (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen -* (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw -* (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything -* (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move -* (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages -* Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links. - This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow, - and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner. -* (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code. -* (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes -* (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian -* (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect. - Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages. - Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework. -* Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the - name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set). -* (bug 12695) Suppress dvips verbiage from web server error log -* (bug 12716) Unprotecting a non-protected page leaves a log entry -* Log username blocks with canonical form of name instead of input form -* (bug 11593, 12719) Fixes for overzealous invocation of thumb.php. - Non-image handlers and full-size images may now decline it, fixing - mystery failures when using $wgThumbnailScriptPath. -* (bug 12327) Comma in username no longer disrupts mail headers -* (bug 6436) Localization of Special:Import XML parser Error message(s). -* Security fix for API on MSIE -* (bug 12768) Database query syntax error in maintenance/storage/compressOld.inc -* (bug 12753) Empty captions in MediaWiki:Sidebar result in PHP errors -* (bug 12790) Page protection is not logged when edit-protection is used - and move-protection is not -* (bug 12793) Fix for restricted namespaces/pages in Special:Export -* Fix for Special:Export so it doesn't ignore the page named '0' -* Don't display rollback link if the user doesn't have all required permissions -* The comment of a time-limited protection now contains the date in the default - format -* (bug 12880) wfLoadExtensionMessages does not use $fallback from MessagesXx.php -* (bug 12885) Correction for Russian convertPlural function -* (bug 12768) Make DatabasePostgres->hasContraint() schema aware. -* (bug 12735) Truncate usernames in comments using mb_ functions. -* (bug 12892) Poor tab indexing on "delete file" form -* (bug 12660) When creating an account by e-mail, do not send the creator's IP - address -* (bug 12931) Fix wrong global variable in SpecialVersion -* (bug 12919) Use 'deletedrevision' message as content when deleting an old file - version -* (bug 12952) Using Nosuchusershort instead of Nosuchuser when account creation - is disabled -* (bug 12869) Magnify icon alignment should be adjusted using linked CSS -* Fixing message cache updates for MediaWiki messages moves -* (bug 12815) Signature timestamps were always in UTC, even if the timezone code - in parentheses after them claimed otherwise -* (bug 12732) Fix installer and searching to handle built-in tsearch2 for Postgres. -* (bug 12784) Change "bool" types to smallint to handle Postgres 8.3 strictness. -* (bug 12301) Allow maintenance/findhooks.php to search hooks in multiple directories. -* (bug 7681, 11559) Cookie values no longer override GET and POST variables. -* (bug 5262) Fully-qualified $wgStylePath no longer corrupted on XML feeds -* (bug 3269) Inaccessible titles ending in '/.' or '/..' now forbidden. -* (bug 12935, 12981) Fully-qualify archive URLs in delete, revert messages -* (bug 12938) Fix template expansion and 404 returns for action=raw with section -* (bug 11567) Fix error checking for PEAR::Mail. UserMailer::send() now returns - true-or-WikiError, which seems to be the calling convention expected by half - its callers already -* (bug 12846) IE rtl.css issue in RTL wikis special:Preferences when selecting an - LTR user language -* (bug 13005) DISPLAYTITLE does not work on preview -* (bug 13004) Fix error on Postgres searches that return too many results. +== Changes since 1.13.0rc2 == + +* (bug 13770) Fixed incorrect detection of PHP's DOM module +* Fix regression from r37834: accesskey tooltip hint should be given for the + minor edit and watch labels on the edit page. +* Updated Chinese simplified/traditional conversion tables + +== Changes since 1.13.0rc1 == + +* $wgForwardSearchUrl has been removed entirely. Documented setting since 1.4 + has been $wgSearchForwardUrl. +* (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined. +* (bug 14966) Fix SearchEngineDummy class for silently non-functional search + on Sqlite instead of horribly fatal error breaky one. +* (bug 14987) Only fix double redirects on page move when the checkbox is + checked +* (bug 13376) Use $wgPasswordSender, not $wgEmergencyContact, as return + address for page update notification mails. +* API: Registration time of users registered before the DB field was created is now + shown as empty instead of the current time. +* (bug 14904): fragments were lost when redirects were fixed. +* Added magic word __STATICREDIRECT__ to suppress the redirect fixer +* (bug 15035) Revert English linkTrail to /^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD, as it was before + r36253. Multiple reports of breakage due to old (pre-5.0) PCRE libraries, + both bundled with PHP and packaged with distros such as RHEL. +* (bug 14944) Shell invocation of external programs such as ImageMagick convert + was broken in PHP 5.2.6, if the server had a non-UTF-8 locale. + +== Changes since 1.12 == + +=== Configuration changes in 1.13 === + +* New option $wgFeed can be set false to turn off syndication feeds +* (bug 5745) Special:Whatlinkshere now shows up to $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved + links through each redirect instead of hardcoded 500 +* Set $wgUploadSizeWarning to false by default +* Added $wgLBFactoryConf, for generic configuration of multi-master wiki farms +* Removed $wgAlternateMaster, use $wgLBFactoryConf +* (bug 13562) Misspelled option $wgUserNotifedOnAllChanges changed to + $wgUserNotifiedOnAllChanges +* (bug 12860) New option $wgSitemapNamespaces allows sitemaps to be generated + for only some namespaces +* Removed the emailconfirmed implicit group by default. To re-add it, use: + $wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED; + in your LocalSettings.php. +* (bug 2396) New shared database configuration variables. $wgSharedPrefix allows + you to use a shared database with a different prefix. Or you can now use a local + database and use prefixes to separate wiki and the shared tables. And the new + $wgSharedTables variable allows you to specify a list of tables to share. +* Automatic edit summaries can be disabled with $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries +* Duplicates of images are now shown on the image page +* $wgRCFilterByAge allows for the list of dates in recent changes special pages to + be filtered to only those within the range of $wgRCMaxAge +* $wgRCLinkLimits and $wgRCLinkDays allow for customization of the list and limits + displayed on the recent changes special pages +* The "createpage" permission is no longer required when uploading if the target + image page already exists +* $wgMaximumMovedPages restricts the number of pages that can be moved at once + (default 100) with the new subpage-move functionality of Special:Movepage +* Hooks display in Special:Version is now disabled by default, use + $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks = true; to enable it. +* $wgActiveUserEditCount sets the number of edits that must be performed over + a certain number of days to be considered active +* $wgActiveUserDays is that number of days +* $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of + $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. The former still works, however. +* New $wgGroupPermissions option 'move-subpages' added to control bulk-moving + subpages along with pages. Assigned to 'user' and 'sysop' by default. +* New $wgRC2UDPOmitBots allows user to omit bot edits from UDP output. + Default: false +* Removed $wgEnableCascadingProtection option. Disabling cascading protection + is no longer possible. +* $wgMessageCacheType defines now the type of cache used by the MessageCache class, + previously it was choosen based on $wgParserCacheType +* $wgExtensionAliasesFiles option to simplify adding aliases to special pages + provided by extensions, in a similar way to $wgExtensionMessagesFiles +* Added $wgXMLMimeTypes, an array of XML mimetypes we can check for + with MimeMagic. +* Added $wgDirectoryMode, which allows for setting the default CHMOD value when + creating new directories. +* (bug 14843) $wgCookiePrefix can be set by LocalSettings now, false defaults + current behavior. + +=== New features in 1.13 === + +* __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page causes the category to be hidden on the + article page +* Do not show edit permissions errors on a red link click, just redirect to the + article. This is so that readers who don't know what a red link is are not + confused when they are told they are range-blocked. +* Add a new hook ImageBeforeProduceHTML to allow extensions to modify wikitext + image syntax output +* (bug 13100) Added 'preloadtitle' parameter to action=edit§ion=new that + pre-fills the section title field +* (bug 13112) Added Special:RelatedChanges alias to Special:RecentChangesLinked +* (bug 13130) Moved edit token and autosummary fields above edit tools to + reduce broken form submissions +* Add --old-redirects-only option to maintenance/refreshLinks.php, to add old + redirects to the redirect table +* Add links to page and file deletion forms to edit predefined delete reasons +* (bug 13269) Added MediaWiki:Uploadfooter to the bottom of Special:Upload +* (bug 2815) Search results for media now use thumbnail instead of text extract +* When a page doesn't exist, the tab should say "create", not "edit" +* (bug 12882) Added a span with class "patrollink" around "Mark as patrolled" + link on diffs +* Magic word formatnum can now take raw suffix to undo formatting +* Add updatelog table to reliably permit updates that don't change the schema +* Add category table to allow better tracking of category membership counts +** (bug 1212) Give correct membership counts on the pages of large categories +** Use category table for more efficient display of Special:Categories +* (bug 1459) Search for duplicate files by hash: Special:FileDuplicateSearch +* (bug 9447) Added hooks for search result headings +* Image redirects are now enabled by default +* (bug 13450) Email confirmation can now be canceled before the expiration +* (bug 13490) Show upload/file size limit on upload form +* Redesign of Special:UserRights +* Make rev_deleted log entries more intelligible +* (bug 6943) Added PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word +* (bug 13604) Added Special:ListGroupRights +* (bug 6332, 8617) Added message 'mainpage-description' as duplicate of + 'mainpage' and added it to message 'sidebar' +* Automatically add old redirects to the redirect table when needed +* (bug 6934) Allow inclusions, links, redirects to be separately toggled on or + off on Special:WhatLinksHere +* Cache image redirects +* (bug 10457) Organize Special:SpecialPages into sections +* Add a new hook EditPageBeforeConflictDiff to allow extensions like FCKeditor + to modify the output for edit conflicts +* Add class="nested" for <fieldset>s so fieldsets inside fieldsets get + a slightly less huge margin and padding +* (bug 13527) Use sitemaps.org format 0.9 instead of a Google-specific format +* Allow \C and \Q as TeX commands to match \R, \N, \Z +* On Special:UserRights, when you can add a group you can't remove or remove + one you can't add, a notice is printed to warn you +* (bug 12698) Create PAGESIZE parser function, to return the size of a page +* Allow the "log in / create account" link in the toolbar to have different + text from Special:UserLogin title (new message 'nav-login-createaccount') +* Say "log in / create account" if an anonymous user can create an account, + otherwise just "log in", consistently across skins +* Special:Shortpages and Special:Longpages now returns pages in all content + namespaces, not just NS_MAIN. +* (bug 889) Improve conflict-handling between shared upload repository + and local one +* Update documentation links in auto-generated LocalSettings.php +* (bug 13584) The new hook SkinTemplateToolboxEnd was added. +* (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files [EXPERIMENTAL] +* Custom rollback summaries now accept the same arguments as the default message +* (bug 12542) Added hooks for expansion of Special:Listusers +* Drop-down AJAX search suggestions (turn on $wgEnableMWSuggest) +* More relevant search snippets (turn on $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting) +* (bug 13950) Allow users to watch the user/talk pages of users they block. +* (bug 13970) Allow MonoBook-based skins to specify their own print stylesheet +* Show image links on Special:Whatlinkshere +* Use rel="start", "prev", "next" appropriately on Pager-based pages +* Add support for SQLite +* AutoAuthenticate hook renamed to UserLoadFromSession +* (bug 13232) importScript(), importStylesheet() funcs available to custom JS +* (bug 13095) Search by first letters or digits in [[Special:Categories]] +* Users moving a page can now move all subpages automatically as well +* (bug 14259) Localisation message for upload button on Special:Import is now + 'import-upload' instead of 'upload' +* Add information about user group membership to Special:Preferences +* (bug 14146) Wrap usage section on imagepages into <div>s. +* New layout for Special:Specialpages. Restricted pages are marked but not separated + from other pages in their group. +* (bug 14263) Show a diff of the revert on rollback notification page. +* (bug 13434) Show a warning when hash identical files exist +* Sidebar is now cached for all languages +* The User class now contains a public function called isActiveEditor. Figures + out if a user is active based on at least $wgActiveUserEditCount number of + edits in the last $wgActiveUserDays days. +* SpecialSearchResults hook now passes results by reference, so they can be + changed by extensions. +* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalLink to allow extensions to modify the output of + external links. +* (bug 14132) Allow user to disable bot edits from being output to UDP. +* (bug 14328) jsMsg() within Wikibits now accepts a DOM object, not just a string +* (bug 14558) New system message (emailuserfooter) is now added to the footer of + e-mails sent with Special:Emailuser +* Add support for Hijri (Islamic) calendar +* Add a new hook LinkerMakeExternalImage to allow extensions to modify the output + of external (hotlinked) images. +* (bug 14604) Introduced the following features for the LanguageConverter: + Multi-tag support, single conversion flag, remove conversion flag on a single + page, description flag, variant name, multi-variant fallbacks. +* Add zh-mo and zh-my variants for the zh language +* (bugs 4832, 9481, 12890) Special:Recentchangeslinked now has all options that + are in Special:Recentchanges +* Allow an $error message to be passed to ArticleDelete hook +* Allow extensions to modify the user creation form by calling addInputItem(); +* Add meta generator tag to HTML output +* MediawikiPerformAction hook is now passed the Mediawiki object +* Added blank special page Special:BlankPage for benchmarking, etc. +* Foreign repo file descriptions and thumbnails are now cached. +* (bug 11732) Allow localisation of edit button images +* Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be + moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]: + SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES +* Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before + the database is potentially queried +* (bug 9736) Redirects on Special:Fewestrevisions are now marked as such. +* New date/time formats in Cs localization according to ČSN and PČP. +* Special:Recentchangeslinked now includes changes to transcluded pages and + displayed images; also, the "Show changes to pages linked" checkbox now works on + category pages too, showing all links that are not categorizations +* (bug 4578) Automatically fix redirects broken by a page move + +=== Bug fixes in 1.13 === + +* (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository +* (bug 13084) Increase size of source/destination filename fields in upload form +* (bug 13115) rebuildrecentchanges should print the current value of $wgRCMaxAge +* (bug 13140) Show parent categories in category namespace +* (bug 13149) Correctly format 'fileexists' message on Upload page +* Make the default filepageexists message accurate +* (bug 12988) $wgMinimalPasswordLength no longer breaks create user by email * (bug 13022) Fix upload from URL on PHP 5.0.x -* (bug 13139, 13074) Fix request data for parameters with numeric names -* (bug 13086) Trackbacks were returning invalid XML (extra whitespace) +* (bug 13132) Unable to unprotect pages protected with earlier versions of MediaWiki +* (bug 12723) OpenSearch description name now uses more compact language code + to avoid passing the length limit as often, is customizable per site via + 'opensearch-desc' message. +* (bug 13135) Special:Userrights now passes IDs through form submission + to allow functionality on not-quite-right usernames +* (bug 12575) Prevent duplicate patrol log entries from being created +* (bug 13174) __HIDDENCAT__ now applies only to category pages +* (bug 13031) Add links to user pages in e-mail form +* (bug 13147) Description for categoriespagetext (used in Special:Categories) reworded +* (bug 11561) Fix fatal error when calling action=revert to non-image page * (bug 12430) Fix call to private method LinkFilter::makeRegex fatal error in maintenance/cleanupSpam.php -* (bug 13211) Don't break edit buttons when Image namespace includes apostrophe -* Fix regression with upgrades from 1.4 or below. -* Fix regression: make dumpUploads.php work again -* dumpUploads.php options now actually supported -* wfRelativePath() no longer includes spurious ".." when base path is "/" -* wfRelativePath() now returns full path for differing Windows drives -* (bug 13274) Change link for message to ucfirst - -== Parser changes in 1.12 == - -For help with migration to the MediaWiki 1.12 parser, please visit: - -http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor - -The parser pass order has changed from - - * Extension tag strip and render - * HTML normalisation and security - * Template expansion - * Main section... - -to - - * Template and extension tag parse to intermediate representation - * Template expansion and extension rendering - * HTML normalisation and security - * Main section... - -The main effect of this for the user is that the rules for uncovered syntax -have changed. - -Uncovered main-pass syntax, such as HTML tags, are now generally valid, whereas -previously in some cases they were escaped. For example, you could have "<ta" in -one template, and "ble>" in another template, and put them together to make a -valid <table> tag. Previously the result would have been "<table>". - -Uncovered preprocessor syntax is generally not recognised. For example, if you -have "{{a" in Template:A and "b}}" in Template:B, then "{{a}}{{b}}" will be -converted to a literal "{{ab}}" rather than the contents of Template:Ab. This -was the case previously in HTML output mode, and is now uniformly the case in -the other modes as well. HTML-style comments uncovered by template expansion -will not be recognised by the preprocessor and hence will not prevent template -expansion within them, but they will be stripped by the following HTML security -pass. - -Bug 5678 has been fixed. This has a number of user-visible effects related to -the removal of this double-parse. Please see the wiki page for examples. - -Message transformation mode has been removed, and replaced with "preprocess" -mode. This means that some MediaWiki namespace messages may need to be updated, -especially ones which took advantage of the terribly counterintuitive behaviour -of the former message mode. - -The header identification routines for section edit and for numbering section -edit links have been merged. This removes a significant failure mode and fixes a -whole category of bugs (tracked by bug #4899). Wikitext headings uncovered by -template expansion will still be rendered into a heading tag, and will get an -entry in the TOC, but will not have a section edit link. HTML-style headings -will also not have a section edit link. Valid wikitext headings present in the -template source text will get a template section edit link. This is a major -break from previous behaviour, but I believe the effects are almost entirely -beneficial. - -The main motivation for making these changes was performance. The new two-pass -preprocessor can skip "dead branches" in template expansion, such as unfollowed -#switch cases and unused defaults for template arguments. This provides a -significant performance improvement in template-heavy test cases taken from -Wikipedia. Parser function hooks can participate in this performance improvement -by using the new SFH_OBJECT_ARGS flag during registration. - -The pre-expand include size limit has been removed, since there's no efficient -way to calculate such a figure, and it would now be meaningless for performance -anyway. The "preprocessor node count" takes its place, with a generous default -limit. - -The context in which XML-style extension tags are called has changed, so -extensions which make use of the parser state may need compatibility changes. - -The new preprocessor syntax has been documented in Backus-Naur Form at: - -http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF - -The ExpandTemplates extension now has the ability to generate an XML parse -tree from wikitext source. This parse tree corresponds closely to the grammar -documented on that page. - -=== API changes in 1.12 === - -Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API - -* (bug 11275) Enable descending sort in categorymembers -* (bug 11308) Allow the API to output the image metadata -* (bug 11296) Temporary fix for escaping of ampersands inside links in - pretty-printed - help document. -* (bug 11405) Expand templates implementation in the API -* (bug 11218) Add option to feedwatchlist to display multiple revisions for each - page. -* (bug 11404) Provide name of exception caught in error code field of internal - api error messages. -* (bug 11534) rvendid doesn't work -* Fixed rvlimit of the revisions query to only enforce the lower query limit if - revision content is requested. -* Include svn revision number (if install is checked-out from svn) in siteinfo - query. -* (bug 11173) Allow limited wikicode rendering via api.php -* (bug 11572) API should provide interface for expanding templates -* (bug 11569) Login should return the cookie prefix -* (bug 11632) Breaking change: Specify the type of a change in the recentchanges - list as 'edit', 'new', 'log' instead of 0, 1, 2, respectively. -* Compatibility fix for PHP 5.0.x. -* Add rctype parameter to list=recentchanges that filters by type -* Add apprtype and apprlevel parameters to filter list=allpages by protection - types and levels -* Add apdir parameter to enable listing all pages from Z to A -* (bug 11721) Use a different title for results than for the help page. -* (bug 11562) Added a user_registration parameter/field to the list=allusers - query. -* (bug 11588) Preserve document structure for empty dataset in backlinks query. -* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by - name -* (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag -* Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too. -* Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots -* Add limit=max to use maximal limit -* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render - which has been removed -* Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions -* Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache. -* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help -* Added action={block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and - list={blocks,deletedrevs} -* Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login -* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using - 200 / 10000, now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules. -* Added list=allcategories module -* (bug 12321) API list=blocks reveals private data -* Fix output of wfSajaxSearch -* (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag -* Add list of sections to action=parse output -* Added action=logout -* Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections -* Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow - (list=recentchanges) -* Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo -* action={login,block,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} now must be - POSTed -* prop=imageinfo interface changed: iihistory replaced by iilimit, iistart and - iiend parameters -* Added amlang parameter to meta=allmessages -* Added apfilterlanglinks parameter to list=allpages, replacing - query.php?what=nolanglinks -* (bug 12718) Added action=paraminfo module that provides information about API - modules and their parameters -* Added iiurlwidth and iiurlheight parameters to prop=imageinfo -* Added format=txt and format=dbg, imported from query.php -* Added uiprop=editcount to meta=userinfo -* Added list=users which fetches user information -* Added list=random which fetches a list of random pages -* Added page parameter to action=parse to facilitate parsing of existing pages -* Added uiprop=ratelimits to meta=userinfo -* Added siprop=namespacealiases to meta=siteinfo -* Made multiple values for ucuser possible in list=usercontribs -* (bug 12944) Added cmstart and cmend parameters to list=categorymembers -* Allow queries to have a where range that does not match the range field - -=== Languages updated in 1.12 === - -* Afrikaans (af) -* Akan (ak) (new) -* Amharic (am) (new) -* Aragonese (an) -* Old English (ang) (new) -* Arabic (ar) -* Aramaic (arc) -* Mapudungun (arn) (new) -* Assamese (as) -* Asturian (ast) -* Avaric (av) -* Kotava (avk) (new) -* Aymara (ay) -* Samogitian (bat-smg) -* Boarisch (bar) -* Bikol Central (bcl) -* Belarusian (be) -* Belarusian Taraskievica orthography (be-tarask) -* Bulgarian (bg) -* Bislama (bi) (new) -* Bamanankan (bm) -* Bengali (bn) -* Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy) -* Breton (br) -* Buginese (bug) (new) -* Catalan (ca) -* Zamboangueño (cbk-zam) (new) -* Min Dong (cdo) (new) -* Chechen (ce) -* Cebuano (ceb) (new) -* Cherokee (chr) (new) -* Corsican (co) (new) -* Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic) (crh-cyrl) (new) -* Crimean Tatar (Latin) (crh-latn) (new) -* Czech (cs) -* Cassubian (csb) -* Old Church Slavonic (cu) -* Welsh (cy) -* Danish (da) -* German (de) -* German (de-formal) (new) -* Zazaki (diq) (new) -* Lower Sorbian (dsb) (new) -* Middle Dutch (dum) (new) -* Divehi (dv) -* Ewe (ee) (new) -* Greek (el) -* Emiliano-Romagnolo (eml) -* English (en) -* Spanish (es) -* Estonian (et) -* Euskara (eu) -* Extremaduran (ext) -* Finnish (fi) -* Persian (fa) -* Fulah (ff) -* Võro (fiu-vro) -* Fijian (fj) (new) -* Faroese (fo) -* French (fr) -* Cajun French (frc) -* Franco-Provençal (frp) -* Frisian (fy) -* Irish (ga) -* Gagauz (gag) (new) -* Gön-gnŷ (gan) (new) -* Scottish Gaelic (gd) (new) -* Galician (gl) -* Gilaki (glk) (new) -* Gothic (got) (new) -* Ancient Greek (grc) (new) -* Swiss German (gsw) -* Hakka (hak) -* Hawaiian (haw) (new) -* Hebrew (he) -* Croatian (hr) -* Upper Sorbian (hsb) -* Haitian Creole French (ht) -* Hungarian (hu) -* Armenian (hy) -* Interlingua (ia) -* Indonesian (id) -* Interlingue (ie) (new) -* Igbo (ig) (new) -* Eastern Canadian (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) (ike-cans) (new) -* Eastern Canadian (Latin) (ike-latn) (new) -* Ingush (inh) (new) -* Ido (io) (new) -* Icelandic (is) -* Italian (it) -* Japanese (ja) -* Jutish (jut) (new) -* Georgian (ka) -* Kara-Kalpak (kaa) -* Kabyle (kab) -* Kazakh (kk) -* Kazakh Arabic (kk-arab) (new) -* Kazakh (China) (kk-cn) -* Kazakh Cyrillic (kk-cyrl) (new) -* Kazakh (Kazakhstan) (kk-kz) -* Kazakh Latin (kk-latn) (new) -* Kazakh (Turkey) (kk-tr) -* Kalaallisut (kl) (new) -* Kannada (kn) -* Korean (ko) -* Kölsch (ksh) -* Kurdish (Arabic) (ku-arab) -* Kurdish (Latin) (ku-latn) -* Cornish (kw) (new) -* Kirghiz (ky) (new) -* Latin (la) -* Ladino (lad) (new) -* Luxembourgish (lb) (new) -* Lingua Franca Nova (lfn) (new) -* Lak (lbe) (new) -* Ganda (lg) -* Limbugian (li) -* Líguru (lij) (new) -* Lozi (loz) (new) -* Lingala (ln) -* Lao (lo) -* Lithuanian (lt) -* Maithili (mai) (new) -* Moksha (mdf) (new) -* Malagasy (mg) (new) -* Malayalam (ml) -* Macedonian (mk) -* Marathi (mr) -* Malay (ms) -* Erzya (myv) (new) -* Nauru (na) (new) -* Nahuatl (nah) -* Min-nan (nan) -* Napolitan (nap) -* Low Saxon (nds) -* Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl) -* Nepali (ne) -* Newari (new) (new) -* Dutch (nl) -* Norwegian (nynorsk) (nn) -* Norwegian (bokmål) (no) -* Novial (nov) (new) -* Northern Sotho (nso) (new) -* Occitan (oc) -* Pangasinan (pag) (new) -* Pampanga (pam) (new) -* Papiamento (pap) (new) -* Deitsch (pdc) (new) -* Pfälzisch (pfl) (new) -* Polish (pl) -* Piemontèis (pms) -* Pontic (pnt) (new) -* Pashto (ps) -* Portugese (pt) -* Quechua (qu) -* Rhaeto-Romance (rm) (new) -* Romanian (ro) -* Russian (ru) -* Megleno-Romanian (ruq) (new) -* Megleno-Romanian (Cyrillic script) (ruq-cyrl) (new) -* Megleno-Romanian (Greek script) (ruq-grek) (new) -* Megleno-Romanian (Latin script) (ruq-latn) (new) -* Sakha (sah) -* Sardinian (sc) -* Sicilian (scn) -* Scots (sco) (new) -* Sindhi (sd) -* Sassarese (sdc) (new) -* Seri (sei) (new) -* Sango (sg) (new) -* Tachelhit (shi) -* Sinhalese (si) (new) -* Slovak (sk) -* Samoan (sm) (new) -* Southern Sami (sma) (new) -* Serbian (Cyrillic) (sr-ec) -* Swati (ss) (new) -* Southern Sotho (st) (new) -* Saterland Frisian (stq) (new) -* Sundanese (su) -* Swedish (sv) -* Swahili (sw) (new) -* Tamil (ta) -* Teluga (te) -* Tetun (tet) (new) -* Tajik (tg) -* Thai (th) -* Tagalog (tl) (new) -* Tonga (to) (new) -* Turkish (tr) -* Tuvinian (tyv) -* Uyghur (ug) -* Uzbek (uz) -* Venitian (vec) -* Vietnamese (vi) -* West Flemish (vls) -* Volapük (vo) -* Walloon (wa) -* Wolof (wo) -* Wu (wuu) (new) -* Xhosa (xh) (new) -* Mingrelian (xmf) (new) -* Yiddish (yi) -* Yoruba (yo) (new) -* Cantonese (yue) -* Zhuang (za) -* Zealandic (zea) -* Chinese (zh) -* Old Chinese/Late Time Chinese (zh-classical) -* Chinese (Simplified) (zh-hans) -* Chinese (Traditional) (zh-hant) -* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) -* Zulu (zu) (new) +* All skins should have the "mediawiki" class on the body element +* (bug 13019) Message cache for some extensions not loaded at time of editing +* (bug 13247) Prettified ISBN links +* maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not fix page_id 1 with the --new-only option +* (bug 13110) Don't show "Permission error" page if the edit is already rolled + back when using rollback +* (bug 13012) Use content messages for block options when generating the + recentchanges entry +* (bug 13274) Change links for messages to ucfirst +* (bug 13273) Un-hardcode some punctuation (add new messages colon-separator, + autocomment-prefix) +* Parse MediaWiki message translations with a correct language setting on preview +* (bug 13281) Treat X-Forwarded-For, Client-ip and User-Agent headers as + case-insensitive names. +* Adding the fix for lists in RTL wikis to more skins, and fixing the image toc +* (bug 8157) Remove redirects from Special:Unusedtemplates. Patch by WebBoy. +* (bug 10721) Duplicate section anchors with differing case now disambiguated + for Internet Explorer's sake and standards compliance +* (bug 13298) Tighter limits on Special:Newpages limits when embedding +* Email subject in content language instead of sending user's UI language +* (bug 13251) Allow maintenance rebuild scripts to work with Postgres +* (bug 2084) Fixed incorrect regex to match redirects +* (bug 3131) Manually-specified upload destination filename is no longer + overwritten by browsing for a file after you wrote it. +* (bug 7251) Sidebars generated by MediaWiki:Sidebar now have the class + 'generated-sidebar'. +* (bug 13265) Media handler is missing 'image/x-bmp' +* (bug 13407) MediaWiki:Powersearch is used in two places +* (bug 13403) Fix cache invalidation of history pages when old revisions change +* (bug 11563) Deprecated SearchMySQL4 class; merged code to SearchMySQL +* (bug 12801) Fix link in subtitle message in AJAX search +* (bug 13428) Fix regression in protection form layout HTML validity +* (bug 9403) Sanitize newlines from search term input +* (bug 13429) Separate date and time in message sp-newimages-showfrom +* (bug 13137) Allow setting 'editprotected' right separately from 'protect', + so groups may optionally edit protected pages without having 'protect' perms +* Disallow deletion of big pages by means of moving a page to its title and + using the "delete and move" option. +* (bug 13466, 13632) White space differences not shown in diffs +* (bug 1953) Search form now honors namespace selections more reliably +* (bug 12294) Namespace class renamed to MWNamespace for PHP 5.3 compatibility +* PHP 5.3 compatibility fix for wfRunHooks() called with no parameters +* (bug 6447) Trackbacks now work with transactional tables, if enabled +* (bug 6892, 7147) Trackback error handling, optional fields more robust +* (bug 6813) Don't break HTML validator when using trackbacks +* Fix for size checks on SVG images with global 'stroke-width' attribute +* (bug 11874) Inline CSS with !important no longer borken +* (bug 1600) Strip extra == section markup == in new-comment field +* (bug 11325) Wrapped page titles in MonoBook skin spaced more nicely +* (bug 12077) Fix HTML nesting for TOC +* (bug 344) Purge cache for talk/article pages when deleting the other tab +* (bug 13436) Treat image captions correctly when they include option keywords + (like ending with "px" or starting with "upright") +* Trackback display formatting fixed +* Don't die when single-element arrays are passed to SQL query constructors + that have an array index other than 0 +* (bug 13522) Fix fatal error in Parser::extractTagsAndParams +* (bug 13532) Use proper timestamp call when reverting images +* (bug 13543) Updated FAQ link in the installer sidebar +* (bug 13540) Date format in confirmation e-mail now matches message language +* (bug 13554) PHP Notice in old pre-processor when list item is empty. +* (bug 13556) Don't show a blank form if no image is attached in Special:Upload +* (bug 13576) maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php fails +* (bug 13441) Allow Special:Recentchanges to show bots only +* (bug 13431) Show true message source in Special:Allmessages&ot=php / xml +* (bug 13463) Login successful page doesn't use user's preferred interface language +* (bug 13630) Fixed warnings for pass by reference at call time in + Special:Revisiondelete when generating the log entry. +* (bug 12064) BeforePageDisplay hook is now called for all skins +* (bug 13624) Fix regression with manual thumb= parameter on images +* (bug 11039) Add missing labels on protection form +* (bug 13458) Preview/edit toolbar spacing now works consistently +* (bug 13433) Fix action=render on Image: pages +* (bug 13678) Fix CSS validation for Monobook +* (bug 13684) Links in Special:ListGroupRights should be in content language +* (bug 13690) Fix PHP notice on accessing some URLs +* Hide (undo) link if user isn't able to edit page +* Invalidate cache of pages that includes images via redirects on upload +* (bug 13705) Don't show rollback link in page history on incorrect revisions +* (bug 13708) Don't set "Search results" title when loading Special:Search + without query +* (bug 13736) Don't show MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext on non-existant IP addresses +* (bug 13728) Don't trim initial whitespace during section edits +* (bug 13727) Don't delete log entries from recentchanges on page deletion +* (bug 13752) Redirects to sections now work again +* (bug 13725) Upload form watch checkbox state set correctly with wpDestFile +* (bug 13756) Don't show the form and navigation links of Special:Newpages if + the page is included +* When hiding things on WhatLinksHere, generated URLs should hide them too +* Properly escape search terms with regex chars so they appear highlighted in + search results +* (bug 13768) pt_title field encoding fixed +* Do not display empty columns on Special:UserRights if all groups are + changeable or all unchangeable +* Fix fatal error on calling PAGESINCATEGORY with invalid category name +* (bug 13793) Special:Whatlinkshere filters wrong - after paginating instead of before +* (bug 13796) Show links to parent pages even if some of them are missing +* (bug 13816) Filter by main namespace doesn't work on WhatLinksHere +* (bug 13822) Fatal error on some pages when calculating subpage subtitle +* (bug 13824) AJAX search suggestion now works with non-SkinTemplate skins +* Added 'application/x-dia-diagram' MediaWiki's known MIME types +* (bug 13866) skins/common/shared.css - invalid attribute fixing +* Hide edit section links on Special:Undelete +* (bug 13860) Fix "Justify paragraphs" option for Modern skin +* (bug 13168) accessibility links in Modern skin link to wrong anchor id +* (bug 13185) No line break after 'subpages' class in Modern skin +* (bug 13583) No "poweredby" in Modern skin +* (bug 13880) "Printable" link in Modern skin now formats as print mode +* (bug 13885) Bump default $wgSVGMaxSize from 1024 to 2048 pixels +* (bug 13891) Show categories box even if all categories are hidden and user has + "show hidden categories" option on +* (bug 13915) Undefined variable $wltsfield in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php +* (bug 13913) Special:Whatlinkshere now has correct HTML markup +* (bug 13905) Blacklist Mac IE from HttpOnly cookies; it eats them sometimes +* (bug 13922) Fix bad HTML on empty Special:Prefixindex and Special:Allpages +* (bug 13924) Fix bad HTML on power search form +* (bug 13820) Fix updater for rev_parent_id population +* (bug 13925) Fix bad HTML on search results list +* (bug 13934) Fixing the link to GNU General Public License Version 2 +* Show correct accesskey prefix for Firefox 3 beta (Alt-Shift-, not Alt-) +* (bug 13949) Special:PrefixIndex/AllPages paging links contain invalid XML +* (bug 13770) Use Preprocessor_Hash by default to avoid missing DOM module errors +* (bug 13982) Disable ccmeonemails preference when user-to-user mails disabled +* (bug 13615) Update case mappings and normalization to Unicode 5.1.0 + Note that case mappings will only be used if mbstring extension is not present. +* (bug 14044) Don't increment page view counters on views from bot users +* (bug 14042) Calling Database::limitResult() misplaced the comment in the log file +* (bug 14047) Fix regression in installer which hid DB-specific options + Also makes SQLite path configurable in the installer. +* (bug 13546) Follow image redirects on image page +* (bug 12644) Template list on edit page now sorted on preview +* (bug 14058) Support pipe trick for namespaces and interwikis with "-" +* Message name filter on Special:Allmessages now case-insensitive +* (bug 13943) Fix image redirect behaviour on image pages +* (bug 14093) Do 'sysop' => 'protect' magic in Title::isValidMoveOperation +* (bug 14063) Power search form missing <label> for redirects check +* (bug 14111) Similar filename warning links now lead to correct page +* (bug 14082) Fix for complex text input vs AJAX suggestions on some browsers +* (bug 13693) Categories sometimes claim to have a negative number of members +* (bug 1701) Korean Hangul syllables now broken down properly in Category lists + even if the wiki's overall content language is not Korean +* (bug 12773) addOnloadHook() now calls functions immediately when scripts are + loaded after the primary page completion, instead of dropping them +* (bug 14199) Fix deletion form for image redirect pages +* (bug 14220) Disabling $wgCheckFileExtensions now works without also + disabling $wgStrictFileExtensions +* (bug 14241) Pages can no longer be protected to levels you are not in +* (bug 14296) Fix local name of ang: (Anglo-Saxon) +* (bug 4871) Hardcoded superscript in time zone preferences moved to message +* (bug 6957) E-mail confirmation links now using English special page name + for better compatibility and keeping the links shorter. Avoids problem + with corrupt links in Gmail on IE 6. +* (bug 14273) Fix for HTTP Accept header parsing with spaces as from Konqueror +* (bug 14312) Update LanguageKaa.php for handling transform issues with i to İ + and I to ı +* (bug 13826) MediaWiki:Defaultns accepts Wikicode +* (bug 14324) Creating an account is again possible with $wgEmailConfirmToEdit + set to true +* (bug 13034) Interwiki pages can now be reached using Go search button +* (bug 14362) Change interwiki names of Erzya and Moksha Wikipedias +* (bug 14370) When a grouppage-x message does not exist the entry on the + ListGroupRights special page now links to the project namespace page for it, + not the main namespace page. +* (bug 11659) Urldecode image names in galleries +* (bug 14258, 14368) Fix for subpage renames in replication environments +* (bug 14367) Failed block no longer adds phantom watchlist entry +* (bug 14385) "Move subpages" option no longer tries to move to invalid titles +* (bug 14386) Fix subpage namespace oddity when moving a talk page +* (bug 11771) Signup form now not shown if in read-only mode. +* (bug 12859) $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups has been deprecated in favor of + $wgGroupPermissions[]['noratelimit']. +* (Bug 13828) Split parameter $1 of MediaWiki:Missingarticle into $1 (=title) + and $2 (=revision numbers) +* (bug 14401) Fix Safari access key tooltips for Windows and >3.1 Mac versions +* (bug 14432) Fix notice regression in Special:Newpages feed mode +* (bug 11951) EditPage::getEditToolbar() is now static. +* (bug 14392) Fix regression breaking table prefix in installer +* (bug 11084) $wgDBprefix replacement for updater SQL will now work for + extension tables using uppercase letters or digits in their names. +* (bug 12311) Fix regression with lists at start of undeletion preview +* (bug 14496) Fix regression with parseinline on Special:Upload. +* We no longer just give up on a missing upload base directory; it's now + created automatically if we have sufficient permissions! +* (bug 14479) MediaWiki:upload-maxfilesize should have a div id wrapper +* (bug 14497) Throw visible errors in installer scripts when SQL files + fail due to database permission or other error +* (bug 14500) Site feed (Recentchanges) no longer shows up on the actual + recent changes page. +* (bug 14511) MediaWiki:Delete-legend is no longer double escaped +* Generate correct section anchors for numeric headers +* (bug 14520) Don't load nonexistent CSS files for Chick/Myskin/Simple skins +* (bug 14551) Cancel upload no longer automatically suppresses warnings +* (bug 13878) Deprecate Article::getDB() in favor of direct wfGetDB() calls +* (bug 4977) Fix for possible squid purging errors when using HTTP purges + and multiple servers +* (bug 14572) Redirects listed on file links on image pages no longer redirect. +* (bug 14537) Change interwiki name for Old Church Slavonic (cu) +* (bug 14583) Fix regression in recent changes "limit to certain categories." +* (bug 14515) HTML nesting cleanup on edit form +* (bug 14647) Removed unused 'townBox' CSS classes +* (bug 14687) OutputPage::addStyle() now adds type="text/css" like it should. +* OpenSearch cleanup; Firefox now sends you to the search page for empty + searches instead of the domain root (which may not even be a wiki). +* (bug 3481) Pages moved shortly after creation are shown at their new title + on Special:Newpages. +* (bug 12716) Trying to unprotect a title that isn't protected no longer + generates a log entry. +* (bug 14088) Excessively long block expiry times are rejected as invalid, + keeps the log page from being distorted. +* (bug 14708) Emulate INSERT...IGNORE with standard SQL for Postgres backend. +* (bug 14646) Fix some double-escaping of HTML in feed output +* (bug 14709) Fix login success message formatting when using cookie check +* (bug 14710) Remove "donate" link from default sidebar +* (bug 14745) Image moving works on sites that transform thumbnails via 404 +* (bug 2186) Document.write() in wikibits caused failures when using + application/xhtml+xml. The calls to this have been removed. +* (bug 14764) Fix regression in from Article::lastModified(), failed to work + on non-mySQL schemas. +* (bug 14763) Child classes of Database (DatabasePostgres and DatabaseOracle) + had stict standards issues with setFakeSlaveLag() and setFakeMaster(). +* (bug 451) Improve the phrase mappings of the Chinese converter arrays. +* (bug 12487) Rights log is not fully internationalized +* (bug 10837) Language variants no longer override other languages than base +* (bug 14778) 'limit' parameter now applies to history feeds as well as + history pages +* (bug 14845) Bug in prefs javascript: Calling an array item without checking + its existance. +* Accesskeys for minor edit/watch checkboxes on edit now work in Firefox 3 +* (bug 12384) Comments in maintenance/*php +* (bug 12441) ./maintenance/generateSitemap.php fix -fspath requiring + a trailing slash. +* (bug 12568) configuration script now produce valid XHTML. +* The accesskey to edit a page is now disabled when editing the page, to pre- + vent conflicts with Safari shortcuts. + +=== API changes in 1.13 === + +* Fixing main page display in meta=siteinfo +* (bug 13128) Added patrolled flag to list=recentchanges +* Implemented {bl,ei,iu}redirect (lists links through redirects as well) +* (bug 13154) Introduced subpages flag to meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces +* (bug 13157) Added ucuserprefix parameter to list=usercontibs +* (bug 12394) Added rctitles parameter to list=recentchanges, making rcid + retrieval easier +* (bug 13218) Fix inclusion of " character in hyperlinks +* Added watch and unwatch parameters to action=delete and action=move +* Added action=edit +* (bug 11401) Added xmldoublequote to xml formatter +* Added rvsection parameter to prop=revisions to allow fetching the content of + a certain section only +* Introduced list=allimages +* (bug 13371) Build page set from image hashes +* Mark non-existent messages in meta=allmessages as missing +* (bug 13390) One invalid title no longer kills an entire API query +* (bug 13419) Fix gblredirect so it actually works +* (bug 13418) Disable eiredirect because it's useless +* (bug 13395) list=allcategories should use category table +* (bug 13442) Missing pages in prop=langlinks and prop=extlinks are now + handled properly. +* (bug 13444) Add description to list=watchlist +* (bug 13482) Disabled search types handled properly +* Added inprop=talkid,subjectid to prop=info +* Added help text message that specifies whether a module is POST-only +* Added createonly parameter to action=edit +* Replaced $wgAPIUCUserPrefixMinLength by the more generic $wgAPIMaxDBRows +* (bug 11719) Remove trailing blanks in YAML output. +* (bug 13541) Added siprop=specialpagealiases to meta=siteinfo +* Added fallback8bitEncoding and readonly fields to + meta=siteinfo&siprop=general output +* (bug 13544) Added prop=revid to action=parse +* (bug 13603) Added siprop=usergroups to meta=siteinfo +* Cleaned up redirect resolution +* Added possibility to obtain all external links through list=exturlusage +* (bug 13606) Added archivename to iiprop +* (bug 11633) Explicitly convert redirect titles to strings due to PHP's + very weak typing on array keys. +* (bug 12136) Extend allowed characters in JSON callback to ][.'"_A-Za-z0-9 +* (bug 11673) Return error 'unknown_action' in specified format +* (bug 13618) Added rcprop=redirect and rcshow=redirect to list=recentchanges +* (bug 13544) Added oldid parameter to action=parse to allow for parsing of old + revisions +* (bug 13718) Return the proper continue parameter for cmsort=timestamp +* action=login now returns the correct waiting time in the details property +* (bug 13792) Broken titles are now silently skipped in search results. +* (bug 13819) exturlusage paging skipped an item +* Fixed handling of usernames containing spaces in list=block +* (bug 13836) Fixed fatal errors resulting from combining iiprop=metadata with + format=xml +* (bug 13735) Added prop=categoryinfo module +* (bug 13945) Retrieve cascading protection sources via inprop=protection +* (bug 13965) Hardcoded 51 limit on titles is too limiting +* (bug 13993) apfrom doesn't work with apdir=descending +* (bug 14018) Introduced alcontinue to list=alllinks to improve paging +* (bug 14013) Added rcshow=patrolled to list=recentchanges +* (bug 14028) Added language attribute to interwiki map in meta=siteinfo +* (bug 14022) Added usprop=registration and auprop=blockinfo +* (bug 14021) Removed titles= support from list=backlinks (has been obsolete + for ages) +* (bug 13829) Expose parse tree via action=expandtemplates +* (bug 13606) Allow deletion of images +* Added iiprop=mime and aiprop=metadata +* Handled unrecognized values for parameters more gracefully +* Handled requesting disallowed tokens more gracefully +* (bug 14140) URL-encoded page titles are now decoded in edit summaries +* (bug 14243) Only accept post requests in action=edit; patch by HardDisk +* action=block now returns an ISO8601 timestamp, like all other modules do +* Added md5 parameter to action=edit +* (bug 14335) Logging in to unified account using API not possible +* Added action=emailuser to send an email to a user +* (bug 14471) Use HTMLTidy and generate limit report in action=parse +* (bug 14459) Added prependtext and appendtext parameters to action=edit +* (bug 14526) Unescaped SQL in list=backlinks +* Added 'hidden' flag to list=allcategories and prop=categoryinfo output +* Added nocreate parameter to action=edit +* (bug 14402) Added maxage and smaxage parameters to api.php +* Added bkip parameter to list=blocks +* (bug 14651) apprefix and similar parameters are now canonicalized +* Added clprop=timestamp to prop=categories +* (bug 14678) API errors now respects $wgShowExceptionDetails and + $wgShowSQLErrors +* (bug 14723) Added time zone and writing direction to meta=siteinfo +* Added APIQueryInfoTokens and APIQueryRevisionsTokens hooks so extensions + can add their own tokens +* Added block and unblock tokens to prop=info as well +* Added paging (limit and continue parameters) to + prop={links,templatelinks,langlinks,extlinks,categories,images} +* Added flag "top" to list=usercontribs if the user is the last contributor to + the page +* list=exturlusage in "list all links" mode can now filter by protocol + +=== Languages updated in 1.13 === + +MediaWiki supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated +regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed. + +* Egyptian Spoken Arabic (arz) (new) +* Southern Balochi (bcc) (new) +* Middle Dutch (dum) (removed) +* British English (en-gb) (new) +* Fiji Hindi (Latin) (hif-latn) (new) +* Old Norse (non) (removed) +* Tarifit (rif) (new) +* Serbian cyrillic iyekvian (sr-jc) (removed) +* Serbian latin iyekavian (sr-jl) (removed) +* Silesian (szl) (new) +* Tajiki (Cyrllic script) (tg-cyrl) (new) +* Tajiki (Latin script) (tg-latn) (new) +* Chinese (Macau) (zh-mo) (new) +* Chinese (Malaysia) (zh-my) (new) == Compatibility == -MediaWiki 1.12 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. +MediaWiki 1.13 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. PHP 5.0.x fails on 64-bit systems due to serious bugs with array processing: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 @@ -822,7 +613,7 @@ At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases. == Upgrading == -1.12 has several database changes since 1.11, and will not work without schema +1.13 has several database changes since 1.12, and will not work without schema updates. If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure @@ -847,7 +638,7 @@ set $wgMimeType = "application/xhtml+xml"; to test for remaining problem cases, but this is not recommended on live sites. (This must be set for MathML to display properly in Mozilla.) -For notes on 1.11.x and older releases, see HISTORY. +For notes on 1.12.x and older releases, see HISTORY. === Online documentation === |